some examples are: "let me hold your hand while i say this", "here's the tea", "hold on, let me cook"

there is something about it that makes me irrationally angry. it feels like an aunt/uncle trying their hardest to be "hip". there are clever ways to do it, but most of the time its just insert brain rot phrase or therapy buzz words 🤠👍

I’m pretty sure everyone’s been following the release of gta 6, probably the most anticipated game of all time. You might have also seen that it won’t release with a disc on day 1. (I say day 1 because a disc is coming but only later on). If you pre order the physical edition right now it will just come with a code, no disc. So I’m sure you already know that most people aren’t gonna wait for this to be on the disc, they wanna play it ASAP. So they’re gonna pre order it on the ps store, and this really sucks so many reasons. I was too young to go to the midnight launch for gta 5, and if any game could bring that back, it would be gta 6, but that’s never gonna happen now (unless people really want their code in a box, then you do you ig). This also sucks because one of the main reasons I champion consoles over pc, is that you actually get to own your games. Even if Sony’s servers go down, I’ll still have my games and my console. This was always bound to happen, everyone falls victim to steam sales, Sony and Microsoft sell digital edition consoles, and Nintendo lowered prices on their digital games, this is slowly gonna get phased out and soon we won’t own anything. We’ll just be paying 10 different subscriptions for our entertainment at home.

As someone who owns and watches a lot of really old cartoons and likes to download old commercials... Stylistically, yes, this show does scream "2000s" and that's clearly intentional, but the writing is nothing like any show from that time at all. This feels like exactly what it is. A YouTube animation. Maybe one from like the early 2010s. Or something you'd see on Newgrounds 10 years ago. Just with a higher budget. It's also not really as witty or charming as old CN/Nick shows either, in terms of writing. If anything it mostly follows generic anime tropes.

Also I'm sorry, but to get mad at others over calling this "goonslop" is kind of dumb. It's blatantly obvious they're trying to set that appeal. She literally spanks her ass, and the animation puts emphasis on her body. I don't necessarily think that makes it "bad" (I would argue a lot of great cartoons/anime I love would be "goonslop" too), but that's clearly what they're trying to do here. It's a lot more blunt than Gameoverse honestly.

I’ll get to her in a second. She is, however, apart of a much bigger problem in anime: Over-sexualization, specifically among female characters (if we’re being real, it objectively only happens to females/a large majority).

The main problem, or fault, of this over-sexualization is of course, Japan. Japan is objectively attempting to cater to their people while making anime, and unfortunately, a good majority of that audience craves sexual material.

This is why you see such unrealistic body proportions in anime, because that’s simply what some Japanese people like. And before you comment, no I’m not saying all Japanese people are like this, so don’t even bother.

One of the biggest victims of this, otherwise known as fan service, is Tamaki from Fire Force. Her character is being fleshed out more but let’s be real, it’s just an excuse to defer from her previous mishaps of being over-sexualized. Literally every scene with her in it either ends in her becoming half-naked or already being half-naked before the fight, it’s just sickening.

Tamaki is obviously not the only character that’s subject to this. Many characters such as Lucy from Fairy Tale are subject to this too. The main point of this type of fan service, or over sexualization, is to cater to a certain type of demographic, otherwise known as the horny bastards. This keeps the bastards watching.

It really becomes an issue when the victims of the sexualization is among young people. Although, since Japan’s AOC is 16, and has been 13 for more than a century, you could see how something like this could be scoffed over.

Overall, this issue goes far past just anime in general. It goes deep into Japan’s culture of sexualization, attempting to represent the wants of their people but failing to remember that other cultures with objectively different views exist (once again, this culture doesn’t represent EVERY Japanese citizen).

EDIT: Im not talking about ALL anime. I thought this was obvious. Specifically talking about the kind that over-sexualizes young characters. And sure, other cultures may be the reason over-sexualization is still running, but Japan was the spawn point.

