Weirdo with internet access

Hi, I'm Paul. I like planes, science fiction, radical politics, That Gay Shit, memes, & video games. I've resolved to start posting more memes here. 🇨🇦 30 maleish bi he/him/they

[arctic-hands]

When I was a teenager and still on Neopets I was part of a pretty big Star Trek guild and eventually became part of its council, with the solemn duty of creating weekly polls. Well one day I created the poll "Which would win in a fight? Borg Cube or Death Star?". Naturally, since this was a Star Trek guild, the answer was overwhelmingly "Borg Cube", but someone did have the rationality to point out we were biased.

So I look up a pretty prominent Star Wars guild and message one of their council and ask them to poll the same question and get back to me in a week. They do, and naturally the fuckin geeks said "Death Star".

So then I look up a Stargate guild and messaged the lead council member, saying the same thing, and they get back to me almost immediately saying that the Death Star would immediately one-shot a Borg Cube but they would never be able to do it again to another Cube. And I took that wisdom back to my guild and we were mollified, and for one moment the Nerd World was peaceful.

[evilsoup]

[gilliagandy]

Truly thrilled to finally find this post on my dash.

[tinybed]

[comealongphil]

dawn dimmadome? wife of doug dimmadome, owner of the dimmsdale dimmadome?

[punkrorschach]

actually she took the dimmadome in the dimmadivorce

[wordsnstuff]

Useful Writing Resources II

Like the last one of these I did, this is a long list of resources for writers to use. Use them wisely:)

Find The First One Here

*** = Separate List Of Resources Pertaining To That Specific Subject

Productivity & Writer’s Block

Ways To Unstick A Stuck Story

10 Outlining Methods For Writers

Things To Do When You Can’t Seem To Write

Ambient Sounds For Writers Masterpost

ZenPen

The Most Dangerous Writing App

Evernote

Writer, the Internet Typewriter

Wordcounter

Character Development

Writing Types Of Characters *** Making An OC ***

Character With Social Anxiety

Female Characters To Avoid

Writing Healthy Relationships

List of 300 Possible Secrets To Give Your Character

Fantasy & Miscellaneous

Myths, Creatures, And Folklore

Helpful Things For Action Writers To Remember

Writing The Opening Scene

Fictional Kisses

Master List of Writer’s Questions Answered’s Posts

Writing Advice Masterlist

The Little Details

How bodies decompose

Wilderness survival skills

Mob mentality

Other cultures

What it takes for a human to die in a given situation

Common tropes for your genre

Average weather for your setting

Free Online Sources For Research

Japanese creatures

greek creatures

creatures organised by type

creatures listed by letter

humanoid creatures

filipino creatures

chinese creatures

cryptids

‘fearsome critters’

angels

beings referred to as fairies

creatures that pretend to be human

a page on therianthropic creatures

shapeshifters

hybrid creatures

extraterrestrial creatures

deities

a page of mythology page links

a section of folklore page links

flying creatures

theological demons

fictional species lists

mythology related lists

legendary creature related lists

Writing Emotional Scenes

Creating Story Structure

What You Need To Hear Before You Publish A Book

Description

Words to Describe Someone’s Voice

An Article About Describing Voice

Voice Types

Vocal Qualities

Panix.com Character Chart

Vocal Impressions

Speech Patterns

Gender and Speech Patterns

Speech Accent Archive

Speech Impediment

What Makes A Man’s/Woman’s Voice Sexy

Synonyms-Antonyms.com

TheCaveOnline

550 Alternative Words for Said

Plot

Subplots

7 Ways to Add Great Subplots to your Novels

The 7 Shoulds of Writing a Subplot

Who Needs Subplots?

Subplots

Knowing Your terms: Subplots

Weave Subplots into your Novel

Understanding the Role of Subplots

Plot, Plot Layers, and Subplots

Plot and Subplot

Subplots - Chicken Soup for your Novel

How Many Subplots are Acceptable?

Subplots by Word Count

Too Many Subplots?

