#goddamn websites

[spyglassrealms]

had a fucking hilarious dream that tumblr replaced the "block" function with the far funnier "glock" function, which did the exact same thing except whenever anyone blocked you a random bullet hole, like a png of a bullet hole, would appear on your blog. discourse blogs were unreadable bc you'd go to the page and the sheer amount of bullet hole pngs stacked over the blogs obscured everything. I woke myself up laughing

#normally I don't chronicle my dreams here but fucking hell that one was funny #I think this would genuinely make tumblr better tbh #@ staff do this cowards #spy has thoughts #my life is a sitcom and i am my own laugh track #functional website #spy's smash hits #Glock function #edit for everyone in the notes saying 'everyone clapped' #I know I can't prove to you that it happened for real you're just gonna have to trust me on this #but I swear on my goddamn life I'm not making this up #I make so many conscious puns that sometimes my subconscious cooks up a real good one

[wizthecringeone]

REBLOG THIS MULTIPLE TIMES IN A ROW BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE

Tumblr is ruining their fucking website

Under Principle 3

#i don't want a goddamn algorithm #I don't want tumblr live #i just want a fucking fuctional website

[dailyfrank]

#frank iero #my chemical romance #EVERY GODDAMN TIME I OPEN THIS WEBSITE IT LOOKS DIFFERENT CAN TUMBLR JUST STAY ONE WAY FOR MORE THAN A WEEK. PLEASE.

[mysticalcats]

May I request Tour 5 Pouncival?

what a funky design! he was fun to draw (i hope i drew the right design for you. fandom wiki is hell)

#i usually use fandom wiki to find specific designs for characters but that website is so goddamn glitchy its insane #i tried #my art #cats the musical #cats musical #cats us tour 5 #pouncival #ask

[ybcpatrick]

#shut up kell #MY TICKETS ARE SECURED BUT IT WASNT EASY. HATE THAT GODDAMNED WEBSITE SO MUCH #hall of shame #gifs

[emotional-engine]

In case you missed - GREAT Neopets News!

I didn't see anybody talking about the news here, so I thought that I could share a summary.

The Neopets Team announced today that they're under new management. They're no longer affiliated with Jumpstart (which announced their closure back in June) or their parent company NetDragon.

In their blog post in the official Neopets Medium page, they confirm that they are now an independent company:

(Dominc Law, worked for NetDragon and was an old school Neopets player. He put together a team to work on saving the brand.)

Also in that blog post the team talks about how they are well aware of the problems the site has been through in the last decade, they acknowledge the lack of resources which resulted in the Neopets website being left broken.

Going ahead, they are going to focus on community requests, such as speeding up the process of Flash Games conversion, clearing up the page conversion backlog, bug fixes, mobile compatibility issues and improving customer support.

Most importantly, in my opinion, they clear up that they WILL NOT go forward with any Metaverse bullshit, and will instead work on creating a game that feels like Neopets:

At this point, they have secured $4M in funding from various (unnamed) investors with additional funding from the management buyout. For the first time in forever, it looks like TNT has the resources they need to move the brand forward. In the blog post, they mention they have already hired developers and artists to work on the fixes the site needs.

From what it looks like, the game will be a mobile social life-simulation, parallel to the current website. We don’t have to worry that neopets.com will be replaced by a mobile app.

As of now, they have announced:

A brand new plot, scheduled for early 2024

A 2 million(!) NeoCash giveaway

More transparency with monthly updates from the team, scheduled AMAs

Neopets will be under the control of a new, unified entity: World of Neopia, Inc - the website will remain the same (neopets.com)

A Brand Ambassador Program

No longer going forward with NFT/Metaverse stuff

At the end, they published a FAQ with some answers that I found to be good and very interesting:

You can read the entire blog post here.

