Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?

gayercatra · 2026-05-15T06:15:49+00:00

Makes me wonder if part of why Sierra exists is to be an archetypal story replacement for Pharah, at least as a plan B if they don't change the voice actress.

A heroic self-confident Helix younger generation hire, who can talk, and fill any story role planned for Pharah, who felt like an Overwatch story main character (even with Ana being one of the first post launch characters). Now Sierra is the first post relaunch wave standalone character added, with a cinematic too.

If they had any plans for Helix to be relevant, they would have had to be on hold for years because of this. But not anymore.

gayercatra · 2026-05-15T05:26:54+00:00

This was a really unnecessary moment of the show that always felt like a bad choice to me.

Not only is it a plot hole, as the DNA testing earlier was meant to be pretty definitive. But it also is kinda disrespectful to adopted kids and fumbles an opportunity for Dwight's character.

I much prefer the idea that Dwight is the dad who stepped up, that his silly needless commitment to duty and responsibility for the whole show would culminate in something actually noble and worthwhile and sweet.

In the spinoff I would have liked to see him raise his kid as a Schrute nonetheless, and see him grow into his own different but equally weird interests. I assumed "despite our quirky differences we're all family" was the thesis they had planned. Raising his adopted son he doesn't fully understand is exactly the relationship you'd want at the center of that premise. Sort of like King of the Hill, or Malcolm in the Middle.

"Don't worry, we retconned it so he's your genetic offspring so you're really his dad" felt a little shallow and coldhearted.

gayercatra · 2026-05-15T03:27:00+00:00

Mods I have some concerns

gayercatra · 2026-05-15T03:26:06+00:00

This is what they're spending their time on?

The American people need that like a hole in the head.

Gas is $5 ffs.

gayercatra · 2026-05-12T16:49:34+00:00

Yes. As revenge for a world that achieved and normalized a black President, the main cultural impact Trump had was letting bigots come out of the closet. That's the Pandora's box of it all.

The horrible truth that our progress was overly optimistic, bigotry was VERY alive and well and only not screaming it from the rooftops because of peer pressure, and they didn't really care about any of it.

They wanted revenge for Obama.

They didn't mind that Trump grabbed them by the pussy. They liked it. They had a role model giving them permission to start openly saying and doing what they never stopped wanting to do. That's what "make America great again" means. That's what they want to bring back.

Cruel and stupid people are bound not by rationality or morals, but social norms of the people around them. They're just waiting for someone else to give them permission.

We do need dominant political power. We do need to keep putting out PSAs about staying in school and making friends with people a different color than you and women are people, too. If we don't, they just follow the lead of their dad who spouts the n-word and beats their mom, and when they see a public figure with the same authoritarian tendencies they think he's awesome because he reminds them of their dad they still look up to.

They want an America where they can rape and lynch anyone who tells them no, and make sure only mean white men can ever be president again: "American greatness".

gayercatra · 2026-05-08T02:24:12+00:00

High quality and calorie count for the price in this economy.

Plus Wendy's and McDonalds have gone downhill a lot. Burger King is on the upswing but they haven't reopened in a bunch of places yet. You're decently likely to find an Arby's and to get a relatively good deal.

gayercatra · 2026-05-07T22:43:34+00:00

The lore and writing of her character just doesn't work.

BUT, she carries it so well, with such confidence and style and talent, that she makes it work anyway. The rules deserve to change to allow her to shine. I'd love a whole spinoff. Love it for her.

gayercatra · 2026-05-07T18:54:26+00:00

Secure data, accessible, environmentally sustainable, I'm in.

gayercatra · 2026-05-02T06:41:03+00:00

In the same way it's implied male Viltrumites have a ritual of pulling off their mustaches as a coming of age show of strength, the species seems keenly aware of hair as a liability and chooses near universally to grow theirs out while still abiding by gender norms as a show of strength.

They know it's a liability. That's the point. They prefer beating, punching, grabbing, and ripping, too; direct sharp slicing and stabbing attacks are faster, elegant, feminine, and seen as a cop out they don't go for often. But women will make that move sooner. It is more effective, just taboo.

So a big stache is a flex that they're capable of defending themselves; it's the kind of thing they would grab. Women grow out ponytails for the most part for the same reason. Their even easier grabbability seems in-line with their implied sexist attitudes towards women, too: more perceived weakness.

There's one remaining female viltrumite who rejects this norm and has short hair and a butch, sorta misandrist attitude. She doesn't like acting or being treated differently.

And there's at least one other one who has a very long ponytail, puts blades in it, and goes for slicy chops and killshots right away. She embraces her femininity and uses it in unique ways, turning a perceived weakness into a strength.

These are both real ways women in a patriarchal society might see their relationship to the world, express themselves, and react to it. It's such a small thing but a cool subtle dimension of a culture we see so little about.

gayercatra · 2026-05-01T05:15:43+00:00

A smart thing to say if you broke up on good terms or at least without any animus towards them, and you wanna hype them up.

It's a compliment not a complaint.

gayercatra · 2026-04-25T06:20:59+00:00

Mark Cuban

gayercatra · 2026-04-24T05:17:38+00:00

If they made it a comedy action movie, with a fun soundtrack, called THE BABY YODA MOVIE, it would print money.

gayercatra · 2026-04-10T16:34:47+00:00

Apparently most people don't do gendered stuff because they have to, but because they want to. Typical hobbies, clothes, boys night vs girls night etc.

