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Stinky group of gamerz
It came to me in my fever dreams
tag yoself, I’m Chilskyrim
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You invented a machine. Paper bills get dropped in, seeds dispense from the top. The local crows quickly discovered the wondrous vending machine and youve been getting an easy 500 a week in passive income. The police haven’t caught on yet, but today there was 500k in the machine.
Why does this sound like it would work?
Because it does. It just causes adverse incentives where the corvids (and some other birds) will attack people for money.
So if that works, could you train them to pick up litter and put it in a thing for seeds?
Yes, but once again: then they will sometimes start attacking humans for it.
god forbid corvids do anything
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Reblogging again. Firefox is an excellent, safe and fast browser and everyone should consider using it.
Don’t just consider it. If you have the ability to switch to Firefox, this is your official notice to do it.
If you’re saying, “well, I need Chrome because I need such-and-such extension for my job”, the computer will not explode if you install another browser. Use Chrome ONLY for work tasks and use Firefox for everything else. If you’re concerned about losing your bookmarks, Firefox can import your Chrome bookmarks.
[ID: Firefox Library window. The “Import and Backup” panel is expanded, displaying the option, “Import Data from Another Browser”, which is also circled with a red MS Paint ellipse. ID end.]
Forgot a thing. Subscribe to Mozilla VPN for bonus points. It’s basically the only truly secure VPN service in the world right now.
For $5 a month, you can completely conceal your online activities from your ISP in a manner that isn’t just immediately monetised or turned over to the cops. No, it’s not free, it does cost money, but the money doesn’t go to line a billionaire’s pockets.
I wonder how much of this is because of work/school from home forcing people to use Chrome so all their stupid monitoring softwares and platforms can work.
This is also your reminder that you don’t have to use just one browser. You can use chrome for all the monitoring bullshit your office wants you to run and use firefox for everything else.
Be sure to add the multi account containers extension to your firefox, which allows you to be logged in to multiple accounts on the same website at the same time in the same window but in different tabs.
look on my five open tumblr accounts (not sideblogs, accounts!) ye mighty and despair.
Firefox is super good, folks. It’s good in a general “google shouldn’t own everything in the entire fucking world” sense AND in a “this is an actual good product that does lots of cool shit” sense.
ALSO make sure to add the Ublock origin extension on Firefox - I haven’t seen a youtube ad in five years and you don’t have to either.
While you’re at it, why not add the Wayback Machine extension so that if you go looking for a page that has been taken down the wayback machine will automatically offer you an archived version instead; also handy for documenting people’s shitty takes and winning arguments after they delete the original post!
Worried that Firefox is going to slow down your computer? In benchmarks, modern versions of chrome and firefox are pretty much the same speed but you can still install the auto tab discard extension ANYWAY so that it will snooze unused tabs in order to keep your computer running faster. Set it to sleep, discard, close, and store tags at your discretion!
And while you’re at it: install Firefox as your mobile browser for android and add those extensions to your mobile browser! Mobile adblock is here, baybee, save your data and enjoy a better mobile experience! And install it on iOS! iOS can’t add extensions, but at least it’s better than safari, and if you want a somewhat more private iOS browsing experience try firefox focus for iOS (which is also available on android but you can accomplish the same thing with extensions).
Anyway, firefox is good.
Also: in January 2023, Chrome is making some changes to plugin architecture that effectively neutering adblockers. If you want good adblocking, you won’t have it in Chrome. Use Firefox
(In fairness, some Chrome-derived browsers like Vivaldi and Opera have openly parted ways with Chrome about this, and more power to them, but Firefox is the way to go.)
Firefox is what we use around here. It’s terrific.
Given how successful Helldivers 2 has been, you know there's already a producer out there somewhere eager to make an adaptation of it. But here's the thing, we don't need a Helldivers movie. We've already got Starship Troopers.
What we need, is a Helldivers 2 animated comedy, with the exact tone of the early seasons of Red vs Blue.
Give me a small crew of Helldivers who are complete idiots that somehow keep surviving by sheer luck.
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Having a traumatic childhood means you cannot talk even objectively about your basic foundational experiences without it being "venting", even if you're not actually venting. You just straight up have a huge chunk of your life you can't talk about, full stop, without it being trauma dumping.
And it not being socially acceptable to talk about your own childhood is super alienating. Sometimes people want to know why, and any answer you can give them is going to be off putting.
It's to the point I get irritated when something I said is framed as venting when I'm literally just talking about my life experiences, doing my best to keep emotion out of it.
when I was in high school, I overheard two older students talking about a friend of theirs.
One of them said something like, "it doesn't bother me that [Friend] was in residential mental health treatment, I just wish they wouldn't talk about it ALL the time".
