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sarcasticgaypotato · 4 days

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I regret to inform you that Discord's new Terms of Service includes an arbitration clause. You can find it here https://discord.com/terms/#16. This clause includes an opt-out, which I have transcribed here:

You can decline this agreement to arbitrate by emailing an opt-out notice to [email protected] within 30 days of April 15, 2024 or when you first register your Discord account, whichever is later; otherwise, you shall be bound to arbitrate disputes in accordance with the terms of these paragraphs. If you opt out of these arbitration provisions, Discord also will not be bound by them.

These clauses are underhanded ways that corporations seek to deprive you of your right to participate in class-action lawsuits and your right to a jury trial. (This does only apply to us users ,other people still spread the word though )

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sarcasticgaypotato · 11 days

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ENTANGLEMENT | Part I, Chapter I A Portal/Half Life Universe Fic from Chell's Perspective Rating: Explicit Overall Word Count: 10,730 Chapters: 1/20 Where to Read: AO3 | Google Drive | // ?UN?/KN@?#WN SYNOPSIS

Location Unknown, Michigan, USA. Aperture released her, set her free. That ought to have been the end of it. But cast out into a world rendered unrecognizable after a mass extinction level event, Chell is forced to fend for herself, navigating a war-torn world in the aftermath of the seven hour war that devastated the states in a bygone era. Mere days into her newfound experience on the surface, Chell finds bizarre technology inside a Michigan radio tower, discovering that the same interdimensional forces that started the war were still around, scouring the area in search of technology from the facility she hoped to never see again — Aperture Science. With no choice but to go back to the facility to deliver a dire warning, Chell tightropes on the cusp of two worlds, unaware of the consequences of pursuing the past and surviving an uncertain future alongside an unlikely ally.

It's finally here!! A former roleplay thread with @sarcasticgaypotato turned novel, this story follows the events of Half Life 2: Episode 2, and is an inspired continuation of the ending of Half Life: Alyx from the perspective of everyone's favorite Aperture-dwelling characters. Chell, whose mission is to protect Aperture technology from getting in the hands of the Combine, must also act as GLaDOS's protector and keep her safe. GLaDOS, on the other hand, has to figure out the complicated ways of the world from a new perspective - literally. This story is friendly to those who don't know Half-Life lore, and a treat for those who do! This story is a close-to-canon survival novel fic with ChellDOS as a major focus. Full of survival, interactive elements, complicated feelings, and a beautiful slow burn robot/human love story. <3

#boosting tf out of this #go check this fic out!#it's been years in the making (Especially if you count the og thread)#and I am so so so proud of how it's come #I can take only a tiny fraction of credit for that #so give lots of love to my wonderful friend #fantastic author (who's getting some fantastic help if I do say so myself ;3) who deserves all the support on this fic #if you're looking for some good portal fic to sink your teeth into #and even better some good chelldos fic #it's finally here #if you know me you know how rare it is for me to give a fic my blessing #I am notoriously picky #even some popular portal fics get the thumbs down from me #so if I'm recommending something it CAN'T be for no reason #you MUST deserve it

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sarcasticgaypotato · 20 days

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cartoon kiss sound effect dot wav

#oooughghhh so cute

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sarcasticgaypotato · 20 days

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From Darkness - DND Song: Misery Fell by Tally Hall

(CW: Thematic Violence and Blood)

A project a year and a half in the making, this animatic features the first three sessions of the campaign I am currently a player in! A huge shout out to @oracle-of-space (my DM) and @cosmos-collector (the other PC), both folks I am truly honored to be in a campaign with! Y'all make me love this world and this story more and more each day. Thank you for letting me be a part of it!

The main four characters shown are: - Einar (DMPC): Aasimar Bard/Warlock, brown hair - Hyssop (My PC): Earth Genasi Druid, green hair - Wyverlis (Other PC): Human Paladin, blue hair - Keegan (NPC): Drow Fighter, white hair - Along with a slew of other characters and easter eggs from the campaign!

