#I'm free!!!

[sincerelyyoursg]

the feeling of no longer feeling headache after you take a painkiller >>>

#i'm free!!! #thinking thoughts <3 #text post

[my-t4t-romance]

GUESS WHO FINALLY CONVINCED HIS PARENTS TO LET HIM DELETE A MASSIVELY BATTERY-DRAINING, CONSTANTLY-MALFUNCTIONING PARENTAL CONTROLS VPN THAT HAD BEEN ON HIS PHONE FOR ≥6 YEARS!!!!!

#I am a WHOLE ADULT & it STILL took negotiating with my parents that I'll pursue Life Goals for this basic freedom but this is still a Win #TIL that whenever I told my parents what a dysfunctional battery-drain qustodio is mom assumed I was lying to convince her to get rid of it #or at the very least greatly exaggerating. but nope it was really that shitty (and really easy to work around) #that shit used to delete all apps except factory default EVERY NIGHT & return them to the home screen in the morning completely disorganized #it also blocked any websites or apps my parents hadn't whitelisted and imposed time limits on the ones they had #all this time I've had to use tumblr by turning the vpn off every minute or so when it automatically switches back on. hellish #even now I keep habitually checking if it's on before I hit post to make sure my typing won't just be lost #another perk is that I don't have to worry about my parents seeing every website I go to or search term I search #they can still see all my texts and get notifications when I text a number they haven't approved but who cares lol #I'm free!!! #mossy’s musings

[plupatredis]

#ffxiv #ffxiv gpose #ffxiv mount #ffxiv fylgja #plu patredis #done with pvp series for now #i'm FREE!!!

[popchoc]

Any thoughts on Station19?

On this week's ep? I haven't seen it yet. Work's been crazy busy, and now that I'm done the sun is out. And when it sets I can think of at least two shows that interest me about ten times more (I believe The Wilds is up as of today, and fellow dutchies: how entertaining is De Verraders this season?!).

Oh Shondaland, how your glory days are over...

#ask #station 19 #i'm free #i'm free!!!

[inktail]

reblog for the most chaos PC we can manage

#it is over; i am free #jk this has been a constant source of joy all week and I'm going to miss it

[elizabro]

aaron bushnell knew exactly what he was doing. he states his intentions with total lucidity and sense of purpose. he knows what he's about to do is extreme--he says so. he speaks calmly, but he's clearly terrified. he takes a deep breath after pouring the accelerant over himself. he has to psyche himself up to light the flame. he struggles with the lighter. he says "free palestine" normally once before he starts to scream it. even through his agony he manages to say it one last time before he stops being able to speak at all. this is a man with total conviction. he wanted to help people, in any way possible. this action was a moral one, and any news outlet painting this as simply a mental health issue is a disservice to his memory. he knew what he was doing when he burned himself in uniform. he knew that there was a chance that sacrificing his own life could go on to save many others. this was the ultimate act of selflessness, and it should be treated as such. may he rest in peace.

#death tw #aaron bushnell #I know I'm not adding anything to the conversation. but I watched the uncensored version of the footage and it won't ever leave my mind. #I do caution anyone who decides to watch the video blurred or not. his screams are not something easily forgotten #free palestine

[wearenotjustnumbers2]

Reminder that Palestinians in Gaza are being deliberately starved by Israel. Families in gaza are boiling plant leaves and eating them. They're also eating animals and birds food to stay alive. There are reported cases of kids and infants who died out of hunger and/ or cold. Starving people is part of genocide too. Remember how fast medicine was provided for the Israeli hostages, while Palestinians are starving for food and water and getting operations and amputations performed with no medication or anesthesia whatsoever.

#now before anyone says anything i think it's important that hostages get their medicine but i also think Palestinians should too #israel is fully capable of providing medication and food but chooses not to and that's what I'm talking about #palestine #gaza #israel #important #current events #free palestine #ethnic cleansing #free gaza #gaza strip #gaza under attack

[hell0mega]

people are drawing Steamboat Willie Mickey doing all this crazy shit and whatnot, but you could always do that. you can do that now, with current Mickey, just fine. it's fanart and it's legally protected. hell you could take Disney-drawn Mickey and put a caption about unions or whatever on it and it would still be protected under free speech and sometimes even parody law.

what is special about public domain is that you can SELL him. you could take a screenshot and sell it on a tshirt. you can use him to advertise your plumbing business. people have already uploaded and monetized the original film.

you could always have Mickey say what you want, but now you can profit off it.

