as we all are aware, the prophecies clearly state that this is the last pope, ergo this sickness is a harbinger of doom

https://rdrama.net/h/dioceseofrdrama/post/321468/the-prophecymarseyfortunetellerof-st-malachy-pope-francis

!superheroes

This is possibly the funniest website I have ever seen

There is a modlog, it's like the ResetEra ban reason API but they implemented it themselves

https://hexbear.net/modlog

Some janny went on a banning spree because some naughty !chuds said cumtown was funny

Please post to /c/selfcrit when you get back

https://hexbear.net/c/selfcrit

"My Apology and Explanation" a 1200 word essay that references the Art of War because the poster sympathized with incels

public apology for unacceptably poor upmarsey activity I thought this one was going to be a joke, but it's genuinely two pages in Word to explain an updoot with a long discussion in the comments from moderators about the ethics of upmarseying in bad faith

!upmarseyrs thoughts?

These are just from the top few results, this is a goldmine

EAGERLY anticipating the upcoming manifesto on why I'm So Sorry, Cumtown is Not Funny

@Merryvann please implement /h/selfcrit here and allow the irredeemable chuds like @HailVictory1776 to be freed if they write a long and appropriate enough seriouspost

good morning

Rightoids cant fathom that it requires great collective sacrifice to maintain their preferred racial makeup of their town.

I have been waiting for this for months. Right now I have a chub but the level of cope that's going to happen in the next few months is going to make me so hard my peepee could drill some of the totally real going to happen oil wells he promised.

Removals are a legal process with very limited ability for POTUS to do anything about. There are 600 immigration judges in the entire country, last year they cleared just north of 1m cases with 1.6m new cases. Congress have refused to add more money to the system for the last decade. It takes 3 years to get a removal order, anyone who has already claimed asylum is here for 11 years.

Immigration detention is at capacity. Congress isn't going to give him the $1t a year it would cost to detain them all.

I have some throwaway community.win accounts I have been greening for when the numbers start coming out this time round.

Why is daddy worse than Big Mike on immigration?

https://old.reddit.com/r/pitbulls/comments/1iqozi2/someone_called_her_vicious/

Schizophrenics should be medicated

https://old.reddit.com/r/BanPitBulls/comments/1iqqyuv/since_when_did_animals_have_more_rights_than/

Info about Bellatrix: Bellatrix is the third-brightest star and a candidate binary star in the constellation of Orion, positioned 5° west of the red supergiant Betelgeuse (Alpha Orionis). It has the Bayer designation γ Orionis, which is Latinized to Gamma Orionis. With a slightly variable magnitude of around 1.6, it is typically the 25th-brightest star in the night sky. According to parallax measurements by the Hipparcos spacecraft, Bellatrix is located at a distance of 250±10 light-years. And this pic is low quality but magnificent

These mayos have no sense of humor

Client confessed love for me and then ended their life

Tragic, tragic, heartbreaking loss. Won't go into any details to protect client privacy, but it's hard to swallow. Would be so grateful for any resources, groups, or advice as I grieve.

I've canceled most of my sessions for the week, but have kept a few. My backlogged notes for other clients are creating some anxiety. What a rollercoaster.

The most captivating client I've worked with to date, and they continue to be so even in their death. Grateful to have known them.

Update: Unbelievably thankful for the outpouring of support. It's been incredibly helpful to read and utilize ❤️ Very unfortunately I just got news of a second client passing. Two in the same week. This one was not by suicide.

Edit:

Erotic Countertransference

Looking for personal experiences navigating romantic/erotic countertransference (especially that in response to erotic transference)... I'm seeking supervision and being mindful about how I'm showing up with this client, but I'd love if anyone would be open to sharing more about their own experiences with this, and what the ultimate outcome was for you. Interestingly, this client has expressed their own attraction to me, and we're working through it/making use of it in our work together. They are not aware of my feelings beyond the genuine care I have for them. My framework leans relational psychodynamic for reference.

Listening to S-F-X for the first time. He's such a god.

Video Games Can't Afford to Look This Good

The gaming industry spent billions pursuing the idea that customers wanted realistic graphics. Did executives misread the market?

By Zachary Small

Dec. 26, 2024

One way to understand the video game industry's current crisis is by looking closely at Spider-Man's spandex.

For decades, companies like Sony and Microsoft have bet that realistic graphics were the key to attracting bigger audiences. By investing in technology, they have elevated flat pixelated worlds into experiences that often feel like stepping into a movie.

Designers of last year's Marvel's Spider-Man 2 used the processing power of the PlayStation 5 so Peter Parker's outfits would be rendered with realistic textures and skyscraper windows could reflect rays of sunlight.

That level of detail did not come cheap.

Insomniac Games, which is owned by Sony, spent about $300 million to develop Spider-Man 2, according to leaked documents, more than triple the budget of the first game in the series, which was released five years earlier. Chasing Hollywood realism requires Hollywood budgets, and even though Spider-Man 2 sold more than 11 million copies, several members of Insomniac lost their jobs when Sony announced 900 layoffs in February.

