#esp with autoplay

[theelusivepoetalien]

I logged on to let you guys know that I uninstalled mobile and am finishing mastodon migration TODAY after getting a bonus mini panik from autoplay audio ads.... I haven't been on desktop in a few weeks... Want to guess how long it took me to find my own blog on this nightmare desktop UI? Too long. Too. fucking. Long. It's called "unintuitive ui" if it's not downright hostile (ie: stay longer for ads!). Feel free to reply "why don't you just remember to turn your sound down every single time you stop listening to music like any of us have that kind of time and attention" to be autoblocked. Stay tuned. I'll probably drop the new location in the next few hours as I tweak things. I am moving ALL the sub-blogs, so we can understand that takes a little time, yes? Yah, you can drop useful Mastodon related asks in my box.

[nazuna-tunnel-vision]

aight i got the rabits badge from clearing 30 lives, time to quit enstars until tsukasa's centre event. i may or may not have >50 whistles left but its fine

[flamagenitus]

Re-customized my tumblr theme so it's less boring! I might try and see if I can get, like, those blog inserts where the fish follow ur cursor around that used to exist way back when! Not sure if they'll fit the space aesthetic though

[aria0fgold]

Freed from hsr trailblaze quest finally and just whooooaaaa... Can Shaoji keep writing for other worlds too please? He's so good with it.

[relto]

used my sick day to finally go and make the script that autogenerates me the code for the hatchling probability calculator. lol

[pangyham]

oohhh i'm finally starting act 3... sumeru archon quest is actually quite interesting but maybe i just havent played g3nshin in so long that past archon quests are muddled in my memories and so the current one is a lot more appealing

but in my time away from this game.. i realize the quests now are a little different..? h0yo implemented small changes like slightly cinematic scenes and camera angles that make quests register more as a film. it's not very interactive, as past and current g3nshin quests usually are, so it's not necessarily a huge improvement but i appreciate it. i can just autoplay and do chores hahaha

anyway ive mentioned this before but playing the game now is so much more fun because im not in the fandom and am behind like 2 years of community talk aka theories drip marketing etc.. i genuinely dunno any of the sumeru charas and esp the fontaine charas. who tf is the hydro archon. also got jumpscared by dottore in act 3 LMFAO i had NO IDEA HE EVEN HAD AN IN GAME MODEL THATS NUTSSS. cool ass cutscene though

anyway... im gonna liveblog act 3 here maybe. ill just rb and edit on the way hahaha. times like this i wish i had a twt and just made a thread

[clarabowmp3]

But...she hasnt sued anyone...so, how is it true?

In a more literal sense:

Her cease and desist letter (TIME Magazine)….im side-eyeing the second pic sooo hard. Rlly? Absolute statements? Absolutely NO justification?

Screenshots from a Reddit comment (basically copy pasting what was behind the paywall) from a Washington Post article

At least in my opinion, a threat to sue has the same implications (eg intimidation, which is what is suggested in that who’s afraid of little old me lyric from my previous post) as actually suing, esp with respect to Taylor Swift’s legal team. While I agree that it’s a safety concern for him to be posting real time updates, the way her team handled it (as seen in the citing of Instagram comments rather than actual laws or smth more substantial in the cease and desist) indicate greater concern for the implications on her image rather than her safety alone, as they’re trying to make out. Again, this last bit is just my perspective, so for argument’s sake let’s say that her concerns were only to do with her safety.

In a more general sense, that lyric (isnt that what they all say that I’ll sue you if you step on my lawn) implies that she has the (false) image of being a “bully,” for lack of a better term, such as through legal action. For example, the olivia rodrigo credit situation. I’m not going to include any screenshots of that since I think all the events have been pretty well-documented, but I think it’s pretty hypocritical of her to come out with imgonnagetyouback just a few months after get him back. I know the concept initially originates from Fiona Apple in 2005, but it seems odd that taylor suddenly decides to write a similar song when the most recent significantly popular instance of it was get him back. I think it’s unfair to have a double standard in this case, as in either both olivia and taylor were at fault or neither were, but what taylor (or her legal team) deems acceptable seems to revolve around what is beneficial for her at any given moment.

