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archfey warlock
#artists on tumblr#had to close all asks and messages for a moment#sorry#i just can't deal with the bot spam#will be back in some time again#i've been playing the dragon age series lately#currently working on DA2#i'm completely in love with fenris hello#i heard the new game won't care about your DA2 choices#gonna cry if fenris shows up and is like hawke who#inquisition save me#i need another fave character that is less likely to break my heart in vguard
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The porn bots are flooding tags again... This time it seems like whoever is behind has ramped up their efforts as I have noticed the botted interactions on the posts are around 4-6 times higher than before, I was noticing last time they flooded in the posts would have around 90-100+ interactions (botted likes from their huge farm of bots) now I'm seeing posts with like 400-600 botted likes per post.
#Kinda crazy that they can't deal with a bot campaign of around 700 bots all named “generic female first and last name + numbers between1-99”#Who are all liking each other's posts and all posting links to the same 2 cam sites#Like you can just open any of these posts look at the likes on it and they are about 99% botted likes from similar accounts doing the same.#tumblr is just so poorly run I guess lmao#tumblr#spam issues
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Please do not send me asks for donations
Here's why:
I have NO money to give you
I'm not a popular enough blog that I will give you any reach
I am a minor, and most of my followers are too
It makes me feel extremely guilty
Seeing pictures of injuries or hospitals etc are triggering for me (which are in most intro posts for this sort of thing)
They are always worded in a way that makes me feel like I am a murderer if I don't donate
It makes me feel uncomfortable
I said I don't want them, and my boundaries should be respected
I can't tell what is a bot and what isn't
I get a lot of spam from this. It is disappointing to see 10 new asks in my inbox just to be the same ask for donations over and over
Please, just respect the fact that I have said this.
Edits below (probably for the best if you read them too)
Edit: To all the people reblogging this, I'm sorry you have had to deal with this too. And yes, you can put this in your pinned post! Stay safe <3
Edit 2: I am pro Palestine and want to do everything I can to help but I'm not financially or mentally well enough to do much. I'm not in support of these people dying. Also, this post isn't just about Palestine. It's about ALL asks for donations. I'm not doing favouritism or racism. I just can't deal with it. Don't harass me for expressing boundaries.
Edit 3: Yes, this post might seem controversial. But I did literally make this for my own personal experience and didn't expect it to get more than 12 notes or so. You can agree with this post, pin this post, reblog this post, I don't care really. But don't add opposing views because quite frankly, it's none of your business. It's not my problem and I didn't mean for this post to get so many notes. Edit 2 mostly covered what I'm trying to say here, but don't use the number of notes as an excuse to fight me. I just want a peaceful Tumblr experience. Also, if you are reblogging this, don't trauma dump. I keep notifications on for this post so that I can block people harassing me before shit escalates, so I can see every reblog. You can screenshot and repost if you want to talk about your problems, but honestly its no better seeing people saying "I'm bankrupt and I just got kicked out by my family. I also have a history of abuse and those images are so triggering that I want to die". That doesn't help me. Make your own post to say that. Please
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so i wanna talk about 2b2t, specifically as a backstory for qfit. because the thing is everyone talks about 2b2t as a wasteland and a wreck and a bombed out warzone and like. it sure as hell isn't not that. but it's also a server that people keep on coming to. it's a server that takes pride in actively murdering new members, but it's a server that keeps on having new members
so, what's the draw? what keeps people coming and coming back?
well, the thing about an anarchy server is that it has no rules, be they rules of society or rules of reality
the way i think about 2b2t is that it's a fucked up wonderland. like you know when someone makes a deal with a sinister fairy and it comes true in the worst way for them possible? that's how everything works on 2b.
you want infinite blocks for your builds? sure, the griefers have infinite tnt too. you want infinite totems to stay alive? sure, end crystal pvp means you're gonna need every last one of them. you want fame and fortune for griefing a legendary build? sure, you got a target on your back for the rest of your life though
but the thing is that the metaphorical fucked up fairies are busy. it's down to the individual server members to take care of the double dealing and the double crossing and the wreaking of havoc. and they do! with delight! but they can't* be everywhere at once.
