#it’s never a bad time to switch to firefox!

[anim-ttrpgs]

Help Save the World of TTRPGs and Their Creators.

Okay I’m being a little dramatic, but at the same time I’m pretty serious. This is a call to action, and the livelihoods of myself and lots of other people, many of them (like myself) disabled, are depending on it. This is a post about why, what you can do about it, and (perhaps least often answered) how.

This post is actually an accompaniment to another discussion by someone else. If you don’t want to listen to a 90-minute in-depth discussion of much of what I’m about to tell you, you can just keep reading. Otherwise, click here or here and listen to this either before or after you read this post. (They’re the same thing, just different sources.)

If you have ever made or reblogged posts urging people to switch from Google Chrome to Firefox, you should be willing to at least give a try to other TTRPGs besides D&D5e for much the same principle reasons. I’m not telling you you have to hate D&D5e, and I’m not telling you you have to quit D&D5e, I’m just asking you to try some other games. If you don’t like them, and you really want to go back to D&D5e, then go back to D&D5e. But how can you really know you won’t like other games if you have literally never tried them? This post is a post about why and how to try them. If you’re thinking right now that you don’t want to try them, I urge you to look below to see if any of your reasons for not wanting to try them are covered there. Because the monopoly that WotC’s D&D5e has on TTRPGs as a whole is bad for me as a game designer, and it’s bad for you as a game player. It’s even bad for you if you like D&D5e. A fuller discussion of the why and how this is the case can be found in the links above, but it isn’t fully necessary for understanding this post, it’ll just give you a better perspective on it.

If you’re a D&D5e player, I’m sure at some point or another, you’ve been told “play a different game”, and it must get frustrating without the context of why and how. This post is here to give you the why and how.

[The following paragraph has been edited because the original wording made it sound like we think all weird TTRPGs suck.]

Before that though, one more thing to get out of the way. I'm going to level with you. There’s a lot of weird games out there.

You are gonna see a lot of weird TTRPGs when you take the plunge. Many of them try to completely reinvent what a TTRPG even is, and some fail spectacularly, others really do even up doing something very interesting even if they don't end up being what a core TTRPG player wants. But not every indie RPG is a Bladefish, lots and lots of them are more 'traditional' and will feel very familiar to you, I promise. (And you might even find that you like the weird experimental bladefish type ones, these are usually ideal for one-session plays when your usual group can't play your usual game for any reason.)

You're also going to probably see a lot of very bad games, and man have I got some stories of very bad games, but for now I'm just saying to make sure you read the reviews, or go through curators (several of which will be listed below), before you buy.

Now that that is out of the way, I’m going to go down a list of concerns you may have for why not, and then explain the how.

“I don’t want to learn a whole new set of rules after I already spent so much time learning D&D5e.”

Learning a new set of rules is not going to be as hard as you think. Most other TTRPGs aren’t like that. D&D5e is far on the high end of the scale for TTRPGs being hard and time-consuming to learn and play. If you’ve only played D&D5e, it might trick you into thinking that learning any TTRPG is an overwhelmingly time-consuming task, but this is really mostly a D&D5e problem, not a TTRPG problem as a whole.

“D&D5e has all of these extra online tools to help you play it.”

So what? People have been playing TTRPGs without the help of computers for 50 years. To play a well-designed TTRPG you won’t need a computer. Yes, even if you're bad at math. There are some TTRPGs out there that barely even use math.

“I’m too invested in the narrative and characters of my group’s current ongoing D&D5e campaign to switch to something else.”

There are other games, with better design made by better people for less money, that are the same kind of game as D&D5e, that your current characters, lore, and plot will fit right into and do it better. And no, it's not just Pathfinder, there's others.

“I can’t afford to play another TTRPG.”

You probably can. If you’ve only played D&D5e, you might have been made to think that TTRPGs are a very expensive hobby. They aren’t. D&D5e is actually uniquely expensive, costing more than 3x more than the next most expensive TTRPG I can think of right now. Even on the more expensive end, other TTRPG books will cost you no more than $60, most will cost you less than $20, and a whole lot of them are just free. If you somehow still can’t afford another TTRPG, come to the A.N.I.M. TTRPG Book club mentioned below, nominate the game, and if it wins the vote we will straight up buy it for you.

(By the way, if you had any of the above concerns about trying other games besides D&D5e, that really makes it sound like you are in a textbook abusive relationship with D&D5e. This is how abusers control their partners, and how empires control their citizens, by teaching you to think that nothing could ever get any better, and even though they treat you bad, the Other will treat you even worse.)

“If I don’t play D&D5e, which TTRPG should I play?”

That’s a pretty limited question to be asking, because there will be no one TTRPG for everything. And no, D&D5e is not the one TTRPG for everything, Hasbro’s marketing team is just lying to you. (Pathfinder and PbtA are not the one system for everything either!) Do you only play one video game or only watch one movie or only read one book? When you finish watching an action movie like Mad Max, and then you want to watch a horror movie, do you just rewind Mad Max and watch it over again but this time you act scared the whole time? No, you watch a different movie. I’m asking you to give the artistic medium of TTRPGs the same respect you would give movies.

“I want to play something besides D&D5e, but my friends won’t play anything else!”

I have several answers to this.

Try showing them this post.

If that doesn’t work: Make them. Put your foot down. This works especially well if you are the DM. Tell them you won’t run another session of D&D5e until they agree to give what you want to do at least one try instead of always doing only what they want to do. This is, like, playing 101. We learned this in kindergarten. If your friend really wants to play something else, you should give their game a try, or you’re not really being a very good friend.

If that doesn’t work, find another group. This doesn’t even mean that you have to leave your existing group. A good place to start would be the A.N.I.M. TTRPG Book Club which will be mentioned and linked below. You can also go to the subreddit of any game you’re interested in and probably meet people there who have the same problem you do and want to put together a group to play something other than D&D5e. You might get along great with these people, you might not, but you won’t know until you try. Just make sure to have a robust “session zero” so everyone is on the same page. This is a good practice for any group but it is especially important for a group made of players you’ve just met.

“I only watch actual plays.”

Then watch actual plays of games that aren’t D&D5e. These podcasts struggle for the same reasons that indie RPGs struggle, because of the brand recognition and brand loyalty D&D5e has, despite their merit. I don’t watch actual plays, or else I would be able to list more of them. So, anyone who does watch actual plays, please help me out by commenting on this post with some non-D&D5e actual plays you like. And please do me a favor and don’t list actual plays that only play one non-D&D5e system, list ones that go through a variety of systems. The first one I can think of is Tiny Table.

“I can just homebrew away all the problems with D&D5e.”

Even though I want to, I’m not going to try and argue that you can’t actually homebrew away all the problems with D&D5e. Instead, I’m going to ask you why you’re buying two $50 rulebooks just to throw away half the pages. In most other good RPGs, you don’t need to change the rules to make them fun, they’re fun right out the box.

“But homebrewing D&D5e into any kind of game is fun! You can homebrew anything out of D&D5e!”

Firstly, I promise that this is not unique to D&D5e. Secondly, then you would probably have more fun homebrewing a system that gives you a better starting point for reaching your goal. Also, what if I told you that there are entire RPG systems out there that are made just for this? There are RPG systems that were designed for the purpose of being a toolbox and set of materials for you to work with to make exactly the game you want to make. Some examples are GURPS, Savage Worlds, Basic RolePlaying, Caltrop Core, and (as much as I loathe it) PbtA.

“I’m not supporting WotC’s monopoly because I pirate all the D&D5e books.”

Then you’re still not supporting the smaller developers that this monopoly is crushing, either.

Now, here’s the how. Because I promise you, there’s not just one, but probably a dozen other RPGs out there that will scratch your exact itch.

Here’s how to find them. This won’t be a comprehensive list because I’ve already been typing this for like 3 hours already. Those reading this, please go ahead and comment more to help fill out the list.

First, I’m gonna plug one of my own major projects, because it’s my post. The A.N.I.M. TTRPG Book Club. It’s a discord server that treats playing TTRPGs like a book club, with the goal of introducing members to a wide variety of games other than D&D5e. RPGs are nominated by members, then we hold a vote to decide what to read and play for a short campaign, then we repeat. There is no financial, time, or schedule investment required to join this book club, I promise it is very schedule-friendly, because we assign people to different groups based of schedule compatibility. You don’t have to play each campaign, or any campaign, you can just read along and participate in discussion that way. And if you can’t afford to buy the rulebook we’re going to be reading, we will make sure you get a PDF of it for free. That is how committed we are to getting non-D&D5e RPGs into people’s hands. Here is an invite link.

