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@lugialv100

Hiya. It's very cold in here. I'm a gamer, sort of. if you can really define someone as such. I'm big on Nintendo and indie games, although I've been really lazy about completing new games lately. Some of my favorite games are Spiral Knights (obviously), The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Splatoon, Super Mario Sunshine, Chibi-Robo and Undertale, if that says anything about me. I also like TF2 quite a lot, but I don't play it that much anymore. Someday I'd like to be an artist, musician and game programmer, but I'm good at about 0.5 of those things and to be honest I probably won't be able to do all three.

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The latest Tweets from Lugi Was Here (@deepbluelugia). 23 and tired currently trying to make a game i probably won't ever finish. Misery Mire

hey bitches, i hate tumblr and i have always hated tumblr so i’m probably just leaving to spite them for being such horrible people. if any of you want to you can follow my twitter to listen to me complain about trite shit and post more memes

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Verizon is leaving the engine of internet culture to sputter and die, and its communities to scramble for a new home.

A former staff engineer, who recently left Tumblr and asked to remain anonymous for professional reasons, tells Vox that the NSFW ban was “in the works for about six months as an official project,” adding that it was given additional resources and named “Project X” in September, shortly before it was announced to the rest of the company at an all-hands meeting. “[The NSFW ban] was going to happen anyway,” the former engineer told me. “Verizon pushed it out the door after the child pornography thing and made the deadline sooner,” but the real problem was always that Verizon couldn’t sell ads next to porn.

Porn on Tumblr is something Verizon needs to wipe out if it’s going to make any money off what it thinks is actually valuable about the platform — enormous fandom and social justice communities that, just before the Verizon acquisition, Khalaf was insisting the staff figure out how to better monetize.

On that note-

Two former Tumblr employees said they were alarmed when Khalaf chose Black Lives Matter as an example of a community that the company should focus on converting into Yahoo media consumers. One told The Verge, “Simon explicitly said that Black Lives Matter was an opportunity to [make] a ton of money.”