#acting like its more accessible

[marsixm]

also i know google kinda sucks now but its melting my brain that people act like chat gpt is anything other than like. summarizing research into poorly written paragraphs? like? this is stuff you could have just googled, actually, genuinely. its not... its not some magic new information or insight. youre just being paraphrased to. i feel like im losing my mind

#people who seriously love using ai and shit acting like its not just fucking? aggregation? #like we havent had image and text generation for a long time? #what the fuck is wrong with these people #also #its wild when people talk about it with art #acting like its more accessible #like using all those programs cost money????????????? #i genuinely need to fucking log off sometimes man

[homophyte]

there is a rapidly evolving rhetoric against transgender cowardice that is deeply shaming nd it worries me a lot

#myposts #'medical transition invariably and always will expose u to harm and violence and if it doesnt ur not doing it right' #'medical transition is the single most important thing u can do u have to do it' #what do u mean the first statement makes u hesitant to participate in the second. theres no hesitating in transgenderism #idk man. doesnt seem productive #from like an access barrier perspective or a. compassion toward other people perspective #no consideration for like abusive situations or any other reason someone might not engage w medical institutions #i see ppl who say this act like others are criticizing it because theyre 'forcing people to transition' but tbh #my concern is actually more like. youre making transition seem undesirable and scary and like it will be a negative #ur making it seem like its a loyalty test that is awful but needs to be done #instead of actually promoting it as life saving and vital and doing the political work that entails #ie actually addressing access barriers or abuse or medical trauma or anything really #i guess its easier to sit on the computer and tell other ppl theyre not good enough and especially ahvent suffered enough #making it a point of shame to not be doing X while also portraying X as bad and scary and not doing work to undo the things that make it so #is a bad combination? i think? personally? #its just a bizarre way to talk abt something so positive. as if theres no positives about it. #you just have to do it anyway. for reasons. huh #personally what gets me is that its literally like. yeah if youre a coward theres no room for you. we wont protect or help you. #if youre scared fuck you. heres XYZ reasons to be scared. aww you got scared?? loser #thats what gets me. whats that for what does it accomplish #i mean what is accomplishes is shame but. personally im on the side of the transsexual coward

[skys-haunted]

the current days of mischief situation isn’t abt cosmetics really. its about the history of dodgy communication and sketchy behavior from That Game Company towards its playerbase

#sky beta #tgc critical #we don't need cosmetics to play the game and there's more to the game than dress up yeah #im willing to bet folks arent mad that they have to pay money for a popular item (it makes perfect sense) #folks are mad because the company is purposefully miscommunicating to them to get away with asking for more quick cash #and when the company gets called out on it they act like we simply didn't get the memo #its not just cosmetics its been going on with in-game features and updates #beta testers aren't even beta testing because their feedback falls on deaf ears all the time #and that feels bad! people dont like being ignored manipulated and gaslighted #and it looks bad on the company too!! people aren't mad that tgc is trying to make a profit off their game thats perfectly reasonable #i couldn't care less if tgc rolls another event around and 90% of the content is behind a paywall #ftp players already have access to the entire core game its ok if we're less than an afterthought sometimes #whats not ok is the blatant greed and disregard for its entire userbase

[galedekkarios]

is gale actually the worst guy alive or do people just have personal issues that give them a complex whenever someone else is a master of their craft and confident about it 🤔 hmmmmmmm

