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Actual bullshit tbh. Where the fuck were you when carol was carrying your baby around the prison all day long, making her a cot out of a cardboard box, and making sure she was fed? How about when she agonised over Lori's upcoming labour and used walkers to practise doing c sections so that she'd be able to ensure Judith was delivered safe into this world? Idk but you WEREN'T WITH JUDITH (or lori).

Literally Karen and David WHO? She did that shit to protect the people she loved and that included Judith.

You literally left HER child alone and she died. Everything carol does after that is because of that. Her literal whole entire survival hinged on keeping the people that she loved alive. She wasn't gonna do shit to hurt Judith. There are 4839397 other people she'd have sacrificed to keep Judith alive. Two of them were karen and david.

Absolutely insane behaviour to accuse her of being dangerous to his children. The actual fuck?

In retrospect, he owed her a bigger apology.

Women have to endure it, fight it, survive it—in the movies and in real life.

They are at risk of attack from real-life monsters.

In America, a woman is assaulted every nine seconds.

Horror films [and horror TV] help explore these fears and imagine what it would be like to conquer them.

Women need to see themselves fighting monsters.  That’s part of how we figure out our stories.

But we also need to see ourselves behind-the-scenes, creating and writing and directing.

We need to tell our stories, too."

These new writers don't seem to know the characters and I preferred the stories and scripts in the flagship to whatever they are in the spinoff. But I've seen you say before that changes need to be people who haven't been involved before. What do you think?

It is the way to go as long as Norman, Gimple, and Greg Nicotero aren’t the ones hiring the new showrunner. On the contrary, the show needs someone they can’t push around, who has watched the flagship show, can write an exciting external plot, understands Daryl’s and Carol’s shared and individual arcs, values Melissa’s input, and respects the fans. And yes, this person exists.

“Creative Content Officer” is a chunky in-between title which lets Gimple easily abuse his powers because it’s not a ‘real’ position. The hierarchy should be “other morons” -> showrunner (Zabel) -> studio execs, with a CC to Gimple as CCO, but I don’t think that’s what’s happening. Kang said Gimple rolled up his sleeves and ‘helped’ out during S11 and there have been various mentions by both Gimple himself and others in regard to the spinoff that he’s involved on the creative side.

The chain of command, if you will, is that an exec (who handles hour-long drama, scripted programming, or whatever the categories are at that specific studio) oversees the show on behalf of the studio. This is the person the showrunner answers to and under normal circumstances, all communication to/from the studio is filtered through the showrunner to the rest of the production on a need to know basis. Being CCO is a regular office admin job where Gimple should oversee that the lore of the universe is intact across shows, etc. It sorts in under the exec in charge of programming and there shouldn’t be any involvement in the practical running of the shows. It's a middle management position where he should be developing that reality TV dog show and pitch ideas for TWDU programming to the actual studio execs.

procrastinator

waffling persistence terminator

where's my trophy

I'm so lonely

yes I would love a return to the old ways.

no that isn't something staff have control over, it's a systemic issue with puritanical groups intentionally strangling online infrastructure to make adult content impossible to platform.

no that doesn't mean the ban was value neutral and I will fucking kill you with my mind if you start going on about how 'it just meant all the annoying people left'

sex workers left, and so did the high spending customers who made tumblr a viable platform for a lot of other small creators

a lot of sex educators and queer outreach groups also left, and nobody seems to remember that they were a huge part of the landscape here

you have to take the eradication of sexual content from online spaces seriously as an issue that affects more than whether you personally can post catgirl balls on one specific platform

AVOID HEAT STRESS

If you have a laptop DO NOT use it on a soft surface like a pillow or on a blanket, it’ll block the vents on your computer and make it get really fucking hot inside.

If you have a desktop you gotta open it up and blow out the dust sometimes.

If you are moving your laptop in a bag turn the laptop off. Don’t put it to sleep, don’t just shut the screen, turn it off, because otherwise it’s in the bag generating heat and there’s nowhere for the heat to go in the bag. OFF. Not sleep. OFF.

DO NOT DROP

Okay I know that should be obvious but drop damage to your hard drive is bad bad news. Be as careful as you can to set your computer gently on flat surfaces; don’t leave it hanging out on a bed where it can get knocked off, don’t set it on the roof of your car. And yes, just dropping it a couple inches can kill your hard drive or totally shatter your screen.

DON’T PUT SHIT ON YOUR KEYBOARD

Look I’ve seen four people ruin their laptops because they had a pen on the keyboard and closed the laptop and it fucked up the screen and the keyboard and it sucks so much and you feel awful after it happens because it’s so avoidable just don’t put things on your keyboard and always check that your laptop is clear before you close it.

