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Savv and Sander enjoy the morning
some old art revised, and god did I lose my whimsy
Sander in that one Animation meme, he really didn't take that well!
This is your sign to EXPERIMENT with your art!! Mix mediums or try new ones!! This one I did with watercolor and color pencils!
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A quick doodle I made of Sander in a barong tagalog,, maybe you guys should draw ur faves in ur ethnic clothing too idk probably,,
Let's appreciate some of the most iconic stupid faces Shishigumi ever made.
from left to right ; Hino, Miguel, Dolph and Jinma, Ibuki and Agata
Sander Dislyte my beloved... Could you do a little something where reader is first introduced to his secret pet cat? Maybe we find the cat on our own and Sander has to explain about the random cat in his office? Or steer it another direction if you prefer! Thank you for the open request box and writing for Sander!~
I’m ngl yall, dislyte has been stewing in the back of my head + I got alexa’s meta form and nyles and the designs are so good (but I wont lie getting them was a bit tedious...)
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Your hearing had improved ever since your divine powers had manifested. And if you focused enough, you could even hear someone's thoughts, and thus, be able to counter many sorts of attacks meant for you.
This, of course, made many members of the Shadow Decree wary of you and your intentions. Some had believed that if you had it your way, you could have easily taken control of the organization for your own whims and purpose. Did you really give off that sort of vibe?
Oh well, you didn't need the people who believed in such rumors or spread them around you anyway. You were unpleasantly surprised at how quickly your own colleagues would like to gossip so openly.
By now you were used to it. You rose up in ranks thanks to your loyalty and skill, not because of some misguided belief that you were pulling the strings behind the scenes.
The sky had begun to change from the late sun to a dusky sunset when you hear it. It's faint, so faint that even you must strain just slightly to hear it. Then you hear it again, so you carefully stand from the makeshift chair you've made out of a bucket, and slowly but steadily inch closer to the sound.
When you find the source, you cannot help but tilt your head to the side with a bit of confusion. It was a cat, while you looked at it perplexed, the feline simply licked one of its front paws all unbothered.
"Now where have you come from, little one?" You can't help but ask, one of your hands slowly reaches out, tentative in its movement. The cat sniffs at your fingers, before making its silent judgement and allowing you to scratched behind its ears. You can't help but smile at the action, as you speak once more, "I suppose this is a first, you haven't judged me."
The cat being a cat simply licks its other front paw. It rather relishes in the attention with how it pushes its soft head into your palm some more as if silently saying: Come on, less talking more head scratches.
You indulge the tiny thing, smiling as it begins to purr. That is when you hear the door leading onto the ceiling open as footsteps move hurriedly.
"Where could he be?" A familiar voice sounds rather impatient, and if you were to hazard a guess, even a little worried. The cat's eyes flicker in recognition but the orange-furred animal does not leave the head scratches and pats for anything.
You see Sander come into view and for a moment there is a pause. You, sitting on the roof while petting what you can only assume to be his cat, said cat, happily purring at the attention.
"Oh."
Oh is right.
"Is he yours?" You ask, surprised that the cat begins to paw at your legs, before crawling and then curling into a fluffy ball on your lap.
Sander's eyes flicker to the cat, then to your face, before your senior within the Shadow Decree nods. "I was... searching for him, as he seems to have escaped my office when I stepped out for the afternoon."
You nod in understanding. As not everyone within the organization was exactly morally upstanding and would have probably let the cat wander deep into the city if allowed.
"He's friendly," You chirp.
"Only to some," Comes Sander's reply as he joins you, sitting on the bucket you had claimed previously as a makeshift chair. You can't help but smile at that.
You do not realize how much time has passed, until the sunset has now become a starry sky. The city lights from below seemingly so far away despite their proximity. The cat still hadn't moved from its position on your lap.
Carefully, you pick up the cat, as you deposit him back into his owner's waiting arms. Sander adjusts his hold with practiced ease, making sure the cat is comfortable first and foremost.
