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#im simply not the type of person for this quiz. im too into pokemon #you show me a pokemon and im like of course i know her i love her #you show me a fakemon and im like ive never seen her before in my life #some cool designs in there though

ponett

Denshattack is really good and unsurprisingly the OST that's mostly by Tee Lopes and Sean Bialo is crazy good, but also I love the guest tracks by Ryo Nagamatsu because it's so immediately apparent when you hear them that they're by the guy who wrote the C-Side tracks in Splatoon 3. Like the guitar tuning is completely identical from the first note

#never heard of this game but ryo nagamatsu's name jumped out at me. huge fan of his music #maybe i'll check out that game someday #ryo nagamatsu #great melodies

when i got to the part where they defeated the dragon robots im like "this is only 16.5.... thats really fast for them to settle the conflict for this arc.... if i were taylor i'd be really scared right now"

then i started the next chapter and laughed

#parahumans

ot3

would you recommend homestuck to someone who knows next to nothing about it or is it more of an internet cultural phenomenon where You Just Had To Be There? the way you describe it and its fandom always sounds so fascinating!!

it's tricky because this is a bit like asking a fish if it'd recommend swimming to someone who doesn't have gills. you're going to get a heavily biased answer from someone who has never been in that position. It's near impossible for me to even imagine what the experience of being a fresh homestuck reader in 2026 would be like because Being In The Homestuck Fandom is just kind of what I did for the entirety of my teen years. I have not properly revisited the comic yet since moving on from that era of my life (i have doing this penciled in for 2029) so how different it may feel in a contemporary media landscape/to an adult perspective isn't something I can speak on at this time.

that said i do think there is a lot about homestuck that is good and interesting and worth seeing. As a work in and of itself, I absolutely would recommend it to many people, but it's absolutely not for everyone. it's on my recommendation list for my sideblog since truly so few things can compete in terms of engaging and different and strange and fun female characters.

I think the most important thing to understand when going in to homestuck as a new reader is that it is essentially an incomplete and fundamentally incompleteable text that completely buckled under the weight of its own narrative bloat in its twilight years now being kept on life support. If you read homestuck you need to do it with the mindset of enjoying the experience and not in hope for any sense of real satisfaction when you're done. I know there are a lot of people who would never consider the idea of going into something permanently unfinished or that otherwise fails to stick its landing, especially not something as long and meandering as homestuck. But I'm a big believer in engaging with and enjoying unfinished works, personally.

If you're following my blog and you resonate with my opinions on things enough to ask for them, I think there's a very high chance that the actual content of homestuck is stuff that will appeal to you. Here a few things about homestick that i think make it worthwhile as a work, in no particular order:

it's really fucking funny man

it's kind of The defining Internet Friends piece of media. Homestuck his hard and fast with the tumblr crowd in no small part due to the fact that there really was nothing else in the media ecosystem at the time that was structured around these sort of social relationships and still kind of isnt anything else honed in on it. These characters exist primarily as text on a screen to each other despite being the most important people in each other's lives, and the unique facets of intimacy and isolation associated with that are central and significant. Like the titular Stuck at Home-ness is ultimately about being the kind of kid who grew up on the internet.

It's constantly, shamelessly referential and even at times derivative while still being completely unique. There's a real collage-like character to homestuck both visually and in terms of its content and it is far more than the sum of those parts. Something I've repeatedly critiqued in the past is referential works who use their audience's familiarity with what they're referencing as a shortcut to/substitute for actually having their own substance. But I think homestuck kind of ends up in the opposite situation where the references it makes are not super well known to the people who ended up being its core audience, which results in a work that feels meaningfully grounded in a specific cultural frame of reference without allowing that frame of reference to supersede anything about the characters and setting, or carry any of its weight. I don't think there's anything else quite like it in that aspect.

It was revolutionary and boundary-pushing in its use of a multimedia format and deeply influential on a huge and varied crop of other creatives. There's a lot to be learned from seeing why firsthand, especially if you have any interest in producing your own body of creative work

i really like works that feel like they could only ever be the deranged brainchild of one determined sicko who has nobody to tell them no. and homestuck is definitely one of those. Stuff like jojo's bizarre adventure or zero escape or ryukishi07's work share that same element, where you're just sitting there like. okay this is insane and i have no idea what's going on but lets see where the dog is going with this. I like weird shit where i can't always understand what's happening or why that i never in a million years could have dreamed up myself.

The Beta Kids Are Real, They Are My Best Friends, And I Will Kill Or Die For Them.

anyway that's a lot of words but homestuck is a complex beast with a deservedly controversial reputation. I want anyone who does read it to have the highest possible chance of getting something out of the experience, and I think a lot of expectation setting is necessary in that regard. Good luck, should you choose to go through with it.

#hs

hunter-rodrigez

So I do 3D modeling and printing as a hobby, and a few weeks ago I designed wheel guards meant to prevent office chairs from running over cables and clothes... or your pet's tail.

I got the idea from cowcatchers old locomotives used to have.

Anyways, yesterday I uploaded the model to Thingiverse, and just hours after uploading it, the Community Relationship Manager of the whole website left a comment suggesting I enter the model into a competition that's currently being held on the site.

So I did... and now it's in third place not even a day later. First place is $500, but the competition still has a month to go.

Then the Community Manager contacted me again, telling me they want to feature my model in an upcoming design promotion.