PROTECT YOUR PORTS ON YOUR LAPTOP

You’ve only got one power jack and a limited number of other inputs on your computer and if they detach from the motherboard you’re fucked. USB ports get damaged because people use them a lot and eventually it weakens the connection and then they just stop working and it sucks. You can get around this with USB ports by using a USB hub to connect things like your keyboard and mouse.

For your power plug you just gotta be careful. Avoid tripping over the cord at all costs, don’t yank the plug out of the computer. It will SUCK VERY MUCH A LOT if you have to buy a new computer because the power port lost contact with the motherboard.

Don’t move your computer with things plugged into it. Take the power cord off before you put your laptop in the bag, take out the USB mouse dongle, do not travel with little nubby bits sticking out of your computer that can easily get caught or get tweaked or snap off inside of the thing.

(I really can’t emphasize enough that most of the “it will cost more than it’s worth to fix this” laptops I see are because of USB ports and power jacks. People don’t seem to know that this isn’t something that can be fixed easily; a broken power jack is a “remove the motherboard and resoldier components” job, not a “plug a new one in in fifteen minutes” job and most computer repair shops aren’t going to solder things for you and if they DO it’s going to be very expensive)

RESTART YOUR SHIT AT LEAST ONCE A MONTH AND JUST LET THE FUCKING UPDATES RUN

You should probably restart more than once a month but whatever. This is actually something that I consider part of reducing heat stress because when your processor is straining to keep up with all the background bullshit that’s running from a program you opened three weeks ago it’s going to use up resources and get hot and look just restart it once in a while.

Also the updates are almost always okay and safe and generally running updates is a good and secure thing to do (though maybe follow a blog dedicated to the OS you run because if there IS a problem with the updates that blog will probably talk about it before the update gets forced on your computer)

ANTIVIRUS BULLSHIT

Yes you should probably be running an antivirus.

Sophos is free and it’s fine. But don’t pay for it - if you’re using Sophos use the free version.

If you’re looking for something paid and a little more comprehensive I recommend ESET - get the cheap version, renewals cost less than the initial purchase, and feel free to get a multi-year version, the credentials follow your email not the computer so if your computer dies before your license expires you can install the license on a new computer.

DO NOT INSTALL NORTON OR MCAFEE THEY ARE EXPENSIVE BULLSHIT. Kaspersky is whatever. It’s less bullshit than Norton or McAfee but not as good as ESET for about the same cost.

If you think you’ve got a virus run the free version of Malwarebytes and get your shit cleaned.

KEEP LIQUIDS THE FUCK AWAY FROM YOUR COMPUTER

Again this should be obvious and yet. But seriously, just make a rule for yourself that drinks aren’t allowed on the same table as your computer and you’ll save yourself a lot of headaches.

PLUG YOUR COMPUTER INTO A UPS

Okay I fucking hate amazon but here’s a thing you should be using, just search the rest of the internet for “surge protector/UPS” and you’ll find something that isn’t from amazon - APC is a solid brand for this.

Basically you want a fat surge protector that has a little bit of a battery backup and you want to plug your computer (desktop OR laptop) into that instead of into the wall. The benefit of this is twofold:

1) if there’s a power surge the UPS will prevent your computer’s power supply from getting fried and possibly frying parts of your motherboard

2) if there’s a power outage and you’re *at* your computer you’ll have enough time to save what you’re working on before your computer loses power (like, you’ll maybe only have a minute or two on a small UPS but that’s still time to hit CTRL+S and keep from losing work)

At a bare, bare minimum your computer should be plugged into a surge protector but NOT directly into the wall.

BACK YOUR SHIT UP

[we interrupt this yelling for me to tell you that Western Digital has apparently released their new My Passport line and I’m obligated to inform you that you can get a 2.5″ USB 3.0 backup drive with FIVE FUCKING TERABYTES OF STORAGE for $130. Or you can get 4TB for $93. Or you can get 1TB for $53. basically what I’m saying is that it is not only cheap computer season it is also cheap hard drive season.]

[also if you’re getting a backup drive get western digital not seagate seagate fucking sucks and has a much higher failure rate]

Uh, okay, anyway - Do an image backup of your computer every once in a while so that if you get infected or your hard drive dies or whatever you can just restore from backup and move on like nothing happened.

HERE’S HOW TO DO AN IMAGE BACKUP.