so, you have a chance. you can get lucky. you can get lucky for a while. you can build a nice little life for yourself. you can even get it off the back of tearing other people down if you're quick and you're clever and that's much faster and easier than trying to grind your own resources the vanilla way when every moment is a race against the clock before your base gets found and griefed but you can try and you can do pretty well and you can try again and you can try to get revenge and you can make friends and you can make enemies and you can have everything you ever wanted for the low, low price of everything you ever had and why not pay it when you can just build it all back up again
the other things about 2b2t that i think points to fucked up fairy wonderland instead of standard wartime dystopia is so much of how the server works is really best understood as necromancy-adjacent. so every account is a different person, right? well, some people have a half dozen faces just in case someone finds out where one sleeps. sometimes. there was that one time one guy's shambling corpse** just got reanimated by a completely different guy who took over his identity and no one really minded when they found out
there's an entire population of bots that move and act like players and communicate in all the ways players can barring hte most intimate*** and they literally can't be distinguished from players in most circumstances but they're used as delivery drones so they'll bring you a package and then die in front of you so you can't follow them back to the cache
like this is just!! a thing!!! that people live with!!!!!!!
2b2t has highway unions!! it also has collectives who go around destroying the highways!! there are compassionate souls making community areas!! those areas are griefed to hell and back but not beyond recognizibility!!
it's all just an absolutely fascinating world and it deserves to be explored in how it affects fit's character a lot more than just "ptsd from bombs" even though that's also a massive part of it
*NOCOM notwithstanding
**To be clear bc it wasn't a roleplay bit, the original player is still alive, but he's got no intention of returning to 2b2t so his cubito is definitely dead.
***They can like spam crouch and send messages in chat and you're not gonna want to hop in a vc with a rando from 2b2t
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I was gonna ask a question but i honestly forgot it 😅 so just tell me something you want to rant about
If you do happen to remember what you were gonna ask feel free to do so, do not worry about spamming my inbox bc I live for that shit.
As for the rant
Transformers Rescue Bots had some of the best, kindest, and most respectful representation of neurodivergence I have ever seen in media and I'm tired of pretending it didn't.
While there are obvious complaints to be made about neurodivergent traits (especially autistic traits) usually being portrayed in media by inhuman characters like aliens or robots, this being a case of both, I feel like thats a pretty negligible sin given just how human the show makes the robots feel. (Also it was like 2011 and we were STRUGGLING for any scraps of rep anyway)
But like. The behaviors all these robots exhibit are all shit that I do that was always deemed unacceptable when I was a kid and seeing it portrayed with the level of kindness and gentleness they do in that show has me fuckin crying a little man. I wish I had actually watched it when I was younger and it was first airing because maybe if I did I would've had an easier time explaining what the hell was going on with my brain a LOT sooner.
Blades being anxious, overly sensitive, and WHOLEHEARTEDLY queer (which they had the absolute unparalleled balls to just casually confirm by having him swoon over "hunky vampires" in one episode and NOBODY commented on it. Fucking iconic) and getting so so deeply invested in the shows and movies he loves that he acts out the roles with enough passion to steel his nerves and completely flourish.
Boulder getting really confused at concepts that are basic and intuitive for most people, but still being so fucking intelligent, and never being made to feel stupid for the mix-ups, as well as just being so wholely, unabashedly in love with the planet he's found himself on, even if he doesn't understand all of it (Also apologizing to inanimate objects when he knocks them over 😭)
Chase being obsessed with rules and law because he NEEDS the structure to not fall apart at the seams, even feeling the need to fabricate a minor crime to justify using the emergency line to get a hold of the firehouse when he can't find the other bots. As well as just fully not understanding comedy (BUT TRYING HIS DAMNEDEST), taking things super literally, and having a lot of trouble with tone and expressions (even though you know just how deeply he feels All The Time).
Heatwave being desperate for attention and recognition, but completely allergic to asking for it. And honestly allergic to showing any genuine emotional responses other than aggression. The constant sarcasm and sass and defensiveness that he POORLY maintains because everyone knows that underneath that tough guy front is the loneliest robot on earth that wants to be loved SO bad but would rather jump into unicron's mouth than voice it because if he lets his guard down who knows what will happen to him or the people he cares about.
