#That says a lot

[achildfullofwoe]

I'm so glad they didn't make Wylan an insecure gay man in his 20s

[lexithwrites]

just spent 5 minutes on marauders twitter,,,never again

[cinamun]

Friends, I think we may need to be kinder to DJ. This man is just starting to adult. Did he fuck shit up? Yeah, but I don’t think DJ has ever done shit out of maliciousness. He got dome from a lady after he thought things were on pause, which yes, that shit was stupid. He’s expressed regret. Yes, he may have pushed it a little with Amaya when he kept showing up at campus. But did he not try and tell Isa what their dynamic was? Like, Ion really know if I wanna kiki and haha about her throwing that shit in his face.

I think sometimes we gotta look past the fact that this story is pixels and be a little fr. If a girl threw a frying pan at my brother, assaulting him, because of something like this? Friends, I would simply have to get my hands dirty too. DJ is no angel, but I find it weird we’re being so hard on the guy. We’ve seen truly malicious acts, even done with perhaps decent intentions in this story. DJ is navigating the real world! Sometimes you’re gonna misstep. It’s a part of your twenties. He’ll learn, because he got Big Darren every step of the way. But Isa? I’d be more careful about throwing shit like that at people or she’ll be riding out a felony charge one day.

Good morning nonny

[the-final-sif]

One of the things I think people as a whole don't understand about the internet today is that so much of what's wrong/dangerous/flawed about the internet exists because so much of the internet started as one person's hobby they built in their spare time or as a specific task for a specific function that was just useful/functional enough that literally everyone started using it. There's tons of biases built into the modern internet and some of that is carelessness but a lot of it is... just like. This was invented by a group of grad students fucking around for a few weeks. How the fuck were they supposed to know it'd be become the global standard and that nobody would bother to address or change these things?

Like, the whole reason that the US government gets the ".gov" domain name is because this entire system was invented in the US primarily for use in universities. Under the original system, you had to phone in to talk to the center who owned the list, tell them what name you wanted and then a person would type your name/ip onto the list attached to a nickname much like a phonebook. Then people slowly figured out domains and maintaining domain registries. And then the system became useful enough that more of the US started using it, and then people realized "oh shit, other countries want to use this too, guess we need to figure that out".

The "world wide web" or the thing we all know as the internet (and the reason that every website you visit has www in front), was invented originally by one dude trying to make his own job easier (Tim Berners-Lee). He thought it was pretty cool and shared it, and he was one guy who only spoke English and was just doing what he thought was going to work.

Like, this is a very lighthearted article talking about him, but I think it illustrates the point really well,

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, has confessed that the // in a web address were actually "unnecessary". He told the Times newspaper that he could easily have designed URLs not to have the forward slashes. "There you go, it seemed like a good idea at the time," he said. He admitted that when he devised the web, almost 20 years ago, he had no idea that the forward slashes in every web address would cause "so much hassle". His light-hearted apology even had a green angle as he accepted that having to add // to every address had wasted time, printing and paper.

via "sorry for the slashs"

We have an entire internet and infrastructure built rather haphazardly but also in such a way that going back and trying to change or fix things either requires an insane amount of work or could render vast swaths of the prior internet inaccessible.

Like, I think everyone here remembers Flash getting shut down and how much of childhood games got wiped off the generally accessible internet and relegated to projects like Flashpoint. It was really hard to see, but Flash was also a project started in 1996 (or 1993 if you count the OG version that turned into flash) that was supposed to be for a limited set of use cases, and not the medium on which major parts of the internet would run. By the time Adobe shut it down, Flash was incredibly dangerous with the constant risks of malware, it was buggy, slow, and there were a million better programs. It had to be killed to make way for better things, but because of how the internet was built, that death came at a pretty high cost.

So if you're ever wondering why it feels like the web is a bunch of dominoes ready to fall down at any time, it's because it is. And it does. And so many people spend so much of their time combating all the problems created by using systems that were never intended to handle everything they are currently handling because the alternative is a task of monstrous undertaking that would almost certainly turn decades of history to dust.

[pinkpascalover-main]

And the award for the worst game so far goes to this one

[hakunawakanda]

“The Professor I know would never turn his back on someone who lost their path. Especially someone he loved”

Logan to Charles, about Erik.

X-men, days of future past.

