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digital selfharm is real. do NOT check up on that ex-partner/ex-friend. do NOT reread those old messages/conversations that you know will hurt your feelings all over again or that will otherwise make you feel like shit. do NOT block evade to see if youâre being talked about. inhale. exhale. let it pass and youâll be better for it.
i think grace teaching on erid was rocky babytrapping him. i think at one point grace was like the only thing i miss about earth is teaching my kids and rocky was like hmm...rocky make some calls.
on principle i'm completely with the tumblr users who wanna mock folks who don't listen to rap/hip-hop/jazz/country/etc but some of the discourse on the subject on here seems to indicate that people think merely consuming media is like an act of social justice or some shit and thinking about it like that is just as fucked. you're not like, doing a favor to Black people by putting on jazz records you know
common advice for social anxiety is to tell yourself "people aren't going to think less of you just because you said something a bit daft" but the thing is. sometimes they will. and you just have to learn to be cool with that and to treat it as a dnd random encounter rather than letting it ruin your whole day
recent example. lady at my careers appointment had a post-it with her name on it stuck to the monitor, so i introduced myself by saying "hello, i'm eliot! you must be [name], it's nice to meet you!" and she stared at me as if i was the stupidest person alive and said icily, "yeah, i'm [name]. congratulations, you can read."
in bygone times this would have reduced me to a sort of quivering blancmange. thankfully i am now in a place where i was able to pull back, calmly evaluate this interaction, and say to myself "this woman should probably not be working in a customer-facing job"
My personal headcanon for Ash Ketchum has always been that regardless of if his dream ever came true he'd never truly stop traveling and learning. Because despite "becoming a pokemon master" being his goal if you actually sit down and watch like Any episode of Pokemon the thing that always holds true is his curiosity and desire to learn everything he possibly can related to pokemon. And he'll try anything to! He did contests and the battle frontier. He'd do those silly little shows with Serena if they'd let him.
So I like to imagine him continuing on in life as this nomad who people don't automatically recognize as anyone important ya know? Just this goofy guy going from place to place always lending a helping hand and hes got a cute lil pikachu on him. And hes often lost somewhere with a friend just exploring the woods to see if he'll find anything cool. Ya know, as hes always been, but older now. And its only once hes drifted once more do you maybe stumble into an article on the pokeweb about him and are like... that guy??
thereâs a dedicated ashandpikachuspotter account somewhere on some social media. You tag a photo or search for a term and boom, thereâs pics of this guy. this dude. this man. with his pikachu. and itâs thousands of strangers from across the globe coming on line to talk about some stranger that they met briefly and then never saw again. theyâve compiled their stories and their approximate locations and mapped his journey from continent to continent, a long snaking pathway that spans decades and thousands of miles. Heâs apparently one of those Kanto kids that the government let just drop out of school. Its working out very well for him.Â
upon reviewing the notes I'm changing my position. games must be <50GB. no more mandatory 8k uncompressed textures!!! I don't believe in 8k I think it's fake
to be clear games really ought to be around 20 gigs or less. but I think in the spirit of generosity and mercy we won't criminally prosecute the developers until the file sizes breaks 50
just looked it up. holy fuck. they did it by de-duplicating assets. I'm just. my jaw is on the floor. supposedly duplicating assets helps load times on HDDs but. holy fuck at what cost
it's worse than that: The Helldivers devs were told that duplicating assets would help HDD load times, but then they actually tested it and it had basically zero effect on load times!
So they had more than sextupled the size of their game by following industry standard practice that actually did basically nothing!
It doesn't help that people seem to think Unreal Engine somehow auto-optimises literally everything you do like nnnooooo dawg you gotta keep those model poly counts low and for FUCKS SAKE STOP LEAVING YOUR LIGHTS AS ALL DYNAMIC AND JUST BAKE THOSE FUCKERS
i am beginning to realize that when i say âim boredâ people understand that as âi have nothing to do and i need something to doâ. and what i actually mean is âholy shit i am incapable of doing anything even though i have lots of things i can do and want to do and i feel like the world is mildly grey and soul sucking and my brain is numbâ
which now that iâm typing it out that sounds like executive dysfunction
This. Please. Whether I'm avoiding spoilers for a show or people promoting eating disorders, if I block a tag it means I don't want to see it. Spell your fucking tags properly.
You know those posts about future civilisations being mystified by our structures and writings just like we are about the Ancient Egyptians?
Imagine that they do have some access to the old internet, but it's fragmented and most of the main sites are gone and they have no context for what things are so they think we're talking about real life
There's the great Kingdom of A-oh-3, home to enormous libraries. It was regularly attacked by swarms of Ddos and other plagues, which caused it's citizens to save the belongings they could and escape again to Tumblr, where they would hold mourning rituals in hopes that their gods would lift the plague, and it always worked. And if course the royal wedding that united the two kingdoms that was celebrated widely.
There was the tragedy of the Collapse of Vine, and how the surviving scholars and entertainers of this small citadel made new homes in the land of YouTube
The forbidden plains of TikTok, where the great Algorithm reins supreme and causes an illness known as Brain Rot.
The evil tyrant that took control of Twitter, and caused a mass exodus as people tried to escape his wrath (ok that ones just accurate)
I dont know enough internet lore but can we just talk about sites like we're referring to ancient kingdoms cause it's so fun
