Now did you mean for all those words to come out of your mouth in that order, or are you just as surprised and confused as the rest of us?

Wow. What a terrible joke.

Ok. The guy is crazy with his kids. Whatever the kids imagine, thats the game. My niece once told me we were playing “Twinkle Spiral”. Then we held out our arms spin in a circle while running around the room spinning. It’s been 10 years, and apperently I won. I still have no idea what the game even was.

The cat he’s just being lazy. You put some double sided sticky take down on the floor in the shape of a maze. Then you keep the toy upwards, so the cat is always looking up. Now you guide the cat so she never looks down, and navigates the maze while not stepping on the tape.

And his wife? Well she’s just a prude. A card based system could TOTALLY spice up the bedroom. Oh, you drew this card. Lets see what you gotta do. Looks like you’re getting tied up and tickled for 10 minutes. Ok, my turn to draw a card. Looks like I gotta lick your butthole until you cum…and you’re still tied up, so you can’t help! Ohh nooooooooo…slurp slurp slurp

The problem with saying “Asians are fetishized” is that EVERY race is fetishized. Every body feature is fetishized. Small tits? Fetishized. Big tits? Fetishized. Black? Fetishized. White? Fetishized. Asian? Fetishized. Wear glasses? Fetishized.

No matter who you are, there’s SOMEOME fetishizing you.

My mom almost bought me a tamagachi in the 90s. I say almost because what she actually bought me was a cheap knock off.

What I remember most about it was my friend showed me their tamagachi, and it’s born as an egg.

Then I remember what mine was born as.

Imagine seeing this pixel art gorilla, and then he sees a second pixel art gorilla wearing a skirt. Then you see the closeup of the male gorillas face, and he wiggles his eyebrows exitedly.

The next thing you see is a pixel art of a sperm attacking an egg. In a knockoff tamagachi meant for children. I was 13, so I was old enough to know what I was seeing, but it definately had some real WTF vibes. Let’s put it this way. I’m 41. I remember nothing else about that tamagachi besides seeing pixel art gorilla sperm.

That’s all. I just wanted more people to know about chinese knockoff tamagachi with gorilla sperm.

“Duuuuuuuh!!!” says literally everybody else.

Seriously, this is NOT news. This has been going on for like 8 years now.

But enough about you robbing the local blockbuster at gun point!

Yes? Did something happen at band camp?

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought everybody was making a big deal over Civ 7 getting an official release because denuvo doesn’t work on linux?

I read people saying the lack of denuvo made the linux version the best version just for the fact that it’s the PC release without denuvo?

Did I misunderstand?

The thing that NOBODY seems to understand, or maybe not willing to admit is, you CANNOT group people together.

It’s the whole reason racism logically makes no sense. At all.

“Oh, all those dirty (insert race here) are good for nothin! They’re all assholes!”

And sure, regardless of what race you inserted there, there’s going to be some assholes. There’s also going to be some amazing people that you’re unfairly judging.

And it’s not just races. It’s anything. Races, genders, religions, countries, social groups, book clubs, whatever.

If you think all people of one group think the same on everything, you’re just factually wrong. And if you use that incorrect fact to judge that group, now you’re just an asshole.

I’ve found that people th]?6ink judging people is bad, and wrong. I don’t think so. I think some people are just terrible at judging people, and miss the point of judging people. You’re supposed to judge them as an individual. Not as (insert group here).

Did anyone else think the final frame was going to be the hobo having already died, since they took so long discussing WHY giving him the bread was the right thing to do, that they never actually GAVE him the bread?

They just said “for this particular issue, the hard drive is not working, and so there’s nothing we can do about that”.

I agree the hard drive wasn’t working. So I asked them to point me to the claus in the warrenty that dismissed them if the hard drive wasn’t working within the warrenty period. They just kept transfering me around.

It’s decades later, and I’m still of the belief that I was right. It’s also the reason I hold no grudge towards best buy.