[thefourfan]

I've given in

I think it's time for me to make a buttonblossom shipkid because we need more of them (I have a really cool idea for their design too ^^)

[tiffanybluesclues]

Revisiting the various Nightwing comics from 1995 to now, it really drives home just how bad Tom Taylor's run is. There was some not great stuff shortly before the Ric Grayson arc, and then there was of course the Ric Grayson arc, but looking back on it ...yeah, the past three years have been so mediocre. There are little bright points here and there, once in a while an issue or two that I mostly enjoy, but I'm definitely not getting pulled into marathoning stories like I was when I went through the other runs a few days ago. :/

[apostate-in-an-alcove]

Men spend so much time worrying about whether or not a child is biologically his and live in this fantasyland where men are tricked, on a grand scale, into raising children that aren't theirs meanwhile the fuckers don't actually contribute much into actual childrearing or any domestic labour around the household, even when the children in question are technically his.

[fetabathwater]

idk. the sentiment that dragon age hasnt been the same since origins. is like. nothing will be the same as origins. datv feels like more of a successor to da2 than dai ever could. and da2 took the series in a probably different direction than origins wouldve because they werent sure the series was gonna take off, which is why the endings and decisions got retconned, and they partnered with the devil (EA), which made them churn out a plot in 14 months. they spent the next 5 years trying to reconcile that plot by throwing things together, since dao was pretty much a closed book. dai had the opportunity to remove itself from dao (and ferelden), but they choked at the last minute, and made much of the game occur there, because they didnt want to take the risk. the last two decades of dragon age, including comics, books, shows, and games, is literally them trying to frankenstein the plot back together, and it was never ever going to satisfy. it was a forest of plot points and choices that were so individualistic. god forbid they put a bit of colour and find an artstyle that doesn't mean they have to make a game on an engine they never used before. yeah, they worked themselves into a corner with plot, and characters, and no, it would make no narrative sense for zevran to reappear, even if i wanted him there too, but like. idk. its been 10 years since dai's wafer thin plot. they changed writers and teams like a dozen times over. its a fun game for what it is, but like. the old guard team of bioware expected to have 8 games by now, before it was even remotely as popular as it became, and before they joined EA. so pfbfbbfbtbfbt good lord.

[rou-luxe]

list of outgoing sunshine characters in the artificial darlinghouse

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[belovedrival]

Random Wednesday thoughts

I sometimes feel like my brain is a ball in a pinball machine these days, ricocheting from one thing to another, before going back to the same spot.

My new job has been okay. Last week I didn’t get many hours, but already this week I’ve gotten more hours in, and it’s only Wednesday.

Jonas had an appointment with a specialist yesterday. He’s going to have surgery next month. It’s a minor one, an outpatient procedure, but I’m already trying not to let my worries take over. Oof.

Earlier this week I observed the other preschool class in session. They need an aide, and I said I’d be possibly willing to do it. I just wanted to observe things. It would be nice to do it; the teacher is experienced, the school is excellent, I’d be at school at least part of the time Jonas is there (not in his class). But I don’t know how I’ll manage getting hours in with my online job if I’m working there. Stay tuned.

Managing our schedules now with one car is difficult. If we had another car things would be easier. On the other hand, we don’t have the savings right now to get one. Meh. Money: don’t have it, can’t live without it.

I am DONE with summer. It’s been way too hot recently and our yard is looking dry and stubbly. I pretty much gave up on the garden when we got back from vacation a month ago, and I still need to get in there and clean it out. COOL DOWN, WEATHER.

There’s been an ongoing saga with my parents for…well, a couple years now. My dad is F I N A L L Y retiring next March. They sold the house they’d lived in since 2017 back in May of this year and are now living in an apartment. They haven’t made up their minds where they’re moving to once Dad retires, or if they have, they haven’t told me and my siblings their final decision. It’s between 2 places that are very far apart in distance: think of living in either Minnesota…or Texas.

The problem with this is they keep talking about buying a house in one location and either buying a condo or renting an apartment in another. 1 location near my sister (8 kids), the other near my brother (4 kids). I’m not offended at all that they’re moving further away from me. I just want them to MAKE. A. DECISION. My sister and I agree that Mom is more than ready to decide and move on (literally) but Dad is either stuck in I’m Still Working and I Don’t Want To Decide Now or he keeps hedging for a myriad of reasons. The not knowing what’s going on with them, plus my dad’s denial of his health issues (ongoing condition), drives us crazy. Mister very rationally told me that I need to make peace with not knowing (for now), but I find it hard to do because I don’t think the hedging and not making a decision is good for either of theirs’ mental health. Argh.

Anyway, I hope you’re having a good week. 🙂

[maygrcnt]

i personally know why i am on the buddie good luck babe train but where did all of yall come from

[trcelyneart]

Boyfriend told me he wanted to S-support Diamant for the entire game, until the last moment when he chose Merrin instead

[bombasticsalt]

never been so proud to write a line in my entire life and it's for a down detector x A03 fic

[lpslopbunny112]

Every day I’m thankful that I started collecting lps a really long time ago before it was cool, back when it was possible to build a pretty decent collection without being a millionaire