Full Time Pixie @elfi@pixie.town

blinks. So, now, Mastodon just leans hard into the dark patterns, and eats up half of my notifications column with a thing demanding to enable desktop notifications, and no way to dismiss it. 🙀

To add insult to injury, the annoying demand is laid out in a way that's more attention-grabbing than toots and such:

bright blue button, with an all-caps label;
different typography than the surrounding elements;
wider margins, which makes it pop out more (and eat more space) : even though “Never miss a thing” is only 1px bigger than display names, it seems much bigger due to its ample breathing room.

when people try to defend copyright related shenanigans that happen with "well, the law says they're right", its like. you do realize the law itself is what we're taking issue with? you're not making a point by saying the law says its okay because its the law we want changed

we actually backdoored the switch on purpose. miyamoto didn't put our lead engineer's fursona is smash

@elfi nice lämp?
https://eyesaremosaics.tumblr.com/post/129769548677/antique-tiffany-lamp

RT @SimkrayINK@twitter.com

Guardians unite! #blacktober

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/SimkrayINK/status/1317127376925560847

Cutie Honey has one of the weirdest demographic planning stories in #anime history.

Originally planned to be a proto-magical girl anime for girls it starred a shape-shifting gynoid (female android) with stories that would mostly focus on love and relationship shenanigans.

But then the time slot got moved from the shoujo to the shounen hour and the show had to be adapted for male audiences so they spiced it up with action, fighting and a lot of sexy. And because Go Nagai was basically anime's dirty uncle the "sexy" meant a lot of full frontal naked flashes and inappropriate groping.

But THEN the ratings came back and they were surprised to find out most of the audience was women!

As it turns out women do enjoy watching a sexy, capable superheroine who gets in sexually charged adventures.

So now Cutie Honey is one of those shows that give marketers a headache because they can't work out just who this thing is for and why.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=jCX77Je16fk

lmao