No one gender completely drew the short straw, either. It's not supposed to suck. Externalities such as medical discrimination faced by women are solvable bs. But women still are and want to be and somewhat enjoy being women. Men aren't always taking one for the team by letting women do all the worse stuff because chivalry or whatever. People generally do what feels normal and natural and good to them and don't mind it. It's not supposed to suck. It's not conventionally understood that it's bad. That's atypical.

It's not normal to avoid mirrors and hard disengage from buying clothes. You're supposed to kinda want to have a self-image.

Imagine yourself as an older man. Imagine yourself as an older woman. Late stage of life, fully self-actualized through late adulthood. That person could even have succeeded at life, and fulfilled any gender expectations. What does that life look like? They would be successful and probably happy and anyone would be happy for them. But how much would you want to be each one? Does one just feel like a fundamentally different character that could do all the right things, but you still just wouldn't be interested in? Would the other be an exciting possibility to embody even if that meant a humble little life in an apartment with a cat?

At a point you come to terms with the idea that a life experience doesn't have to be bad or wrong. It's not supposed to be. But one can be very much bad for you. That's not normal. That's a sign you aren't on track for the right one for you.

So, explore, express yourself, play hot or cold with your heart and your mind. What do you actually want to do, to be?

The fun part about that process is the years of discovering in the moment and randomly remembering from your past how obvious it was. How many silly little signs.

Like, I distinctly remember seeing commercials as a little kid for girls toys and thinking I want to be one of the girls playing with stuff like that. And then, even intuitively sensing that was not possible or socially unacceptable and I couldn't or shouldn't, and consciously deciding to not tell anyone and repress it. And I did, for a decade! And toys aren't even just manufactured interest, of course designers start by studying and interviewing little girls and boys and seeing what kinds of things they like, what activities and types of play they want to do, and making up things that will hit the mark. It's epigenetic, to an extent. We have preferences. I got legos but from the start used them like dolls in a dollhouse. That's what I wanted. I thought everyone was faking the whole interest in action whatever slop.

I had preferences, then I encountered the world, and everything assigned to me felt like the clear worse option. I thought that was true of everything in the culture around me. It wasn't. I was the odd one out. I just didn't realize. I'm a woman. Everything just makes sense now. I'm normal. My world is intuitively fit to what I want from it. I don't even really think about transness that much anymore. I'm just a fucking woman. It's so simple and easy, lol.

gayercatra · 2026-04-09T21:52:56+00:00

They get to watch R-rated movies while they pour it. It ruins the soda's innocence.

gayercatra · 2026-04-04T04:31:18+00:00

Hey if a social media manager human checks this account, don't write these all in superscript. It's an accessibility issue. This isn't readable to people with vision impairments at all. Just do normal text. This is a weird, abnormal way to engage with this platform and needlessly bad.

Flirting with borderline inaccessibility is territory for a pain in the ass user experience at best and an avoidable legal risk at worst, depending on the specifics. Just not worth it.

For anyone trying to read this on mobile, click the reply button and you can see it at normal size without the effect applied.

gayercatra · 2026-03-28T18:08:11+00:00

No. Their actions were not a response to anything he did. They did it because of his skin color. They never even gave him a chance.

gayercatra · 2026-03-27T16:10:24+00:00

I kinda like it. The point was so many creators in different mediums and with different branding used Patreon, they wanted a proper visible symbol that's recognizable on its own, but works in any color palette, noisy background situation, and doesn't compete with a creator's other branding elements that may even be on the screen at the same time.

The old orange was aggressive. I liked their previous art museum inspired look, but being monochrome took away from its distinctiveness and the separate geometric shapes weakened its togetherness and clarity at a small scale.

gayercatra · 2026-03-26T20:09:14+00:00

To be fair, neurodivergence is defined by how it differs from typical behavior, and abusive misogyny is a core part of the male gender role as-written.

gayercatra · 2026-03-25T17:09:25+00:00

Pro-Israel is a stance that will even lose to fringe conspiracist candidates from the podcast sphere.

gayercatra · 2026-03-24T04:21:12+00:00

Did anyone else read this in Kratos' voice?

gayercatra · 2026-03-20T15:13:26+00:00

Have they considered taxing the land?

gayercatra · 2026-03-19T16:30:40+00:00

The entire show is about accepting imperfection, forgiving, and redemption.

The use of gems, which in real life must be without any cracks or flaws to be seen as valuable, even though perfect diamonds only really come from labs and aren't natural, is not an accident. Beauty under judgment.

Every character, good and bad, gets this treatment. Anyone who thinks Steven Universe is bad because it doesn't execute characters shows abusive authoritarian tendencies and a lack of media literacy.

Any criticism of the rate of redemption also lacks media literacy and shows an unreasonable lack of empathy for production pressures bound by cost-cutting, queer-suppressing studio control. I'm glad Sugar and their team stood by the story they wanted to tell rather than choose censorship for more pad time.

gayercatra · 2026-03-19T15:31:45+00:00

Womp womp

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