Alan Aubrey

He/Him, 26, Amateur Tabletop Game Designer, Human Disaster Currently working on the Identity System (previously known as APRPG), a setting-agnostic, fiction-first TTRPG with a focus on character, consequence, and change. Read about it here! https://dustytomeofnonsense.blogspot.com/

[writtenoffantihero]

Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year

Google says it’s no different than checking IDs at the airport.

This is just another form of censorship, control of what we can/can't see and engage with, and another means of getting our private information.

[monarchofmonsters]

Alternative forks of AOSP (Android Open-Source Project) which are not maintained by Google and will not be affected by this:

LineageOS (I use this one)

Graphene OS

Functionally they are virtually identical to stock Android. Android began as an open-source project, and these versions are built off of that.

Fuck Google.

[valtsv]

it's forever fucked that refusal is associated so strongly with cowardice and cowardice is almost universally uncontestedly seen as an existential failure that disqualifies you from the right to refuse anything when being able to admit that you're afraid and say "no" are some of the most powerful things that anyone can do

[valtsv]

"why don't you want to? are you scared?" yes. is that so bad? to be afraid and unwilling? why should that be worth less? why should i hope to be the richest corpse in the graveyard?

[ashenmind]

good lord this thing is useless

[fishmech]

idk what yall are mad about the new Lies Your Older Cousin Tells You machine is working great

[dragongirltongue]

Happy horse on mars day

[catchymemes]

[mariakono]

Man i feel really bad for the guy who wrote this article because the article actually manages to raise a very very very good point but the way the headline is phrased completely omits 95% of what they were trying to say

And because i know people won’t even bother to click and check the article itself i’m gonna screencap it, it’s fairly short, give it a read:

tl;dr: the article’s point isn’t “corporate satire is not funny anymore as in “we should stop making fun of corporations””, the article’s point is “corporate satire is not funny as in “it’s extremely depressing to live in a capitalistic hellhole and corporate satire aims more to poke fun at that without actually making you think about our world or giving you hope for a better future, and therefore it’s just lost its bite””

[isuggestrevolution]

i have a suggestion

[cipheramnesia]

Browsing horror on Tubi is also fun because once in awhile you come across a combination of words like "Psycho Santa 2" which forces you to recognize that whatever Psycho Santa is, it was worth making two of them. Also, every Amityville movie ever. You will never watch every Amityville.

[cipheramnesia]

[cipheramnesia]

You might think, "well I've already seen Amityville Turkey Day" NOT SO FAST are you sure it wasn't Amityville Thanksgiving??

[cantotallyeven]

Wait weren't Amityville Horror 1 and 2 serious?

[cipheramnesia]

Yes, and maybe Amityville 3, however Amityville is a real place and consequently the ability to control the copyright over horror movies using the Amityville name is pretty minimal and now anyone with access to a camera and five to ten friends can roll up and film Amityville Bigfoot.

[cipheramnesia]

Many of you expressed the concern that the Amityville Industrial Movie Complex was using AI and don't worry, they got you covered.

[lesbianralzarek]

(tags via @miss-morland)

[cipheramnesia]

Come on, man

[cipheramnesia]

First, there was Amityville Backpack, then there was...

[cipheramnesia]

just had to share this screenshot of an ominous scene in Amityville Backrooms

[fru-fru-brigade]

Actually think that's pepperoni and olive pizza?

[cipheramnesia]

My bad, you're right.

The Amityville Backrooms look suspiciously similar to a really cheap condo painted landlord white, also.

[rederiswrites]

Weird to me when pundits are like, "I'm so surprised that these powerful CEOs and institutions are capitulating to the fascism in advance" like, no? They are the fascism? Fuckin... Zuckster isn't "capitulating" to Trump. He helped make Trump. And he'll be there working to undermine our freedom once Trump is gone, too. Wild, acting like these oligarchs are just not fighting back hard enough. They signed on to this shit in advance, man.

[natalieironside]

The reaction against fake news and misinformation went too hard in the other direction and now the populace are becoming utterly snopesbrained, unable to distinguish between an anecdotal source and a primary witness. The people think "I was there when it happened and I saw it happen with my eyes" is a less reliable source than an infotainment website.

[natalieironside]

I am here

[whyamihereat4am]

Look I don't think Supergirl (2026) is secretly a perfect masterpiece or anything (I personally thought it was like. a 6/10 fun time) but I do think it's wild that Tumblr isn't going crazy for it because this Kara is one coattailed suit away from being a Tumblr sexyman. she is the flawed messy female character people have supposedly been clamouring for. she's the popular archetype of a gruff self-destructive alcoholic middle-aged man begrudgingly having to look after a kid and growing fond of them but genderswapped and also 23. she's allowed to be visibly messy and kind of gross and her hair is constantly all over the place and she literally cries, screams, throws up, and pisses onscreen. she's caustic and mean and puts up an act of carelessness but has a heart of gold. she's heavily traumatised and coping with it terribly. if anything happens to her dog she will kill everyone in this room and then herself. she spends most of the movie in a trench coat and baggy band T-shirt. she gets into bar brawls and breaks a guy's hand. she is Going Through It 24/7 and looks the part. she stabs a guy in the throat. how is everyone else not obsessed with her.

[gunsandfireandshit]

[asphaltgashes]

whoops

[orcboxer]

Wait! I can change! *grotesquely transforms into a snarling ghoul*

[rainbow-femme]

His strength is that he is biscuits

[themysteriousmurasamecastle]

it must be so freeing to be as stupid as a ceo. not a single thought echoing through that hollowed out skull. you get paid more money in 20 minutes than a handful of small countries make in a year combined to say the biggest number you can think of and if your company doesn’t hit that number you get to fire all of them

[themysteriousmurasamecastle]

we want to entertain one billion people a day and to achieve that goal we’re going to fire every single game developer we’ve ever hired 😍😍😍

[pankendev]

merciless heatwave thank you so much McFlurry my balls fit right in

[pankendev]

there once was a man from Norwich where summer was being quite a bitch to let out some steam, dipped his nuts in ice cream but the oreo bits kind of itch

[frankiedotbiz]

[depsidase]

[bigmeatpete69420]

You can give a cat a pill 3 times and then they will have your move set memorized and will animation cancel a swallow