The reblogs and ramblings of an autistic Washingtonian. If anyone with a Skype account wants to chat with me, keep in mind that I won't use it very often, but I will welcome any invitations to talk on there. I also have a pretty irregular sleep schedule, so if I don't reply to your messages, don't panic, OK? I'll try to reply whenever I can. My birthday is on August 11 Skype: Abcormal Steam: coreyamurray
Here's the two by two table of Batmobiles! Yes, I made it in MS Paint.
One axis is either car or baby. The other is either the animal or baseball.
Yes, the two baseball ones come from different guest artist editions of Super Munchkin.
I've had this for years, but only today tried to find the source. I could still be wrong about this being the source, but click this and X out of the popup telling you to login to see the comic.
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The baby mobile of baseball bats is a photo I took because I have that version of Super Munchkin. The other is just a screenshot.
And finally, here's the animal car Batmobile image I used. I think I used this because the Lego Batman 1 Batmobile and the physical toy version are both designed after it.
The Princess Bride is such a funny book to read after ONLY seeing the movie. Like Goldman made up a fake author from a fake country and proceeded to write the book as an abridged version of what the fake author wrote... and then he proceeds to add in notes to the "abridged version" mentioning all the boring world building stuff he skipped because it was boring.
Like shout out to William Goldman, man really did make an entire book that is just "the cool scenes you thought of in your head" and then made up a fake author to abridge so he doesn't have to connect them.
I used to work at a used bookstore, and had a group of three teenage boys come in wanting the "Unabridged Version" of Princess Bride.
They would not believe that it was a narrative device and the unabridged version didn't exist. Said no author would credit someone else for their own writing, that was ridiculous, and was there a guy who knew about fantasy they could talk to?
I grabbed a coworker and left him to deal with it. Heard him explaining the concept of a pen name as I walked away.
One in an airport I overheard an Obnoxious Nerd Bro (you know the type) ask his friend if he’d read the unabridged Princess Bride, who said no. ONB then proceeded to talk about how he thought the unabridged version was actually better, because it included a lot of political background and intrigue cut from the abridged version. And then explain the subplots William Goldman cut. FOR TWENTY FUCKING MINUTES.
I, meanwhile, was in the corner texting every person I could think of who would be awake at 6:20 in the morning and trying to keep my head from exploding with RAGE.
Dude then went on to monologue on the collapse of the Roman Empire. I wish I were making this up.
Okay, so here’s the updated plans for fighting against youtube's new ai age policy and privacy violating rule (I believe in us!)
Plan 1. Black out and leave youtube/ youtube boycott (August 13 to the point where the policy is gone)
It’s a very simple plan, but this time we just leave until it’s fully reversed. That way YouTube doesn’t just ignore us and the original black out. We have to stand our ground and show them we aren’t going to give up. We have to last as long as possible and let their revenue drain until they concede or someone else comes in and makes another platform (that isn’t based on politics but the same ideas as the original YouTube)
Plus I would like to add some small extra things that will help with the blackout though. That being mass downloading YouTube content. Now this might be the easiest thing for certain people, but it’s something.
Mass downloading YouTube content can help in case there a couple of videos or channels you want to watch during the blackout.
(I use something called a ytdlp but there might be better options for you out there, there might even be built in ones in a web browser or two, just search around the place, you'll find it eventually)
Forget what I said about alternatives that block YouTube, avoid anything that even remotely connects to YouTube. If it connects to YouTube it still provides traffic and helps it out, we want to disconnect from it completely, don’t let it have a drop of traffic
Plan 2. Bugging the crap out of them.
Now since they have a mail box for us to use, that can be used for our advantage here. So here’s what we do, send them letters asking them to reverse the decision, that way they will be overwhelmed by letters that have to eventually give up. Now I don't want you guys to send out slurs, curses or whatever. I need you guys to be kind and critical. I want you to point everything wrong with this and why it is destined to fail and leave the company crumbling
In addition to these letters, if at all possible, I want you guys to include photos of comments made by other people (Twitter, tumblr, whatever) criticizing this and making it known that it’s not just you guys who are angry, but people all over too.
Now we can also include emails in this, but that might be harder than excepted, but in case you do want to send in a email, you can send it that way
I can't find any other way of sending them an email, but good to you if you do find it (though I would recommend a letter much more)
UPDATE, someone has pointed out that we should all send out our letters on a single day, Im taking around August 5th about a week before the thing actually rolls out and than maybe we’ll do another batch on the 8th just in case
Make sure you mass send a bunch of letters
WIP plan 3, legal bull
I wish I could say this plan was finished, but unfortunately, it is not at all. All we have to go for here to filing a complaint towards the FTC about this and or using what this user recommneds (though I can't fully say if it'll work or not)
This plan will be worked on as much as possible
I want everyone if they can to spread to outside of tumblr, talk about it on twitter, facebook, blusky, youtube itself, this plan has to spread to as much people as possible.
