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Leland DIES and bob ESCAPES???

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Forever Momo;

ohhhh fuck the scene where Leland is killing Maddy is scary. I thought once the mystery was solved I would lose interest but I'm excited to see where this goes.

anyway is the movie worth seeing? What about that new season?

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I thought I did for a long while because I drank every night and would black out a few times a month.

but about 1.5 years ago I decided to stop drinking and it was really easy. I don't crave it or want it. I have a few drinks at parties now, and had two glasses of wine on my anniversary, but didn't get drunk and didn't want to.

i guess I was drinking because I was bored not because I was addicted

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I just got an invitation, but I'm not sure I have a strong enough internet connection to try it out. On the other hand, six dollars for a trial month isn't a bad deal... except I don't know if there's any games I want to play on the service, and I'm not a fan of mouse/keyboard controls but I also don't want to buy the controller.

have any of you tried it. Is it worth it?

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Glad to see you're okay, Buddy

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I don't know who keemstar or carson are but this doesn't sound like grooming. Just sounds like horny teens being horny teens

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If it were put to a vote though, Lindsey wouldn't reprimand him. It's just talk like always

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It's boobs

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Lokarin posted...

That does not follow; if anything antiquated technology seems like something a person would be MORE likely to understand.

you know how to use an abacus, dot-matrix printer, muzzle-loading firearms, and mimeographs?

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BADoglick posted...

Yeezy was too good for her anyway

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Mead posted...

Sometimes I dont know a potder is gone from here until someone makes a topic like this and it reminds me that they exist

Pls don't ever forget me mead

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JoanOfArcade posted...

Never forget they said they wanted to buy an ice cream truck to lure kids

lmao whut

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EclairReturns posted...

You mean that bloke with the "3k" at the end of his name, and was known for performing video gaming feats such as beating the latest Zelda game without climbing?

I did know he did these things regularly

Far-Queue posted...

He's still making youtube videos at least somewhat recently

https://youtu.be/E39qWbKA13U

Or that he had such a following!

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I found a meme about him on r/pokemon

https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/kr6vy9/it_even_came_out_first/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

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She's out now. Drowsy and pukey, but otherwise looking good. Big sigh of relief.

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Forever Momo;

If the people complaining aren't costing these people/companies actors, then the outrage wouldn't matter. Obviously these actors/musicians/personalities/corporations figure that the negative publicity will hurt the bottom line.

same reason Nike stans the kneeling dude. Kneeling pisses off a bunch of people who swear to never buy Nike again, but overall they gain from it

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She's too old and too experienced for me.

Blightzkrieg posted...

She's like 52

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darcandkharg31 posted...

That Joseph Fink dude seems pretty prejudiced himself, fuck him.

Prejudiced towards whom?

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Joseph Fink, creator and writer of Welcome to Night Vale, has been railing pretty hard against John.



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LinkPizza posted...

The problem is they'll still probably cancel you. But we really should find a way to stop the Twitter mob. They go too far sometimes. And they also trying to make every molehill a mountain...

ehhh I feel like cancel culture is an inevitability of capitalism. You have to appease your customers if you want to make it. If a "Twitter mob" is where your income comes from, and angering them is enough to lose you your job, then it was probably a thing you shouldn't have done and should apologize for asap. If you messed up so big you're canceled anyway, that's just part of the gig. They've voting with their money, same as any other person does. If people didn't actually care enough to make a difference in how much money you make, a twitter mob wouldn't be seen as such an influential phenomenon. maybe these "molehills" aren't actually that small, or maybe the people actually spending money do care about small things.

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LuciferSage posted...

why do people bend the knee to the Twitter Outrage Mob? it only emboldens them further.

Because their livelihood depends on it? People want to give their money to musicians/podcasters who aren't racist, sexist, ableist, don't abuse children, etc etc. If you're being accused of these things, it's in your best interest to address it, learn from it, and apologize. Otherwise, the market will gladly spend its money elsewhere.

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Far-Queue posted...

I hope she's happy living as a man

Just bc you can't have kids does n'y mean you are a man. Pls lrn 2 anotomoty

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Forever Momo;

sigh. I'm a worrier and I hate this. I hope everything is fine.

