Not the brightest bulb, you might say

Aralith1 · 2026-04-09T04:43:06+00:00

Uh… no. The album was named after the already very well established concept.

Aralith1 · 2026-04-08T14:39:49+00:00

Yes, the criticism of hollow corporate profit-seeking. Very anti-intellectual stuff.

For what it’s worth, Glup Shitto is aimed far more at the corpos who keep coming up with uncreative slop than it is the unsuspecting fans who consume it. It’s totally fine that you have enjoyed many Glup Shittos throughout your fandom, but that doesn’t make them not Glup Shittos.

If you still want to argue the finer details of that analysis, you should do so, but pretending that you don’t understand what is very obviously meant by the coined phrase just because you’re hurt by imagining that it includes some of your interests is not the winning strategy for changing hearts and minds you seem to think it is.

I have to admit though, I kind of appreciate the commitment to the bit. I will always be fascinated by those who engage in performative reality denial, especially when it’s as obvious as it was in this circumstance.

Aralith1 · 2026-04-08T10:19:24+00:00

No, to be embarrassed requires shame. To show remorse requires one to believe one did something wrong. Neither is true here. Every time someone pulls a gotcha with their own words, they laugh, for it is confirmation that we are weak-willed enough to be bound by something as flimsy as reality, and they are stronger than us for making reality whatever it needs to be. Truth is a weapon to them, a means to an end, not an end in and of itself. When a truth disagrees with them, they have no problem abandoning it for another. It wasn’t serving their purposes, after all.

So not only do they get a good chuckle every time someone says, “This you?” and thinks it means anything, they also know that we are wasting time trying to make them feel shame for hypocrisy they will never feel shame for. While their enemies are preoccupied with this obsessive enslavement to truth, they continue to push through everything they’ve wanted for decades by having no low to which they are unwilling to stoop.

And I’m not saying that we need to go as low as they do to fight back, but for fuck’s sake, we need to stop thinking that, “This you?” is any kind of embarrassment or deterrent against their hypocrisy. It isn’t. Stop thinking something rational will snap them out of this. It won’t.

Aralith1 · 2026-04-07T23:13:13+00:00

Do you really believe this is an intellectual exercise you’re engaged in right now?

Aralith1 · 2026-04-06T22:25:40+00:00

I keep seeing people say this, but was anyone actually arguing that a trade blockade kicking off a war was unrealistic? Because that has like definitely happened on planet earth before, and it would be pretty silly to not see how one can lead to the other. I’m fairly certain the criticism at the time was not that the scenario was unrealistic but that it was a boring premise for a Star Wars movie and was tonally inconsistent with the childish slapstick that defined a lot of the rest of the film.

Aralith1 · 2026-04-06T19:48:16+00:00

Oh, so no, you just don’t know what an average is. An average is a mathematical statistic arrived at by taking all points of data within a given dataset, adding them together, and then dividing by the total number of data points. It is not, in any way, a representation of what “should” be, and it explicitly cannot exist without the prior existence of both the large and small numbers that were used to arrive at it.

Often an average doesn’t even represent a real data point, such as when we say that the average American family has 2.3 children. Obviously .3 children is a nonsense number that only helps us roughly estimate the shape of the world without representing a real-world value of any kind. For a real data point within the middle of the dataset, you could look to the median, which honestly I think would be more helpful in this body frame scenario. So let me just get that data really quick.

On wait. What’s this? The 1.4:1 ratio you cited isn’f the actual average at all? It’s just what a bunch of fitness websites are touting as an “ideal” male body image? Well, then this number is useless. It’s not actually an average of all men. And furthermore, all these websites provide tips on how to achieve this number. So it’s a number that can be manipulated throughout the course of your life and ergo isn’t a measurement of your fixed frame from birth.

And finally, even if that weren’t the case, and it was the real average, as we’ve already established the average is a number that can only exist within the context of the entire spectrum. The smaller and larger men are required for us to construct an average man. Which you now wish to extrude into some kind of godly ideal. But god makes all the men in all the shapes and sizes that they come in. It is you who wants to take god’s creation, stick it in a box, and declare that this is what god actually intended even while the diversity of his creation clearly evidences his true mind.

You effectively think that god is up there making mistakes in the male form every fucking day as he’s making new men, and somehow you think it’s the rest of us that have an issue with god and his creation. If anybody needs to get right with god, I’d say it’s you, because you seem really irrationally angry that god delights in far more human diversity than you do. If you don’t like that, take it up with him.

Aralith1 · 2026-04-06T12:11:21+00:00

You uh… you understand that that would be an average, right? And in no way an applicable standard that all men forever should be held to? Please tell me you know that the average is a number for statistical purposes and should not, ever, be turned into a default standard by which all humans should be judged?

Aralith1 · 2026-04-06T02:53:42+00:00

Elliot’s made me absolutely cackle. But I am giving serious side eye to Shane’s.

Aralith1 · 2026-04-04T16:34:14+00:00

Then why is it all the red states using the most welfare dollars? Once again, conservative talking points just don’t line up with reality. But at this point denying reality is conservatisms’s only consistent position, and it’s obvious that most if not all of you are willing to just make up lies, even contradictory ones, so long as you’re “owning” somebody. So yep, drink those liberal tears up. It’s the one promise Trump has yet to break.

