3l H4ck3r C0mf0r7's reblogs & junk

Some cool stuff I reblog for no reason at all, along with the rare piece of original content. Hope you enjoy your time here.

[suppermariobroth]

Top: in a 2015 Miiverse post, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker director Shinya Hiratake revealed that the reason Captain Toad cannot jump in that game, and presumably in his other playable appearances such as in Super Mario 3D World, was because of his heavy backpack.

Bottom: however, this contradicts Captain Toad’s earlier characterization. In Super Mario Galaxy 2, another member of the Toad Brigade says that he saw Captain Toad perform a series of wall jumps. When Captain Toad is later encountered on top of the cliff, he still has his backpack, indicating he was easily able to make impressive jumps while wearing it. It is unknown if Shinya Hiratake knew of this and dismissed it in favor of the new characterization, or was simply unaware that Captain Toad was supposed to be able to jump.

Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Source: twitter.com user “HEYimHeroic”

[pablexworld]

Reading this, my brain instantly jumped to a muscular Captain Toad doing the walljumps rendered in the JJBA style. And now I must see that.

[loverofpiggies]

Ask Error - My ideas on how it would have concluded

First things first– Blueberry being trapped in the antivoid for so long would have made him an error. His official error design is here:

He’s just missing the errors, bcz I forgot to put them in, oops. Blueberror wouldn’t have been particularly DANGEROUS- not in the way Error is. A lot of an Error’s danger, comes from their final thoughts as non-errors. Blueberror’s final thoughts would not include ill will on others, so he’s less dangerous because of that. But he would definitely be, unhinged. Also, once someone becomes an error, they can’t turn back.

Error would have returned, to see Blueberry turned into– what we all sorta just called ‘Blueberror’.  Error would have actually been horrified by this- even if he didn’t show it outwardly. He wouldn’t have liked this outcome at ALL, promise you.

The main thing to note, is that Blueberror would have liked to make friends– and would have actually begun to socialize with those in the Omega Timeline (once he was deemed not threatening, but definitely kinda wacky). In fact, Blueberror would have recognized he could not go back to his old timeline the way he is now, and would have literally given his world, to the other Blueberry that was in the Omega Timeline. So, the other Blueberry would have had a happy ending there. Blueberror would have gone through all the stages– he would have been furious at Error, nearly trying to kill him- remember, errors aren’t rational, and behavior can be sporadic– but eventually, Blueberror would have come to a conclusion, that he would want to help those in the Omega Timeline, per Frisk’s permission. – Error Undyne would have become a massive issue– actually seeing Error in his glasses by accident sometime, gets her to irrationally believe, that those glasses belonged to Alphys. This would have sent Error Undyne into a murderous rage, becoming a genuine threat to EVERYONE. I’ve always called Error a manbaby, because he IS a manbaby, and he’s a lot less threatening then he pretends to be– but Error Undyne is the real deal. SHE is an actual threat. Blueberror is trying to hold on to what little sanity he has left, and try to convince Error to help stop Error Undyne. Error would help, only because her existence pisses him off. Long story short, everyone would have worked together in the Omega Timeline to stop Error Undyne (I can’t recall what I had planned in detail for Error Paps, sorry folks) and even though Blueberror gave up his own timeline to someone else, he actually finds a bit of a home in the Omega Timeline.

Error– doesn’t change at all. He helps them stop Error Undyne sure, but. Like I said, it’s because he didn’t like her. Shortly after she is stopped, and Blueberror is accepted into the Omega Timeline, Error just. Leaves- disappears. This is actually pretty normal for Errors, tbh. They’re antisocial as heck and they just sorta- disappear all the time.