Seagate defined their warrenty as 90 days, barring user defects (so like if I had spilled a drink on it, or did something on my end that would break it). Since nothing about the defect had anything to do with me, I’d say I fall into their warrenty.

If I had opened the box sooner, and gotten it back to best buy with the reciept, within 14 days, I’d expect them to have taken it back. I opened it a month or so in, so that part is on me. Best buy defined their terms before I purchased. I was outside those terms. Sucked for me, but you can’t fault best buy for that.

I was just mad that seagate said “this is our warrenty, these are our terms”, and then didn’t honor it on a defective drive. At that point I DO fault the company that doesn’t honor their own word.

I hadn’t opened the package for about a month. Best buy had a 14 day return period, which is why I don’t blame them. They offered their terms, I was outside of their return period, even if the package was unopened.

The seagate warrenty was 90 days. Which I was within.

Just a few weeks ago I made comments that I wouldn’t be interested in buying seagate’s latest 34 terabyte hard drive, or whatever it was.

My logic was that in 2008 when I bought a brand new seagate hard drive, and it was dead before I plugged it in, they refused to honor their warrenty.

Which to me, is them being an untruthful company. THEY wrote the terms of the warrenty. I fell within them. They refused to honor their warrenty.

Alright. Fine, you’re on the blacklist. And I haven’t bought a seagate product since.

And peoples response on lemmy to those comments was “it was 15+ years ago, they make better products now”

Which misses the point entirely. I’m not boycotting them to reduce risk of getting another junk product. I’m boycotting them because they don’t stand behind their word.

I feel we as people need to stand up, and police the businesses. Ok, so McDonalds is supporting trump. Mcdonalds is supporting russia. Mcdonalds is doing all this shady shit? Well then STOP BUYING BIG MACS, ASSHOLE! If we, collectively as a society held dishonest businesses to the flame for shady practices, then these shady businesses would stop being shady.

It’s a simple formula.

(Shady thing) - (lost sales from protests) + (completed purchases) = total dollars.

Now, if the lost sales from protests swallows the completed purchases, then that means that shady thing cost them money. When that happens, they will stop doing the thing that loses them money.

But if the shady thing boosts their sales more than the protests cost the sales, it becomes just a cost of doing business.

It seems like such a simple concept too. Don’t buy from shitty companies, but yet Nestle is out here just thriving.

Be the Hulk you want to see in the world.

…this comment makes me uncomfortable…like switches are some kind of an unsult! Switches are great! More variety!

I can complain…what’s this “fun” you assholes are talking about???

goes back to being an insufferable curmudgeon

I get where the republican leaders are coming from. No no, hear me out.

Trump is a narcisist, and in 2015 the GOP were shitty people doing shitty things. They were just a bit more closed door with their cult like activities. By this point, Fox News had been saying bullshit and brainwashing people for 20 years. So as long as they made a legitimate attempt to make things look credible, and the democrats faults, they could defend their bullshit by saying “yeah, but what about them? They did this other thing!” And now their viewers are distracted by the other thing, that may or may not have even happened…but it LOOKS credible to their 2015 audience.

And the politicians of that day in the GOP just asked one simple question. "How can I stay in power, and do things to benefit me, while blaming the left for any consequences I may face?

Now you have to remember, 2008-2016 the GOP had been pounded again and again and again by the thing they hate. Unity. Here was the nation, celebrating a president that wasn’t a good ol’ boy. Here was a black guy, who just for the first time in a 230+ year old country history became president. Even Clinton was a middle aged white guy sleezeball from Arkansas. He wasn’t one of THEM, but he was ONE of them.

So for 8 years, they were panicing, and scared, and anxious. And quite frankly, they didn’t have a game plan. Then the 2016 election season starts, and the GOP is lost. Completely uncoordinated. Yoj got about 40 people in the primaries. Their base doesn’t know who to root for. Meanwhile Hillary Clinton is basically standing there, looking like The Hulk. Pretty much unopposed from the left.

And as this scary season drags on, it’s clear that the DNC is going to steam roll them. They have a plan, they have their ducks in a row. They’re preparing speeches months out. While the GOP has like 35 candidates still not dropping out.

