If you use Tumblr on a web browser, you might have noticed us testing a brand new navigation on your dashboard in the last month. Now, after some extensive tweaks, we’ve begun rolling out this new dashboard navigation to everyone using a web browser. Welcome to the new world. It’s very like the old world, just in a different layout.
Why are we doing this? We want it to be as easy as possible for everyone to understand and explore what’s happening on Tumblr—newbies and seasoned travelers alike.
Labels over icons: When adding something new to Tumblr in the past, we’d simply add a new icon to our navigation with little further explanation. Turns out no one likes to press a button when they don’t know what it does. So now, where there’s space, the navigation includes text labels. Since adding these, we’ve noticed more of you venturing to previously unexplored corners of Tumblr. Intrepid!
What’s already been fixed? Thanks to feedback from folks during the testing phase, we’ve been able to make some improvements right out of the gate. Those include returning settings subpages (Account, Dashboard, etc.) to the right of the settings page instead of having them in an expandable item in the navigation on the left; fixing some issues with messaging windows on smaller screens; and streamlining the Account section to make it easier to get to your blogs.
What’s next? We’re looking into making a collapsible version of this navigation and improving the use of screen space for those of you with enormous screens. We’re also working on improving access to your account and sideblogs.
That’s all for now, folks. For questions and suggestions, contact Support using the “Feedback” category. Please select the “Report a bug or crash” category on the support form for technical issues. And keep an eye out for more updates here on @changes.
Literally everyone hated this shit the second it came out and they shielded themselves vy saying "well we may change it depending on user feedback :)" but they haven't changed anything and just released it as-is.
Anyway get the Stylus browser extension (for firefox & chrome) and the old theme userstyle to get your dash back in order
the Dashboard Unfucker is also a really good option, my dash looks exactly the same as it did before the update now!
also if you'd like to submit some user feedback, here's a quick link to get to the help center, because the new dashboard hides it at the very bottom of the page.
Y'all oh my GOD. I haven't gone through the settings properly yet but the dashboard unfucker is AMAZING and I warmly recommend!!!! I almost cried when I got everyone's icons back.
Also please do send that feedback to staff, I sure did, so maybe someday we won't have to resort to scripts to keep using this site!
hey everyone, quick heads up for those who came here from reddit.
the original account that shared the Danny Phantom links got suspended because reddit flagged his replies as spam. he’s deleted the account now, so i’m handling the re-uploads and keeping the links alive.
all seasons are still available in high-res 1080p, with english + german audio, no watermarks, and hosted safely on google drive this time.
A couple days ago, I made a post addressing Pixelberry/Series Entertainment's "It Lives Within." At the time, I wasn't aware of the story, I only knew that the name was the same. Since then, I saw many people accusing it of plagiarizing our game. I decided to look into it more, and after having watched all the episodes on YouTube, the claims of plagiarism unfortunately seem to be valid. As such, I'd like to further address this situation, and provide a list of stolen ideas and art with screenshot proofs and explanations.
A few years ago, I had a video call with one of the original writers for the It Lives Series. He no longer works for Pixelberry, and did not work with them at the time of the video call. Though I knew nothing about their original plans for the game before starting this project (including that they also intended to name the game "It Lives Within"), he told me their plans on that call. It was going to be a survivor-type cave crawl story with giant bug-inspired and creepy crawler monster enemies, where you play as a new character who is attacked by these creatures while camping and separated from their friends. From my understanding, Connor and his crew would be sort of like Sam and Dean from SPN, acting as these experienced "hunters" who help protect them.
That is not what the story of what Choices "It Lives Within" was. At all.
This means that the AI """writers""" at Series Entertainment/PB were not creating this story based on the original writers’ plans. They made their story idea later - after ILW was completed in its entirety. Therefore, it's reasonable to follow that unlike the title, these similarities are not coincidence. Though even then, the title It Lives Within had to do with the cave setting and going literally into the earth, while the AI version has nothing to do with caves. So the reasoning for the title is not the same as the reasoning for their original title.
With all this in mind, let’s go over the similarities between our game and the Choices It Lives Within AI show. I am going to be putting it beneath a read more, in case there are people who are interested in playing ILW and don’t want to get it spoiled.
Major things they stole:
Their villain, Silas, is Matthias. Literally, that's it. He's Matthias.
