#opinion gif meme

[strikingskeletonsiege]

LATE TO THE ASK MEME but you're the coolest skeleton out there, even cooler than my own!!

HELL THE FUCK YEAH!!!! YOU GOT GOOD TASTES!!!!

[misfits-of-zaun]

Jinx, and Ekko, because of course. 🖼 and also 💡

🖼 for Ekko's opinion of Jinx in 3 memes:

💡 for what Ekko THINKS Jinx's opinion of HIM is:

[kotalloh]

EVERY SHOW HAS ONE: ANDOR (SEASON 1)

[memesmadefullmetal]

On the topic of Riza and conqueror of shamballa:

I think both riza and roy were ooc, and the main problem was that their story had already ended at episode 57. There wasn't really a reason for them to be in the movie except for a brief cameo.

So I guess my hot take is that they shouldn't have been in cos at all.

Anon, you make a great point! 👏🏻

Roy and Riza’s character growth is definitely detrimentally impacted by their participation in Conqueror of Shamballa (and they only get about five-minutes of screentime!) 😔

When we leave them in 03, their story has come to a natural conclusion. In amongst the bleaker landscape of the 03 series’ ending, they’re also probably the characters with the ‘happiest’ end

They actually reach a point where they’re ready to explore their relationship outside of the Amestrian military so when we see them in Shamballa, it undoes a lot of the excellent groundwork which the 03 series laid down: it rips up the script for a “cameo” which could’ve been removed and had no overall impact on Shamballa’s story 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏼‍♀️

- Mod Mustang & Mod Hawkeye 🔥🦅

[sleepy-bebby]

[shir0oos-thoughts]

Sorry not sorry to any Knox fans but i needed to rant a lil bit

Be forewarned….this is a LONG one guys😮‍💨

When him and Tess were first introduced i was like “Oh well just as long as they don’t take too much away from the main story and are likeable” (BOY was I wrong😟)

Now don’t get me wrong he was a big help at the end of the book by helping transport the scepter. Also when Tess got fairystruck, anyone else thought “huh…that was…easy?” AND I GET IT the fairies were probs influenced by the interactions of humans (especially kendra) and were flattered by her costume as well as her age may have helped but it just all felt wayyy too plot convenient..

THEN they started getting their own chapters. Okay. Now im lowkey irritated bc could you IMAGINE if we got a RONODIN pov or one of Warren, Vanessa or Tanu? And i knoww its bc they’re cousins & are important secondary characters (even though the characters i listed are just as, maybe even more important) BUT WHEN I FINISH SETH’S CHAPTER I GET ALL EXCITED FOR KENDRA’S and then it’s one of theirs… (though the only thing saving it was Newel and Doren tbh) And I have to force myself to finish it bc i don’t wanna miss important details😔

And this isn’t particularly referring to Tess mostly Knox being insufferable but the point still stands!

*ALSO when he killed Remulon (which he did do his big one with that so 👏👏👏) Shouldn’t he technically NOT have been able to use the unicorn horn since in theory it’s impossible to just pick it up bc it attacks the person with magical guilt?? If anyone has the answer to this lmk plz DID I MISS SOMETHING or is this just a plothole??😭

ALSO also when he had the AUDACITY to TRY Seth (even if he was influenced by the crown) while he was “giant king” talking all that smack as if he didn’t injure Newel after being told how DANGEROUS the unforgiving blade was. And Seth just made him eat back up his words with barely any effort I KNOW THATS RIGHTTT I absolutely loved that scene😝

…..And don’t even get me STARTED on the whole Ob“knox”ious joke….😕

Overall he was helpful and can crack good jokes, when its not corny!! Just *REALLY* annoyingly boastful at times. Tess was tolerable tho. I would add more but this is already long enough as is lol.

But Im curious on other people’s thoughts on him🤔

[shou-jpeg]

-Back on the Beat-

Part 2. 03

Kim stares at his phone. 

He was cooking dinner when Porchay messaged him, and now his focus is entirely on his phone. He’s trying very hard not to read into the exchange, except Porchay definitely didn’t need his advice on this. A quick Google search would reveal industry standards and freeware recommendations. Porchay has been to Kim’s studio and used Pro Tools when they recorded the song Porchay wrote for him. They even had a whole conversation about it the first time when he was showing him how to use it.

So… why did Porchay message him?

Did he just want an excuse to talk to Kim?

Kim swats the thought away. There’s no point trying to read into it. For all he knows, Porchay completely forgot the name of the programme Kim uses, or maybe he wanted the opinion of someone he knows in the industry and not just strangers online. 

Or he was… testing Kim? 

Kim sighs towards the ceiling. He needs to get a grip. He decides to take the conversation at face value and focus on the little happy feeling it brought along: this was their first proper exchange since they broke up. 