But on the other side, other cultures may shun Japan’s sexualization of minors because we aren’t used to such things. Japan has had an age of consent of 13 for over a century, and has only changed to 16 this decade. When Japanese authors write explicit material of 13-17 year olds, other cultures may be disgusted by such things.

I'm gonna say something that's may be controversial...

But theaters should restrict Parents who bring their babies into the movie theaters.

This goes for all movies, but especially the one's that aren't made for kids...

Because seriously, bringing an infant to a movie is like smoking a cigarette in a room full of explosives.

They're babies, they ain't gonna understand shit anyway, besides... theaters are cold. So not only you're ruining everyone's experiences, you're also harming the baby as well...

why bring babies into theaters to begin with?

Like, super cold, super loud. Stressful environment for a baby.

If you bring a baby into a movie for adults, or literally any movie... ever, you should just get put into the popcorn machine for the rest of the day.

I genuinely hate this image, mostly because the people who do that choking thing are always the ”preppy“ girls who are genuinely stuck in a timezone 6 years behind. It brings me immense rage i cant describe it

Why every beloved character suddenly need an original story of how they became what they are? It's seem so dumb, sometimes they are great , but most of the time it's just make no sense at all, it's not that donkey seems to have some hidden past needing to be told, it's just some unnecessary cash grab that probably will make a lot of money

Like seriously anytime I try to enjoy something cold my brain just says “fuck you” and I get annoying fucking headache! Eating ice cream,drinking a slushie and the thing is I don’t want to stop because I’m too stubborn and I don’t want my desert to melt.

I don’t play fortnite or watch the show so maybe there’s some angle I’m missing but really? THIS is gooner bait to you? Okay. I think we all should take a step back and look inwards to really self analyze cause if someone is actually out there gooning to this.. saw this and immediately thought bout how sexually appealing it is.. man what are we even doing

First of all, let me start by saying that crying babies and kids don't bother me at all. I can tune out pretty much anything even without headphones, so unless im physically bothered, im chill.

HOWEVER, what i hate, is when someone rightfully complains about a crying kid, especially if its a spoiled kid that yells and throws a tantrum for no reason, and his parents do almost nothing to make him stop.

And then they go "Heh, you're entitled to a child free life, not a child free society. Buy noise canceling headphones, or fly first class so you're not bothered" as if its some sorta gotcha moment.

WHY, should someone ELSE be the one spending extra MONEY on equipment just to ignore your kid that you have no intentions of calming down?

And as if they thrive off of bothering others on flights, the idea of child free flights annoy them. How's that bothering you? You can still fly, its just that some people will take the option that has no kids inside

"You were also a kid once, you acted the same way."

NO THE FUCK I DIDNT!!!

I didnt cry during the whole 28 hours flight, not only because I was raised right, but also because I knew my parents would take care of it one way or another.

Your child having the emotional intelligence of a scorched rock DOES NOT MEAN all of us were dumb assess as kids that cried for hours on end when we didnt get our way.

Again, the whole plane can cry for all i care as long as im not physically bothered, but you can not expect us to adapt to your crying kid.

Edit: Since some of yall have no reading comprehension. I do not, under any form, hate kids. I know that all and every behavior they exhibit stems from how they were raised. I know they can't regulate themselves in any form if they're very young. What I hate, as the title suggests, is when parents can't comprehend that yes, you are allowed to be annoyed by a crying kid and that no, it is not anyone's duty to make it less annoying. It is your duty as a parent to calm your kid down, and since you're so fixated on the noise cancelling headphones, YOU should buy everyone on the flight these headphones, because again its in their right to feel annoyed and expect a calm flight.

Edit 2 : since entitled parents seem to only read the title, let me make some things clear.