If you want to get even more generic and just focus on her attacking people who “step on her lawn,” I think the variant releases demonstrate that. Yes, I know other people do it too, but I rlly don’t care for that line of defence (it’s like a child trying to justify cheating or misbehaving just because ‘everyone does it.’ I am (or was) only emotionally invested in taylor and not other artists as she is (or was) someone I’m a fan of.).

With the numbers her variants were doing, I think it’s clear that it was her name/ the hype of the eras tour driving the success rather than the artistic merit of the releases, most of which were just live tour recordings of the same songs on ttpd. Moreover, she tried to stay #1 at the expense of others in the music industry like Sabrina carpenter (yes I know she tried to do that whole Spotify autoplay thing with espresso but I can understand her trying to acquire a certain level of success as a bubbling artist). What really irks me is that at her status, breaking these records is more of an ego thing than anything else. She herself has said in Miss Americana that she seeks validation through awards, and she barely talked about the charts meaning that they provide a more superficial kind of reassurance. It feels very unsportsmanlike to not let others have their time to shine because and ONLY because she is not succeeding/breaking these records through her own continued artistic merit. I’m not saying she should go out of her way to let others hit #1, Im saying she shouldn’t go out of her way to stop others from hitting #1.

[bittwitchy]

tu/mblr i will take whatever ads so yall can stay alive since i wont get prem/ium possibly ever, im rly not as no as a lot of ppl but like im poor man lol i realize the issues keeping me from gettng any premi/um probably cant be fixed anyways until they can pay devs to fix them, like thats something i dont see a lot of people realizing or understanding like a website is expensive to keep open esp one needing as much data as tumbs does to function, some ppls distaste is a little mean and kind of lacking that understanding i think but i digress, but like heres the thing, i will accept any ads tumbs. unless they have sound. autoplay sound ads are actually villainous esp to your largely neurodivergent base and the level of reduced screentime ive had this week JUST from the autosound ads being SUCH a turn off??? that does not help me or u dudes

[kawaiijohn]

Sometimes when I let music autoplay on YouTube I come across an artist who has the best music I've heard in a long time, and then I see they have like 40 subscribers and no more that 5k views on any of their music and get really really sad.

Esp when their videos have damn good production value.

Anyways found an electro synth artist in Madagascar who has good music to vibe to and here's his original song.

[mauricemylittlemeowmeow]

bg3 thoughts so far:

- in true lesbian fashion, i am consistently friendzoning shadowheart while making out w her drunk

- HALSIN'S ARM VEIN WTFWTFWTF HORNY GRIP SO FUCKING GRRGHRGRGRHGHGHG BEAR SEX WHENNNNNNN

- ill probably replay tomorrow idk. wyll was sad during the party. forgor to do his quest lol sorry baby

- i need to find a way to get rid of astarion. literally felt so much cringe in his intro (he fucking looks like his armpits smell sour bro......) and now i can smell a betrayal coming in the future

- the gith is lost idk where she is

- gale is..... an investment. hes like a puppy. big burden (i could rlly be using those artifacts) but such a Vibe to be around.

- i killed minthara i didnt know she was a romance option or smth idk im so sorry i have horny tunnel vision halsin says anything i will do it. her fit looks nice tho thanks for the drip.

NON CHARACTER RELATED THOUGHTS:

Honestly, I can't help comparing it to the previous BG games. ofc i miss the old charactes (esp the recurring ones. havent met mink and boo in bg3 yet) but there are some old game mechanics i miss too. BG3 def. plays as more dnd but i liked the extra stuff from the older games like team formations and (dont @ me im a casual player) auto play lol. it def takes u out of the dnd experience when u autoplay but- and this is a big point-

DnD mechanics fucking sucks to play alone. it's a ttrpg w multiple players, u arent supposed to be planning the moves for everyone else. Yeah, BG3 has a multiplayer option but do i fucking look like i have friends?? playing single player like this sucks man. give me the option for my braindead computer gamified dnd :(((

but overall having fun. it's worlds diff when ur playing w someone else! def more fun :)

