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@redscreenofdeath
hello, i think you can figure it out, but i'm dead and am too lazy to be active on more than one social platform at once.
want to see what i'm up to? head to my bluesky! -> @redscreenofdeath.bsky.social
isnt that convenient wowza
BOMBS. BOMBS. THERE'S BOMBS
there's BOMBS EVERYWHERE IN THIS BLOG. YOU WILL EXPLODE. LEAVE NOW AND YOU MAY BE SAVED.
THIS POST WILL SPARE YOU BUT THE SMALL CHANCE THAT YOU UNDERESTIMATE THE RANGE OF DEBRIS WILL NOT. TURN BACK NOW, THIS DEAD BLOG IS A WALKING MINEFIELD
im gonna be dead honest this blog died before it even got any recognition. truly we are speedrunning Tumblr now
note: i will still be lurking tumblr, so feel free to leave a message, ask or whatever. i don't mind! just i won't be planning to post at all on here since managing multiple socials is a bit tiring and i'd rather not deal with that :P
okay so sudden realisation time ..everyone talks about gun logic in movies, yes but WHAT ABOUT CAR LOGIC?? IN MOVIES, WHEN A CAR SPINS OUT AND ROLLS: if it lands upright: engine is completely functional and car works perfectly if it lands up-side down: yeah no the car's totalled. no mechanic could fix that thing. you could give the scriptwriters the same exact thing but change what direction the car is flipped in and they would give you completely different results
DM: Hang on, let me find my charts. Let's see... critical hits... treasure... radiation damage, don't need that yet...
Players, in horrified unison: RADIATION DAMAGE?
as a player you should really internalize the intent/task sentence structure. “i wanna open this door by prying it open with a crowbar,” “i wanna set fire to the hay bale with my firebolt,” “i wanna haggle this price by commenting on some minor scratches.”
very often i see players only stating one of these. either “i wanna open the door” or “i cast firebolt on the hay bale.”
what the intent/task structure does is properly communicate to your GM what a success/failure state looks like, and what kind of challenge they propose. sometimes players have a very specific outcome in mind, but when they just state the task, even a successful attempt will be disappointing because the GM does not know what you want to achieve. and vice versa, just stating your intent puts weight on the GM to not only come up with the consequences to the actions, but what even causes them to begin with.
Marksman, to the BBEG who she shot in the head and dropped five storeys into a lake three weeks ago: How in God’s greenest fuck are you alive?
BBEG (the mayor, now hooked up to the life support system of a giant mech): With the help of your tax dollars, citizen!
Marksman’s player, OOC: this game is making me dumber i think
Reformed necromancer still getting a hang of this whole cleric thing.
"Oh my god, the fighter just had a papercut, what happened to him?!"
"Look, it's not my fault that cure wounds and inflict wounds have very confusingly similar names."
#literally me (I always do this, then undo this, bc I find it kinda cringey, but be cringe be free)
Forced to learn how tumblr works because quotev has officially killed itself ☹️ (please tell me terms and stuff i should know) (and explain it like youre talking to your mom about your favorite media)
OP- Original Poster
Asks- Messages sent to an inbox, anonymous or otherwise.
Tags- The hashtags at the bottom of the post. Used for trigger warnings (tw) content warnings (cw) community tags, Fandom tags, personal tags you can search later on your own blog, and minor commentary.
Comments- the speech bubble at the bottom of the post, for talking about things relating to the post or other comments without interacting with the post itself.
Reblogs- Sharing a post by clicking the little green arrows at the bottom of the post. This shares the post to your blog, so people who follow you can see it. There is no algorithm for seeing posts, so posts are only shared when people interact with them by reblogging the.m.
Likes- clicking the little heart at the bottom of a post. This adds it to your 'likes' list, but does not share it to your blog. (People may be able to see your likes unless you go into settings and make your likes private.)
No Algorithm- Because there's no system for auto-sharing posts "based on your likes", posts must be reblogged in order to gain notes (reblogs, comments, and likes) in order to be seen. As a consequence, you will often see posts that are over a decade old, that happened to get popular.
Notes and notifications- Your activity page will show you every time someone interacts with a post you interacted with first. "Flooding your notes" means a post or re-post of yours got popular and people are interacting with it so much that you have to dig through your notifications to find updates on anything else. You can mute a post, delete a post, or turn off comments or reblogs to make this stop, but keep in mind that people might screenshot the post itself to keep sharing it if you delete it or impair activity. (I am going to ruin your notes by reblogging this. I am sorry.)
Ads- The ads here are wildly unpredictable and often make no fucking sense. There was a common one for a long time with a creepy dude dressed as Pikachu that became a meme. I get a lot of religious Christian ads. Sometimes you get ads where it isn't clear what is being advertised, or why. Tumblr is a famously unprofitable website and most of us just seem to ignore them even when they are coherent.
