General Obsessions

Just the things that I really love.

[salvadorbonaparte]

Hey did you know I keep a google drive folder with linguistics and language books  that I try to update regularly 

[salvadorbonaparte]

**UPDATE**

I have restructured the folders to make them easier to use and managed to add almost all languages requested and then some

Please let me know any further suggestions

[salvadorbonaparte]

[clockworktardis]

….holy shit. You found the holy grail.

[kittydesade]

….. is this a DIFFERENT person keeping gigabytes worth of language books on google drive? Holy crap.

[wyvyrn]

This. This here. Is why I love Tumblr.❤️❤️❤️

[bard-llama]

Update from OP:

UPDATE because apparently not everyone has seen this yet the new and improved version of this is a MEGA folder: https://mega.nz/folder/kQBXHKwA#-osWRLNCXAsd62ln8wKa8w

2411 files and 819 subfolders

[flootzavut]

Holy shit. OP you are a wonderful human being.

[surohsopsisofclouds]

O.O Linguistic Holy Grail…

[meridionalis]

the decrease in costuming quality over the last 20 years has been soooo precipitous & nauseating. i’m not even talking abt marvel’s cg supersuits or anything this time, look at the fabric quality, structure, layering, character, and craftsmanship of older costumes in 102 dalmations (2000) vs cruella (2021)

ever after (1998) vs cinderella (2021)

lord of the rings (2001-2003) vs the rings of power (2022)

this trend should upset you not just because it looks cheap, but because it suggests a strong anti-art and anti-labor movement in film and tv making. don’t forget costumers are unionized

[probablynot404]

life tip whatever dumb ass name you get siri to call you is what your iphone automatically signs your emails as. i have been applying to jobs for 2 months as queef.

[itsaubreylmfao]

[filmeditors-deactivated20230605]

#OH MY GOD OH GMY GOD OH MY GOD NO N ONO NO NO NO NO NO NOOOOOOOOO #HOLY SHIT #I HAVE BEEN APPLYING TO JOBS AS ANAL DESTROYER

[lbyrinth-deactivated20210324]

FUCK

[badkidgorgug]

This post actually deserves a “reblog to save a life”

[figmentforms-the-human]

This actually happened to an unfortunate lab tech i knew a few years ago. “Sir Fuck-O-Saurus” had a hard time with employment.

[silly-jellyghoty]

As if i needed one more reason to say fuck no to any and all apple producta and software

[detective-dr-curious]

Okay unironically SIGNAL BOOST

[wellthiswassofun]

Oh wow I was gonna say this is bs because the default is just “sent from my iPhone” but look

This is amazing

[dancinbutterfly]

[petermorwood]

Yet another reason to pat myself on the back for not using an iPhone.

That said, I’ve also disabled a bunch of “useful features” on successive Android phones which I considered unnecessary and / or intrusive.

It’s amazing - and a bit unsettling - to discover what’s ON by default rather than by choice…

[micdotcom]

Watch: Complaining about political correctness says more about you than it does others.

[kevinwada-deactivated20230323]

This says, so succinctly, what I’ve always tried to say about political correctness and how it is not a new thing, nor is it a bad thing.

[banshees-deactivated20180812]

i dont understand half of the words here but god if this isn’t the funniest thing i’ve ever read

[trenchgun]

im pretty sure red and blue weren’t programmed but just sort of… mutated into cartridges

[prettyflyforajeskai]

Red and blue are why QA teams were invented

[biggaybunny]

for fuck’s sake they weren’t badly programmed. They were bleeding edge. It’s so easy to forget that but Red and Blue were literally pushing the limits of what they could fit on the cartridge. They used every trick in the book. In that way, the programming behind them is GENIUS. It’s frankly a lost art, in this era where hardware is insanely cheap and scalable, when you can just keep throwing more resources at the problem. But Red & Blue were when programmers had to get creative. Not currently using a piece of memory? Repurpose it, we can’t just leave it lying around. Only have a couple registers? Juggle them, keep careful track so we can restore them when we needed. Does this data need to be single purpose, or can we also use it for, say, a seed value? And all this WORKED. I guarantee you 99% of children playing this never saw a bug in casual play. MODERN games are buggier by a landslide. Remember when X&Y came out and there was an ENTIRE CITY you couldn’t save in because it’d DELETE YOUR SAVE? Imagine that happening in the days of Red&Blue. It couldn’t have. I can turn on my red cartridge TODAY and have it work. And the bugs that did exist, those edge cases they missed? They produce this behavior because the game REFUSES TO CRASH. Sure, you can make it crash if you try hard enough, but goddamn it’s resilient. It just plugs away with garbage data in memory for as long as possible. Y'all looking down from your 64-bit quad-core smartphones with 128GB SD cards like Red & Blue were programmed by amateurs. What, you also going to bitch that the Wright Brothers didn’t make a jet engine? These are artifacts from pioneers who wrote the goddamn book that others would use as gospel. Sincerely, a pissed off goddamn programmer.

