Luna

she/they if I do post it'll probably be stupidly niche content please do not follow me expecting consistent shit sometimes my hyperfixations will resurface and y'all will Suffer

[drarry]

Imagine being the gays at a pride event in 2004 living their lives when someone grabs the microphone and announces to the room that Ronald Reagan was pronounced dead. Can you even imagine the hype, the celebration, the pure elation

[drarry]

This is the Pride Month that It will happen. I feel it in my gay bones

[broken-horn-of-equius]

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

Like to charge

Reblog to cast

[auxphono]

Needed a clean graphic for a project, and figured while I was vectoring I would put sex and magic back in.

Happy Pride Month

[auxphono]

Reblogging this yearly for anyone who needs a very clean version <3 Happy Pride.

[drosophilamania]

Reblog to put the sex and magic back into pride

[orteil42]

given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that

[postnuclearophelia]

my parents were like im going to make a daughter that is so beyond help

[fairycosmos]

really annoying to have no energy no matter how much sleep you get

[poupon]

Wow thanks for the ingot man let me just inspect the quality real quick

Dude come on

[cuddly-copium]

… you know recently one of my best friends and I were talking and I tried to explain UD to them. Do you know what they said to me?

“Ashley! That’s the one you always draw, right?”

I had the AUDACITY to get defensive and NOW I’m like… I think they were onto something.

[thevulturesquadron]

text: [ “Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5000 years.” ]

[rudjedet]

And they're absolutely specifically pushing it, make no mistake. It's not just a matter of "it's there, it's convenient, so people are going to take the path of the least resistance", it is a legitimate and concerted effort on the part of these companies to get people to outsource all these things to their models.

They're preying on insecurities to do it. Yes, you can write an essay - but can you write a good essay, they ask you. Do you not want to improve your output? Do you not want people to think of you as competent and very clever? Why go through the mortifying process of failing and failing and failing until you succeed if you can just skip the "learning" part of doing, and simply generate a ready-made product?

I'm preaching to the choir here obviously but it's a concerning thing to witness nonetheless. My kid is 6 next week and I've been teaching her that failing at things is morally neutral and in fact necessary even before the advent of AI, but it's becoming ever more important that we teach the kids that criticism and failure and discomfort aren't necessarily bad things, but just a part of the growth process.

AI companies are heavily invested in making themselves relevant. They want people to believe they can't do the things they have done unaided before and to make them become reliant on the AI models, so the AI models' existence is artificially justified.

[confoundedluna]

had a chance to sleep and reset my brain so here's more thoughts on Until Dawn 2 than the tags from yesterday

in general, I dislike the idea of a sequel to the game. I know the original always had the shot of Josh turned at the end should that have happened to him (and i maintain that was the 'canon' outcome for him), but I don't think a sequel was ever going to live up to the lightning in a bottle that UD was, and there's a reason they didn't do anything with it for a decade (plus I doubt they could get a lot of the actors back tbh)

that being said, I would be able to tolerate a sequel, DPA style, if it did a couple things:

Completely different setting entirely removed from the original game and its story, besides like. same wider universe connecting them

Completely new cast of characters, with at most brief reference or cameo of past characters that has no impact on the new plot

and those things are things that I Can see in the trailer for the new game - the island setting, the new cast of teens/young adults to kill off, the ghost hunter set-up, and as long as the graphics and animation can improve a bit in the year or so they have until release - we all remember how the UD remake looked when it was first revealed - and the story is decent, i would be. Fine? with the sequel existing

but they had to have the movie and the remake's end credit scene.

Dr Hill.

he's this glaring shadow hanging over the whole thing, and it has soured the sequel entirely from the very beginning for me.

this interpretation of Hill Really feels like someone watched a speedrun of the game that ignored all clues while playing, and ignored the context of the therapy sessions, and figured Hill really was just a big scary entity haunting Josh

I was fine with the UD movie when it was announced, excited even, but after watching it, I can only tolerate it when picturing it as entirely removed from the IP as a whole. because they just Had to have the Dr Hill connection. and the game remake just Had to have that Sam credit scene.

I'll be completely honest, I don't even remember what Dr Hill's movie motivation was - I feel like it was studying something with the time loop? - but it made Zero sense in the context of who Dr Hill was in the original game. which was him being a literal hallucination. the Hill we see in UD is Not the real person. we only ever see the real Hill through Clue 27 of the Mystery Man clueline, Josh's Cellphone. the transcript for those messages is this:

Messages

Dr. Hill

Tue, Jan 13, 09:47 AM

Dr. Hill: Hi Josh, it's Alan. I hope you don't mind me texting you, but this is important. I got your email. I don't think that your plan is going to help. I think you need to stop what you're doing and come to see me.

Dr. Hill: Please, pick up your phone. I'm getting worried.

Josh: LEAVE ME ALONE

Dr. Hill: Are you still taking your meds?