Next, there are quite a few tumblr blogs you can follow to get recommendations shown to you frequently.

@indierpgnewsletter

@indie-ttrpg-of-the-day

@theresattrpgforthat

@haveyouplayedthisttrpg

@indiepressrevolution

Plenty of podcasts, journalists, and youtubers out there do in-depth discussions of different systems regularly, a couple I can think of off the top of my head are:

Storyteller Conclave (I’m actually going to be interviewed live on this show on April 10th!)

Seth Skorkowsky

Questing Beast

The Gaming Table

Rascal News

Lastly, you can just go looking. Browse r/rpg, drivethrurpg.com, indie press revolution, and itch.io.

Now, if you really want to support me and my team specifically Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy, our debut TTRPG, is going to launch on Kickstarter on April 10th and we need all the help we can get. Set a reminder from the Kickstarter page through this link.

If you’re interested in a more updated and improved version of Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy than the free demo you got from our website, there’s plenty of ways to get one!

Subscribe to our Patreon where we frequently roll our new updates for the prerelease version!

Donate to our ko-fi and send us an email with proof that you did, and we’ll email you back with the full Eureka prerelease package with the most updated version at the time of responding! (The email address can be found if you scroll down to the bottom of our website.)

We also have merchanise.

[lawofcollage]

PSA: Telling Google AI To Go Fuck Itself

So we all know Google is shoving AI down our throats, recently, right? And we didn't ask

On top of the fact that generative AI is SUPER fucking bad for the environment (1) (2) (3)(4)

There's no official way to turn off Google's AI shit, BUT if you use Ublock to block ads (and it's generally recommended by the FBI you should use an ad blocker in this day and age) THERE IS

This reddit post from their subreddit explains the filter you need to use to stop seeing this shit at the very least

go forth and tell google ai to fuck off

P.S. Also, Ublock is capable of blocking youtube ads. You're welcome :)

(also, while you're at it, you should take the time to consider switching browsers. i'm personally a fan of firefox and have been using it for well over a decade at this point as i've never been much of a chrome person)

[fallhound]

Actually having so much fun with Linux it's unreal

Had a small annoyance yesterday, after fixing the last of the actual issues I've had with my Nvidia drivers 'n shit: My Firefox didn't have it's title bar buttons would only ever stay in the KDE Plasma title bar, without the usual option to DISABLE that bar and have them appear in line with the tabs.

It took me all of yesterday evening and most of today to finally fix it. I've tried every single fix. I've tried switching Desktop Environments. So many things. The fix was so easy it was kinda infuriating but also so obvious

All it took was uninstalling and purging every single instance of firefox, its extensions and plugins, manually, one command line at a time removing every single remaining folder and file because some decided to stay despite Purge, uninstalling every single non KDE Plasma DE, especially MATE being a huge bitch - again, uninstalling every remaining part of it manually, then doing a clean reinstall of my DE of choice, making sure my pc NEVER even LOOKS at the snap of firefox, configuring a proper mozilla apt-get source, getting a clean deb install and boom! it works!

and I am not even mad! I am actually so happy? Like. This has been a whole project. and a huge learning opportunity. Lotsa mistakes! But like. I fucked up bad - then I just reinstalled shit. A lot of it can be done straight from the terminal. Every single mistake I did was reversible. It's so. clean and easy and I don't have to bother with windows bullshit and im so happy

[akash1618]

25 jan. saturday

i am supposed to work today but i don't feel like doing so. i have gotten into the bad habit of working on sundays and resting on saturdays. work up at 12 in the noon.

washed my hairs. i only wash them on saturdays and wednesdays. have switched to a new shampoo. my hair fall just won't stop, meh.

i am supposed to go and watch ramayan today. it's hub mall at 8 in the night though. i watched dororo till ep 11 or 12 in the afternoon. then created a malice mizer playlist on my alternative spot. i don't think I'd be listening to that playlist though. the artist is tagged as the uploader, so that makes it difficult to scrobble on lastfm. yt and firefox ftw.

i will be riding my bicycle tomorrow, but there's no air in the tyres. left house at 6:30, got air filled. left for goregaon at 7. went to kamal amrohi bus stop. 706 was packed so let it pass. passed another bus because I didn't know that it goes to hub mall as well. got a-60. hopped on it. and before I could completely enter, my left arm got stuck. it pained, a lot. i had to ask the conductor to open the door. he rang the bell, but the driver didn't pay attention. he rang the bell again and the door opened, and i was in. my left arm was in immense pain. as if the skin had been peeled off. i had my hand stuck previously in another bus back in summer 2022, but it hadn't pain this much. i don't even remember feeling any pain that time.

got in theatre. it was fairly filled. i had opted for the hindi 2d version. in the past week, i had received two emails, stating that people were criticising the new hindi dub. the new hindi dub was actually required because they couldn't restore the audio from the original version.

well, i didn't want to complain because I had waited for too long. and i actually wanted to listen panchvati man bhavan upwan by sadhna sargam. but then the songs started to play in sanskrit. i felt sad, but then ok. it's understandable. i love this movie sm. i grew up with it.

the dialogues were not that great. they had made it simpler for understanding and they rather sounded preachy at times, unlike the original hindi version. voice acting was fine. video quality was restored well.

i got myself a sandwich in the interval. ate.

this is the only second time i have bought myself to eat anything in theatre. i don't like theatre food very much. i started feeling sleepy when hanuman went to himalaya. i tried to control my sleep. the last i remember watching was kumbhkaran getting killed, and then I slept. next thing ik, shree ram and maa sita were travelling back to ayodhya on pushpak vimaan. i had missed everything in between. god, how stupid i must be. i will never eat anything in theatre again ever. show ended at around 10:20 pm. whole time, my arm was hurting crazily.

i had promised my mother that i would be having dinner at home, so i didn't go to pizza hut. i did stand in queue for sundae in mcd, but left because it would have taken long. got a-60 again and reached home at around 11.

i just wanted to sleep now.

checked my letterboxd, this is the 11th film i watched alone.

[botamich]

nordvpn security

Hey you. ❗️

It's cyber. They're coming at us.

How about this then,

If we shut down the Internet...

They'll never be able to get to us.　

This one, this one, this one.

I'm on a roll and it's coming.

I'm living in the doldrums💢.

I have been under cyber attack for 10 years now.

And it's still happening.

I'm still a stranger to the world.

You're not going to listen to my goofs.

I use nordvpn now. I use windows edge because it attacks me.

Now I use firefox. I do it on desktop with nordvpn.

It still interferes. I finally set it up and can configure Firefox for the web, although I also use Adguad with it.

I put in my basic email and password for Firefox, and an auxiliary password.

Then, set up the adguad settings from the top to the bottom.

I initialize my computer almost every day. Then I immediately put in the security settings.

⬇️

Security is a delicate setting with ESE security.

I take care not to be hijacked there. If you don't know, call ESET.

⬇️

windows is updating now. if windows is bad, initialize it.

It's going to be flushing out filtering garbage, because it has a virus🦠 in it. This also takes ⏰ time.

I would suggest you do a backup, but they use remote or powershell. I don't do backups these days.

Nordvpn has a lot of settings, VPN, threat protection, dark web mottling, device settings.

That's all I need.

Cyber threat syndrome so kill switch,split tunneling,

Add apps.

[maddiem4]

The good news is that it's a bit easier to maintain a clean fork of Firefox than of Chrome. There's a hundred little details of why, but it's pretty hard to make upstream Firefox so toxic that forks are impractical. I'm not saying it's impossible for Firefox to become that toxic, but it would be a really long road that would eventually be obvious to company leadership as a suicidal decision - Firefox is clinging to life by being the alternative to the technopanopticon.

That said, this is a very good reason to keep pressuring browser developers to have open source components with clear boundaries - I'm thinking of things like Gecko and Servo here. You really want most of the hard work to happen in places that can't be locked down by corporate interest, so that any nasty choices happen in the small and very replaceable glue layer.

I'm not purely or blindly an optimist here. It's really fucking troubling for Mozilla to be making these kinds of deal-with-the-devil decisions that, in the long term, cannot be aligned with the interests of their users. I know that Anonym (the acquired company) has built its identity on serving ads without spying. Least bad ad company they could have bought, probably, okay... but it has instantly aligned Mozilla financially against users being able to block ads. And that's with the charitable and unrealistic assumption - which I don't hold - that the technology will never be pivoted and rebranded to follow the More Money of the digital surveillance industry. Remember when Google changed their motto from "Don't be evil," and people freaked out about it, and those people were proven right? The slippery slope is not a fallacy here, it's an established pattern and the most reasonable expectation.

tl;dr: Don't panic immediately, but it might be a nice time to switch to a Firefox derivative you trust now.

