final fantasy xiii defender

ruby/cloud // mid-20s // they/them // lesbian // apologies for the ygo and ff7/13 essays // ao3

[resident-idiot-simp]

[diabetic-best-bi-2]

@prayerith

[chloesimaginationthings]

Robbed from Leon saying this in resident evil requiem,,

(Based off this post by @/SYACVG)

[prayerith]

jill valentineeeeeeeee

[kaylmao]

this strategically placed landmine will allow me to easily dominate the dance dance revolution competition

[the-prophesied-disco-gay]

A friend stopped by

[reptiliannastyboy]

psychopomp

[zeroartsblog]

Raccoon City

[fortzancudo]

GOD today i served a family of 3 and the dad was like “i’ll have a cappuccino” and the kid, a girl of about 11, was like “PLEASE.” and he was like “uh yeah. please” and the kid goes “well you’re always telling me to remember my manners!!! you should too!!” and i was cracking up

and then she was standing there w her mum while i made their drinks and i asked if the mum wanted chocolate sprinkles and she was like “yes please” and the kid goes “well at least SOMEONE remembered their manners” and then sighed dramatically and HEELYED AWAY and honestly? not sure how to go on knowing i’ll never be as cool as this 11 year old

[hollowistheworld]

I really can and will blame the 9-5 for everything. "We're in a loneliness epidemic" well, we have to spend a third of our day interacting with people in a professional way that makes forming real friendships difficult and then we're peopled out by the time we're done. "People are eating more and more unhealthily" people have to spend more than a third of their day doing work related tasks and they don't want to spend their tiny amount of free time making food. "People aren't involved in their local communities" after spending more than a third of their day doing work related things people are tired and also all those community events take place during normal working hours. "People need to get more hobbies" after spending more than a third of their day working, people are TIRED and don't want to do anything that takes yet more energy. "Literacy is dying" to maintain your critical thinking skills you need to read/watch things that make you think and after spending more than a third of your day doing work related stuff you are TIRED and don't want to expend even more brainnpower. "People need to get outside more" People. Are. TIRED. Because they have to spend all of their time working or preparing for work or recovering from work or doing all the chores they couldn't stay on top of because of work. I can blame fucking anything on having to work, it is truly the root of all fucking evil.

[ailithnight]

Hey OP, love your scalding take here; don't forget about commutes.

Once you factor in commute times (which even for short distances can be grotesquely inflated due to the fact that so many people are all commuting at the same time, but that's a different conversation) many people are actually devoting upwards of 10-12 hours a day on "work related tasks."

[kaibacorpintern]

in the Egyptian wing of the museum and my boyfriend is like "what are all the time periods of ancient Egypt" and I'm like predynastic, early dynastic, old kingdom which is when the pyramids were built, first intermediate, middle kingdom, second intermediate, new kingdom which includes amarna period and yugioh, third intermediate, and then all the late period stuff and macedonian and roman eras. and he's like run that by me one more time

[ms-demeanor]

excuse me, i'm borrowing a work laptop and there's a wall to stop me from going to gaming sites. do you or anyone else have any suggestions to bypass the wall?

I would strongly recommend not trying to get around blocking rules on your work laptop because your work is almost certainly logging what happens on the laptop; if they check those logs at the very least you will no longer be allowed to borrow the laptop, and possibly you won't continue to have a work to borrow a laptop from.

Also, depending on how huge a deal anyone wants to make of this, it may be actually illegal to do this on someone else's computer (and even if they lent it to you, that is their computer, and what you are discussing is sometimes described as "unauthorized access" and is a no-shit crime; people also don't think that logging into an ex's email that they had the password to is a crime - it is. Don't do this shit)

You can do whatever you want on your own computer and your own network. If you are on somebody else's computer you have to follow their rules. This is annoying, but unless you are certain that you are good enough to do this in a way that will be completely undetectable to your employer, you shouldn't do this.

If you work someplace that provides you a computer for work, you should ONLY use that computer for work. Assume that your boss can see everything that you do on that work computer and act accordingly.

[ms-demeanor]

Like, just as a very normal example, one of the things we frequently get requests for at work is a report of how often someone is logging in to their profile and how much time they spend logged in to various work-related programs. This is information that our clients sometimes use to build cases for termination.

[ms-demeanor]

Do not torrent from your work computer, and yes I would delete everything that you've got on there. Stop doing anything non work-related now, remove anything you've installed or downloaded that is non work-related.

I'm torn about whether you should tell your supervisor or just not say anything until it's brought up. It's going to depend a lot on how on-it your company is. If your supervisor is cool and your company is chill, you might want to approach the company and say "hey, I did something thoughtless and I was treating the company computer like a personal device for a little while before I had a lightbulb moment and realized my mistake then deleted my personal information from the machine" and see what happens. If your company is not chill, remove everything and if anyone ever confronts you about this don't lie and say you didn't do anything - they've got logs - but say "I'm sorry, I was treating the work computer like a personal machine before I realized how inappropriate that was and stopped using it in that way; I removed my personal information on X date and have not used it that way since, my apologies."

Companies don't just track your activities on work machines because they want to know what you're doing, they do it because it can be a big security risk; if you've been torrenting on the work computer and you're not REALLY REALLY REALLY sure what you're doing, you can end up getting the machine compromised and then introducing a compromised machine into your work's network and infecting other machines or you can end up with a keylogger vacuuming up sensitive client data.