Or watch the YouTube announcement (which is way shorter):

#neopets #putting my journo degree to a good use i think #i am in no way affiliated with TNT or jumpstart or netdragon etc #i'm just really really happy #things look bright for once and i'd like to share the news #i know some people might be skeptical but i'd like to be optimistic for once and trust the team #most of them nowadays are old players if i'm not mistaken #i don't think they like to see the website in shambles as it was #also really goddamn glad they're moving away from crypto shit #i appreciate the transparency #also be nice to me i'm shy #Youtube #i admit i got a little lazy by the end #nostalgia #y2k nostalgia #kidcore #will these tags even show up

[are-we-really-doing-this]

Will someone please tell them to stop flirting in public.

#now I’m not saying there should be an AU where Punk is a cocky moving guy who gets stuck in the washing machine in Joe’s apartment #(or perhaps some sort of roleplay like what’s going on here) #but I’m not NOT saying that #btw I tracked this down after spending 5-8 minutes pacing and saying “WHAT?!” to myself when I saw screenshots of this on Joe’s website #but no it’s real season 2 episode 17 of Monster Garage on The Goddamn Discovery Channel #so who was gonna tell me about this? oh no y’all just like keeping shit from me I see how it is #cm punk #samoa joe #roh

[vampirepunks]

Seeing "proship dni" (or the variety of rude variations that folks think are cute/clever *sigh*) in controversial communities, attached to dead dove content, or on selfship posts makes my head spin every damn time

my brother in christ, who else is gonna stick up for you? the antis? lol. lmao, even.

#'it hurt itself in its confusion' #it's friendly fire and they don't even realize smfh #like damn y'all we've even got antis in the hannibal fandom as if that isn't a hella proship show >_< #y’all really wanna pretend ao3 isn’t The Pro Ship Website™️ huh #antis really have people believing proshippers are actual criminals when most of us are just fandom anarchists against bullying #people appropriate the label for crappy reasons but that happens with literally Everything #it’s a dumb label all things considered but I really wish people could just be nice for once #though I suppose by definition proship is literally Just Be Fucking Nice To Each Other For Fuck’s Sake #like I’m seeing posts like ‘your f/o loves you. unless you’re proship in which case they don’t and [suicide reference]’ and???????????????? #literally un-fucking-called for #imagine being a bully and taking the moral high ground abt it #pro ship #pro selfship #rant #logan.txt #on fandom #antis dni #unless you’re gonna behave and be goddamn civil for once

[starcrossed-sky]

So I just saw someone say "1984 is not a blueprint" on another post, and I don't want to be that guy who responds to someone not-the-OP with a tangent on an already long post, but:

1984 absolutely is a blueprint, for the people in power. 1984 is a horror for the regular person, the person who experiences things such as "self-worth," "the value of culture," and "privacy." It is written to make you aware, as a reader, what it looks like when those things are denied to you.

But 1984 is also a tragedy. It's not a happy ending YA dystopia where the awful power structure is overthrown and we all walk out into the sunlight of the new world with an orchestral soundtrack score to figure out what the hell we're supposed to do from here. 1984 ends with the protagonist being tortured and reprogrammed into being a good little Party Member who exclusively has sex in the missionary position for the sole purpose of procreation and doesn't even enjoy it.

(Yes, kids, that's in there, too. 1984 is explicitly about how sexual pleasure and variance is inherently subversive to power.)

So like... To the people who see themselves as people who would end up in charge in such a world, to the people who want control over not only our actions but our thoughts? Yeah, that absolutely is a blueprint. In 1984, the Party wins.

Because the point of 1984 is that: If we let it get that far, it's too late. And also that if we don't stick together and fight back together, then it's too late. And that if we let fear of our neighbors prevent us from reaching out to each other - if every man truly becomes an island - then it is already, absolutely, too late.

Anyway, so just as a reminder, "unalive" is actually literally Newspeak unlike most of the things the press calls Newspeak, Alexa is Big Brother's eyes but they convinced you to pay for it, and we've got no protection but what we fight for. Viva la thoughtcrime, everybody.