Just. All of it man. Seeing them exhibiting all these behaviors and quirks that all too often get met with poor reactions from people who don't want to deal with what they don't really get, but here they're met with patience and understanding?? It's got me fucked up. They get to be functional adults that struggle with what they have going on but still push through. They get to have unconditionally loving relationships with people that treat them with respect. And that's the kind of shit that gives me a lot of hope for folks like me because maybe some neurotypical kids that watched it picked up on what's helpful when their friend who acts like one of the bots is going through it. And maybe some neurodivergent kids watched it too and for the first time they just felt SEEN.
Okay rant over, I'm gonna go cry over some plastic robots 👍
#post written while ugly sobbing a little#rescue bots was written with this complete and utter kindness baked into it#as much as i praise the show for the comedy and character aspects#which are still wonderful in their own right#it must not be understated how genuine and sweet and compassionate the writing is#the funny little flash animated robot show did more research than sia ever did with her shitshow hatecrime of a movie#maccadam#transformers#rescue bots
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Overwatch Sombra S13 Rambles
I think what's funny with this Sombra rework is that people complain about her being "anti-fun". I've even seen people complain about her being used in Quick Play, and as someone who tends to only play QP, I think it's wild for people to tell me that I shouldn't play QP because Sombra ruins their fun. So if I don't want to play comp because it stresses me out, and arcade doesn't always tickle my fancy, and I too just want to have fun, but you don't want me to play QP because playing Sombra is mean and anti-fun for you? What am I supposed to do? Just not play? That's crazy actually.
This rework, I will play more this weekend to try and find my way around it and figure out a loop, really ruins MY fun of playing her. I'm not the kind of Sombra main who intentionally bullies others. If you kill me, I WILL get my lick back at least once but I'm not going to bully/target you the entire game. The only time I've done this was because I had a Rein on my team who harassed me in the chat the entire time and he threw the game, because he died once (I was Mercy and the only support) and I happened to get him in another game where he was on the enemy team, as Rein so I made sure to hack him every chance I got lol. But again, a rare circumstance.
I don't spawn camp and I don't tend to just sit in invis waiting for the perfect moment. I think I'm a pretty active participant in fights. I love trying to contest objectives and what not but now with how invis and TL are tied together and those extra 2 seconds on TL, I feel like I can't do that as effectively.
When I was trying it out in AI matches, I mostly stayed next to my Junker Queen, which by the way, if they want me to play on the frontlines more and my mobility is basically shot, then she needs to go back up to 250 and not 225 health. She just moves soooo slow 😢But obviously with AI matches, they have better awareness than the actual people playing the game, so if I did throw my TL and tried to do a flank really quick since they changed her utility so much that now she has more DMG with that 20% opportunist hack bonus and virus lol, those AI bots turned immediately lol and then I had to make sure I was near cover (which I feel like I did before anyway lol so them being like "you need to play around cover more", bitch I was already doing that, I'm also a support Mercy main, I know how to utilize cover!) while I waited those long as 2 extra seconds since TL is now on a 7 second cooldown before I could try to escape lol.
The 5 seconds of invis is not enough time and the 7 second CD for TL is too long. Invis should be at least be 10 if we're gonna have a 7 second CD.
So to me, what's really the problem here, is that people just want to run, stand and shoot. They don't want to have to peel for their teammates, they don't want to have to turn around and deal with someone whose behind them. When I play games and the enemy team is ACTUALLY paying a full 360 attention, it can be hard to get value as Sombra. Even when I play as a support, my team ignores me when I'm frantically pinging the flanking Reaper and Junkrat because they just want to shoot what's in front of them but then spam they need heals. I'm not saying that Sombra isn't annoying to play against but I feel like people are just unwilling to actually pay attention because they want to turn their brain off and just shoot things.
At the end of the day, I feel like, just get rid of virus, separate invis and TL, put invis on a 10 second time (or whatever it was in OW1 before it was permanent) and I don't mind TL how it is but I did prefer the old one lol. I don't like that this rework makes me feel like I can only play ONE way whereas before, I had options.
But anyway, just some initial thoughts. Sombra is the reason why I bought OW in the first place and I hate that they just keep changing what truly made her cool. I will keep playing her because she's still fundamentally one of the most interesting heroes in the cast and her personality is great but it truly is disheartening to play a hero that everyone whines about when I'm just trying to play just like everyone else.