#SO COOL!!!!#friend art

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sarcasticgaypotato · 24 days

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Pray to Saint Chell whenever electronics in your life are acting up and need to be reminded to work as intended or else face the consequences

#portal #chell #I regularly fight with technology #which is some kind of irony for someone who writes glados #this is payback for all the things I've done to her

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sarcasticgaypotato · 2 months

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“It was so peaceful compared to the stressed environment of the school inside that it began to lull her mind into a dazed state. She knew that staying out in below freezing temperatures wasn’t good, but at this point with how exhausted she was, Chell didn’t care.”

-Years of Science, Chapter 7, “Ice”

Been a while since I did some fic fanart, so here’s a scene that really stuck with me from @the-dangerous-mute-lunatic’s fic, Years of Science! A really fun portal AU fic you should totally check out if you haven’t already. I’ve been rereading it lately and it’s SO GOOD.

#EYYYY!!

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sarcasticgaypotato · 2 months

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just learned that a mutual of mine is pro israel (they’re now blocked) so i wanted to take the time to say that if you believe what’s happening in palestine is not a genocide than you are not welcome here. unfollow me block me whatever i don’t want you interacting with me at all

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sarcasticgaypotato · 2 months

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HOW TO TURN OFF THIRD PARTY SHARING ON MOBILE

bcs ive seen some people say it's desktop only/they can't figure it out on mobile

1. update your app, sorry about this one

2. go to your settings menu

3. scroll all the way down to the bottom and go to "visibility"

4. turn off the bottom option "prevent third party sharing"

DEATH TO AI ART

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sarcasticgaypotato · 2 months

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What is this about the tumblr staff wanting to sell art data to midjourney?

An ex-colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that there may be contacts between Automattic and midjourney in that direction, but nothing is public yet and I don't have any more info. They probably won't have anything specific to share either, since they left the company weeks ago too. That being said:

I have no reason to doubt my ex-coworker word, they are a trustworthy person.

Tumblr's CEO has been absurdly enthusiastic (comically, even) about AI, and is a big fan of LLMs and 'AI' companies.

A deal with midjourney could solve tumblr financial issues (not the same company, but openAi is paying up to 5 million/year to news companies to use their content as training data... tumblr generates several orders of magnitude more content than any newspaper or any media company and it only would need a 20 to 30 million per year deal to be profitable)

So I don't have any extra info yet, but I'm keeping my ears open.

#uncertain if this is actually going to happen #but a good practice nonetheless

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sarcasticgaypotato · 3 months

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT. DON'T LOOK AWAY.

Dec. 12, 2023: Biden describes Israel's military conduct as "indiscriminate bombing" (Source: Associated Press) Dec. 21, 2023: NYT Investigation confirms Israel "routinely" bombs "areas it designated safe for civilians" (Source: NYT)

Dec. 29, 2023: Despite the well-documented war crimes against Palestinians and the humanitarian catastrophe inflicted by Israel ... *the US sends more weapons*

(Source: Associated Press)

This is not defense, this is not justice, this is an affront to international law. Palestinians are being decimated at this very moment. ISRAEL MUST STOP THE CARNAGE. THE U.S. MUST STOP THE COMPLICITY. I haven't seen Palestinians or Gaza trending on Tumblr for the past several days — we can't lose momentum. DON'T LOOK AWAY. KEEP UP PUBLIC PRESSURE. PUSH FOR PEACE.

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sarcasticgaypotato · 4 months

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Chell and GLaDOS make a gingerbread house!! It is... going... well???

@portal-secret-santa gift for @im-glad-for-chell! I saw your GLaDOS android design, and really liked it! so I tried to incorporate it into the drawings! I hope you like it!!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everybody!!

(I got the recipe from here btw)

#this is very cute

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sarcasticgaypotato · 4 months

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tell me about chell, that potato hauling criminal

Chell is such a fascinating character to talk about because she, even more so than Caroline, isn't a character... but she absolutely is, at the same time.

On the surface, Chell is simply a player stand-in. She's silent, her actions are decided by the player, and we never get the game telling us outright how she feels or what she thinks. The closest we get to a backstory comes from an Easter Egg (which I've already said I don't necessarily consider canon) and insults made at the player's expense. Insults that, for all we know, are completely baseless.