Recently learned that a huge part of Firefox's funding comes from Google which sure sounds like Google has a monopoly on browsers

[imaginationisveryrapid]

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Longest Tag: 133 characters

#the attitude difference about this between tumblr and twitter is like having the whiplash chris rock is going to have after that slap

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

I start my new job at the library tomorrow. And I’m kind of panicking. I truly think I’ll have fun working there and the hours are great, but I’m nervous. Nervous about making a good first impression. Nervous about hearing my alarm and not being late. Nervous about starting a new job.

It’s 2:30. I’ve set my alarm for 6:30. And I’m still not asleep yet. 😞

3 notes - Posted March 21, 2022

#4

Hoping someone can help me. I finally (FINALLY!) switched my browser over from Chrome to Firefox. Sadly, my main hold up was Tumblr, as I had everything set up perfectly in Chrome. I’m logged in and got all of my extensions added in Firefox. I even went through what I had set for Chrome to make sure I didn’t miss anything and as far as I can tell, everything is exactly the same for both. But for some reason in Firefox, I can’t see the blog names or icons of any reblogs. Like, I can see who on my dash reblogged it, but I can’t see the original poster or who any of the comments were added by. Has anyone else encountered this issue? Does anyone know of an XKit feature that would fix this that I am maybe missing? Or maybe some other solution to troubleshoot this?

I really want to stick with using Firefox as my default browser, but I also want to still enjoy my Tumblr experience.

4 notes - Posted May 25, 2022

#3

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Stiles Stilinski/Jackson Whittemore Characters: Stiles Stilinski, Jackson Whittemore, Scott McCall (Teen Wolf), Derek Hale Additional Tags: Other Teen Wolf characters mentioned - Freeform, Bad Friend Scott McCall (Teen Wolf), Yeah sorry Scott is not great in this, Light Angst, Fluff and Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Established Relationship, Relationship Reveal, Mild Language, Alpha Derek Summary:

Stiles and Jackson are ready to reveal their relationship to the pack, during a bonding weekend. Sounds good in theory, but Stiles is dreading having to talk to Scott about it, as the last time he tried, it did not end well.

8 notes - Posted March 4, 2022

#2

Okay, but what if next episode we get Buck spending so much time with Eddie and Christopher after all that just happened? And that’s what does BT in? Like she gets mad at Buck about it, because he’s telling her he wants to make it work, but then he’s never there now. And Buck finally realizes that nothing about this relationship has been good for him and does the breaking up himself. And then goes back to his Diaz boys, because they need him.

This episode was so much. 😭

19 notes - Posted April 11, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Fuck yes! AP has called the race here in Kansas for the vote on our abortion rights. And a resounding 400K voters told the anti-abortion fuckers to fuck off. I have never been more proud to be from Kansas. We still have a lot of fucked up shit happening here, but this victory feels good.

20 notes - Posted August 2, 2022

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[sea-salted-wolverine]

So that was, 1) on Firefox, 2) in a container tab, 3) with a solid handful of adblockers an privacy extensions, so I know that wasn't full blast. That was the properly contained and quarantined version of Facebook and- 😒

I started a mastodon account a while back and never used it, but if we're all building lifeboats I'll make that thing float. Evidently you can follow WordPress blogs from mastodon, so we'll see how that goes. I also jumped on the waiting list for bluesky.

But I don't want to leave. Honestly, if I was to forecast this, I imagine that everyone is building themselves back up at the moment but it's less than likely that we're going to migrate and actually use them. As the site degrades with less people to fix things, some people, maybe new users, will be driven away. But the term Hellsite did not actually arise from the bitchiness of the community on this site. The core user base of Tumblr has a tolerance for bad web design on par with anaerobic bacteria in a hydrothermal vent. And I can see us boot strapping this site into something usable for another decade.

As long as the Powers That Be think they can sell this site to recover losses rather than just pulling the plug, tumblr is going to persist.

Still, it's good to have a lifeboat, even if we are riding this ship down to the abyss. An emergency escape submarine. I imagine on that distant day when Tumblr does actually go down for the last time, The Internet at large will be hit with a sudden influx of freaks when we are finally forced to switch to our backup accounts. And there will be a great outpouring of grief, A collective mourning for Tumblr and remembrance of the glory days. To which the response will be "what do you mean Tumblr died yesterday? I thought it went out along with use of the word hipster".

And more than likely someone will try to put together "Zumblr, the new tumblr" and it will fall so utterly short and require your full name and location tracking and it will be primarily video based. And then they'll be confused when we shun it and it flops.

Tumblr has been making jokes about how the site will eventually shut down for years. I've seen commentary pretty much daily, that we'll ride this train till the very last stop and then rot into the dirt before we go to any other site. Maybe the social butterflies among us would take up pigeon keeping or smoke signals, but the modern web has become hostile to human life and wading into the morass of enshittification just isn't worth it.

But now that last stop is on the distant horizon. And it would seem we're not ready to rot just yet.

[of-another-broken-heart]

I have 

new computer

and there is so, so, so much I need to migrate and reinstall and re-set-up and

I was hoping to switch to firefox with this, finally

but I’m so overwhelmed I just resigned to stick with chrome again. for convenience. for accessibility. 

and even that has pitfalls. 

plug-ins and settings that are still local, user-end. 

and I’ve just been slowly cobbling together my tech space for over a fucking decade (2009 to 2021!) so now I’m in this fresh new computer environment and I

I don’t even know where to start putting things back together?

I keep running into something as dumb as videos auto-playing on my tumblr dash now, and it’s stressing me the fuck out, and I can’t find out how I disabled it before. 

I checked my account settings, I checked my plug-ins, I checked my xkit (which is one of those user-end things, I found out, and I do NOT remember fully what I was using any more!) and I couldn’t find anything that would fix it. 

but I’m also trying to like. Preserve a bunch of programs that I’d meticulously curated user settings for over the years. Photoshop and OBS, especially. Trying to figure out how to keep save files and shit. 

There’s so much. 

And this is neutral - this is not bad! This is neutral stress!

But I’m under so much bad stress all the time, my body doesn’t differentiate any more. I start getting the chest-crushing-in-on-itself, heart-working-overtime, lungs-acheing-to-keep-breathing anxiety pains if I get stuck on any one thing too long. 

I hate that I’ve ended up like this. 

I used to be able to procedurally tackle this kind of thing. 

But I’ve also never had 11 years of structure to rebuild before. I didn’t used to have anxiety hardly at all before. Well, not like this. I suspect I had it as a coping tool for adhd, and it only truly dove past the breaking point in the past 5 or so years. 

I’m supposed to move. I need to move. There are only 2 places I actually want to move, and both are actually impossible. One of them would make me so happy. I can’t stop thinking about it. Even though it’s unhealthy, and I know it. The single most potent taste of happiness I’ve experienced in the last decade, without question - maybe even in all my life. How can I not think about it? How can I not want it? 

I’m almost caught up on Critical Role, finally. As long as I don’t crash and burn today from my ongoing insurance research and stress, and now the computer re-establishment stuff... I should finally be able to catch it live after almost a month of missing broadcasts. 

I talked to my mom about trying CBD for my anxiety problems. It’s not legal here, really. But she was supportive. She mentioned that there’s a local reservation shop that opened recently that might have some options. So I might go with her some day to investigate that. A friend has volunteered to try to set me up with a disposable vape to try out, too. I’m hopeful. I’m a bit scared, but I’m hopeful. I really need help with how bad it’s gotten. 

I want to type so much more, but I’m really scatterbrained right now. I feel like I should have slept more, but I wasn’t tired enough to make that happen, so I’m at an impasse with myself.

And I have to do sister pick-up today. 

[pokkop15]

(Ok so I was a fool and had had a lot of this meta written up yesterday and instead of saving it as a draft while I watched critical role, I, like a fool, just left all the tabs open and then went to bed after the episode. Then firefox crashed in the night and everything was lost. Press F to pay respects I guess cause here I go again.)