Their first proper conversation, and Porchay left it with a smiley face emoji and a promise to continue the conversation again in the future. 

Kim smiles down at his phone. 

...

He looks away and sighs. He shouldn’t get his hopes up. It might be something, and they’re definitely making some sort of progress, but that doesn’t mean things are fixed.

Kim wants to repair things between them, and so far what he’s doing seems to be working… somehow. 

If he can work them up to proper in person conversations, then maybe they can talk properly about the things that happened and then maybe, if Kim is feeling brave enough, he can ask Porchay out on a proper date.

He looks back down at his phone and purses his lips, contemplating. 

Kim grins to himself, looking away towards the window, and then back down at his phone. He bites his lip. 

Yeah, things are going pretty well so far.

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[samflir]

What makes a good boot sequence?

A while ago, I had my first truly viral post on Mastodon. It was this:

You might've seen it. It got almost four hundred boosts and reached beyond Mastodon to reddit and even 4chan. I even saw an edit with a spinning frog on the left screen. I knew the post would go down well with tech.lgbt but I never expected it to blow up the way it did.

I tried my best to express succinctly exactly what it is I miss about BIOS motherboards in the age of UEFI in this picture. I think looking at a logo and spinner/loading bar is boring compared to seeing a bunch of status messages scroll up the screen indicating hardware being activated, services being started up and tasks being run. It takes the soul out of a computer when it hides its computeriness.

I think a lot of people misunderstood my post as expressing a practical preference over an aesthetic one, and there was at least a few thinking this was a Linux fanboy post, which it certainly is not. So here's the long version of a meme I made lol.

Stages

I remember using two family desktop computers before moving over a family laptop. One ran Windows XP and the other ran Windows 7. Both were of the BIOS era, which meant that when booting, they displayed some status information in white on black with a blinking cursor before loading the operating system. On the XP machine, I spent longer in this liminal space because it dual-booted. I needed to select Windows XP from a list of Linux distros when booting it.

I've always liked this. Even as a very little kid I had some sense that what I was seeing was a look back into the history of computing. It felt like a look "behind the scenes" of the main GUI-based operating system into something more primitive. This made computers even more interesting than they already were, to me.

Sequences

The way old computers booted was appealing to my love of all kinds of fixed, repeating sequences. I never skip the intros to TV shows and I get annoyed when my local cinema forgets to show the BBFC ratings card immediately before the film, even though doing so is totally pointless and it's kinda strange that they do that in the first place. Can you tell I'm autistic?

Booting the windows 7 computer would involve this sequence of distinct stages: BIOS white text -> Windows 7 logo with "starting windows" below in the wrong aspect ratio -> switch to correct resolution with loading spinner on the screen -> login screen.

Skipping any would feel wrong to me because it's missing a step in one of those fixed sequences I love so much. And every computer that doesn't start with BIOS diagnostic messages is sadly missing that step to my brain, and feels off.

Low-level magic

I am extremely curious about how things work and always have been, so little reminders when using a computer that it has all sorts of complex inner workings and background processes going on are very interesting to me, so I prefer boot sequences that expose the low-level magic going on and build up to the GUI. Starting in the GUI immediately presents it as fundamental, as if it's not just a pile of abstractions on top of one another. It feels deceptive.

There may actually be some educational and practical value in computers booting in verbose mode by default. Kids using computers for the first time get to see that there's a lot more to their computer than the parts they interact with (sparking curiosity!), and if a boot fails, technicians are better able to diagnose the problem over a phone call with a non-technical person.

Absolute boot sequence perfection

There's still one last thing missing from my family computer's boot sequence, and that's a brief flicker of garbage on screen as VRAM is cleared out. Can't have everything I guess. Slo-mo example from The 8-Bit Guy here:

[tiny-elf-of-doom]

💥Smash💥 or 🚫Pass🚫

David Tennant Edition

Completely opinion based, feel free to agree/disagree with me.

10th Doctor - 🚫Pass🚫

-Gives off aro/ace vibes, bestie vibes!

-Also, Rose Tyler.

14th Doctor -💥Smash💥

-A little bit older… insatiable habits. 🤫

-“My arms are too long.”

Zebediah Kilgrave -💥Conflicted🚫

(Kevin Thompson)

-Villain hotties wear 💜purple💜

-however…

-Dude is fucking possessive and obsessive. 🚩

Rev. Harry Watling - 🚫Pass🚫

-✨religious trauma✨

-Jesus is coming, but I can’t relate.

-Watching him cry breaks my heart. 💔

Crowley -💥Smash💥

-I’m a sucker for redheads. 😮‍💨

-🐍Mesopotamia🐍

-He wouldn’t have to pine long for me.

Peter Vincent - 💥Smash💥

-Lanky lil goth boi. 💀

-Get him drunk and he’ll try anything.