#im sorry but i literally never found him to be abrasive bc yes an archmage and chosen of mystra and wizard and the designated Lore Dumper #is going to be more knowledgeable than you and that's fine LMAO #and him knowing abt the tadpoles isn't him being an arrogant know it all it's just him letting the character know what's at stake #and also the others given that some of them don't know that or feel pressured to act (see: astarion and wyll) #and re the sorc vs wizard stuff.. again... someone that has to go to school and study the art Is going to #be more learned and well read than someone that doesn't #someone that was an archmage and lover to magic itself and a child prodigy etc etc IS going to #know more like . cope #i just never found him to be horrible or as annoying as people say bc i don't take offense to confidence or prowess or info dumpers? #early access is a different beast. but official release gale? the guy who shares crazy life stories every time? and is trying #to bond with your character every chance he gets? and who doesn't admonish your character if you fail to channel #the weave and instead is a good enthusiastic teacher to your character? who has a reasonable reaction to your character #not taking him seriously and is super appreciative when they do? like. L + skill issue + get over yourself + it's really not tht serious #+ i'm telling tara + i'm also telling morena + smiting you smiting you smiting you smiting you smiting you smi #this dude was mentored by magic itself. he was taught by magic itself. he made love and was ''loved'' by magic itself. he was its chosen. #he was in contact with legendary wizards by the age of eight. he cast a spell using blackstaff. he was conjuring things #as early as a toddler. if his early access prowess is still canon then this dude was able to lift entire buildings #and battle beholders super easily and after the game he rebuilds half the city using his magic. #and so on and so forth like i'm sorry to say but gale really is that bitch and he's not an awful person for Knowing that and trying to #make that known so that he can have a purpose in the group like. hello. for the love of god hello whats not clicking 😭 #and i'm not saying he's a humble precious bean i'm just saying that final release gale can be pompous and puffs himself up #but it's not like there's no merit to what he's saying LMAO #🤦‍♀️ anyway.

[amiscreations]

A question for my concert going friends: how do you feel about artists/venues doing priority entry? As in early entry, not disabled etc. Personally I really dislike it, as it pushes that idea that you can only be a "real fan" if you have enough money to do so. And "real/better" fans are always perceived as the ones at the front or with the best merch.

I'm probably just bitter as I don't have the money to be able to do priority entry lol, but I think it is just generally unfair, and I really wish more artists would stop doing it. Also if you're in the UK you probably know how the O2 venues work, and I just think thats ridiculous.

#I posted this on Facebook but I feel like people will be more honest here #as someone who LOVES being by the barrier at a concert #that shit is EARNED #its so heartbreaking when you've queued for hours and hours #just to see people who've paid more arrive at doors and get in before you #and yes you could say that working extra hours counts as earning that spot too #as it means you can pay for the priority entry etc #but queuing those few hours is just so much more accessible for most #and easier than picking up extra shifts imo #of course its never going to be 100% fair #but I just wish more artists and venues would see how hurtful having early entry is #have VIP and shit thats cool #but people who cant afford that still deserve to see their favourite band up close yk? #instead of having to stand behind all the “proper fans” #I have physically been pushed backwards because of this #because I was second row and I made the mistake of telling someone that I was regular GA #the person behind me had paid for VIP and acted like I was not allowed to be in front of her #even tho I got to my space before she was there #no one is entitled to be at the front #I have arrived at doors and still gotten second row #I've also arrived 4 hours early and not gotten the front row #but I wish I had gotten it fairly #instead of having to pay more #wow that was a rant #I have said my piece #I would love to know your opinions on this

[gothwizardmagic]

remember when tumblr looked like this back in 2015 and everyone was furious when they got rid of the sidebar 🤷‍♂️

#not rebloggable bc i dont want to deal with the hoards #but look i dont care if its supposed to be a shitty twitter clone #im just glad it looks like a WEBSITE again instead of an app #its so much easier to access shit again #i do wish it was all on the right that was more intuitive to me personally #but fuckin. if this is the price i have to pay for tumblr acting like a website ill take it

[welcometogrouchland]

Also in the replies of the Steph concept art on twitter announcing she was gonna be in a new project at DC (posted by Travis Mercer), there were at least 3 comments saying "will Tim be there?" I don't care how hard you ship timsteph I'm exploding you with my eyeballs if you do that on my girls post again