SAVE YOURSELF THE WEAR AND TEAR

You know what is cheap? USB Keyboards and USB mice. You know what is not cheap? Fixing the touchpad on a laptop or replacing a laptop keyboard.

Get yourself a USB hub, a USB Keyboard and a USB Mouse (wired or wireless, doesn’t matter) and if you’re using your laptop at home plug *that* into your computer.

Also if your keyboard on your laptop breaks it’s fine just to use a USB keyboard instead I promise; if the screen breaks it’s also usually cheaper and easier to get a used or inexpensive monitor than it is to replace the screen. Your laptop is basically just a very small version of whatever bullshit is going on inside a desktop, if the peripherals break but the core components are fine you can just use it like a desktop.

Unless it’s a piece of shit that doesn’t have any USB ports or video out in which case you got ripped off, friend, demand functionality in your devices I’m sorry.

There is a certain type of newer laptop that doesn’t have vents. (I’m writing this on such a laptop.) They still have a heat sink, though, and therefore they shouldn’t be placed on a soft surface either, especially not insulating material such as, you guessed it, a blanket or pillow.

If your system offers both “sleep” and “hibernate”, don’t use “sleep”. As explained above, a “sleeping” computer is still running and therefore both vulnerable and generating heat. “Hibernate”, on the other hand, essentially means that the computer stores the current state of its memory on the harddisk and then switches itself off; really, truly off. When you turn it back on, it’ll load the saved memory state directly after booting. (When you “wake it up” from “sleep”, it doesn’t have to boot because it’s still on!) So, hibernation is safe, sleep is not. They sort of look alike, but don’t confuse them. (If your computer has an LED somewhere that’s on when it’s running, this LED is likely to blink when the computer is “asleep”, but it will be off when the computer is off or hibernating. But if in doubt, just turn the whole thing off rather than risk confusing sleep with hibernation and accidentally damaging something.)

It’s still a good idea to reboot every now and then, though, to free up any memory that’s still, how do I put this, entangled in some process that stopped running long ago, that sort of thing. Also, apparently something something software updates. (I’m running Linux; I’m not really sure what’s with those ominous Windows updates I keep hearing about. “Patch Tuesday”? “Exploit Wednesday”? *shrug* But apparently rebooting your system every now and then is important for these too. Me, I’m getting a system notification whenever an update for something is available, and it tells me whether or not the update is something security-related, and after the update (which I can start at my own convenience, but with security-relevant things “my convenience” should be sooner rather than later, of course) it tells me whether the changes will take effect right away or only after the next reboot. And then I get to decide whether to reboot right away or to wait.)

It’s not just drinks (and other liquids such as soup or, idk, a watering can) that you should keep away from your computer; they just present the most obvious and immediate danger. Avoid eating solids while working at the computer too, because no matter how careful you are, crumbs will find their way into the keyboard. At the very least, don’t eat over your keyboard! Also, pets. There are usually several feet, at least, between my laptop and any of my guinea pigs, but I still find piggy hair every time I clean my keyboard. That stuff gets everywhere.

Vacuuming the keyboard works to an extent. So does taking apart your keyboard in order to clean it bit by bit, but while this is much more effective, it’s also much more complicated and fiddly. If you feel sufficiently confident (or if you have an old keyboard on which you can practice), there are instructional videos available. I’ve done it a few times. But it’s really more of an activity for the “if you haven’t voided the warranty you’re not using it right” crowd, so most users will (and should) never do it.

About restarting things: I’m actually sort of glad that my current laptop is on the small side (and so is its memory). I mean, sure, it’s not the most convenient thing in the world, but it forces me to close the larger applications every now and then (Firefox) or even to leave them unopened most of the time unless I’m actively using them (Teams, LibreOffice). But even if your computer has a much (MUCH) larger memory than mine, it’s a really good idea to not keep stuff running continuously. If you need to keep your computer running overnight for some reason? Close everything except for the thing that’s the reason why the computer has to be running overnight (the download software, the compiler, the upgrade/installation software, whatever).

I’m still leery of Western Digital, because some years ago, when I was looking at external hard drives, theirs came with built-in spyware. I don’t know if they still do, and I also don’t know if a quick disk wipe and reformat would’ve got rid of the spyware. But in any case, I get my terabytes where they’re cheapest and where they’re not Western Digital (because I carry a grudge), and it’s really nice how affordable larger disk sizes are getting. Especially considering that when I was a teenager, an internal hard drive was considered large if it had several hundred megabytes. And nowadays we have terabyte-sized harddisks that working-class people can afford!

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