And This My Friends Is Why I Love Dogs

I finally got polls!

Since posts can run for a full week I wanted to see how this spreads

Seconds before disaster

*shaking movie directors by the shoulders* NIGHTTIME AND OTHER FORMS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DARKNESS CAN BE IMPLIED WITHOUT MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE THE FUCKING MOVIE

Hey, buddy. Down here. You can control my gay ass using WASD (or arrrow keys).

Not gonna lie, Rayne + Nightfang armor is a great fucking look on him! The Nightfang armor and the Nightclaw armor are my favorites so far out of all the armor types lol

Soooo, I've gotten into Genshin Impact lately and I just figured I'd pop on and share some of my favorite screenshots to show my love for this awesome fucking game! Enjoy!

The scenery in this game is beautiful and quite frankly I simp only two (2) characters so far. Diluc and Kaeya. But aside from that, this game has exceeded all of my expectations and even became my favorite free-to-play game of all time so far!

In other words I highly recommend this game to anyone who loves: Anime artstyle, Legend of Zelda Botw style gameplay and hella pretty scenery!

Holy shit, i’m fucking DYING over here

Rich people showers

A bit of a close up of ole’ Aiden

I really hate the idea that likes are useless or don't tell you anything. they tell you somebody liked your post! you did good and somebody like it so they gave it a like! the constant cries of "only reblogs actually Do something" feels very… hmm, how do I phrase this?

it's rooted in a sort of warning that tumblr functions differently than other sites in that the number of likes on a post doesn't necessarily contribute to an algorithm that pushes forward certain content (algorithms which, tbh, create a weird sort of feedback loop in which content that is already popular becomes even more popular by getting boosted on the merits of already being popular, but I digress), and so reblogging is the only way to actually spread a post. likes don't make a post "breach containment."

but if likes are equivalent to "positive emotional response" and reblogs are equivalent to "exposure," then discouraging likes in favor of reblogs is discouraging enjoyment of your post in favor of promotion of your post. okay... why? to what end? if the only "correct" mode of engagement is an expanding fractal web of reblogs, and the point of a reblog is only to beget further reblogs... what's the goal?

you've deemed the like as an expression of pleasure useless, so it's kind of difficult to argue that "reblogging a post means they enjoyed it more than if they'd just simply liked it." the quantity of pleasure expressed doesn't matter if you've already devalued the concept of "expressing pleasure and doing nothing else." you can't earnestly say "expressing pleasure is important to me but only if it's accompanied by exposure." so your goal isn't for more people to delight in your content; it's for more people to see your content, and for each of them then to make even more people see your content in turn. and so on. infinitely. just sharing. just exposure.

is that how we got to this point wherein people are genuinely writing essays about how liking a post is actually a backhanded passive-aggressive insult? you think I click the little red heart because I hate you? the logic is so contorted. it relies on the assumption that everyone around you is operating in bad faith, that everyone's intentions are bad until proven good.

what a bitter, paranoid way to live.