we're not kids anymore.
if i look back, i am lost
Today's Document
祝日 / Permanent Vacation
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
Andulka
Jules of Nature
pixel skylines
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
oozey mess
Cosmic Funnies
NASA
izzy's playlists!
I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
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YOU ARE THE REASON
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almost home
roma★
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@clown-adjacent
mutuals stop putting this on my dash challenge
Every Friday. Every Friday i either see this post or live in fear of seeing it. I can’t wake up and say ‘it’s friday’ anymore without thinking of this post. I am living a nightmare and it’s your fault
Thank Gnome it’s Friday! Lol
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Sure, Cold and Contrarian would probably get along and everything, with both of them hating being bored and wanting to try out interesting options, but I wonder if there would be a point Contrarian would get unnerved by how (self)destructive Cold can be. Because at the end of the day, Contrarian is a sweetie and he doesn't wish true harm to anyone, not even the Narrator, so I can't stop thinking of situations in which he would suggest something really stupid to see if Cold is gonna carry it out and it ends so badly, but Cold is completely nonchalant about it while Contrarian is all panicking and guilty, thinking how none of this is fun anymore.
Cold: "She seems happy with our jokes. And going against Him by freeing her this time has been... liberating. Thank you for leading us to these new ventures, Contrarian."
Contrarian: "Wh- Oh! Uh, me? You know little old me doesn't do all the deciding, silly! It's our guy here who's been doing such a swell job fooling around."
Cold: "He has... What if we mess around even more?"
Contrarian: "Oooo hoho, does the icebear want to take a crack at humor now? This oughta be good."
Cold: "She has her back turned to us in the full trust we have worked so hard to earn. Would be quite ironic of us if we were to break that trust now..."
Contrarian: "Uhhh haha... What?"
[Slay the princess.]
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Contrarian: "Wh-... Why did we do this?"
Cold: "It's called an subversion of expectation. Like you did with keeping the blade this time instead of throwing it out of the window. I thought you found this humorous, yet you're not laughing now."
Contrarian: "Well... Yeah! Part of the humor is that everyone should have fun with it. She's not having fun anymore. She's not feeling anything anymore- s-she's dead!"
Cold: "Yes, that's the punchline. It was an exciting punchline too. She didn't even scold us for killing her this time.
Like she knew we would do this due to our history with killing her, despite all the kindness and mercy we showed her afterwards.
Anyways, we should go-"
Contrarian: "No."
Cold: "What?"
Contrarian: "No, we're not going. We promised to leave with her. That was the plan."
Cold: "And I changed that plan. No need to get so butthurt. Next time, we'll do your thing. I prom-"
Contrarian: "Nope. Your promises are a joke in and of themselves. So I'm pulling my own 'change in plans'. I'd say watch your head, but that would ruin my hilarious next act."
[Throw yourself down the stairs.]
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The Spectre
drew her for fun
i think it’s really essential as an adult to stay silly and goofy and weird
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i think it’s really essential as an adult to stay silly and goofy and weird
i think it’s really essential as an adult to stay silly and goofy and weird
I think part of getting better is complete ego death. Like you’re not above setting a timer for 5 minutes and focusing on a task. You’re not above doing a very simple 3 minute workout to start. You’re not above reading for 10 minutes a day when you first get out of your reading slump, even if you used to read for hours. You’re not above starting slow and then building up to where you want to be/where you once were. What you are above is total inertia. Doing something really is better than doing nothing. Radically accept where you are, radically accept your limits, and go from there. Don’t let your ego get in the way.
I think part of getting better is complete ego death. Like you’re not above setting a timer for 5 minutes and focusing on a task. You’re not above doing a very simple 3 minute workout to start. You’re not above reading for 10 minutes a day when you first get out of your reading slump, even if you used to read for hours. You’re not above starting slow and then building up to where you want to be/where you once were. What you are above is total inertia. Doing something really is better than doing nothing. Radically accept where you are, radically accept your limits, and go from there. Don’t let your ego get in the way.
