I Always Remind Myself If I Wasn’t Me I Would Want The Things I Have Now.

in case anybody didn’t know why representation in media is so important

every day i mourn the loss of the person i could’ve been and i don’t know how to stop

the struggle isn’t being a good liar during the interview

it’s keeping the lies up after you get the job

Unpopular opinion: Being intelligent isn’t an excuse for being unkind.

Ocean Vuong, from “Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong”, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

fr bc why let people spend money on a game that they can’t even play? easy mode allows less skilled players to adapt to playing the game and improve, so that they can play on normal mode for their next playthrough if they so wish

It's soooo funny that we live in a post-Celeste world and people still talk about video game difficulty like there's some sort of objective 'sacred artistic vision of the developer' bullshit at play, as opposed to the immensely more nuanced 'every player has different needs and we as devs should be actively taking steps to get more players to play the thing we spent years making because that solution is literally just better for everyone involved' thing.

Like hey dude sorry that your rigid idea of video games as media is trapped in ideals that are like 20 years out of date. Hope you get over that!

“what if kids identify with something and it ends up just being a phase-?” good. stop teaching and expecting kids (and adults honestly) to formulate permanent traits and ideas of themselves. everything in life is a phase. that doesn’t make it any less legitimate while you experience it. let people explore themselves and know it’s okay if what you think about yourself changes.