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'End of the Internet' and the 'Done Percentile Ruler'

Contrary to popular beliefs, there is more than one 'END' of the internet. It is not a particular thing, it does not follow a specific theme, and it will not follow preconceived notions - rhetorical, sequential, or theoretical. Like a table's flat surface, the Internet has several End-points, interconnected to form the very edges of belief and understanding, yet individual in experience. Reaching one of these Ends, even if beside an End previously encountered, will resemble nothing experienced before. These Ends follow the rules of perspective and influence: The slightest adjustment of data, such as where your point of origin was on the 'table' of the Internet, can drastically change the outcome and atmospheric value to an absolute, incomparable point. Further confusing these popular beliefs is the fact that the 'End' of the Internet - that is, the destination where no further forward movement can be made and all are encouraged to turn and retreat from these maddening edges - is difficult to locate. There are many misconceptions as to WHERE any End can be found. And lines are made in the safety-first notion that any further involvement may cause you to reach the End's falling point prematurely. However, these misconceptions are born from a lack of understanding of the many formulas of measurement. A specific form of measurement is the 'Done Percentile Ruler'. Though its creator is unknown, the daily users of tumblr claim this method as their own national form of measurement. The 'Done Percentile Ruler' is simple. The higher the percentage of Done a person is with a subject, the closer they are to an End of the Internet. These percentage to End ratios vary from fandom to fandom, but it must be noted that an individual being '100% Done' very rarely denotes that they have reached the 'End of the Internet'. Many studies have proven that 1000% done is far closer to an End. The phrases 'So Done', 'Get Out', 'Leave', and 'I Can't' also fall within these percentiles and are considered milestones for tumblr users. Using these milestones as reference, it is agreed that the phrase 'Bye', found at the 1000%+ range of Done truly denotes where, in full fact, does the Internet End. Please note that when reaching any of these Ends, it is required that you turn back. This is not a matter of opinion and cannot be contended with.

#tumblr #You've reached the end of the internet #Turn Back

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HOLY SHIT GUYS

(go visit this fucking town, oh my god.)

carebewear

I am going to talk about this town for a minute because i sincerely appreciate the effort this person put into making their dream town genuinely creepy as fuck. Feel free to add a readmore when reblogging, i just have no clue how to do that myself without fucking it all up

So first and foremost, the town is set up very very very particularly, so that you have to move through it in a certain way. Note the map:

which only has one bridge, which means that you see the little “story" that our mayor has set up for us exactly in the order she wants you to. You start at the tree in the center of town, and the first house you come upon looks like this:

The lights are on and there are flowers fucking everywhere and generally it looks pretty nice. And on the inside…

we appear to have a family celebrating a birthday party with cake and a present. Note the dresser blocking the way to the back room. Also note that the middle mannequin is wearing the same clothes as the mayor of this town.

Speaking of the mayor, she says different things depending on where you are in the “story". At this point, she says "おかあさん　だいすき", which translates to “I love mom".

And then there’s the second floor of the first house

which let’s be honest would be sort of creepy even if we didn’t come to this town expecting it to be creepy and even if hypno music wasn’t playing on the boombox in the corner, which it was.

So you leave this house and you cross the bridge up in the corner by the waterfall, and suddenly you’re faced with this fucking maze of bushes and holes and pitfall traps that is more annoying than it is difficult. Also Re-Tail is closed, and the message informing you of this is a bit eerie:

I don’t know if she even could change the message but it’s a nice touch

Also at this point, the mayor has changed her saying a bit if you speak to her

she’s still saying “I love mom", but she’s alternating hiragana and katakana every other syllable, which is something you just do not do in japanese especially not like this it’s sort of like if it was written in english as “I lOvE mOm"

So anyway the second customized house you come across has this on it’s ground floor

(you can’t get past that point right there there’s something on the ground blocking you jk according to tumblr user ironyfilleddonut you can in fact get past and to the back room just by shuffling through. the backroom contains creepy dolls and eyes on the walls, apparently)

and this on the second floor

i honestly have no fucking clue what she is trying to say with this

There’s also a basement, but i forgot to screen cap it

So after the second house you move on from the maze and it’s basically this dead area and the mayor is talking like this

which is obviously fucked up you don’t need to know anything about japanese to understand this one

and then you move onto the third house which is basically a shack, and the inside of it is summed up in those 7 pictures in the middle of the photoset. Though I think it’s worth mentioning that in the bookcase room where you first walk in, you can here a radio screeching from where it’s hidden behind some bookcases in the back, and that toy you can see in the corner of the shelves in the third picture in the photoset is creaking