"I would not be against you watching him again," Sander says before you can make your exit. "You could have allowed him to wander, but you did not."
You shrug, "I don't think I would have been alright with such a little guy getting lost."
Sander nods, but you can tell his eyes have a more appreciative look to them. "You have my thanks."
The cat yawns, before settling in his arms again, as you put your hands inside of your pockets.
"Have a good evening, Mr. Sander."
For a moment, you think that you see just the barest hint of a smile from the man as one of his hands scratches behind the cat's ears, "Good night."
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This is where I post Solatorobo translation stuff
Seven Children (information): https://imgur.com/a/XAA9w
Box Whistle Vow radio drama (radio drama) (recommended to watch only after reading the Red Data Children novels): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLznyMerGhdXtlu36RCWQsXfd3E-1MuJTW
Warm Memories (manga) ( recommended to read only after reading the Red Data Children novels): https://imgur.com/a/CJIbc
Ragdoll Elegy (novel): https://www.docdroid.net/U0sNMSE/solatorobo-ragdoll-elegy-english-translation-1.pdf
9071 Morning Sacrifice (novel): https://www.docdroid.net/XVTg8DR/solatorobo-9071-morning-sacrifice-1.pdf
Bitter Rain (novel): https://www.docdroid.net/jI1yies/solatorobo-bitter-rain.pdf
Forest of Healing (novel): https://www.docdroid.net/yi4ZO8g/solatorobo-forest-of-healing.pdf
Red Data Children light novel September 2010 Issue (novel) (1/3): https://www.docdroid.net/CLA4Gi0/solatorobo-red-data-children-september-2010-issue.pdf
Hiroshi Matsuyama Manga Gallery (manga): https://imgur.com/a/IozlV
Red Data Children light novel November 2010 (novel) (2/3): https://www.docdroid.net/yOOoI1g/solatorobo-red-data-children-november-2010-issue.pdf
Red Data Children light novel January 2011 Issue (novel) (3/3 Final): https://www.docdroid.net/aMf5uXJ/solatorobo-red-data-children-january-2011-issue-final.pdf
Black and White Borderline (novel): https://www.docdroid.net/KV7a0DT/solatorobo-black-and-white-borderline.pdf
Onward-Bon Voyage!- (novel) (recommended to read Black and White Borderline first): http://docdro.id/phnI6Jy
Reset Information (information): https://imgur.com/a/JYCgs
Overture ‘Movement 0′ (novel): http://docdro.id/7Q6Waij
Kadenz ~closing melody~ (novel) (recommended to read Onward-Bon Voyage!- first): https://www.docdroid.net/KihYlgT/solatorobo-kadenz-closing-melody.pdf
Shepherd Report (novel) (recommended to read Black and White Borderline first): https://www.docdroid.net/h98oltw/solatorobo-shepherd-report.pdf
Hospitality at Nippon (novel): http://docdro.id/Qmu5Zty
A Captain’s Final Adventure (novel): http://docdro.id/jfsY5sF
From Now On, an Important Time to Live (novel) (probably not canon): http://docdro.id/jlzAHSg
Summer at Shepherd Academy (non-canon novel): http://docdro.id/sYNK6CJ
Solatorobo Trivia (information): http://docdro.id/qufiWHH
Tail Concerto: After That Concerto (novel): http://docdro.id/iQyzZI5
Solatorobo: Double-Edged Sword (probably not canon): https://www.docdroid.net/xEcnZJ5/solatorobo-double-edged-sword.pdf
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Three times for charm, or something like that. Get your shit checked out, save your life.
There are a lot of really dog shit things in the world of tech that can be solved with a bit of time, some stubborn googling and maybe some special hardware and piracy is only the tip of the iceberg.
Printers are notorious for claiming they’re out of ink when they haven’t come close to the suggested number of prints, and their cartridges literally still have ink in them. So after a bit of googling I found out how to ‘reset’ a cartridges automatic stopping system (its literally 1 physical wheel on the cartridge that you gotta turn back). The only downside is that I don’t get a digital ink monitor, but since it told me it was empty when still half full, I don’t mind.