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Time for some more Earthspark Bumblebee Simping Appreciation!
As with all the others, spoilers if you have bot seen the show, specifically episode 7!
This might be one of my favorite episodes for Bumblebee so far, because he's an utterly adorable big brother through all of it and you can really appreciate how far he's come from his rocky introduction to the group. He's very reassuring of both the kids and the Terrans, and even if he doesn't always know what to say he's never not trying his best, and darn it all if his best doesn't look fantastic.
I love the dynamic he has with the kids while they all search together, especially how it's embodied by this utterly adorable shot here~
Bumblebee is their guardian in the physical sense, of course, but he's more than that here; he's the adult in this situation, and everything about the way he handles himself as it develops demonstrates that. He knows he's dealing with children, and that they might not grasp exactly what is at stake, and his careful handling of the increasing cause for concern shows that in every interaction. This is most clearly demonstrated in the big finale, just after they fall into the cave.
After Bumblebee checks the Terrans over, noting a lack of Energon that was already established to be dangerous, Mo asks if they will be okay. Up until this point he's answered the kid's questions without hesitation, but this time?
He very pointedly doesn't answer, but his expressions say it all. It's bad, and he knows it, and he doesn't know what to tell them. I love how you can see him briefly debating what to say...
...before he simply tells them to stay put. It's quite likely he was thinking the worst, but had to keep moving to ensure the kids are safe, and this is made more apparent when he next sees them.
He's just made an incredible discovery off screen, but he's immediately stopped in his tracks when he sees the Terrans alive and well. The halt is so sudden you can see the momentum carrying him forward for a half second more, and his doorwings go up in surprise before dropping as disbelief settles in.
Soooo much happens here and it's all so sweet. Bee was probably preparing himself to never see his students alive again, and when he does he's so overwhelmed with emotion he can't think of what to say and you can actually see his lip quivering.
AAAAAHHHHHH HELP GIANT ROBOT HUGS SLIGHTLY LESS GIANT ROBOTS BECAUSE HE LOVES THEM EVEN IF HE CAN'T BE VULNERABLE ENOUGH TO ADMIT IT
He's so incredibly happy he hugs the Terrans hard enough that you can hear their armor shifting under the force, yet their biggest reaction is absolute shock until they go right back to bouncing off the walls.
Final GIF here just to draw attention to his little bashful optic shift before he grabs the doodad from hammer space. I love him so ridiculously much someone help I have fallen and I will not be getting back up.
I apologize to anyone tired of the Earthspark spam but I am absolutely NOT done, and will be gushing over my love of the show and characters for pretty much all of the foreseeable future. Please leave your thoughts in the tags or reblogs or replies, I love discussing this stuff and need more folks to geek out with!
#transformers#maccadam#transformers: earthspark#tf earthspark#earthspark#transformers earthspark#es spoilers#earthspark spoilers#tf earthspark spoilers#tfe spoilers#spoilers#tfe bumblebee#earthspark bumblebee#tf bumblebee#transformers bumblebee#bumblebee#thrash malto#mo malto#robby malto#twitch malto
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NOTICE: Hey, I would appreciate it if only 16+ people followed me because the stuff I post can be very suggestive, and just in general, my stories aren't meant for kids. I'm not gonna like rigorously go through my followers and check for ages, but like, if I spot a 13 year old following me, I'm gonna block 'cause it's just not comfortable
I’m Ellery, I mostly draw fanart and write fanfics atm, but I do occasionally make stuff for my ocs
I make both general dca art/fics and tsams art/fics so please don't get them mixed up, all tsams stuff will be tagged as such so please check the og tags on the post before assuming it's tsams. I mainly just mention this because outside of tsams I ship Sun x Moon (I shipped them well before ever getting into tsams) and I'd really prefer people keep them seperate. Also I ship a lotta stuff for tsams in aus so if tsams ships aren't your thing, you probably won't enjoy following me (which is ok, everybody likes what they like and not everybody has to like the same things).
