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I don't know I'm not done talking about it. It's insane that I can't just uninstall Edge or Copilot. That websites require my phone number to sign up. That people share their contacts to find their friends on social media.

I wouldn't use an adblocker if ads were just banners on the side funding a website I enjoy using and want to support. Ads pop up invasively and fill my whole screen, I misclick and get warped away to another page just for trying to read an article or get a recipe.

Every app shouldn't be like every other app. Instagram didn't need reels and a shop. TikTok doesn't need a store. Instagram doesn't need to be connected to Facebook. I don't want my apps to do everything, I want a hub for a specific thing, and I'll go to that place accordingly.

I love discord, but so much information gets lost to it. I don't want to join to view things. I want to lurk on forums. I want to be a user who can log in and join a conversation by replying to a thread, even if that conversation was two days ago. I know discord has threads, it's not the same. I don't want to have to verify my account with a phone number. I understand safety and digital concerns, but I'm concerned about information like that with leaks everywhere, even with password managers.

I shouldn't have to pay subscriptions to use services and get locked out of old versions. My old disk copy of photoshop should work. I should want to upgrade eventually because I like photoshop and supporting the business. Adobe is a whole other can of worms here.

Streaming is so splintered across everything. Shows release so fast. Things don't get physical releases. I can't stream a movie I own digitally to friends because the share-screen blocks it, even though I own two digital copies, even though I own a physical copy.

I have an iPod, and I had to install a third party OS to easily put my music on it without having to tangle with iTunes. Spotify bricked hardware I purchased because they were unwillingly to upkeep it. They don't pay their artists. iTunes isn't even iTunes anymore and Apple struggles to upkeep it.

My TV shows me ads on the home screen. My dad lost access to eBook he purchased because they were digital and got revoked by the company distributing them. Hitman 1-3 only runs online most of the time. Flash died and is staying alive because people love it and made efforts to keep it up.

I have to click "not now" and can't click "no". I don't just get emails, they want to text me to purchase things online too. My windows start search bar searches online, not just my computer. Everything is blindly called an app now. Everything wants me to upload to the cloud. These are good tools! But why am I forced to use them! Why am I not allowed to own or control them?

No more!!!!! I love my iPod with so much storage and FLAC files. I love having all my fics on my harddrive. I love having USBs and backups. I love running scripts to gut suck stuff out of my Windows computer I don't want that spies on me. I love having forums. I love sending letters. I love neocities and webpages and webrings. I will not be scanning QR codes. Please hand me a physical menu. If I didn't need a smartphone for work I'd get a "dumb" phone so fast. I want things to have buttons. I want to use a mouse. I want replaceable batteries. I want the right to repair. I grew up online and I won't forget how it was!

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"What was Christ's most powerful spell?" and other questions, all explored today in an all-new Adventuring Party, out now on Dropout!

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Do you think Heisei King Ghidorah was a tragic victim?

I suppose so, though his side of the story isn't focused on very much - he's more of a tool for others to use than a character in his own right.

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Far worse, in my opinion, than the famous “he wouldn’t fucking say that” is “he WOULD fucking say that, as part of his facade, but you seem to think he would mean it genuinely”

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Yes we've all heard the Seinfeld bit about how tops are the best part of the muffin, but in reality you can't get topped unless you bottom first.

Listen, there's a procedure for eating a muffin/cupcake, ok? You eat its ass first, then as a rewards, you get topped.

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Listen, there's a procedure for eating a muffin/cupcake, ok? You eat its ass first, then as a rewards, you get topped.

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At Sea Without a Map pt. 36

(Funny story - this poll was at a tie when I drew the illustrations for this update. Actually, it was at two ties - East and West were tied for first, South and North tied for second. It's shifted slightly since, but it's still close enough where I don't feel the need to do a last minute re-illustration - closest we've come to a major late game change in the polls, though!)

Climbing back into the captain's cabin of the boat, you grab the steering wheel and will the boat to push forward while jerking the wheel to the right and left, hoping that you can loosen the sand enough for your boat to pull free. The sound of water splashing around your ship's hull and sand grinding and spluttering beneath it fills the air, but you don't seem to make much progress.

"Is it working?" Calibani asks.

You shake your head. "Maybe if I keep at it..."

Calibani sighs. "I wish I could help, but I don't know much about boats."

"It's ok," you tell her, before a rather stupid thought occurs to you. "Heh, it's funny, but there is one surefire way to free the boat."

"Hmm? What's that?"

"We just wake up the monster," you say. "I could lay my hand on the horn here and-" As you jokingly touch the horn, you realize a second too late that you placed your hand on it with a bit too much force, and immediately a loud foghorn roar blares out from your ship.

The island answers in kind.

You feel the bellow of the island monster before your ears hear it, and it shakes you to your core as the far side of the island shifts and slowly curls upward as the beast below raises its enormous head.

