Love & Joy 🔗 https://grafera.zone/archive/illustrations/love-and-joy.html

check out this epic gaming predictions video!!1 this guy wins the internet roflcopter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzLIUgnKY40

yeah so this was in my recommendations in 2025? and I’m so happy that it was - this is such a time capsule of 2008 youtube

don’t gate QoL features behind progression

boy there sure are a lot of tactical shooters on Steam now

would be great if one of them had singleplayer

holy shit is #TES lore A Lot. I just got a physical book (one of three volumes) of all of the books in #Skyrim and omg. it’s definitely confusing on purpose, but with just enough similarities and connections with other confusing-on-purpose books to be genuinely maddening. every god has like 5 names and 12 different interpretations, there are whole mystical worldviews that all seem to be correct yet contradict each other, the names and cultures of the races change depending on what era it is, and any of the various creation myths probably require psychedelics to be fully understood. and yet somehow it always feels like there’s a deeper context and some way to unify all of the contradictions, if I could just understand a little deeper

I think I need to learn how to just, be okay with not understanding something like an offhand reference to a name/culture/place/etc. that I’m not familiar with. and keep reading anyway. because otherwise I’m just going to the UESP every 5 seconds and ending up with more questions than answers lol

I have to say though, the fact that everything is so contradictory and confusing and nuanced makes it feel like by far the deepest fantasy lore I’ve ever read

TL;DW: Doom 1993 always had mouse support - it was never a keyboard-only game

CW: video game violence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJMo5pS026k

@Shivaekul it really is, and I feel like privileged people in the US are just completely blind to it. but it’s just so dehumanizing and demoralizing to be stuck in this catch-22, especially when my basic quality-of-life is on the line

entry level job application form: what company did you work at previously? (required)

me: ah yes my previous employer. for my previous job. the job that I worked prior to this one. which I definitely had.

Why your big fancy house has maids:

1. Maids spontaneously generate in sufficiently fancy interiors.

2. Maids just sort of shows up in big fancy houses, like rats.

3. Maids just sort of shows up in big fancy houses, hoping that they'll have enough servants already that they can just sort of start blending in and if they do a decent job and keep their head down, no one is gonna notice there's a new face.

4. If you leave a maid alone in the forest for too long, a mansion generates around her.

5. You actually hired them (to clean).

6. You actually hired them (horny).

7. The maids technically own the house, they hired YOU to be their master.

8. All of the above.

many such cases

https://www.reddit.com/r/vtm/comments/1joll7w/i_think_vtm_saved_my_life/

wish you were good at some art form, but suck at it too much to be any good at it? here's a pro tip:

make ~shitty art~ instead!

spend an hour or ten making a thing — even if it's going to be kinda crap. let yourself have fun! enjoy the process! lose yourself in creativity until you're looking at something sort of okay!

and then: bask in it. don't critique it yet! just observe, and marvel at the fact that there was no thing, then you did some stuff, and now there's a thing *which you made*. it's all yours!

post it to your timeline! boost it to people in different timezones! it's a thing, and it's yours, and you can be proud of it because it's pretty alright actually! and the next thing you make will be a even more alright and possibly not even shitty!

You like necroboosting don’t you

how to invent plausible-sounding English town names:

• pick a one-syllable word for something a Medieval peasant would know about
• add “fordshire” to the end
• that’s it you’re done