Micki

Hi! I'm a female gamer. I support equality for all! I usually post art and other things as well. I was born with amniotic band syndrome which affected the development of my hands. But through many surgeries, doctors reconstructed my hands to make them usable. If you have any questions about my hands, feel free to ask!

[pseud0surge0n]

Refs of all Zeke`s fits from the show! Character model traced off of an official character model which I slightly edited (other fits under the spoiler)

[juney-blues]

why is it called a "stick" of butter. that is blatantly a The Ingot

[sansthepinecone]

THE BUTTER INGOT

[nightcoffee365]

You absolutely would still need a smelter and at least two perks.

[meckamecha]

I got a laptop with Windows 11 for an IT course so I can get certified, and doing the first time device set-up for it made me want to commit unspeakable violence

Windows 11 should not exist, no one should use it for any reason, it puts ads in the file explorer and has made it so file searches are also web searches and this cannot be turned off except through registry editing. Whoever is responsible for those decisions should be killed, full stop.

Switch to linux, it's free and it's good.

[kuromi-hoemie]

u r absolutely right I have SO many complaints about Windows omg.

For anyone who'd like to follow along, I'm gonna share how to get around those things with group policies bc they're more user friendly and descriptive than registry editor imo :3 I'll also show how to get around needing a Microsoft account to get setup.

For the Device Setup

"OOBE" stands for Out Of Box Experience which is what that setup workflow is. But it also happens to be a folder with a little program in it that'll let you skip connecting to the internet; this makes it so you don't have to sign up with a Microsoft account and can just use a normal local one instead. And it already comes preinstalled! Here's how you get to it:

Hold Shift + F10, or Shift + Fn + F10 depending on your keyboard.

Click inside the window that pops up, type the following and press enter afterwards to run it: OOBE\BypassNRO

I believe it should restart your computer automatically, but if not then restart your computer or type: shutdown /r /t 0 /f

Now when you're brought back to the setup workflow, the page where you connect to the internet will have a new button on it that lets you say you don't have internet. Clicking that and proceeding through the rest of the setup lets you get around the Microsoft account thing.

Group Policies

You don't have to know much about them, these are just a bunch of specific settings for what your computer can or can't do that lets you decide how it works in different ways.

I'm gonna show you how to turn off the recommendations and internet stuff basically. For now bring up search and type gpedit, pick this

It'll open up to Local Group Policy Editor and we can get started :3c

Start Recommendations

In the side menu, go to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Start Menu and Taskbar. Click on Settings to sort them with all the "Turn off" ones bumped to the top.

Here's what you should set:

Turn off user tracking: enabled

Turn off feature advertisement balloon notifications: enabled

Remove Recommended section from Start Menu: enabled

Remove Personalized Website Recommendations from the Recommended section in the Start Menu: enabled

Do not search Internet: enabled

Windows Spotlight

Back in the side menu, go down to Windows Components > Cloud Content

Turn off all Windows spotlight features: enabled

Do not use diagnostic data for tailored experiences: enabled

Cortana

In the side menu, this one's back at the top under Computer Configuration. You're gonna want to go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Search

Allow Cortana: disabled

Don't search the web or display web results in Search: enabled

News and Interests

In the side menu go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > News and interests.

Enable news and interests on the taskbar: disabled

Microsoft Account Login Nudges

When you don't use a Microsoft account they'll nudge you repeatedly to sign in so you can "get the most out of your experience" *gag*. The group policy for turning that off has a note that suggests it might not work with Windows 11 though (implicitly), so you can close the group policy editor window now and for this last one let's just open up the regular settings.

Go to System > Notifications > Additional settings, then uncheck all the boxes. And there ya go! (✿◠‿◠)ﾉ u are done.

Group policies are kind of a rabbit hole so while there is a lot more you could change or read into, for your own sanity's sake I would advise against it and say call it a day lol

[meckamecha]

This is all extremely good information, thank you very much for the addition!

[shrimpblaster]

I endorse this as an IT technician. I do this to every new Win11 device I set up.

As a bonus, run Chris Titus Tech's debloat tool on it.

Having Fun with Technology

It allows you to add tools, remove/disable shitty parts of windows, and easily change some settings. My default is running the preset for a desktop/laptop and applying security update settings, but there are so many options to customize. I used it on my personal laptop.