Generators

Appearance Generator

Archetypes Generator

Character Generator

Character Traits Generator

Family Generator

Job/Occupation Generator, (II)

Love Interest Generator

Motive Generator

Name Generator

Personality Generator, (II)

Quick Character Generator

Super Powers Generator

First Encounter Generator

First Line Generator, (II)

Plot Generator, (II), (III)

Plot Device Generator

Plot Twist Generator

Quick Plot Generator

Brand Name Generator

Medicine Title Generator

Name Generator

Quick Name Generator

Vehicle Generator

Town Name Generator

City Generator

Fantasy Race Generator

Laws Generator

Pet Generator

Setting Generator

Species Generator

Terrain Generator

Subject Generator

”Take Three Nouns” Generator

Word Prompt Generator

Color Generator

Decision Generator

Dialogue Generator

Journey Generator

Title Generator, (II), (III)

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Just Trudeau things. 🙃

https://twitter.com/wickdchiq/status/1409255432644923398?s=20

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[trainthief]

Love local coffee shops. your “refugees are welcome here” sign goes really well with the one that says “bathrooms are for paying customers only”

[cerisefern]

You’ve clearly never had to deal with people doing hard drugs in the grocery store bathroom and it shows.

[trainthief]

Bro I literally manage a coffee shop with an open restroom policy, and I prioritize enforcing that policy and making sure everyone feels comfortable. I’ve dealt with everything from the easy end of the spectrum (people quietly doing hard drugs) to a lady ripping all her hair out and setting it on fire in the sink. I clean up after this stuff day after day and I still feel VERY strongly about the fact that human beings should be allowed the basic decency of a place to poop. Yes, I very frequently end up having to kick someone out of the bathroom for doing drugs, and when I do I always offer them a cup of water on their way out. Because they’re a person and I give a shit…

[cannabiscomrade]

It’s safer for people to do drugs in (clean) public restrooms than it is for them to do it on the street. It’s also ableist to deny someone the use of a bathroom. There are countless gastrointestinal disorders that cause bathroom urgency and potential incontinence. There are other conditions, like pregnancy, that necessitate quick and easy access to restrooms.

[rommunism-deactivated20201016]

also what makes you think a paying customer wouldnt misuse the toilets in some way, and a person using it without buying something would?

contrary to popular beliefs people with money do drugs, and homeless people need the toilet just like the rest of us

[prettyporcelainporcupine]

Having a sharps container “for medication injection” in our bathrooms has dropped the amount of needles I find in the bushes and planters down to a whole 2 in the past 4 years since we rolled them out. I used to find them so often I got in the habit of wearing cut resistance gloves in 90 degree weather in case I had to pluck napkins out of the landscaping.

[prettyporcelainporcupine]

I read a lot of the notes and I really can’t say enough how the “you couldn’t pay me to clean up other people’s shit” comments kinda piss me off. It is not that serious, it’s really not. You dump a bunch of Triade III on it, let it sit for 10 minutes, wipe it up.

If it’s watery you throw absorbent on it like you do throw up, we use a kitty-litter type clay based absorbent. You put a trash bag in the dust pan and sweep it all into the bag.

Takes me 15 minutes to clean an absolutely destroyed bathroom stall in a place that sees THOUSANDS of people daily. It’s a shopping and restaurant area that opens up into a nightlife location after 5pm, with some bars opening at 3pm and several restaurants becoming full nightclubs after 9pm. You pay for parking, but anyone can walk in off the sidewalk and not pay a dime and just hang out until 2am.

On a busy night I cover 3 location’s restrooms (2 venues have multiple rr) but on slow days I’m covering around 7. 7 buildings, thousands of drunks, I get a LOT of bio spills.

Our sharps containers are toolbox-looking things that hang on the wall with a flap that allows things to go in but not come out, ever (rip to like 5 phones that I know of), when full it gets closed, locked, and sent to be incinerated. I literally never touch a needle anymore. If I find one on the ground outside we have sharps shuttles which are long plastic tubes that look like giant tampons with a flip top, you put it on the ground, step on it to hold in place, and sweep the sharp into it. Takes like 20 seconds.

The answer to this entire issue is to TREAT SANITATION WORKERS BETTER not make going to the bathroom a fucking ordeal. Pay me I will clean your bathrooms, let homeless people piss with dignity!!!