#steamboat willie #Mickey mouse #Disney #public domain #you can't trademark him as like a logo or mascot of your plumbing business i just mean like #you can slap him in your commercial or side of the van #i just have seen soooo many people make ORIGINAL art of him and I'm like #no that's not the point!! you can already do that!!! #(obvs if it's a comic or something talking about him being free or whatever then yeah like i get it) #(but those people who put him as a fighter in their game?? Quinton reviews uploading the original video?? boss shit) #(THAT'S what it's about)

[feluka]

[ID: A video recording of Bisan Owda, filming herself standing still and speaking in front of a car underneath the morning sky in Gaza, with the sun visible above her head. Loud sirens can be heard around her as she says:

"Hey, everyone. This is Bisan from Gaza. We're still alive, and we wish you a merry Christmas in the Christmas eve. Wish you a merry Christmas despite the churches of Gaza are closed, full of displaced people, and surrounded with snipers. We wish you a merry Christmas despite the children, women, men, Christians and Muslims of Gaza are murdered and under genocide. We wish you a merry Christmas despite that we cannot exchange gifts or spend our holidays in our homes because they are completely destroyed, and merry Christmas despite there are hundreds of killed, decomposed bodies in the the north of Gaza Strip in the streets, at least 137 them are field executed by the Israeli soldiers in front of their children. Merry Christmas, but pray for Gaza."

End ID.]

Please think about why these videos are coming out in English. In your tongue, so that you can understand them. Don't ignore them or get tired of seeing them or call them guilt-trippy. Don't stop talking about Palestine. Make Palestine impossible to ignore. Even at the cost of "disrupting" your celebrations.

#bisan owda #lmk if i'm using improper formatting for these IDs #free palestine #christmas

[tacticaltaxonomist]

Declutter Tumblr

The new layout it a whole mess. Thankfully Xkit can already help with a bunch of this! I'm sure it'll give more options soon.

Vanilla Tumblr:

(I have marked in red what can be removed. The tabs can be set not to stick, so you will really only see them at the top of your dash. Empty box on the left for hidden notifications and shop sparkle, i just didn't have any. I'm EU so no Live for me).

Xkit Rewritten Tumblr:

The settings I use:

#tumblr #xkit rewritten #tumblr dash #tumblr dashboard #undescribed #tactaxtalks #// well this escalated quickly! remember i'm just some guy #but if you want help with xkit or general tumblr feel free to send an ask/anon/dm

[emptyportrait]

israel is massacring gaza!

#palestine #gaza strip #free palestine #i'm so horrified #ya Allah have mercy please

[gentleralts]

i'm a genius

and if anybody else out there with access to a button press wants to make these pins for themselves i've included a sheet to print out under the readmore

as long as you're printing this in portrait orientation without margins on a 8.5x11 inch sheet of paper, this should print out in the correct sizes for 25mm buttons and 37mm buttons respectively

apologies if tumblr shrinking the image size makes the image quality not so great if you print this out as it is, i'd suggest putting it through a threshold filter so it just uses black ink

#izutsumi #izutsumi (izutsumi) #dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #----- #i'm not sure if i should put this in my actual art tag since this is just a scale-up and edit of the manga panel #hence why i put the sheet under the readmore #it's free izutsumi

[satanicdollx]

they should invent friends that do not live so fucking far

#I'm less sad today but still sad #we're not even that far even from a European point of view like 400kms is okay-ish 🥹 #it's just complicated in terms of public transportation and it's expensive #anyway gonna play DAO (bc BG3 is still bugged) and chill all day feel free to invade my asks #nyx.txt

[aphel1on]

i have such a love for characters who descend into madness or villainy out of deep, deep empathy. characters who fundamentally cannot cope with the cruel realities they find themselves in and blow up about it in spectacular fashion. fallen angel type characters with tears of outrage in their eyes. characters who break before they bend, and break so badly they splatter blood all over their noble ideals. every variation on it gets me so good

#getou suguru #kaneki ken #abyss twin #i know there are others who im not thinking of rn #feel free to reblog with more examples #aphelion.txt #tropes #WAIT I REMEMBERED MORE #jaina proudmoore #dimitri alexandre blaiddyd #phosphophyllite #i just spent like half an hour trying to find this on tv tropes but it must be. Too specific of a thing i have in mind bc #I just kept finding similar and related but too broad categories #despair event horizon. fallen hero. well intentioned extremist. etc etc etc #like specifically i'm talking about when the character's EMPATHY is the CRUX of the problem. sosooo crunchyjuicytasty #edit: #also just know that i am reading every tag on this post #and enthusiastically scribbling down the names i dont recognizr #so i can check out their series later #edit 2 wow this post blew up 🫡 godspeed fellow villain likers #the amount of people tagging this as 'me lmao' is concerning to me #wwx #how did i fucking forget this was also yllz era wwx

[minuy600]

Atari 2600 Chronicles 1980 #14 - Bridge

I said there'd be 4 more reviews to close the year out with. Was working on the Wizard of Wor review only to figure out the release date had been confirmed to be in mid-1981. Less work for me, hurrah.