[procyon-potor]

If you have Windows 10/11 Home, you might have to install the Local Group Policy editor to make any of these changes. Fortunately the installer's already in there, you just have to run it. I followed the instructions below-- be sure to run your cmd as an administrator or else you get an error. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-to-enable-the-gpeditmsc-on-windows-10-and-11/dbc76919-f2b5-4dec-a2b7-bcf545c34d00

[k-eke]

My thoughts about AI artists.

[dyingataregularspeed]

I made these for myself but I figured they might be found useful :) (eyeballed, so its not 100% accurate)

[theslowesthnery]

these have in very high likelihood already been posted by other people since morgott is so popular, but just for completion's sake: he also has a few audio files that don't exist in the TalkMsg files in which all dialogue (including a bunch of dialogue that isn't used in the final game, as well as dialogue that doesn't have corresponding audio files left in the game) is transcribed. these audio files still exist in the current version of the game, so like i said, it's likely that other people have already posted them

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[gecko1011010]

[dailybayonetta]

Bayonetta 3 (2022) ♦

[tobiasrieper]

BAYONETTA 3 (2022)

↳ Avavago!

[calebwittebane]

punishing my shitty spine by laying down on my Spike Mat. losing 1 HP each second

[calebwittebane]

arghh

[calebwittebane]

oof

[calebwittebane]

hluurrgh

[calebwittebane]

[geniusoflove]

don't give your cat boy milk he'll shit himself

noted

[geniusoflove]

video game loading screen tips

[lunnefisk]

[arahir]

Where's the spirit essay jojo

oh you mean the essay about how spirit untamed is legitimately the most evil thing i have ever seen and knowledge of its existence caused me to question whether humanity can truly be redeemed? you mean that essay? i need you to understand that i think dishing on children's media is stupid. children, and young girls especially, are constantly derided for what they like. i'm not here to do that. likewise, i'm not here to dish on sequels and reboots. i love sequels and reboots. i even liked the hobbit movies. i have no taste and won't attempt to force my taste on others. no. i'm here to say that spirit untamed is an unmitigated crime against both god and man in every way a piece of media can be because it attempts to build on the unparalleled masterpiece that came before it.

and i know i'm right. i've never been more right. what the fuck is spirit untamed, you ask? here's a trailer. you'll note they turned off comments. every official iteration of this has comments turned off. what i'm about to say in this essay is very much fellow-feeling for people of a certain age and they've made their thoughts explicitly clear basically everywhere this sequel film has been talked about. if you don't want to watch the above trailer or can't, it's a cgi animated horse girl movie with all the horse girl accoutrements. she moves to a small town, she's a little weird, she loves animals, she makes friends. presumably something bad is happening and she will fix it with horses and friendship. once again, i'm not here to dish on that. i love cgi and i'm a horse girl. i learned how to ride on a mustang. this is a movie about me. that's fine. if this were the only spirit that had ever existed, it would be fine.

unfortunately, this is a sequel to a much better movie, 2002's traditionally animated spirit: stallion of the cimmaron. when i say it's a "better movie" i mean that i'm not totally sure two movies so different can exist in the same universe. because the 2002 movie was told from the perspective of the HORSE as voiced by MATT DAMON and it was literally about him SABOTAGING WESTWARD EXPANSION and FUCKING THE EVIL UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT and DESTROYING INDUSTRY.

there are exactly two relevant humans in the film: the colonel (he's a colonel) and little creek (he's a lakota boy who gets captured by the united states government along with spirit, the titular horse). i'll let you guess who the bad guy is! no i won't. it's the united states government which is accurately depicted as an accessory of capitalist expansion west as represented by the railroad specifically, to the detriment of all things good. the first time we see anyone in uniform, they're killing natives in an unproved massacre on a native village. shortly after, the colonel captures spirit, and then little creek after that. when the colonel sees little creek, he comments on his race in a way that is malicious and real, and then has him put not in the stockade but tied up where they tie unbroken horses, where they have tied spirit. the movie never attempts to sidestep what it's depicting or saying. it says it plainly, in a way any child or adult can understand. it's uncompromising.

honestly, i'm kind of shocked this movie hasn't entered into the modern sphere of discourse a little more. maybe it's because it's unimpeachable. no one can disagree that it's visually one of the most beautiful animated movies out there. no one can disagree with the message, because it's so simple and true: yes, the government destroyed native populations. yes, it existed largely as an arm of capitalism to aid westward expansion at the expense of native populations and the land itself. the dichotomy of good and evil is so clear in this one and the evil is american.

