Notices by Zelda 🎀 (thezeldazone@mastodon.social)

"We voted for a tough guy the world respects!"

A tough guy the world respects: "MOMMM THE POPE WON'T BLESS MY WAR!! MOOOMMMM!!!!"

Everyone wishing to complain about #trans people in sports should have to beat Shaq 1 on 1 in basketball first.

Since sports are fair, that should be a 50/50 chance.

I would argue the closest thing to a "fair" sport is speedrunning, a sector that does not seem to struggle with its high trans participation rate.

"Fairness in sports" is such weird nonsense, absolutely nobody watches professional sports for how "fair" they are.

Professional sports is a bunch of rich genetic anomalies more or less raised from birth who generally have brutal burnout rates and severe medical complications by midlife.

It is actually really fucking weird.

Speaking of sports, I have always found the "parasocial" discussion of YouTubers odd.

Short of actually stalking a streamer, I have never seen parasocial relationships for even the most popular streamers that even come close to what is considered the "normal" amount of parasocial for a professional sports fan.

I find it overblown, or more accurately, the extreme weirdness of pro sports is very much underblown.

Nobody wears Markiplier T Shirts and burns down Philly after his streams.

Honestly, the whole concept of “white supremacy” is so crushingly lame.

"Yo look at me. My melanin count is very low; some ancestors of mine may have come from vague areas of the world I think used to be cool 500 years ago"

Wow, cool, so if you ever do anything of value with your life, maybe come back and talk to me again otherwise bye.

Why do a 20 minute task now, when you can worry about a 20 minute task for several days instead?

There is more human-made #art out there than you could experience in a lifetime.

To suffer looking at AI slop instead is tragic, even before we consider the weighty ethical, environmental, or economic issues.

Support small creators and share things made by real humans.

#Ugh #AISlop #FuckAI

Having watched the way US educators shunned #wikipedia, it rubs me extra wrong how quick they have been to embrace LLM/AI nonsense.

A bunch of original human work—that is correct?

Heck off.

A bunch of plagiarized artificial crap—that is wrong?

Hell yeah!!

#shitpost #fuckAI #stupid

Banality of evil doesn't even cut it. Evil is beyond boring. It's pathetic. It's insultingly obvious and transparent...and no less effective.

The worst thing about being human is that I can't enjoy the bad guys (humans) destroying themselves, either. It's just a no-win shitshow.

Used to think we were on a slow upwards trajectory post WWII but...doesn't look like it. We're just one of those bad species from Star Trek that dies out before the Enterprise finds it and it turns out we all killed each other because those guys were black on the left side.

GQP for 9 years: "PEDOPHILES EVERYWHERE! We are NOT psychotic neo-nazis, we care about children!!!"

GQP today:

"Republicans are attempting to delay swearing in a recently-elected Democratic member of Congress so she can’t become the tie-breaking vote to release the Epstein files."

https://newrepublic.com/post/201005/gop-effort-hide-epstein-files-just-hit-disgusting-new-low-adelita-graijalva

#politics #uspol #uspolitics #epstein #epsteinfiles

I really wish corporations/society were more understanding that you cannot make someone into a "morning person".

"We want you here first thing in the morning!"

No, you don't. I'll be grumpy, mean, slow, and disinterested in the aesthetics you want me to reinforce.

I'm a programmer, not a barista. Either you don't need me at 6 AM, or you need to pay me overtime because if you NEED me something is very wrong.

The fucked up thing about the rise of "cringe culture" as well as fandom toxicity is we rapidly came to a place where it was absolutely unacceptable to make fun of a product from a major corporation, but it was completely fine to mock individual people, often children.

Social media made it so you couldn't joke about "big" things because the fanbase would find and harass you. But random nobodies were safe to bully, and so people did.

Forgive me for sounding like an extremist, but if the purpose of society isn't to house, feed, and care for its members, what the fuck is the purpose?

I should be allowed to live in the woods for 1 (one) year for free after losing a job. For mental health and to pretend I'm that Walden guy.

Walden wasn't the guy's game you know what I mean-.

Is your #JRPG party really any good if at least ONE major character is not a Huge Fuckup, tbh??

Cloud is such a tryhard nerd

Unlike MY favorite Hot Final Fantasy Boy,

Squall Leonhart.

#boyfriend #gaming #blorbo @squall #finalfantasy #ff8 #ff7

Respectability is bullshit, if you support games, support porn games.

If you support workers, support sex workers.

If you support humans, support humans that get horny.

Puritanism is one of the greatest evils on a deeply poisoned planet.

#NowWatching #Robocop 2014

Got a bit tired of the filler/standard episodes of the 1994 TV series.

Movie's just starting, very Post-Post-9/11 so far. Gotta say it'll be odd to see how Robocop is a big deal in this world.

Mm. Not liking the PG-13 change. It really doesn't sell it as well.

#movies #TV #robocop2014