First off, Aradia is best girl and I am so happy she's RELEVANT again. I had a whole preamble the last time I wrote this post, but I can't remember what it said other than mentioning that this is gonna be a long post beneath the cut and that I have other metas that will kind of overlap with what I'm saying in this one so I will try to keep my discussion of the narrative styles of the The Prince and The Muse to only what is relevant to this post and to what is RELEVANT. Also previous metas should be reblogged directly before I post this to make it easier to check them out before hand or to reference them more easily.

The main points of focus will be: The differences between how the two Time gods interact with The Muse and her narrative, as well as the general level of metatextual awareness of characters within Candy. | The juxtaposition of the Knight and the Maid. | The possible suppression of the Ultimate nature of The Knight, and by extension The Seer. | The Muse's unique state of power and presumed Awakening | I swear there was more but I flat out don't remember what they were.

One last thing. I am a rambly motherfucker so if you haven't read my previous metas, here's your warning to expect a very long and very chaotic mess of a post beneath the cut. Also for anyone confused anytime I emphasize someone as 'The Class' it's referring to their actions as a potential narrator and as an Ultimate Self. For example, the difference between The Muse and the Muse is that 'the Muse' would be for character moments like when the dead cherub possessing Jade's corpse in Candy is just talking with Davebot and Aradia, while 'The Muse' is for when talking about her influence over the narrative. (There's a lot of different ways I put emphasis on words or phrases, but “The Class” was the one I felt really might need clarification)

I find it interesting how Davebot acknowledges and shows distaste for The Muse interjecting her narration and thus inhibiting his ability to live in the moment. I find this interesting because as an Awakened god of Time, he is simultaneously living in every moment but as a Knight, and as The Knight, he is also intrinsically separate from those moments as he is the Ultimate One who Wields Time. Aradia on the other hand is the Maid of Time, who while almost assuredly having reached the pinnacle of her god tier after the hundreds of years we now know her to have lived, is not ascended to her Ultimate Self. As a Maid, Aradia literally embodies her aspect. As such she doesn't worry about living in the moment because she is the moment. Because of this Aradia is more prone to just accept, agree, and repeat the sentiments The Muse dictates in her constant exposition. However, despite acknowledging the narration, Davebot still ends up being incredibly passive in the face of it. Even though he has an Active class and is a dreamer of the Active moon, Dave himself has always come off as an incredibly passive character to me in a lot of ways. (Even the aspect of Time itself and its heroes are specifically denoted as incredibly Active in the {official and Canon} extended zodiac test [which means its contents are NECESSARY, RELEVANT, and TRUE]). Always acting under the direction of other characters, subject to The Lord's rule over Time, and constantly struggling with his seeming lack of control. Here, even after reaching his Ultimate Self, he still only makes passive-aggressive remarks instead leaving the flow of the story and the big decisions to others. (In my last post I went into deeper detail about the nature of, and relationship between Aradia and Dave's classes and how that affected their sessions, but I can't remember what the tie in was unfortunately so for now I'll leave it at this and move on)

Among the human players of sburb, the Strilondes have always been the most genre savvy and possessed the most awareness of the narrative and its' influence, (although Dave was never near the levels of Dirk and Rose). But up until this upd8, direct interactions with the narrative have been few and far between in Candy (at least as far as I can recall). I mentioned this in my previous meta as being a result of The Muse being the type to inspire characters to action whereas The Prince is far more heavy handed in is dictation and rarely attempts to hide his presence in the narration these days. But we see here once again, that not only is The Muse bad for the people under her influence, she's also just really not good at constructing a story. She relies too heavily on tropes and cliches, on plot contrivances; she tells too much and doesn't show enough, (something that should literally be her greatest strength as a Muse). Yet despite this, Davebot and Aradia are seen multiple times to interact with her dictations directly and Aradia even points out on page 284 that she is aware of The Muse “observing (their) every action and noting its relevance : )” (the emphasis on 'relevance' being mine). As such we can infer that it doesn't take an Ultimate Self to recognize The Muse's narration. But if not that, then what? If it was just pre-disposition of character that let them notice, then between her own abilities and self awareness, surely Candy!Rose would have by now, but she hasn't. Then is it proximity? Maybe The Muse is getting complacent and starting to unknowingly imitate The Prince and his methods? Or is it because both Davebot and Aradia are Heroes of Time? The aspect opposite The Muse's. After all, The Muse did express that the way (either Aradia specifically or that the both of them) experience time is “woefully unfamiliar” to her. Perhaps that makes it difficult for her to write a story that resonates with them fully. Whatever it may be, all the information up until this point doesn't come to a head so much as it is something that I believe to be RELEVANT.

With that, let us switch gears while keeping the previous information in mind. As I said before, in spite of all the active components of Davebot's Mythological Role, his character has often been passive. And the precise story beat I want to focus on right now is his Awakening to his Ultimate Self. Candy!Dave was out on patrol with a wife who he loved, but who also had very much always been the driving force of their dynamic. He was pulled to the ancient bunker by the narrative where a hologram of Obama expertly guided him through a conversation like a true politician, somehow knowing a lot about Dave while at the same time withholding “classified” information as if that word had any meaning without a country or government holding Obama accountable. (Unless of course Obama was still answering to someone... *Cough cough*the authors*cough cough*). Look, all of this is me saying that Obama was a leftover contrivance of The Prince that The Muse utilized for her own means. Dirk was a skilled programmer and engineer. He had a deep understanding of how to build AIs that could easily impersonate someone. He had an even deeper grasp of how to manipulate Dave. Dirk built the bots. The Bots. The bots that are supposedly NECESSARY for one to Awaken to their Ultimate Self and survive. And yet even if that is TRUE, it isn't true. The Prince claims he was a special case but his powers are of the soul, not the body. And it is the body that breaks down. And we know that Rose really was suffering in her path to Awakening, but I will remind you that her poor condition was first established through narration that we know was under the control of The Prince. Further more it happened prior to the Meat/Candy split, in which the Canon still possessed TRUTH, which is why it still remained RELEVANT in Candy (and it was obviously NECESSARY in Meat for reasons about to be discussed). Both Rose and Dave ultimately played a passive role in their Awakenings, guided to their Ultimate Self by another even though they are both Active players. I believe that The Prince established these rules about Ultimate Selves and built the robot bodies as a way to give him an upper hand against the two characters most likely to overtake him. Because to reinforce a point from a previous post, Rose is the only full on published author among the players and Dave himself has written comics and presumably screenplays for his films, making them the two people who might not only do a better job than The Prince or The Muse, but just do a flat out GOOD job. The Seer especially, which is why The Prince went through the extra effort to disrupt her sense of self as she was coming into her Ultimate Self. If these two had played an Active part in their own Awakening and without The Prince’s influence I think they both would’ve been quite capable of giving The Prince a run for his money. But the humans are not the only players in this game...

As I've already alluded to, Lord English (The Lord), was almost certainly his Ultimate Self. Awakened and Empowered by the treasure (a juju so powerful that it enabled John to retcon things in a way that overrides the timeline instead of splitting it, and it did so without even granting him its actual power). When The Knight awakened, The Muse described it has having all of Time flow through his consciousness, allowing him to experience every instance of his own self. Conversely Jade described that her Ultimate Self would be “like... one ultimate self distributed across multiple bodies. so in multiple places and states at once. every jade that exists is like a light being shined through a thousand cracks in the timeline.” (Hey remember those cracks in the universe that had light peaking through them? Idk, seems RELEVANT if you ask me.) So if we reasonably assume that ones aspect heavily affects how one's Ultimate Self first Awakens and how it operates than that means there will be similarities between those who share aspects. If Awakening for a Hero of Time is an experience of everything that ever has, is, or will happen to a version of themselves, and Lord English possessed a juju that allows one to retcon and not split, than the combination of those powers would make it so he could be the singular instance of himself while at the same time always be “Already Here” than there is truly no difference between Lord English and the theoretical Ultimate version of himself. And since the Muse consumed Lord English at the end of Candy, granting her the power to punch a wormhole in the black hole. This is also presumably where she gained the power to “...exist in several narrative structures at once” (pg 286) (also see the above explanation of Jade's Ultimate Self for why that is RELEVANT). Because of this, we can assume that The Muse is just as indistinguishable from her theoretical Ultimate Self as The Lord was. But these powers and this simultaneous existence is not without consequences because the Muse's collapse at the end of this chapter is almost assuredly a result of Meat!Jade's rebelling against The Muse in chapter 6 (specifically the action on page 167/168). And finally, to tie this back to the imposition of bodily destruction to those who Awaken their Ultimate Self, it is worth noting that The Muse does not possess a body of her own to be destroyed. Instead inhabiting the body of various Jades.