Silas is an immortal man who's been alive for almost 200 years and was a member of the Westchester cult, where he knew Cora. Matthias is an immortal man who's been alive 200+ years and was a member of the Westchester cult, where he knew Cora. Silas wants to sacrifice redfield Noah due to his connection to the Power as part of a complicated ritual he's put together in order to... I'm not quite sure what, exactly, as the story was a bit hard to follow. Matthias wants to sacrifice Rowan, due to their connection to the Power, as part of a complicated ritual he's put together in order to gain more power and freedom and heal the corrupted Power. Silas thinks he’s all manipulative and the main crew states that "He’s getting us to do his work for him!” Matthias thinks he's all manipulative, and gloats about being a "puppet master" and getting people to do his work for him.
And then there's his appearance. That's literally the same hairstyle - even has the part on the same side and the same curly swoops. He's the same age. Same race. Literally, just like Connor in their story is a recognizable AI-version of his in-game sprite, that's what Silas looks like to Matthias. All he's missing is the beard.
The gang's base of operations is Cora’s cabin
This one is interesting. It's such a tiny detail, and I'd grown so used to the cabin being their safe place that when Connor was like "We need to get back to the cabin" it literally took me a moment to realize - wait. They had nothing to do with that cabin in the original series. Using that as a home base was literally our idea, an It Lives Within original.
The main enemies are mind controlled townspeople working for Silas
Instead of following the precedent of the previous games and having the enemies be Power-twisted animal monsters, they decided to make their enemies humans that are mind-controlled into zombie-like beings with that attack the gang in hordes. This is a rip-off of It Lives Within's horrors, which are power-corrupted townsfolk that Matthias takes advantage of to oppose the main crew. And on top of that, they copied the carnival scene where Harper drives through a horde of horrors, including a scene where Devon drives through a horde of mind-controlled/zombified townsfolk.
Noah and Devon's relationship
Their relationship in this '"TV show" has suspicious similarities to their friendship/romance routes in ILW. They made Devon be redfield Noah's anchor to reality, and even had Devon use memories to help ground Noah, which we showed in the cabin scene where Devon and Noah play baseball together. And I know there were Noah x Devon shippers outside of me before ILW released, but it was never PB's plan to canonize them. So the fact that they are seemingly changing course to canonize them after they grew so popular in the fan version feels a bit too coincidental.
Scraping fan art for their AI animation frames
But what's even more egregious is that they have even stooped to scraping from fan artists, who have nowhere near the same following or exposure as our project does. Seriously, what are the odds that the MC they choose to use matches this artist's MC's race, gender, hair, and outfit exactly, that they used Noah's old outfit, that they are literally positioned on the same sides of the image? It's blatant plagiarism, and it's despicable. @errajay I'm so sorry they did this.
These are the biggest similarities, but considering that it was only like 15 minutes of content, that means that a high percentage of the story was stolen. Sure, the exact details of "Silas's" plan are different (he's like a horcrux for the "entity" aka power and he was split into 43 parts and Noah's one of his parts and he needs to kill him to get it back and be free or something) it's the same concept: immortal man who's trapped making a complicated ritual requiring sacrifice while manipulating people to get everything into place.
If you want to see for yourselves, please find it on YouTube. Do not support them with clicks or traffic on their app. Thank you! Oh, and just in case anyone was wondering, no AI was used in the drafting of this post đź’–
Like many of you, I woke up to the AI slop It Lives Within "TV show" on the Choices app. Having spent thousands (no joke) of loving hours on the fan-made It Lives Within, I admit it felt like a bit of a kick to the gut, especially since I'd stayed up until 2 AM the night before, meticulously working on improving the programming of textbox animations for the updated version of the game.
But at the end of the day, the people are what own stories. It doesn't matter what PB puts out, especially when it so blatantly disrespects a series we all hold close to our hearts. We can choose what to support, what to value, and what to be our true version of these stories.
As such, I wanted to provide an update for "It Lives Within: The Obsidian Cut." We are working extremely hard to finish rewrites, and I apologize it's taking so long - but real work takes time. We take so long because we don't use AI to do our work for us. Our testers have found hundreds of bugs, which have been corrected. I'm currently working on some rewrites for chapters 21-22, and once that's finished, I'm going to play from start to finish with different MCs to include more complete personality variants for your MC.
While our game was highly beloved (which I am still so wholly grateful for three years after the final episode aired), I know some of you tried the original version and decided it wasn't for you. Others maybe never heard of it. But, with the news of AI It Lives Within dropping today, I just wanted to invite everyone to give our fan version a chance. If you tried it before and gave up, or haven't played it yet, I recommend waiting until Obsidian airs to experience that version for the first time. And if you did play the original, stick around! You'll love Obsidian when it airs. All of our testers are highly enjoying it and say that it improves on the story with every change, while still be the story they knew and love.