Also don’t worry! Blueberror is actually very happy helping out in the Omega Timeline. He has lots of friends there. He also got over his rage towards Error, recognizing that Blueberror’s anger was just poisoning him. He chose to forgive, and try and accept his new lot in life. I mean, Blueberror gets cool universe-bendy powers, so that’s neat. What are those powers exactly? Man I do not remember, but errors get cool powers. His power had something to do with stars…. dang. Sorry folks. – Remember– Blueberror is DEFINITELY messed up. He sorta develops this weird, half-innocent sense of humor– it’s kinda like he just stopped being on the same wavelength as everyone else, and would probably say things and make jokes that make people uncomfortable by accident. This was all planned a long time ago, so details have been forgotten. Lots of details, sorry!

But. Yeah to keep things short as POSSIBLE, this is essentially what was planned. There was gonna be big character arcs, big confrontations with some of the Omega people- huge timeline shenanigans, but. Truth is, once again a lot of the details have been lost. ;;; If there are contradictions, sorry it’s been a while.

(He genuinely doesn’t want u to be scared of him. He just looks a little spooky. Maybe don’t make that face, Blueberror.)

Also.

Error is actually Geno, after the events of Aftertale. Geno is messing around with his determination powers, after Sans tells him not to mess with that. Geno does– and accidentally sends himself into the antivoid. In his last moments of sanity, he’s furious that he got his happy ending– and yet this happened to him. In that moment, he hated everyone and everything outside himself.

Good news- you can still enjoy the happy ending of Aftertale! Because Geno deserves that. You can also view it as- hey, there are tons of parallel timelines- so there will always be a happy Geno. Also more good news– Aftertale was concluded, and AskError was unable to be, so. Geno for sure got his happy ending anyway, and his sad ending was never truly written into existence.

Anyway. Sorry this was rushed. Yall deserved something sooner, and I tried to write up longer conclusions, including every character I was building up to in AskError, but. Frankly, I was just…. physically unable to. So, I hope this suffices somehow. ;;; sorry.

[batshaped]

character concept: defrosted forum poster from 2004 travels america spreading love and confusion to 2021’s most sad and jaded social media burnouts

this is my original work. other versions are reposts.

originally posted to twitter. also check out my webcomic

[dankmemeuniversity]

[randomslasher]

Avatar: The Last Airbender and Bioshock Infinite, huh? 

…Elizabeth the time bender, maybe? Reality bender? hm. 

[former-teacher-still-angry]

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of time

Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts

[flyingfishflopsthings]

Sword eye for the Pokemon guy

[pixie-mage]

Psych and Kingdom Hearts

Oh my god

Shawn: “Dude Gus look! I’m a samurai!”

Gus: “Shawn, you know full well a samurai sword looks nothing like that. Put that down before you hurt someone, namely ME.”

Heartless: *appear*

Shawn & Gus: *girlish screams*

[loverofpiggies]

Bobs Burgers and Animal Crossing

Actually that sounds very cute!

[pablexworld]

Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Carole & Tuesday.

I can't even imagine that monstrosity. The OST would be guaranteed awesome, at least.

[void-milf]

fyi the point of fucking up your data patterns isnt to avoid suspicion. it’s to make EVERYONE suspicious. same logic as the bloc, pals.  protect your comrades, be suspicious. ESPECIALLY if you aren’t doing anything likely to get you arrested.

[void-milf]

the state is less omniscient and significantly more incompetent than you’d think. overextend their resources at every possible opportunity.  make them cry wolf repeatedly. run their data analysis agents fucking ragged.  and strike. attack.

[37womenwieldingknives]

YES i’m a postgrad statistics researcher and i can tell you that the state honestly has NO IDEA what to do with the data it collects, it has an obsession with big data but it’s almost impossible to work with in practice. the traditional statistical approaches that are used can’t be scaled up, the adapted approaches are substantially weakened, and the machine learning approaches have the same problems and often tell them nothing. data scientists are only just coming around to these issues too, most still just push on with it anyway - incompetence is the word. above all this though, like you say, the biggest issue for the state is at the point of data collection. they will NEVER get anything useful if they’re collecting shitty messy data. they will eventually figure out that the real solution is working how to collect accurate and meaningful data, we should make it as difficult as possible for them to do that

[afraidofamericans]

This makes me think that we need WAAAY more apps that generate junk data

[queeranarchism]

Apps that generate junk data? tell me moooore.