Alright, so once again sorry if you thought there would be some big culmination to this post, and hey, what pumpkin?

[archerptdy981]

HTTP response status codes indicate whether a specific HTTP request has been successfully finished

HTTP reaction status codes reveal no matter whether a certain HTTP request is successfully accomplished. Replies are grouped in five courses:

Informational responses (100--199)

Prosperous responses (200--299)

Redirects (three hundred--399)

Consumer problems (400--499)

Server mistakes (500--599)

Within the party you receive a response that is not During this listing, it really Get more information is a non-typical response, possibly custom made to the server's software program.

Information responses

100 ContinueThis interim reaction implies that anything is OK and that the customer really should carry on the request, or disregard the response In the event the ask for is presently concluded. 101 Switching ProtocolThis code is sent in response to an Upgrade request header in the consumer, and signifies the protocol the server is switching into. 102 Processing (WebDAV)This code indicates the host has obtained which is processing the request, but no response is obtainable still. 103 Historical HintsThis status code is primarily intended to generally be employed utilizing the hyperlink header, permitting the purchaser agent begin preloading applications though the host prepares a solution. The that means with the achievements relies upon upon the HTTP process:

GET: The source has been fetched which is despatched from the information human body.

Set or Publish: The resource describing the outcome with the motion is transmitted in the message system.

201 Produced The ask for has succeeded along with a new source is created As a result. This is ordinarily the solution sent immediately after Submit requests, or any Set requests. 202 AcceptedThe ask for has actually been received although not however acted on. It really is noncommittal, considering that there is no way in HTTP to Later on ship an asynchronous response indicating the benefits in the ask for. It truly is intended for situations in which A further treatment or host handles the request, or for batch processing. 203 Non-Authoritative Info This response code suggests the returned meta-facts is not really particularly the same as is obtainable from the supply server, but is gathered from the neighborhood or maybe a 3rd party backup. That is largely utilized for mirrors or even copies of another source. Except for that unique case, the"200 Okay" reaction is chosen to this standing. 204 No Contentthere is absolutely not any information to ship for this petition, although the headers may well be handy. 205 Reset ContentTells the user-agent to reset the doc which sent this petition. 206 Partial ContentThis response code is employed when the Range header is shipped by the consumer to ask for just A part of a source. 207 Multi-Status (WebDAV)Conveys specifics of many sources, for cases the place several position codes may possibly be ideal. 208 Already Reported (WebDAV)Used inside of a reaction factor to avoid consistently enumerating the inner associates of several bindings towards the similar assortment. 226 IM Used (HTTP Delta encoding)The server has fulfilled that has a GET ask for for your source, plus the answer is actually a illustration of your final result of just one or additional instance-manipulations applied to The present occasion.

Redirection messages

300 Multiple ChoiceThe petition has in excess of just one attainable response. The person-agent or buyer ought to decide on one among these. (There may be no standardized way of picking out among These solutions, but HTML hyperlinks into the choices are recommended so the person can pick out.) The new URL is provided while in the response. 302 FoundThis reply code implies the URI of asked for source is changed temporarily. Even more modifications in the URI could be acquired Down the road. Thus, this same URI must be used from the customer in long term requests. 303 See OtherThe waiter despatched this reaction to guide the customer to obtain the requested source at A further URI with a GET ask for. 304 Not ModifiedThat might be utilized for caching functions. It tells the customer the reply hasn't but been modified, Therefore the customer can continue on to employ the exact same cached Model of this reaction. 305 Use Proxy Defined in a preceding Variation on the HTTP specification to signify that a requested answer must be retrieved by a proxy. It's got been deprecated due to protection problems about in-band set up of a proxy. 306 unusedThis reply code isn't any for a longer time made use of; it really is just reserved. It were used in a prior Variation of the HTTP/1.1 specification. 307 Temporary RedirectThe server sends this reaction to guidebook the client to get the requested supply at A different URI with identical process that was utilized from the prior ask for. This has the exact same semantics as the 302 Observed HTTP response code, Along with the exception that the consumer agent should not modify the HTTP technique applied: When a POST was employed at the to start with petition, a Publish must be utilized at the subsequent petition. 308 Permanent RedirectThis implies that the resource is currently completely located at a unique URI, specified from the Site: HTTP Reaction header. This has the very same semantics because the 301 Moved Completely HTTP reaction code, With all the exception which the person consultant should not change the HTTP approach applied: If a Put up was applied from the first petition, a Write-up has got to be applied while in the second ask for.

Client mistake responses

400 Bad RequestThe server could not understand the ask for as a consequence of invalid syntax. To paraphrase, the client will have to authenticate itself to get the asked for response. The Preliminary intent for building this code was making use of it for electronic payment devices, nonetheless this standing code is applied very almost never and no normal convention is existing. 403 ForbiddenThe shopper won't have entry legal rights to the materials; this is, it really is unauthorized, or so the server is refusing to give the requested source. Opposite to 401, the customer's identification is recognized to the server. 404 Not FoundThe device can't Identify the requested resource. From the browser, this indicates the URL will not be regarded. In an API, this can also indicate which the endpoint is valid although the resource itself doesn't exist. Servers can also send out this reaction as opposed to 403 to conceal the event of a source from an unauthorized purchaser. This reaction code is most likely essentially the most famous 1 as a result of its Regular prevalence on the internet. 405 Method Not AllowedThe ask for technique is understood with the server but has actually been disabled and can't be applied. By the use of example, an API may perhaps forbid DELETE-ing a resource. The 2 required solutions, GET and HEAD, will have to never ever be disabled and should not return this mistake code. 406 Not AcceptableThis answer is shipped when the Website server, just after carrying out server-driven content negotiation, isn't going to obtain any content material that adheres for the requirements equipped because of the user representative. 407 Proxy Authentication RequiredThis is similar to 401 however authentication is expected for being obtained by signifies of a proxy. 408 Request TimeoutThis reaction is sent on an idle connection by some servers, even with no prior request by the client. It typically implies which the server would like to near this down unused link. This response is used substantially additional for the reason that some browsers, like Chrome, Firefox 27+, or IE9, benefit from HTTP pre-link mechanisms to speed up searching. Also Notice that quite a few servers only shut down the link devoid of sending this message. 409 ConflictThis reply is distributed whenever a request conflicts Using the existing state of your host. 410 GoneThis response is sent in the event the asked for material was forever deleted from server, with no forwarding deal with. Purchasers are predicted to eliminate their caches and backlinks to the resource. The HTTP specification options this standing code for use for"restricted-time, marketing methods". APIs shouldn't come to feel pressured to point methods which have been deleted with this standing code. 411 Length RequiredServer rejected the request considering the fact that the Material-Duration header industry isn't really outlined and also the server wants it. 412 Precondition FailedThe consumer has indicated preconditions in its personal headers which the host isn't going to meet up with. 413 Payload Too LargeTalk to entity is much larger than limitations described by server; the server could close the connection or return the Retry-Following header area. 415 Unsupported Media TypeThe media framework of this asked for knowledge is not supported through the server, And so the server is rejecting the request. 416 Range Not SatisfiableThe selection specified from the Variety header area from the request can't be fulfilled; it truly is achievable the scope is away from the scale of the focus on URI's information. 417 Expectation FailedThis reaction code signifies the anticipation indicated from the Hope ask for header discipline won't be able to be fulfilled by the server. 421 Misdirected RequestThe ask for was directed in a host which will not be ready to generate a response. This may be transmitted by a host which is not configured to create responses for the combination of technique and authority which are A part of the request URI. 422 Unprocessable Entity (WebDAV)The ask for was perfectly-shaped but was unable to generally be followed due to semantic problems. 423 Locked (WebDAV)The source that has long been accessed is locked. 425 Too Early indicators that the server is hesitant to chance processing a petition That may be replayed. 426 Upgrade RequiredThe server is not going to complete the request applying the latest protocol but may possibly be Completely ready to do so next the customer updates to a special protocol. The server sends an Upgrade header at a 426 response to signify the necessary protocol(s). 428 Precondition RequiredThe origin server calls for the petition to be conditional. This response is intended to prevent the'missing update' problem, exactly where a purchaser Receives a supply's issue, modifies it, and PUTs back to the server, when a 3rd party has modified the condition to the host, bringing about a fight. 429 Too Many RequestsThe consumer has sent a lot of requests inside of a specified interval of your time ("amount restricting"). 431 Request Header Fields Too LargeThe host is unwilling to procedure the request mainly because its personal header fields are excessively big. 451 Unavailable For Legal ReasonsThe user-agent requested a resource which may't legally be offered, such as an online web site censored by a governing administration.