AI It Lives Within is frustrating and offensive, but ultimately, we never needed their blessing, and neither do you. Our story started small, with a team that never made any money. Everything was done out of passion and love for this series and these characters, and we were and still are, devoted to creating truly player-drive stories where your choices matter. A LOT. That passion is something that can never be generated in any machine. Stories from the heart speak to the heart, "canon" or not, and what really matters is how theses stories impact and inspire us.
Tom Kane, known best for voicing Yoda in the Star Wars franchise, has died at age 64.
I just got done crying ugly tears after I learned about this news. This sucks so hard.
I feel really blessed to have been able to meet Tom one time when he was alive, and he was literally a class act. He was just such a kind person who took so much time to talk to me and my friends, and we kinda had him to ourselves for a while, which was an even greater blessing to get that kind of unique opportunity to chat. The people who knew him for much longer were undoubtedly even more blessed, and I am so incredibly devastated that his family, his friends, and the whole world have just lost such a fantastic guy.
Couple more little personal notes in the cut, but I hope his family is doing okay, and all the love and every blessing to them, for real. ❤️
I don’t post a lot on here about my personal life, but a few years ago, a close family member of mine went through the same exact thing that Tom did: a debilitating stroke that left her speechless and extremely frail. When I heard that Tom had gone through the same thing, I knew that it was really, really, REALLY bad. A stroke hitting you that hard is super difficult to heal from, even with a lot of therapy (your speech/cognitive abilities just get like really scrambled), yet I was kind of hoping and praying for him that he was in a better spot to get good medical care for it. But when I saw that recent clip of Tom surrounded by the girls’ voice actresses recently, he looked basically almost like my family member did, and I could tell that he wasn’t doing well. So hearing this is sadly not a surprise, but it’s still tragic. It’s a terrible, terrible way to suffer and I don’t wish it on anyone.
Tom was apparently 64, and my family member was around the same age when she passed. I think some of my younger followers would consider that to be old, but no. It’s still way too young. I really hope his family is doing okay and that everyone that was helping him out can find some peace. I truly know how difficult it is to help a family member who’s going through something like that, and it can really take a toll on you (especially if you’re going through it essentially alone like in my experience, but luckily I think he had a very large family that was able to help him, which is such a blessing ❤️). Either way, such a loss, and all the love to him and everyone who knew him.
hello đź‘‹ I was wondering why I can't open the links in the document (Danny phantom) and it tells me that I need to view them in google drive but I'm literally in it so any explanation for this?
i’m sorry, that shouldn’t have happened. i’m not sure what’s causing it. Lemme copy-paste them here for you:
MEGA, unfortunately, has a download limit, so you can't download everything all at once, but instead you'll have to wait several hours before resuming downloads - which is ONLY available if you use the MEGA Desktop app. if you download directly, you shan't be able to resume downloads.
BUT!!
There's a neat workaround for this. use MehaBasterd! https://github.com/tonikelope/megabasterd
You can download indefinitely and always resume downloads too.
Sorry for the late reply, i only saw this just now.
Rise Above It All (Demo/Alternate Version) | Barbie: Fairytopia
This is the version of the song as heard on the bonus CD that came with Wal-Mart exclusive copies of Barbie Fairytopia: Magic of the Rainbow. It has a different singer and very different lyrics from the final version version heard on the Songs from Fairytopia CD.
-Lyrics-
Elina: Oh, how I love to touch the sky
What a feeling
Now I’m passing rainbows by
And the sky’s my ceiling
Hue, what a wonderful view!
I can see all of Fairy Town
Thanks to you
I can make this dream come true
If I keep believing
CHORUS
I can rise up above
All of my worries
And I won’t be afraid to fall
I can do anything
I set my mind to
Cuz the sky’s the limit
I can rise above it all
See the garden slip away
Miles below us
We’ll find Dahlia’s home today
I know you will show us
Who would’ve thought we’d come through
On the back of a butterfly
But it’s true
You can always find a way
If you keep believing
CHORUS
All of my worries
Now they all see so small
I set my mind to
Cuz the sky’s the limit
I can rise above it all
I can rise above it all
I can rise above it all
So I bought a copy of Twinkle & Twirl, the Star Light Adventure coloring book, and there's a few interesting pages.
1 & 2) It specifies that Starlight's telekinesis is linked to her singing/music, which supports Starlight being The One because she has a deep connection with music just as the stars do. It really does bother me that this isn't more clearly portrayed in the movie, even if you can still interpret it.
3, 4, 5) Deleted scenes of Constantine wanting Starlight to demonstrate her powers during training and the part of the mission where Leo has to fix the ship. Both of these scenes were left out of the final product but are still featured in this and the junior chapter book. They really should've been kept in.
6 & 7) Another deleted scene. Starlight creates a nest for some Ava-Grun. Kind of wish we had seen this in the movie.
