W Defender

Comics, other shit. Things. What do you want from me, a book?!

[miikrowelle]

Some pokemon bugs I drew lately :1

I think I like Joltik hrmmmmmm

[murdercide626]

@mewtwowarrior

[theonion]

Overjoyed to have a full house for the first time since everyone went off to college, local mother Leslie Daniels confirmed Thursday it was a dream come true to have all her children back home, a reunion made possible only by the merciless and punishing economic conditions that have stripped an entire generation of financial stability. “I’m so glad to have all my kiddos under the same roof again—it’s just so nice it worked out this way!” Daniels said as she cheerfully stirred a big batch of chili for her three adult children, each of whom had been forced home in their 30s by a brutal convergence of stagnant wages, rising rents, the crushing cost of living, and a job market increasingly corroded by gig labor and artificial intelligence.

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[macklesufficient]

rb to give it up for laura hall and linda taylor

[theonion]

The best years in the life of Frederick Videk—veteran, husband, and father of five—are never going to happen, the 51-year-old broken man realized Monday.

“Well, I guess that’s that,” said Videk, sitting in his pickup waiting for the light to change, the realization finally smacking him full in the face. “This is it—it’s not going to get any better. In fact, it’s probably just going to be a gradual but steady decline from here on.”

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[theonion]

[cellobuster]

Tumblr has reversed course on their decision, thus showing weakness. There will be a new leader within a fortnight

[tumblr]

Reblogs in a chain now get their own notes

The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve. 

Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.

If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.

Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.

This is just the beginning. More changes are coming as we keep building this out – stay tuned!

[tumblr]

Let's talk about reblog notes.

We rolled out a significant change to how notes work on reblogs, and the reaction has been strong. We're not going to pretend otherwise. 

First things first: We're reversing the change. Your feedback in comments, emails, and especially reblogs, made clear that the rollout created problems we need to address before moving forward. We also should have communicated this differently from the start, and we didn't.

We still believe there's a better version of how reblogs can work. One that gives every voice in a chain the credit it deserves. But we want to get there with you.

In the coming days we'll share more on how we plan to do that,  including ways to work directly with some of you on this and future changes before they ship.

Keep an eye on @staff for updates to come soon. 

[0ddoblivion]

[riotd]

i’m very self aware. which unfortunately hasn’t solved anything

[calellon]

unfortunately i could never be nonchalant because i am not well in the head and also my soul is on fire

[lustcannibalism]

ok I endured it. now what!!!!!!!!!

[lustcannibalism]

[0ddoblivion]

[mystgourmet-deactivated20200102]

[suppermariobroth]

An unique functionality of the map screen in two-player mode in Super Mario Bros. 3 is that the inactive player (the player whose turn it currently isn't) is still able to initiate a battle by pressing A when on the same space as the other player.

However, since the inactive player cannot actually move, the only way to do this is to wait until the active player moves to the same space as the inactive player and then press A, making this a timing-based interception.

Since losing a battle ends the loser's turn, if the inactive player intercepts the active one and wins, the result is effectively "stealing" the active player's turn. Due to this functionality, a good enough player can continuously intercept the other and not allow him to play a single level.

Main Blog | Patreon | Twitter | Bluesky | Small Findings | Source: SMB3 (NA, NES)

[wdefender]

The moment you discover this as an older brother is the best day of your life, and possibly your little brother's worst.

[theonion]

[wdefender]

Saw a post on twitter and I have some thoughts that I don't wanna tweet because they're too long. The tweet in question:

I see a lot of people arguing against the tweet with the argument that sex is fun and they like to do it. And that's not strictly untrue, but it seems to me like the argument for AI that they like to make funny pictures so what could be wrong with it. There's a context to these things, which the tweet obviously cannot explicate entirely because it really takes multiple books. Sure, you can enjoy it, but that's not a moral argument. People enjoy terrible stuff all the time. This tweet is talking about how the wider culture lends something to sex that isn't inherent to making love, it's full of social dynamics that determine who does what, who's supposed to like what and how they're supposed to like them. If we lived in a world where sex wasn't mired in obeisance to violent masculinity we would be having a different conversation, but we don't live in that world. Just because it happens in your bedroom doesn't mean it's completely separate from the world at large, and vice versa.

The big backlash to this tweet is frustrating to look at, because you expect men to be angry at the point being made, the same as they are at MeToo or mentions of rape culture. But then you have women, ostensible feminists, that say the same thing, and I wonder what their basis in feminism is. Lived experience is the best catalyst, but it doesn't give you insight to the deeper workings like reading theory does. A harmful system can provide some things that you like, and those things you enjoy do not make it less malicious. If you don't even have a good grasp on what the system is, you won't understand that the parts you like and the parts you don't are inextricably linked in the operation of that system.

That doesn't even take into account the inability of twitter users to parse sentences, but there's nothing to look at there that hasn't been noticed before.

[skimble-shanks-the-railway-cat]

Sleeping like shit is soooo cool because the next day you get to feel like you have a disease

[skimble-shanks-the-railway-cat]

I see we’re all doing well,