modern marketing depts sand off so many edges by trying to appeal to a "median consumer" that doesn't even exist, the real answer is to make your project "spiky" and weird so it appeals intensely in some meaningful way to many separate, yet smaller groups.

THIS OH MY FUCKING GOD. If YOU can't take your story seriously WHY THE FUCK SHOULD I!? You want to form a connection with the reader? You want them to give a shit about your story? You want to write a GOOD story? STOP WRITING LIKE YOU"RE TRYING TO ONE-UP THE NOSTALGIA CRITIC.

yes

There are two types of people

Explaincars Drama: a common game pilots and dispatchers participate in is “guess the ASCII art animal”, in which a dispatcher will send an animal ‘drawing’ to the ACARS printer using the limited character set afforded, and the pilot guesses what it is. Yes, this is a real Explaincars Drama.

thinking about this hidden wall keypad from Witch Hunter Robin again....

she's so gender

So the shop is open for Valve index repair. We can replace batteries and joycons and other board level fixes. Replace your drifting thumbsticks with full metal units instead of plastic. $50.00 each +8.00 return shipping within the united states. Battery replacement is $60.00.

holy shit I have 1 left and 2 right controllers that are all having issues, been dreading not being able to fix them myself

"No matter what, teaching people they can add their IDs to their phones means some people will inevitably leave the house without physical ID, and that means creating the opportunity for cops to demand phones — which you should never, ever do."

what a fantastic all-timer thread on this phenomena and the psychology behind it I think about this all the time and not understanding this is the difference between successful liminal horror, and just horrorslop. liminal horror is about the baked-in hostility of public spaces we millenials saw die

sometimes you spend four years telling people you're not a critic anymore, and then rob zacny hands you a gun and free reign to go off about the state of the first person shooter in 202X

game good

I was interested with the first post and now very curious

ARIZONA RESIDENTS: REMEMBER! TODAY IS THE DEADLINE TO REGISTER TO VOTE IN THE MIDTERMS. DO IT. DO IT NOW

Understood.

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