[anotherpapercut]

all video games should have a “I’m shit at video games but I’m curious about the story and I don’t want to watch a let’s play” mode

[anotherpapercut]

I am

[anotherpapercut]

I made this post because I am disabled and no matter how much I practice there are some games I will never be able to play because I physically cannot move my fingers the way you have to and the responses to this post from other disabled people, people who grew up unable to play video games, and people who just aren’t very good at them has been extremely enthusiastically positive, while people who apparently can’t conceive of the idea that some people will never be good at gaming condescendingly comment, tag or send me asks telling me to try easy mode or to get good despite the fact that the feature I’m describing already exists in some games and mods. if you’re part of the latter group, consider that some of us can not ever be good at video games and we still deserve to be able to participate and have fun

[heart-sprout]

Ok, real talk, if you play PC games I use a program called Wemod that has settings for almost every game ever and you can change them to suit your needs Unlimited health? one hit kill? unlimited items? They can’t mod multiplayer games, but every genre of game imaginable is on Wemod so I use it for everything from stardew valley, subnautica, hades, farming sim and more! It mods the games to your level of ease without needing to mess with any files or get deep into webpages for mods yourself It is a life changer

[stevviefox]

FYI ⬆️⬆️⬆️

Only passing along as the only games I play are on my phone.

[random-nerd-queer]

Get an older sibling and have them play the game and you watch

[raevenlywrites]

One, this is older siblings who watch younger siblings play erasure, two that’s not the point. People deserve to enjoy the experience of playing a game for themselves. Watching someone play is fun. Playing yourself is a different kind of fun.

[beggars-opera]

There are so many reasons why someone wouldn’t want to be challenged by a game, and it’s ridiculous that people can’t fathom someone requiring a different gameplay than themselves. 

Back in the dark ages when I was a kid and we got our first computer, my dad noticed that I was sad because I wanted to play computer games like him, so he would let me play his games in god mode. Should a five year old have been playing Ultimate Doom? Absolutely not. Did I enjoy the shit out of it, particularly the part where I couldn’t die and could just wander around aimlessly machine gunning demons to death with no real goal in mind? Hell yes.

[gimme-the-gun-ill-shoot]

Also, no one should have to explain the reason they want to play the game in god mode.

That is absolutely none of your business, if someone wants to play the game with max items, weapons, armor, money etc., whatever reason they’re playing that way for. YOU, the anon on the internet have no business knowing or shitting on how they play. It’s THEIR game, and THEIR gameplay experience. and I hope OP was able to play their game the way they wanted to without being stymied by the games mechanics.

[strangelingincarnate]

Oh shit, I have something for this!

Can I Play That?

Can I Play That provides accessibility focused game reviews and news. For Disabled Gamers, By Disabled Gamers.

Can I Play That? is a fantastic resource for fellow disabled folks who want to play video games, as well as non-disabled video game devs who want to make their games more accessible. I highly recommend checking it out!

[escuerzoresucitado]

[brionysea]

we need to keep this circulating so it can find the people who are about to stay up for 3 to 4 hours

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

i was hanging out with my brother internet sensation hank green tonight, and he was like, "If you spent more time on bluesky you'd be so popular," and i found out he has like 800,000 followers there.

and then i was like, "But I'm on tumblr, which is like the Marines for the Internet. Do you know how fucking dangerous it is there? I am putting my goddamned life in my goddamned hands every time I log in. Bluesky could never."

[memorydatas]

does anyone else remember when michaels (art supply company) accidentally made omegle again

[shadowthian]

when they What

[memorydatas]

michaels added a feature for a while in sept. 2020 where shoppers could ask questions that would be answered live by other shoppers anonymously. which led to some good michaels interactions.

[sonandheirofnothinginparticular]

[woosh-floosh-art]

Situation that happened in class this semester that was so funny I immediately sketched it out in my notes

[notfinancialadvice]

This is so fucking embarrassing. This is one of the most embarrassing business quips I have ever seen in my entire vile career.

[birdsareblooming]

coat bath

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

tag yourselves i'm the GREAT ROOM beside the GOURMET KITCHEN

[pocket-deer-belly]

i remade it in the sims 4

[were--ralph]

[thehmn]

I’m sure you’ll all be happy to hear that Hideo Kojima is living his best life after leaving Konami. Not only did he get to frolic around with Mads Mikkelsen, he also got himself a sub. You think I jest but...

Translation: Refn is a kinkster who use his movies to express his kinks. He knows Kojima is a kinkster too who also puts his kinks in his games and that he’s going to use Refn for something that turns Kojima on, and Refn thinks that’s hot. Their’s is a relationship you probably shouldn’t dig too much into.

+ Bonus: confused and scared Kojima fanboys

[thehmn]

I don’t know why this post is suddenly getting so much activity again, but I’ll use it as an excuse to tell you all that Hideo Kojima calls this grown ass man who’s a head taller than him Refn-chan

Japanese artists are almost always a lot more chill than their art makes them out to be. Kojima is one of the few who’s exactly what you’d expect him to be.