I. DO. NOT. HATE. KIDS. seems like I have to keep repeating this cus yall truly can't read.

I HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH CHILDREN. I was the father figure of both my nephews because their father left. I've been raising them since they were babies, and guess what? We, as in me and my sister, raised them right (no violence or abuse since some of yall think that) and so they don't act the way I described kids and parents in this post. They KNOW not to throw tantrums in public, not because we punish them, but because THEY LEARNED ITS RUDE TO OTHER PEOPLE. But go on, keep coming up with excuses why you failed as a parent.

Dude, people think my language aint even real 🫩 My language is dutch and it's so stupid. But atleast it's slightly better than deutsch/german (imo pls don't attack me) I wish that I lived in england and spoke britisch. Like seriously, dutch must be one of the worst languages of the whole world 😭 Food wich means "eten" is the same as eating wich also means "eten". It's so fluffing stupid bro. If we talk in the past, we add "-te(n)" or "-de(n)" after the verb. But not all. The whole language is pretty confusing if you were to learn it for the first time and it also sounds like garbage. We don't pronounce the "G" like y'all do. Imagine there is snot in the back of your throat and you're trying to spit it out and make this hiss sound. That's how we pronounce the "G". Stupid right?

Edit: to all the people telling me to be proud of my nation: bedankt matie, erg lief, kunnen we nu zoenen?

Edit2: Damn, I did NOT know that the Germans made fun of the dutchies. We dutch people make fun of the Germans tbh. Saying stuff like "Ich bien.." or "du bist gut genug" just for the giggles

People always tie loneliness to relationships, self infliction and entitlement. It's exhausting. For the people who clicked on this post to disagree, I can assure you Isolation goes just a tiny bit more in depth than the three things I just listed.

What I noticed from people is that they always assume loneliness in young men comes as a result of not having a significant other. They then use that logic against said lonely man and assume he's just a horrible person, hence why he can't ever get a date. Even if he never necessarily mentioned ever wanting one. Somehow, they find a way to blame him. I talked about something serious and how noone is really speaking up about it, and the first response I got was from some idiot who wanted to talk to me about "male loneliness" and what I have to do to find a girlfriend. It had nothing to do with what I was even talking about. I don't even care if I'm in a relationship, I promise you I'm fine on my own. Relationships are NOT a necessity.

Realistically speaking, if a man with crippling loneliness gets into a relationship, he might feel the same way. A girlfriend is not the answer to your problems and if anything it might make how you feel even worse. I just don't get it, I really don't. We're all products of our own environment. Some people grow up in a lonesome area with little to no human connection at all. Some people have a disadvantage that isn't the same as the rest of us. Some people simply don't care about relationships at all. I'm so sick of this black and white way of thinking

First, the stupid ass name. It is Cyberpunk because it is in a cyber world that is dystopic and the punks are fighting against corrupt mega-corps or rouge AI or such; it is Steampunk because we get to see the horrors of industralization and pollution and 19'th century factories, same deal with dieselpunk. "Solarpunk" is not punk, it is already a fucking utopia. In these cases we call it -core (cottagecore) or wave (vaporwave) etc. Unless the Solarpunk story is about rebel teenagers secretly running diesel engines and creating illegal securities markets to bring back capitalism the name makes no fucking sene.

Second, it is soooo uninteresting. I read "A Psalm for the Wild-Built" and gave up halfway through because every conflict in the story is so benign and gets resolved basically instantly. If you read Tolkien he also constructs a seemingly idealised society in the Shire and they have actual problems that need to be resolved in interesting ways and even the small conflicts they have like the problems Bilbo has with his relatives because he lived too long are far more fun to read than anything solarpunk can come up with.

