Devious Skooma

Reminder that the only thing you should compete with is what's holding you back. Don't compete with influencers. Don't compete with youtubers. Don't compete with television personalities. You don't need to make every meal/play every game/whatever like there's a camera on you.

@SleepisforT Skyrim negative reviews be like "This is literally the worst game ever made, completely unplayable, and Todd Howard should be brutally ended for it." Hours played: 2,954

Some Starfield reviews on Steam be like

@for3verd9eafd @jedicouncilnews Someone once observed that many Star Wars artists try to match characters to how their actors have aged, but Carrie Fisher no longer looked like herself so Leia was apparently immortal. This is the most extreme example of that I've ever seen.

@jedicouncilnews I Would say so Luke looks more like darth sidueos then himself here

has star wars dropped a worse comic panel than this yet

@jedicouncilnews I wonder if this is the same guy that did the only and ugliest DS9 comic book I ever laid eyes on.

Love the idea of being other places. Hate the idea of traveling.

@JusJazzinOut Blocked someone the other day for a bad opinion about Dr. Pepper. It legit just isn't that big of a deal.

Twitter becomes like 90% more enjoyable once you start abusing the block button

@Kaisa25Gaming @NVRMOR23 @BrianJNBA Then the TV industry can't die soon enough.

@NVRMOR23 @BrianJNBA TV industry is made on the backs of that, amigo

Every CBS show is called something like "POLICECOP," it stars an actor you haven't thought of in 15 years and it gets 75 million viewers per episode.

I have become steadily more convinced that most indie game devs do not understand that "Idle" is an actual word with an actual definition, but instead some sort of graphic games use at semi-random.

@Dexerto Seriously, tho, what this perfectly illustrates is that reddit mods are moderating communities they have no actual interest in or engagement with. The mods aren't even petty tyrant fans, they're just petty tyrants period.

Paul McCartney was banned from Reddit after sharing images from his own concert The post is still removed, though the account has since been restored

@jinijane_ She legit probably does think she looks like that, lol

My high school neighbourhood just elected a local 59yo councilwoman who campaigned in the local paper with an AI photo. Her statement: ‘I used an internet program to enhance the image because the resolution of the photo was bad. It’s simply my photo, that really is me. I use medication that’s why I look a bit different now. But yes, I do look much younger than my age. When I’m out with my son people think I’m his girlfriend. I hear that I look super young for my age all the time.’

@CI_Pratt @Champ_Lion Mind your own business, boomer.

I still have no idea how HOA's are legal and why people put up with it. The fuck you mean I'll get a fine if I park my car in front the house that I "own" lmaoooo

@fandompulse >Create striking, impressive character >Drop a bunch of hints at his backstory >Immediately kill him off >Follow up on none of the backstory yourself >Fans call you a hack >Sell to Disney >Fans call you a irreplaceable generational visionary

George Lucas on his original vision for Darth Maul: "At one point, when Obi-Wan kills Darth Maul, he just fell in the pit. I looked at it and thought this isn't going to work because, if people like him enough, they're going to want him to come back and they're going to assume somehow he gets out of it. So I had to cut him in half to say that this guy's gone, he's history, he ain't coming back. I'll come up with another apprentice. The whole issue of having apprentices, poor Darth Sidious trying to replenish his apprentice supply, is one of the main plot points." Should Star Wars have stuck to this original vision?

@yugenvisuals "I frew up."

@PeterjgrahamN @TheFigen_ No, she's being a special level of entitled.

@TheFigen_ This is the best sales pitch for self parking cars ever, although I have never witnessed anybody holding a spot like this - is it a common American thing??

This woman tried to hold a parking spot and assumed the guy had given up when he stopped his car – only for the self-driving feature to finish the job. 😂😂

@TheCinesthetic A joke, but also one of several scenes that shows his claims of class warfare and genuine artistic purity had just become excuses for petty vengeance.

The Menu (2022)

@south_23rd @girdley It's also the fact that by treating it as essentially a teaching moment, where he points out the difference between Worf's behavior and Riker's, he's helping Worf realize how he needs to act to be a good officer. Difference between correction and reprimand.

The lesson isn't just reminding him who is in charge, but being very specific and direct about the expectations and the best way for his officer to support him. If Data wasn't explicit and clear about the guidelines (and the purpose for them!) it very well could've just devolved into a personality conflict. The lesson here is communication. Not power.

I know this is Star Trek, but it's a great case study in leadership. Every boss eventually needs to have this talk with a senior employee at some point in their career. Sometimes you have to remind people who is in charge.

“Slusho uses a secret ingredient. nectar of the sea is known as an addictive substance from the ocean floor that causes growth. now what if some kind of creature had constant access to this? They built an oil station to monitor it. It’s owned by Tagruato who ALSO owns Slusho…”

@lporiginalg Certain variety of dude seeing this, apparently:

@alihamka48 @ShieldsClips And they think you deserve it for not worshiping them. Their narcissism is so intense that even when they acknowledge they screwed the world, they hate you for being mad at them over it.

@ShieldsClips The worst generation ever are the boomers they are one of the first generations to literally pray for the downfall of every generation after them.

Trump, like all boomers, doesn’t care if the world is in ashes after he’s gone. In fact, boomers seem to almost want that to happen.

@NebsGoodTakes They seem to have been convinced that social media buzz is the only metric that matters and that sales are irrelevant.

can someone explain marvel editorial's business strategy of making fans mad on purpose all the time I got into x-men during krakoa and haven't read a marvel comic since they exploded it for no reason, I also don't think I've ever seen a happy spider-man reader in my entire life

@HistoryWJacob Yap like this is usually just either boomers thinking their paper route made them as responsible and tough as a coal miner, or delulu "based" dudes who think they'd have been able to achieve their dream of being a Roman warlord if not for being forced to attend 6th grade.

The concept of "teenager" is a modern invention. For most of human history, a boy of 13 was already a man, apprenticed in a trade or fighting in a war. George Washington was a professional surveyor at 16. Alexander Hamilton managed a trading company at 14. In medieval Europe, noble boys could be pages at 7 and squires by 14. In Rome, a boy put on the "toga of manhood" at 14. The idea that an 18 year-old is "still figuring things out" would have been incomprehensible to our ancestors. I believe this is why we think teenagers are so troubled. They are men and women stuck in a society that treats them as children. Of course they are going to "rebel". We should give them more responsibility and expect much more of them.