[anarchopuppy]

Ooh I know this one!

Ad Nauseum is an adblocker that stores the ads it blocks and continuously generates fake clicks, fucking with analytics and costing the ad companies money

TrackMeNot automatically does randomly generated searches on a variety of search engines to obscure your real searches and fuck with analytics, and you can set it up to work with anything that has a search bar (including facebook, twitter, amazon, youtube, etc)

WhatCampaign replaces analytics parameters in links with the string “FuckOff”. I thought there was a similar extension that used random strings, but I can’t seem to find it

Privacy Possum is a fork of Privacy Badger with a focus on costing tracking companies as much money as possible, and idk if my limited tech knowledge is enough to understand what it does but the description does say it falsifies some data so that’s good enough for me

@afraidofamericans

[mayflower-gal]

Boy it SURE would be a SHAME if this were SPREAD AROUND for everyone TO SEE

[ryanthedemiguy]

Ad Nauseum: only as an add-on for Firefox

TrackMeNot: only as an add-on for Firefox and Chrome

WhatCampaign: only as an add-on for Firefox and Chrome

Privacy Possum: only as an add-on for Firefox and Chrome

[ryanthedemiguy]

Are there any for mobile devices/browsers?

[pablexworld]

Firefox for Android supports extensions, unlike Chrome for Android. Enjoy.

[ryanthedemiguy]

None of these work on mobile. I checked.

[pablexworld]

Well, non-Preview Firefox does let you install them (Preview Firefox has had an engine change, and because of this extension support on those versions is very limited, but the normal version will try to install and run almost all extensions, even the ones in the desktop listing), and many FF addons do work (I use uBlock on mobile this way, among others). However after saying that I still checked, and at least TrackMeNot’s settings cannot be changed. It seems to me there’s some click behavior that’s being relied on that doesn’t work on mobile FF because it’s a touchscreen instead.

It wouldn’t hurt to report that kind of stuff to the extension developers, since they probably don’t know mobile FF can support extensions, and thus didn’t test them there.

[pablexworld]

I use Privacy Possum though, and it is working here.

[void-milf]

fyi the point of fucking up your data patterns isnt to avoid suspicion. it’s to make EVERYONE suspicious. same logic as the bloc, pals.  protect your comrades, be suspicious. ESPECIALLY if you aren’t doing anything likely to get you arrested.

[void-milf]

the state is less omniscient and significantly more incompetent than you’d think. overextend their resources at every possible opportunity.  make them cry wolf repeatedly. run their data analysis agents fucking ragged.  and strike. attack.

[37womenwieldingknives]

YES i’m a postgrad statistics researcher and i can tell you that the state honestly has NO IDEA what to do with the data it collects, it has an obsession with big data but it’s almost impossible to work with in practice. the traditional statistical approaches that are used can’t be scaled up, the adapted approaches are substantially weakened, and the machine learning approaches have the same problems and often tell them nothing. data scientists are only just coming around to these issues too, most still just push on with it anyway - incompetence is the word. above all this though, like you say, the biggest issue for the state is at the point of data collection. they will NEVER get anything useful if they’re collecting shitty messy data. they will eventually figure out that the real solution is working how to collect accurate and meaningful data, we should make it as difficult as possible for them to do that

[afraidofamericans]

This makes me think that we need WAAAY more apps that generate junk data

[queeranarchism]

Apps that generate junk data? tell me moooore.

[anarchopuppy]

Ooh I know this one!

