Category: Personal

The gaming industry and its mass layoffs

I saw this topic on Reddit, and realised I hadn’t written anything here in a long time. Well here goes:

IGN story  Reddit post

I actually read the article, and I think some things are missing.

The things that are missing it barely mentioned are AI and not listening to customers.


CANCELLED!

My partner and I really like watching old shows from the 90s and early 2000s, like Will and Grace, Frasier, The Nanny, Buffy, Friends, Boston Legal, etc. When we do, we play this game called Cancelled.

The rules are simple: Get a large cup, pint glass, vase, or bucket of alcohol or another beverage of your choosing. Turn on your show. Every time someone says or does something that would get a show, writer, director, producer, actor, or entire franchise cancelled in today’s socio-political landscape, yell “CANCELLED!” and take a swig or a hefty glug.

We are drunk a lot. Kidding; I only drink sometimes. But we do play this daily.


For my turn, I feel sorry for Netflix.

Today on the chopping block we have Community, a wholesome, amazing, hilarious show about a community college full of misfits and mismatched characters from across the racial, age, and socioeconomic spectrums. God forbid a show like this exist.

There’s Jeff, the hot, white, douchey, not-a-lawyer; Annie, the meek, pale, secretly hot, jewish academic; Abed, the loveable, likely neuro-atypical, half Arabic, half Palestinian nerd; Troy, the dumb, black jock with a heart of gold; Shirley, the black, judgemental, well-meaning, extremely christian mommy; Pierce, the old-money, ancient, white asshole; Chang, the narcissistic chinese asshole who screws with the study group; Dean Pelton, the pasty, extremely flamboyant dean, who speaks 70% of his lines in sexual innuendo directed at Jeff, and Britta the defiant, idealistic, white bread, social justice warrior. Britta is the worst. Somehow these characters, though deeply flawed in their own ways, get along with each other.


Jenna Marbles

Great. So the social justice warriors have necro’d a bunch of 8-10 year old videos and cancelled Jenna fucking Marbles. The only good OG comedy creator on the entirety of YouTube.

Not how I want to remember her

Sure she did a bunch of stupid shit when she was young and trying to be edgy for views, just like all of the other creators of the time doing stupid edgy noob shit. Instead of starting 97 squeaky clean new channels to bury her past or just giving up entirely, like many of her contemporaries, she stuck with it, grew up, and showed us that it is possible to be an angry, sarcastic, confused, young 20 something and grow up into a really decent person who makes soap hands, throws dog weddings, fails miserably at making corn-on-the-cob-except-the-corn-bone-is-a-hotdog, and water marbles her CROCKS.


Fallout, You Know Me So Well

Now, if you know me in person, you know that I have the cooking skills of a blind, deaf, child with no tongue. I neither read recipes nor listen to instructions from real people, so I can feed myself extremely basic things: spaghetti, jello, cheese on toast, cereal. I’m fine with this, because I don’t care how they taste. Cooking for other people? No. I don’t want to. That’s a lot of effort, and I would probably end up making someone sick.

I just got a rolling pin as a drop. A rolling pin. So I can beat people to death with a rolling pin? Seems unlikely that I’d kill anyone with a kitchen implement, but it’s in keeping with my own personal life lore, so I’ll bite.

Oh, It’s a legendary drop? That seems like a bit of a stupid waste of a legendary drop. Does it roll fancy patterns on their faces? Does it poison them, so I don’t have to wait for my cooking to do it? Does it set things on fire, like I’ve done to my kitchen before? Does it do double damage, like my cooking that’s boring AND might make you sick? Does it just sit in my cupboard and do nothing?

Wait, what? It actually poisons people? I was kidding. Oh, Bethesda, you troll, I love you. I will probably never use this thing, but I’m definitely going to put it on display. I actually laughed out loud when I saw this thing. Thanks, Bethesda <3


Seriously? SERIOUSLY? Calm Down, FFS!

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‘The Walking Dead’ is under fire for whitewashing iconic ‘Moonlight’ poster

This baffles me.


The only thing I’ll say about Trump

I wish I could stop hearing about him. I’m not American; I’m Canadian. He literally isn’t my President. That being said, I’m equally glad Hillary isn’t either. Were I American, I’d have voted for anyone but either of them.


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Kale is not a food. It’s something Waitrose stitched together then dyed green to fill the gap in the market between cabbage and moisturiser for people who’ve spent too long on yoga mats.

Rebecca Cukier


Take your stickers, and go away.

I know that, being a woman, people like to stick labels on me.

Lately, I’ve noticed a load media coverage of the whole trans/gender-identity community, the laws regarding them, and public opinions on the topic. Now, don’t get me wrong, I love that we’re finally pulling our heads out of our asses and allowing people to be who they want, and do what they want.


Emergent Damaging Derogatory Terminology

This is likely a little off topic for this blog, but I feel that I need to say something.
Recently, I’ve noticed a damaging trend of people saying things like, mansplain, whitesplain, and straightsplain being thrown around.

Being female, I understand the frustration of people that fall into the non-cis, non-male, or non-wasp group for one or more reasons. I have, in several occasions, had my dumb little female brain subjected to what would be classified as a mansplaination.

There are two reasons that I think ths sort of language is damaging. I’m just going to use mansplain as an example here, because I’m not going to repeatedly list all the different ‘splains.


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