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Seattle, Jan 5th 2021

An Apology

Hi..

I deactivated my Twitter yesterday in a panic. I had to reflect on what Id done and the hurt Id caused and my mind was clouded by an unprecedented flow of new information. I want to acknowledge and make amends for the injuries I caused. I have many things to atone for. My parenting storys insensitivity and the legacy of hurtful language in my past are both profound failures. I want to confront them directly.

My story about my daughter and the can of beans was poorly told. I didnt share how much laughing we were doing, how we had a bowl of pistachios between us all day as we worked on the problem, or that wed both had a full breakfast together a few hours before. Her mother was in the room with us all day and alternately laughing at us and telling us to be quiet while she worked on her laptop. We all took turns on the jigsaw puzzle.

I framed the story with me as the asshole dad because thats my comedic persona and my fans and friends know its a bit.
What I didnt understand when posting that story, was that a lot of the language I used reminded people very viscerally of abuse theyd experienced at the hand of a parent. The idea that I would withhold food from her, or force her to solve a puzzle while she cried, or bind her to the task for hours without a break all were images of child abuse that affected many people very deeply. Rereading my story, I can see what Id done.

I was ignorant, insensitive to the message that my pedant dad comedic persona was indistinguishable from how abusive dads act, talk and think.
I woke up yesterday to find that I had become #BeanDad. I was a locus for a tremendous outpouring of anger and grief. It took me hours to fully grasp. I reread the story and saw clearly that Id framed it so poorly, so insensitively. Bean Dad, full of braggadocio and dickhead swagger, was hurting people. Id conjured an abusive parent that many people recognized from real life.

I am deeply sorry for having precipitated more hurt in the world, for having prolonged or exacerbated it by fighting back and being flippant when confronted, and for taking my Twitter feed offline yesterday instead of facing the music. I wish the parents I modeled didnt exist; I wish no one had to grow up with a parent who tortured them physically or emotionally. I would never intentionally make light of those experiences and Ill never underestimate again the pain I can cause with some poorly chosen words and by acting defensively when challenged.

As for the many racist, anti-Semitic, hurtful and slur-filled tweets from my early days on Twitter I can say only this: all of those tweets were intended to be ironic, sarcastic. I thought then that being an ally meant taking the slurs of the oppressors and flipping them to mock racism, sexism, homophobia, and bigotry. I am humiliated by my incredibly insensitive use of the language of sexual assault in casual banter. It was a lazy and damaging ideology, that I continued to believe long past the point I shouldve known better that because I was a hipster intellectual from a diverse community it was ok for me to joke and deploy slurs in that context. It was not. I realized, sometime in the early part of the decade, helped by real-life friends and Twitter friends too, that my status as a straight white male didnt permit me to repurpose those slurs as people from disenfranchised communities might do. They were injurious regardless of my intent, because the words themselves have power and because actual violence is often prefaced by people saying, Im not racist, but

That was wrong, so I stopped.

Yesterday those old tweets resurfaced and hurt a lot of people anew. People who are close to me, people in my community who couldnt square those words with the person they know me to be. And people who dont know me, going about their business yesterday, had to see those awful slurs and feel the hurt those words inspire. They had to suffer this asshole #BeanDad casually demeaning them and their friends. I deeply regret having ever used those words. I do not want to spread more hate in the world. I want the opposite.

My language wasnt appropriate then or now and reflecting on that has been part of my continuing education as an adult who wants to be a good ally. That education is ongoing, and this experience will have a profound effect on the way I conduct myself throughout the rest of my life.
Im a middle-aged, middle-class straight white male and I try to be cognizant of that and of the responsibility my privileges entail in everything I do. In this case, it was precisely my privilege of not living in an abusive family, of not being a member of a community that routinely experiences real trauma, that caused me to so grossly misjudge the impact of the language I chose.

I have a lot more reflecting to do in the coming days so Ill be taking a hiatus from my public life to let some of these lessons sink in. I apologize to my partners, my friends, and to all the people affected by my words for the hurt I caused.

