Do What You Wish

Locaven/Loc. Grounded Dutchman. A jack of many trades, but a master of none. Also secretly a bird. Welcome to my personal hell. Begging tumblr to learn about Hanlon's Razor since 2015.

[apolladay]

Choose a genital situation for yourself! The catch: no standard human arrangements allowed

-none, thank you

-cloaca

-prehensile tentacle

-ovipositor

-detachable penis, a la octopuses

-female spotted hyena clitorophallus

-four penis heads on one shaft, like an echidna

-marsupial-esque three vaginal canals

-snake hemipenis

-bigenital/bigonadal situation--the one who loses the swordfight gets pregnant, like with slugs

-I'll just perform genetic exchange through conjugation like bacteria

-something else (do share in the comments!)

Choose a genital situation for yourself! The catch: no standard human arrangements allowed

none, thank you

cloaca

prehensile tentacle

ovipositor

detachable penis, a la octopuses

female spotted hyena clitorophallus

four penis heads on one shaft, like an echidna

marsupial-esque three vaginal canals

snake hemipenis

bigenital/bigonadal situation*

I'll just perform genetic exchange through conjugation like bacteria

something else (do share in the comments!)

Remaining time: 6 days 6 hours

* the one who loses the swordfight gets pregnant, like with slugs

[qwiddit]

[partlymadeofgold]

This map was designed by Kenyan artist Priya Shah.

You can read about it here: https://minds-africa.org/fabric-map-of-africa-the-art-of-storytelling/

and buy copies of the map here: https://www.miakora.com/fabric-map-of-africa

[awritersrejections]

saw your tags @did-sm1-say-catfish and yes, that link is broken! I looked into it, and it's because there are now multiple maps, including a map of India—

Here's a new link for purchasing purposes

[india-official]

WOW THIS IS SO COOL :O

[snail-fever]

a story about grief

song: world spins madly on by the weepies

[75schiro]

[bobacupcake]

✨ ffxiv job stones - casters✨

black mage - summoner - red mage - pictomancer - blue mage

[absolem0]

Left carby in the rain for too long

[dateamonster]

you could never make me hate magitech/scifantasy settings. fantasy and scifi are two beuatiful women to me and they are kissing with tongue.

[altanirynsi]

To my mutual that left this in the tags...

What do you MEAN "...final Fantasy 14"? I rip part of my soul out of my body to kill god with a 10 foot sword before breakfast. That potato over there keeping my dumbass alive has fucking flying laser rifles and they're the healer. That bunny boy is throwing literal fire and the catgirl next to him has an actual gun and murder robot they probably made themselves.

Of course final fantasy 14!

[ffxivheritageposts]

Certified FFXIV Heritage Post

[vivi-s-corner-of-the-internet]

@totally-gogo-salt you're the potato

[keatxu]

abandonware should be public domain. force companies to actively support and provide products if they don't wanna lose the rights to them

[omikronsoul]

Game companies hate emulation, but none of them seem to understand that a lot of us would just buy ROMs from them directly if we could. I don't want a fifth remake of Final Fantasy IV, I want to pay five bucks for the 3MB file you already made bank with thirty years ago. Nobody who wants to play something for the purpose of retro gaming is going to consider a $40 remake as the alternative option, and we're certainly not going to let the original dissappear. They're crying about opportunity cost for a product they're not even selling.

[justletmeremember]

op i know you're probably talking about like, video games, etc, but this is also critical for research science - my lab has so much abandonware, either because the company's out of business, or the company decided to not maintain it, and it's a fucking nightmare. we have two windows 95 computers that are CRITICAL for performing experiments/data analysis because the software needed is abandonware. one of the main roles for a guy in my lab is to maintain these little dinosaurs because if they go out, we lose access to ~20 years of raw data for research. part of why is that these companies also make their own file types, and make it difficult-to-impossible to convert those file types without their specific software. by habit, i convert all research files to more generic versions (txt, pdf, tif, etc) so that i minimize risk of losing my shit, but some stuff can't be converted.

for example, we have a microscope that is perfectly functional, good microscope, but its software is abandonware because the company refused to maintain it. the company is still in business, still makes essentially the exact same software, but they made all of the old tech incompatible with new software to force people to buy the new microscope tech. it would cost a quarter million dollars to replace this microscope. this perfectly good microscope.

so like, i know a lot of people look at the original post here and go "well op just wants old video games to play" (which is valid! games companies should not be able to push shit to abandonware and then close it off) but also this is critical for like. biomedical research. if y'all had any idea how much basic infrastructure built on science relies on shit that is technically abandonware, you would probably be horrified.

