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#alternative to the reddit thing is to get in a discord group with people who know about thing you want to know about and asking them #i spent like 30 minutes searching for a particular gif but then I asked a discord and they supplied the exact gif in under a minute #re🅱️log

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house centipede is a beautiful name for a baby girl

#shitpost #shitposting

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I love when arthropods have a pseudopupil. It's so whimsical and cute, and they come in so many varieties!!

little kitty cat eyes!!!

bombastic side eyes!!!!

cartoon character eyes!!!!

bigass anime eyes!!!!!

BE NOT AFRAID eyes!!!!!

#obligatory mantis reblog #re🅱️log

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let’s groove tonight, share the spice of life

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There's a bunch of adhd advice out there that's like "people with adhd tend to work better under deadlines due to the anxiety so here are ways to artificially induce a stress response in order to get you to get work done" and it's like well what if I don't want to be stressed out all the time in order to function

#I uh #I don't think I've seen a post that has summed up my mental experience quite like this one #I'm beginning more and more to suspect that I should get tested for ADHD or autism or something #but I know tests/evaluations for that kind of thing is hard to come by for adults #but man! if there were some prescription drugs that could make my brain act like a productive brain that would be great #re🅱️log

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Bejeweled Twist might actually be the best video game ever made

#shitpost #shitposting #I'm only like 40% ironic rn #bejeweled #bejeweled Twist

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#who's sitting next to a create a character #re🅱️log

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2006

#re🅱️log #!!!!

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setting my Sunbeam Mixmaster Power Plus stand mixer to "Apocalypse" and locking you inside the kitchen

#shitpost #shitposting #Sunbeam #mixmaster #stand mixer

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love when software gives me vague errors without any error code, makes it REALLY EASY to diagnose and solve

#tech #software #error #error code #Android just gave me “Can't Open File” #and that's all it says #“but but error codes scare common users and they look ugly!” #ohhh scary it's a string of numbers shut up #id rather have to use command prompt for everything then live in a world where useful things are removed for the sake of “beauty” #maybe I'm just making a guy to get mad at here but I can't imagine any other reason for this

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I spy, with my little eye, a photo that was faked by an AI image generator! Can you spot the clues?

FB is turning into a parade of fake AI images churned out by click-farming pages. More misinformation is on the way. Learn some tricks for spotting AI photos!

#re🅱️log #this is a good skill to have even before ai got like this #Photoshop fakes go around all the time #I try to just keep it in the back of my head that what I'm seeing could very well be fake #makes me feel more observant

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Mario

#shitpost #shitposting #Mario #Mario 64 #super Mario

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sometimes the confetti that falls when you submit an assignment in canvas is the only thing keeping me going

#shitpost #shitposting #canvas #college #assignment

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TL;DR: Steam just made library sharing so much fucking easier and so much fucking better. Instead of login-trading, it's just a simple goddamn invite.

Read this. Really. It's a good read. Because it shows that, full-stop, Valve isn't just doubling down on their stance to make sure that people can and should be able to share their copies of digital goods as easily as they can physical ones, but they're making it better and easier than ever.

But you know how Steam allowed you to, with either friends or family, link accounts with another person to be able to establish an ability to share game libraries with one another? The general gist of Steam Family Sharing was that, with a limit of five people plus you (six in total) on a limit of ten computers total could share account access to willingly mix your libraries. You could play theirs. They could play yours.

This was a huge boon. It was meant to emulate sharing a physical copy of a game. A way to allow children to play games their parents or siblings had bought without having to fork over double the cash to buy it a second game. But it had some major limitations and drawbacks, and was archaic to use.

If a person did not share the same computer, you had to manually log into that computer to give it and the accounts on it access. This wouldn't be a problem if both accounts were used on the same computer, but many households (and astronomically more family and friend groups) had multiple computers, all used by different people.

If that computer, at any point, was hard reset to any point before the sharing occurred, you lost access. And had to do the whole process again. This was also an issue with computer transfers. The whole kit and kaboodle needed to be redone on upgrades. On top of that, the old computer is now just dead weight that you may not realize you have to manually revoke access to.

Putting your account information on another person's computer opens up security issues. They could, intentionally or accidentally, land themselves on your account if the login information was stored. Which could easily lead to purchases or bans you did not want to happen.

If anyone was, at any point, playing any game on their own library, you had no access to their games. Even if it was a totally different game, you had to wait your turn as if waiting for their computer to be freed up to sit at. (Admittedly this is kind of like the "mom said it's my turn on the xbox" meme, but hey, kinda archaic.)

You could not choose whose library you accessed a game from. Not at all. It always prioritized the first library it gained access from, DLC access and multiplayer be damned. If another friend you were accepting games from had more DLC? Too bad.

And yet here we are. Steam Families Beta fixes EVERYTHING about the above issues. By just going through Settings > Interface > client Beta Participation and clicking onto Steam Families Beta? You get:

No more login sharing. No more computer links. You can now choose which person's library you borrowed from. And you can play any other game from someone's library, even while they're in-game. It just needs to be a different game than what they're playing.

Pick five people. Invite them to your family. And now everyone has access to everyone's library. My goddamn library went from 150-ish to almost a goddamn thousand in ten minutes of setup.

Account sharing and password sharing are dirty words that "lose" billions of dollars. Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Max. They aren't game storefronts, but they still allow you to access massive libraries and scream like you murdered their firstborns for daring to share your password with your mother after you moved out.

Microsoft tried pushing to demonize and undercut used games sales and borrowed copies of physical games. Remember the first attempt to reveal the Xbox One? People forget, but these vultures tried to make an always online console that checked to see if you were the account that owned the game, even if you had a physical disc, and prevent access to the disc's contents if you weren't the original downloader.

Valve walked the fuck up. Valve tapped the mic. And Valve dropped the fucking thing right onto the ground with one feature's revamp.

About the only issues I can see with this are twofold:

If someone sharing your library gets banned from a game's servers... so do you. No one else in the family does, but the both of you do. This is... rather unpleasant, because banhammers can be dropped quite frequently by mistake. I'd urge Valve to rethink this one, but I see the logic: don't cheat and effectively bite the hand feeding you. Still making me side-eye that, though.

If you leave a family you've joined? You have to wait a YEAR to join a new one. It's to prevent people form jumping ship to another group and screwing over who's in the former one in the process, but a YEAR? OUCH.

Problems aside, though... it's probably the biggest fucking power move I have ever seen a media distributor make in the current economic climate. It's the kind of thing that would let so many new games be available in a way that's easier than ever. Just a few clicks to send or accept an invite, and bam. Permanent access to dozens or even hundreds of new games with so much more freedom than earlier drafts of the system.

It's the kind of thing that slaps you in the face with positivity after so many Ls from the games and media industries. And I'm all the fuck for a W like this.

#re🅱️log #valve surprising me yet again

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This is such a skill

#re🅱️log #voice actors are so cool #I wonder if they get tired of doing certain voices that are in high demand

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PROXIMITY WARNING

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Windows 7

Windows 7 is the next release of Microsoft Windows, an operating system produced by Microsoft.

Windows 7 is intended to be an incremental upgrade with the goal of being fully compatible with existing device drivers, applications, and hardware

#last good windows #and my favorite #if I could still use it for everything #I would #re🅱️log