[chongoblog]

In case anyone is wondering, Pokemon Red is 1 MB. Not one of the images. Not its Pokedex system. Not its map. The entire game is 1 MB.

[seabassapologist]

These are some extremely technical, but incredibly fascinating videos explaining how stuff like the Pokémon sprites were stored and displayed and how cries were programmed. The poster does a good job explaining these as easily as they can but it’s complicated (and genius) stuff

And how missingno isn’t just a completely random blob of pixels!

Game development like this is absolutely a lost art

[catchymemes]

[africant]

[hee-blee-art]

academics learn to use singular they challenge

[alone-to-dance-deactivated20240]

Visit Original Link

Push play and just trust me

[leaper182]

This sounds like something that would be playing in a story set in Victorian London slums or something? I DON’T KNOW.

[the-cones-of-dunshire]

ITS A GODDAMN SHANTY

[brunhiddensmusings]

its appropriate anywhere from the wild west to a pirate ship to imperial russia a jaunty steampunk adventure to one impressive bard

[flutejesus]

ok this shit FUCKS

[everynight-cainite]

@broadwaytheanimatedseries @dia-mond-universe

[broadwaytheanimatedseries]

Damn this fucking slaps

[elodieunderglass]

Vitamin String Quartet do covers of pop songs with classical string arrangements. Some of them are really close to the original, like:

Take Me To Church: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLs_-SXZGqE

Bohemian Rhapsody: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjD80dBPelI

Wonderwall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvHkxAb3tNY

But others are just far enough away that they sound like classical music for a minute:

Pompeii: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIcDIZGlr9U

this oddly sad cover of Despacito: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAi-F1Io7gc

Alejandro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6kkHp_Qj-U

[helloniaaanderson]

Starting Japanese Again After Two Years

While I got serious about studying French, I neglected Japanese for about two years. Why did I decide to start Japanese again?

I’ve said it before, but all reasons for wanting to learn a new language are valid. However, I do have to say that some reasons will motivate you better than others. Many Japanese learners begin because they want to watch anime without subtitles, and there is nothing wrong with that. I was the same way in high school. I didn’t start learning Japanese until my junior year of college. By that…

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[loversandantiheroes]

Me, sitting down with my coffee in front of the computer and the multitude of things I need to get done:

[ruixlovs]

[playfulkittn]

Look how my cat is taking a nice, peaceful nap.

We're listening lecture about molecular genetics. He's very fine with it.

No worries. No stress. Chillout all day.

Cares for nothing, very happy.

Just had a nice dream about his future dinner.

Maybe he'll destroy some feathers later.

[sicknessinside]

[pascalcampion]

Wouldn’t it?

Blacklivesmatter.carrd.co

#pascalcampion

[epic-sorcerer]

This shook me to my core

[thesillyhaley]

This was so lovely.

But it’s worth mentioning that the second I saw the panel with the cop, my heart dropped, and it’s a shame that this is the initial reaction that I have towards cops interacting with POC

[odinsblog]

The fact that the notes are filled with non-Black people who suddenly got worried when they saw the cop ….. in an illustrated story.

Now try imagining how hard it is irl for Black mothers, and Black people in general. Each encounter with the police could end with our death, even if we did absolutely nothing wrong.

I think most of us deal with it—bc let’s face it, we have no other choice—but I’d be lying if I said that every single time I come into close proximity to the police, somewhere in the back of my mind there wasn’t always the thought: “what if …”

“what if today is the day” … “what if this cop had a bad morning” … “what if this cop doesn’t like black people” … “what if he thinks my phone is a gun” … “what if he thinks I’m acting suspicious” … “what if he needs to fill a quota” … “what if he mistakes me for some nondescript black man but I fit the description anyway” … “what if my car insurance payment didn’t go through and I don’t know about it” … “what if I have a taillight out” …. “what if he thinks I have a bad attitude” … “what if it was a rough day for me and I do have a bad attitude” … “what if there’s not even any cops around but a white person thinks I look out of place” … what if what if what if

Obviously I cannot speak for everyone who is Black, but these thoughts flash through my mind every single time I see a cop. Every time. Maybe it only takes a microsecond, but it’s always there. Always.

LOL. I know we may make it look easy. But yeah, it’s still there.

And even though I’m very healthy and I manage to … adapt(?) to those fears, I figure that kind of constant on/off stress has gotta be taking some kind of toll on me, right? On Black people in general. It’s like perpetually unexpected games of Russian roulette. Or maybe like the Spanish Inquisition. (No one ever expects it).

Sometimes I wonder if white people understand the constant extra calculations that Black people are doing continuously as we’re out and about. Calculations for any contingency encounter with the police. Or with some white person who might call the police because they’ve mistaken my melancholy mood for “suspicious” behavior. Calculations that white people don’t ever need to do. At least, not because of simply being in the general proximity of the police.

Nice to see that some people “get” it.

[viralthings]

Before and after I sign good boy to my deaf dog

[feywandererart]

[bedpsyching]

Please look at this

[bedpsyching]