Finally we have the last house on our path through this fucking town, and you walk in and…

Mayor McCreep herself is there (and speaking in complete gibberish as in the first shot in the photoset), but you can also see that it’s the exact same house as the very first house, only shit is thrown everywhere and the lights are out and the tv is static-y and also the dresser has been moved let’s see what’s in that back room?

well. okay then.

but of course we need to check out the upstairs too and…

it’s ALSO exactly like the second floor of the first house, except there’s an axe in front of the dolly, the paintings are blacked out in Don’t-Hug-Me-I’m-Scared style, and all of the other toys except dolly are facing the wall instead of the middle of the room.

You would think this would be the end of it, but if you look back at the map, you see that little beach area that you can’t get to without a wet suit? There’s a grave yard there. And our lovely mayor must have wanted us to be able to get there, because i dug up a wet suit back in the maze part of town, which i’ve been wearing in all of these screenshots because i went back and took most of them after i found it.

So you swim across and go to the grave yard and there are three spots where you can dig shit up. So what’s buried in the creepy little grave yard on the beach?

WHOA 2SPOOKY BET U WEREN’T EXPECTING THAT

but there’s also a dolly buried to the left of that skeleton, and a time capsule buried to the right (which the game made me put back right after i dug it up so i couldn’t see what was inside of it. i’ll bet she went to a lot of trouble to write out some long creepy letter to put in there and it makes me sad that no one will ever see it besides her)

So finally I’m done exploring, I take all the screenshots I need and go back to the middle of town to go back home, and i notice a present by the bed which was there the whole time and i was probably supposed to pick up first, but this being my first time using this dream town thing I kind of over looked it because i thought it was just something that was always there. So instead I end up picking it up last, and what’s in it?

r u fucking kidding me right now

So in conclusion, the amount of work that went into making this fucking town must have been completely staggering, and I give serious props to Ms アイカ for creating a town and a story that was actually pretty fucking terrifying, even if it was a bit cliche

but no, Luna, this fucking dream did not soothe my soul at all

P.S. the name she chose for her town, アイカ, can also be written as 哀歌, which according to my dictionary is the word for a lamenting song, like an elegy. So yeah. make of that what you will.

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true story

janemai-deactivated20220603

i started writing yelp reviews as my alter ego michael ching

cidergame

The same day fans told me they wanted CIDER for Wii-U, Nintendo proactively reached out and provided me with an overview of their basic set-up with indie devs (details of which I have to keep confidential). So after I read them and thought they looked great (something I can say), I went straight...

I used to time travel. Never more.

#Animal Crossing #New Leaf #ac:nl #time travel #video games #philosophy #Isabelle #Villager #cheating #comic

omocat

:’) <3

omocat

i like… forgot i did this

The Gamer that Forgot they bought a Game

Based on: The Dog that Forgot he ate his Bone: [link] (by kc green) ... I've got a huge backlog of games.

#video games #gamer #kc green #gunshow comics #backlog #comic #games #i'll make love to you #like you want me to #and i'll hold you tight #baby all through the night

sailorswayze

the only valentines stuff i wanna draw relates to street fighter

skullshivers

i dont want to see any doctor who comments on this

you know why?

because this statue is beautiful. its supposed to symbolize that the angel didnt want them to die. that it wasnt their time to pass on. i went to a local sculptor around my town and asked why most angels are depicted mouring over graves

he said it was because the person committed suicide and the angel said it wasnt their time yet, so they mourned.

and the amazing work on this… the hair.. wings.. arms.

its all amazing handiwork

and really whenever i see a statue of a nice beautiful angel on tumblr a bunch of doctor who’s go and spam it with gifs saying to stay away

i would like to touch one of these sort of statues

they look beautiful

tanknaka

the amount of people who have blatantly gone against what the OP requested them is fucking disgusting, and your “fandom” should be ashamed of itself.

what you’re doing is so fucking disrespectful. do you know who creates statues?? ARTISTS!!! WOAH!!! and everytime you make stupid warn out unfunny jokes about their hard work, you are being an asshole- ignoring their hard work and the reason behind it just to be a WHOVIAN XDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

it’s bad enough you do it on every fucking statue you see. doing it on one that you were specifically told not to just shows that you don’t care about anyone but yourself, you don’t appreciate the hard work and time of artists, you do not respect people’s desires and you do not value human lives, even after they have been taken.

grow the fuck up. this is a picture of a fucking graveyard.

show some damn fucking respect for someone other than your precious doctor.

amazingatheist

It’s a weeping angel. It’s impossible not to immediately associate it with Doctor Who—and just because someone says I’m “not allowed” to comment on something in a certain way doesn’t mean I have to respect that. I can comment on anything I want to in any way I want to because I’m an autonomous human being with my own individual feelings about things that may not conform to what others find appropriate.