If there is ANY RISK WHATSOEVER that you've ended up with any kind of malware/virus/keylogger, you have to bring it up with work IT. Frame it as a thoughtless mistake and tell them you're approaching them proactively because you don't want to risk introducing vulnerabilities to the environment or put company data at risk. Don't tell them about any crimes you were committing (torrenting copyrighted material is a crime) but let them know that there may be malicious software on the device and it should be imaged.

[ms-demeanor]

You can have ingenuity when you understand what event logs are.

[delicatefury]

Just out of law school, I worked doing something called E-Discovery. E-discovery is what happens when someone is getting sued and computer records are requested during the discovery phase.

I and dozens of other attorneys would spend the day sifting by through emails, pdfs, event logs, browser histories, word docs, excel sheets, etc. looking for information relative to the case to hand over to the other party.

But sometimes, because they were already paying for our time, our clients would ask us to flag… interesting… documents that we’d find. Things that looked suspicious or illegal and might be important to know about that weren’t actually relevant to the case. They could do that because it’s their own documents we were going through or documents they had permission to go through.

Let me tell you, the amount of affairs alone you find on people’s work emails is insane. Casual discussions of bribes, embezzlement, etc. And a whole lot of private health information and porn use. And that’s not even touching the time we had an actual order from the FBI to let them know if we found CP while looking through documents in our corporate civil case that had nothing to do with pedophilia. Because the company our client was suing shared a server with a different company that was being investigated for that.

Basically: there is no such thing as privacy on a work computer. It logs every thing you do. And your bosses can access it any time they want. Because it’s their computer, not yours. And even if they don’t know how to extract that info or have time to sort it themselves, there are many very skilled professionals that do.

DO NOT USE YOUR WORK COMPUTER FOR PRIVATE THINGS!

[cyberpunkpavlichenko]

Generative AI and the artist discussion is such a distraction from AI’s military and police applications or its role in automating hiring discrimination.

[cyberpunkpavlichenko]

The Nazis didn’t attack artists for being artists. They primarily targeted gay and Jewish artists for “degenerating” the culture through their avant garde ideas.

They did not attack artists for the sake of them producing art. The Nazis literally produced their own art and films. They were not against art itself but Jewish art. They were very clear about that.

[comfycalamity]

sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[all-pacas]

do you ever find something that is so funny and you want to share it with everyone but it also requires 18 layers of context spanning things like. 90s anime. aviation history. europop. canada. in order to even remotely understand why it is so funny

[all-pacas]

in the late 90s there was an anime called initial d which was all about street racing and drifting. naturally every single drift was played for great drama and excitement.

in 1999, an italian named giancarlo pasquini released a europop song under the alias dave rogers called Deja Vu. this song was picked up as the theme song for the above anime. it in turn became a meme, a shorthand for drifting and Cool Moves as a concept.

in 1983, air canada flight 143, a full sized 767, ran out of fuel halfway to edmonton, alberta. this is not something you want to have happen to a huge airplane. the flight chose to try and make an emergency landing at a nearby decomissioned airforce base (as they were falling fast and could not make it to a proper airport), where they ran into a second problem: they were falling out of the sky at 500 feet per mile, but reached gimli (the base in question) while still too high to safely land. normally a plane would just do a big loop-de-loop to lose altitude, but they had maybe three minutes of airtime left before they hit the ground: not enough time to make any kind of circle. the pilot, therefore, decided to execute a side slip to lose speed and altitude. this is Not a move you want to do with a massive 767, because airplanes are not built for that and if you screw it up that plane is hitting the ground at a high speed at a weird angle and breaking into a million pieces. nevertheless, the captain tried it... and succeeded. the plane landed perfectly, and there were no major injuries! (a couple of people did get minor injuries when evacuating the plane after.) he did it so well, in fact, that the plane was refueled, flown out of gimli a couple days later, and continued to fly for another 20 years with the nickname "Gimli Glider."

what is a side-slip, you ask?

it's drifting.

the guy goddamn drifted his 767.

in 2008, the tv show Mayday: Air Disaster featured the gimli glider with full reenactments as an episode on season five of their show.

and so, in conclusion, the thing i have been giggling to myself about all weekend:

[silveryair]

“Your move Kaiba” is the best way to end every sentence because it a. Signals to your conversation partner that it is their turn to contribute and b. Reminds them constantly of your undying passion for yugioh

[talesfromtreatment]

Tess is very very determined and nothing is going to stop her from doing what she wants.

[earliestest]

Escape attempt foiled by own desire to nom

[brightlotusmoon]

[sinni-ok-sessi]

I do think the ability to emoji-react is a net win for human communication. not only does it give you an outlet for 'I see and acknowledge this but don't have a verbal response' but it also adds a pleasing alethiometer element to things

my coworker announces that he's off to the dentist. someone reacts with a tooth emoji. is this a statement of dentist solidarity? a wish for my coworker to return with more (or fewer?) teeth than he set out with? simple word association? who can say

[prayerith]

what do you mean chris was in europe during re2 so claire got wrapped up in raccoon city’s mess for nothing

her whole motivation for coming to the city was to find chris only for marvin to tell her that he left weeks ago to go on fucking vacation in europe?? so now she has to live through zombie hell for NOTHING all because her brother couldn’t pick up a payphone or write her a postcard or something. i know it was the 90s but we had communication back then, chris your sister almost died probably several times because of this