The other replied, "Well, that was all of last year for them. So when they say 'when I was in treatment,' it's like when you say 'last year'."
I try to remember that any time someone says something that sounds Shocking to me. sometimes one person's scary special crisis is another person's last year.
Hey Final Fantasy 7 fans! I never played the original game, but I played Remake and am now playing Rebirth and having a lovely time.
But as a newcomer to the franchise, I have an important question I need all of you long time fans to answer for me.
As far as I understand, Cloud is some kind of super soldier. So his lil scrawny boy arms are extra strong. But also, Barret is super buff and has such incredibly beautiful eyes.
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my favorite thing about this post is all the people who chose to use the default icon defending themselves in the notes like no stop it just put a picture up
Loving this energy
*wipes tear* they learn tumblr culture so fast . . . the spite . . . the malicious compliance of it all . . . I'm so proud
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This animation without the filter because it fucked with the framerate for some reason (this isn't the intended look otherwise, but bleh)
im sure most of you dont give a flying dick tit about godzilla shit but this model and now animation is the first thing ive made and was kinda proud of in a long time .
WAIT YOU MADE THIS?
idk probably
im worried that the reason you're getting less attention than you deserve is that this looks like it was clipped out of a Movie, and not one of the lower budget ones
2,840,658 polys
i make my rigs myself
dont do this to me
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Writing advice from my uni teachers:
- If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.
- Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.
- Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.
- Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.
This is legit good writing advice, especially the first bullet point! In playwriting class we did a bit where every bit of dialogue had to be an accusatory question and it was glorious.
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Worth Every Hurt
A week or two ago I opened up Twitter and it was suddenly just, a flood of extremely unpleasant videos of people either dying or being greivously injured. Just bots posting "Man robbing shop is shot and dies" or "Terrible incident leaves man bleading on floor" and their countless bot bretheren flooding replies and boosting them onto the front page entirely unprompted. For a few days it was genuinely, the only thing Twitter seemed to want to show me, and I didn't particularly want to see any of that.
Around the same time, Tumblr suddenly started showing me so much Percy Jackson content. I've never read or watched Percy Jackson and I have no idea why I was suddenly being attacked by it, but for a few days in a row it was all I saw here until I eventually just had to block the tags.
The same thing has happened today, but with Sonic. I'm suddenly getting flooded with Sonic content.
I just think this is a great example of the state of the websites. Like, I don't care about Sonic the Hedgehog (Ristar was the superior Sega game) but I sure do prefer the mild confusion of being suddenly dunked in a fandom I don't belong in to what Twitter throws at you these days.
I started picking up comics again recently, individual issues, which I haven't done in years.
One of the series I'm getting is Alien, the newest run written by Declan Shalvey with art by Andrea Broccardo. And I should start this by saying, really enjoying it! LOVE Broccardo's art.
But I am fucking floored by how many pages of this thing is dedicated just to adverising. Is this how all Marvel comics are now?? Or just, all comics in general?
Not even is it full of advertising, but the advertising is in the middle of the book itself, constnatly interrupting the flow of the comic.
This is what Issue #2 of the current Alien comic looks like.
That's 20 pages of comic, and 11 pages of advertising.
Not only that, look at the way they're spaced out.
You get one advert on the inside of the cover, and then 9 pages straight without one. That's fine, inside cover is fair game for an ad.
Then you get hit with two page turns in a row that slap you with an ad, interrupts your flow a bit, but wait, it's ok, here's a turn without one. Then again, two in a row, and a break.
And then 5 page turns in a row, you are met with an advert. The last 5 pages of the comic having the flow of their narrative interrupted by advertising.
They're easing you in. Increasing the frequency of the advertising the further in you get. They're trying to frog boil you into feeling like this is reasonable.
This isn't even advertising to help cover the costs of production, it's entirely advertising for other marvel comics.
Cut that shit out Marvel!
You can put your ads in there, I'm fine getting to see what other things you have coming up, but clump them all together in the back. Or at very least split them between the front and back. Sandwich the comic in there so I can read it start to finish without these obnoxious interruptions.
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Been listening to The Alloy of Law audiobook. "You prefer women that could beat you up?"
"Sure! It's a thing." Sanderson finally writing characters I can relate to.
I read Psalm for the Wild-Built the other day and adored it, hoping to pick up Prayer for the Crown Shy this weekend.
But I was curious if Becky Chambers has given any indication of what she's working on next, gave her a quick google, and...
To be very clear, Becky Chambers the author is perfectly fine and alive and healthy (so far as I can tell), this result is about a character called Becky in a show called Chambers. But it sure gave me whiplash for a hot second there.
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You can really sense the tumblr userbase aging
Played Silent Hill: The Short Message. I'm glad it was free, becuase I thought it qas quite shit.