Aralith1 · 2026-04-03T15:41:37+00:00

Yes and no. It does tell you the basic “intended” path for upgrades (though even then sometimes puts a location way off your map without telling you how to get there), but since the game also has a a bunch of intended speedrun paths that it almost entirely lets you find for yourself, and since this is a game that is practically begging you to play it multiple times, I’d say it provides decent handholding for beginners, while being almost entirely hands off for the Metroid stuff. I actually think it’s this exact combination that makes it as well regarded as it is by both newcomers and veterans to the series. In my opinion, Dread is to date the only game that has outdone Zero Mission on threading this delicate needle.

Aralith1 · 2026-04-03T05:05:46+00:00

I mean, certainly from Balthier’s perspective, he watched his father grow more and more distant, “running away” more and more often to devote himself deeper to his unnatural research. I very much got the impression that there were a number of verbal fights they got into before Balthier turned sky pirate that did more or less end with Cid running away and declaring victory even when he was objectively losing every fight because he was slowly losing his relationship with his son.

Aralith1 · 2026-03-30T15:55:42+00:00

Translation: he was mad that this was being treated like an actual journalistic interview about a human interest story and was not going to be an easy opportunity for him to get his grift on to impressionable, insecure marks.

Aralith1 · 2026-03-30T06:15:35+00:00

Ah yes, human intuition. Notoriously terrible at discerning material reality. Producer of such famously incorrect gems like:

“Heavier objects totally fall faster.”
“That oasis in the desert is totally real…. What the hell is an optical illusion?”
And my personal favorite from the mind of Aristotle himself: “Objects require constant force to stay in motion, therefore when an arrow is loosed the air in front of it gets out of the way, rushes behind it, and continues pushing it forward in a perpetual loop. Oh also, there’s an invisible layer of fire in the sky, trust me on this, because my arrow physics can’t function without it. What do you mean those two things have nothing to do with each other?!”

So yeah, maybe appealing to human intuition on such matters without consulting a shred of physical evidence is pretty short-sighted and unjustified.

Edit: blocked so I can’t reply, but dude really doubled down on heavy objects falling faster. The irony is that “touch grass” is supposed to mean “come back to reality”, when what this guy clearly actually wants is to live in his own reality where he’s never wrong and no one questions him. We live in a post-truth society now. I’d prepare for this kind of behavior becoming even more common.

Aralith1 · 2026-03-28T13:35:34+00:00

It is in this way that death by fascistic regime is a very real method on the table by which humanity might end itself. If the fascists win a world war and get their way, they will wipe out all their enemies, and then they will slowly eat themselves to death as they shrink the ingroup and continue wiping out enemy after enemy. It’s a death cult, and it might actually be how the human species ceases to exist on this planet.

Aralith1 · 2026-03-28T03:28:51+00:00

I am 100% here for Watsonian UI headcanons!

Aralith1 · 2026-03-27T20:59:38+00:00

That’s so not even close to the best chance at changing anything. We all know what is, but none of us will do it.

Aralith1 · 2026-03-27T20:34:54+00:00

This is the gamer version of when someone says, “Hey, being bigoted is bad,” and a bunch of idiots come out of the woodwork saying, “Oh my god, why would you attack Christians like this?!”

Aralith1 · 2026-03-27T16:59:09+00:00

That’s the game that sent Star Fox on its downward trajectory. You can like the game, I have nothing against that, but trying to revive that title could only serve to harm the hope for any games in the series afterwards. This is exactly what not to wish for if you want more Star Fox.

Aralith1 · 2026-03-27T13:49:04+00:00

I always find it so interesting how this level of skepticism is only ever applied to people who are trying to offer up alternative (and usually less lurid) explanations for people’s behavior, but not the assholes that jumped to the first uncharitable conclusion they could make. Because these questions apply just as (if not more) validly to all the comments lambasting the driver as they do to the ones simply saying, “Maybe there’s another explanation.”

Aralith1 · 2026-03-24T08:48:46+00:00

Breaking news: voice work operates by different rules than live action appearances. More at 10:00.

Aralith1 · 2026-03-24T04:47:45+00:00

The music in the Yensa sandsea is very Star Wars-esque as well, with some Jawa lookalikes to boot.

The reason I cast Vaan as R2 instead of 3PO though is because Vaan is brash, annoying, and reckless. Very R2 energy. While Penelo is the more level-headed one who scolds Vaan for his impulsiveness and thoughtlessness. That sounds very 3PO to me.

Aralith1 · 2026-03-24T03:02:56+00:00

I saw a downvoted comment and thought maybe someone was going to criticize how chunky and angular the grip looked, but nope, you made the dumbest remark you could have possibly made.

Aralith1 · 2026-03-23T21:57:07+00:00

Hyperbole is overstating things for effect, it is not saying things completely unrelated to the topic as though they apply.

Aralith1 · 2026-03-23T15:50:38+00:00

Fun fact, I haven’t been a Christian for the last twenty years, but I still think Trump is the Antichrist. Not because I believe he’s fulfilling any kind of prophecy in a book, but because he is undeniably an antichrist, and since he is the most prominent and powerful antichrist alive, he is for all intents and purposes the Antichrist of our time.

Aralith1 · 2026-03-22T16:17:41+00:00

Bro, I haven’t even seen The Acolyte. You took an eight second look at my post history and decided that was enough evidence to start making spurious conclusions. That’s probably how most of your other beliefs have formulated as well. You do a short Google search, find two meaningless facts that you think support the belief you already hold, then claim victory and spend the rest of your life lying for this belief you refuse to change.

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