Server mistake answers

500 Internal Server ErrorThe server has encountered a circumstance it doesn't learn how to manage. 501 Not ImplementedThe petition approach isn't supported by the host and can not be managed. The only techniques that servers are envisioned to aid (and as a result that should not return this code) are GET and HEAD. 502 Bad GatewayThis error reaction signifies the server, though employed to be a gateway to have a reaction needed to manage the petition, got an invalid reaction. 503 Service UnavailableThe server isn't ready to handle the ask for. Frequent brings about are a host which is down for maintenance or that is overloaded. Observe that with this reaction, a person-helpful website page describing the issue ought to be despatched. This solutions need to be utilized for short-term ailments in conjunction with also the Retry-Just after: HTTP header should, if possible, involve the believed time just before the recovery of the support. The webmaster will have to also watch out about the caching-relevant headers that are despatched collectively with this solution, as these momentary issue responses shouldn't be cached. 504 Gateway TimeoutThis mistake response is provided when the server is acting as a gateway and can't find a reaction in time. 508 Loop Detected (WebDAV)The server detected an infinite loop when processing the petition. 510 Not ExtendedExtra extensions to the ask for are needed for your waiter to match it. 511 Network Authentication RequiredThe 511 status code implies which the consumer should authenticate to attain network obtain.

[rowanpbon745]

HTTP response status codes indicate if a particular HTTP request was successfully finished

HTTP reaction standing codes suggest no matter whether or not a precise HTTP ask for has long been productively done. Responses are grouped in 5 courses:

From the function you obtain a response that just isn't During this checklist, it's a non-standard response, probably personalized into the host's application.

Information responses

100 ContinueThis interim reaction suggests that every thing is Okay and the client must go on the request, or dismiss the solution In case the petition is presently completed. 101 Switching ProtocolThis code is sent in reaction to a Upgrade request header from the purchaser, and signifies the protocol the server is switching to. 103 Historical HintsThis standing code is mainly supposed to get used applying the hyperlink header, letting the purchaser agent start out preloading assets when the server prepares an answer.

Successful responses

200 OKThe request has succeeded. The significance in the accomplishment is contingent on the HTTP approach:

GET: The supply was fetched and it is despatched during the information entire body.

Place or Write-up: The resource describing the result from the action is despatched into the concept system.

201 Produced The ask for has succeeded and also a new source was made Consequently. This is certainly usually the response despatched after Publish requests, or any PUT requests. 202 AcceptedThe petition continues to be received although not yet acted on. It really is noncommittal, due to the fact there's Certainly not any way in HTTP to Later on deliver an asynchronous reaction suggesting the consequence from the request. It's intended for cases where a special course of action or host handles the request, or for batch processing. 203 Non-Authoritative Info This reply code signifies the returned meta-data isn't accurately the same as is out there with the supply server, but is collected from the regional or even a third-occasion backup. This is certainly generally useful for mirrors or backups of another useful resource. Aside from that unique circumstance, the"200 OK" reaction is desired to this status. 204 No Contentthere is completely not any material to ship for this petition, although the headers may perhaps be practical. The person-agent may well update its cached headers for this useful resource While using the new ones. 205 Reset ContentTells the consumer-agent to reset the doc which sent this petition. 206 Partial ContentThis response code is employed although the Range header is sent by the shopper to request only Portion of a resource. 208 Already Reported (WebDAV)Utilized inside of a remedy component to keep away from regularly enumerating the internal members of several bindings to the exact same collection. 226 IM Used (HTTP Delta encoding)The server has fulfilled a GET ask for to the resource, as well as the solution is often a representation on the consequence of additional occasion-manipulations applied to the current occasion.

Redirection messages

300 Multiple Option The petition has above 1 attainable response. The user-agent or client has to pick between these. (There is certainly no standardized way of deciding upon one among the answers, but HTML links to the prospects are advised so the consumer can select.) The brand new URL is presented inside the reaction. 302 FoundThis response code suggests that the URI of requested resource was modified briefly. Additional variations within the URI may well be gained Later on. So, this identical URI ought to be used with the customer in potential requests. 303 See OtherThe waiter despatched this response to manual the consumer to acquire the requested supply at Yet another URI with a GET ask for. 304 Not ModifiedThis is used for caching features. It tells the consumer that the reaction has not nevertheless been modified, Therefore the consumer can proceed to implement a similar cached version of this response. 305 Use Proxy Outlined in a very previous Model from the HTTP specification to reveal a asked for response needs to be retrieved by suggests of the proxy. It can be been deprecated because of security concerns pertaining to in-band configuration of the proxy. 306 unusedThis reply code is not any much more utilized; it truly is just reserved. It was used in a prior version of the HTTP/1.one specification. 307 Temporary RedirectThe server sends this reaction to immediate the consumer to get the requested source at a special URI with exact same strategy which was applied in the earlier petition. This has the identical semantics given that the 302 Located HTTP answer code, with the exception that the consumer agent shouldn't change the HTTP system utilized: When a Article was utilised in the 1st request, a Put up will have to be utilized in the second request. 308 Permanent RedirectThis usually means the useful resource is now permanently Situated at A different URI, presented from the Locale: HTTP Reaction header. This has the same semantics given that the 301 Moved Permanently HTTP response code, While using the exception the consumer consultant have to not improve the HTTP system employed: When a Submit was utilized in the Preliminary petition, a Submit should be applied while in the up coming ask for.

Client mistake answers

400 Bad RequestThe server couldn't realize the ask for due to invalid syntax. That may be, the customer need to authenticate by itself to get the requested answer. The Preliminary goal for producing this code has been working with it for electronic payment solutions, but this status code is often used really infrequently and no conventional Conference exists. 403 ForbiddenThe client doesn't have entry rights to this substance; that is, it can be unauthorized, so the server is refusing to deliver the requested useful resource. Compared with 401, the consumer's identification is known to the host. 404 Not FoundThe device cannot locate the requested source. In the browser, this normally usually means the URL is not regarded. In an API, this can also reveal that the endpoint is genuine nevertheless the useful resource alone isn't going to exist. Servers may also ship this response as an alternative to 403 to conceal the event of the supply from an unauthorized consumer. This reaction code is almost certainly by far the most famed one as a consequence of the frequent event online. 405 Method Not AllowedThe petition method is regarded by the server but has been disabled and can't be employed. By the use of occasion, an API may possibly forbid DELETE-ing a useful resource. The two mandatory procedures, GET and HEAD, need to never ever be disabled and should not return this error code. 406 Not AcceptableThis solution http://discorddownn.moonfruit.com/?preview=Y is sent when the server, right after accomplishing server-driven content negotiation, won't uncover any material which adheres on the criteria supplied from the consumer consultant. 407 Proxy Authentication RequiredThis resembles 401 but authentication is essential for being performed by a proxy. 408 Request TimeoutThis reaction is shipped on an idle connection by a few servers, even without prior ask for from the shopper. It commonly implies the server would like to close this down new link. This response may be utilized noticeably more since some browsers, like Chrome, Firefox 27+, or IE9, make the most of HTTP pre-link mechanisms to quicken browsing. Also Be aware that many servers simply shut down the connection with out sending this information. 409 ConflictThis reaction is sent any time a ask for conflicts While using the current state of the server. 410 GoneThis reaction is delivered once the requested information has become forever deleted from server, with out a forwarding address. Consumers are predicted to clear away their caches and hyperlinks on the useful resource. The HTTP specification ideas this position code to be used for"minimal-time, promotional expert services". APIs shouldn't feel pressured to indicate sources that are deleted with this standing code. 411 Length RequiredServer turned down the ask for since the Material-Length header industry just isn't outlined as well as the server needs it. 412 Precondition FailedThe consumer has indicated preconditions in its own headers that the server doesn't satisfy. 413 Payload Too Big Ask for entity is greater than limitations defined by host; the server may well shut the website link or return the Retry-After header area. 414 URI Too LongThe URI requested through the purchaser is longer compared to the server is ready to interpret. 415 Unsupported Media TypeThe media format of the info which is asked for just isn't supported with the host, Therefore the server is rejecting the petition. 416 Range Not SatisfiableThe variety specified by the Assortment header industry in the ask for can't be fulfilled; it is achievable which the scope is outdoors the scale of this concentrate on URI's facts. 417 Expectation FailedThis reaction code signifies the expectation indicated from the Foresee ask for header industry cannot be fulfilled by the host. 418 I'm a teapotThe server refuses the try to brew coffee using a teapot. 421 Misdirected RequestThe ask for was directed in a server which will not be capable to generate a reaction. This might be transmitted by a server that is not configured to develop responses with the combo of scheme and authority that are included in the ask for URI. 422 Unprocessable Entity (WebDAV)The petition was perfectly-fashioned but was not able to get followed because of semantic errors. 423 Locked (WebDAV)The source that has become obtained is locked. 424 Failed Dependency (WebDAV)The request failed on account of failure of a preceding request. 425 Too Early Suggests which the host is unwilling to threat processing a petition that might be replayed. 426 Upgrade RequiredThe server is not going to do the request with the current protocol but might be ready to take action subsequent the client upgrades to One more protocol. The server sends an Update header at a 426 reaction to suggest the obligatory protocol(s). 428 Precondition RequiredThe supply server demands the petition to turn out to be conditional. This response is intended to safeguard against the'shed update' issue, the place a client gets a useful resource's point out, modifies it, and Places back again to the server, when a third party has altered the state within the server, leading to a battle. 429 Too Many RequestsThe person has delivered too many requests in the precise sum of your time ("amount restricting"). 431 Request Header Fields Too Big The server is unwilling to course of action the ask for simply because its header fields are excessively massive. The request may be resubmitted right after lessening the dimension from the request header fields. 451 Unavailable For Legal ReasonsThe person-agent requested a resource which often can't lawfully be furnished, including an internet site censored by a federal government.

