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Shithead the Bird to FCG.

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Chetney before The Mighty Nein.

Do you think my Sims 4 house is gay enough?

My transmasc gay sim and his cis gay boyfriend moved in together last season, and they just bought this house together. It's based on "The Kentucky" house kit model from the 1917 Aladdin catalog (I have a republished copy).

The trans sim is a critic by day and author of queer books by night. he has a recurring series called Detective Lavande about a gay private detective who solves crimes for the queer community with as little police involvement as possible. In the last one, he helped a newly-formed tenants union in a rent-controlled apartment building prove their landlord was trying to illegally pressure them out. In the end they sue the landlord, and put on a fundraiser through their local queer bar to raise money to buy the building as a co-op.

His boyfriend is a fundraiser for a local queer charity and the guy that knows and is liked by everyone. (in contrast to the other sim who's a loaner). Just a really kind, helpful, and big-hearted guy. Also he's terrified of fire and very prone to lighting the kitchen and himself on fire if he uses the stove.

I love them and it's been very fun getting back into the game with them after taking a couple of years off playing it. (I've played every Sims game since the early days of the franchise, but Sims 4 took me a while to warm up to. I loved the totally open world of Sims 3 even though it caused huge performance problems).

[Picture ID: Peter Gibbons of Office Space, a brown-haired white man in Business Casual, sits on a chair hunched forward worth his elbows on his legs and hands together. A brunet woman in a business skirt suit sits on a chair next to him with her hands folded on crossed knees. A word is blacked out in the caption and 2020 written over it.

Caption: Ever since I started 2020, every day has been worse than the one before. That means each time you see me, that's on the worst day of my life. End ID].

Rewatched Office Space (1999) with my parents. What an utterly timeless comedy. In 20 years the tech has changed, but nothing of the office or food service culture has. The workplace personality types haven't changed, the power dynamics haven't. The dress codes relaxed for office workers, but new bullshit took its place.

It's such a visceral movie where so much laughter comes from the perfectly placed mundane details. One of the greatest openings of all time, showing the traffic hell they start their days in and already deteriorate as human beings.

If you've never seen it, do yourself the favor. Stephen Root gave one of his greatest performances as Milton. It so perfectly hits at the core existential rot in American society. Constant mass shootings were unthinkable in 1999, but this shows the fantasy was already setting in. (In this case where no one actually gets hurt.) 1999 was EXACTLY like this.

I made this meme in summer of 2020 and I stand by it.
#Office Space#Movie Review

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It is next time!