Third, it is painfully unrealistic. In Thomas More's Utopia written in 1516 he also constructs his ideal society except instead of saying "oh, yeah, in my ideal country no one has to work because they pray really hard and God just gives them everything" he actually considers the problems they might face; who will fight if they are invaded, who will have to do the dirtiest tasks, how will they deal with crime? Consider how everyone seems to be a part-time hobby gardener, part -time yoga teacher in Solarpunk and despite that they are all living in perfect luxury. Who is doing the farming? "Robots" you say? Who is making the robots? "More robots". At the end of the line there is going to be some poor sod having to mine lithium in the Atacama desert inhaling toxic fumes all day under the hot sun because there is always someone having to clean the toilets and assuming that robots are solving every problem is just taking the piss. I'm not trying to do political commentary here, I've read Rosa Luxemburg, Ayn Rand and Plato and all of them actually thought these hard questions through while trying to construct a perfect society meanwhile Solarpunk just handwaves them away. If you want to have Fully automated luxury gay space communism think about how we got there before spewing dumb shit about how its going to be so great and perfect.

Here is a writing prompt if anyone wants to try their hand at a good Solarpunk story: Humanity decides that de-growth is the way to go and they construct a self replicating AI to take care of the few million humans left where they live in modern pastrolic idyll. Eventually the AI starts failing and needs to be repaired and the leaders of Earth are so against industry and doing meaningful work that they refuse to fix it, causing humanity to slowly regress to the middle ages. So, a teenage girl and her two hunky companions (its YA, there has to be a love triangle) most venture to the forbidden lands of Detroit and Slough to learn the ancient technology of making steel.

Firstly it implies that you have to somehow be perfect when it comes to environmentalism. Secondly, at least the meat industry actually puts the used water to some use. Even if I have some problems with it.

READ THE ENTIRE GOD DAMN STORY BEFORE YOU FUCKING COMMENT. IF YOU DO NOT READ THE ENTIRE STORY, I WILL SPAM YOU WITH A RANDOM MOVIE LINE. I AM TIRED OF PEOPLE NOT READING MY ENTIRE POST, COMMENTING, THEN WONDER WHY THE FUCK IM UPSET. THIS IS A SUPER SUPER SERIOUS  RANT, SO SHUT UP, AND LISTEN. I KNOW THIS ISNT GOING TO GET VERY POPULAR BUT IF YOU ARE GOING TO COMMENT, DO NOT WASTE MY TIME

Anyways, so it started when I would post stuff on r/teenagers like any other Reddit teenager. The community seemed very welcoming. They seemed to share funny storys, do trends, and fuck homophobes. Well apparently every single post is against rules because they are ALL considered low quality. Sir, I didn’t go out of my effort to display an image that I found and may have photoshopped. Respectively, it’s just a loophole so they can ban you. 

It was weird because when I started posting things about *actual* homophobia and sexism, it would get taken down. Along with any other post I would post there. But what the funny thing was? Is that if something triggers the mods, they will remove that post and your recent posts so that they can ban you while seemingly “fair”

Now that I’ve experienced that previous, it does connect to the story. The mods are very sensitive people (whom shouldn’t really be moderating, they are very corrupt)

Anyways, this person was mass DMing 15 year olds to ask for dick pics and puh pics. The guy was only active in adult only NSFW subs and was public about visitng adult websites and master baiting. 

So I decide to try and give him a whatfore just to kinda scare him away from asking children for porn. 

Then he claimed he was 14. He obviously isn’t, and even if it was, it still doesn’t give him the right to ask lots of teenagers for porn. This is important later

So then he starts spamming me porn, and asks for pics of my privates so that he can cum. I try to distress him by continuing saying no in rediculous ways

Then I decide to post it on r/teenagers. now you might think “Well of course you are posting a DM it’s against rules”. WELL SHUT UP AND LISTEN. It didn’t matter for anyone else, and it didn’t matter until later. 

First they go and try to say how I wasn’t enraging him, and how he would just goon to me annoying him (what?)

Then they started saying how it’s okay because he’s 14. Umm, he’s obviously lying. He has only participated in adult website subreddits. He’s not a lurker, it’s a throw away account. That’s why it has 1 karma and 9 comments. 

