Small Gray Games

I assume he must come with the shelves. It'd be illegal to put him in the picture otherwise.

I'm trying to assemble the shelves, but he keeps telling me ninjas have kidnapped our girlfriends??

A product listing photo of some ordinary garage shelves. The guy standing next to them for scale is wearing fingerless red leather gloves and a matching sleeveless vest with combat boots and some kind of tactical strap/harness on his thigh. He looks somebody from a knock-off Double Dragon movie.

Really enjoying the "normal guy for scale" Amazon has included here.

COMPANY VIEWING HUMAN WORK: "I don't know. Legal reviewed this and it seems risky. Let's step back."

COMPANY VIEWING AI: "Hahaha, no man can sue me! I have prompted claude to build a tower to reach heaven, for I am greater than god!!!"

Listen it's perfectly fine. As long as everybody votes the correct way, then continues to do that every single time forever, there's no problem.

It probably speaks well of our current historical moment that I'm genuinely unsure which person and which crimes you mean

And to be clear, I don't mean that I think it *actually* tells you anything about anybody's politics, just that that's how it reads.

Yeah I don't disagree really. I'm approaching it as someone who really doesn't know anything about her myself (I don't know amber glen, only saw song choices much later), yet it still felt obvious to me purely from vibes.

the one thing I miss about working at a grocery store is that when stuff like that happened, my manager was invariably an extremely tired 21-year-old who would be like, "that doesn't sound like his problem."

I suspect a significant portion also came from her becoming some kind of headcanon nationalist standard bearer to them in opposition to Eileen Gu. My first clue that the olympics was even happening was seeing some weird talking-point consolidation of people getting wildly mad about her.

I'm just struck by that any time I see "jokes are allowed again" type comedians, or these Daily Wire-produced TV shows, or whatever. You might get some chuds saying "wow this is so based," or something, but they don't actually like it. Nobody's having fun. It's miserable, even to them.

I honestly think it's because people are charmed by her in large part because she seems like she's having a lot of fun, which generally doesn't read as right-wing. It's why right-wing art is usually so hard to stomach: it tends to be built exclusively around grievance, which is utterly joyless.

The whole Alysa Liu discourse among right-wing culture war types is interesting to me. They seem shocked to learn that she's not "of them," while it seems obvious to everybody else. But why is it obvious? Lots of people say it's just her look, but there are tons of alt-looking right-wingers lately.

Yeah it was long enough ago that I don't precisely remember what the issue was. I just recall being lost forever and having trouble even with guides, and having one of those moments where you go "are you having fun?" to yourself and realize the answer is no.

Yeah I'm curious what it's like. I really enjoyed the first one for a while, but got so mad during the cathedral maze that I fully quit and never came back to it lol.

Is this the first one or the sequel?

A small grievance I have with Bluesky's UI is that you can't add alt text from the "edit image" popover. I consistently click that "pen" icon thinking, "yes, I need to write something," then have a brief but disorienting moment of searching before I realize that alt text is somewhere else entirely.

Letterboxd review that reads "I don't know why they make that movie"

This is the best kind of letterboxd review, because I laugh, but then realize it's actually extremely informative about what it feels like to watch the movie in question.

"When an apple is bad, you simply need to relocate it within the bunch."

ME 50 YEARS FROM NOW: "I just thought of something. Walter White seems so cool. But he's the bad guy? What??"
MY NURSE, UNPLUGGING MY BREATHING MACHINE: "Okay."

I think a lot of people imagine that anything earlier than maybe the 80s is laborious arthouse fare. It's too bad, because so much of that Hays Code era stuff (Casablanca included) is so efficient and goes-down-easy watchable, even relative to today.

It's okay, from what I hear, everybody on this app is minimum 60. Everyone younger than that is doing child labor on Roblox.

One could argue that a proper authoritarian strongman government is actually the smallest possible government. It's just one guy, really. Can't get tread on if it's just one guy.

There's semi-validated reboot talk going on

A frame from Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla II (1993). About 3/4 of a dozen young school girls are in front of a barred fence, smiling. They are looking at the small dinosaur-esque Baby Godzilla in the foreground, facing away from the camera. The caption reads, "Isn't he lovely?" They are, of course, 110% correct. Not pictured: Godzilla; Mechagodzilla; Baby's lovely face (because he's turned away)

A frame from Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla II (1993). A close up of Baby's beautiful mug. No caption.

Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla II (1993)

Won Bin and Kim Sae-ron on the poster for The Man from Nowhere

I rewatched this for the first time since around when it came out. The whole thing feels so different and exponentially sadder having seen real-life Won Bin at Kim Sae-ron's funeral.

Yeah for sure. Someday somewhere there will probably be an ascii purist who gets very mad that it’s not pure ascii standards, but there’s always gonna be somebody.

I have no insight into what a specifically ascii-fan opinion would be (so grain of salt on what I think), but I'd guess that the overall ascii *vibe* is probably significantly more important than actual adherence to the technical standard.

I love the assertion here that "politicians running for office" and "random shit poster" are apparently the same thing and demand the same level of scrutiny.