Ad Nauseum is an adblocker that stores the ads it blocks and continuously generates fake clicks, fucking with analytics and costing the ad companies money

TrackMeNot automatically does randomly generated searches on a variety of search engines to obscure your real searches and fuck with analytics, and you can set it up to work with anything that has a search bar (including facebook, twitter, amazon, youtube, etc)

WhatCampaign replaces analytics parameters in links with the string “FuckOff”. I thought there was a similar extension that used random strings, but I can’t seem to find it

Privacy Possum is a fork of Privacy Badger with a focus on costing tracking companies as much money as possible, and idk if my limited tech knowledge is enough to understand what it does but the description does say it falsifies some data so that’s good enough for me

@afraidofamericans

[mayflower-gal]

Boy it SURE would be a SHAME if this were SPREAD AROUND for everyone TO SEE

[ryanthedemiguy]

Ad Nauseum: only as an add-on for Firefox

TrackMeNot: only as an add-on for Firefox and Chrome

WhatCampaign: only as an add-on for Firefox and Chrome

Privacy Possum: only as an add-on for Firefox and Chrome

[ryanthedemiguy]

Are there any for mobile devices/browsers?

[pablexworld]

Firefox for Android supports extensions, unlike Chrome for Android. Enjoy.

[ryanthedemiguy]

None of these work on mobile. I checked.

[pablexworld]

Well, non-Preview Firefox does let you install them (Preview Firefox has had an engine change, and because of this extension support on those versions is very limited, but the normal version will try to install and run almost all extensions, even the ones in the desktop listing), and many FF addons do work (I use uBlock on mobile this way, among others). However after saying that I still checked, and at least TrackMeNot's settings cannot be changed. It seems to me there's some click behavior that's being relied on that doesn't work on mobile FF because it's a touchscreen instead.

It wouldn't hurt to report that kind of stuff to the extension developers, since they probably don't know mobile FF can support extensions, and thus didn't test them there.

[void-milf]

fyi the point of fucking up your data patterns isnt to avoid suspicion. it’s to make EVERYONE suspicious. same logic as the bloc, pals.  protect your comrades, be suspicious. ESPECIALLY if you aren’t doing anything likely to get you arrested.

[void-milf]

the state is less omniscient and significantly more incompetent than you’d think. overextend their resources at every possible opportunity.  make them cry wolf repeatedly. run their data analysis agents fucking ragged.  and strike. attack.

[37womenwieldingknives]

YES i’m a postgrad statistics researcher and i can tell you that the state honestly has NO IDEA what to do with the data it collects, it has an obsession with big data but it’s almost impossible to work with in practice. the traditional statistical approaches that are used can’t be scaled up, the adapted approaches are substantially weakened, and the machine learning approaches have the same problems and often tell them nothing. data scientists are only just coming around to these issues too, most still just push on with it anyway - incompetence is the word. above all this though, like you say, the biggest issue for the state is at the point of data collection. they will NEVER get anything useful if they’re collecting shitty messy data. they will eventually figure out that the real solution is working how to collect accurate and meaningful data, we should make it as difficult as possible for them to do that

[afraidofamericans]

This makes me think that we need WAAAY more apps that generate junk data

[queeranarchism]

Apps that generate junk data? tell me moooore.

[anarchopuppy]

Ooh I know this one!

Ad Nauseum is an adblocker that stores the ads it blocks and continuously generates fake clicks, fucking with analytics and costing the ad companies money

TrackMeNot automatically does randomly generated searches on a variety of search engines to obscure your real searches and fuck with analytics, and you can set it up to work with anything that has a search bar (including facebook, twitter, amazon, youtube, etc)

WhatCampaign replaces analytics parameters in links with the string “FuckOff”. I thought there was a similar extension that used random strings, but I can’t seem to find it

Privacy Possum is a fork of Privacy Badger with a focus on costing tracking companies as much money as possible, and idk if my limited tech knowledge is enough to understand what it does but the description does say it falsifies some data so that’s good enough for me

@afraidofamericans

[mayflower-gal]

Boy it SURE would be a SHAME if this were SPREAD AROUND for everyone TO SEE

[ryanthedemiguy]

Ad Nauseum: only as an add-on for Firefox

TrackMeNot: only as an add-on for Firefox and Chrome

WhatCampaign: only as an add-on for Firefox and Chrome

Privacy Possum: only as an add-on for Firefox and Chrome

[ryanthedemiguy]

Are there any for mobile devices/browsers?