[thehmn]

It gets even better people!

Refn has described his and Kojima’s relationship as very intimate and highly erotic but not sexual (meaning they do something but they don’t fuck) and if you cross reference their interviews and the stuff they make each other do in their works it becomes abundantly clear that they’ve had long, in-depth conversations about their kinks and fetishes.

But they don’t speak the same language.

Refn can’t understand Japanese and Kojima’s English is very limited, so for all their conversations they need a translator.

Enter Saito.

Saito has been Kojima’s translator for years and years and Refn has joked that their arrangement is really a threesome because Saito has to translate every loving and dirty word between them, and Saito looks like the most resigned man in the universe.

He looked like this way before Refn even entered the picture. Nothing can shock this man anymore.

[thehmn]

You can actually see Saito in action as “the third guy” here (gif by fanhanlon)

While Kojima and Refn are hugging you can see Kojima tell Saito to whisper something to Refn.

Not gonna lie, even I was surprised by how close Saito has to get sometimes. I think I understand the look on his face a little bit better...

[thehmn]

This suddenly got a lot of new reblogs and likes. Is it because these two are at it again?

Something that’s super sweet btw is that Saito isn’t always around so Kojima and Refn have learned to just be comfortable in each other’s company without talking. Refn especially has talked at length about how amazed he is at having that sort of relationship with anyone where they can just chill in silence at a restaurant without it being weird.

Also, for some reason Kojima keeps giving Refn medication? Kojima has posted a fair few photos of Refn holding Japanese over the counter medication and Refn holding up pills and swallowing them as if to prove that he’s taking them? But hey, whatever works for them I suppose?

[dvandom]

Mind you, at the line, “Kojima has a sub,” I would also have been unsurprised to find that he has his own submarine and spends his spare time just tooling around and occasionally popping up to freak out fishermen at the docks.

[thehmn]

I wish I still had the clip but after an interview where everyone are walking around on stage and most of the microphones are turned off Kojima says something to Refn, Saito opens his mouth, close it, looks back at Kojima, sighs, turns to Refn and says “I can’t translate that right now” and Refn gets this curious look of “Oh?” on his face but Saito holds his hand up like “I mean it, not on fucking stage”

Why do they have such perfect comedic timing? This is way better than if Saito had just assumed his microphone was turned off and said whatever inappropriate thing Kojima was trying to tell Refn. I hope Saito is paid well because he isn’t just a translator, he’s trying so hard to save what little modesty these guys have left.

[thehmn]

When this post took off again I was kinda nervous about reading it because I worried I embellished too much for comedy but no this is literally just what they’ve told us about their relationship and done in public. So to the people who can’t tell if this is made up, no. They just be like that.

People also worry about their wives and while I can’t tell you what Kojima’s wife thinks because she’s very private I can tell you Liv Corfixen, Refn’s wife, is supportive and even had a scene with Kojima in Too Old to Die Young where she watch him torture/punish a businessman and she appears in Death Stranding 2 as Heartman’s new girlfriend who doesn’t mind sharing her boyfriend with another man.

We all know Kojima loves putting references to the real people the characters are based on in his games so it’s really sweet that Liv appears as a scientist who’s more knowledgeable about water and it’s connection to the afterlife than Heartman who’s otherwise the smartest person in the game and she keeps asking the guy she’s sharing her boyfriend with to look after him and be mindful of his health because Refn is pretty honest about his health being bad which is probably why Kojima is always feeding him meds, and Refn calls his movies/shows his own personal porn where he gets to film all the horny stuff that turns him on and apparently he really wanted to see Kojima cut a whimpering man with a katana while Liv looks all cool in the background.

They both have a ton of respect and love for her so I don’t think we have to worry about Liv in all of this. If you want to worry about anyone let it be Saito.

[thehmn]

I thought Kojima’s photos of Refn with the meds were lost to time because he only posts them to his instagram stories but luckily other people actually document their claims and took screenshots.

I remember thinking the carton was milk but yet again it was Kojima showing off that he’s giving Refn herbal medicine. This specific one is apparently for headaches, flu, colds, and allergies.

Two things; I don’t remember the tablets being that big. Please tell me they’re supposed to be dissolved in water because otherwise that’s adding sadism to the powerplay.

Second, it never occurred to me until Death Stranding 2 that Kojima isn’t just making Refn pose with the meds to show off but that Liv is probably on his ass about making sure Refn is doing okay. That might also explain why he post so many candid photos of Refn eating. He’s proving that he’s keeping his sub healthy and nourished.

The relationship is just way sweeter than I thought. Like I knew Refn is colorblind and can only really tell colors apart if they’re contrasting but I had no idea that’s why Heartman wears blue and orange. Not only are they contrasting but there’s no such thing as blue/orange colorblindness. Kojima made sure Refn could see his character properly.

