And that interview lives rent free in my mind, surfacing every time some CEO grifter bullshits about AI being the future and media treats these claims like the word of some ascended nerd god/financial prophet, never questioning whether, just maybe, they ended up on top by straight up doing crimes.

At the time of the interview, Masayoshi was courting Trump for some AI BS, and the piece juxtaposed him alongside Altman and all of these other alleged financial genius techbro billionaires. Not ONCE did the journalist interviewing the biographer have the stones to ask if Masa or his dad had tattoos

And with his full chest, the biographer went on to frame this as a rags-to-riches story, in which Masa owed his success to this family business, as it taught him "the art of the hustle" and how to make financial gambles.

So first off... let's just appreciate the ~Caucasity~ of that spin.

Funny enough, there's an account posting nothing but anti-union shilling on posts supporting animators and vfx artists. Shit like this makes me grateful for Bsky's block/mute system. Makes it SO MUCH easier to quickly shut down bots and bad faith actors from amplifying garbage messaging campaigns.

Glad you found it! I was about to say, at least for WoW, the Vinewrapped Staff/Kihrawr's Scratching Post and Rapture have that viibe:

www.wowdb.com/items/116504
www.wowdb.com/items/45234-...

As a fellow short, I too appreciate this kind sentiment from the tallfolks.

Yeah, I kind of died a little when I realized that these being 4th ed means they're still almost 20 years old...

My magnum opus, roughly to the tune of Waltzing Matilda:

"Wrex has a stinky butt, stinky butt, stinky butt! Wrex has a stinky butt! Stinky butt-butt!"