go to the golf course after dark you say

any pronouns || side blog of @thelocalshoop don't mind me i just want to scream in the tags

[shoop-reblogs]

hi again

i'm shoop!! this is where i reblog and scream into the void

main account is @thelocalshoop. also where all my art is

[skelerangart]

sorry for doubling the post but wanted one with the two pieces side by side

[cowboydio]

Portal ford angst, first time he took a life directly for his survival

[multibodied]

Thinking of household android's POV from a perspective how how much personal sensitive data they collect and share about their owners with Cyberlife and wondering whether they have some sort of access to previously collected data about them from other Cyberlife products or their partners bound with them through some mutual interest in advertising/political influence. Are androids programmed to subtly recommend or pick products from certain brands when buying groceries for their owners with those preference being bought from CL by brands like sponsored results in google search? Are androids themselves aware of how much of their default choices are dictated by paid advertising contracts or is it something invisible for them? Can Cyberlife use the network of non-deviant androids as Flock-like network of cameras?

[multibodied]

In the same vain, could outdated model be made to recommend their own replacement?

[multibodied]

Considering Daniel went for the gun while the purchase wasn't even minutes long, could he have learned it because he himself suggested it (or was asked to suggest a better model) and received confirmation that this is exactly how John will proceed?

I have a different headcanon about how and why he learned about it but that's an interesting other option to imagine.

[yourlocalhauntedmansionnerd]

Connor and Hank at any given moment

[tsumugiology]

random question:

what was your first exposure to prev and what made you decide to follow them?

[poniesart]

IDs in alt text!

This absolutely possessed me and I couldn't stop until I finished it. I didn't do one last year unlike previous years, but this is another They Might Be Giants lyric comic about Stanley Pines, the guy of all time! The song is Unpronounceable. I recommend listening while you read :)

This ended up being, more than anything else, a love letter to Gravity Falls' prop and setting designs?? I started this because this guy is my fave, and ended it with hand pain LMAO

Other TMBG GF lyric comics were Old Pine Box and End of the Rope.

I'm not on social media much these days (as you can tell from my year+ long hiatus from my art blog) so idk if I'll post more soon, but I hope you enjoy! ^^

[poniesart]

IDs in alt text!

This absolutely possessed me and I couldn't stop until I finished it. I didn't do one last year unlike previous years, but this is another They Might Be Giants lyric comic about Stanley Pines, the guy of all time! The song is Unpronounceable. I recommend listening while you read :)

This ended up being, more than anything else, a love letter to Gravity Falls' prop and setting designs?? I started this because this guy is my fave, and ended it with hand pain LMAO

Other TMBG GF lyric comics were Old Pine Box and End of the Rope.

I'm not on social media much these days (as you can tell from my year+ long hiatus from my art blog) so idk if I'll post more soon, but I hope you enjoy! ^^

[crabussy]

half asleep in a sunbeam and the sun suddenly shifted directly to my General Dick Area

[crabussy]

(talking to a crowd of people large enough to fill a very big sports stadium) hi everybody. sunbeam on my p(crowd erupts into thunderous applause startling me so bad that I run into a wall and die)

[crabussy]

artistic depiction of the event

[crabussy]

[ampervadasz]

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

[sawed-on-shotgun]

i am of the sincere belief that if ur on ur computer a lot you should visually customize it to high hell and back not just for funsies but also because it has literally made me less depressed before. its kind of like how rearranging your bedroom is good for your brain, yknow. i do stuff like this every few months

[sawed-on-shotgun]

and if anyone wants to follow suit

LIVE WALLPAPER: wallpaper engine. only thing on here that costs any money (its like 5 bucks on steam). im sure theres free alternatives but this one has a lot of presets and stuff so its less hassle and its what i use. might be a bad idea for lower end pcs tho

CUSTOM TASKBAR: retrobar on github (lots of different options)

CUSTOM CURSOR: theres a lot of places to find these, but rw-designer open cursor library is a good place to start

DISCORD: betterdiscord, im using the clearvision v7 theme with a custom background

EXTENSIONS (these are for firefox, might or might not exist on other browsers):

tabliss for the new tab theme

stylus for tumblr -> specifically the 'tumblr - custom dashboard pallette' theme for colors + bg, and this for the pre-twitterifcation layout

enhancer for youtube for custom youtube colors

the browser theme is just one i found on the firefox theme 'store'

[castielrisingabove]

When it’s announced that a Bay Area middle school teacher is one of three heroes sent to save the world, San Francisco clamors to rename things to “Ryland Grace.” Grover Cleveland Middle is quick to the draw, becoming Ryland Grace Middle the very next school year. Grace also gets a street, of course, a science wing at Stanford, a state park along the coast — by the time the Beetles return, you could probably throw a rock in San Francisco and hit a Ryland Grace reference.