I remember a Danish interview with Mads Mikkelsen where he was asked about Kojima and said “Oh yeah, he’s a fan of me but he fucking loves Nicolas. They love each other. It’s kinda weird but like in a good way for them” You made Mads Mikkelsen uncomfortable. Good job guys.

I’m so fascinated by them because it’s the sort of male relationship people don’t think exists in real life yet here they are.

It’s like the relationship between Simon Pegg and Nick Frost who had to share a single-person bed for nine months when they were young which made them realize they love cuddling so they still share a bed when the mood comes over them to this day and they started holding hands when they were happy (they made up after a big fight and walked hand in hand through town while laughing and crying) or got scared (when they went ghost hunting in old ruins at night, and when Quentin Tarantino invited them to a strip club but it ended in a tense situation with a gang so Pegg and Frost held hands to calm each other) and when Frost’s mother died he collapsed on the hotel room’s floor and cried for Pegg to come hold him. All those stories come from Nick Frost’s own biography.

Kojima and Refn are a more eccentric and kinky version of that. I just love that Refn is this controversial kinky weirdo filmmaker and as he said himself “I didn’t know how to be anything else so I just leaned into it” and then he meets fellow kinky weirdo Kojima in London who sees this tall lanky white man who makes dark violent movies and went “Oh my god you’re adorable! I shall call you Refn-chan because you’re such a babygirl!” and instead of getting offended Refn liked it and they’ve been Saito’s problem ever since.

I see people in the tags call them the most public queerplatonic relationship though I’d argue Pegg and Frost came first, we just didn’t have a word for it yet. But yeah, I see why people are tagging it as story and/or character inspiration because sometimes real life is just more weird and wholesome than fiction.

[mushroominaforest]

Shout out to the doctor who responded with complete sincerity when I (on anesthesia) uttered the phrase “chat are we cooked” in her medical professional vicinity. You’re such a real one for that fr fr

[machine-unlearning]

I’ve been invited to a mtg stone soup draft, where instead of bringing packs to draft you bring 45 cards of your choice, shuffle them together into the “soup,” and draft out of that. Any suggestions on what to bring? (wrong answers appreciated)

[machine-unlearning]

Great idea @jarmes

[hkdmz]

(Xユーザーの温泉玉子さん: 「顔真っ青じゃん…具合悪いの？ https://t.co/uOx361t68F」 / Xから)

[mel-155-a]

@abalidoth

[foone]

the thing about that "you like my blog? name five of my fetishes" post is that I'm not sure I could even name five of my own fetishes, let alone someone else's

[evelynthorne-blog]

Numbered lists are just hard if you have ADHD. Like, I didn't know there'd be a test on this!

[foone]

that's a good point. I'm not just excessively asexual, I've also got a Forgetting Disease. I've probably got like a dozen fetishes but right now all I can think of is like, reverse glasses

[englishmagic]

……reverse glasses?

[foone]

one of my comedic fetishes is making up nonsensical fetishes and then not explaining them so that I can confuse people.

[telivanistoolateparty]

And horror

It’s like one of those holy trinity doohickeys

[foone]

definitely. I tried to make a venn diagram of this once. I ran into a problem where I laughed too hard at one of the pre-entered labels and thus never finished it:

[chongoblog]

Dead center is “Fear”

[commiechair]

done

[ralfmaximus]

Some users report Firefox scoffing CPU power

: You guessed it: looks like it's a so-called AI

Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of… naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference.

Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false:

If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false.

Doing that turns off the AI chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out.

[a-for-effort-f-for-execution]

if you want to turn off as much ai crap in firefox as possible, from this post on mozilla's connect forum, you should also set all these to false using about:config:

browser.ml.enable

extensions.ml.enabled

browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled

browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled

browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled

to get rid of the revamped sidebar, which is also trying to incorporate ai:

sidebar.revamp

unrelated anyone got browser recommendations for when we have to jump ship from firefox

[mckitterick]

and now keep in mind that all the other browsers are doing this shit, too, but you can't reconfigure them as with Firefox

on A for Effort's last point, is there any browser that offers users even half as much control as Firefox? if so, I'd like to try it as a backup

[kissycat]

Yesterday I overheard a trans woman saying to another "the fourth law of robotics is that the robot has to be gay and trans" and a cis guy nearby going "oh what? I only know the first three" and her repeating "yeah it says the robot has to be gay and trans. Asimov wrote that" and him earnestly saying "whoa I didn't know that!"

[foone]

tumblr should implement a system where before someone can send you an ask, they have to answer some questions.

so you could set it up to be like "is this about where the URL is to my youtube?" and if you select "yes" it just tells you and doesn't let you send the ask

[foone]

you must defeat my customer service flowchart before you can talk to me

[tom-a-fox]

Puppet show :)