Like, you can just jiggle with some shit and solve one of the biggest money making scams in the post-industrial world and I don’t think people realise its that easy.
Or, like, repairing your own technology. A few months ago, I swapped out my sister’s laptop screen. Did it myself, I removed maybe 4 screws, no vital parts were exposed and it cost me $40. I even got a choice of matte or glossy.
My point is, any walls that capitalist technology presents you with will be a false one. And one already broken by a dedicated community of interesting people working hard for free to break down that wall.
kids these days will be all “be gay do crime” and dont even know how to watch a cartoon without paying for it smh
IN FAIRNESS
piracy was definitely leagues easier a decade or so ago when thepiratebay was functional, megaupload was still running, and YouTube and Google made only the most cursory attempts to block copyright content. like let’s not pretend that the internet hasn’t got a lot more corporatised in the past decade or so. piracy is still possible and you can and should do it but it’s a LOT harder to do safely and reliably than it was.
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Sorry, this is all wrong.
1) ThePirateBay is still functional. (It’s not the same pirate bay that it was back in the day, but let’s not get into Theseus’ ship territory. It’s still here and it still works, that’s all that matters.) There are plenty of torrent sites around, more than there were 10 years ago – although overall traffic has plummeted. Now as then, it’s a whack-a-mole game.
2) Why was it “leagues easier” a decade ago? Some countries, not all (not north America, for example), now mandate ISP blocking of torrent sites, but this new complication can be bypassed with one (1) step: a google duckduckgo search for proxies. No government agency or ISP can possibly keep up with proxies, it’s yet another whack-a-mole game. So yes, it was technically easier before, but I don’t see “leagues” anywhere.
3) It was safer before? Are you shitting me? Have you lot forgotten that the legal departments of MPAA and RIAA sued torrent sharers (not even uploaders) and asked for millions of dollars for damages? AND GOT THEM? (By which I mean they didn’t actually get millions since the people they sued didn’t have any, but said people were convicted and ruined and that was the goal in the first place. It was a deeply amoral and cynical scare tactic.) Well they stopped doing that at some point, and focused on hunting P2P and torrent sites. Running a site is certainly less safe today. Using one, though? Depending on where you are, the ISP may be allowed to block you after repeated instances, and that’s it. You’re not getting in trouble with the law or into crippling debt. And either way there’s only a minuscule chance that any of this will come to pass, which becomes zero (0) with a VPN. (Safety of course depends on the country, and in some cases piracy is the least of your concerns. Let’s not get into that.)
4) Ten years ago there was no Sci-Hub, and Library Genesis was in its infancy. If today it’s harder to find PDFs on google, it is orders of magnitude easier and more reliable to find them elsewhere. People just have to unstick their minds from the notion that stuff is either on google or doesn’t exist at all. Geez.
5) P2P still exists. IRC (the sharing channels in particular, #bookz and the like) still exists. Torrenting functions like it always did. All these methods are exactly as easy to use as before, i.e. not necessarily a piece of cake, there’s a learning curve. But it’s the same learning curve it was 10 years ago.
6) So what have we lost? Only YouTube (meh, the film/tv quality was appalling anyway, and music is still there) and direct downloads (at least the permanent ones: there are plenty of them still around, but files expire and you need to keep track of what goes up when. So this goes beyond knowhow, it’s about internet communities. Let’s not get into that either, it’s a huge subject.) It’s a loss, sure, but I wouldn’t call it a terrible blow.
7) And in exchange for that loss, we got streaming sites. This is piracy, too, and it’s much much easier than torrents, and tons of people do it. Any “piracy has declined” narrative either implies that we’re excluding streaming from the discussion for some reason, or is flat out wrong. Ten years ago, grandpa couldn’t possibly torrent a film, and it’s debatable if he even knew how to open the file you helpfully sent him. Now, as long as someone has set up kodi or similar, grandpa can watch it on his tv and it just feels like cable.