Server error responses

500 Internal Server ErrorThe server has encountered a situation it isn't going to learn how to tackle. 501 Not ImplementedThe petition technique isn't supported with the server and are unable to be handled. The one procedures that servers are required to persuade (and as a result that should not return this code) are GET and HEAD. 502 Bad GatewayThis mistake reaction means that the server, when employed as a gateway to have a reaction necessary to manage the ask for, obtained an invalid reaction. 503 Service UnavailableThe machine is just not ready to contend with the request. Regular leads to really are a host that is definitely down for routine maintenance or that is certainly overloaded. Notice that with this response, a person-welcoming web site detailing the problem must be despatched. This solutions should really be useful for short-term disorders in conjunction with also the Retry-Right after: HTTP header must, if at all possible, include the approximated time previous to the recovery of this service. The webmaster need to also acquire care about the caching-related headers that are sent collectively with this particular response, since these short term condition answers ought to ordinarily not be cached. 504 Gateway TimeoutThis error response is provided when the device is performing as a gateway and are unable to obtain a response in time. 505 HTTP Version Not SupportedThe HTTP Variation used in the petition is not really supported with the host. 508 Loop Detected (WebDAV)The server detected an infinite loop whilst processing the ask for. 510 Not ExtendedAdded extensions to the ask for are demanded to the waiter to match it.

[panatmansam]

I never used to pay attention to the follower count. In fact I used to use Chrome and it had an add-on that blanked it out. It was annoying because it changed all the time. When I switched to Firefox I no longer had that capability. So I had to stare at the pesky little number as it scrolled up and down depending on whether people liked what I posted.

Now this may not even be true. It could be a complete coincidence but if I post an article about a bad experience I had a Taco Bell in 1988 and two people unfollow I just assume that two people disagreed with my opinion on Taco Bell.

Absurd I know. It’s ego. Yet. It has begun to drive me. People like blue flowers. Yes. Blue flowers sell! Soon this will be the blue flowers channel! No more of this boring Buddha talk blue flowers 24/7!

[did-he-just-hiss-at-me]

i present to you, another f***ing sanders sides swap au cuz there can never be enough of them

i'm gonna call this corruptive switch cuz the dark sides are arguably worse than in canon

Patton is Dark!Creativity

also known as Intrusive Thoughts

Aside from the usual I.T. things, he seems to suggest a lot of good things but with bad intentions, which slowly turn into completely bad things

"You should offer to house-sit for them, that way you can take the opportunity to steal and use their house for parties! Oh, or even better, steal from them!"

instead of The Duke, he is The Painter(no dukey-esque jokes, sorry)

his Dark Side animal theme is the Fear Mongrel(disguised as a cat. look up what the fear mongrel is)

makes alot of crafts that are either made of gross things or resemble gross things

i chose the fear mongrel because it poison's peoples minds and it has no set form so i can do whatever with patton's animal traits

Constantly stealing things from the other sides

Roman: Patton, why do you have my cloak?! I need it back!

Patton, wrapped in the cloak like a burrito: No.

Logan is Light!Creativity

also known as Logical Creativity

Everything he comes up with has reasoning behind it

"Just because a Manticore and a Chimera are already combinations of other animals doesn't mean they can't be combined; That just makes it a more powerful & threatening enemy to fight! So many more animal parts to contribute to the danger!"

instead of The Prince, he is The Author

doesn't always wear his coat

has a dislike for "cartoon logic", unless that logic actually has a good explanation

does not hate the laws of fiction, as long as he can see it as a possible irl event

sneaks memes into his writing

Roman is Anxiety

also known as Uncontrollable Anxiety

All the anxiety he gives Thomas is based off of wildly improbable ideas, and Thomas can picture the scenarios too(not just hear Roman say them)

"But Thomas, if you go to this party with your friends, your DD might get drunk and still try to drive you home, and you could either end up arrested or in a car crash! And probably die afterwards!

his Dark Side animal theme is a Nian(look it up)

due to the Nian's hatred of the color red he hides from all mirrors and reflective surfaces

only Ethan can combat his abilities

likes to get up close to people when spreading his anxious thoughts

hyper, like, all the time

i chose the Nian because it's pretty creepy to me and it's immortal(comparable to how difficult it can be to get rid of deep-set fears) and people fear it and what it can do(of course)

dark circles around his eyes cuz ironically he keeps himself awake at night with his fears

meme king

Virgil is Deceit

also known as Manipulative Self-Preservation

Makes things sound scarier than they actually are, solely to get Thomas to stay on track with his life

"If you tell him why you ducked out of the project, he may never ask you to partner up with him again; which will inevitably lead to him never talking to you at all, forever!"

his Dark Side animal theme is a Firefox

Unlike Canon Deceit, he does not care for Thomas' mental health

anti-villain. thinks he's doing good but he's just flat out evil

only reason I chose a firefox is because i wanted him to have something on his face, so i chose burns and scars, which brought me to the firefox, and foxes are cunning, stealthy manipulators

likes to sing villain/dark songs, to Ethan's dismay

Deceit is Logic

also known as Self-Protecting Logic

name in this AU is Ethan, just to prevent confusion with Virgil

Will do whatever it takes to keep Thomas safe. Will only resort to whatever is circumstantially necessary.

"I know you don't like the sound of it Thomas, but doing this will lead to the safest result. You could ruin this friendship otherwise."

glasses are actually just empty frames

cares way more about thomas's mental health than Canon Logic, CS!Logan, Canon Deceit and CS!Virgil combined

instead of scales, he has scars that look like vitiligo. he gets more of these spots as thomas goes through more and more things that negatively effects his mental health. they don't hurt Ethan physically, but they're constant reminders of his failures

only looks at memes that don't encourage negative feelings

huge freaking emphasis on positivity like ffs dude chill out

Remus is Morality

also known as Moral Ambivalence

Does the right thing but his morals are, quite obviously, a bit misguided

"Stabbing isn't wrong if they consent to it! He said he wanted to be stabbed!"

please don't let him near strong-heat-producing objects... like stoves... Virgil convinced him they're ok to touch

admires Patton's works but will never admit it to him. also admires Logan's but will admit it, and even give him some inspiration

likes to pretend to be a detective for some reason

yes, he still has his mustache, his dark circles(?) around his eyes are there too, but they're not as noticeable tho.

does not get memes

There are minor differences to the episodes that still keep a roughly similar plotline,, these are what i could think of

Like in The Dark Side of Disney, they're talking about Pixar movies in specific(Cuz Logan would be a firm believer in the Pixar Theory due to how interesting and plausible it is) and Roman's always suggesting sh** like "Wall-e killed all the other robots cleaning up earth" and "Toys can die and their owners wouldn't know they'd just be playing with a dead corpse" and Logan's like "cAN YOU NOT" the entire time cuz he knows it's probable and he hates it

In Can Lying Be Good? Virgil pretends to be Logic instead of Morality, because he can't keep up with Remus's energy and his points will make more sense coming from Ethan's mouth... or so he thinks. yeah by the end he's exposed. Ethan was tied up in a closet the entire time.

