oh holy christ i’ve never actually seen it before just now. it does have a certain “placeholder” vibe to it.

i’ve got an ad-blocking DNS on home network and my phone, i use youtube revanced, i’ve even got a fucken apk patcher to strip ad shit out of mobile games. it’s WILD to me how tolerant people are of ads. like anytime someone’s showing me a video on their phone and an ad plays, i have to do a little mental math on whether it’ll be annoying or mutually beneficial to just start playing the video on my phone instead.

and it takes such little effort to get rid of them! i’m constantly offering to teach people how to use patchers or revanced, folks are just like “nah it doesn’t bother me” MAN, HOW? sponsorblock alone is a goddamn godsend, sometimes more than 30% of a video is just ads and self promotion! how does anyone happily throw away their time like that‽

i swear pokémon duel would do the opposite of this. you’d get on a win streak and then suddenly a player with a very generic name and the EXACT counters to your deck fucken SWEEPS your ass with seemingly psychic precision. you could even trick it by switching to a deck with no synergy and just playing like a psycho whenever you got ~5 wins in a row.

i miss that game so much. taken before it’s time o7

seconding the lighting stuff!

turn on that blue-light filter on your phone, be mindful of screen usage before bed, and ELIMINATE any lights (specifically blue ones) in your bedroom.

sometimes full dark can also be a little offputting, personally i’ve had a weird amount of luck with really low level warm lighting. just being in a dimly lit room will put me OUT way quicker than pitch black will.

i also do a podcast or something on a barely audible speaker with a 45 minute sleep timer. but that’s mostly a tinnitus thing for me, your mileage may vary.

taking any blood thinners? they can cause/worsen the condition as long as you’re taking them.

it kinda feels like they’re just doing bits for eachother, like i reckon THEY’VE laughed at this arc more than a measurable percentage of the regular audience.

it’s my favorite arc, i love it so much.

Kris’ self insert character is being made to explain everything, WHILE Kris was also next up to make a comic.

It’s like going “I’ve got a knock-knock joke, you start!”, just setting someone up to do something they’re probably not expecting/prepared for.

that’s who the soup is for, wildly enough

start the countdown until “i’m gonna blue shell a ceo” becomes a credible threat you could to to jail for