Other fandoms you'll see me reblog stuff for and maybe make art for are Invader Zim, Shane Acker's movie 9 (the full film from 2009, not the short film from 2005). There's others but I don't feel like listing them all
I occasionally post art of pregnant characters but it’s tagged with #pregnancy and #cw pregnancy so you can avoid it
Nsfw stuff is on a side blog (with the exception being my ao3 which has both sfw and nsfw fics), suggestive stuff is on here but it’s tagged with either #nsfw and/or #suggestive #cw suggestive #tw suggestive
Commissions are closed atm
Drawing requests are closed unless otherwise specified
You can find my art on here under the tags #my art or #ellery's art, and you can find my writing under #my writing or #ellery’s writing
Asks are welcome, please keep some things in mind though. No nsfw, no gore, no venting or triggering topics such as self harm, suicide, or abuse. Also please no flashing images/gifs
Asks are currently off because of the spam bots, same with dms, these rules will apply if/when I turn them back on though
Currently looking for different options for making/selling stickers
You can support me on kofi
My fics are on ao3
Info post on my Security Sun Au
Info post on You’re Everything I’m Not (my oc story)
Things you can and can't do with my art and writing and stuff under the cut
Things you can do with my art, aus, and ocs:
- use my art as a phone/tablet/computer wallpaper (you don’t need to ask first)
- ASK to use my art as a profile picture or header/banner (the only exception to having to ask first is if I made the art for you)
- make fanart of my ocs and aus/fics, it makes me very happy to see people enjoying my stuff :D (please no gore, light blood is fine though. Please do not draw anything related to self harm or suicide, even for my fics that include such topics. Drawing Eclipse from my organic/recovery au with his canon self harm scars is fine, drawing said scars as actual wounds is not)
Things you can not do with my art, aus, ocs, or writing:
- you can’t repost, trace, copy, or edit my art (regardless of whether or not credit is given)
- you can’t repost my writing
- you can’t dub/voiceover/narrate my art or writing
- you can’t use my art or writing in AI generators or use my characters or writing in AI chatbots
- you can’t claim my art, writing, aus, ocs, or anything else I create as yours
- you can’t sell any of my stuff or otherwise use it to make a profit
- you can’t use my art for your ocs or dnd characters
- you can’t roleplay my aus or ocs
Ask first beforehand:
- ask before making nsfw fanart, and obviously minors are not allowed to do this ever
- ask first before making gift fics as there may be some things I wouldn't find comfortable
- ask first before taking heavy inspiration from my ocs/aus/fics. Things like making a genderfluid Sun too or even having a fic where Sun dies and Moon deals with the grief of that loss like in my fic Blood and Oil don't count imo, I mean stuff where it's like copying lots of things or copying hyperspecific details
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DO NOT INTERACT:
Pedophiles/MAPs/NOMAPs
Proshippers
Racists
LGBT+phobic
Terfs
New FNAF hater
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Just too say. Im very cheesy. So you will see not canon compliant stuff in my blog. Like Horror, Geno and Nightmare. I absolutely mutilated their canon personalities, so please if you dont like them that way, dont see my utmv content. And Springtrap and Deliah content.
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Please do not send me asks for donations
Here's why:
I have NO money to give you
I'm not a popular enough blog that I will give you any reach
I am a minor, and most of my followers are too
It makes me feel extremely guilty
Seeing pictures of injuries or hospitals etc are triggering for me (which are in most intro posts for this sort of thing)
They are always worded in a way that makes me feel like I am a murderer if I don't donate
It makes me feel uncomfortable
I said I don't want them, and my boundaries should be respected
I can't tell what is a bot and what isn't
I get a lot of spam from this. It is disappointing to see 10 new asks in my inbox just to be the same ask for donations over and over
Please, just respect the fact that I have said this.
Edits below (probably for the best if you read them too)
Edit: To all the people reblogging this, I'm sorry you have had to deal with this too. And yes, you can put this in your pinned post! Stay safe <3
Edit 2: I am pro Palestine and want to do everything I can to help but I'm not financially or mentally well enough to do much. I'm not in support of these people dying. Also, this post isn't just about Palestine. It's about ALL asks for donations. I'm not doing favouritism or racism. I just can't deal with it. Don't harass me for expressing boundaries.
