"Words with Friends" but as a board game seems like a pretty dumb juncture for Scrabble itself to go down, but I can't say I'm all that surprised...
Every woke Zoomer chick I know absolutely loves that sort of shit, presumably because it allows them to be able to appear "smort" with minimal actual effort or knowledge...
Oh, I still don't get it, but ok...
Like, "When they're all dead", or something..?
What's ttd? I couldn't find it via a quick Google, lol...
Here's the original, so you can, if you wish, watch the TikThots do their thotting in video form:
Stupid fucking "nation".
Wiew. I hate "Lol calm down" as a response, but I'm not sure what else to say to you at this point...
Touch grass, maybe?
Hmm, this woman positively glows...
DC, then Microsoft, then Twitter, and now this job...
Talk about a hypocrite. But also talk about failing upward, lol...
Context and subsequent developments: https://archive.is/AoJlq
This is the original, because the fucking archive cuts off half the page (which is the fault of the original site, but anyway): https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2024/australia-puts--arrogant-billionaire--elon-musk-on-notice.html
This is dystopian as fuck. It really is...
Julie Inman-Grant, who is a Yank who moved here because America just wasn't authoritarian enough for her liking, is a genuinely evil person, IMHO. Despite having no relevant qualifications or experience, she somehow literally has the power to scrub the internet in Australia clean to her liking, and that of the (centre-left) government...
Scary shit.
Edit: I was wrong about her "experience", although it only makes it even more creepy, when you look into her background, lol...
She doesn't strike me as a "covert lesbian", from what I have seen, although I do admit that I have obviously watched much less than you or the others commenting here...
That wouldn't have been my assumption.
Same with Sydney Watson, who, while obviously not really a conservative/adjacent with our values here, does make good points sometimes.
But she's also mid-30s, and also single and childless. But I am very confident that she is not a lez.
But then I also can't get over the fact that I used to know a girl (and by know, I mean "know well") who had almost exactly the same name as Melonie (different spellings), and it weirds me out every time I see this girl mentioned/pop up, lol...
Oh no, I know all of that (Footloose was my school musical, after all!) - I just wondered why, in this instance, the people censoring the game had used that as their argument, given they are clearly doing this for the latter reasons you describe there…
Unless it was “niche gamer” that put those posters in that image..?
But nah, I think I was alive for the end of the “Satanic Panic” shit, even if I don’t remember it myself, lol…
I distinctly remember the cancelling of the Dixie Chicks, at the very least!
I think it’s more a question of timing. As in, were there still cannibals in New Guinea by then..?
Almost certainly not, given that’s where the Battle of Kokoda was fought, and I don’t recall any mention whatsoever of cannibals in that context.
Could be wrong, though.
“Can’t show that in a Christian manga!”
Is this… is this “a bit”..?
I think, on this point, even 8/9 year old me was very confused by the granddaughter thing… Like it was just like, “Huh, what the hell? Is she the same woman, or not??”, lol.
Which was a fair reaction, I think.
Side note also: the actress for “Little Miss” as a child is Jesse Eisenberg’s (older?) sister, so there you go.
Yeah, that’s kind of the same for me, I think. Though I’m not sure if I’ve actually seen AI. But I remember being thoroughly traumatized and confused by Bicentennial Man for the exact same reason, lol, and then very much the same as you, it became a core memory, then eventually I forgot which film it was, but still remembered the sadness, lol…
I only remembered/figured out it was this film when I looked it up a couple of years ago, in fact.
I have this also with a horror scene that I can remember seeing when I was very young, of a guy getting run over. I can remember all the detail, but I still have no idea what the movie was. But yeah, very similar thing!
I think the term predates both of those, tbh…
Not that I don’t also agree that it sounds weird, in modern lingo, but that’s definitely a pretty old term…
Good points. Especially about the "not fully understanding despite wanting to be one" bit.
It's funny I guess, because I've always felt like such an outsider, in most environments that I find myself in, that I sort of think of myself as a bit "alien", or like an android or something... I'm obviously not alone in that, but even other people who seem to feel that way... seem to fit in "better" than I do.
Despite that, I don't think I'm autistic, and I don't have many of the other symptoms (more ADHD like, perhaps), but I've just always... Been a bit weird. Which I think comes from having an extremely shitty, isolated, lonely childhood, where I wasn't allowed to "be normal"...
