last post for a while, sorry

this post is separated into multiple parts discussing different topics
 

firstly, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!
secondly, HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH!!!!!!

 third, this will be the last post for a hot minute considering my domain prices just went up so expect blog.otterzweb.site to change after a while. as much as i hate subdomains, if u wanna reread anything,  otterzweb.blogspot.com is where youre gonna have to go.

domain price elaboration - if you know how websites and web domains work, you can skip this portion, but to everyone else: a website itself is a series of text files filled with code that your computer temporarily downloads in the form of a cache and ur browser is built to display these files in a specific way. domains are the name of the site, youtube.com, itch.io, etc. domains cost money to buy, depending on ur webbuilder, running your website can be free, which it is for me. i pay for a domain so you dont type otterzweb.blogspot.com! but the domain provider reminded me it costs a lot of money. for my FIRST YEAR ONLY, otterzweb.site was 98 cents or so, but now it costs 40 bucks or so a year. truly unfortunate. (currently looking at otterzweb.xyz, only $2 a year so i hope thats consistent)

fourth, i have a job interview this wednesday! its for a company thats genuinely horrible to work at but i could care less at this point, id lick the dirt off of a bathroom floor for 2 cents a day, i need money.

fifth, less than two months until my birthday!!! not much happens when i turn 17 but im just happy about being comfortable in my life right now. i hope this lasts and if i get this job, i can maybe treat MYSELF on my birthday! :D

sixth, the woke section of the post. the following section is going to be a big rant/vent about the political and economic state of the united states* right now so you can skip if you want

kill america
kill capitalism
kill donald trump
kill jd vance
kill all ice agents
kill all nazis and neo-confederates
abolish ice
defund the police
free public healthcare
free speech and freedom for the press

i fucking hate whats going on in this country right now and i wish i didnt have anything to live for so i could go and kill everyone i hate. i wish i was batman. i hope trump dies of old age more than assassination but itd be best if he suffered in his last moments and i wish that jd vance died too. i hate everyone in power right now, only like 2 good guys are in  congress or senate or whatever because i barely hear about them aside from them making fun of republicans like yeah sure dude own the homophobes but like niggas are dying right now fuck off

okay thats the main rant

seventh, thats it.

 thanks for reading this entire post, if you skimmed im slightly disappointed in you
i hope i can get the domain renewed/changed soon, know i'll announce when it changes so you can catch up. 

i hope to be more active this year, love you so much, reader. <3  

*footnote: the previous edit read "political and economic state of the world" but then i just complained about america so i cahnged it

nonbinary heterosexuality: is it real?

 i've recently watched a video discussing the idea of nonbinary heterosexuality and i found it a really interesting view of how my friends view me when i go on these rants where i turn into "the friend that's too woke"

i've been told the way i explain things (like this) can be annoying so i've opted to talk less but this is not a vent post this is a cathartic post

i've consistently been running with the etymology definitions of these terms, meaning non-binary people dating anyone that isn't non-binary is straight because homo- means "of the same" and hetero- means "different; other" but the main flaw in this thought process is that "enby" isn't a gender* 

 

it's just a label for anything that doesn't fit between the gender binary of male and female. this means that an agender person could date a bigender person and it still be straight, but this also doesn't take into account — i shit you not — vibe.

 

vibe is, for the sake of this conversation, a label representing how someone decides to present themselves. a masc enby dating a femme enby gives a straight vibe despite it not fitting into the gender binary, and a masc man dating a masc woman gives a gay vibe despite it fitting into the gender binary (but falling into gender non-conformity) 

 

with "vibe" introduced, we can try to redefine heterosexuality to represent dating someone of an opposite vibe/presentation from oneself...

 

shit i forgot androgyny.

 

i say that as a half joke, mostly because no one can fit into perfect androgyny... i don't think... let me know if you've ever met anyone that fits that but i digress, no one can fit perfect androgyny, fitting them into a... vibe.. binary- fuck forget this whole post

 

its whatever.

be gay, do crime, do drugs (dont die), and fuck brian. 

 

thx for reading <3 

 

*well it can be but thats getting into the "do whatever you want whenever" mindset which can/can't be true or is/isn't true but thats a phat can o' worms im not going to open anytime soon

brain dump: video games

    In English class, we're currently taking a unit on argumentation (my favorite :3) and we had an assignment on that today. Specifically that assignment was on an article titled "Video Games: Bad for the Brain?" And no other piece of writing, in my personal opinion, has come so close yet so far to missing the point of what the real issue is regarding video games and younger people like kids and teenagers.

The article discusses multiple studies talking about how young people playing video games has a correlation with how badly or well they do in school. This is done by discussing studies from both sides. Studies where students who play lots of video games do worse, and studies that show students who play video games have increased. 

While this, and the article itself mentioning that correlation doesn't equal causation when discussing the former of the mentioned sides, this is an extremely binary way of looking at how video games affect students and doesn't take into account what video games actually are. 

Video games are nothing but entertainment.

    While yes, they can distract students from their work and that can result in worse grades and overall worse academic performance, so can TV shows, movies, et cetera! Video games are always written about and discussed like the second coming of Academic Satan (who I'm best friends with, by the way) but that's one of the most disingenuous ways of looking at things. Video games aren't any different from other medium, specifically in the way that it affects you psychologically. [citation needed]

 

 

What the article fails to do, even in its attempts to compensate, is to recognize that video games don't "impede academic performance" OR enhance it. It is entertainment. It has the capability to distract and the capability to teach the viewer something new. Video games don't influence people more than books do, and we read those all the time.

 

Alright, that's all I have to say, thanks for reading! <3