I believe we can do our best and shine a light through these horrible times, we can be light in the darkness that will help others shine a burn a hole in this horrible system of censorship
I believe in every last one of you, I believe you can do good and spread good, because in your hearts, you are good
If you have any other ideas, let me know, cause i know more minds are better than one.
Good luck!
Update! We have a discord server now! We will be planning, spreading news and of course sharing ways to deal with YouTube’s ID policy
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Okay so bad news for everyone on YouTube right now
Starting the 13th, we will have an AI determine if we are children or not and if you are a child, than you are forced to send your ID, send a selfie or a credit card
This has the obvious cons of having your privacy being revoked from you and and in case there is a security breach, major identity thefts.
So what do we do in this scenario?
Well right now I have real idea as this is relativity new to me, but I do have two plans
Plan 1. Bug the shit out of them, send letters and send emails about how much of bad idea this is.
Include why the AI will mess up and target adults who watch cartoons, include privacy issues, censorship issues, anything you can think of that relates to this. I want you guys to bug the hell out of YouTube until they reverse this idea
Plan 2. Blackout.
Since the thing is coming out on the 13th.
The plan will be to completely avoid YouTube at all cost for that day, no watching, no sharing, no uploading, no nothing.
Download videos before things go down, watch Netflix. Whatever you do, don’t touch YouTube.
That’s all I can say right now, I also want you guys to let YouTubers know of this situation cause if it’s important for everyone on the website to talk about this immediately
Spread this stuff around, let people know of YouTube’s upcoming policy and how it’ll hurt everyone
Another great idea: everyone who has YouTube Premium should cancel it RIGHT NOW, and make it clear that you are doing so because of the new ID age verification policy. Still have a blackout on August 13th, and watch things on any other video content platform EXCEPT YouTube.
The script to oppose KOSA (the Kids Online Safety Act) is now officially on https://5calls.org/. Call if you wanna kill KOSA again! It's a must if you don't want age verification in the US!
If you are making calls to Republican politicians about not supporting certain bills, remember to stick to Republican scripts. No trying to play on their emotions. Don't talk about people dying or marginalized people being hurt or anything like that. That doesn't work on them.
Instead, focus on:
Cost. These Republican bills have MASSIVE costs that either tax payers take the brunt of or it goes into the national debt.
Withholding your vote. You weren't going to vote for them anyway, but they have absolutely no way of knowing that. Even if you've said in other places, they are not researching every single person who calls to see who's a Republican. You're just another constituent using your vote as leverage. Take advantage of that.
Hard-working Americans/working class Americans/veterans/etc. Figure out the specific group of people that politician campaigns the hardest to and talk about them and how they'll be hurt by whatever is happening.
Trump's stupid fucking bill isn't cruel and evil and it's not going to kill millions of people, it's a huge financial strain that will drastically increase the national debt while hurting working class Americans who just need a bit of help and you would never consider voting for someone who would support it.
Essentially use as many conservative buzzwords as you possibly can. Think of what a Fox News watcher in your life would say and inject as much outrage and indignation into it as possible during the call. You are larping as a conservative voter for this.
Columbo and the Sci-Fi Writer (with special guest stars Harlan Ellison, Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, and...)
"So, you write science-fiction, right?"
"I do, Lieutenant."
"I never cared much for science-fiction myself, but my wife - she absolutely loves it. It's getting to the point where, every time I turn my head, I see her reading one of those space travel books or watching one of those TV programs with the aliens in them.
"There's this one program she especially adores - Star Trek, I think it's called? The one with the pointy-eared guy... what was his name again? Oh, yes - Spock. She thinks he and the captain have something going on between them - I can't see it, myself, but..." [chuckles] "what do I know?
"Anyway, one day, she tells me that she'd like to go to space someday, even become captain of one of those spaceships or starships or whatever you call them. I say, 'Well, you'll be needing lots of training to become an astronaut, and besides, you're going to have to wait a really long time for starships like the Enterprise to even exist, but... If there's one thing I know about Mrs. Columbo, it's that once she sets her mind on something, good luck trying to change it.
"And who knows? Maybe she will somehow see her dreams come true, someday.
"After all, just about anything's possible as long as you put your mind to it, right?"
I hope this message finds you well.I’m reaching out to you with hope and urgency. Could you help me amplify my desperate plea to survive?I hope everyone can support my family with any amount they can donate, or at least share my pinned post.My family depends on you and truly needs your help to make it through.
Thank you so much.
https://gofund.me/481656bc
Apologies, but I can't afford to pay at the moment. I can, however, let others know so that they might be able to lend a hand.
