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Hey so as the economy continues to get worse in the next few years, gambling companies are going to go extra hardcore predatory as people become more desperate. Yes, even more than they already are. You have to promise me right now you’re not going to fall for it. No gambling, okay?

This is going to be especially bad with prediction markets and sports gambling, and it’s already really fucking bad. But it also goes for loot boxes, blind box collectables, trading card games, and ESPECIALLY gacha games.

THE HOUSE ALWAYS WINS

GAMBLING IS NEVER PROFITABLE

RESIST THE URGE

Normally I would put this in tags but I was really disturbed when I visited the mall near me just a bit ago. In almost every single store, there were blindbox toys, blindbox bags, and all sorts of varieties of things in blind boxes. I wasn’t surprised by the toy stores, but fashion stores, shoe stores, even in some of the restaurants, soap and scent stores, they were unavoidable! They were literally EVERYWHERE. It really freaked me out, it’s getting really widespread. And in the stores where they’re most prevalent, the displays are featured RIGHT in front of the entrance, you HAVE to see them.

The problem is very very real. Please please do not fall for the overwhelming marketing they’re pushing.

Yes, exactly. Businesses are going to push for this a lot, they’re going to present it as something normal, just a bit of fun. But the goal is genuinely just to exploit the exact same psychological vulnerabilities that gambling does. And frankly in many cases to sell you unwanted stock at a premium price. It is simply not worth it, and you’re better off not participating.

can I repeat

especially gacha games

because they’re right there on your phone, they’re fun, you don’t have to go out, you don’t even have to get out of bed

and before you know it, you realise you’ve spent almost 400 euro on a fashion game because “it’s only 99 cents” or “it’s just 1.99” and “just one more try”

anyway

tomorrow, it’ll be three years since I last spent money on a mobile game and I only realised I had an issue because of a tumblr post comparing gacha games to gambling

Donate to Help Lou and Friends Recover from Flood Damage, organized by Amanda Kaake

you ever have situations that make you want to take people by the shoulders and go “you are not 15 any longer. this behavior is no longer quirky and cute. it is exhausting for you and everyone else to act like a teenager you haven’t been in a decade or longer. knock it the fuck off”

lots of ppl making this about adults who have interests they find cringe but let me be clear this is about emotional immaturity. idgaf if you’re 35 and like goku okay but can you have an adult conversation without making yourself the victim is the matter at hand here

It really might happen this year. I have a feeling.

Look I hope everybody has lesbian sex and gets their license and moves out and whatever but this post is about one thing only and you guys are diluting its power. No offense I hope that all happens but this post needs to be aimed at one point and it can’t move.

@staff please verify me, the real fleshy Gaius Julius Caesar. Soon I will make my speech to the senate about how im dictator in perpetuity and nothing will go wrong so I would like to be verified on the 15th to make it offical.

We all know everyone will accept me and nothing will go wrong so I see no issue in this.

the problem with not having watched anime growing up is that when I watch anime now I am suddenly assaulted with psychic blasts in which I recognize the source for all mannerisms and aesthetics of my peers

anime character: [does a gesture with his hand]

me: [involuntarily skyrockets backwards through time while screaming]

you guys I am having a fucking moment over here because I just started hunter x hunter and I am faced with the strong possibility that my old enemy from study abroad based his whole personality on one of the characters

is this how cosmic horror protagonists feel when they receive secret truths about the universe that unravel their sanity? because I don’t know if I can keep mine burdened with the knowledge that I spent six months of my life violently beefing with someone who kinned this guy:

sorry for elevating the tags op im trying to reconstruct this scenario in my minds eye.

literally the first day I met him I was like “this guy talks and acts like he’s trying to be an anime villain” and somehow it didn’t occur to me that he was trying to be a specific anime villain.

he’s the guy from this post in which I really downplayed just how fucking weird he was because it distracted from the point of the story but oh my god. I swear to god he quoted lines from the show. he kept his fingernails filed into sharp points for slashing damage. he thought suddenly appearing behind you and grabbing you by the throat was a really funny way to greet you. do you know how much psychic damage I am taking from this revelation? do you know???? after our first fight he brushed himself off and said “oh what fun that was!” in this stupid voice, even though I’d kicked his ass. I can’t believe I thought I was maybe going to be murdered by an alcoholic hisoka kinnie. how do I un-know this.

hey! you’ll never guess what he’s up to now!

he works for the department of defense.

measure once cut also once, no prablem

#i know i already reblogged this but i need to like. cross stitch it or carve it into wood or quilt it or something

concept for a vcarving project

no i get you this was perfectly centered when i wrote it

I have done the cross stitch

in honor of all the times I’ve made this mistake irl

702 Miscellany of fine and decorative arts

photos of amber glenn at the glaad awards by julian hamilton. she’s soooooo gorgeous

idk if this pic is making the rounds on tumblr yet but its so cute look!!

