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new hbomberguy

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First base is violence second base is convoluted codependence third base is applying pressure to the vulnerable parts of their body to keep their entrails from spilling out

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this guy gets it

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People are really out there having discourse over whether Samus Aran has an innie or an outie. Pal, after all the fucked up alien genetic engineering and hybridisation with eldritch abominations and what have you that she's been through, whatever she's got going on downstairs probably has teeth.

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I had no idea who you were until now, I literally thought you were like only a tumblr man, but no you are much much more. And I don’t know wether that disappoints me or not

Every single person on Tumblr is something else out in the world. I am no exception.

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I reblogged this plain and then realised I had something useful to add:

Having taught a lot of zoomers in undergraduate courses the past few years, honestly, a lot of them just... have not ever been taught how computers work.

I have more than once pulled up task manager on a student’s computer because they said it was slow and thought it was broken, and they thought I was doing some kind of wizardry. They had no idea what a CPU was, or what RAM was, or that the computer had physical limits based on internal components.

The worst case I’ve seen, the student had over 50 instances of Chrome open, over 600 tabs, two separate concurrently running instances of the native Netflix app running different shows that were paused in place, over 40 Word documents, and half a dozen Excel spreadsheets for different classes. Plus dozens of PDFs in Adobe, chat programs, and other things beside.

Their CPU was at 100%, their RAM was at 100%, and their computer temperatures were at “actually melting inside” levels. They thought these things were normal, because they had never been taught what they were.

None of this is their fault! But it is a problem.

Somewhere between my generation going through school in the 90s and 2000s and zoomers going through in the 2000s and 2010s, we just collectively stopped teaching people how shit works.

No one is torrenting because they don’t know how to tell when something is wrong with their computer to begin with, so they’re utterly terrified of anything that will increase the risk that things go wrong.

Why don't zoomers use emulators or torrent things anymore? A good amount of zoomers could probably figure it out with time but people either just buy digital games or use pirate streaming sites.

I think there's a certain technical knowledge gap between people whose first computer was a Windows XP machine and people whose first computer was an iPad. On a mobile device like that, even the filesystem is abstracted away from you, so if that's all you've used your whole life, you may not know what a "folder" or a "file" is. If you don't know what those are, how could you be expected to understand something like torrenting? Then add the layer of a VPN, which is basically a necessity when torrenting lest you get a love letter from your ISP, and I'd say it's all but impenetrable for our strawman.

Idk man. Torrenting isn't hard, but there's a barrier to entry that a lot of people who grew up using smartphones aren't equipped to handle. There are plenty of millenials who don't know how to torrent either, and plenty of zoomers who do. It's just a technological generation gap.

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Why don't zoomers use emulators or torrent things anymore? A good amount of zoomers could probably figure it out with time but people either just buy digital games or use pirate streaming sites.

I think there's a certain technical knowledge gap between people whose first computer was a Windows XP machine and people whose first computer was an iPad. On a mobile device like that, even the filesystem is abstracted away from you, so if that's all you've used your whole life, you may not know what a "folder" or a "file" is. If you don't know what those are, how could you be expected to understand something like torrenting? Then add the layer of a VPN, which is basically a necessity when torrenting lest you get a love letter from your ISP, and I'd say it's all but impenetrable for our strawman.

Idk man. Torrenting isn't hard, but there's a barrier to entry that a lot of people who grew up using smartphones aren't equipped to handle. There are plenty of millenials who don't know how to torrent either, and plenty of zoomers who do. It's just a technological generation gap.

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saw someone using /pos as a tone indicator the other day as if i wasnt going to read that as piece of shit. which did not bring a very /positive tone to their message ill be honest

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continuum (2012) CANADIAN SCI-FI

This show is great. I watched it in 2017. And i have no idea why there are almost no people talking about it. If you didn't watch it do it.it might be a little slow in the beginning but it's still great. Just. Nice.

There is time travel (from 2077 to 2012), good-to-bad and bad-that-looks-like-good and good-that-is-actually-not, dystopia, subtle details about the future, not subtle details of future, VERY interesting change of view on what is the 'bad' side and what is the 'good' one, and then there are just no sides at all, just people. AND ALSO THE BAD GUY SENDS PEOPLE BACK IN TIME TO FIX THE MESS HE'S DONE. Very cool.

By the way the main character doubting her side. 10000/10. Just watch it.

Created by Simon Barry. Starring: Rachel Nichols, Victor Webster, Erik Knudsen, Stephen Lobo, Roger Cross, Lexa Doig, Tony Amendola, Omari Newton, Luvia Petersen, Jennifer Spence, Brian Markinson, Ryan Robbins.

#this show is why at least a few of you still on here are following me lol #hi again folks #continuum #good show is good

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people who can graciously hide that they don’t like people are so terrifying. last year while working on tech for a play i asked my friend how he became friends with another guy on the crew and he got quiet, looked straight into my soul and said “he’s not my friend. i fucking hate him.” i lost 5 years of my life

#seriously people it's called being professional #the people who can't do this end up in prisons

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... why does tumblr suddenly look like twitter’s layout

why

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can you draw something for me to masturbate to

sure

good luck!

#perfect

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there’s something incredible and endearing about the fact that somehow

despite the past decade of obvious clusterfucks

tumblr abides

#it's still a complete mess #yet somehow still more functional than every other platform lately #or at least less evil #hilarious that search has been garbage since launch though

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remember when people thought Yahoo losing 99% of their investment on Tumblr when they sold it was funny?

Elon has lost more than 30x as much money while only losing ~68% of his.

He can still lose more.

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#my hair became infinitely more manageable once it got long enough to put it all in a ponytail at once without having any fuckery or flyaways #mid-length hair is bad

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#jesus fucking christ #the fact that people like this still exist in the world is bewildering #dudes: if you can't cook no one is going to want to live with you #learning to cook will get you dates! and relationships! and stability and friends! #stop being a freeloading fuckwit!