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@vonbaghager / vonbaghager.tumblr.com

props to me for never changing my theme ever. 29, he/him. current interests are TMA, D&D, and Pathfinder.

Having to clean the shower is so fucking annoying. It’s clean in there. That’s where I go to get clean. It’s clean dude trust me. Stop fucking growing bacteria and stuff man this is the clean locale. You’re embarrassing me in front of the sink

Do the AI people know that the rest of us who never got on the bandwagon are still doing everything the same way we always have

The AI boom has changed literally nothing about my day to day life except I now have to work harder to get access to reliable information, all the important admin work is being done wrong, and I keep getting DMs letting me know the perfectly ordinary and plausible photo I liked was actually a fake image generated by a fascist to generate views and churn out ad money for the purpose of funding their tree-powered puppy-flushing toilet

"But how are you living life WITHOUT Doctor Leroy's Magically Invigorating Nerve Tonic? I can't imagine getting anything done without it!" <- old-timey 1800s guy who has been drinking crank and goat piss daily for the price of a shiny nickel

Honestly Im stuck by how much Toby managed to do with such a seemingly one trick gag that is the Holidays

It’s like oh what if Rudolph the red nosed reindeer had a family of reindeer but the thing is Christmas is seen as a wholesome, heartwarming holiday about love and family and spreading good cheer it’s also so tied to culturally Christian consumerist suburbia

So you have this upper middle class family where one daughter is perfectly emblematic of Christmas as the sweet innocent girl next door character and because she’s a deer she’s also very meek and shy

Then you have your other daughter who’s meant to be the opposite of Christmas you make the rebellious punk type and because she’s a deer she’s into hunting related things and the outdoors

And because Christmas takes place during winter you make your antagonist their icy and cold mother but then you make her the one who’s most into that Christmas shit because she’s the one meant to represent traditionalism and established power

So Toby managed to have a critique about conformist, consumerist middle class nuclear suburbia in a family with silly Christmas names who say “fahaha” and “welcome to my ho ho home”

And the whole thing is probably for an earthbond reference

I do enjoy a good visual gag, and an old favorite of mine is “there is Math on a Board in the background that contextually makes no sense.” This broadly comes in 3 flavors I enjoy:

• the board is in front of a classroom, and the Math is waaay too advanced for whatever level of pupil these kids are supposed to be; like having the calculus integral in front of kindergartners, or relativistic physics in front of high schoolers.

• the board is in front of Criminals, who are Planning Something, and by all rights there ought to be no Math there to begin with. Like. You’re planning a Heist why do you have the Full Lagrangian on there. Are we taking a rocket to the bank.

• the characters are super-genius science fiction people. The Math is “Pi≈3.24” with an unlabeled pie chart.

woke up this morning, rolled over, and very confidently tried to blow out my alarm clock like a candle. absolutely no precedent for that.

In the year 1450 a priest rolls over and slams his hand into his candle, burning him and sending wax flying all over the place

there's something so deeply dystopian to me how tech companies don't understand that a forced convenience is not a convenience at all. i'm sure autocorrect is helpful for many, but a function that forcibly changes my actual written words and punctuation is taking away my language. photo filters can be nice but i need to choose using them myself or else i have lost the ability to take the picture i want. i don't want a machine to draw or write for me. taking away the option for me to do things manually feels like violence!!!! all this talk of endless opportunity, why are you RESTRICTING me

disgustedly throws youtube autodubbing onto the pyre pile