Edit 3: Yes, this post might seem controversial. But I did literally make this for my own personal experience and didn't expect it to get more than 12 notes or so. You can agree with this post, pin this post, reblog this post, I don't care really. But don't add opposing views because quite frankly, it's none of your business. It's not my problem and I didn't mean for this post to get so many notes. Edit 2 mostly covered what I'm trying to say here, but don't use the number of notes as an excuse to fight me. I just want a peaceful Tumblr experience. Also, if you are reblogging this, don't trauma dump. I keep notifications on for this post so that I can block people harassing me before shit escalates, so I can see every reblog. You can screenshot and repost if you want to talk about your problems, but honestly its no better seeing people saying "I'm bankrupt and I just got kicked out by my family. I also have a history of abuse and those images are so triggering that I want to die". That doesn't help me. Make your own post to say that. Please
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These p*rn/spam bots are out of control! I see at least 3 or 4 a day in various wrestler/wrestling tags 😐 Anything that has sexy video as their blog description, can't you just deal with that Tumblr? Like instant ban them or some shit 😂
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Small site fixes that I think will help with the war on bots
1. Add an option to disable the "Are you sure you want to block...?" message.
It's can be a bit of a nuisance to have to go through the windows that ask you if you want to block this account and then go through the other message telling you that this account has been blocked. So if you could add an option to disable this warning, that would things a lot easier
2. Add a feature where you can select multiple accounts at once.
Because some people have to deal with waves upon waves of bots, can be a real hassle to have to block/report bot accounts one at a time as you're only restricted to just tapping the three-dot icon in order to block/report an account. So to fix this, add a feature where you're able to select a whole group of accounts for blocking/reporting so that you can deal with multiple accounts all at once.
3. Don't make reporting and blocking separate things on the mobile act.
Even though you're able to block and report an account at the same time on the desktop, for whatever reason you can't automatically block an account when you report it. So if you can change it so that reporting on mobile automatically blocks the reported account, that would be great.
4. Make reporting bot accounts on desktop a less time-consuming process.
Reporting bots on desktop can be a time-consuming process because you have to go to the help desk page to specify why this account is being reported. So to make sure that bots are reported in a more effective manner, maybe alter reporting so that it only takes you to the report page if you're reporting it for something other than spam (i.e. harassment).
Hope you're listening to this.
@changes
@staff
#stop the bots#tumblr bots#tumblr#tumblr staff#tumblr hq#tumblr app#tumblr updates#stupid bots#bots#spam bots#spam accounts#tumblr culture#suggestion#recommedations
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spam bot problem has reached the level of desperation where i submitted a support ticket to tumblr even though i know they can't do anything just because i need the assurance that someone working for this godforsaken website knows what i'm dealing with
#where's that post about how the person who reports the most spam bots should get a prize. i'd body all you motherfuckers#i've lost count but i'm pretty sure i'm close to 2000 bots reported
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so I'm new to playing but thanks to you and the careen shots I actually was able to recognize some of the bots you've posted about which helped cause I really don't even know what to look for what it comes to that so I've just trusted other players to initiate vote kicks
The most blatant ones are Snipers looking up and/or turning. Most bots are "branded", as I like to call it, which just means they have recognizable names and it can be assumed that, for example, if one Vinesauce got kicked, and then another one, and then again, that's a bot name. Can't wait for the day some botter gets pissed at me and puts DorenaRox bots into the game, lol. I should perhaps not give them ideas. Though so far all the interactions I had with botters and cheaters weren't of a hostile nature.
Scoutbots are trickier to identify, I actually had an instance where I thought a Scout was a bot but he was just a bit weird of a player. The Scoutbots are kinda weird themselves, shooting at nothing, turning the other way...they're a bit hard to understand and spot, so it kinda sucks that they're NOT branded, because that will leave you suspicious of any Scout that acts a bit weird. They do get stuck on things a lot though (a problem a lot of bots have, even the better ones).
Then there's chat spam as a telltale sign, used to be MUCH worse with bots constantly erasing the entire chat window. The only thing that can be done there to make sure someone is a bot is to scroll until you find its name.
Anyways, good luck out there! And don't be too overdramatic about the bots, they're not that hard to deal with, just needs a bit of observation and foolish bravery! I get being annoyed though.
#TF2#Reply#I really appreciate that you left it to more experienced players before#I can't tell you how often I saw innocent Snipers get kicked because someone was trying to play the hero#Heck I've been subject to this MYSELF!#I mean SOMETIMES I understood but not when I literally didn't even do anything yet!