[pablexworld]

Firefox for Android supports extensions, unlike Chrome for Android. Enjoy.

[mscleopatrajones]

[ventusregina]

One of the biggest power moves I have here in the midwest when someone is being racist, sexist, homophobic is that I tell them that I’ll pray for them so that god can grace them with empathy, or that “I feel sorry the devil has made his home in your heart” cause you have not felt joy until you’ve flipped the script on a suburban house mom or an old racist white man.  The joy of watching their face in shock and confusion while they’re called out in Christian Standards the same way they try to cover for their homophobia is amazing.  100% suggest it, at the very least it gets them to shut the fuck up.

[mckitterick]

Good Christian Hacks, an open-ended series

[frenchroasted]

Works wonders in the South, too.

And if they start to stutter and quote some cherry-picked Bible verse at you, come back at them with “yes, even the Devil can quote scripture, but that doesn’t mean he understands it. I’ll pray for God to grant you understanding in the fullness of His word.”

[gxldslvgs-deactivated20130516]

[aurevoir-mes-amis-deactivated20]

why are people even questioning obesity in america

[merlinsbearditsthedoctor]

why is your tea liquidised?

[american-auror-story]

….. Where exactly do you live that the tea isn’t liquid?!?

[merlinsbearditsthedoctor]

ENGLAND. WHERE IT IS IN A BAG AND YOU MAKE IT YOURSELF.

like what do you do with already liquid tea? Microwave it?

[asmallvillageincanada]

No it’s sweet tea you drink it cold

[abbysrwk-deactivated20140508]

WHO DRINKS COLD TEA???

[randomthingieshere]

HAVE YOU NEVER HAD ICED/SWEET TEA BEFORE?!?

[prouwu-deactivated20190721]

so i reblogged this from a british person and i’ve been laughing at their tags for 600 years

[cloudyobsession]

England, you stole tea from China.  You’ve had it a mere 4 centuries compared to their 30+.  Don’t play like you’re some kind of authority.

[starkinglyhandsome-deactivated2]

[skeletons ooh-ing]

[saveoursestras]

Shots fired. World War Tea has officially begun.

[myfriendscallmemaury]

#INTO THE HARBOR

[theanimangagirl]

[prettyboyshyflizzy]

Englad doesn’t own anything

[dad-monster-deactivated20171222]

except that time we owned most of the world

[dangerbooze]

[that-artgirl-deactivated2019081]

If I stop reblogging this, I’ve gone to the other side.

[navybluenestea-deactivated20191]

I have only seen this legendary post in screenshots, so today is a blessed day.

[phlying-squirrel]

HAH

BOSTON TEA PARTY PART 2

[vampire-spit]

HOLY HELL I FOUND IT

[lilzodiac]

And this is why I love Tumblr

[dmzenog]

Drinking cold tea is like drinking cold hot chocolate. Sure, you *can* do it, but you *really shouldn’t*

[brownirisandcurls-deactivated20]

Behold concerned Brit. Chocolate Milk

[sebsticles]

I only see this on pinterest omg….

[alwaystiredheaux]

OMFG

@riverwriter

[joonscupid]

BEHOLD THE GREATEST TUMBLR POST

[siriusly-fuck-off]

“world war tea” is the best play on words i’ve heard in weeks

[inifitywar]

this post is a wild ride from start to finish

[itsliterallythis]

I haven’t seen this since chocolate milk was added. Is that really just an American thing? You’re missing out guys!

[nabyss]

😂😂😂

[dontwantthenextcommanderiwantyou]

Cold tea

Cold hot chocolate aka chocolate milk

Cold coffee

I mean, do yall even know about cold water or is that an American thing too???

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

YOU GUYS DRINK COFFEE COLD AS WELL???

[inkededucatednnerdy]

@nuggsmum @angryschnauzer it’s back

[trapcard]

she snapped

[honestlyprettychill]

hOLY SHIT BARBIE <3 <3

[pablexworld]

Not sure what I'm supposed to take away from the fact that this genuinely took me by surprise.