As sand sloughs off of the beast, you take note of its scaly, yellow-y tan hide, its pronounced snaggletooth grin, and its red, slit-pupiled eyes. It seems to be some sort of very enormous crocodile, and as it shakes off the sand that just a moment ago completely covered its head, the reptile turns to glare at you with its blood-red eyes.

Perhaps now is a good time to consult your compass.

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big fan of when some edgelord isolates himself from the world hiding in his menacing magical castle, only for his future love interest to ram down the doors like YO BITCH! i live here now

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I just like drawing her

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Chappell Roan could beat the shit out of a paparazzi Björk style and I’d still side with her

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I feel like Tumblr is sleeping on Lou Wilson and I won't stand for it. Look a this beautiful, hilarious man. LOOK AT HIM.

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At Sea Without a Map pt. 36

(Funny story - this poll was at a tie when I drew the illustrations for this update. Actually, it was at two ties - East and West were tied for first, South and North tied for second. It's shifted slightly since, but it's still close enough where I don't feel the need to do a last minute re-illustration - closest we've come to a major late game change in the polls, though!)

Climbing back into the captain's cabin of the boat, you grab the steering wheel and will the boat to push forward while jerking the wheel to the right and left, hoping that you can loosen the sand enough for your boat to pull free. The sound of water splashing around your ship's hull and sand grinding and spluttering beneath it fills the air, but you don't seem to make much progress.

"Is it working?" Calibani asks.

You shake your head. "Maybe if I keep at it..."

Calibani sighs. "I wish I could help, but I don't know much about boats."

"It's ok," you tell her, before a rather stupid thought occurs to you. "Heh, it's funny, but there is one surefire way to free the boat."

"Hmm? What's that?"

"We just wake up the monster," you say. "I could lay my hand on the horn here and-" As you jokingly touch the horn, you realize a second too late that you placed your hand on it with a bit too much force, and immediately a loud foghorn roar blares out from your ship.

The island answers in kind.

You feel the bellow of the island monster before your ears hear it, and it shakes you to your core as the far side of the island shifts and slowly curls upward as the beast below raises its enormous head.

As sand sloughs off of the beast, you take note of its scaly, yellow-y tan hide, its pronounced snaggletooth grin, and its red, slit-pupiled eyes. It seems to be some sort of very enormous crocodile, and as it shakes off the sand that just a moment ago completely covered its head, the reptile turns to glare at you with its blood-red eyes.

Perhaps now is a good time to consult your compass.

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...jesus christ

Hi! The "always chaotic evil" trope is often fraught with unfortunate implications because of the history of treating certain groups of people as inherently bad, and what happens when society acts on the belief that some people are born bad because of their race.

However, do you think the trope could actually work with the right writing? In the anime "Frieren", demons are a humanoid monster race that are good at mimicking human emotions which they use to manipulate, yet don't really feel them which makes them incompatible with human morality.

One demon was obsessed with understanding humanity and befriended a human village, acting as its protector for some centuries, then turned all the inhabitants into gold just to check if he would feel anything, but didn't to his great disappointment.

In this setting the concept of an inherent "evil" race is used to explore tragedy by having some demons have enough free will to desire human connection, but too alien to have it, rather than just being there for the heroes to kill without remorse.

Speaking personally as both a consumer and writer of stories, no, I don't think the Always Chaotic Evil trope can ever be done well - at least, not by my subjective standards of what makes a good story. There is not a single story I've seen that employs it that I don't think would be better by being more nuanced. Even ones that are meant to be simple so children can understand them - in fact, especially the ones that are meant to be simple so children can understand them.

If we get out of my personal subjective opinion, one could argue that Always Chaotic Evil works very well as a trope, in that there are SO many stories that employ it which resonated with audiences and are fondly remembered. I would personally argue that at best those stories resonate in spite of using it, and at worst they resonant with audiences for all the reasons I would NOT want a story to resonant with them, i.e. by appealing to the most selfish and cruel parts of human nature, but that is just my opinion.

I have no interest in rehabilitating/fixing the Always Chaotic Evil trope. I would much prefer to take it behind the woodshed, blow its brains out, throw its corpse in a deep pit, and fill that pit with concrete so no one can find the body.

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finally how to train your dragon can shed its childish character design and lighting and evolve to instead have the bold and engaging art direction of a car insurance ad

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finally how to train your dragon can shed its childish character design and lighting and evolve to instead have the bold and engaging art direction of a car insurance ad

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NEW !!! SNAKE DISCOVERED

ITS CALLED THE LIMESTONE EYELASH PIT VIPER. THAT iS SO CUTE. ITS SO PRETTY

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so ummm welcome to my jar:) lemme show you around! theres some holes poked in the top so i can breathe, theres some leaves to munch on, and ive even got a twig! #mytwig