And I personally don’t give a fuck about some hokey shit like an angel statue that’s weeping because “it wasn’t such and such’s time!” You know what? It’s never anyone’s time and it’s always everyone’s time. The whole view of life and death expressed here strikes me as antiquated and rooted in ignorance.

Yeah, it’s pretty as symbolism for a romantic view of the concept of death, but why is my turning it into a symbol of one of the most famous antagonists of one of the most popular TV shows less valid? Because you’ve deemed it less serious or less worthy of concern? If so, then I’m sorry, but I must have missed the part where you explained why my behavior should reflect your thoughts and values instead of my own.

I guess what I’m really trying to say here is fuck you.

attentivedistraction-blog

Valid or not, there should be a sense of respect for those who have passed. And for those that respect their passing. It's similar to allowing a child to run and scream during a funeral - yes, they don't understand what's going on - yes, they don't know why everyone's so quiet -- but with or without knowledge of what is happening, what is happening is still happening. And in that ritual - traditional, antiquated, or obsolete - the respect of silence must be held. You are not forced to weep with those that have attended, you are not forced to think the same as them, and you are not forced to believe the same as them, but that silence must be held for respect. Ignorance is no excuse, but only a grace period. The child must be told to be quiet or must leave. Now, in relation to this, there are children who will call every cat the name of their family's cat. It's cute, adorable, but not really acceptable when they become older. It shows a lack of understanding if they do, sticking to only elementary comparisons rather than common ground categorizations that help with their mental growth and social understanding. It also makes them assume that all cats are like their cat - which, if praised, allows them to give the same treatment to other thought associations... which leads to prejudice, racism, sexism, and etc due to them assuming that all ______ are like ______ with disregard to the individual in front of them. Combine those two ideas and you have fans who will point at everything with a sense of childish disrespect. Yes, it does look like so-and-so, but to do so without regards to the original content and meaning is not only rude: but very childish. Yes, people shouldn't force you to believe the same as them, and people shouldn't say what you can and cannot think -- but to do as you please in spite of them or despite of them is immature and closed-minded in itself. So, sure, think of it with your Whovian fandom, that is fine. But please also respect the meaning of these statues - if not in their religious sense, then in their philosophical and psychological sense... and especially in their history. And please, respect the graves that are marked here, for their history and contribution to life, even if you have not experienced them yourself. That's not to say you should bow to them, but at least respect their existence -even if gone- and consider that first and foremost. It's similar to how Naruto fans will unknowingly mock the history and discipline of shinobi. Yes, they do so because they're ignorant of what actually occurred in that time and place and in that profession, but they push it so far as to make their standards and beliefs -one built purely from fictional fandom- stand on a higher standard than the real, physical one. [This is also similar to those who think that all martial artists make noises like Bruce Lee... which is unknowingly mocking to the history of these martial arts, which are associated with the history of entire kingdoms and cultures and family lines, which disrespects the thoughts and actions of people and individuals only for the childish entertainment of the ignorant masses.] One can respect the original standard and still be a fan, but most do not - and that's where this hatred against fans originally stems from. So yes, that's certainly fine that you associate that statue with Dr. Who lore. It's fine that when you find out that hidden ninja villages actually existed that you associate it with Naruto lore. But respect and know the original history and purpose more than the fictional. You're a grown adult [Or perhaps you wish to be respected like one, depending on those who read this]. Not all cats are named after your cat. You're smarter than that. You can compare all of them to your cat, but don't be disrespectful and honestly treat them all like how you treat your cat. Association helps with familiarization. But you should also know the object's own definition and purpose. Otherwise it's fine for others to associate you and your thoughts with every other crazed fan rather than a sensible individual that happens to just be a great fan.

I understand what you're trying to say. But you are also encouraging the negative aspects of a fandom by defending your position.

#fandom #respect