I'll be completely honest with you. I don't see myself coming back to this in the near future in the format that i'm currently working with. And it's not even because it's too much work or something like that- playing these games has been a really cool way to discover this whole world of the hobby that i've missed out for so long. I'm not sure if it's because of one of my mental quirks that I was extremely hard pressed to try things outside of my comfort zone, and I do think that this series has helped me step over it somewhat.

No, the unfortunate reason is that my confidence in review writing has completely flatlined. I'm honestly exhausted from trying to find new phrases or sentence structures to use, only to realise it's the same damn thing I wrote multiple times over already, or is a too on the nose reference to videos i've watched recently. Realising that my English is still lacking in the vocab and grammar departments after pretty much surrounding myself with it entirely for over a decade does not bode well for when these reviews would get even longer and the games themselves significantly larger. This whole doubting myself and thinking of new wording thing has made writing these things last hours, even when they only end up being a couple paragraphs long.

I don't wanna give up, though. I have set out on this mission to try out as many retro nonsense as possible and have better means to continue than ever before. Been using my dormant PS2 and aftermarket NES a lot more to prepare all of this, and there's also the shiny new Atari 2600+ that has spiked my intrigue for the system more than ever before. I'd love to keep the good times rolling and at MINIMUM give all the games I *can* feasibly play a look for half an hour or so. If not more if there's a proper goal to reach, or the title is straight up addictive like Dodge 'Em or Dragster.

I'm taking January off to think of my next plans. I currently have 4 things in mind that I could do to regenerate my love for the writing segments of this experience. 1. Attempt to shorten my reviews and work on my rambling. Problem would be that the fine details could well be swept under the rug, though i'm unsure if I am passionate about doing full research. It may be for the best to talk from the heart rather than my head, it seems to have delivered a better writing 'flow' whenever I would try it. Heck, even with this long winded vent, I found myself scrambling for things to talk about significantly less. 2. Only cover 1 system at a time so I won't need to hop back and forth continually. That's got me dubbing between the two systems i'm covering now and the NES. All of them have their positives and negatives, so i'd need to think it over. 3. Tier list-ify my reviews and put the focus on comparing it to prior games i've played during the year. The No-Swear Gamer does it and has an incredibly list for the Atari 2600 in particular. I dunno, that sounds like my cup of tea and worth analysing, even if it means the individual parts of the game may be talked about less. 4. So there's also something else I found interesting. I could keep the actual review very short though with the grading still intact- and then work on *challenges* for people to tackle, including myself. A bit of an own take on RetroAchievements, if you will, though with a focus on milestones.

I'd love to hear your feedback! It would be a shame to quit while i'm just about in the early golden age of retro goodness. 1981 has so many cool games to check out and I wanna do them justice in a way that would be pleasant to both the reader and myself. Thanks for reading through this all, and prior reviews, and I hope y'all have a great 2024!

The Verdict

Graphics (5): Hurrah! It's functional! Card game diamonds never looked so pleasant. It's beyond tolerable if you enjoy looking at a gray-blue background all the time.

Sound (4): Not a disaster to the ears, unlike Checkers. Cuz there's nothing to listen to. This is another 2 sound effect game. Good grief.

Fun Factor (??):

A CARD GAME? I THOUGHT WE WERE GONNA BUILD INFRASTRUCTURE!!

Longevity (5): So many ways to outcard the AI. 7 in total. Gotta admit, there's a lot of difficulty switch settings to vary it up juuuuuuuuuuuuust a bit. No multiplayer kinda does kill it's chances of it being anything more than a practice cartridge though.

In Conclusion

*Note: May not have actually played the game.

#retro gaming #minuy600 #review #sona #atari 2600 #1980 #bridge #activision #i'm free!!!

[wearenotjustnumbers2]

This child in gaza is screaming:

"I wish it was a dream. Oh, mom and dad. I wish it was a dream and my mom and dad are still alive" after being rescued from underneath the rubble to find his parents killed by Israel.

Share this, we are not numbers. Let our voices be heard in hopes that this stops.

#i too wish it was all a dream #and I'm sitting surrounded by my family #you shouldn't go through that #he's so young why is this happening to our children? #palestine #gaza #israel #important #current events #ethnic cleansing #free gaza #free palestine #we are not numbers #gaza strip #gaza under genocide #gaza under attack #israel apartheid #video