this is the climactic scene:

spirit--who has just destroyed the railroad with little creek's help--tries to escape the actual literal united states government who are trying to actually kill this horse and this lakota boy with actual guns. i think little creek actually gets shot, but not fatally. they escape together by jumping across a canyon, solidifying the eagle symbolism that the movie used repeatedly as a metaphor for freedom and the spirit of the west, but the west-west. like the actual land in the west. not whatever texas thinks it is. it ends with little creek letting spirit go (this scene apparently still makes me cry 20 years later so JOT that down) along with his own horse so they can go live in horseful peace in the (titular) cimarron, which in this movie is an effective stand-in for the unmolested west--though the area depicted is largely a fantasy mishmash of various areas.

full stop i'm a emotionally compromised about any discussion of the american west and history. it's been most of my life and the depth and nuance is endless. we could examine the rights and the wrongs of the national park system, of preservation over conservation, over the drastic and continued and literal physical marginalization of native people and cultures. we can also get deep into wild horses in this area specifically today, how they're rounded up, why, and where they ultimately end up. all the efficacy of that. i've been to more bureau of land management auctions than i can count, and even trained a few wild horses. i'm not going to get into any of that here. i just want you to know that this animated horse movie, with music by bryan adams and hans zimmer, is the closest thing we have had to a mainstream kid's movie addressing any of it. any of the reality and any of the history.

it depicts the government sanctioned destruction of native populations, it shows how the "untouched" west was actually very much touched by native populations prior to industrial expansion west but not in a way that destroyed those areas, it critiques the very concept of taming the west, and it shows that manifest destiny and westward expansion as represented in the movie by the railroad had a very real toll on nature in and of itself and required vast fucking resources to accomplish. it even shows that they were really shitty to horses in the old west. and again, not to harp on it, but it absolutely 100% is the only mainstream animated film that shows an unprovoked massacre of a native village by the government. and it did all this no exposition, almost no dialogue at all. it just puts it on screen in stunning animation. i dare any studio to even attempt a movie like this today. no one would even try.

NATURALLY, THIS GIVEN, I WOULD FEEL SOME RESERVATIONS ABOUT A CUTESY SEQUEL WHERE SPIRIT IS LITERALLY TAMED BY THE DAUGHTER OF THE RAILROAD OWNER.

[junewild]

reblogging again to add this meme i dug out of my meme folders

[scooplery]

Panera has just released a line of swimsuits that say only SOUP in huge letters on them and I thought of you

PANERA? BREAD??

[olliums]

yeah

https://swimsoups.com

[tahthetrickster]

[ericvanderburg]

Google reportedly made it difficult for smartphone users to find privacy settings

http://i.securitythinkingcap.com/S0hXdd

[flying-press]

Google is not a company to trust with your own personal data at all. If Google intentionally make location settings deceptive and hard to find, why should you trust them with your financial history (Google Pay); your "anonymised" voice clips (Google Assistant); your memories of your friends and relatives who may not want anything to do with Google (Google Photos); purchase confirmation/receipts (Gmail automatically sorting such emails to separate group upon arrival [no way to know about an email's content unless it is opened and read]); your personal thoughts you may not be ready to share to anyone, perhaps even from oppressive governments (Google Search) ...

Go open DuckDuckGo or Startpage. Either is better than using Google Search (and Bing) directly. Try Brave Browser instead of Chrome since Chrome collects so much. NewPipe (Android only) is a nice alternative to using the official YouTube app. ProtonMail and Tutanota for email (ProtonMail offers the least amount of storage at 500 megabytes for free users, but can last you a long time even with maybe ~10 emails a week; Tutanota offers 1 gigabyte). An Invidious instance seen on docs.invidious.io/Invidious-Instances.md (type that in manually in your browser for added privacy) for a front-end alternative to YouTube where you can watch the same videos...

Try looking through privacytools.io. See what they show on there can help take back control of your own personal data.

Apple is no better either. Try to stay away from both Apple and Google as much as you can.

[livngdeadfemme]

commissions i have done this week :3

[micki154]

Thank you for drawing my vampire girl! ❤️

[greenekatgrey]

[withswords]

[what-even-is-thiss]

This reminds me of the time I was reading articles about facial reconstruction from skeletons and found a medieval one from Dublin that looked like a stock photo of a hipster

[ripvaccinated2017-2021-deactiva]

For several millennia every man has just been some guy

[blackarachnya]

[antimagenta]

get in girls we’re going to the sexy sire’s sexy bat castle