The Thot has Begone @RowanBerry@computerfairi.es

The sound, for those who don't know what the heck I'm talking about:

(cw for loud/harsh noise)

https://youtu.be/VPGczKUlgd8

For context I have problems with loud, looping noises. When I was a kid and we'd get a big storm, my parents would understandably leave the weather emergency notice on the TV so they could see what was going on. (Imagine the same harsh noises looping for minutes on end.) At some point it got permanently wired to a switch in my brain that makes me dissociate, so even hearing a similar sound once messes with me.

The Amber Alert noise on my phone makes me immediately dissociate. This is not a bit. It brings back haunting memories/nightmares of weather channel alerts played on loop

I got these from Walgreens and it took a solid 8 hours for my brain to register the concept. This is an anomalous item and I am afraid to consume it

Okay I know I'm ranting about this at this point but. It baffles me that gamers can look at the concept of the G-man and definitively say "this story is not allowed to end until we know exactly who this guy is and who his employers are." What??

He's a symbolic entity! His whole gig is that he's mysterious and works for something even more mysterious. Do people seriously think that not revealing everything about him is "sequel baiting?"

I have been going along with "haha valve can't count to three" jokes for so long. Assuming that the reason Valve didn't make HL3 is because it would have to be a huge, bombastic conclusion to the series. Meanwhile the wiki is like

Wait. Wait.

So you're telling me that all this time, Half-Life 2 doesn't end on like. the world's biggest cliff hanger? And that the mythical Half Life: Episode 3 was basically gonna be Gordon blowing up a boat?????

The fact that people have been fuming over this for years makes me... frustrated

I swear I am going to leave this country, buy a few acres of forest out in the countryside, find a river, and then bathe in that shit like a nymph every day for the rest of my life because it's the only way I will ever stop being angry about America

I was like "boy howdy I sure hope I have a job lined up by july" and now I'm running a Homestuck book club

To clarify this, now that I'm less pissed off in the moment: creating a rhetoric of "men are gross and tainted, women are nice and pure" hurts EVERYBODY.

And for some reason people think that it's going to help trans women? Like??? Sure reinforce all of my internalized transphobia and dysphoria, that's gonna help the situation

Y'all are we gonna have to have the "hating on specific identities ironically does not make it less shitty" talk again

Sometimes I wear a long skirt and no panties. Just for fun~

#dappervolk starting to put together a lovely little collection of critters ❤️

Hm, maybe I should play The Sims 4. A lot of people seem to like it, and it's definitely more stable than Sims 3, so maybe I can just dip my toes in—