Quicksilver's Random Stuff

Pain is knowing your work is going to be displayed in Comic Sans.

gingerhaze:

The Rad Wedding

satellitehigh:

hello i’m nineteen years old and have BIG OPINIONS ABOUT THE WORLD. now excuse me, grown-ass adult with a job, while i tell you how things really work

satellitehigh:

some people really like to tell other people why they shouldn’t enjoy the things that they do; people like that are not very fun to talk to or hang out with

if you are above the age of 20 or so and you are still giving people shit about the music or the art they like, you are being insufferable and you should stop

DC Universe Online

So in the course of my duties at work, I ended up at dcuniverseonline.com.

This is the site for an MMO where you play a superhero and meet all your favorite characters. I don’t play it, and don’t know a lot about it but I recognize the name. So naturally the first thing that loads is a sidebar photo of Poison Ivy, a Batman villain, staring coquettishly at the viewer at an angle that conveniently reveals large, yet boringly standard and perfectly “safe” amounts of cleavage. Not pictures of the game, not any actual information, not even a recognizable hero (I’m actually guessing it’s Poison Ivy because she’s completely redesigned in this picture, and has no actual design or symbol she’s associated with besides PLANT LADY) like say, Superman going “I want you to play this game!”

That would make sense, be recognizable, and probably garner interest. I wonder if I should blame the marketing team, the web design team, or the artists for allowing that to happen, or if they all got drunk together and said “TO HELL WITH SENSIBLE WEB DESIGN, let’s be risque! … in a PG-13 way that challenges nothing and no one and makes us a bad stereotype!” What a wonderful use of bandwidth.

I’m not ashamed of being a person who play games, but I am rather embarrassed that people like the ones at DC Online thought this was a good design or that it had any kind of value whatsoever, and more embarrassed that they get to design games and direct game art assets. How does this attract new viewers, explain the game to customers, or perform any function or anything?

It’s just dumb, and pointless, and puerile, and stupid, and I really doubt it helps sell anything.

So now when you do Alt + Reblog, the reblog symbol turns green, “explodes” and then disappears.

theshelbylife:

incestuous-lesbianponies:

laurarw:

I THOUGHT THIS WAS KIDDING SOGMLASG

HOLY SHIT

(Source: dont-blink-korra, via special-snowflake-hall-of-fame)