Crabs- "Crab Rave" is a music video with dancing crabs that reached meme status here. Dancing crab gifs come up usually when someone famous and terrible experiences a deserved misfortune. There was a brief feature where you could send people little cartoon crabs. I don't understand this as well as I would like.
"Blaze"- You can pay money to make random people see a post. This is a combination of "pay to become popular" type thinking and an act of warfare amongst users.
Mutuals- Someone you follow who follows you back.
Followers- The people who follow your blog and see your posts and reblogs. This number is not public. Nobody cares
"Investing at X notes"- A common comment used to imply that someone's post, usually only having a handful of notes, is about to go wildly popular. This is usually regarded as a curse, because having a post blow up means getting your notes flooded and having to see a load of bad-faith messages from idiots.
Staff- Tumblr site staff have made a lot of dumb fucking choices since the dawn of the sisite'creation and people tend to @ staff, much in the way that a helpless peasant may shake their fist skywards to an uncaring god. Just roll with it.
Anons- You can turn anons off, meaning nobody can send you anonymous messages. Because some of these fuckers are hateful cowards, this will cut down on harassment, bigotry, and general stupid talk shoeing up in your inbox. Unfortunately, this will also limit messages from shy people who genuinely wanna be nice.
Bots- If you get a weirdly flirty message out of nowhere by someone who hasn't followed you long and has a weird username, it's it's bot. Flag and block. If you're scrolling through an unrelated tag and suddenly see a supermodel looking person with their tits out and a bunch of random tags, it's spam and it's a bot. Flag and block. It's been a problem for a while, like roaches.
Dipshits- If you see a blog with "rad", "radical", "fem", "female", "vulva", "uterus", "terf", "radfem", or "critical" in their username, check their blog to verify if they're a radfem or a terf. If you don't know what those terms mean, you can Google 'em, but they're weirdly aggressive offshoots of feminism that wrap back around to being mysoginistic, transphobic, and racist, and they aren't very popular here. The common move is to just block 'em and move on. We also have trolls and white supremacists but again, not very popular, pretty easy to block, report them if you can.
Alt Text- when you post an image, there is a title iconon the bottom right of the image that allows you to describe it for people who aren't able to see it themselves
Other common etiquettes:
Always assume OP is reading your comments.
Reblog posts, don't just "like" them. Again, no algorithm- this site doesn't work without sharing.
Don't share personal information. Always assume you can be doxxed. Keep it vague.
Don't be a dick.
Fact check before sharing info if you can- theres a lot of misinformation and misinterpretation.
Always read twice- Reading comprehension has been so bad on so many posts here that it's become a meme too. If you don't understand, read it twice before commenting.
Have fun, and do it for yourself. This isnt isn't clout website.
Other longtime residents are welcome to add on if I've forgotten anything.
Welcome onboard! :D
Holy shit I finally have dice for weird dice Wednesday :3
Mimic dice!
"uh, that's 1d6 damage."
okay let me roll my d6- OH DEAR GOD WHAT THE F-
well i forgot i had a Tumblr account and given i do nothing here there, isn't much that changed but maybe ill check back on this every once in a while if ever
just wondering if someone will ever be bored enough to listen to me rant and ramble,,
Apparently Tumblr has changed the rules so you need to follow a certain amount of people before you can personalize your page. I am begging new comers to make at least one post or reblog before you follow. Anything to give any indication that you are human. Otherwise you will be caught in the crossfire of the bot wars in which we block and report any blog that did not look like it's a real person. YOU CANNOT JUST LEAVE YOUR BLOG BLANK YOU WILL BE BLOCKED AND REPORTED ON SIGHT IF THERE IS NOTHING THERE BECAUSE WE WILL THINK YOU'RE A BOT.
this has been a PSA
The problem is that new accounts need to follow 5 tags and 3 blogs before they can do anything else, including looking at / reblogging any post.
tumblr is going to wreck its ability to expand.
Definitely. They're pretty much cutting off the flow of new users to the platform, since unsuspecting novices will follow people with their blank blog, get (pretty much rightfully) blocked for it, possibly even reported, and they won't know why this happens, because they'd need to be following someone who reblogs one of those PSAs to even have a chance to see the reason, and they keep getting blocked before that happens !
A website that can't get new users and is slowly losing (/alienating) its existing userbase is doomed to fail.
i do not want to lose my precious hellsite but it seems like they are hellbent on sinking the ship.
Really feels like the convergence of multiple separate issues : Twitter refugees, the bot problem, the new "features" that everyone hates... forcing new users to follow random blogs is just the catalyst for all that shit that's been brewing for years.
hello world
i joined tumblr because of funny youtube shorts about tumblr but now i don't know how it works or what i am meant to do because i already spent 30% of my braincells on the "your preferences" part of logging in i wish there was a tutorial aaaaaaaaaaaa