In Learning New Things About Ourselves, Ethan isn't the one against the puppet shenanigans like you would suspect, it's Logan... again. Since he's Logical Creativity he doesn't see how playing around with puppets and singing songs will fix Thomas's problem. It's still illogical.

In Selfishness vs. Selflessness, Virgil has(more or less) the same goal as Deceit does in canon(to get Thomas to realize he's not a perfectly good person) except instead of doing it in a regular courtroom, he does it in a nightmarish one in Patton's part of the imagination(who is in the background, manipulating the room during the trial)

just some other facts

Thomas is only a complete wreck when his dark sides are kept out of check(my writer abilities have peaked. i made a rhyme unintentionally.)

out of the dark sides, not even anxiety is TRULY "accepted" in this au. the dark sides are just tolerated. the only reason they're allowed to exist and interact with thomas like the light sides is because Ethan realizes how important they are and enforces a rule preventing them from being banned

speaking of which, the darks and lights do interact like normal friends but that doesn't mean they're happy with their opposite's roles

Somebody: You and Logan have a good brotherly relationship, right Patton?

Patton: Absolutely not. He is a sworn enemy to Thomas's well being.

Somebody: But I saw you two geeking out over something earli-

Patton: I would sell him to satan for one corn chip. I don't even like corn chips.

dark sides are based on fictional animals/monsters instead of real animals

everyone keeps their little quirks(Logan likes crofters, Patton likes cats, etc.) unless they are tied to their canon role(Deceit's emphasis on the letter "s" when speaking, Roman caring about his appearance, etc.)

don't let the dark sides combine their powers, ever. that's when they're truely strong

Roman and Remus are no longer brothers, it's Patton and Logan instead

yeahh that's all i've got. i'm working on character refs now, in fact right after this post goes up i'm posting logan's. here's hoping people like this concept hdgdjdhds

[ms-demeanor]

The different approach would probably be, I don’t know, sabotage and killing people? I honestly don’t know what you want people to do, like really, honestly. If we’re already fucked, if the surveillance state is as scary as you’re describing, if all our systems are useless to deal with it (you’re an anarchist, I presume you believe this), what’s left to do? And what’s the point of doing anything if the technology that, like, I absolutely rely on to live is so toxic?

The different approach is to organize.

Organize, organize, organize.

We have been trying to foist the responsibility for evading surveillance onto individuals and that’s bullshit. Your grandma who wants to see baby pictures shouldn’t have to learn how to strip metadata or read a 10K word ToS and argue with it in order to function online.

We are fucked as individuals, we can’t fight this as individuals. It’s a good thing that we don’t have to.

Google and Amazon employees have protested when their employers started working with facial recognition software, corporate and government whistleblowers have told the public when we’re being watched. You might not be able to do those things but you can support the people who HAVE done those sorts of things. You can also work to educate people about the state of modern surveillance and try to get them to pay attention to legislation that they might otherwise overlook.

There is an entire organization (https://www.eff.org/) that exists exclusively to protect online freedoms; if nothing else you can donate to them (because what EFF is doing is working a HELL of a lot better than telling people not to post selfies.

And I don’t know why people always jump to “well so what, killing people is the answer?” when you’ve got “sabotage” right there in your sentence. Yes. 100%. Sabotage the shit out of this system. Spraypaint cameras, point cameras out to people around you, print up sheets of hyperface and wheatpaste it up in high traffic areas.

So much of this shit is blamed on individual people for creating accounts to share news with their family or posting photos on vacation and making individual people feel guilty for being complicit in modern surveillance. Most people don’t even realize that this is a thing. Most people aren’t worried about facial recognition software and the vast files of data being compiled about them because it’s not an immediate problem and I sure as hell can’t blame someone who’s struggling to make rent for not giving a shit about where their face is seen. Our exhaustion leads to apathy and that apathy is being taken advantage of by governments and massive corporations in order to build up a system that does not yet control everyone but easily could in the future.

You can’t kill the apathy. You can’t make a person who says “I’m not important to worry about this, it’ll never impact me” care enough to delete her facebook. So don’t go after her. Find people who DO care and go after facebook. Be shitty and criminal about it and hack it. Be polite and legal about it and agitate for oversight (and not in Zuckerberg’s shitty “we shouldn’t have to be responsible for our platforms, the government should be responsible for preventing bad shit on our platforms while we maintain control of data sales” way).

I brought up David Brin and sousveillance yesterday, that’s a part of this too. The public should have access to police camera footage and since they won’t give it to us we should set up some fucking cameras of our own. You know why we’ve affirmed the right of citizens to film police? BECAUSE PEOPLE FUCKING ORGANIZED. Here, have a state-by-state selection of apps to record the cops: https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-law-reform/reforming-police-practices/aclu-apps-record-police-conduct

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So what can you, as an individual, do if you want to step back and get away from some of this but you aren’t quite ready to start slapping stickers on security cameras?

First, detach as much as possible from the toxic aspects of technology as you can.

I’m pretty clearly a big advocate for open source software and surveillance is part of that. Apple tracks your shit. Microsoft tracks your shit Linux doesn’t. Google tracks your shit. Firefox doesn’t. Yahoo tracks your shit. Protonmail doesn’t. Install adblockers, browse incognito, and see how well you do without certain kinds of social media.

I get it, I had to create a facebook page for a job and now I have to keep one for another job and it sucks because you’re forced to participate in order to just be allowed to survive. Participate at the lowest level you can.

(Real talk: I am *floored* that Chrome is a thing. I understand that gmail got off the ground before we all realized how nuts google was and that almost everyone has a youtube account but it is balls to the wall *bonkers* to me that people would use a google browser)

Start running a good adblocker (I like ublock origin) and NoScript. It’ll really narrow your online experience to do so, but it might also make you aware of just how much bullshit is quietly going on in the background of the pages you visit.

Second, become unpredictable.

I wasn’t kidding about randomly leaving your phone at home or at the office. You probably don’t need it with you all the time so don’t take it all the time.

Change the way you get to work, change where you go to eat, change where you shop. Routine is comforting, it’s also a trap. (And if it’s at all feasible cut yourself off from Amazon; don’t shop there, don’t interact with it, don’t use alexa, don’t use their storage products, don’t sell through it. I know it’s really difficult, and if you can’t do all of that try to do the most you can)

It’s easy to observe and build profiles on people who have habits set in stone and a particular path they follow each day. It’ll be good for you to shake yourself out of those habits not only because it blurs the edges of your profile but also because novel experiences are good for your brain. And if you can’t change your commute or leave your phone at home at least vary your behaviors. If you go on tumblr every day start taking a day off once in a while. If you play mobile games on your phone most days maybe switch to an ereader for a bit.

One of my friends once said “your credit card company should always have to call you to check for fraud because they should never know what you’re going to buy next” and honestly I like that philosophy (this came up after he purchased a box of communion wafers and a boat oar about an hour apart). Shop like you’re trying to confuse the fraud department, drive like you’re trying to lose a tail.

Look for alternatives to the things you do every day and start doing the alternative thing once in a while for the sheer novelty of it.

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Nihilism

The system is broken. The system is broken. It is broken and it can’t be fixed, we let it go too long and by the time we even thought about trying to control this shit it was so far gone that we couldn’t walk away. It’s all well and good to talk about avoiding cameras but people gotta use roads and ride busses and take the subway. People gotta eat. People gotta go to school. It’s all well and good to talk about disrupting data patterns and checking out of social media but you’re still gonna get googled and your name is out there. The cat’s out of the bag.

That is not an excuse to throw up your hands and say “well I guess there’s nothing that can be done,” it’s a reason to say “there’s no reason things should be like this.”

People talk about surveillance and technology and security like they’re set in stone, like they’re forces of nature and can never be changed.

That’s fuckin bullshit. We make this. WE MAKE THIS. And we can change this. We can change it collectively by putting pressure on companies like facebook or amazon or google by agitating for oversight, sabotaging them, or leaking documents. We can change it collectively by making alternative options and participating in open source projects. We can change it collectively by leaking data and supporting leakers. We can change it collectively by filming cops. We can change it collectively by pushing toward norms of privacy, by moving away from always-on, always-reachable culture.

And it’s always going to be a fight. There’s never going to be an end-state in which there *isn’t* someone trying to take advantage of the structures we’ve built. But together we can keep pushing anyway. One must imagine Sisyphus happy, after all.