And the thing is, nobody in the GOP wanted to drop out. EVERYBODY wanted that golden opertunity to say to their base “I’M the one that led us away from having a woman president, after having a black president”. The fact that ALL of them wanted it is how we got 30 candidates all walking on eggshells, because at the time politics was very much a sensitive thing. You can think one thing, and you can know your base also thinks that thing, but you can’t say that thing. You’ll poll poorly and lose.

Meanwhile, trumps not a politician. He didn’t expect to win, so fuck it. He’s just there to hear himself talk. And after he loses, and doesn’t get the primary nomination, he’ll go home. He’ll still be donald trump. He did this in 2000, and 2008. He probably thought he’d do it again in 2024. So all the other republicans are detailing facts that cater to their campaign. They’re talking numbers. Boring politics, just as it had always been. Meanwhile trump is over on his own little sideshow yelling DEPORT THE MEXICANS! BUILD A WALL!!! and the republican base is cheering him louder than any of the 20 real campaigns you knew would be winning.

But each of the remaining were getting nervous. Sure, a lot had dropped out over 8 months, but there was still like 15 guys left, and nobody was sure who was going to win. I mean for gods sake, Jeb Bush’s entire campaign was basically “My last name is Bush. It’s my turn.”

All the while trump is just making soundbytes, with no substance, and getting all the attention. So when the primaries finally came, voters cokldn’t even remember the difference between the other 8 guys. Trump was racist, and they connected to that. I mean seriously. Who the fuck is Jim Gilmore?

And then…Hillary was just…the worst candidate the DNC could have ran with. Remember earlier when I said they had all their plans early, and a stable campaign? Well, it had one fatal flaw. It centered around quite frankly one of the most unlikeable candidates they could have picked. So Hillary snatched defeat from the jaws an already dead fish washed up on the beach.

And now, the GOP is losing their shit. They’re now stuck with an outsider who has no background as a politician, no experience in any government setting, and is known nationally as the punchline of who’s gone bankrupt THREE TIMES from running CASINOS!!! The house ALWAYS wins!!! They’re literally a legal scam designed to never fail! How do you fuck that up at all, let alone three distinctly different times??? And now he was their guy.

So you can imagine the panic that crept in, until somewhere along the line, somebody figured out something very very important. If you kiss his ass, he’ll like you, and be easily manipulated by you.

And all of the sudden it’s like a lightbulb went off. All these assholes in this photo realized almost a decade ago that trump is a very useful tool. You smooch his backside, he gives you the controls of his own marionette strings.

So now, you understand this picture. Trump is a tool, and all these assholes around him are kissing his ass, to get him to do their bidding. Because they know in 4 years trump will no longer matter, and they can get back to the fight they started with each other in 2015.

So. Like I said in the begining. I UNDERSTAND what these guys are all doing. I don’t like it. I don’t agree with it. But it makes logical sense once you realize that not a single one of these people has anyones best interest at heart but their own.

What I DON’T understand, is the democrats logic. The republicans should be easy to deal with, with simple divide and conquor tactics, since none are loyal to each other. So what the fuck are the democrats doing???

I need to spread this message. I need everyone to see this message! So I’ll start by making T-shirts that say this. And I’ll need to sell the T-shirts, because I can’t pay to produce billions of t-shirts on my own. So I’ll sell them for $20 each, and use the profits to make advertisements using AI of Musk sucking on some balls. That’ll sell more T-shirts. Except now someones taken my commercials of musk sucking balls, and they’re printing t-shirts of my design, and competing with me! But if I out of business, then I can’t spread the word anymore! So now I gotta sue this other guy. And I win, and now I’m selling two t-shirts. The original design, and this new design of musk sucking balls. Except that lawsuit was expensive. I gotta raise prices now, to recoup some losses.

Only now, most people in the country have the first design. Which means I’ve spread the message, to everyone already, and now I’M a billionaire…which means…oh no…

Does anyone have any balls I can suck?

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