-Plz pop my metaphorical 🍒cherry🍒

Giacomo Casanova - 🚫Pass🚫

-Those blue contact lenses. 🧿_🧿

-Atmosphere is off.

-Bedcest with 3 sisters together… nah.

Davina - 💥Smash💥

-Bollocks~

-I can fight a good fight for you, Davina. ⚔️

-gOt bIgGeR hAnDlEs tHaN tHe ScoTtIsH cUp.

[witchthewriter]

I feel like this is gonna be a really weird request. But if you’ve seen zootopia, would you be okay doing a character profile [birth chart, mbti] for Nick Wilde?

Not weird at all! It was really interesting to do this one. Happy to do most characters ✧ ₊・🦊・₊✧

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞: 𝑁𝑖𝑐𝑘 𝑊𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑒

𝐌𝐁𝐓𝐈

𝑬𝑵𝑻𝑷 | 𝑇𝘩𝑒 𝐷𝑒𝑏𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟

Nick loves a mental sparring session with someone who can challenge him. ENTPs enjoy playing devil’s advocate, partly because it allows them to showcase their quick wit and partly because it helps them to clarify their thoughts. We can see throughout the movie that Nick obviously loves rocking the boat; but he always has a life jacket.

𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐋 𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐍𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓

𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝑵𝒆𝒖𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝒕𝒐 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝑮𝒐𝒐𝒅

(Taking into account that the movie is aimed at children). Nick was Chaotic Neutral; not caring about the law (obviously) or about anyone but himself. Until Judy comes along. She has a direct influence on him; character development. And he changes into Chaotic Good.

𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐎𝐓 𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐃

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑷𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑺𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔

Upright: New ideas, curiosity, thirst for knowledge, new ways of communicating Reversed: Self-expression, all talk and no action, haphazard action, haste

This card is often associated with curiosity, intellectual agility, and a mischievous streak. It can represent someone who enjoys stirring up intellectual debates or challenging others with their wit and cleverness.

𝐒𝐔𝐍

𝑺𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒑𝒊𝒐

Scorpio's mysterious nature and ability to perceive things that others pass by unnoticed can be both captivating and intimidating, leaving others both curious and intimidated by the possibility of learning more about the hidden facets of their personality. That's why I think Nick is a Scorpio Sun; seems to know more about others without them saying anything. He's very perceptive, intuitive, observant, insightful and obviously clever.

𝐌𝐎𝐎𝐍

𝑳𝒆𝒐

He feels safe in moments when he can impress others and get praise and admiration. Many Leo Moons' have a desire for money and social status, and have a strong ability to get it. They also have a talent for drama and creative activities.

𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆/𝐀𝐒𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐍𝐓

𝑮𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒊

Gemini is linked to the winged messenger, Hermes, aka the Greek god of wealth, luck, language, and travel—so Gemini Risings tend to be strong linguists who just have a way with words. For that reason, they’re often seen as tricky or clever. They eventually become masters of communication, learning exactly the right words to use and judging when to speak up and when not to speak up.

𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐘

𝑨𝒒𝒖𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒖𝒔

I think what's overlooked is Nick's forward-thinking and interests. His character can be very compressed and put down to 'sly, quick and unrealiable.' But when he feels comfortable and safe, we see that he has a lot of creative and innovative ideas. He enjoys exploring possibilities beyond the conventional.

𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐔𝐒

𝑨𝒒𝒖𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒖𝒔

Aquarius Venus individuals value intellectual connections and are attracted to partners who stimulate their mind. They appreciate independent thinking and enjoy engaging in intellectual discussions and debates. That's exactly how I see Nick; needing to have a partner that can keep up with banter and bickering, but also intellectual conversations about the world around them.

𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐒

𝑺𝒂𝒈𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒖𝒔

Mars in Sagittarius individuals have a strong sense of adventure and a desire for freedom. They are enthusiastic, optimistic, and have a broad perspective. They possess a pioneering spirit and enjoy taking risks.

[strikingskeletonsiege]

very explosive!! 💥

VERY!!

[misfits-of-zaun]

🖼 For Ekko

Send 🖼 for Ekko's opinion of Silco in 3 memes

Bonus:

[riverdenile]

As a casual Watcher fan (formerly an avid Unsolved fan) this whole debacle really pulled back the curtain to reveal to me that these guys are in WAY over their head business-wise.

They're clearly hemorrhaging money. This streaming platform is just a bandage over a deep wound.

They're very creative but they need someone willing to make tough and informed financial choices. Yeah, no one wants to fire people but they're going to end up bankrupt and those people will be out of jobs regardless.

Watcher TV has maybe a year or two in it before their accounts are dry again.

[dontsearchformyaccount]

Me coming down after sleeping all day :

[evanpeterswifeyyy]

Officially made it to controversial status I think, chat.

Mission accomplished ig