#bot question

[drafthorsemath]

Love buying 15 tubes of horse dewormer online and Valley Vet asks if I'm a robot.

[it-happened-once-in-a-meme]

Tumblr newbie here🙂: I have a few questions to people who know some things about bots (from someone who's relatively new to Tumblr)

When (if at all) should you block someone (what are good indicators, for example: is following someone without first likung any content a certain sign?)

What (if there is any) damage could otherwise be done to us by bots?

It's such a weird experience. 😄 I know that content on Tumblr can get a bit...not safe for work and that most users with people in their profile picture put someone else there, but i can't help but be suspicious when someone à la melissahsdi2234lana with no posts or likes and a link to a certain website🍑 follows me without liking anything first and this happens more than one time in a short amount of time...

[keferon]

His new alt mode should be considered cheatinggggg. Look. Listen. He can fly. But he’s alt also just small enough so he can fit in any space car would fit. That guy can move in every dimension.

I spent some time being slightly sad that his design contains a lot of blue but then remembered that one of my coloring techniques makes everyone’s original colors unrecognisable anyway haha

[saturns-rings-sys]

Octocon is a new app for systems. It's traumacentric and made by traumagenic systems. It also has a discord bot that is a lot easier to use than pk in my opinion. You can also sync your app and the bot so you can edit alters in the app. The app is on android already and coming to IOS soon. Hope this helps some people :)

(If you're in a server, I recommend adding this bot as more people are starting to use it instead of pk and tupperbox)

Apologies for any confusion, turns out they have a neutral stance on non traumagenic systems.

[raileurta]

Therapy Humans

After being in a war for millions of years transformers gotta be really fucked up. So I imagine with humans being nice and soft and having therapists that we'll be therapy dog humans.

[aniisol]

"Grian's being more Watcher-y this season! He created all the twists and he's manipulating the other players! He's using his knowledge of the wildcards to--"

annoy Jimmy. he's using his power to annoy Jimmy.

[bloo-the-dragon]

He'd just finished washing that

@thedemonsurfer

[zarla-s]

I just read your TF2 bot post and I’m fascinated. It has left me with a few questions though. Why/how were bots a problem for so long? What was the main incentive for botting (is it botting or boting??) Was it just to be an asshole? What’s your favorite baked good? Have a lovely day and don’t worry about answering my questions if you’re not in the mood :]

The bots were a problem for so long because Valve just didn't care, sorry to say. They just let it happen. I'm not sure when they started coming in in force, maybe after the Jungle Inferno update like six years ago? But they just kept pouring in and Valve just ignored it. It's really shameful how bad they let it get, honestly. They just kept putting out community updates like nothing was wrong.

Eventually after a lot of community pressure a year ago (#savetf2) they tweeted saying they were aware of the problem and then nothing happened. Then there was ANOTHER community movement this June (#fixtf2), and THEN at the end of June they ACTUALLY did something, which is why everyone was so shocked and skeptical at the time. Like the bots got so bad, it's hard to get across just how bad it got if you weren't playing at the time. It was bad. To suddenly go from that to totally bot-free was unbelievable. Frankly I'm still shocked they're gone! No one knows why Valve's acting now or how they're doing it (personally, I think they must have been working on these anti-bot measures for a while... maybe even since their initial tweet, but no one knows), but I hope they keep it up. I can finally teach people how to play in peace!

As for why they'd do this, yeah, it's just to be jerks. They just want to make people miserable. They have websites on Neocities you can find under the tf2 tag (I was looking through it for sites to link to my tf2 site) and they state themselves that they just like making people mad. I don't think they actually hate TF2 so much as they love the power rush from destroying something so famous that so many people love. Kind of a power-trip/control thing, with a dose of being desperate for attention. A lot of the more notorious bot hosters had twitters or youtube accounts where they invited people to rage at them uselessly, they loved it. They've also formed communities around botting and trolling people, so they have kind of a social investment in it (although they were quick to turn on each other when they suspected someone was a mole). Some of them sell their bot software or "bot immunity" for money but I think that was just pocket change, I don't think that was a real motivator.

After having free reign for so long, they reacted violently to the community movement in June. They were positive that nothing would happen to them, so they kept doing more and more outrageous things to prove it. They DDoS'd and DMCA'd the site for the petition multiple times, they doxxed and swatted one of the main bot fighters, they impersonated figureheads and posted illegal links to things, like they were really stepping over the line and gloating about it. They were extremely confident and to be fair, who could blame them? Valve's negligence let them get away with it for years. To suddenly have that power taken away from them without warning made them absolutely furious. They're still seething about it right now and plotting ways to get back in, but they haven't found one yet. It's a matter of pride for them at this point I think, that and a childish tantrum about not being able to ruin other people's fun anymore. Them targeting a baby game version of TF2 (TC2) also points to it being a power trip. If they can't ruin TF2 anymore then by god they've got to ruin SOMEthing!