#ramblings of a lunatic #taking a step back to acknowledge that my stanning may be getting overzealous #but then again I'm not in ppls quotes or replies I'm vagueing on an entirely different website with no relevant tags. it could be worse #anyway I know tims had it rough these past couple of months ever since zdarsky shifted focus of the batman title to have less tim #but it still feels. idk. just a wee bit uninspired to act like steph can't go two steps without tim being behind her #im ngl i like timsteph when they're cute but timsteph twitter has been. pissing me off a tad lately #the refusal to acknowledge the sexism in dixons robin run and how it impacts stephs writing and their relationships writing #the refusal to acknowledge tims occasional condescension and hypocrisy when it comes to stephs vigilantism #seemingly only wanting her to be spoiler when he wants her around and telling her to give it up most of the time #also the constant disrespect of stephs batgirl era on there weirdly enough? #I've harped on about this on main and in drafts but despite it's flaws it's a good turn for stephs character #she's the focus she gets development (an upward trajectory! which had previously been unheard of for her! bc she did have flaws as spoiler- #-its just that both writers and characters alike seemed to arbitrarily decide she didn't have the capacity to grow past them! but she did!) #hell i saw a BIZARRE take today i just have to bitch about #which was them saying that Batgirl was a ''heteronormative mask'' steph put on #with spoiler being her more authentic self (and this being paralleled to gender expression with stephs isolation from the batfam as spoiler- #-showing how she ''wasnt like them'') #which. I'm not denying you the view that spoiler has a certain genderific swag to her but the needless dragging of her batgirl persona #steph got treated badly as spoiler bc she was A Girl. it's genuinely that simple dixon felt batman and robin would never stand for a girl- #-running around doing the things they did and would need to chivalrously stop her. he's gone on record saying this #she's constantly getting belittled by mostly men (cass also dismisses her but it feels distinctly less gendered) #and in the end it's barbara who learns to give steph a second chance despite her mistakes and they have a positive relationship #something ppl are quick to dismiss as being in and of itself sexist bc they're pairing the two girls off together #as if batgirl isn't a legacy and as if babs and steph don't have parallels in their resilience and refusal to accept when ppl tell them no #for better and for worse!! #like. idk how you took the strongest feminist element in that comic (bc there are elements of sexism here and there! 2009 n all) #and somehow turn it into ''heteronormativity'' YOU PPL ARE JUST SAYING WORDS AT THIS POINT!!! #anyway. someone take away my internet access

[waterbearable]

fuck bhaal all my homies hate bhaal

#ari plays bg3 #big mad. i just want to kill orin. i understand that this is how fights work sometimes but. #HATE things being difficulty added just because more guys pop up outta nowhere. its annoying. i dont like it. #i have 2 go to bed anyway so theres no way i was gonna get the farslayer but i thought about it for 2 seconds after restarting #and then quit the game sgdjdjdj #props to ppl who have finished this game multiple times because some of these difficulty spikes are. Spiked. #and it is not as enjoyable when you know /you/ have hit a level cap but your enemies have not. #i do not want to be able to progress to level 18 or anything i get that thats a huuuge boost #but like. idk man. level 14? #i just feel like i hit max level way too early in act 3. #anyway i have been a hater for too long in the tags #i do enjoy the game! quite a bit! but act 3 fatigue Hits. i want baldurs gate to be a big city but its a Lot #like. we already know that orin controls the undercity and gortash the city proper. #maybe there could have been a way to make the player choose b/w accessing 1 of the 2 city halves first and then balancing the undercity more #the obstacles to get to orin just feel like a lot more and more draining and closer together #compared to the lead up to gortash #and like. theoretically you could hunt orin down first but part of me is like. how. how would i have done that #to clarify i think my ideal would have been rivington and wyrms crossing always available but then most of the lower city/sewers #should be inaccessible to the party until orin or gortash is killed. #like i kno a lot of ppl didnt enjoy it but i actually was pretty satisfied w act 2! i think some of the act 1 stuff should have been #part of it technically #but i felt like the length and the throughline was pretty decent. #act 3 is a little decision paralysis inducing in a way i dont super love #WOW that was a rant in the tags. ok. we're normal now. i just have Thots