[befuddled-calico-whump]

"I'd destroy the world to protect you" but it's a parent/child relationship

[befuddled-calico-whump]

"I hate everyone but I love you more than anything" but it's two best friends

[befuddled-calico-whump]

"you're the only one who can bring me back when I lose myself" but it's siblings

[greater-than-the-sword]

It's weird how in fiction there's this trope of there being a family that's so large that some of the members go unloved, I have never known this to be a thing that happens in real life and I think it is made up

[greater-than-the-sword]

Thank you finally someone understands my post

[m34tcr33p]

“censorship is a blight” and “tag your posts properly” are two statements that can and do coexist

[chibidarkness1111]

[elleldoe]

absolutely love abusing the power that comes with 3rd person limited pov and just ignoring things and being vague sometimes. does the character know all the details? no? then I don't have to either.

[wobblebees]

Being a notorious robotlover in the current state of "AI" is the worst. I love robots discovering how they process their feelings in fiction, but when a chatbot pretends it knows how to love it feels like an insult to the craft

[alleesaur]

the productivity creatures

[byjove]

I do not agree with veganism as a moral standard. If it is your personal moral stance, that is fine. If you think humans eating meat is inherently immoral, I don’t want to deal with you, you’re hopeless. Vegan ideology behaves more like a sect of evangelical Christianity than a dietary choice.

[literallycrashingoutrn]

Veganism is better for the environment, but claiming that it's a morally superior choice ignores cultural and economic factors that make people eat animal products.

[byjove]

It is not inherently better for the environment. That is the thing. When you begin trying to explain that local, sustainably sourced animal protein is better for the environment than imported plant proteins that are farmed 3,500 miles away using slave labor, they start tuning you out. Down is better for the environment than polyester stuffing, leather is better for the environment than pleather. We should work on making animal agricultural practices more sustainable instead of trying to shame everyone into eating plant products that are also farmed unethically and unsustainably.

[special-lucky-chosen-one]

I fucking hate it here

[some-sort-of-ecologist]

For those of you with android devices, you can use the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) standalone app control program to get rid of all the bloatware, data mining, and AI crap - no coding needed!

[d-e-w-p]

save

[clatterbane]

There are also Android-based alternatives like GrapheneOS and LineageOS, which are pretty easy to install. These are unfortunately available for a more limited range of devices (Graphene is ironically Pixel only, while Lineage supports more), but it's very worth checking out whether one of them might work for your phone.

GrapheneOS: the private and secure mobile OS

GrapheneOS is a security and privacy focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.

LineageOS Android Distribution

Typing this from Graphene now, in fact. But, both of those take the Android Open Source Project, without all the bloatware--and largely de-Google the whole thing. They give you much more control over privacy and what the apps you choose to install can do and access on your phone.

I know Graphene sandboxes everything, including the optionally installed Google Play Services which a lot of apps unfortunately require to run. (Lineage uses an alternative to Play Services instead.) So, you can install what would normally be unacceptably intrusive apps and just lock them away from pulling any funny shit with your data, or phoning home. Including the couple of Google things I do still keep around.

I also prefer running much more transparent, privacy-respecting open source apps where possible. Besides the transparency, I'd rather avoid the shitty tech corps entirely where I can. There are pretty good alternatives available for a lot of the usual suspects.

AlternativeTo lets you find apps and software for Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, iPad, Android, Android Tablets, Web Apps, Online, Windows Tab

An alternative app store:

F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy

[clatterbane]

Also just going to leave this here.

ReVanced

Continuing the legacy of Vanced.

GitHub - ReVanced/revanced-manager: 💊 Application to use ReVanced on Android

💊 Application to use ReVanced on Android . Contribute to ReVanced/revanced-manager development by creating an account on GitHub.

This lets you pretty easily patch some of the worst offender corporate apps to make them behave better.

[hexenmond]

I have a Fairphone 3 running /e/OS and I couldn’t be happier. I think it was a lineageOS fork years ago. Supports a fair range of devices and the community is super helpful. You can also buy phones with it preinstalled!

your data is YOUR data

[mycroftrh]

Far worse, in my opinion, than the famous “he wouldn’t fucking say that” is “he WOULD fucking say that, as part of his facade, but you seem to think he would mean it genuinely”

[chantylay]

Se also "he DID say that and he was LYING, and somehow you didn't notice."