Cinematic games are getting so expensive and time-consuming to make that the video game industry has started to acknowledge that investing in graphics is providing diminished financial returns.

"It's very clear that high-fidelity visuals are only moving the needle for a vocal class of g*mers in their 40s and 50s," said Jacob Navok, a former executive at Square Enix who left that studio, known for the Final Fantasy series, in 2016 to start his own media company. "But what does my 7-year-old son play? Minecraft. Roblox. Fortnite."

Joost van Dreunen, a market analyst and professor at New York University, said it was clear what younger generations value in their video games: "Playing is an excuse for hanging out with other people."

When millions are happy to play old games with outdated graphics — including Roblox (2006), Minecraft (2009) and Fortnite (2017) — it creates challenges for studios that make blockbuster single-player titles. The industry's audience has slightly shrunk for the first time in decades. Studios are rapidly closing and sweeping layoffs have affected more than 20,000 employees in the past two years, including more than 2,500 Microsoft workers.

Many video game developers built their careers during an era that glorified graphical fidelity. They marveled at a scene from The Last of Us: Part II in which Ellie, the protagonist, removes a shirt over her head to reveal bruises and scrapes on her back without any technical glitches.

But a few years later, costly graphical upgrades are often barely noticeable.

When the studio Naughty Dog released a remastered version of The Last of Us: Part II this year, light bounced off lakes and puddles with a more realistic shimmer. In a November ad for the PlayStation 5 Pro, an enhanced version of the Sony console that retails for almost $700, the billboards in Spider-Man 2's Manhattan featured crisper letters.

Optimizing cinematic games for a narrow group of consumers who have spent hundreds of dollars on a console or computer may no longer make financial sense. Studios are increasingly prioritizing games with basic graphics that can be played on the smartphones already in everyone's pocket.

"They essentially run on toasters," said Matthew Ball, an entrepreneur and video game analyst, talking about games like Roblox and League of Legends. "The developers aren't chasing graphics but the social connections that players have built over time."

Going Hollywood

Developers had long taught players to equate realism with excellence, but this new toaster generation of g*mers is upsetting industry orthodoxies. The developer behind Animal Well, which received extensive praise this year, said the game's file size was smaller than many of the screenshots used to promote it.

A company like Nintendo was once the exception that proved the rule, telling its audiences over the past 40 years that graphics were not a priority.

That strategy had shown weaknesses through the 1990s and 2000s, when the Nintendo 64 and GameCube had weaker visuals and sold fewer copies than Sony consoles. But now the tables have turned. Industry figures joke about how a cartoony game like Luigi's Mansion 3 on the Nintendo Switch considerably outsells gorgeous cinematic narratives on the PlayStation 5 like Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.

I need some stress relief all day today. I think i need a helper too

we all need stress relief, in fact I need it even several times a day >w< btw I need a helper too T_T

I'd love to be a stress relief toy 🥴

Oh yes please.

Me and my 8 inch textured dragon dildo.

This pic needs to be the new banner or profile pic of this subreddit I swear lol. Tomoko is like the role model for girl failures that want to stay in bed all day watching porn and playing videogames.

God i need a girl that looks like that

!transphobes !nooticers

Undelete:

https://undelete.pullpush.io/r/LetGirlsHaveFun/comments/1i3rgtb/_/#comment-info

Was on hinge (mistake #1) talking to a guy who was a massive Ariana Grande stan (mistake #2). He mentioned her and how much he loved her music, and I mentioned something about liking her music (lie) but I'm worried about how she looks right now. Immediately this man went off about (exact words) how "problematic" it is for me, "as a man", to "gossip about women's bodies". I'm not trying to gossip, I'm genuinely concerned. She's bone. It's horrifying to see, especially in the face of younger girls/gay men [lets be real] who may end up thinking there isn't a thing wrong with being that skinny, and any comment of genuine concern is "gossip". Even worse, this didn't seem like the opinion of some one off arianapilled r-slur, but a pretty popular opinion online to just ...not mention how she looks in any context. I'm genuinely worried. She looks incredibly sick.

https://old.reddit.com/r/redscarepod/comments/1itnjqz/ariana_grande_looks_like_absolute_shit_and/

Fascinating thread. Could actually be a , but you know what I mean.

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There are a lot jokes… but in reality this post is sad.The orange frick, his administration and the policies they are enacting has made an average citizen in arguably our closest ally nation feel it necessary to give us the finger.Instead of "making America great again," these pieces of shit are destroying our standing on the world stage (which was already shaky to begin with). (1)

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I am as smooth as a seal and do not grow any hair under my armpits

However, I do have a luscious carpet that matches the drapes

I am now considering getting my pubes transplanted to my armpits

poll: should I do this? upgrizzly for yes, downsandkwinn for no

!coolcobras !ebayers !familyman !hibernians !hallowhitesupremacists @Discuss