Chell can reasonably be whatever the player decides she is. (If she's like me, she's actually terrible at tests and fails at puzzles repeatedly before giving up and googling the answers.) Your Chell could be compassionate towards the robots— trusting Wheatley right off the bat and being torn up by his betrayal, forgiving PotaDOS and working together easily— or your Chell could be a silent, bitter, furious killing machine, craving robotic blood and hating every second she's stuck in this hellhole. Neither Chell is technically wrong, but neither is right either.

There's a lot that could be said about the personal projecting that people often do to their favorite characters in fandom, especially with characters as open-ended as Chell, but that's an entirely different can of worms. TL;DR If it makes you happy to picture a character as being like you, go for it. It might not be my cup of tea, but you're not asking me to drink it, so who cares?

All that rambling out of the way, who do I think Chell is?

I think Chell has more character than first glance would give her credit for. We can learn a lot from what actions the game's story forces her to complete and how other characters react to her, ultimately giving us a lot more to work with than Caroline.

Chell is intelligent. If you complete the games (even if you're terrible like I am), you've completed complicated tests and outsmarted a robot that nobody else has survived before. She has a logical brain for solving puzzles as well as a quick wit for thinking on her feet and getting through life or death situations. Chell might have some internal damage from her time in stasis, but she's not slow.

Chell is tenacious and stubborn as all hell. Canon material tells us this outright, I don't need to elaborate much. Chell refuses to be kept in Aperture against her will, she refuses to stay down, and she was willing to risk dying in space just to beat Wheatley. Our girl can hold a grudge if she wants to.

Chell is a little bit of a shit. There's an achievement for breaking all of Wheatley's monitors. Chell doesn't have to do that... but she can, and I think she does. Her jumping when told to say certain words? She's playing dumb knowing Wheatley's not going to get that she's making fun of him.

Chell is fair. She held up her end of the deal with Wheatley, he didn't hold up his, so he learned his lesson. GLaDOS saves her life, even when she didn't have to, and held up her end of the deal? Chell leaves Aperture without a fuss. She doesn't try to kill GLaDOS again or wreck shit on her way out. I believe that Chell's respect is hard to win back once you've lost it, but with the events of Portal 2, GLaDOS succeeded. Chell is perfectly willing to work alongside a partner, and in fact she does so quite well as we've seen, but only if they give her the respect she deserves. If you cheat her you are going to regret it.

Finally, concerning the 'mute' part of our favorite dangerous mute lunatic; I personally am in the camp of 'Chell can speak, she just doesn't want to give the robots the satisfaction.'

There are out-of-universe reasons for Chell not talking. Erik Wolpaw actually talks about the decision to keep her silent in the Kotaku article "Why Chell Doesn't Speak" and I'd recommend hearing what he had to say on the matter. However, that explanation doesn't necessarily need to dictate in-universe ones. I think Chell can speak because frankly, it checks out with the other observations I've made here.

She's a bit of a shit, so yeah, if she noticed it bothers the robots that she's not talking, of course she'd keep it up to annoy them, and she's stubborn enough to keep at it even when she's allied with one of them. Further, she's smart, so she would know that she has very little control in a place like Aperture. This is one thing she has complete control over, this is one card she can hold over everyone else, and she's going to keep it.

All that combines to become my Chell. She's probably different from your Chell, and that's okay, but I think I've made a pretty good case for why I see her the way I do.

I could spin potential backstories for her, but they'd all be very headcanon and speculative, so I'll save that for another time.

#chell #portal 2 #portal #I'm so sorry this took so long #nanowrimo was a lot

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sarcasticgaypotato · 4 months

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Writing about Chell finally and as expected it is way too long. Sorry guys get ready for a rambling mess all over again—

#portal #portal 2 #chell #who would've thought #I have big feelings about my favorite lunatic

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sarcasticgaypotato · 4 months

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Anon back again from the ask if "youre the writer on ao3"

did some research. scrolled through some posts

And let's just say i feel very very stupid now

anyways, i love your work! and no need to answer that ask anymore :)

Anon you have no idea how delighted I was to receive your message— genuinely got such a good chuckle out of it, thank you so much.

I'm so glad you enjoyed my stories! Bringing people joy is one of the best parts of writing stories, so I love hearing when people enjoyed them— it means I'm doing my job right!

#portal #I know it takes me ten thousand years to write now #but I am still around and still get inspired by messages like this

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sarcasticgaypotato · 5 months

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