I think part of getting better is complete ego death. Like you’re not above setting a timer for 5 minutes and focusing on a task. You’re not above doing a very simple 3 minute workout to start. You’re not above reading for 10 minutes a day when you first get out of your reading slump, even if you used to read for hours. You’re not above starting slow and then building up to where you want to be/where you once were. What you are above is total inertia. Doing something really is better than doing nothing. Radically accept where you are, radically accept your limits, and go from there. Don’t let your ego get in the way.
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I think part of getting better is complete ego death. Like you’re not above setting a timer for 5 minutes and focusing on a task. You’re not above doing a very simple 3 minute workout to start. You’re not above reading for 10 minutes a day when you first get out of your reading slump, even if you used to read for hours. You’re not above starting slow and then building up to where you want to be/where you once were. What you are above is total inertia. Doing something really is better than doing nothing. Radically accept where you are, radically accept your limits, and go from there. Don’t let your ego get in the way.
I think part of getting better is complete ego death. Like you’re not above setting a timer for 5 minutes and focusing on a task. You’re not above doing a very simple 3 minute workout to start. You’re not above reading for 10 minutes a day when you first get out of your reading slump, even if you used to read for hours. You’re not above starting slow and then building up to where you want to be/where you once were. What you are above is total inertia. Doing something really is better than doing nothing. Radically accept where you are, radically accept your limits, and go from there. Don’t let your ego get in the way.
Lace & Hornet as The Long Quiet & the Princess
@dsfalkweon and @falinksdunkleosteus!
abandonware should be public domain. force companies to actively support and provide products if they don't wanna lose the rights to them
Game companies hate emulation, but none of them seem to understand that a lot of us would just buy ROMs from them directly if we could. I don't want a fifth remake of Final Fantasy IV, I want to pay five bucks for the 3MB file you already made bank with thirty years ago. Nobody who wants to play something for the purpose of retro gaming is going to consider a $40 remake as the alternative option, and we're certainly not going to let the original dissappear. They're crying about opportunity cost for a product they're not even selling.
op i know you're probably talking about like, video games, etc, but this is also critical for research science - my lab has so much abandonware, either because the company's out of business, or the company decided to not maintain it, and it's a fucking nightmare. we have two windows 95 computers that are CRITICAL for performing experiments/data analysis because the software needed is abandonware. one of the main roles for a guy in my lab is to maintain these little dinosaurs because if they go out, we lose access to ~20 years of raw data for research. part of why is that these companies also make their own file types, and make it difficult-to-impossible to convert those file types without their specific software. by habit, i convert all research files to more generic versions (txt, pdf, tif, etc) so that i minimize risk of losing my shit, but some stuff can't be converted.
for example, we have a microscope that is perfectly functional, good microscope, but its software is abandonware because the company refused to maintain it. the company is still in business, still makes essentially the exact same software, but they made all of the old tech incompatible with new software to force people to buy the new microscope tech. it would cost a quarter million dollars to replace this microscope. this perfectly good microscope.
so like, i know a lot of people look at the original post here and go "well op just wants old video games to play" (which is valid! games companies should not be able to push shit to abandonware and then close it off) but also this is critical for like. biomedical research. if y'all had any idea how much basic infrastructure built on science relies on shit that is technically abandonware, you would probably be horrified.
#there is so much abandonware just...out there being used and carefully maintained#because nothing quite replicates the functionality
pride on tumblr is so fun!!!11!!! the heart turns into a rainbow when you hit the like button 😆😆😆 the tumblr staff and algorithm continues to be exceedingly transphobic and especially transmisogynistic. trans women are getting banned left and right for merely existing. please don’t let another version of rainbow capitalism distract you
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Boiled peanuts at this point is a fashion statement
So I was thinking about stakes and scale in story-telling and something that I realized is how well Slay The Princess weaponizes the idea of scale while staying true to its own ideas. The Narrator tells you, plain and simple, "if you don't, it will be the end of the world" so the stakes of the story is already sky high in the start of chapter 1. When it comes to scale in story telling a pretty common piece of advice you'll hear is "Dont go to big becuase it is difficult for the audience to visualise and understand a world-ending threat as compared to someone loosing their family" Slay The Princess looked at that advice and said "Understood, what if that's what I want". The game is making it easier for the player to make foolish decisions because it's hard for the player to grasp the concequnces of thier actions. And I think that is very cleaver