8) On why torrents in particular have declined in recent years, see here. It’s a big subject and I didn’t cover all of it, but the main reason is that people had access to easier methods to get what they wanted (some legal and affordable, some illegal and free), so they didn’t need to learn how to torrent. Ergo, they never did. There’s more of course, and there’s definitely a cultural shift too, but that’s a very long story so let’s not get into it. The linked post also includes some thoughts on why torrents aren’t dead and doomed just yet, and ooh, I forgot a very important one: you can’t stream photoshop.
To summarise, internet piracy is NOT more difficult, unreliable, and unsafe today than it was 10 or 20 years ago. For reasons why people (young or otherwise) seem less versed in it, please look elsewhere. I have thoughts on that too, but this is already a very long post, so I’ll just leave you with the best kind of thought. I’ll leave you with a doubt:
ARE people less versed in piracy? Are they really? Or is it simply that 20 years ago, internet users were computer geeks by definition, whereas now everyone’s online? Perhaps the percentage of skilled pirates in the general population remains more or less the same, and the only thing that’s dropped is the percentage of skilled pirates to total internet users. I can’t be sure without statistical evidence, but it’s a possibility.
You can literally google “watch _____ free online” and find most movies but the third result just download Adblock or popup blocker and you’re golden it truly couldn’t be easier
I’ve been meaning to make a piracy masterpost for awhile and what better time than now?
Materpost: A curated Githup tutorial of links to more torrent sites, software, VPNs, uBlock origin filters, ect. Basically everything you could ever want starting out. Do be warned though it doesn’t appear to have been updated in awhile so a few of the links are dead.
GAMES:
Vimm’s Roms: NES era->ps3 era roms and emulators to play them. Has user ratings on games. Cons: slow download speeds.
NxBrew: Switch roms/game updates/dlc
nsw2u: More switch roms. Check here if nxbrew doesn’t have the game you’re looking for.
Hshop: 3ds games/updates/dlc. Very well organized and sorted by console region. Bonus ability to generate QR codes to scan with homebrew to begin download directly on your console.
Oldgamesdownload: Old 90’s-2000’s PC games and some gamecube games. Technically, all of the games here are abandon ware, meaning the original company/creator doesn’t sell nor make money from the games anymore period. If you’re into that.
Fitgirl repacks: Heavily compressed PC games, and other various consoles. Small downloads and faster speeds for the size of the games. Somewhat limited game selection.
Steam unlocked: Steam games with easy-to-use installers. Check here if fitgirl doesn’t have what you’re looking for.
Steam Underground: A user forum for piracy support, usually about installing cracked games. Does have some scattered PC game downloads.
Google doc of Skyrim SE creation club content.
Amiibo life: Amiibo bins, can be loaded with some homebrew to load in games without any external source, or, if you buy writable NFC cards, you can make your own free amiibos.
Books:
Library Genesis: a good all-in-one ebook finder. Has books, magazines, scientific papers, ect. Well organized and able to sort by Author, Genre, ect ect. Almost all books in .epub format
Calibre: Not piracy but a free software for reading said .epub files, and other ebook formats. Good for sorting your books.
Sci-Hub: Research papers, academic books, pdfs, ect. Helpful for collage students.
IT ebook: eBooks about learning programming languages.
audiobookbay: Audiobook downloads.
Booksonic: Audiobook streaming.
5e.tools: Dnd player’s manual, guide, ect.
Books on learning various languages.
Mangadex: Manga, Doujinshi.
Headspace sleep audio.
Various books and manuals.
Streaming:
ustvgo: Free streaming of live tv, has most US cable tv channels.
tutturu: Spiritual successor to Rabbit, allows you to stream your screen with friends.
Yes movies: Movies
Kimcartoon: Cartoons/animated movies
aniwatcher: Anime
animedao: Anime
Computer software:
getintopc: Wide selection of pc (mostly windows) software of all sorts, and different versions. Can personally vouch for the site, I’ve gotten Photoshop, Maya, and Sony Vegas from here over the years.
