pimento64
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- Comment on Venezuelan Official Says at Least 40 People Were Killed in U.S. Attack 12 hours ago:
Red paint is attracted to poor people.
- Comment on "No, it's just a reflection! I'm not a flower!" :'-( 2 days ago:
Fun fact from director Jerry Rees:
Okay, the flower. Here’s the way it went.
There’s the night in the thicket. Poor Blanky gets full of stickers and everyone is just cranky. Arguments all around, and the Radio drawing his own “zone” of privacy in the dirt that no one shall cross! And Blanky is feeling like the insecurity blanket even more than usual. He crawls to Lampy seeking snuggles. But Lampy calls him a fuzzball and tells him to get his own place to sleep. Blanky finally tries to snuggle with Toaster. But even the long-suffering, warm Toster is in no mood to cuddle with Blanky and pushes him away. Blanky is left all alone. Vulnerable and unprotected.
Next day in the meadow, there is mayhem. But amidst the mayhem is the flower. The flower is painted exactly the same yellow as Blanky, by the way. Like Blanky, it tries to snuggle with Toaster - the difference being that it sees its own reflection and falls in love with the “other” flower. There is no way Toaster can possibly help the flower. After trying to reason with it, then pushing it away, Toaster retreats, then peers back to see the vulnerable lonely flower wilt. Toaster is at a loss, there was no way to help…
The very next moment, Toaster sees Blanky being pulled down a hole by a bunch of mice. Immediately Toaster jumps to protect the vulnerable Blanky. Last night, Toaster had pushed him away. But now Toaster comes to the rescue - protecting it.
When Lampy teases Blanky, Toaster step up to protect him again.
Blanky returns the kindness by making himself into a tent for the group to use as shelter.
Later, Lampy has noticed that Toaster is being nice to Blanky and asks why.
Toaster does her best to explain. But underneath it all, seeing the vulnerable little yellow flower wilt when she shoved it away has made her feel like never shoving vulnerable little yellow Blanky away again. To keep Blanky safe. To keep Blanky from “wilting”. In the case of the flower, there was no way to help. In the case of the blanket, there is.
This use of two vulnerable characters - both painted the identical color - both seeking cuddles - both being pushed away - one wilting emotionally - one wilting literally - was an emotional path of change for the Toaster.
Also this meme format is trash
- Comment on I hacked mars! 1 week ago:
NASA should let me put a plastic Koi pond on Mars and dump in a ton of algae killer, it’ll cover a hemisphere in a week.
- Comment on "So I started cloning the WiiU gamepad..." 1 week ago:
Fake. This would imply that someone besides me bought a Wii U and I don’t believe that it had multiple units sold
- Comment on We wouldn't listen, anyway. 1 week ago:
Longest non-human primate sentence on record:
Give Orange Me Give Eat Orange Me Eat Orange Give Me Eat Orange Give Me You
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
What’s that got to do with the weirdos who gave them a bad reputation 25+ years ago? This is what happens when you skim instead of reading.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Also known as the most widely-used sites on the WWW during years that I strongly suspect predate your birth. Try to keep in mind that feeling upset doesn’t mean you’re being lied to, it just means reality sucks.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Votes are meaningless, people vote emotionally and my instance doesn’t show me post or comment scores unless I use a specific app that I no longer have installed. I’m sorry you don’t have your finger on the pulse of normal socks-and-sandals slobs but for various reasons I do
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Ask we how I know you got bad grades in textual criticism
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
By my recollection: appreciably felt on 4Chan, SomethingAwful, several Zelda forums, a Lucasarts games forum, at least one Star Wars forum and approximately 50% of all human contact I experienced on IRC and ventrilo. People said the same about IGN and NeoGAF but I wasn’t eligible to post on the former because my head isn’t all the way up my own ass and latter didn’t come online till 2006, a little after I lost interest in forums. I did get TF2 at launch and my impression of the first couple years was that the only way to not see Nazi furry guro shit was to uninstall it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
“This is what I any many others observed” ≠ “These are the values I hold”
Be attentive to what you read instead of selectively interpreting it to match your emotional reaction to the general idea.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Sure, so they aren’t the lunatics shitposting all day. I made another comment expanding on it but in brief, whether it’s fair or not (and it’s not), the kind of furries most people came across during the reputation-forming years were the extremely strident ones who actively enjoyed making people hate them, and it stuck.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
“What is truth?” The only thing that matters in terms of establishing a group’s (very much permanent) reputation is what percolates to the general cultural zeitgeist of people who don’t know what the word hypertext means. When the insular furry communities of the Y2K era kicked out the weird freaks who were actively hostile to the ideas of kink consent, consent in general, and non-white people continuing to draw breath, they descended on 4chan and SomethingAwful and various other forums and pretty much instantly solidified the unsuspecting public’s idea of furries as being creepy Nazis. It’s not fair, but you only get one shot at establishing an eternal reputation and it’s more or less completely out of your control.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
To be fair, the overlap is substantial.
- Comment on I cannot imagine what lawsuit led to this 1 week ago:
All subjects intending to handle high-energy gamma-leaking portal technology must be informed that they may be informed of applicable regulatory compliance issues. No further compliance information is required or will be provided—and you are an excellent test subject.
- Comment on Seems like a lot of buildup 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Remember, remember the 13th of December 3 weeks ago:
Next Husseinniversary is December 30
- Comment on "Yes, Games Really Were Cooler Years Ago" 5 weeks ago:
Complete lack of constraint would be even better. These days there isn’t much in the way of technical restraint, but there has never been a harsher restraint from the “why would this generate revenue” point of view.
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- Comment on Shabana Mahmood puts the signs up: Britain is full. No blacks, no dogs, no Irish 1 month ago:
I’d sooner pretend I didn’t read the article than admit that was my idea of wit
- Comment on Shabana Mahmood puts the signs up: Britain is full. No blacks, no dogs, no Irish 1 month ago:
🫵 DIDN’T READ THE ARTICLE
- Comment on Well that showed them 1 month ago:
ok coomer
- Comment on On new installations, Android rebinds the power button to open up Google Assistant 1 month ago:
I hope everyone who works for google gets turned into tadpoles by a wit8h
- Comment on Is Star Trek Discovery that bad? 3 months ago:
Discovery’s characters are somehow simultaneously boring yet also obnoxious jackasses. The writers of the show apparently thought Star Trek would be more interesting if everyone in the future had, instead of professionalism and humanism, histrionic personality disorder and chronic hemorrhoids.
- Comment on [Eagle screech] 3 months ago:
Shut up nerd, go worry about a real problem.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like AI 3 months ago:
Slavery.
- Submitted 4 months ago to videos@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 4 months ago:
He’s right
- Comment on What do these 3 /(?:United Earth|Star) Fleet/ Officers have in common? 4 months ago:
Good perforbances from quality actors overshadowed by fans whining about how they wanted the character to be a different character.
- Comment on Cyclist injuries dropped by half after “hated” cycle lane installed, but mayor still claims scrapped lane largely used as “bike run” for drug dealers to “get through traffic" 4 months ago:
I’m having trouble getting at the real issue for them. Obviously this is a lie, but what’s the truth? Do they hate seeing bicycles run red lights and want to punish them collectively for it (which is at least a human motivation), is it that they just want parking spaces and traffic lanes open for voter-pandering purposes, or is some kind of schizoid aesthetic rejection where they just want bike-riding sissies to stop being a thing?