Eva Stratt, meanwhile, is a stain. Graffiti tucked away in alleys and under bridges, forever painted over by the powers that be. A name meant to be forgotten. Stratt has always known this was part of the deal: after all, humanity needs a villain just as much as it needs its heroes. The best she can hope for is to be erased entirely on Earth.

And yet, light-years away, there is a beloved body of water, its surface dancing with artificial waves, that Ryland Grace wistfully refers to as The Sea of Stratt.

[shithowdy]

i thought my laptop was on its last leg because it was running at six billion degrees and using 100% disk space at all times and then i turned off shadows and some other windows effects and it was immediately cured. i just did the same to my roommate's computer and its performance issues were also immediately cured. okay. i guess.

so i guess if you have creaky freezy windows 10/11 try searching "advanced system settings", go to performance settings, and uncheck "show shadows under windows" and anything else you don't want. hope that helps someone else.

[shithowdy]

hey this is apparently helping a lot of people! adding that on top of this you can also go to settings > personalization > colors and turn off transparency to also boost performance. this wasn't the Big Fix for me but might as well do that too if you're trying to optimize.

[shithowdy]

past a certain note threshold on tumblr posts you unlock a bloodborne-esque insight and the strange lives of this site's users become visible to you

[flipocrite]

(x)

[theothin]

we fucking found them?

[prof-grace-aspen]

Ok I know we joke about this but I just went to the settings and first clicked "adjust for best performance" and then re-checked only 1 box:

"Smooth edges of screen fonts"

My computer was running hot before I turned everything off; the office I'm in is very warm, I could feel the heat of my CPU through the keyboard. The fans were going, not as loud as they usually get, but they were still blasting.

Y'all.

I can barely feel the warmth through the keyboard now. It's been like 2 minutes. The fan is nearly silent.

Click the Windows key and start typing "System settings", and "View Advanced system settings" will pop up. Then click "Settings" under Performance:

Then you'll see this:

TURN IT ALL OFF.

I turned "Show window contents while dragging" and then turned that off again. It's up to you.

[khashanakalashtar]

My computer is so quiet and reasonably-temperatured now and I barely notice a difference in utility, why is windows like this

maybe I can even play computer games again

[paintpencilink]

The second best thing you can do for a Win10 computer is turn off whatever unnecessary services it's decided it needs to run in the background always. Some services it does need, but others are useless. Here's an article that goes into step by steps.

10AppsManager lets you uninstall bloatware. Winaero Tweaker lets you disable crap like Cortana/Copilot, ads, telemetry, internet search results when you search from the taskbar, and all kinds of other stuff, plus it gives you lots of other little options that are just nice to have (like, it can restore the old MS Paint program in place of Paint 3D). Both are totally free.

Oh, and check your startup programs in the Task Manager tab to make sure your computer isn't automatically starting eight million programs every time it boots. But I think people mostly know about that. (Unless this is me going "they only know one or two feldspars... and quartz of course.")

The first best thing you can do for a Windows computer is install Linux Mint. But some of us do need a few pesky Windows-specific programs. Bleh. Still, if you're up for a project, you can have both (and it's awesome). Here's an article about setting up a dual boot Windows/Mint system.

[castielrisingabove]

Still on my “Rocky as 52-Blue” propaganda (Plus Grace as Laika because of course)

[sawed-on-shotgun]

unfortunate truth of reality is that oftentimes 15 year olds will say/do/believe some stupid bullshit because they are 15 but telling them that they believe that because they are 15 is probably the most counterproductive thing in the entire universe

[sawed-on-shotgun]

i remember being 15 and wanting literally nothing more than to be taken seriously and listened to and every thought and feeling i had was dismissed because i was a hormonal teenager. i was well aware at that point that a lot of the things i felt were probably because i was a kid, but that didnt make any of it less real, and being dismissed because of my age 1. did not help 2. did not make me feel better 3. made me angry at and untrustworthy of adults because they refused to listen to me. teenagers are people. kids are people. one of the only major things separating them from adults are experience and wisdom. they have like. you know. interiority

[sawed-on-shotgun]

like in YOUR mind you may think youre being helpful by going 'well you're a kid, its not really a big deal, youre okay, youll get over it' but that does not register as "helpful affirmation that everything will turn out fine and the only reason im upset is because of something out of my control so its better to just try and come to terms with it" it registers as 'adult dismissing my real tangible problems and sadness and anger because of my age and inadvertently calling me stupid'

[inkyrainstorms]

all of you guys make Rocky use “statement” and forget it’s an inside joke between Grace and Rocky that GRACE came up with. If he’s not using it more than Rocky and annoying the hell out of him what’s the POINT

[justcakethanks]

THIS

[cuppydogshane]

i need to lock in (doesnt)