Like, what is supposed to be so shocking about this anyway? Is that a learned reflex too?

[blackbitchenergy]

This was so fucking satisfying to watch

[endangered-justice-seeker]

WOW

[viostormcaller]

WTF

[jehovahhthickness]

I love science

[mindyourownmadness]

[howtoimpersonateanadult]

If you are on prescription medication, check to make sure it doesn't interact with your cold medicine - dextromethorphan, a common med, is not supposed to be taken with many mental health medications.

[grayson-22]

REBLOG TO SAVE SOMEONE'S LIFE!

Clogging the ER when you're able to breathe and not actually dying could kill someone. For the love of god just stay home unless you're 100% for real dying.

[fuckyahumor]

important!! save!

[radio-nano]

IMPORTANT :

No! Don't take Advil!!!

[mintyliciousbjd]

Very useful. And yes it’s important to note that since the initial post there are studies being released stating use of NSAIDs like ibuprofen (Advil) should be avoided. Source: https://bgr.com/2020/03/15/coronavirus-update-advil-and-ibuprofen-not-advised-to-treat-symptoms/

[inahiddenplace]

I love kids they’re all like.. “when i grow up i’m gonna be an astronaut and a chef and a doctor and an olympic swimmer” like that self confidence! That drive! That optimism! Where does it go

[alexundefined]

It gets destroyed by adults not believing in you and telling you to pick a realistic career. And by society creating all these obstacles to the point that you’re too tired to try.

[thechargrey]

But they’re not really unrealistic, SOMEBODY is going to be an olympic swimmer and it might as well be you.

[thechargrey]

Actually I want to talk about this a little more than I did, because olympic swimming is incredible and works perfectly to talk about attaining goals.

I used to be a varsity swimmer, and I was damn good, but I was forced into it by my parents and completely lost my love for it and therein my drive. But in high school I was swimming against such talented swimmers like Olympic Swimmer Missy Franklin. I’ve met her, and the main difference between her and me was that I was strong but had no passion, but she was strong BECAUSE she had passion. 

And I could have been good, really good, maybe even Olympic good. I even have the predisposition for it, been swimming since I was 2 years old, have a mom who was almost an olympic swimmer. Missy didn’t have either of those things, she just wanted it, loved it, had been doing it for a long time, and decided she was going to kick ass at it.

Right, that’s great and all, but I completely missed my opportunity to be an olympic swimmer, yeah? and can never achieve those dreams I had as a kid? No, not even though. There was this whole thought that female athletes peak when they’re 17 years old and lose their skills quickly after that, and male athletes peak around 19. But then Olympic Swimmer Dara Torres shows up. She was an olympic swimmer when she was 17, 21 and 25. Pretty normal age for retirement. She had a few kids. She kicked butt at being a mom. 

And then at 33 years old she decides she’s bored or something gets back in shape and kicks so much ass at the trials that she lands herself on the Olympic Team ONCE AGAIN. And then 8 years later, she decides, heck I’m 41 now, no one has ever made the olympic swim team as old as I am, I want to get in shape yet again and teach these children how sports work.

And she still has the record for oldest US Olympic Swimmer, not even any men have beat out that record.

So basically what I’m saying is you could be an olympic swimmer, you really could be. And there are obviously a lot of things stopping you and trying to get in your way: your brain, society, too much chocolate cake for example. But if you really dedicate yourself to it and love it with all of your heart you could, you really could.

And lets say olympic swimming isn’t your jam? That’s cool too. There isn’t a single skill in this world that you can’t learn if you absolutely love it and want to. Any skill you want is going to take time. There are countless famous people who started learning a skill after 20, 30, 40, or even 50. Not a single person has even been president under age 35 (most likely because you’re not allowed to be, but there’s a reason for that). Whatever you want to do you’re probably going to be bad at first, and I’m talking really shitty.