Just, what is happening? I mostly made this thing for myself in, like, an hour, and now it's suddenly super popular? This is all a little bit overwhelming 😵‍💫

Other models I worked on for weeks didn't get nearly as popular. I swear, it's impossible to predict what people will like.

Anyways, if you want to print the wheel guards yourself, you can get the model here or here.

I also made a quiet version you can stick furniture felt pads on.

these-violet-delights-fic

People love simple, extremely practical things. I hope you win!

touchiesgoddess

so fucking stupid that shaving doesn't make the hair stop growing there. i told you to stop that

rslashrats

i know that “EW” is the actual acronym used for “extinct in the wild” but it’s really funny to imagine that this thumbnail is shaming this poor tiger

carl-lenn

Theyre being so mean to her

#the use of splatoon font makes it look like theyre adding a gross tiger to Eggstra Work

hbmmaster

I miss smash bros speculation

hbmmaster

2018-2021 was a magical time when people would talk about their favorite video game characters and anything was possible, even moreso than the Super Smash Bros. for prerelease-release-DLC hype cycle. people kept watching their made up rules get disproven and by the end of it nobody knew how to predict anything anymore

hbmmaster

there's something I find charming about the category of characters that are like. notably popular ideas for smash bros characters completely divorced from their popularity as characters in any other context. like how a lot of people somehow convinced themselves that Geno from Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (1996) is an "obvious" choice for a smash bros character even though he's not even the most popular character from the mario rpgs

#sakurai did consider geno for brawl so thats probably where that comes from #the line of thinking being ''if he considered it before he could consider it again''#but also. perhaps if geno couldnt get in 20 years ago when his game was way newer it just isnt happening #it would be one thing if this character had much popularity outside of people wanting him in smash...#but that seems to be the main context he gets any attention #waluigi feels similar. i just dont see him getting into smash without first getting his own game #ssb

aholefilledwithtwigs

The entirety of Western Digital’s 2026 hard drive output is already sold to data centers and won’t have consumer stock until at least 2027

aholefilledwithtwigs

Thanks to data center demands, Western Digital has committed all of its HDDs for at least the rest of the year.

WD makes more money selling drives to data centers that then lease you the storage as a subscription

aholefilledwithtwigs

I don’t think there’s enough coordination and cooperation for this to be a ‘force people to rely on cloud storage’ conspiracy buuuut i do think all the players involved are smart enough to know that’s what’s going to happen and have no reason to stop it

Plus, with WD specifically, it’s 7 customers. Not 7 retailers, but 7 corporate consumers. Imagine being a company with close to a $100 billion market cap and for the next fiscal year you have to only deal with 7 clients. Why on earth would you prioritize consumer sales when you’ve got these dream clients beating down your door

teratocybernetics

Your next PC upgrade might be a subscription

idk it may have started as an accident but i wouldn't for a second believe they're not actively shooting for that now

plotholes-and-spellingerrors

I also try not the engage in "this has always been the plan" type thinking. But the second that SaaS proved to be profitable, the moment Adobe proved that you can hold software hostage for a monthly fee by changing the contract and license and people will stick with it because the switching costs are too high, this was the logical conclusion. I don't believe in a shadowy cabal sitting in smoky rooms planning out every detail of the economy half a century in advance, but I do believe in the rent-seeking pressures of the private ownership economy and in the willingness of those in power to just keep pushing a little more each year to see what they can get away with.

would be nice if i could finish deltarune chapter 5 before splatoon raiders releases but since reaching the secret boss a few days ago i just havent been in the mood to attempt it so i feel like that's not happening

#im working sun/mon/wed so i wont have a lot of time for it.........

tanuki-kimono

GREAT novelty knot for this obi shaped like a cute bat. The soft fabric must flutter a bit when you walk, making the bat wings move (LOVE!).

To shape this knot, OP used rubber bands and a sanjûihimo (3 straps elastic belt, Billy Matsunaga has a tutorial on sewing the 4 straps-variation + see how it’s used here).

hyliandreso

@kyoukris

#bats

lillie-garden

really not pleased about having to do this again and i'm sorry but:

6 months ago, i was banned from twitch, my only source of income, for, and i quote: "". They did not provide me a reason. The person who reported me has been going around telling trans women to kill themselves and bragging about reporting me. Now that it has been 6 months, however, I can at least request reinstatement- theoretically.

Unfortunately, I can't get into the appeals page or my twitch account at all; I can't even change the phone number used for 2fa because the 2fa service is that shit, and the phone number associated with the account belongs to a friend who is way behind on his bills after a divorce.

we've managed to get most of them paid, but he's still another. $150 away from getting his phone reconnected, at which point i will be switching over to my current number so this never happens again. and then i can maybe actually get my twitch account back.

if anyone has anything they can spare to help, it would be immensely appreciated ;_;

$0/150 as of July 18, 2026

fintan-pyren

I was drinking tomato juice while gaming, and I finished it, but then I died and had to reload a save from before I finished my tomato juice, and for a moment, I was genuinely confused about why my tomato juice was still empty.

redstonedust

the problem with movie remakes is that they always remake something that was already good, meaning at worst you ruin it and at best your remake is largely redundant. to make a truly good remake you need to start with source material that is absolute dogwater. ignore the pull of nostalgia. redeem the sins of moviemaking past.