Other:
the eye: An archive of old roms, OS systems, roms (non nintendo), comics, books, ect, ect. Cons: No search function and slightly hard to navigate.
1337x.to: Torrent site for movies, shows, games, comics, ect.
ThePirateBay: The classic.
Recorded broadway musicals. Verying quality.
Finally someone actually posted links instead of just bitching or saying “it’s easy”
Ok just want to plug the eye a bit more considering I lost a few hours in their yesterday.
the eye has been up since 2017 and in the last four years have accumulated 140TB of data (according to their own reports). Part of their growth is just their own work, part of it is absorbing other archives/open directories that were having issues: I know rpg.rem.uz used to be its own archive - gave way to The Trove, which is having its own issues right now unfortunately… - but now most-all of their content can also just be found on the eye. Same with a few dozen other archives.
And they have ‘old roms, OS systems, roms (non nintendo), comics, books, ect, ect’, but massively more than you might think just based off how this sounds. Like…
They have it all.
If you want to try and homebrew alcohol, go check their stuff. If you want to try and read books that are out of print or otherwise in public domain (and some that aren’t yet in public domain), go check their stuff. If you want to run a campaign and can’t pay for expensive print tabletop books, go check their stuff. If you want to fuck off into the woods to live off the land (or research how that would work for a writing project), go check their stuff. If you’re trying to learn shit about drugs - any drugs, almost - go check their stuff.
Hell, if you want to go read what looks like literally every research paper on coronaviruses from 1968 up to Feb 2020, you can do that too!
As chickenmcnuggies said its a mess and a half to navigate through their collections, partially with how large it is and the fact quite a few folders were once whole other archives since absorbed by the eye…
But goddamn you can lose an afternoon just going through all the stuff they have.
Notable omissions on ebooks: Z-Library has a different collection than Libgen (and possibly larger? I tend to have more luck with weird stuff there); Anna’s Archive is a link aggregator with what seems to be a larger collection than either, albeit also a less easy to use one.
Notable omission on music: Firehawk52’s guide has plenty for learning how to download, but these days, I just use a cracked Spotify client.
fanfics are one of the best things that humanity has come up with. i fucking love reading stories about my favorite characters from people who have the same brainrot as me
Recall uses AI features "to take images of your active screen every few seconds."
I think every computer user needs to read this because holy fucking shit this is fucking horrible.
So Windows has a new feature incoming called Recall where your computer will first, monitor everything you do with screenshots every couple of seconds and "process that" with an AI.
Hey, errrr, fuck no? This isn't merely because AI is really energy intensive to the point that it causes environmental damage. This is because it's basically surveilling what you are doing on your fucking desktop.
This AI is not going to be on your desktop, like all AI, it's going to be done on another server, "in the cloud" to be precise, so all those data and screenshot? They're going to go off to Microsoft. Microsoft are going to be monitoring what you do on your own computer.
Now of course Microsoft are going to be all "oooh, it's okay, we'll keep your data safe". They won't. Let me just remind you that evidence given over from Facebook has been used to prosecute a mother and daughter for an "illegal abortion", Microsoft will likely do the same.
And before someone goes "durrr, nuthin' to fear, nuthin to hide", let me remind you that you can be doing completely legal and righteous acts and still have the police on your arse. Are you an activist? Don't even need to be a hackivist, you can just be very vocal about something concerning and have the fucking police on your arse. They did this with environmental protesters in the UK. The culture war against transgender people looks likely to be heading in a direction wherein people looking for information on transgender people or help transitioning will be tracked down too. You have plenty to hide from the government, including your opinions and ideas.
Again, look into backing up your shit and switching to Linux Mint or Ubuntu to get away from Microsoft doing this shit.
Steps to Disable or Uninstall 'Recall' in Windows 11 24H2
there are multiple options here depending on how comfortable you are digging into your computer's registry. You can either simply disable it surface level through settings or excise it entirely from the system registry