Even now I'm not sure Valve can hold the line and I keep checking TF2 Casual every now and then to look for bots, haha. It's just hard to believe! I greatly enjoy hearing about bot hosters raging about it and suffering though, they deserve nothing less. Die mad about it!!!

In terms of baked goods though I like all kinds, although right now I'm thinking about brownies so I'll say that. |D

[yesornopolls]

Did you know this site still has porn even though it's "banned"? You've just got to know where to look for it.

[in1-nutshell]

So what would be D-16 and Orion Pax's opinion in Transformers One of Nightlight? The only high class member who genuinely cares about them?

I'll answer it short, but this is more of a 'nutshell summary' than question. I'll send a post when those are open.

Nightshade is a bit of a famous bot being in Sentinel's inner circle and solving seemingly impossible cases and foiling evil bots plans.

D-16 is a bit more of a fan of Nightlight's work than Orion is. He has a faded poster of her near his recharging station. Orion finds her moral compass to be admirable.

When she comes to see them face to face and tells them that she genuinely cares, its almost too good to be true. Even more when she eventually gives them her private line to update her on life in the mines.

[cowabummers]

A past reblog inspired me to bring punkitt-is-here's classic "forever weed brownie" comic to the MST3K fandom! I'm admittedly not well-versed in the Mike-era seasons, though, so sue me if it's a bit out of character lol.

[transingthoseformers]

https://www.tumblr.com/transingthoseformers/767860017152032768/httpswwwtumblrcomtransingthoseformers7677898?source=share

Optimus comes out of the groundbridge heavily pregnant and Bumblebee's following him because Ratchet is too nervous to let him go alone. They've just handled the time travel episode and are EXHAUSTED, but they've been saved by a Prime who is very obviously struggling to even stand properly.

Charlie asks Optimus if he's alright, and Optimus is just "No? I believe the human term is 'pregnant and ready to pop.'" And Blades (who is a medic) has to get him moved off to their quarters while Boulder explains how carriage works to Cody.

The baby pops out, and it's really tiny and wiggly and Optimus wants to die because it CLEARLY has red eyes. But all the Burnses are all swarming because it's so cute and very rare that a baby robot shows up, and Optimus just wants to hibernate for seven years. But then Optimus has to tell them that they have to take care of the sparkling because he doesn't want it around the fighting back where he's been living. The whole Burns' reactions, probably:

Charlie: It's adorable, of course we can make room here to take care of it. Just another member of the family. And I'll make sure it hears all about its... mom..?

Kade: I'm not watching it. No way. I refuse. I'm NOT a babysitter

Heatwave: You'll watch it if you have to, Kade. It's only fair that if we have to watch out for you, you can watch out for us

Chase: *actively having a mental breakdown because autobots don't have red eyes and that baby is CLEARLY a Decepticon baby*

Boulder and Graham: *eagerly showing off the baby area they built after realizing they'd have to watch the baby for at least a few days for Optimus to recover*

Blades: Oh I- I don't know how to raise a baby-

Dani: I always wanted at least ONE kid, how hard can it be

Cody: So I'm not the youngest anymore???

I adore how, out of everyone who's willing to roll with this because well it's happening, Chase is caught up on the decepticon baby part

WE KNOW WHAT HAPPENED, OPTIMUS

that is immensely funnier when you remember that, before the war, Megatronus had blue optics.

(...is he dealing with the reverse situation with a blue opticed sparkling over on the decepticon side of things?)

[astronomodome]

Trivia Bot is so many people’s precious baby boy and I think that’s wonderful

[keferon]

The tac net crash chapter is one of my favorites so far~

Ah and. Guess what. I just discovered that including this post, I made 50 pieces of fanart for Mistakes on mistakes until.. I’m so sane and normal about this story can you tell👍

[salpho]

OC I MADE IN 0.5 SECONDS he's called Wildcard and he's a trivia bot who got a little bit conscious and "broken" technically and is sent by the watchers with the rest of the bots to quiz everyone. He's a bit mischievous and asks players really hard and impossible to answer questions on purpose, sometimes lying to them if they do get the answer right somehow. The only way to avoid this guy screwing you over is if you provide actual evidence behind a your answer and then he accepts and floats away all sad. Ant with bindle style.

[thelostcameron]

I have decided to start a chain. Reblog and put your comfort/relatable character (and a reasoning if you desire). And hope people have fun with this! I'll start,

Friends who I am tagging because why not, they may be interested: @bylerr-swift @bumblebeezstuffz

Edit: I forgot to mention, but multiple are allowed. The more the merrier, GO NUTS PEOPLE!