Obsessed with this tag

Let’s

Get down to

Business

To stab caesar

DO NOT CHECK UP ON THAT FRIEND YOU CUT OUT OF YOUR LIFE!!!! DO NOT CHECK UP ON YOUR EX!!!! DO NOT CHECK UP ON THAT OLD COWORKER YOU HATED!!!! IT WON’T HELP YOU!!!! CHOOSE YOURSELF!!!!

i wish everyone following me made enough money to not feel like they were being boiled alive and had the time and energy to clean their room at their own leisure

Local autistic person thinks about Shane Hollander a normal amount (lying)

Had a sudden brainworm about both of them in cowboy outfits…. western AU klapollo…. hooo boi

[KOFI]

Nude Portraits series by photographer Trevor Christensen

This is my new favorite thing

‘portraits of people reacting to nudity’ fresh, inspired, art sfkas;lk

according to the notes, yes, the subjects do know ahead of time that he will be nude, so yes, this is very funny and cool

the trans male experience is being afraid that if you wash your hands in a public men’s restroom you will be clocked

one time I went in the men’s room at a bar, got clocked and told I needed to leave so later I walked up to that dude at a table with some chick and announced to her that He Doesn’t Wash His Hands After Handling His Dick and walked away

you are quite literally braver than any U.S. marine

“Big Pharma” okay are we talking about how privatization and monetization has deeply corrupted the field of medicine or are you talking about how you think chemicals in the water are making the frogs gay

“GMOs”? Are we talking seeds that grow sterile plants and patenting genetic modifications then destroying any competition no matter how small they are? Or are we talking life saving rice with vitamin a to make sure kids don’t go blind in regions not suited for other high vit a veg? … or are we talking about your chidoodle?

Conversely, “alternative medicines”? Are we talking the traditional practices of non-Western societies which have an ancient history of being the cultural tools that allowed communities to take care of the health of their members and are nowadays rigorously studied within these communities to adapt them to the needs of the contemporary life, and can offer important prompts to modern medicine? Or are we talking about a white woman who traveled to India twice, followed a five-hour seminar and knows everything about inner energies now

if you’re writing and find yourself thinking ‘this is too weird/gross/offputting/esoteric/ambitious/catered to my specific interests + sure to push away a broader audience’ that is the devil speaking and it is a lie. you are already firmly on the right path and you need to double down

A Japanese transmasc rapper named Cocona has become a Brand Ambassador for Gucci. GUCCI!!!! And he’s in Milan Primavera, a really important and fancy fashion show, strutting around with a buzz cut and all his piercings and visible top surgery scars and I’m like genuinely so emotional about this I need all of you to see this!!!!!!! 🥹🥹🥹

ALT

He has been out for about 2 months, and in the time since his bandmates (as he is part of a musical group) have been nothing but extremely loving and supportive towards him, even rebranding from “Xtraordinary Girls” to “Xtraordinary Genes” as a way to support him :D

They now refer to him as their little brother and pet his buzz cut like a cat :]

TikTok - Make Your Day

I hope this can serve as proof to any trans people who may see this that there will always, ALWAYS be people out there who see you as you are and love you for it! It just takes a little time.

@this-is-trans-joy

This is trans joy!!!

Someone else come fuck that guy for me

Almost done with this Apollo/Melodious Echo sketch.

I love personalization. I love stickers on water bottles and on laptops. I love shitty marker drawing on the toes of converse. I love hand embroidered doodles on jeans. I love posters on walls. I love knick knacks on shelves. I love jewelry with goofy charms. I love when people take things and make them theirs.

copper ii sulfate has no reason to be this blue. this shade of blue looks like it should only be a digital invention

forbidden blue raspberry candy

misandry may not be real but some of you see the word ‘man’ and turn your brains off.

maybe consider why its not ok to see 'trans men deserve to take up space’ and go 'HAHA MEN ARE NEVER TAUGHT NOT TO TAKE UP SPACE’

This is a recurring problem, like if I had the exact same material reality, and just called myself a transmasc girl or nonbinary girl, some of the people sending me harassment would suddenly start to have basic thinking capacity again.

you literally see 'man’ and forget what trans people are.

things i never expected to learn through a tedtalk but now am glad to know:

the founder of Sirius XM radio is a sapphic trans woman and is currently trying to preserve her wife’s consciousness in a digital file so her wife can be immortal in the body of a robot.

heres the tedtalk if you dont believe because everyone deserves to know this reality of the amazing world in which we live 

Holy shit you neglected to mention that when her daughter got a terminal disease with no cure or treatment possible she literally went to the library got some medical textbooks and taught herself enough biochemistry to actually begin developing a drug that halted the disease good god why have we never heard of this absolute genius

YOU KNOW WHY

 YOU K N O W   W  H Y

Real life tony stark is a gay trans woman

Her name is Martine Rothblatt. She also founded United Therapeutics, which is a company that works to find cures for “””small””” diseases that don’t necessarily affect a lot of people. 

oh, yes–and she’s Jewish.

Here is a picture of Martine and her wife, Bina Aspen:

the real people who need to be told Omg You People Can’t Do Anything is the people who can’t watch something if it’s not on a streaming service…. like girl let’s search Watch Free Online

Babygirl I know fandom history that you wouldn’t even care about

i know fandom history that even I don’t care about