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One thing I've noticed coming out of the spread of AI art, by looking at the comment sections, is that people don't seem to know what baby animals look like. A lot of commenters see an image of a chibi-fied, tiny version of an adult animal, complete with stumpy limbs and big eyes, and accept it as truth.
I don't want to write off people's critical thinking skills entirely, I do heavily suspect that the "is this real?" comments that litter these comment sections are likely by bot accounts, as well as the spam of ❤️🥰 emojis, and other generic reactions. And there are also plenty of people pointing out that it is AI, either positively or negatively.
As a critic of generative AI, I do think that this sort of "art" is overlooked when people are critical of the technology. I think because it is using images from photography instead of illustration, people think that it's a victimless crime (tell that to the photographers). My concern rests in the banality of these images, that cute animals get a pass when it comes to the use of generative AI. The use of these technologies have a notable ecological impact, and using them to mass produce frivolous imagery that can also be used to mass produce frivolous products (t-shirts, calendars, art books, drinks coasters, etc), is only going to exacerbated the current ecological crisis we're currently trying to kerb.
These cute fuzzy images are just another tendril of capitalist excess. Allegedly harmless on its own, but in mass, it adds up. We'll never be able to deal with climate change if we can't tell people that enough is enough, you already have an internet full of cute animals, you don't need a sea of fake cute animals too. If you loved those animals, you'd try to save the planet they live on.
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Hey Lila :( Forgive me for the non-Skybound or Ninjago ask this time, but how do you handle getting blocked by people because I'm getting very ticked off by it. Like excuse me I guess for sending a nice message about your work and mass liking your posts only to get blocked. This happens so much and it's so inconvenient. Hours of my day, wasted, posts I can no longer reblog, and you're going to follow me from my sideblog and happily go around reblogging stuff that is straight up ironic...I hate getting blocked because I feel like it's a tumblr deactivation risk and I have too much stuff on here, I don't get it. If people hate spam likes so much just say it somewhere geez. There's just as many people saying "oh I'll love you forever if you do" and I can't read every person's mind or go around asking every blog if they're okay with it. That is not what tumblr is and I'm feeling a bit "AITA?" about this.
Honestly... if people have blocked me (and I have no doubt that they do exist), they aren't the kind of people to have TOLD me that I'm blocked. I straight up do not know how many people have blocked me, or when, or why. I'm also the same way: if I block people, I do it relatively quietly. (Aside from obvious spam bots, I only have four blogs blocked - two of which are alts belonging to the same person, so really only three). I also know people who block extremely freely and for very minor reasons, so... maybe you just run into a lot of those types? I'm honestly not sure. Although I will say that I know anti-mass-likers usually say it, and I personally love a good notification blowup from one person.
Got off track there, but how I deal with them is that I don't. I don't know about them, and I don't really care about why they've blocked me, because they haven't told me in a way that would let me discuss it nicely and see what's up. That's on them; I can't help their cases. This is actual footage of me dealing with the people who have me blocked:
I do want to note that my first thought about this ask was that, if you're getting blocked so often that you're worried about getting deactivated, then (and please take this as gently as possible) it could be a you problem. Whether or not that's the mass interaction, I definitely can't say. Again, maybe you just keep bumping into the crowd that hands blocks out like they're throwing candy at a parade, in which case it's a them problem.
I'm assuming you're not DMing people weird threats or stealing art or harassing them in reblogs (and I know you're not one of the alts I've blocked because they never mass liked my stuff, so I further assume you're chill) so I really don't know what to tell you. Good luck, I guess? Inbox and DMs are always open if you've got any further questions, although this might legitimately be more suited to an AITA board, which I am not.
#lila speaks#i've gotta start a tag for anon messages#yeah without knowing who you are I can't do much more than just blathering like those old coots in the free advice booth meme
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Alt how do i make people unfollow me cause bots are following me i dont want them how do i take them off aaaaaaa
Rip homie the bots got you I see.
Honestly we can't make people unfollow us so how we deal with bots is just Report Spam/Bot and then Block On Sight.
All bots have empty blogs (untitled and empty) but some also have real people on them.
Good luck homie. It's a wild world out there.
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