[koiryuu]

god people are so fucking mad about tone indicators lol stay mad idec if you read /hj as handjob i think that's on you its clearly like. a tone indicator. if it makes you blush because you're reading it wrong literally who cares you know what it actually means. and like if you don't know what one means, ask! but i cannot properly express myself without like, the basic ones, and i greatly prefer and appreciate when other people use them too. it makes communication easier and more genuine but you're just mad because you can't figure out that some acronyms overlap with other meanings. shut up lol you can type out the whole word if you want but its so much work and looks so ugly and clunky a lot of the time that most people are not going to do that. hence why tone indicators were invented to make it easy and quick to do, so there's no real reason not to. obviously i think people go a little overboard with random complicated ones, but like /j, /srs, /s, etc are good to know and use. like they're a universal good. why the fuck are you throwing a tantrum.

#like you people do realize that if you dont know what something someone types on the internet means you can ask them? or look it up?? #ppl out here acting like tone indicators are the end of the world or are somehow??? less nd friendly???? #if you want to type the whole word be my guest but dont act like its more accessible or tone indicators are bad or someshit #like the internet has had confusing complicated shorthand forever. you just ask or look it up if you dont know. #this is just like the acronyms we've all gotten used to now but theyre made specifically to make communication easier for nd people #so like. shut the fuck up. /srs <3

[frostbite-the-bat]

remembering old fandoms and rps and aus i had and im realizing this isnt the first time an au version of frostbite interacted a lot with someone who at least in text had a quirk that does something to the letter s which is ironic considering their name

#...........im talking about hr again sorry my condition gets worse each day especially when im more open about it #the previous/other one was a few years back. #it was . my gorillaz days...! and my gangreen gang specific hyperfix...! (never actually watched ppg) #they were besties with snake and there was a joke they adopted him and that he was their “sssson” even if they were only like a year older #our au ggg was very different bc it was like 4-3 ppl rping our own shit but it was very found family and backstories were Angsty #and obviously snake hisssssesss hisss letter sss #then hr haff hiff liffp #fun fact i used to have a pretty nasty lisp when i was younger before i got my teeth fixed up a bit so i honestly unironically love #characters with any kind of lisp even if its the daffy duck kind (who may be a bit hard for me to understand when voice acted like that but #i still Enjoy) #(i need subtitles for literally anything anyway) #anyways ggg au frostbite is also the edgiest of all the au frostbites that exist #least developed/just cool design is glamrock frost #most developed as a character and MOST goofy is toontown frost #anyways back on the lisp whoever put the letter s into the word lisp genuinely needs to die. and the word stop. yes i got bullied about #my lisp why do you ask #ok since im rambling heres a bigger ramble #both gorillaz and hr make me feel better abt my teeth #all the band members in gorillaz have mad fucked up teeth and i didnt have access to a good dentist until like 2020. i was endlessly #bullied for my teeth and i had difficulities eating some things and other health issues because i had horrid teeth bc of genes + my parents #didnt teach me to clean my teeth properly like wow you gotta go BETWEEN the teeth. the white stuff that covers your teeth ISNT GOOD ACTUALL #and hr has a mad overbite and i have that too so that makes me feel better..ive been rlly subconscious abt that lately actually #still wondering why nobody bothered gettin that fixed but i guess everything else was a bigger issue #and the fact i was missing my front teeth #yeah my health back then wasnt the best ! and i was bullied abt it even by my own best friends parents! no good! but seeing silly band #members who r fictional who i was hyperfixated on helped me feel better #man wish i could hide stuff from appearing in tag searches bc i just like rambling in the tags #but then i say one word and it appears in the tags and im super subconsious about it now bc i made one ramble and boom why is it in the #hr tag :sob: :skull: #OH WELL.

