Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

unfortunately a lot of people are just stuck in - and are going to be stuck in - a cycle of "i have this need. it is valid. therefore, anything i do to fill it is valid. you can't stop me from filling this need." the only solutions they know of and know how to use are, well, bad ones.

i don't know how many would listen when told "this need is valid, but what you're doing - hurting people in order to fulfill it - is not". but at least there's hope in opening up the conversation, i think.

this mostly means that people who have grown up only seeing people use unhealthy strategies will repeat them, and then it's just on repeat for another generation. the cycle of abuse continues. because nobody is speaking up and going "what if you didn't have to hurt yourself and/or other people in order to get this need met? this is a legitimate need, and there's much better solutions than hurt to this problem."

it means the bitter pill of accepting responsibility, but it's also worth it.

bc honestly, as is pretty common with emotional needs, if all you're aware of and all you see as an example of someone asking for help with this need is the really fucked-up ways to do so, you're going to end up thinking that's the ONLY way to ask. it's like thinking food is either magically already on your table, or it's something you have to dupster-dive in the dead of night. people are going to be a lot less stressed about it if you just show them the grocery store and give them a cookbook.

if we stopped viewing it as purely a negative impulse, it would make it a lot easier for people to learn how to be healthy with it, too

seeking human connection isn't a bad thing. it's just that people seem to only realize this need exists when they see it being expressed inappropriately and harmfully - in ways that hurt the person who has a need, and the people around that person.

it'd be like if we defined hunger and being hungry only through stealing your roomie's food. it's just strange.

anyway as long as i'm pontificating to delay getting up and hard rebooting my ornery chromecast

i wish that society talked less about "attention-seeking" as a pure negative.

attention and social connection is a basic human need, like food or water or shelter. it's not bad in and of itself.

but it can *become* bad. that desire for it can become fucked-up, distorted, and can be expressed inappropriately.

but just because bulimia exists doesn't mean hunger is bullshit, yknow?

this one, but we just steal it and now it's not about war bonds

it's about voting rolls, and actually going to vote, and emphasizing that every "foreign" name is also an american

"harp are you saying this because you're a bit of a weeaboo for edwardian shit"

maybe

but also lettering go swoosh, it's Good,

or this one. "sow the seeds of victory - eliminate food deserts - every garden a fed family"

It's Fine It's Out Of Copyright Probably Let's Just Steal It

concept:

1. a lot of ww1 propaganda, regardless if you agree with its political purpose and intent, is pretty nice art

2. because of this, we should steal it and make it relevant to modernity

example: imagine this but it's "care for her by supporting trans rights", featuring a transwoman front and center as a fighter who deserves and needs your support

@eightbitsamurai@elekk.xyz are you sure you want to be responsible for gender reveal parties though

hap catgrill o'clock #ffxiv

i don't know why things are now ska but if i play reel big fish will i be safe

@themugue@chinwag.org O: what eyeliner brand is that? because omg the gold is so vibrant and shiny!!! it looks GREAT on you!

@pettancow listen. listen. there's no need for that sort of language. that's very unfair of you

drk 30-50 deserves none of this slanderous association,

aw man now i'm hungry for a publix sub

@eightbitsamurai@elekk.xyz h o n e s t l y

like if i'm paying 7 bucks for my lunch, subway, i'm absolutely going to bitterly look at my mess of a sandwich and think, "i could've gone to publix and gotten some actually good food for this money"

i mean, i may just know that song because "snake eater" is actually the best James Bond theme, in the same way that Galaxy Quest is the best Star Trek movie

yes i am right, no i will not be taking questions,

@InspectorCaracal ok yeah that's valid, especially when looking at the shallow puddles that are things like the call of duty franchise lmfao

it's interesting though to see this shift happening within a series, too. like, i've never played a metal gear solid game, but i could probably due 'snake eater' on karaoke if you got me drunk enough. but mgs5? metal gear rising? NO idea what a theme from those are. the only music i know from them was done by regular pop artists and referenced in-world.

@InspectorCaracal and both types are fun in their different ways! but it's a whole fascinating confluence of how it gets remembered.

like i love dishonored, i think it was a game that did a fantastic job of creating atmosphere. but i can't hum that atmosphere for you. i can hum the pokemon center theme on the spot though LOL

maybe the "graphics too crap for first-person to be believable so we're going third-person" nature of early games also comes into it? 🤔

@InspectorCaracal that second part may not make a lot of sense, but it feels like idk a gameboy game is set up to be a lot more of a gilded jewel than call of whatevertyfuck duty, simply by design.

that gameboy's going to really bring its limited music out because it knows things are happening around it and it wants your attention.

the game on your tv screen that expects to use things like surround sound wants you to come to it, and it doesn't have to come to you, so to speak.