I wish I was a stress cleaner. Never once has my response to stress been “time to employ some good habits”

The reading comprehension and overall common sense on this website is piss poor.

how dare you say we piss on the poor

all hail the 1 million note Piss Post

we have fun here in Thedas

James Vega should have been an option for male shep and yall can fight me on this

The DA2 crew deserved these team meetings. They would have had even worse arguments. Made fantastic use of all being in the same room to argue each other's ears off at the same time.

Gaby Soto is a gift

adding to this, kudos to all the animators and artists that chipped in to make these happen, they're legitimately some of the funniest people at BioWare

(not all have public-facing socials, but they appreciate the love all the same 💜)

compilation

Jasper starts to find healing after fusing with her Sis

Oops, there's more

I hate that thing some people do where it's like. "I left my wallet on the table to see if you'd say anything" or "I wanted to see if you'd wash the car if I stopped doing it"

Cause like

I dont know about anyone else

But I am perpetually hovering three inches above the strong subconscious belief that everyone knows what they're doing at all times except me, so if you change your normal patterns and I notice, then I will assume it is an intentional choice with a thought-out plan behind it and I will avoid interfering

And if I don't notice, because I won't, because why would I, because not much bothers me and if you don't say anything to indicate you are bothered then how would I KNOW

Alternatives to experimenting on me like a lab rat when you suspect me of being inconsiderate:

Concept I've been stewing on for a while here. I've got a name for it now and I'm calling it the Shot Dog Factor. It's a numerical value, assignable to any internet post, which represents the average number of engagements it needs to reach before someone comes along acting like this post shot their dog.

And for the sake of High Number = More Danger, which feels like the intuitive and sensible read, let's call it the inverse. As in the chance that any given interaction results in a Shot Dog response.

"Hee hee haa haa" type of silly shitpost? Low Shot Dog Factor. Largely safe. A genuine political opinion? Critically high Shot Dog Factor. Guaranteed to elicit such a response if it breaks containment.

As a result of this phenomenon, you see phrasings and circumventions added specifically to lower the Shot Dog factor. Every "now I know this doesn't apply to EVERYONE'S specific situation, but I just think--" about something where the non-specificity was obvious, but OP needed to add that disclaimer to avoid the Shot Dog from someone who thinks it needs to apply to them.

And another--perhaps the most--critical thing to understand about the Shot Dog factor is that 0 is not a valid value. There's a discontinuation at 0. And as such, the Shot Dog limit, as engagement goes to infinity is, in fact, 100%. Any and every post you have ever made, given enough containment breaching, WILL piss someone off in wild ways. You can lower the Shot Dog factor but it is never 0. Sometimes when a post of yours escapes containment, you must simply sit back and accept this reality.

#op the fact that you called it this. has skyrocketed the shot dog factor for this one astronomically. im so sorry (via @mecharose)

Thank you yeah no that was part of the vision

not to be insensitive but some of the salem witch trials were so funny bitches like “i saw her at the devils sacrament!!!” girl… what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament 👀

If ANYTHING is a heritage post it’s this.

Best

About a year ago, on my 30th birthday, my dad asked:

"What is the most important thing you have learned so far in life?"

I responded promptly: "Everyone is doing their best."

He was taken aback. He tried to argue that maybe I'd only met good, hardworking people. Surely somebody had to be lazy, or taking advantage.

But I think the more experiences I have in life, the more people I meet, "hardworking" or "not", the more real that becomes for me.

A person's "best" changes day to day, hour to hour, circumstance to circumstance.

There is always a reason for someone's behavior, even if it's not clear, even if it's not clear even to the person doing it.

And just trusting that, if I were to dig down deep enough, a person's behavior would make total and complete sense has brought me so much peace.

Because now I'm not looking at a situation where a person needs punished for their behavior, but a situation where a person needs helped to expand their capacity to make a better decision next time.

Yes, this includes people who do abhorrent, terrifying things to other people.

POV you are a truffle

a comic about meeting your younger self :)

Thank you for reading :)