[bunnyb34r]

Really wish this brain fog would pass bc I have a shitload of posts in my drafts i saved bc i wanted to read them but my brain said no. And it's tax season so I'm getting important papers in the mail and I cant fucking read them. Well I can read them but it's just words. Nothing is connecting up there. Thank god mom is here to help read that shit and translate but fuck do I hate this shit

Why can't my brain fucking WORK

#it feels like when i kept getting concussions in 9th grade (had 4) and i couldnt fucking focus and my reaction time dropped significantly #like we were doing a basic reaction time experiment in science and i said oh lets not use mine when we submit it (group of 3 pick best #result) and my friends were like pfft whatever go. and i did and they got real quiet and were like oh... #bc they didnt realize i was concussed concussed like bitch my ability to vaguely see in the dark is GONE i cannot see my rt is SLOWED #my brain cannot WORK RIGHT #it's recovered since then (yay neuroplasticity) but i still have bad brain fog from fibro and it's like god at least when I was concussed i #could easily be like listen i had 4 concussions i need help. no problem. but with brain fog it feels like give me a min im stupid today #i hate it!! i hate feeling broken i hate feeling like my brain is half working! it sucks!! #i got insurance shit the other day and had to ask my mom to make sure it was just a basic 'yeah youre covered heres more access' and not #something i needed to act on and it was so frustrating #marquilla #and whats worse is sometimes ill be talking or typing and think im making sense and then ill look back at it later or someone will ask me ab #it and its like oh... im sorry my brain is not working atm and i cannot get out what im trying to and what is getting out is jumbled #the absolute worst is when it hits when im driving and it's like hey you're 2 hours away from home snd now LOST get home bitch :) #luckily it only happened when i was 40 min from home and in a familiar enough area but my brain couldnt find the right 'path' #sucked but i actually knew i was actually on the right path when i saw this house with a lesbian flag sgsgdgdgdgdgdgd like oh! here!!

[thisgodwontforgiveyou]

playing bg1 has pretty much instantly confirmed my theory that bg3's single biggest problem was the full voice acting mandate

#it soooooooooooooooooooooo badly restricted the amount of flavor and interactability the world could have its like agonizing how much richer #and more Advanced and Immersive and AAA the world of baldurs gate 1 feels #despite being a game from 25 years ago with 0 graphics and even less voice acting quality #bg3 feels so empty even in the starting areas which were the most extensively packed with content over early access #obv once yo get to BALDURS GATE... THREE!!! the game gets way more immersive and interesting but by that point youre so exhausted #you kinda just want the game to be over

[scottapez]

i need to vent out my frustrations here ok? just watched an excellent video abt the relatively recent influx of children being severely traumatized online and/or the internet working as a massively unhealthy coping mechanism for traumatized children. it went into great detail w/ personal accounts from kids about how children growing platforms and gaining followings massively hurts their development, especially for children who became the face of controversy after controversy. enjoyed it enough to check their channel and the next video i saw from this same month is them complaining about ''kids on tiktok faking mental illness''

#t.alk #do you think maybe. just maybe. #you are not a medical professional #and while yes neither are the children youre covering but they know more about themselves than you ever will of them #and even if they are not diagnosed or ''act fake'' to you #there are several reasons why someone wouldnt be diagnosed with a particular (heavily stigmatized) mental illness or disorder #like oh idk. them just being a kid with a potentially neglectful or unsafe household and getting a proper diagnoses requires telling #a parent/guardian/adult in general and for mentally ill teens thats fucking terrifying? #especially when said adults could be responsible for rocky development in the first place #and. get this? tiktok for all its million faults and ugly crevices does have one pro: easily accessible communities that are just a click #away from interacting with and enveloping yourself in

[burningchapel]

I thought destiny was mocking me when it put Kate Bush on TikTok's radar but now I know that was just the teaser for the pain over Mary on a Cross it had stewing in the crockpot just for me

#before u act like a bitch. i dont care about the band being accessed by more people #what i care about is the decontextualization of texts that is fundamental to their entry into the pop culture lexicon #its basic cci 201 shit. mary on a cross is gonna be getting the doc martins treatment just like running up that hill did #smh its like talking to people whose favorite the clash song is london calling but dont realize joe strummers a communist. go home. #i understand intellectually that people are not morally lesser for not caring deeply about the art they treat as consumables #but it is frustrating to see things you care about be misinterpreted or cheapened by a shitton of people thats called being human #do i think tobias cares? not really i think hes a shrewd son of a bitch with a diabolical scheme to explode the band onto the popular scene #in a way tobias is god the music is lucifer and i am the devil worshipper. no need to elaborate i think #that said. as those who know me will tell you. im equally obsessed with fucking the devil and fucking god. so there's no escape #anyways. in unrelated news. starting my job at a Catholic school next week ⚰️🙏🐐💀 #❤️‍🔥 tag #god tag #devil tag #music tag #ghost tag #ghost bc #ghost #kate bush #ghost band #mary tag