Josh: I'm fine

Dr. Hill: It's very dangerous to stop taking your drugs mid course Josh.

Dr. Hill: Contact my office to make an appointment, please.

Dr. Hill: Josh?

Dr. Hill: Josh, please respond.

The only other mention of him is Clue 30, the Psychiatric Report, which includes this:

After 2 weeks, patient's symptoms and mood were greatly improved.

Discharged on 16th May after final consultation proved satisfactory.

Dr. Alan Hill

It also includes the date Josh had begun meeting with Dr Hill - the end of 2013, meaning he'd been with him for a little over a year by the main events of UD in February 2015.

I suppose you Could make an argument from this stuff that Hill didn't really do anything to stop Josh, as the messages are dated a little less than a month before the events of the game, and that Could lead to an interpretation of him studying Josh and using him for his own gain, but there is so little to support that take besides the other entries into the franchise, and also really feels like it detracts from Josh's role in the story, if his plan becomes Dr Hill's doing. Hill is a manifestation of all of Josh's fears, insecurities, pain and guilt. he's a filter for Josh to direct those ideas and feelings at himself - he blames himself for what happened to the twins, so everyone else must do too.

another thing is that making Hill the big villain of the movie and the one pulling the strings was so nonsensical because he doesn't Actually impact the story of the original. yes, the choices in the sessions change things in the game - scary things you see, certain dialogues and items, and decides Josh's fate in the remake. but that isn't actually Hill. that's the player, i.e. Josh. Hill isn't actually present like the Stranger or Hannah or the Psycho or the miners are to be a Real part of the events happening, if that makes sense.

this leads us to the Sam credit scene. in the context of the game, it makes Zero sense for this to happen. None. Hill is a hallucination that Josh is having because Josh was his patient, and he's having a breakdown where his own specific fears and struggles have manifested into Hill in his mind. unless Sam has become Hill's patient since the game's events, she shouldn't know who the guy is.

if we take the movie canon Hill, which it looks like we are, then Sam is his next target, and she's being dragged into the events of the sequel. the mark that appears on her arm in the credit scene has already shown up in the trailer for UD2 from the looks of it:

the scene with Hill in the trailer also has the same lighting as the credit scene, that pink-red glow.

and I definitely hate this direction, because there's no way with all of the new characters that Sam gets enough time to explain both what events of the first game have been made canon for this (i'm assuming sole survivor, with maybe Josh surviving, though that opens the can of worms that Chris also Has to live for Josh to be redeemed) and how her character is Now, years later and called to the events of this game for Whatever reason.

I've been writing way too long so to sum it up - I think trying to connect the games with the movie interpretation of Dr Hill is a massive disservice to the original game, and to the sequel as well. for those that know who Hill was before, the game is already soured with them taking this direction that makes no sense. for those that didn't, it forces a connection to the other game that is already a Big hurdle for this sequel to succeed in its own way.

in an attempt to be more positive, we really don't know anything about the game yet - none of the characters are full established yet, we've barely seen the story, and it's entirely possible that the villain we saw in the trailer is like the Psycho/The Stranger, and there'll be a more supernatural threat later in the game like Hannah and the miners. i'm going to remain skeptical until we see more, but i personally don't have high hopes.

[satoshi-mochida]

Until Dawn 2 announced for PS5 - Gematsu

Publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment and developer Firesprite have announced horror game sequel Until Dawn 2 for PlayStation 5.

Here is an overview of the game, via Sony Interactive Entertainment:

Ready to die for likes? Join a team of ambitious ghost hunters as they chase their next viral hit on a remote island haunted by a woman’s chilling story of demons and ghostly phenomena.

When the tale begins to manifest in terrifying ways, the group will have to fight their own fear—and anything else that gets in their way – to get off the island alive. Their lives are in your hands. Make every choice count.

Watch the announcement trailer below.

Announce Trailer

[aariol]

“Never Forget”

[greycharacter]

They just need, like, a traumatic experience to bond over.

[johannesviii]

Until Dawn Whumptober Except In August - 16/31 - Pinned down

Sick of me posting these things? too bad because we’re only halfway there

[squishranger]

man i just dont know why im so afraid all the time (<- has the disorder that makes you afraid all the time)

[cranberry-branflakes]

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[confoundedluna]

probably no one cares but choose a favourite of the seven films i watched today for my first tehnical day off of work this week:

Films in Order I Watched Them

Wild Child

Easy A

Megamind

Clue

Scout's Guide to the Apocalypse

Happy Death Day

Happy Death Day 2U

Voting ended onJun 4

I watched six yesterday but those weren't as varied so it seemed a bit boring to post them lmao (it was the three Austin Powers films, the two 2000s Charlie's Angels films and the reboot one from a few years ago)

[estro-boi]

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

[estro-boi]

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[macleod]

How to Use Torrents (with Pictures) - wikiHow

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bittorrent or utorrent.