like im sure you’re very proud of your wall of text about your own journey to discovering that you’re too smart for and personally ‘Tired of’ the humor in cool games inc or whatever other projects this guy was involved in but you know that uh….. thats so staggeringly far from the issue here? this isnt a scandal about your taste in youtube videos or podcasts women were victimized by this guy and have to live with it i sooooooooo don’t want to hear your text post dissertation on the troubling emergence “McElroy Culture” or whatever the fuck unless its truly, earnestly, purely, & un-egoistically intended to actually help prevent harassment like this from happening in the future
every single person jumping on the bandwagon saying “I always hated his content” needs to take a long look at themselves and whether they actually care about harassment victims.
i’m in a relatively high empathy swing right now, so i can’t stop thinking about how griffin must feel. i feel for the actual victims too, of course, but i was once in a similar situation where someone close to me turned out to be colossally shitty. honestly, it was traumatic in a way, and the hurt hasn’t completely healed. i’m kinda reliving it now because of the empathy i’m feeling.
i really don’t want to talk a lot about the nick robinson thing because i’m really hurt, but can we hold off on saying stuff like ‘who didn’t see this coming’ and ‘did you really not expect this’ cause like… that just feels like unnecessary guilt-tripping for just like, putting trust in somebody. like i get where that’s coming from but it just seems both unnecessary and turning some of the negativity of this situation in the wrong direction. like, we SHOULD be able to hope that if people seem decent they ARE decent, even if they’re famous, and it’s not the fault of the ppl who thought that when they turn out to be wrong… like i kno u shouldn’t put ppl on a pedestal or whatever, but it still seems like bad taste to add shame into all this (esp right now) for thinking he might’ve actually been an okay guy
one of the best tips for Real Life that I’ve ever picked up is to always highball your estimate whenever someone asks you “when can you get this done by” by about 25% (if you can get away with it). that way, if it ends up being harder than you thought, you’ve got extra time to figure things out and if you were right about how much time it takes then you get to look like an absolute genius instead of just a simply competent person.
what you may not have realized is that I learned this crucial piece of life advice from an episode of Star Trek where Scotty is telling Geordi that whenever he told Kirk something on the Enterprise was at full capacity, it was always only ever a notch or so below full capacity so that Scotty looked like the god of all engineers when he was able to magically hack the warp drive to run a little beyond what he’d told everyone else was “full capacity” and honestly that one throwaway gag from Star Trek has changed my life.
The paws and Mario hand cursors from Super Mario Maker. The cat paws belong to producer Takashi Tezuka’s cats and the dog paw to senior director
Yoshikazu Yamashita’s dog.
ok u know what, no more of those depressing bpd memes, lets make recovery memes a thing, here i’ll start
an inconvenience: happens my malfunctioning brain: time to die i guess me, using DBT skills i’ve learned in group therapy: it’s okay, i can work my way around this, i am a Capable Adult
my mom: harshly criticizes me my shitbrain: oh no im a failure as a human being me, forcing myself to change the way i react to Bad Things: no, i am a complex human being and a good person, my mother’s opinion of me is not the end-all be-all
my brain as i am waking up in the morning: god i wish i were dead me, tackling this thought like an NFL player during the superbowl: today will be a good day and i am glad that i have lived to see it!!
i'm very gay. i'd like a few dollars. 