[liu-yu-xin]

Moonlight autoplayed. So good moonlight will always hit shes alr on the all timers playlist the beats the harmonies the melody their voices kun and xiaojun esp. lets all not kill ourselves lets all live

[jayflrt]

tumblr mobile is so buggy (esp w my busted ass iphone) that when i clicked on the new chapter with the legendary heeseung promo vid, it autoplayed and my screen got stuck with the video playing on loop and i couldn't even exit out the app or turn my phone off so i was stuck with a heeseung powerpoint slideshow for a several minutes and i was a THIS close to pulling my hair out

anyways 10/10 would do it again

omg my iphone’s been bugging out so much lately i need to upgrade desperately 😭🙏 LMAODBSKFB PLEASE IM SORRY HEESEUNG BROKE UR PHONE </3 that’s so funny u cant escape the video it was just holding you hostage 🧎‍♀️ glad u enjoyed the experience tho 😎

[ispyspookymansion]

Honestly thanks for having a bunch of 2010 and later films on that uquiz cause its so hard to find reliably campy ones that don’t spit out jokes every 5 minutes

you are so welcome !! i rlly ended up with wayyyyy more of recent decades on that quiz and a lot of the reason is sites like tubi and peacock, i found most of those movies (esp from 2010s and 2020s) by wandering like, 4 levels deep in the autoplay up next features on those sites and a lot of those just lead me to newer films, it’s not always Great movies (plenty did not make that quiz as actual recommendations) but i like it!

[xfindingtrouble]

i think talia is how we first met??? so seeing her again is so nostalgic. i love that you picked her up again its so nice to see you return to the asoiaf fandom esp since we both left for the same reasons. recaim that SHIT its 2023 and were going back to our roots.

talia is, in fact, how we met. thankfully the fandom has chilled out for the most part since the 2015-2017 era & i can revisit this muse who has shaped so much of my creativity. i remember being on her blog, lurking on yours, thinking the playlist you had on autoplay was the coolest fucking thing i had ever heard. talia forrester gave me so many friends & great experiences & understanding of my own grief in the exploration of her character. i am sooo thankful we can indulge in this nostalgia together <3

[sillycatgriddy]

thank u for introducing me to los campesinos they r one of my fav bands now tjey came on my autoplay just now and I thought of u bff ily i hope jr javing a good day

YIPPEEEE !!!!!!!! i love los camp. so much i haven’t listened to them enough at all recently ILY2 I HOPE Y R ALSO HAVING A GOOD DAY also i think you’d like september by sparky deathcap. Such a good song from 1 of the los camp member’s solo project. ALAO IDK IF U LIKE SLOWER INSTRUMENTSL SOMGS BUT IF Y DO u should listen to “follow him, for he is the one” from desert sand feels warm at night and “what we did in the desert” by eightiesheadachetape esp what we did in the desert

[darkmaga-retard]

Your daily dose of natural disasters and amazing phenomena for September 12, 2024...

Strange Sounds

US real estate loans are reaching delinquency rates not seen since the 2007–2008 financial crisis…

Meanwhile, PwC is laying off 1,800 employees in first formal cuts since 2009… PwC: PricewaterhouseCoopers’s U.S. unit…

Yep! Everything is just fine…

My only regret is that I have... Boneitis… Doctors discover a man’s penis is literally turning into a bone…

The wrecks of explosives-laden Nazi ships sunk in the River Danube during World War Two have emerged near Serbia's river port town of Prahovo, after a drought in July and August that saw the river's water level drop…https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/pPjyluU6b8E?rel=0&autoplay=0&showinfo=0&enablejsapi=0

Bell Telephone was like that—and the baby bells were born… Google’s ad tech empire may be $95B and “too big” to sell…

Nature is amazing! Using X-ray video, scientists have discovered that baby Japanese eels slither backwards out of the stomachs of predatory dark sleeper fish after being swallowed, and slip away through the gill slits to freedom…https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/DI8E6im3qa0?rel=0&autoplay=0&showinfo=0&enablejsapi=0