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Roderick apology statement

http://www.johnroderick.com/an-apology

see next post for text

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Forever Momo;

Good luck! Remember to touch both butts not just one

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Forever Momo;

at my apartment I spend maybe 30-60 minutes a week talking to my roommates.

at my gf's apartment, I spend over 95% of my time with her. We follow each other into every room. Legit the only time we're apart is if one of us is checking the mail or throwing out the trash

when I visit my moms house I can go weeks without talking to my brother, but about 70% of my time is spent watching tv, cleaning, talking, running errands, etc. with my mom.

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Forever Momo;

Sunny idk if you've ever shared a good opinion so that statement is basically objectively false on principal

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Forever Momo;

Several

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ultra magnus13 posted...

The fact the his kid is 9 and doesn't know how to use a can opener makes him a failure as a parent before this ordeal even began.

disagree. Almost no one I know has a manual can opener anymore + a ton of cans don't require one.

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ScritchOwl posted...

Here you go more info on this.

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-55515243

I feel like the beeb sorta skips over the parts where the girl was already hungry, said she was feeling unwell due to hunger, and was crying because of her frustration


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Veedrock- posted...

It's also Galaxy's first re-release, do you draw the same conclusion for it?

No. For one thing, Galaxy had a direct sequel. Both G1 and G2 were rereleased for the Wii U virtual console. G1 was also remapped and made available for android tablets in certain regions a few years ago.

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Veedrock- posted...

The game's characters, locations, music, and collectibles appear constantly throughout the series but sure, they were pretending it doesn't exist.

Featuring elements from the game is not the same as rereleasing it. I never said they were pretending it didn't exist, just that they were aware the game itself was poorly made

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DocDelicious posted...

None of this actually happened.

Seems like a dumb thing to lose your job over a fake story

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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Fuck the shitty parsing, fuck the repeated lines, and fuck you for not making it interesting.

Thx 4 ur contribution 2 this

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Forever Momo;

I got the 120 on 64, Shnshine, and Galaxy (debating about doing it again with Luigi), and it was wild to me how bad Sunshine is. Impossible to find blue coins, annoying gimmicks, bad controls, glitchy af, etc. No wonder they didn't rerelease this game earlier <_< I'd also try to forget about it.

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Forever Momo;

Dude's in his 50s. He should know better than waxing poetic about not feeding his kid on Twitter, especially when his income is dependent on being an internet personality.

deleting his account instead of owning up to it isn't going to help him

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Did you get all 120 shines?

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https://twitter.com/mbmbam/status/1345853685902036994?s=21

here's hoping they go back to Take A Chance On Me

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TheWitchMorgana posted...

i didn't realize he was the long winters guy.

It was the first sentence of the topic!

MrMelodramatic posted...

John Roderick (frontman of John Roderick and the Long Winters, and podcast host)

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EvilMegas posted...

Great. Now MBMBaM need a new theme song.

And Friendly Fire needs to get taken off MaxFun

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Mead posted...

Being married at least 3 times is such a weird boomer thing

Larry is too old to be a boomer. He could've fought in WWII (well ok not that old but still)

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Forever Momo;

My mom did the fairy thing and has a bag in her closet with all my teeth (and my siblings')

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TheWitchMorgana posted...

i think it would've been easier to click through to the thread than try to read your massive block of text

Well tbf I did provide the link to the tweet

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John Roderick (frontman of John Roderick and the Long Winters, and podcast host) posted this on Twitter and there's some debate about if this was a good parenting moment or not. It's a bit of a long read, so I'll copy the whole story below. To see comments, check out the tweet.

