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computers x geekery

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Item: The Great Mole Rarity: ✦ Uncommon

Best video game underground level?

Feed your dashboard by answering my question, blogger.

World 1-2 of Super Mario Bros, of course!

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Item: The Map Rarity: ✦ Uncommon

What is the most beautiful world you've played on?

Feed your dashboard by answering my question, blogger.

Skyrim at night. Iconic.

[computronus]

My big toe doesn't have a gender. If I say that I stubbed it, it's an "it" not a "he", even though I'm a "he". Same goes for my liver, and my heart, and even my brain. They are each an "it". Yet, all put together, all of a sudden they collectively are "he".

That's interesting. Either there's some sort of transition there, some point when the collection of meat bits becomes gendered ... or else when we pick a gender for a person - or when that person declares a gender - we're describing something that doesn't relate at all to their physical form.

Another gruesome take. If I lose a toe, I'm still a "he". You could imagine someone losing lots of pieces of their body but keeping their gender. Would there be some point when they lose it? Is there some minimum collection of physical pieces required to assign a gender to a person? Or, again, is gender unrelated to any of that?

[helen-art]

I just made a set of animations with IDW ravage :)

[computronus]

It's time for Hasbro to create a new generation of Transformers.

I got back into collecting back when Combiner Wars came out, and it's been a really good run since then, but it's run out of steam for me. Mostly we're getting:

deep cut characters that hardly anyone cares about

versions of characters that were merely planned in the past but scrapped

most of all, retreads of the same characters ... some of which we already got two or three years ago

(The Primes are interesting enough at least, but even they come from lore that's around a decade old, and some of them aren't impressive enough to earn the affix Prime.)

They've gone all in on form over function. A figure's shape has to be painfully faithful to either that toy's original form or their animated form. Transformations are contorted to be subject to how the figure needs to look as a robot to fit a certain image.

This drives complexity in transformation, which taken far enough makes it downright unpleasant to do. I like to fiddle with figures, not spend fifteen minutes concentrating on making it a truck.

On top of all this is the excessive articulation, which increases complexity and paradoxically compromises form even further. Please let me not have ankle tilt if it makes playing with the thing more enjoyable. And maybe makes it cheaper, geez.

After all of that, figures now aren't particularly fun. No shooting missiles, no auto-transformations, no minicons ... not even evo-fusion, which was nothing anyway.

So what am I looking for? A reset, both in toys and characters. Call it G3 or whatever we might be on now. Start it off with a new set of personalities, with no Optimus Prime or Megatron anywhere, no recycled names at all. With no baggage weighing you down, design the toys without constraints from the past. Make them weird and goofy, and put gimmicks back into them so they are fit for use as playthings, so they are simply fun.

Sure, keep around the "classic" lines where you can feel safe and burp out another new Optimus Prime or Bumblebee. I've already got 'em, though, got a few of 'em, and no amount of nostalgia or double-jointed elbows is enticing me to get more.

[antifainternational]

“Members of Charlie Kirk’s organization spent two years aggressively stalking me, harassing and threatening me and my family, spreading lies about me, wasting my time and energy with a bogus lawsuit, attempting to end my academic career, and attempting to incite violence against me. They did similar things to hundreds of other academics who they saw as easy targets or obstructions to far-right goals. Kirk was not simply a guy with different views who liked to debate. He actively worked to try to destroy the lives of people like me. He lied to donors to keep the money flowing to his organization and he filled its leadership ranks with racists, misogynists, Islamophobes, and anti-LGBTQ extremists. He encouraged his young and impressionable followers to be cruel to vulnerable people. He taught young people that empathy is weakness and that laughing at people facing hardship and exclusion is cool. He treated the young murderer Kyle Rittenhouse as a hero and a celebrity that other young people should emulate. He supported racial profiling and the persecution of working-class migrants. He raised money for and publicized the most fascistic politicians pushing the most authoritarian policies. He added nothing of value to society. The world is worse for having had him in it.” - an academic targeted by Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA.

[computronus]

Whatcha gonna do, brother

When zombie Hulk Hogan

wants brains from you

[depsidase]

[500-moths-in-a-trenchcoat]

we're so back

[sabertoothwalrus]

for those who don’t remember, “mole interest” was an experiment I did 2 years ago because I wanted to test what causes tags to go trending on tumblr. My hypothesis was that all it takes is one (1) post blowing up in an established tag to make the entire tag trend.

I had randomly generated 2 words, which is where “mole interest” came from. I failed to consider that by generating a new tag, it wouldn’t have had enough posts already in it to prove what I now call “the mole interest effect”.

But now it does.

In 2023, we said “fuck it” a la mythbusters and ended up doing whatever it took to get #mole interest to trend. And it did. And it happened to be September 11th that day, and we managed to get #mole interest to trend ABOVE #9/11.

So, in the name of science, I ask you to reblog just this post. Let’s put the mole interest effect to the test.

[miggylol]

Spin the wheel. That's who's trying to kill you.

Spin the wheel again. That’s who’s trying to protect you.

(If you have zero idea about the name you got, spin until you see someone you recognize.)

Are you safe?

Absolutely not. I'm dead. 100% dead.

I might stay alive, but it'll be a really close thing.

I'll take some hits, for certain, but I should be okay in the end.

A few attacks might get through, but nothing concerning.

The attacker might be able to get in one lucky hit. If that.

I am the opposite of worried. I'm 100% safe.

…Look. I've tried picturing this. But I honestly don't know how to answer.

Voting ended onAug 18, 2025

(Six months ago, I did a version of this poll with about five hundred options on the spinner wheel. For this one, I more than doubled it.)

[maeamian]

If you're in the US military or National Guard, and are given an illegal or unconstitutional order, the GI Rights hotline [phone]) is there to help give you the support you need to do the right thing by refusing it. It would be good to think about this now before it becomes a live issue for you and it would be smart of you to memorize that number.

[maeamian]

You can reblog this without your thoughts about the US Military, btw, that's allowed.

[ceevee5]

[animatedamerican]

i'm in this picture and desperately want out of it

[xxscrabiesxx-deactivated2025062]

hey folks if you have an android phone: google shadow installed a "security app".

Android System SafetyCore - Apps on Google Play

Provides safety features for Android devices.

I had to go and delete it myself this morning.

[decemberwinter]

what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?

would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?