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no i don’t think that was based on my likes actually

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Another @h2g2-gift-exchange pinch-hit, this time for @blueberry-shortbread, who wanted something about ford and arthur experiencing the cultural barrier that is one of you being an alien named after a car model, and the other being a tired englishman.

When your alien ends up in the impound yard oops

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im sick of signing in to things

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i made this meme 3 months ago knowing there would be no news since then and i was right

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don't want to be rude but your service is not important enough to me to justify two factor authentication. if someone steals my account I don't really care

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I'm not the biggest fan of the ending of Life, the Universe and Everything. Yes, Arthur settling down on Krikkit is conducive with his character but it's still greatly boring as the finale of such a fun trilogy of books.

So, here's my headcanon alternative: a month or two after Arthur is left on Krikkit, the HoG lands on the planet again because of improbability shenanigans. Ford goes down to Krikkit to take a shot at asking Arthur to come hitchhiking along with him, but it's Arthur who sprints towards the ship and begs to get on board again (he does decide to start hitchhiking on his own at some point before So Long And Thanks For All The Fish in the canon, so). And then Ford and Arthur start researching for the Guide together and they run into Zaphod and Trillian (+ Marvin) occasionally :)

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this isn't science, it's murder.

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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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Musicals are time loops. Every night, the same thing happens except for a few minor differences. It always ends the same. If you want the characters to do something different or to make better choices, too bad. The actors are bound by the script and the score. The only way for the time loop to end is for the show to close. But you (the audience) don't want the show to close, nor do the actors who would like to be employed. It's a lose/lose situation. For the actors, audience, technicians, and for the characters, who are forever stuck in the same stretch of time.

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gordon and alyx galloping and having so much fun and stuff because theyre horses and the combine does not exist.. and you have to ignore my poor anatomy. okay

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@h2g2-gift-exchange pinch-hit for @blue0909 who wanted something with Marvin and Random! Thought it would be fun to base this on one of the movie posters, she's taking after her dad.

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slightly losing my mind over this bookmark

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scientists are in labs right now creating the thinnest and worst material known to mankind so they can make women’s clothing

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2000 was almost 14 years ago 2000 was almost 14 years ago 2000 was almost 14 years ago

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Every now and then I think about new Vegas woke level and chuckle to myself

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quick Pauling doodle from the other day. She was the real Team Fortress 2 protagonist this whole time.

currently undergoing an art style crisis again for the nth time.