https://twitter.com/johnroderick/status/1345508384011816960?s=21

Who remembers learning to use a can opener? They are weirdly not intuitive. So, yesterday my daughter (9) was hungry and I was doing a jigsaw puzzle so I said over my shoulder make some baked beans. She said, How? like all kids do when they want YOU to do it, so I said, Open a can and put it in pot. She brought me the can and said Open it how?" I said, The little device is designed to do one thing: open cans. Study the parts, study the can, figure out what the can-opener inventor was thinking when they tried to solve this problem. (The can opener is also a bottle opener, but I explained that part wasnt relevant.) I went back to my jigsaw puzzle. She was next to me grunting and groaning trying to get the thing. I should say that spatial orientation, process visualization and order of operation are not things she... intuits. I knew this would be a challenge. But it was a rainy weekend. Eventually she collapsed in a frustrated heap. I said, Explain the parts. She said, This little wheel is meant to cut, these gears turn the wheel when you spin the handle. This other wheel looks like a gear but isnt. She couldnt figure out the clamping step, a key element! I said, The tool is made to be pleasing but it doesnt have any superfluous qualities. Everything that moves does so for a reason. She said, I hate you. Im sure she believes that she does. I said, You understand everything except how the tool addresses the can. She sighed. At this point she said, I dont want baked beans and marched off. Apocalypse Dad went into full The Road Mode! Sweetheart, neither of us will eat another bite today until we get into this can of beans. She screamed AUGH! like Lucy Van Pelt. She read a book for awhile. Soon she was back at the can. The top was all dented now, the lip of the can practically serrated from failed attempts. We studied the tool some more. She really wanted it to be oriented up and down or across the top of the can. The sideways orientation is very counterintuitive. She was fixated on orienting the tool in a few configurations and couldnt imagine other possibilities. I compared the can opener to other tools. By now we were working on anger-management and perseverance too. She suggested she open the can with a hammer. There were tears. I told her stories of some of the great cans Id opened over the years. She rolled her eyes. We talked about industrial design and what a funny little device the opener is. I showed how I open cans with a Buck knife. I rhapsodized about cold Spaghetti-Os straight from the can! Eventually she had it all figured out. She had the placement of the tool, she could turn the handle and the can would spin (we were down on the floor by this point), but the kachunk of puncturing the lid still eluded us. Wed been at it for SIX HOURS on and off. We were hungry. Id been tempted many times along the way to guide her hand. I wanted her to experience the magnificence of the can opener SO MUCH I couldnt stand the suspense. Neither of us likes baked beans that muchthe cupboards are bareso it seemed like a paltry reward for this work. Id forgotten how finicky the tool really is, particularly when it comes to the puncture. She had it all lined up! But the cutting wheel is a little wobbly (by design) and you have to really get on top of it to clamp it down. You know the feeling? You can misfire the damn thing! Id forgotten how finicky the tool really is, particularly when it comes to the puncture. She had it all lined up! But the cutting wheel is a little wobbly (by design) and you have to really get on top of it to clamp it down. You know the feeling? You can misfire the damn thing! She felt the tool click over the lip of the can. I saw it in her hands. By this point shed developed a little ritual of addressing the tool to the can: starting with it on a vertical axis and rotating it to the horizontal while clamping down in a single motion. A choreography. She looked at me expectantly, excitedly. After six hours of trying you dont want to express too much hope. Was this another blind alley? The can had been through hell, label ripped off, dented, sharpened and burred, a veteran of a thousand psychic wars. She knew, though. She set up again, carefully, and brought the Swing-a-Way to bear on the can of S&W baked beans with the meticulousness of Roger Moore extracting a detonator from an ICBM in The Spy Who Loved Me. A soft pop resounded in the room, so different from all the other sounds wed made. She set up again, carefully, and brought the Swing-a-Way to bear on the can of S&W baked beans with the meticulousness of Roger Moore extracting a detonator from an ICBM in The Spy Who Loved Me. A soft pop resounded in the room, so different from all the other sounds wed made. She knew this was a commonplace task and a common tool but also that this was serious business. She knows her dad, and the stock I put in these things. A more mechanically inclined kid might have figured it out in minutes. She factored the scale, but was rightfully proud. Im proud of her too. I know Im infuriating. I know this is parenting theater in some ways. I suffer from a lack of perseverance myself, and like all parents throughout history Im trying to correct my own mistakes in the way I educate my child. She sees through this. The Swing-a-Way can opener is a little voodoo doll for us now. It will reappear as an allegory many more times in her life, you can be sure. She knows this too. But this is an allegory of triumph. I wish I had more of those for myself. I wish I had more stories like this. The only problem is now she wants to open every fucking can in the house!

What do you think?

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trodi_911 posted...

That'd be a thousand actually.

A hundred penny makes a thousand?

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I think pregnant women are attractive

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I h*cking love PotD drama. Feels like the family I never had

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@argonautweakend

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Please no

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