Van Gogh got started in his 20′s and was thought to have no artistic talent at first and was forced to sit in the back of classrooms where the worst artists in the class sat. So yeah you’ll probably be bad, like really bad and everyone including you will think you’re bad. If you stick with it though, if you’re willing to work for years and years, if you keep loving it after all the pain it’s given you, 

then you might just paint Starry Night.

[ooksaidthelibrarian]

#looks like there’s still time for me to learn how to draw … YES. As someone who started drawing at 35 and who always was like: ‘eh, I can’t draw a stick figure to save my life, but I would love to be able to’ this is near and dear to my heart. If you want to draw, start drawing. Keep drawing. Be shit at drawing at first. Keep it up, doodle things on scraps but also draw stuff you don’t think you can draw. Challenge yourself, you will be surprised what you can do. It will be frustrating at times, but it will also be awesome. It is SO much a matter of practice and dedication, not talent.

[arialerendeair]

This applies for writing, too.  

Don’t ever think for a second that it doesn’t!  Want to start writing?  Then write!  You will get better the more you write, the more often, and you will improve, all of the time, as long as you dedicate yourself.  

[lauraannegilman]

The worst lie we tell ourselves is “it’s too late.”

[boodlesandtonicplz-deactivated2]

[1fall2pieces]

@punkocalypse

[pablexworld]

To be honest, I think the only reason I learned to mod games, program and speak English as a kid was because I had no concept of how bad I was at it at the time. And thanks to that total lack of self-consciousness, I made it.

[dreamyfreakout]

what is your most controversial video game hot take? 🎮🎮🎮

[kylierocket]

Games over 10 years old should be free

[ybis]

if you have an in game store, micro transactions, or loot boxes, ur game should be free.

[hoenngarbage]

Ganondorf should and will have sex with every gay man ever

[imsobadatnicknames]

Emulation of any game or game system that is out of production should be fully legal

[flip-this-table]

This ^ Game emulators should be considered archival material and be treated as such. If we don’t save older games somehow, we’re gonna end up with another gap in our media history like all the old films that got destroyed because they were printed on fragile film that studios didn’t care about preserving at the time.

[pablexworld]

Even hotter take: piracy is not real. You should be allowed to fully own the digital media you buy (and if any encryption or magic words are used, and not for online communication, you should have access to the magic words and keys, and be allowed to use, redistribute and repackage them), reverse-engineer it, modify it, audit it, make copies of it and redistribute it all you want (no EULA agreements or DRM telling you when or how to use it). The original developers will still sell their copies, but if someone else decides to make a new copy from the one they bought and give it out for free, that's their decision, and a valid one at that. They're also not allowed to track distributied copies or treat copies differently on their online servers based on their redistribution (or lack thereof). Any measures to check or test the distribution status of any individual copies are not allowed.

Also, for online games, when the servers are taken out, release the server software (and any required data and its private keys) so players can host their servers. If the servers receive updates, they must archive the older server software too, and release it all shortly after the servers go offline (up to 1 month).

[e-seal-deactivated20210319]

AHHHHHHHHHHHH

[rslashrats]

me after sitting on the capitalist toilets for an hour and not being able to feel my own ass

[amagicalduck47]

[wrecktangle]

[pablexworld]

These are the seats at the bus stop I have to go to.

First-hand experience: unpleasant design is to be destroyed on sight, and their creators drowned to death in the bodily pain of their shameful, sinful ways!

For they betrayed the first law of the Designer's Oath: Thou shalt make things easier and more pleasant to use.

[daloy-politsey]

[death-burst]

My usual retort to people who don’t want “universal healthcare/education/basic income/etc.” under the pretense that “the rich shouldn’t have access to it” is that it’s cheaper to just give it to everyone no-question-asked than to try and judge every single case just to exclude a tiny minority of them.

But this tweet thread? This right there? That’s a damn powerful argument. Something that can actually convince people emotionally, more than my cynical, it’s-cheaper-that-way, pragmatic approach.

I’ll keep it, and I’ll re-use it, because it’s with thread like this that you change the world, one opinion at a time.