#doc rambles

I know it’s been a minute, but with the recent news that Automattic has laid off a portion of its workforce (including a sizable percent of tumblr's staff), it's a good time to have a quick chat about the future.

Now, as far as we know, tumblr isn't going anywhere just yet. No need to panic! However, I do recommend that you take into consideration a few things.

1: Backup your tumblr! Here's tumblr's official guide to doing so. It's always a good idea to have backups of your data and now is a great time to do so.

*I’ll also be including a handful of other links walking you guys through other backup methods at the end of this post. As I understand it, each of them have different pros and cons, and it might be a good idea to have more than one type of backup depending on what you want to save/how you’d like the backup to look/etc.

2: Have some place your mutuals/friends can find you! A carrd or linktree is a great way to list off anywhere you might find yourself on the internet. 

3: Once again, don't panic! We don’t know that anything is happening to tumblr anytime soon—it just doesn’t hurt to have a backup. Better to have a plan now instead of being blindsided later.

*The other backup methods I’ve been able to find:

—First off, someone put together a document with several backup methods & pros and cons for each. (I believe it originated from a tumblr post, but with search being the way it is I haven’t been able to track it down.) This goes over a lot, but I’m adding a few more links to this post in case they might be helpful too. 

—This post and this video were a good guide to the older “bbolli tumblr-utils backup for beginners” method mentioned in the doc (I used them during the ban in 2018 to make sure I had my main blog saved).

Does the game have flaws? Absolutely! As any game does! But I think that by writing it off as 'just the first FNAF game' we're not really appreciating the dedication and art that the game offers.

In my video script I specifically cover the main game mechanics and how they add to the overall atmosphere of the game. I think when discussing FNAF 1 a lot of people brush off the horror of the game down to just "the jumpscares" rather than taking a deeper look at it.

Do the jumpscares make the game scary? Yes, of course! But I think by boiling it down to just that it becomes unfair to the game itself.

For example, the cameras. Now, when approaching the game from a horror stand point, the cameras don't immediately jump out at me. I'm sure they might for someone else, but for me personally, they don't. When I look back at this game, I've come to realize that the cameras play a very active role in why I found the game so scary when I was younger. Not only do they heighten suspense, they also increase the fear factor and overall create a sense of vulnerability for the player.

This is just one of eight examples I can think of off the top of my head!

Nimona has always been Nimona

Yes that may sound obvious but here me out

Spoilers ahead btw

Anyways here a little PSA: If you want art done, do NOT

1) Copy-paste the same exact request into multiple artists' ask boxes

2) Send the request multiple times ((maybe once if you think it got eaten, but this person has sent me 3+ asks for just one request on multiple occasions))

3) Say "GIVE THIS TO ME NOW" or "I WANT THIS GIVE IT HERE" etc. You don’t need to be super formal or whatever but don’t come with all caps & a demand

4) DM the artist asking where the request is, spam in DMs, etc.

I'm probably gonna try to use this blog for art and maybe ramblings, maybe post sketches I make here too (cause I sure as hell don't do that on twitter enough) speaking of, I'm Drdocsir on twitter too (anywhere else I'm either that or Docshado)

but yeah, I'll try to post stuff