[paxamericana]

you’re hearing it more and more

[kyrare]

Spotify Premium ad: “Imagine playing music without interruptions! Infinite skipping! Replay the song you want! And even do it offline? No ads! Whatever songs you want! For a small monthly payme-” Me: *nods, turns off Spotify and turns on my MP3 player and does all the things they offer, but for free and with songs they don’t even have*

[jimtheviking]

For those of you who might not know how to do any of this:

To convert CD audio into mp3s, you just follow the steps here

To play mp3 files, you download an mp3 player like Winamp here and away you go

On mobile? There are plenty of free mp3 players for your phone available, too, so check them out

You don’t need to be tethered to an online streaming service for your music. Be free.

[eroticcannibal]

You can also rip audio files from youtube and find files all over the internet. It is far easier to come across great and lesser known music if you dont limit yourself to spotify.

[ms-hells-bells]

when i was younger, you could literally put a cd into the computer, attach your mp3/4, open the files, and just drag the song files into your device files, and you’d have them.

[theimmortalgriffin]

I hate nighttime.

Not because I'm scared of the dark but because I'm alone. Nighttime is my emotional low point where I'm at my most vulnerable. Where thoughts flow free and anxiety runs unchecked. I live alone and no amount of online chatting or text messaging can fill the void.

Paranoia runs rampant. Anxiety has no check. No amount of logic can quell the tsunami that is my unhealthy mental state.

Nothing can quell the tide of my anxiety and paranoia about the immediate future. But at night it is worse because I'm at my emotional low point of the day when night falls. I'm alone and I'm alone with my thoughts and fear takes hold.

I hate nighttime.

[someemochick]

[bourneblack-deactivated20240910]

Another point for why it’s important to own your own copies of music and media, and not use streaming services, is because the copy you own can’t be taken back.

(This is also a good time to remind people that yout*be to mp3 converters still exist).

[unscharf-an-den-raendern]

And this is one of the reasons why I still own an MP3-Player + an extensive MP3 collection consisting of songs I ripped from various sources. Nowadays I mostly rip my songs from Spotify because of the audio quality. And since I’ve had people ask me how to do this in the past, here’s a short tutorial:

Install Audacity

On the microphone symbol, select either “Loudspeaker/Headphones”, “What You Hear” or “Stereo Mix”. The exact name may vary depending on your sound card but it’s usually one of these.

If you don’t see one of these, either your sound card doesn’t support it or you have to enable it first. In that case, right-click on the loudspeaker symbol in the system tray on the task bar and select “Open sound settings”. Click on “Sound control panel”, then go to the tab “Recording” and enable the device by right-clicking on it.

Click on “record” in Audacity and play the song.

Once the song is over, stop recording and click on “File/Export/Export to MP3″

[theimmortalgriffin]

I get my music ripped from YouTube. It's allowed me to get music not commercially available, such as music from older games I like. Yeah artists aren't being paid, but artists get most of their money from touring, not downloads and streaming so it means some big ceos aren't getting my money. There are apps out there that are direct support of the artist and I highly recommend them

[tekehu-archive]

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[bogleech]

Genuinely fucking UNREAL that the CDC announced you can stop wearing a mask after you’re vaccinated as if not a single person in that process knew they were giving a free pass to every single covid denier and anti-vaxxer, as if they were not even aware those were tremendously loud movements already creating problems for everybody else, or they were aware but somehow did not connect that their one little announcement would unleash the floodgates and probably create its own surge of new cases as any piece of shit can just claim to be vaccinated and breathe their rancid breath all over every “essential worker” now forced to politely serve them anyway. For real this one mere tweet is going to get people killed and everyone even partially responsible for it should have to face some severe fucking consequences.

[theimmortalgriffin]

When your domme is getting deeper and deeper and you start thinking maybe you signed on to more than you can handle but your ego won't let you throw in the towel

[theimmortalgriffin]

[paxamericana]

[evilvillain123456789]

Oh so you’re a boy? Cool cool. Yeah, no, that’s pretty crazy. So, just like, bin laden right?

[thyrell]

[hiphopocliedes]

Hey uh

So did bin laden

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

confirmed if you major in business you're literally bin laden

[theimmortalgriffin]

[swearyshera]

Sweary Glimmer being a menace as usual