Anyway, as the result of all that, I really identify with the "muddling through" of characters like this, where they just want to be normal, and to be perceived and treated as "normal", and to have that connection.
Which is a point of dialogue in the film from the creator/inventor guy, so I guess the movie is entirely aware of this aspect of the human condition, too...
We all want that connection, and to feel that sense of belonging (in addition to the sense of being free which the film also explores), but even though we're all human, a lot of us don't get/have that, anymore.
Sorry for the rant. I've just been rather starved of meaningful IRL human connection the last month or so, so maybe I've taken these movie narratives on board a little too much, lol...
Ah, well essentially the whole falling in love with “Little Miss”, and then her granddaughter, who is nearly identical (obviously). That’s… A bit awkward by itself.
But then he essentially stalks Portia (arguably), persuades her to fall in love with him, and then robs her of a chance to have a normal relationship, children, and then insists that she extend her lifespan beyond normality/what she wants, because he doesn’t want to be alone, lol…
I don’t think all of that is as creepy as many reviewers made out, but it’s… A bit iffy. And the dialogue, in parts, reflects that…
There’s also the weird relationship between Galatea and both Andrew and her creator (can’t remember his name), which also results in creator/scientist guy never ending up with another human, and also extinguishing his own lineage, because he is too busy developing stuff for Andrew, lol…
Am I overthinking it? Definitely. But I do think the movie would have been greatly improved if Andrew and Portia a) found a sperm donor, or b) just adopted some damn kids…
Other people have argued that the euthanasia bit at the end (“I order you to let me die”) is “problematic”, lol, but I didn’t really feel that way.
But yeah, the movie is good, but thoroughly imperfect, imho… Like humanity itself, I guess!
More schizo than autist, from everything I’ve read (see Stupidpol, if you wish), but yeah, pretty much…
He was a leftoid…
It’s all over Stupidpol, and his Substack manifesto is linked there, too…
I would link that here, but the Stupidpol connection is already all over the media, so probably best to avoid doing that, for now…
I expect this may be the end of that sub, or, at least, it will likely be locked down…
Edit: someone else linked the manifesto in another comment. See that.
Except for the tits, which are, umm, even smaller, proportional to the rest of the body, lol...
Says "Forbidden Resource" now, at least for me... :-(
Maybe it was removed? Or is it just geoblocked where I am or something..?
Just hope, like me, that the system collapses at some point, because it simply cannot continue the way it is going (although every time it looks like something might change, like the housing bubble bursting, or the laws changing, it never does)…
Honestly, at this point, while the “Hurr durr, you wouldn’t survive societal collapse” meme is probably true, my life is so… Not where I want it to be, that I almost feel that would be better (for me, if not in general)…
I’m just so damn sick of the current way society is (going), and have been for like a decade. There has to be something better than this…
Although honestly, I do feel like Australia is even worse than the norm, on some of this, so that is at least something…
But yeah, I feel ya dude/dudette. Even with our different backgrounds, the end result is the same.
I barely see a cent of my parents wealth. They’d rather just buy nice shit for themselves, and hoard it while they can.
Which is fine, I suppose. They can pay for their own fucking nursing home, as far as I’m concerned. 👌🏻
Clara, or Bill..?
I mean, I get the Clara criticism, but no way was she a worst ever candidate...
More just, "Yeah, you probably should have quit a while ago," if anything...
But yeah Bill sucked, lol.
I hear this from my parents sometimes...
Which is funny, because the normal situation in Australia is: parents help out with deposit for first home, and/or grant children easier rent situation in a property they own (both of which are kind of depressing)...
Mine is: parents have holiday house but don't allow me use of it, retain an investment property, but again I don't have use of it, and expect me to make it entirely on my own, lol...
Yeah, it's... "Fun". My grandparents have been actively more helpful than they have, lol. Fuck 'em.
Yep, literally, lol…
Apparently it was originally “ironic” (for the Huguenots, at least), but not in all cases…
Racing wheelchairs (which this obviously isn’t, and I don’t know if that would work for someone with teh palsy) are unironically considerably faster than walking…
However the real answer you’re looking for is stairs. They need only run up some damn stairs, lol. Or steal her glasses, I imagine.
I mean that’s the thing - if the serum thing fixes her vision, shouldn’t it also grant her the ability to walk..?? Lol…