that random bystander

Mys. E | 20s | 🇦🇺 | ♠ | she/they | a bizarre and unpredictable cocktail of fandom and random stuff. Do not perceive me.

[masterfuldoodler]

Have you seen this guy with spikey hair?

[uzumakinarutox]

The queen

[keatxu]

abandonware should be public domain. force companies to actively support and provide products if they don't wanna lose the rights to them

[omikronsoul]

Game companies hate emulation, but none of them seem to understand that a lot of us would just buy ROMs from them directly if we could. I don't want a fifth remake of Final Fantasy IV, I want to pay five bucks for the 3MB file you already made bank with thirty years ago. Nobody who wants to play something for the purpose of retro gaming is going to consider a $40 remake as the alternative option, and we're certainly not going to let the original dissappear. They're crying about opportunity cost for a product they're not even selling.

[justletmeremember]

op i know you're probably talking about like, video games, etc, but this is also critical for research science - my lab has so much abandonware, either because the company's out of business, or the company decided to not maintain it, and it's a fucking nightmare. we have two windows 95 computers that are CRITICAL for performing experiments/data analysis because the software needed is abandonware. one of the main roles for a guy in my lab is to maintain these little dinosaurs because if they go out, we lose access to ~20 years of raw data for research. part of why is that these companies also make their own file types, and make it difficult-to-impossible to convert those file types without their specific software. by habit, i convert all research files to more generic versions (txt, pdf, tif, etc) so that i minimize risk of losing my shit, but some stuff can't be converted.

for example, we have a microscope that is perfectly functional, good microscope, but its software is abandonware because the company refused to maintain it. the company is still in business, still makes essentially the exact same software, but they made all of the old tech incompatible with new software to force people to buy the new microscope tech. it would cost a quarter million dollars to replace this microscope. this perfectly good microscope.

so like, i know a lot of people look at the original post here and go "well op just wants old video games to play" (which is valid! games companies should not be able to push shit to abandonware and then close it off) but also this is critical for like. biomedical research. if y'all had any idea how much basic infrastructure built on science relies on shit that is technically abandonware, you would probably be horrified.

[jollysunflora]

#there is so much abandonware just...out there being used and carefully maintained#because nothing quite replicates the functionality

[bluehairedspidey]

wow i cant believe adhd doof is canon

adhdoof

[chaifootsteps]

#this is literally how I talk

[mitski-miyawakis]

[dirhwangdaseul-archived]

It’s the “back on topic, baby” that killed me, that’s me.

[ekkka70]

[sekajiku]

caught you

[renthony]

It's wild to watch the phrase "tumblr sexyman" morph into "man that tumblr thinks is sexy," because when I first saw the phrase come into use, I always saw it used in reference to the phenomenon of "when presented with a wide array of fictional characters, tumblr will always pick the skinny white man to obsess over, and if the fan-favorite character has no canonical human appearance, the fandom will inevitably create a popular fanon of the character as as a skinny white man."

When I hear "tumblr sexyman," I think of Cecil Night Vale being constantly depicted as a skinny white man instead of literally anything else. I think of the background character white men who get elevated over protagonists that are women, people of color, or otherwise not the white man power fantasy.

"Tumblr sexyman" is, like. An insult. I DON'T want any of my blorbos to win a "tumblr sexyman" poll. "Tumblr sexyman" is the exact opposite of what I want my own OCs to be. If any of my characters ever get called "tumblr sexyman," I will have to immediately re-evaluate myself and the art I'm making.

[renthony]

Things I think of when I hear "tumblr sexyman":

Cecil Night Vale, as previously mentioned.

Oncelercest, because if there aren't two skinny white men to ship, tumblr fandom will start shipping the skinny white man with himself.

Bill Cipher inexplicably being fanon'd as a white twink despite being a fucking triangle.

Everyone fawning over Marvel Loki while shoving every woman and Black person in the MCU aside.

The way nearly every single character in Hazbin Hotel has the same "tall and skinny" body type, along with all the criticisms Black audience members have made about the issues with Alastor's design.

The way tumblr got obsessed with the white man villain in Sinners.

[theskullofjudgement]

why do you have anon asks turned off

IF ONE WISHES TO FACE THE SKULL OF JUDGEMENT THEY MUST DO SO AS THEIR TRUE SELF WITHOUT THE VEIL OF ANONYMITY

[its-megidover]

Infiltrate Palace? [confirm (X)]

[osrinlore]

[aroedmundpevensie]

there's actually a secret eighth deadly sin and it's exactly like gluttony except for textile projects

[stitchposts]

[artist-rat]

consider… Merry Band of Cat Rescuers…

(very self indulgent of me, but i just think they should adopt all the stray cats in kirkwall)

[julieoverjuly]

Here they all are!! It’s finally done💫

[monkeywiki]

28 year old tumblr users will look at you and say do you remember thwomp day of 2013 when everyone was posting thwomp from mario 64 in different audio

[mikahlaart]

[eyivlin]

Sephiroth fanart

Commissions open (info in bio)

[abyssal-ilk]

save me loyal to the death second in command characters. save me. love you loyal second in command characters that are forced to turn against their leader. save me. loyalty

[abyssal-ilk]

SAVE ME LOYALTY BOUND CHARACTERS.

[abyssal-ilk]

ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY'RE WOMEN❗️❗️❗️