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Brutalism is good actually.

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@gaykittycorps we're all going to the world's fair is such a good litmus test for people. it exposes their real feelings about the internet
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we're all going to the world's fair + a self induced hallucination are *the* best studies on the internet of the 2010s imo. watch them, especially if you enjoyed I saw the tv glow
zaso ✟ 📹@ev1lzaso

Because of the success of TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA as it premiered at Cannes yesterday, I think now is a better time than ever to recommend and celebrate Jane Shoenbrun as a guiding force in the evolving world of modern queer cinema. If for whatever reason you are out of the loop, Shoenbrun has been a powerhouse in the independent film scene for years, beginning their feature film journey with a creepy pasta-esque story of loneliness, morbid curiosity, and discovery into the unknown through a young girl and her experience with a mysterious internet trend in WE'RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD'S FAIR (2021). In all of Shoenbrun's works, it's clear that they have a visually striking, abstract manner of storytelling that carefully walks the line between horrifying and beautiful. Their characters are are a tour de force of portraying the fears when self-expression is limited or discouraged, especially in the case of queer identities. Shoenbrun is unapologetic in their approach, forcing our eyes open to the horrors of the human experience in a dreamscape of pastels and nostalgia. Their works show us what the innermost common ideals of identity, expression, confidence, and lifestyle can look like in their most bizarre formations, like things that only lie within our dreams. Jane Shoenbrun is a queer artist and a champion of colliding worlds of fiction and reality with masterfully-crafted dialogue, explosive characters, and striking aesthetics that amalgamate into a harmonious storm on film -- and one that's not like anything anyone's experienced before. If you haven't joined the Schoebrun bandwagon, you need to.

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@awawawhoami i mean i guess league peaked in 2023 but like idk there are still some gems out there
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maia arson crimew scary facts and tea
lol sex porn is so 2023, if y'all were actually tapped in you'd know we have way better stuff by now. im so tired of tourists in the porn fandom...
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@moonsideB @AnsonexDL if you ever had to sit through a failed chronobreak pause in league you would think that deadlock is the most stable esport of all time
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SwallowBug11@SwallowBug11·
@moonsideB @AnsonexDL nearly every single LOL lan event has computer tech issues that regularly can take upwards of 5-30 minutes to resolve
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Ansonex@AnsonexDL·
Long one: I was mistaken in thinking Night Shift did make a rule book after the recent Abrahams bug abuse, looking into their discord for messages mentioning “rules” or “rule book” a staff member, Lotu said: “We’ve had rules since week one, wether they are in a book or not IDK” and it’s been exemplified twice in 5 weeks, clear rules are needed., People have been misled on how small of a community Deadlock has been up until very recently. While Deadlock has had incredibly high peaks for an in-development game, it’s also had some deep valleys, particularly over the beginning of 2025. While of course everyone remembers the 170k concurrent player peak the game had during its initial “reveal” in 2024 if you will, and now how it has maintained such a sizeable percentage of it’s playerbase after the Old Gods New Blood update, they often forget the lull of having 15-20k daily peak concurrent players for 9 straight months. I think a lot of the folks who have experienced the game mainly at those two peaks have missed a huge part of the core Deadlock community’s culture that was built over that lull, and that is the proper community aspect you will never see in a game now of this size. I don’t necessarily mean even in a “everyone is nice to everyone” way, but moreso a “we see where this game is going, and we want to be there” kind of mindset. People who have been here since the beginning, through all the peaks and valleys have inherited that communal mindset. I don’t think there has been a single prominent (perhaps a stretch lol) individual not named Metro who has been more critical of the scene than I; and I’ve left my truly harsh criticism for only the properly worthy moment (ABL). I’ve kept my criticism of players in line with what is said on the Night Shift broadcast, so as not to go over my skis. And for similar community-based reasons, Night Shift has a much more personal relationship (I imagine) with players than other TOs will in the future. The relationship isn’t corporate and transactional like it will be in a matter of months or years, it’s personal and they understand Eido’s issue. That and the lack of a clear rule around pausing is what leads to a 20-minute pause. The elephant in the room, Eido is Deadlock’s golden boy. People will read into that thinking it’s a slight, but it surely isn’t. There is one in every space and setting, and he’s earned it through work, performance, being authentic & entertaining. But I’m not sure anyone not named Eido or Zerggy would receive the same grace. Deadlock, now, is one of the largest games on Steam, peaking in the top 30 every day without fail. Night Shift has done a tremendous job of being a bannerholder for our community, but they are rapidly outgrowing the ability to call themselves a community show. The game and audience are getting too large for that community to exist. Sponsors have flooded back into the space after a months-long stretch of Night Shift being self-funded, and the prize pools have ballooned to an amount no one without corporate funding could match. And what comes with that is the expectation that things will be as buttoned up as the production is. Another thing the old gods have learned that the new blood hasn’t quite yet is Deadlock itself is far from buttoned up. Glitches galore, and it gets worse in custom lobbies. So we find ourselves again between a rock and a hard place, on whose “fault” this actually is. But perhaps with a rule book it might be between a rock and a soft place. Other ramblings: I’m curious where Night Shift as a company goes from here; if it will continue to scale up and evolve to LAN events or if the crew are more using it as a resume builder for when the legacy TOs move into the space. Either way, their table is set. I would encourage Eido to stop reading comments about his performance. He’s at a point in his streaming career where he has thousands of concurrent viewers, and it’s clear he’s a talented player. He’s mentioned struggling with distractions before, and he tweeted again last night about how the chat hates him. There is truly nothing to be gained by reading chat during the pause.
Ansonex@AnsonexDL

Melee Creeps forced to finish the match 5v6 after Eido causes a 20 minute pause and can't reconnect.

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@mollym1m1 no mimi i don't but i appreciate you feeling comfortable enough to share with the class
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@SwallowBug11 i need to see what wares hes hiding under the counter if u catch my drift
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SwallowBug11@SwallowBug11·
@meowingcrimes @awawawhoami I mean yea thats my main thing, we have the same thing in the US, Immigrants are hated but its never on the same level of anti-black hatred even along racial lines and its also true like that in european countries.
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@meowingcrimes @awawawhoami like as a basis of my politics and I would say most leftists in america anti-black and race politics are the very first thing you are exposed to and indocrindated into but also the first things that very quickly come into question when you reach maturity
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SwallowBug11@SwallowBug11·
@meowingcrimes @awawawhoami i get where your coming from but from my american pov its really more of like europeans have heavily anti-black societies that is embedded so deeply but not at such a public contradiction as in the US that its hard to ever empathize with them
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SwallowBug11@SwallowBug11·
@awawawhoami yea i get that but its also because alot of the spread is because of specifically anti black industries and it sucks to see people defend those industries and it just makes everyone approach it always in bad faith
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