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Been watching this guy who plays those awful cash grab slop simulators and spends ages exploiting their bugs and bad mechanics to do buckwild bullshit
#i laughed so hard at this that i wheezed and cried#and i wheezed and cried so hard my fiancee made me take an antihistamine
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You should take some time to read @3liza's post documenting the Phantom Report Bug (which she deserves praise for doing, thank you eliza) and see how fucking broken Tumblr's report tool is. I also want to reiterate something she is once again correct about: no one files bug reports. I have first hand experience working at Tumblr and I remember having to tell web devs on Staff "i saw a post about someone talking about a bug" and they were unaware because no one followed through to file a bug. I have fixed bugs that I saw people posting about that were in my domain (I'm a mobile dev) but were not in the system. No this is not an endorsement of "complain about it enough and eventually someone will see it", this is an endorsement of "file a bug report directly to computer companies and people will most likely read it and probably fix it". I mean it this is not a Tumblr-only thing. I've seen this at every company I've worked for. Just fucking file a bug report please I beg you, software gets complicated and the devs are just unaware that there's a bug until you bring it to your attention. And they want to fix the bug! I promise!
Mea culpa; this bug happened to me a while ago (I just saw the popup telling me I'd reported a post for a split second) and i simply left a reply on the post itself saying I had NOT reported it. But now I see at least one other.
Submitting bug report now. i get so many notifs from tumblr I didn't realize some were responses to reports I didn't file. 😫
I'm pretty sure i know why it's happening, too. With my arthritis, I hit the thing that's doing it (or rather, struggle to avoid it like a frickin' minefield when scrolling -- it's that meatball menu at the top right of posts)
Started playing FFX today. Lulu fanart was inevitable..
Wow thanks for the ingot man let me just inspect the quality real quick
Dude come on
He tries his hardest with the crap they mine for him and this is what he gets, centuries of shit talk
okay who's coding the next shopkeeper sim in which you are the finest copper merchant in mesopotamia trying to maximize your profits without getting beaten up by an irate customer's hired goons
Final Fantasy V: Lenna
I love simple designs sometimes. Details are amazingly fun, but shes so cute <3
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we're overdue for a reactive wave of anti-cozy games. animal crossing but office workers. restaurant management but applebee's. farming sim but all spreadsheets. never see an ear of corn the whole game
a young witch trying to solve a gristly murder in the Italian alps during the Years of Lead
A game where you wake up in a morgue with no pants and only the assistance of a talking skull to help you find where you left your diary.
"life is so hard for men because *starts describing the events of a mafia city ad*"
this happens every day and yet people believe men arent oppressed
many lv1 crooks finding a way to get genuinely mad about this post
will all due respect to the Discourse (tm) could you guys please use cholla cacti for your mafia kink they hurt ten times worse and saguaros are a threatened species
In fairness, cis male artists who constantly draw male characters getting magically gender-bent aren't always in denial regarding their own gender. Sometimes they're in denial about being bisexual, and they're turning all the male characters they want to fuck into hot women to convince themselves it's not gay.
I somehow did the opposite. Kept reading fanfics with male characters genderbent into women and convinced myself I wasn't actually attracted to women because the character was originally a man.
I kept this up for 2 years.
This was also the same time period I kept reading yuri hentai daily while trying to convince myself I was straight. Denial is a hell of a thing.
ma'am... i am on my knees 🧎♀️
So a couple days ago, some folks braved my long-dormant social media accounts to make sure I’d seen this tweet:
And after getting over my initial (rather emotional) response, I wanted to reply properly, and explain just why that hit me so hard.
So back around twenty years ago, the internet cosplay and costuming scene was very different from today. The older generation of sci-fi convention costumers was made up of experienced, dedicated individuals who had been honing their craft for years. These were people who took masquerade competitions seriously, and earning your journeyman or master costuming badge was an important thing. They had a lot of knowledge, but – here’s the important bit – a lot of them didn’t share it. It’s not just that they weren’t internet-savvy enough to share it, or didn’t have the time to write up tutorials – no, literally if you asked how they did something or what material they used, they would refuse to tell you. Some of them came from professional backgrounds where this knowledge literally was a trade secret, others just wanted to decrease the chances of their rivals in competitions, but for whatever reason it was like getting a door slammed in your face. Now, that’s a generalization – there were definitely some lovely and kind and helpful old-school costumers – but they tended to advise more one-on-one, and the idea of just putting detailed knowledge out there for random strangers to use wasn’t much of a thing. And then what information did get out there was coming from people with the freedom and budget to do things like invest in all the tools and materials to create authentic leather hauberks, or build a vac-form setup to make stormtrooper armor, etc. NOT beginner friendly, is what I’m saying.