"In just a few centuries, the people of Easter Island wiped out their forest, drove their plants and animals to extinction, and saw their complex society spiral into chaos and cannibalism." So writes Jared Diamond in his best-selling book Collapse, which was published in 2005. Nearly two decades later, an international team of geneticists has found evidence that this famous cautionary tale never happened. The true story of Rapa Nui (named Easter Island by colonial Europeans) is not one of self-inflicted population collapse, the new findings suggest, but of cultural resilience… Well, maybe! New genetic evidence overrules ecocide theory of Easter Island…

Infrastructure collapse: Many dams, locks & weirs on the USA's 12,000 MILES of inland waterways are in bad shape. Repairs on some are being carried out but I doubt there is enough funding in the end for everything…https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/WLFBoASIQ0s?rel=0&autoplay=0&showinfo=0&enablejsapi=0

Luckily, these sorts of people are as dumb as they are horrifically evil… Former model and Miss Switzerland finalist Kristina Joksimovic 'pureed' in blender by husband…

While Germany either sends all its money to Ukraine or spends it on supporting migrants, it looks like infrastructure isn't important anymore. A common theme in the West these days. A bridge collapsed in Dresden last night…https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/b0NNUvEr450?rel=0&autoplay=0&showinfo=0&enablejsapi=0

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Some like it hot! A man has bought his ‘dream’ house in Massachusetts despite warnings from experts that it will soon fall into the sea. To be fair, he seems to be aware of the risks and says he is taking a ‘life’s too short’ philosophy when buying the property, so this isn’t a case of full delusion. Still, this serves as a microcosm for the larger issue of coastal erosion across the US east coast, as 80-90% of the beaches along this coast are eroding. Expect more and more coastal infrastructure to crumble away as the climate crisis accelerates… Massachusetts man buys $395,000 house despite warnings it will ‘fall into ocean’…

Floods gush through Nigerian zoo, sweeping snakes and crocodiles into neighborhoods…https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/d-Mwk98B6oQ?rel=0&autoplay=0&showinfo=0&enablejsapi=0

Le Lyonnais was making its first trip from America to Europe, carrying 132 people when it collided with the Adriatic, an American sailing vessel, on Nov. 2, 1856. The ship sank due to damage sustained in the collision, and 116 of the people aboard Le Lyonnais died in the disaster. Almost an infinity of space, esp in 1856, and yet this collision of ship and sailing vessel. Worse odds is that it was the ship's first trans-Atlantic voyage… Ship that sank in 1856 with 132 onboard discovered in Atlantic Ocean 200 miles off Massachusetts…

No one knows who built this mystery tunnel at The Pirámide in Tierradentro, Colombia…https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Ho9VHLEkqpI?rel=0&autoplay=0&showinfo=0&enablejsapi=0

Instead of fent in their IV drips the patients got tap water causing bacterial infections that led to 16 deaths. In addition to the $303m lawsuit against the hospital the nurse who stole and swapped the fent (Dani Marie Schofield) was arrested and charged with 44 counts of second-degree assault. She's currently free after posting $400k bond… Oregon hospital hit with $303M lawsuit after a nurse is accused of replacing fentanyl with tap water…

Shallow magnitude-6.3 earthquake strikes off Papua New Guinea…

Geoengineering at its best! Hailstorms in Europe have increased 267% in the past five years…

Power poles snapped, and buildings were damaged in Houma, Louisiana, after Hurricane Francine's eyewall moved through on Wednesday… Nearly 400,000 without power in Louisiana & flooding around New Orleans…https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/-plS_CtGNk4?rel=0&autoplay=0&showinfo=0&enablejsapi=0

A clear and present danger: US police given new UFO guide/handbook…

SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission took flight Tuesday morning (Sept. 10th @ 5:23 a.m. EDT) when a Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral:Taken by Conrad Pope on September 10, 2024 @ Wilmington, NCA highlight of the mission will be their attempt to perform a spacewalk without an airlock. Opening the door of the Crew Dragon capsule will expose all four crew members to the vacuum of space. Only their spacesuits will keep them safe. I wish the crew good luck when they try it later this week…

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