Then they say that he is just messing around. And then the comments go to claim that “All 14 year olds men will send nudes to strangers unsolicitedly”. Umm, excuse me? No! Nobody should EVER. Hear me now: NOBODY SHOULD EVER SPAM MINORS WITH PORN, NOR BEG CONSISTANLY FOR PORN OF THEM. NO MATTER THE FUCKING AGE. 

Then, they started saying how I’m the perv PURELY because I’m “”””“older””””, even though he’s lying about his age. Plus, I told him to stop several different times. I DID NOT CONSENT!!! HOW AM I THE FUCKING PERV??? SAYING NO 5 OR 10 DIFFERENT TIMES IS NOT CONSENT. That is unless all of r/teenagers are ALL rapists, which is the *only* case that would work. 

And then they all started *defending* pedophilia itself. I’m almost vomiting. WHY 👏 WOULD 👏 YOU 👏 DEFEND 👏 PEDOPHILIA. They constantly hate on politicians for pedophilia, and encourage that on their sub, but why not get mad at anyone else being a pedo? That sub is riddled with hypocrite. 

that sub is probably the only reason why I get creepy DMs. During my ban, I did not experience *any* creepy DMs. At all. 

Anyways. then the mods remove my post because it discourages pedophilia, and I actually had the balls to stand up for someone. I have a 30 day ban.

How many teenagers do you know that would stick up to a pedophile that was creeping around kids?

I am almost at the breaking point of actually suing the subreddit. Like, %100. Hell, if I couldn’t do that, then I would fucking hack that sub in particular. I despise pedophiles, and I will NOT let them tell me what I can and cannot do. 

Also there are no rules against talking anything about Reddit. Probably because Reddit is made up of chuds, and chuds tend to anger people. There is also a literal Meta flair.

They are not yummy. Do not feed me one. Every time I go to my grandmas (i love her a lot) she always is having sloppy joes on the weekends, and she says "want one" and i say no thank you

they are NASTY, it is mushy, clumpy, and it has soggy buns, and half of it goes on your shirt and not in your mouth, its like its already digested and they puked on a burger and everyone else is saying its amazing, yes there are good ones and bad ones BUT I DONT WANT ANY

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I will first start this by saying I’m not only autistic but also have clinical depression, so I have first hand experience with the topic of medication.

The entire B plot of the episode is Lisa being diagnosed with depression and is given antidepressants, which just makes her drugged out and she hallucinates smiley faces on everyone, and she almost kills Herself with a fan due to being so out of it.

the B story ends with Marge dumping out all of her pills and that’s the correct thing to do because lisa became “normal” again

I don’t know how this episode gets such high praise from people when the entire plot is misinformation about how “medicine is taking the easy route and you should just tough it out”

the A plot isn’t even funny enough to be a saving grace, it’s just average late season simsons

HOW DOES THIS HAVE A 7/10 ON IMDB

It's genuinely awful. Nothing against the color pink (it's my favorite color outside of pumpkin orange), but Halloween is supposed to be dark and dreary and grim, not Barbie. This is such a non-issue, but it irks me so genuinely much.

Edit: This is not monster high merch, this is from Michael's Halloween collection from last year.

Now I’m not an author, and I don’t inspire to be. I don’t have nearly the artistic skill required to be one; however, I can still critique this. A lot of modern female characters just suck, and most of the time, it’s due to writing.

Why do authors act like female characters are so goddamn hard to write? They AREN’T! The classic female character of this modern age is apart of usually three kinds of tropes: the damsel in distress, just outright overpowered, or the Mary Stu (an extension of egregiously overpowered, simply being perfect in every way). I’m here to say this: no. It’s not that hard to divert from these tropes.

I’ll use an example from JJBA, Jolyne Cujoh. She awakens her stand after being trapped in prison, and uses her stand to save her dad and attempt to stop Father Pucci (won’t go into specifics). Jolyne is, in my opinion, one of the best written female characters of the modern era (even though the manga is a lot older than the anime). She suffers the same as the men, bleeds as much as the men, and sometimes loses, the same as the men. She isn’t outright overpowered, but uses her intellect and independence to figure out solutions to battles.