Then, around 2000 or so, two particular things happened: anime and manga began to be widely accessible in resulting in a boom in anime conventions and cosplay culture, and a new wave of costume-filled franchises (notably the Star Wars prequels and the Lord of the Rings movies) hit the theatres. What those brought into the convention and costuming arena was a new wave of enthusiastic fans who wanted to make costumes, and though a lot of the anime fans were much younger, some of them, and a lot of the movie franchise fans, were in their 20s and 30s, young enough to use the internet to its (then) full potential, old enough to have autonomy and a little money, and above all, overwhelmingly female. I think that latter is particularly important because that meant they had a lifetime of dealing with gatekeepers under our belts, and we weren’t inclined to deal with yet another one. They looked at the old dragons carefully hoarding their knowledge, keeping out anyone who might be unworthy, or (even worse) competition, and they said NO. If secrets were going to be kept, they were going to figure things out for ourselves, and then they were going to share it with everyone. Those old-school costumers may have done us a favor in the long run, because not knowing those old secrets meant that we had to find new methods, and we were trying – and succeeding with – materials that “serious” costumers would never have considered. I was one of those costumers, but there were many more – I was more on the movie side of things, so JediElfQueen and PadawansGuide immediately spring to mind, but there were so many others, on YahooGroups and Livejournal and our own hand-coded webpages, analyzing and testing and experimenting and swapping ideas and sharing, sharing, sharing.
I’m not saying that to make it sound like we were the noble knights of cosplay, riding in heroically with tutorials for all. I’m saying that a group of people, individually and as a collective, made the conscious decision that sharing was a Good Things that would improve the community as a whole. That wasn’t necessarily an easy decision to make, either. I know I thought long and hard before I posted that tutorial; the reaction I had gotten when I wore that armor to a con told me that I had hit on something new, something that gave me an edge, and if I didn’t share that info I could probably hang on to that edge for a year, or two, or three. And I thought about it, and I was briefly tempted, but again, there were all of these others around me sharing what they knew, and I had seen for myself what I could do when I borrowed and adapted some of their ideas, and I felt the power of what could happen when a group of people came together and gave their creativity to the world.
And it changed the face of costuming. People who had been intimidated by the sci-fi competition circuit suddenly found the confidence to try it themselves, and brought in their own ideas and discoveries. And then the next wave of younger costumers took those ideas and ran, and built on them, and branched out off of them, and the wave after that had their own innovations, and suddenly here we are, with Youtube videos and Tumblr tutorials and Etsy patterns and step-by-step how-to books, and I am just so, so proud.
So yeah, seeing appreciation for a 17-year-old technique I figured out on my dining-room table (and bless it, doesn’t that page just scream “I learned how to code on Geocities!”), and having it embraced as a springboard for newer and better things warms this fandom-old’s heart. This is our legacy, and a legacy the current group of cosplayers is still creating, and it’s a good one.
(Oh, and for anyone wondering: yes, I’m over 40 now, and yes, I’m still making costumes. And that armor is still in great shape after 17 years in a hot attic!)
In 2018 I developed a method to bind fanfiction into hardback books. Like penwiper, I was also literally working in my kitchen by myself and trying things out. This solo work was a meditative experience that allowed me to think deeply about the implications of what I was creating and what my ethics and philosophy should be. I got around to the idea that the knowledge I was building should be spread far and wide, so that together, many of us fans could bind all the wonderful fics that made our lives better in a million tiny ways, and wherever possible, create a copy to give to the authors themselves. In 2019 I wrote How to Make a Book From An AO3 Page, a free manual for how to format and bind fanfic, as a gift to fandom as a whole. It took off during the 2020 lockdown and has been going strong ever since.
Now, through the efforts of so many wonderful people, Renegade Bookbinding Guild has developed out of the Discord server I originally created just to answer questions about paper, fonts, printers and such. I figured there would be no more than 15 people joining. We have surpassed 3000.
I hope in another 20 years time my little tutorial still be kicking along out here, my bad photography and potty mouth sitting forever at the foundational level of an exploding practice of radical generosity and community, preserving the best of fanfiction from the ravages of time and digital threats and censorship, and giving authors the best thank you I know how to give.
ArmoredSuperHeavy, March 2026
i need to get into fanbinding tbh
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Only trouble with playing FFVII again is that I feel like I can't really say anything that hasn't already been said a gazillion times. AVALANCHE, terrorist organization trying to save the planet, but they cause collateral damage, check. Jesse getting a crush on Cloud and somehow being a damsel in distress and slightly incompetent despite being around for only a few seconds, check. Tifa keeping an eye on Cloud without quite knowing what to make of him, because his memory is so patchy, check. Incredibly boxy blocky graphics from another era reminding us what they were fighting against back in the nineties, check...
I do appreciate having a text-based game so a character can use strong language, something no longer quite so easy to do with voice acting.
Also, Cloud's flashback to Tifa freaking out about Sephiroth killing her dad and being connected with Mako, Shinra, Soldier while Cloud lies exactly where his uniformed mook self lies in the flashback is unusually coherent considering how cryptically a lot of the backstory is delivered.
