Crazy how unsubtle many of their headlines are lately, considering how cartoonish real life has become. Traditional satire is indistinguishable from reality now.

Yeah, I actually wouldn’t mind that. It’s integrated and not all up your nose about it. Probably the only way in-game ads wouldn’t piss me off.

Is this a call for help?

Thanks. I can’t keep up with all of their nonsense, and everything real looks like satire so my meter is broken.

Is this real? If so, yikes, this is the most try-hard shit ever.

Also, Hitler liked his dogs and used them for humanising photo ops. That doesn’t mean you’re not a fascist. So embarrassing.

It’s too late for that now.

Not meant to be an endorsement, but it sure reads as an unwitting one. (For the other side, I mean)

Yeah, that makes sense. Like, did anyone think this maniacal overlord would not do the most fascist thing possible?

Just ask WWHD?

Put ads in my games and I’ll stop playing your games. Simple as. Plenty of indies out there are more deserving of my time.

Maybe stop stealing from the poor and they’ll stop stealing from you. As it is, stealing from the rich is self defense.

I feel cheated that they cut the version of the nativity where Jesus was born in a cave and fought a literal dragon, after which the dragons and some lions bowed down to him (apocryphal Gospel of James).

That would have been a much better scene under the Xmas tree.

Yeah, realising your entire lineage’s lifelong earnings for generations amounts to sofa change to megalomaniacs who are also making sure your grandchildren will suffer even more than you are now is bound to make one testy.

e: all the while children are dying by genocide. The wrong people are being listened to.

Haha. XD

Not paint.net, but if I’m more specific, I’ll dox myself. It’s the most popular software in its niche.

My son is my biggest one.

Second, I completely redesigned the UI for one of the most popular image editing apps (it had been on Windows for years and my design was v1.0 for Mac). My design was nominated for an Apple design award that year, and Don Norman called my UI ‘innovative’ (I still have that email).

We’re living in a nightmare. Socially, economically… linguistically …

No. I was legitimately shocked the first time I heard these things, as I switched schools.

I stayed shocked until today, though I’ve had to keep hearing it in my small town. For a while in the early 2000s, it got a bit better, but starting in 2016 it ramped up to 1980s levels again.

As a designer doing advertising work, a local bakery rebranded themselves and asked me in 2017 to redo their logo to Kathy’s Korner baKery, for instance. Of course I wouldn’t, but nobody would have asked me to do that before.

Back in the 80s/early 90s I would have seen shit like that, but not in the early to mid 2000s.

From my (very white girl) perspective, it seems some people have hit middle age and desperately want to return to their teens when that abhorrent behaviour was okay. Their personality has become wrapped up in it, and they think being asked to care about others is a judgement on their soul (it is, and they’re awful people), so they’re lashing out.

They don’t understand they can learn and grow, and instead feel everyone has turned against them, so they’re doubling down. It’s actually sad.