[famewolf]

also been struggling again with allowing myself to rest ... had a lot of plans today that went awry. getting that Anxiety of not feeling like i accomplished much of anything on my days off despite that not being true

#[static] #i did quite a lot on my weekend! doc appointments medicine pick up i cleaned and cooked a whole cake and a pot pie #i played games with my husband! i wrote several thousand words for my campaigns #i think its cuz today all ive had a chance to do was take care of the poor bird i found in that bag and then nap during the hottest portion #of the day ... it was so hot and our a/c hasnt been accessed for the summer time yet #i really wanted to work on some maps / do some more writing for our 15th session on monday and since i havent been feeling up for it #im feeling like Anxious jfhd productivity is dumb and unlearning this mindset has taken me the better part of several years #and we are still in it babey ... at least i can tell when im acting like that

[forgetful-storyteller]

Sky:cotl was more addicting for me than genshin impact is and im. Not actually sure why that is? Like missing a good travelling spirit would make me irrationally upset no matter how hard I tried not to be so I'd have to be grinding for candles every day to be sure I'd have enough,, I'd have to play every day of a season because god forbid I miss an ult gift. Even the way the daily quests r done feels like its keeping u in the game longer than necessary bc like. Sky and genshin r very similar games in terms of how the daily quests work. They both have u get 4 quests and then go out into the world and do them, and then come back to the quest giver and redeem ur reward,, except w sky if ur quest is at the end of the map u have to go through the whole rest of the map to get there. And oh, well I might as well cr a little bit on the way. And then u spend an hour on what should be a 15 minute task max

#sep talks #it's also to do with how they get u to spend money I think #when u play genshin u Know they're trying to get u to spend money #every new character every difficult obstacle every single thing is there to try and convince u to spend money #in sky they try and act like the whole game Isn't just a money grab which is probably why I spent so much money on it #like. It's technically free to play #but is it really? Like is it?? #in genshin almost all the content is technically accessible if u don't spend any money save for like. 4 weapons #and some character skins #neither of which r the point of the game so its whatever. Ur experience is not affected by the lack of them #in sky half the content is locked behind the season pass. Sure it'll come back around eventually but god knows when that will be? #or if you'll have enough hearts/candles to get it #and sky is a game where half the fun is cosmetics!! It's a fancy dress up game!!! Sure they've added more stuff now but it is at its core a #fancy dress up game #so when half the cosmetics r behind the season pass it feels much less optional to buy it especially with the ults n stuff #I told myself when I first bought a cosmetic in sky (the witch hat) that I could buy cosmetics if I felt I really wanted them #but I could never ever buy candles #unsure why that was the limit I guess it felt like if I was having to buy in fame currency to have fun then I clearly had gone too far #and this was like a HARD boundary. I missed ts's I'd wanted for months or over a year #but leading up to that I had Wanted to buy candles for ages #and idk. I don't have that with genshin. Sometimes I get the urge to buy primos but it's not constant and its never more than like #vaguely entertaining the idea. In sky it was a serious consideration #idk. I'm not posting this to sound pretentious or tell anyone to stop playing or anything like that #I just think it's interesting that the actual gacha game is less addicting to me than sky:cotl #i think it's just. So much easier to not even worry abt buying currency on genshin when I Know its a gacha game. The point is for me to #spend money. But all the content is technically f2p so I'm going to play it f2p #sky doesn't advertise itself as a game u need to spend money on. It advertises itself as completely f2p #but u can spend a little money for a cosmetic <3 help the company <3 #so I DID because the fomo was just too strong to avoid it #anyway rant over bye