Remember when President Shinra was menacing? If a bit baffling. Showing himself for a staged assassination attempt, er, terrorist attack, seems fairly careless, as does letting AVALANCHE blow up a reactor just to get rid of them. In general I'm not entirely sure the justification for President Shinra's dastardly destruction of innocent lives makes sense — even if he's using AVALANCHE as scapegoats for urban demolition and renewal, he's burning up a lot of resources (mako reactors) and taxpayers.
Okay, so that voice really is Cloud's alternate (original) suppressed personality. Although it seems like the flowers start talking to him for a moment there.
(Minor triumph as I figure out how to drop barrels on the mooks. I don't know why I never realized you could just say no to the first barrel you poked, and everybody below would wait and twiddle their thumbs while you wandered around in the rafters deciding which one to push over.)
I do wish the sequels would remember Aeris' bravado. She grew up in the slums. She threatens to rip people's balls off. She's flirty, but she's assertive. Maybe Aerith is a slightly different person.
Blocky graphics and all, they were doing their level best to make this place look 3D. I appreciate how much effort would go into the settings for backstory-dropping convos, or odd little stores-and-savepoints areas like the guy in the Sector 5 tunnel who has a tattoo #2 (Cloud says). I never did understand the tattoos later in the game.
Oh, why not...
I never finished my last LP of FFVII (in fact, I may only have finished the whole game once or twice... I was in grad school by the time it came out). I've had all the FFs on my iPad for years, at least up through IX. Who knows how far I'll get, but I feel like messing about.
Ii don't have it memorized like FFX, so I've never noticed "GOBLINS BAR" over there.
Did the opening "Squaresoft" always have a chocobo stampede, or has that been added?
Same old Cloud. And same old "Attack while it's [sic] tail's up!" I may not have FFVII etched on the back of my eyelids, pointy head, but I am not fooled.
I've never entirely understood the voices in Cloud's head, especially here in the beginning of the story.
Is this his alternate personality speaking, or the lifestream? Is the warning really about this reactor, or a repressed memory of the Nibelheim incident?
And there's our cast of characters and the first reactor mission. No urge to rename them; it would feel weird.
I still haven't seen/played the remake. The trouble is, my arthritis makes fast/repetitive motions difficult, so I don't do much gaming beyond simple things like Stardew any longer.
I asked Nick Boraine for a scientific ranking as Professor Emmrich of who breasts the most boobily in Thedas, and the results were stupendous. Never have I heard the words "chesting pectorally" uttered with as much gusto as he has. 💀🖤💚 🚫 Do not repost.
Revisiting early game areas with your level 87 character
all video games should have a “I’m shit at video games but I’m curious about the story and I don’t want to watch a let’s play” mode
I am
I made this post because I am disabled and no matter how much I practice there are some games I will never be able to play because I physically cannot move my fingers the way you have to and the responses to this post from other disabled people, people who grew up unable to play video games, and people who just aren’t very good at them has been extremely enthusiastically positive, while people who apparently can’t conceive of the idea that some people will never be good at gaming condescendingly comment, tag or send me asks telling me to try easy mode or to get good despite the fact that the feature I’m describing already exists in some games and mods. if you’re part of the latter group, consider that some of us can not ever be good at video games and we still deserve to be able to participate and have fun
Ok, real talk, if you play PC games I use a program called Wemod that has settings for almost every game ever and you can change them to suit your needs Unlimited health? one hit kill? unlimited items? They can’t mod multiplayer games, but every genre of game imaginable is on Wemod so I use it for everything from stardew valley, subnautica, hades, farming sim and more! It mods the games to your level of ease without needing to mess with any files or get deep into webpages for mods yourself It is a life changer
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Only passing along as the only games I play are on my phone.
Get an older sibling and have them play the game and you watch
One, this is older siblings who watch younger siblings play erasure, two that’s not the point. People deserve to enjoy the experience of playing a game for themselves. Watching someone play is fun. Playing yourself is a different kind of fun.
There are so many reasons why someone wouldn’t want to be challenged by a game, and it’s ridiculous that people can’t fathom someone requiring a different gameplay than themselves.
Back in the dark ages when I was a kid and we got our first computer, my dad noticed that I was sad because I wanted to play computer games like him, so he would let me play his games in god mode. Should a five year old have been playing Ultimate Doom? Absolutely not. Did I enjoy the shit out of it, particularly the part where I couldn’t die and could just wander around aimlessly machine gunning demons to death with no real goal in mind? Hell yes.
Also, no one should have to explain the reason they want to play the game in god mode.
That is absolutely none of your business, if someone wants to play the game with max items, weapons, armor, money etc., whatever reason they’re playing that way for. YOU, the anon on the internet have no business knowing or shitting on how they play. It’s THEIR game, and THEIR gameplay experience. and I hope OP was able to play their game the way they wanted to without being stymied by the games mechanics.
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you inform the average gamer that the gerudo of zelda are orientalist caricatures and they start acting like you just shot their wife in front of them
you try to tell people that Japanese people can, in fact, be racist, and are actually quite good at it, and they act like that's the most implausible thing they've ever heard
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Well done!
I think we'd better let them rest now.
Happy April Fool's!
