auston bebop

I kinda ate here

I've been trying to figure out how to explain why the obsession with graphical fidelity has destroyed the very concept of implication and subtlety in video game art direction, and this guy explains it perfectly as if it's a positive. oh my god bruh

@CONEY @TryhardJB @Huntress_VT @hotashis @skullvolver Hell yeah, gotta watch the vod.

@austonbackwards @TryhardJB @Huntress_VT @hotashis @skullvolver no and it did a LOT of work tbh

GOT 2ND Honestly VERY happy, I did HORRIBLE in the last Slam-style event I was in so being able to prep and perform felt good, even if I dropped down a tier lol I truly love Street Fighter man HUGE ups to @TryhardJB @Huntress_VT @hotashis @skullvolver you guys are awesome

@CONEY @TryhardJB @Huntress_VT @hotashis @skullvolver LETS GOOOOO

I’m actually a child online safety expert and was one of the pioneers in this space with Club Penguin and so I feel uniquely positioned to critique this. The groomer problem is real but it’s also vastly overstated. The far larger issue we saw at Penguin was suicidality or reports of sexual abuse in the home. There is no solution for lazy/bad parenting. You can implement all the ID laws you want but if parents are going to just hand kids their phones unlocked, those kids will have access to all the same things the parents have unfettered. What I found is that these draconian safety laws actually make it harder to be an honest operator of kids apps because on one hand it’s so much legal risk and so much user friction that it simply becomes uninvestible as a business. Parents will just lie to let their kids use the unfettered internet. For example, I have a friend who works in mobile gaming who has two kids, one above and one below the age limit but separated by just 2 yrs, and the two wanted to play and chat together on Roblox - which is reasonable. To do this, he just verified that his younger kid is old enough for the chat feature when he’s not. This happens all the time and will happen with these laws to. How far do we want to go with this? Scan the face of the user in real-time to make sure it’s not a kid using the device? We could do that but it feels like a massive unwanted intrusion of privacy. That’s how you know this law isn’t about kids. COPPA and GDPR-K and so forth already make it illegal to allow chat and other grooming vectors to kids. What’s really being done here is trying to eliminate online anonymity. And this is a far bigger issue that goes to core speech rights because if you cannot criticize the govt anonymously and if wrong speech is a crime then it becomes easy to identify all the detractors of the govt in power, and ban, fine or jail them for speech crimes. Starmer has already been doing this and he wants to do it at a much bigger scale. Starmer won’t even acknowledge the problem of actual grooming gangs in Britain’s neighborhoods but he’s worried about online grooming? No he’s not, and this hypocrisy gives away the game. What he wants is to kill online anonymity so he can enforce censorship of his unpopular policies. No politician should have this power.

My English teacher helped me build my first computer. Changed the course of my life dude.

@ComicsMeta I been saying this bro, it’s utterly mental

I always find it baffling when the carnage Palestinians suffer through is offensive enough to the West that their suffering needs be censored for social media, but not offensive enough for the West to stop the suffering

"fuck it we ball" I say as I almost vomit from anxiety

@suchnerve We’ll have to evacuate Phoenix because it is one of the most unaffordable cities in the country

One of my hotter takes is that we’re gonna have to evacuate Las Vegas and Phoenix, as well as other arid metropolitan areas, and the sooner we start the less it’ll suck

@shannondorf_ shannondorf boutta shannondunk a trash can on their head

never fails to blow my mind how comfortable guys are with telling me how much better i looked when i was fat and how less attractive i am since i lost weight while trying to frame it as a compliment and acting like they’re on my side lol

@stichedstars I will look more into that thank you!

@austonbackwards i had more success looking for IFS centered therapists who also do somatic work!

Been looking for a somatic therapist but literally all of them are just CBT therapists in disguise once you read their bios

@TheGreatGuzzler @APuppyPlushie @redshirt990 why do you keep moving the goalpost?

He focuses on spending his money making black history documentaries and communist history docs. Its crazy cause he doesn't make any money from it. 4K-100K views is nothing. He actually just made a decent ho chi minh doc last year I watched yesterday

@F0rgeMonitor What would this headsculpt run me for a commission? Need one desperately

@SarcasmReigns @Slonk01 Thanks man. I really gotta get around to putting up more shelves and posing the rest.

@austonbackwards @Slonk01 nah this shelf is actually peak 👌 poses are great too

As cool as these are, they reminded me how all the actual good Halo merch tends to cost an arm and a leg, and anything affordable tends to be low quality or just flat-out shit (imo). I'm not even mentioning the fact there's barely any Halo merch to begin with

Bro they fuckin with THE Ultimate you can’t make this up

@Franatic_figs @icantthinkuvat @Woodlandbuckle You’re referring to @seedofmight

@icantthinkuvat @Woodlandbuckle That’s fair lol I personally like it but I think there’s a fan retouch of it out there that fixes a lot of peoples problems mainly the colors and filters can’t remember exactly what it’s called tho🤷‍♂️ if you find it I’d check it out

For those who missed it: this was the moment The Strokes ensured they’ll never set foot in Coachella again! I'm so proud of them #Strokeschella

This is insane Hats off to the strokes. That was fucking powerful