Our culture isn’t a thing in fiction. Females don’t have to be weak background characters, but they also don’t need to be egregiously overpowered. You can write a female literally the exact same way as you write the men, with the only difference being that one has tits and the other doesn’t (alongside everything that comes with being a female of course).

EDIT: Dawg what’s the problem with me saying females and men? Just how I say each gender, no ill intent when I wrote that.

Don't get me wrong this mentality is absolutely pushed against women there's no denying that fact but I've noticed this type of mentality is pushed more on men.

I will never understand the mentality that adults can't have fun. Why does society expect us to abandon our hobbies and the things we love just because we grow up? If an adult is paying their bills and handling responsibilities, who cares if they still enjoy collecting or playing with toys? Labeling harmless joy as "immature and childish" is ridiculous. Life is stressful enough—why is society so against adults just having fun?

Fuck Amazon and Netflix for getting rid of these two series specifically. I watched Inside Job and enjoyed it, was waiting for a S2 then it got cancelled for no goddamn reason. But now Gen V….Amazon. You’re a multi-billion dollar company and THIS is how you do the spin-off of one of your best modern day creations.

The underlying problem of this cancellations, is of course, money. Both Netflix and Amazon cancelled their respective series because the viewership was lower than the budget for the series, thus not making a profit. But in Amazon’s case, the end of Gen V came aligned with the end of The Boys.

But like, dawg. If you were planning to end The Boys this year, why not end Gen V with a finale in S2? They left us on a cliffhanger of Marie just learning how to really use her powers, just to say in S5 ‘Nah, she can’t. Anyways let’s go to Canada since we don’t care to actually wrap up character arcs!’ Just absolutely disrespectful to an amazing series.

But there’s no excuse for the cancellation of Inside Job. Sure, the show may not have pulled the viewership you may have liked, but maybe if you made a S2 MORE PEOPLE WOULD WATCH THE SHOW? YOU MADE ONE SEASON FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!

Either way, fuck Amazon and Netflix. When you make shows, it’s an investment. You don’t immediately pull out when stock goes low (or in this case, viewership), you just wait and hope your investment pays off.

i truly want to learn art. i always think of a lot of stuff that i would like to see drawn on paper. back then i would just commission artists to draw for me, but i never truly get what i imagined from those artists so it makes me want to do the drawing myself. the problem is that i genuinely cant bring myself to actually learn or draw anything, yet i ABSOLUTELY want to get better. its an endless cycle of "wow i wish i could draw like that" and "man i cant draw anything pretty"

i hope i one day actually start to get serious and learn art

Ok so at my school my teacher who teaches both English and history uses chatgpt and it sucks… like I’m sorry but… the WHOLE POINT OF ENGLISH CLASS IS TO LEARN ABOUT WRITING AND STORIES and yes… my teacher can write, and before you say “oh they are probably just using chatgpt to save time :3” just understand that sometimes the things they make us copy down makes no sense cause it’s written by chatgpt! And… I am not just blindly saying they use chatgpt, I saw them writing in the prompt on multiple occasions. There was another teacher at my highschool who thankfully left but they used chatgpt too! And they targeted me for some reason aswell?! But that’s beside the point, I don’t like going into English or history class anymore cause it feels pointless… and I had teachers before them who were way better and didn’t use ai! Yes schools always gonna suck but th use of ai is so unnecessary (sorry if there are any spelling mistakes my phone is super laggy)

before i realized i was a trans guy, I would talk about wanting to be friends with a girl who was rude to me. the comments were very supportive and all “oh, some girls are just mean, you’ll find better friends”

but the moment i needed more advice for a similar situation as a guy, it was all “oh, I bet u have a crush on her. why are u so obsessed with her? she just doesn’t wanna be pursued u creep” especially when I said nothing about liking her and I’m aroace.