tookingabout

Nerdly dork of geekiness. Vast amounts of random knowledge. Whovian. Sherlockian. Hunter. Targaryen. Waterbender. Hylian. Tolkienite. N7. Writer.

[radgepacket-deactivated20241030]

big day today

[buryymeinblack]

queued for the next wednesday the 12th

[buryymeinblack]

happy wednesday the 12th everyone

[huffylemon]

get ready everyone

[thealphapigeon]

[catlips001]

FUCK. honestly just FUCK. We missed a very important day yesterday.

[battebitch-deactivated20200410]

what was yesterday, cat?

[catlips001]

[catlips001]

I’m not missing it this year.

[crowecreates]

Happy Neil banging out the tunes day!!!

[constant-brain-fog]

BABES WAKE UP TODAY’S A NATIONAL HOLIDAY 🌈🐀

🎶NEIL IS BANGING OUT THE TUNES🎶

My (old) contribution to the beautiful day that is april 13th

Keep at it with the tunes.

[daily-spooky]

[neechees]

Spirit: Stallion of The Cimarron & the Indian Boarding Schools/Residential Schools allegory

[iamafanofcartoons]

Holy shit!

Was this intentional?

[neechees]

Considering the rest of the film’s heavy anti-colonization messaging, the main antagonist being heavily modeled on & inspired by General Custer, the other main (human) protagonist being a Native man (& the fort is where Spirit meets Little Creek), yes, most likely

[the-commonplace-book]

YES. It was 100% intentional. I highly recommend reading up on the making of this film. There was an incredible amount of care that went into the development.

They had Lakota consultants for the project, especially regarding the use of the Lakota language in the film (which is used sparsely, but when used is accurate).

It’s par for the course now to consult people belonging to a culture for projects representing it these days (i.e. Moana, Frozen 2, etc.) but it certainly wasn’t when Spirit came out in 2002.

This film is allegorical to its core.

[cute-catts]

[drtanner]

He did that.

[rexim-djm]

[jwasontodd]

[mslockheart]

I always have to start the New Years with this picture.

[cheese24k]

The best milk commercial ever

[bemusedlybespectacled]

wait, THAT’S where that gif is from???

[burnitalldowndarling]

And that gif!

[dduane]

It is indeed one of the best commercials ever. 😄

[eruvadhril]

Also narrated by the very distinctive voice of Tim Curry, which earns it extra points.

[animentality]

[jackironsides]

WORLD'S STUPIDEST PROBLEM:

my mum loaned me her iPhone bc my android isn't working right, and I can't exit the settings because iPhones apparently no longer have home buttons, and there's no obvious other way to do it

[jackironsides]

I did, in fact, try swiping up from the settings, and nothing happened. Presumably I'm Swiping Wrong. It works from other apps, but not from Settings.

I'm increasingly not a fan of this "get rid of every button and only use gestures" thing, because I'm finding that my movements are apparently "wrong". I remember my friend with essential tremor who did many things on her phone with voice commands. Buttons are easy to use. A click from a button is something that doesn't need super fine motor control. But I cannot tell you the number of times my current phone thinks I'm swiping up when I intend to swipe down. It happens multiple times a day. The number of times when swipe text (because tapping a screen repeatedly makes the joints on my hands hurt) returns nonsense, because it didn't like the way I'd moved my finger across the keys.

I'm increasingly of the opinion that touchscreens are not the amazing boon they're supposed to be. I suspect they're something that is increasingly going to lock out disabled people, many of whom could manage switches or dials or buttons just fine. This is just one particularly obnoxious example of it.

I was also using an iPad when they added some other new swipe option where I had to remember to swipe up on my iPhone for something, and down on my iPad for the exact same thing. Or vice versa; I don't remember anymore. I've noticed that Apple has this tendency in their design these days where you have to memorise a bunch of secret handshakes to do anything, and if you stop using their devices and come back to them later, it's going to be completely unintuitive what you're supposed to do. I'm not a fan.

[jackironsides]

... I just had to look up how to turn off the phone.

I HAD TO LOOK UP HOW TO TURN OFF THE PHONE.

Can you imagine the kind of user experience FAILURE that is??? Pressing the same button I used to turn it on DIDN'T WORK.

WHY IS APPLE LIKE THIS. How is this supposed to be an improvement over before, when a phone behaved as you would expect, based on the previous twenty-plus years of experience with similar devices?

[baddywronglegs]

Blackberry were done dirty by a world who wanted the present to look like the prettiest future sci-fi had to offer.

[kyraneko]

A few weeks ago I accidentally trapped myself in a Corvette at the car dealership.

I was waiting around for non-Corvette-related reasons and decided to sit in the cool new supercar that they had unlocked on the display floor, got in, shut the door, enjoyed myself for a few minutes, went to get out and couldn't find a fucking door handle.

Cue about a minute and a half of me frantically trying to figure out how to open the door and weighing if it was worth the embarrassment of googling the dealership number and calling to ask them to come let me out, all while experiencing claustrophobia worse than in any cave I've ever been in.

Eventually I googled "how to open corvette door" because that seemed like the more discreet option, and, following instructions, discovered a tiny-ass button that, when pressed, opens the door. It was way too tiny and too easy to press for it to have a mechanical effect on the door, meaning it was probably electronic in nature.

A few days ago I got into my own car, shut the door, and found out the car wouldn't start because the battery was dead.

The trunk didn't have a keyhole and required a button to be pressed, which did not work because, again, the battery was dead; I had to fold down the rear seat to access the trunk and worm in and reach through to pull the emergency trunk release (again, less claustrophobic than Suddenly Trapped In Corvette).

Apparently it is now the fashion for any electrical problem in one's car to come with the Free Second Problem of being trapped in the car (or out of it, as I've seen cars with outside handles being clearly electronically assisted).

I do not fucking approve.

[pc-98s]

the bus stop sunk cost fallacy

[pc-98s]

your scheduled bus did not show up. you’ve already waited 20 minutes. it’s over half a mile to a different line’s bus stop. do you leave, knowing that the bus you’re waiting for might show up as soon as you do? the next scheduled bus is 20 minutes out. it may also not show up. it’s so cold that you long since lost feeling in your extremities. you once again consider the merits of tracking down the president of the transit agency. for a chat. you’ve already waited 20 minutes.

[garaktime]

bro...what we could have had..

[pyrriae]

[mathew]

[rosslynpaladin]

This stops being quite as "zany shitpost" and becomes "Accidental Performance art commentary on Accessibility" when you consider the vast number of people unable to sit upright or leave a bed, most or all the time. No you don't see us, we're in bed either all the time or when our conditions flare up and put us there regularly.

When i first saw this I thought, "HAH- too bad that's not a feasible thing, then I could go so many public places while still safely cushioned and laying down!"

...only then did I realize how many people would never see it that way.

[batbetbitbotbut]

(via @linguisticparadox)

[majchic]