Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

at least i know where the fuck the furniture i ordered is now. also trust no bitch at estes express. well ok the employees are probably all right but this is all because estes said they could do the delivery for home depot, then said "actually we can't make it to your house at all lol", after sending out the delivery guy to go rack up more tickets apparently and leaving him out to dry, at which point estes sat on its thumbs and refused to do anything at all with my shit

one monkey wrench removed, and then i accidentally flung it straight into another thing

whoops

time to gird my loins and call customer service

@daemonologie now that is some quality secret santa-ing right there. (i may just like bjork overly much and be very biased)

the other essay i'd be writing if i was still living that english major life:

pixellation and intentional lo-fi graphics in video games functioning in horror as an 'offscreen' or 'seeing it happen in silhouette' - not showing details = actually scarier as the audience gets to fill in the blanks

ref. the secret room challenge mode cutscenes in #fnaf sister location, lone survivor/obra dinn?, heavily compare to silence of the lambs (where worst horror is offscreen, more impactful for it)

i had more points but i then got yelled at to come carry groceries in and they are completely lost to the ether

anyway if anyone needs an essay topic

lofi music : high-fidelity music quality in other genres :: pixel art : high-quality 3d rendering standard in many other games

intentional invocation of nostalgia, easier for 'little guy' artists to lean into in terms of work they can do with free/amateur tools, and has grown into a specific genre in its own right with almost exclusively "indie" cred

@doctorsidrat@fandom.ink that makes sense! i guess i feel the need to hunt down if anyone's been a bit of a historian, i want to know if it actually grew out of a subset of modern jazz - i'm betting yes honestly

@colon_three ohhh okay that makes sense

it's really lovely to know that you feel like you've 'nailed it' tho giving an accurate reflection of yourself, i can see exactly why those compliments are things you must cherish immensely! 💖

@colon_three this is going to mark me as someone who is so fucking old, and while that sounds like an amazing compliment and i'm not tryin to harsh that groove:

....i thought fursonas were supposed to be furry personas that are idealized versions of yourself? did... did that change in the like decade and a half i haven't been keyed into the furry comm or

like it's very nice but we can just call it modern jazz i'm pretty sure. it's ok jazz is nice! it can just be jazz. it doesn't have to be "lofi and chillhop" it can be just jazz

so i curiously clicked on "24/7 Christmas Lofi & Chillhop Radio" even tho i usually listen to city pop radio and guys

is lofi and chillhop just a variant of jazz? because this feels like a variant of jazz. i think it's just jazz y'all

anyhoodle i think my #christmas spirit is finally kicking in but uh... (looks at calendar) if we could insert, like, another week, it'd be really nice, as it is this particular mood souffle is not going to have enough time to rise before we gotta yank it out of the oven

it's not a moral issue for a lot of this stuff - i mean there are kinks where definitely, you can get into a moral quagmire, but i'm saying there's things where we just have to get off that train of thought at an earlier stop. it's sad and frustrating, but kink MUST be safe. IT MUST BE. it's okay for a kink to live only in fiction and in the mind's eye with the knowledge it's just too dangerous to do in real life.

seriously tho, from your local health and safety domme, there are some kinks that just have to live in fantasy y'all. breathplay/choking may be very appealing, but it can go wrong so quickly, with brain cell death, stroke risk, etc. it's just got to be something you take off the table, the same way "cane/paddle strikes go on the butt, away from this area, always, because a kidney punch is not good play."

@boisdevache@guineapig.party thank you for succinctly encapsulating my mood today, as i, a bleary-eyed nooblet, stumble into the federated timeline and am very confused