#1984 #capitalist miracles #sometimes i feel like the only goddamn person who has read the text #and internalized it properly #'was 1984 formative nael' well #not as formative as omelas #but formative enough that i actually remember it #which is more than most people on the piss on the poor website can apparently say

[ballisterboldheart]

SQUEAKY_TOY_NOISE.MP3

#he's soooo shaped <3 ragdoll coded #nimonaedit #nimona #ballister blackheart #s.gif #i really tried to embed an audio player to Play A Goddamn Sqeaky Toy Noise but this website. does not function. #so just imagine. a squeaky toy. a laminated paper wobbling sound. a whimper.

[purgetrooperfox]

okay I keep seeing people talking about how bi-han slander takes the form of "he is evil beyond redemption, his actions can never be justified no matter what, he is a villain" but most of the gross misinterpretation I see on this site is more "he did absolutely nothing wrong and could never be mean to kuai liang and canon is wrong actually and if you disagree then you just don't Get Him like I do 💅". which I thought was a joke at first??? why are y'all trying to take away his teeth??? enough character analysis posts that are just bending him into the shape you want him to be. please. he's misguided, yes, he's also a bitch. sure he wants what's best for the clan but he's also so selfish that he thinks Everyone Else is wrong and refuses counsel. he's ambitious to a fault and made a stupid ass decision. OWN IT

#LIKE GODDAMN. no nuanced takes ass website #motivations don't excuse Anyone's actions #dude isn't evil but he is an antagonist #i get it too i'd also be like fuck you liu kang. doesn't mean it's right or good. doesn't mean saddling himself with shang was smart #where are these people saying he's objectively evil. i have never in my life seen them. this is a hugely beloved character #christ. #mk #yeah i'll stick tags on this. whatever #mortal kombat #bi-han #sub zero #DISK HORSE SORRY #mk1 spoilers

[celluloidbroomcloset]

Imagine thinking you're a brave anti-capitalist for celebrating the cancellation of a popular queer show that people love because a corporation wants to sell more stale Wonder Bread dreck.

Imagine thinking it's anti-capitalist to be on the side of David Zaslav.

#ofmd #fucking children on this website #fifteen year olds with goddamn Androids who think they're communist crusaders

[ghostssmoke]

Sad scenes of destruction on every hand / Black waters, black waters, run down through my land

#art #birds #environment #nature #climate change #illustration #horror #myart #i drew this #holy goddamn is it hard to upload high res images on this website

[musashi]

a cool thing to do if you hate an animal is to fucking keep it to yourself and not LEAVE IT IN THE NOTES OF SOMEONE REBLOGGING PICTURES AND VIDEOS OF THAT ANIMAL. PERHAPS CONSIDER WHY THEY MIGHT BE DOING THAT. COULD IT BE BECAUSE THEY LIKE THE ANIMAL? HMMM A MYSTERY

#wordy wendy #i hate this fucking website #no goddamn fucking manners

[butcharyastark]

like yeah. this IS funny. its funny the whole blue website is making fun of the other blue website crashing and burning. but theyre not your friend. theyre not joking with you because they have a personality.

it is a company. with financial interests. and tumblrs board of whatever has learned with shit like blaze and failed campaigns before that if they make it weird and ironic and different enough that ppl will buy. bc theyre marketing their brand. this is their brand now--irony and hellsite (affectionate) and being the last weird and genuine semi popular social media.

and thats whats dangerous. bc yall dont seem to realize that. tumblr is not any different from other social media at its core. this website sucks, in a fuckload of ways. and i know its been funny the last 6 months hyping up "god it sucks but at least its not facebook or twitter" but it feels like some ppl here took that seriously and now feel obligated to defend their Favorite Corporate Social Media With A Badly Paid Twitter Intern as if they lost their sense and become one of those ao3 defenders constantly talking abt "keeping the lights on!!!"

yall just look embarassing with this shit and then rbing posts abt leftism and bullying advertisers off

#you cant even ignore the one fucking advertiser that matters most here #the actual goddamn website #wheres the post. 'you guys cant even boycott chik fil a' #my post #tumblr blue checkmark

[eggtrolls]

I must not give up on writing the fucking grant. giving up on writing the fucking grant is the mind killer. giving up on writing the fucking grant is the little death that brings total having no money. I will face my writing the fucking grant. I will permit it to pass over me and through me so I may write the fucking grant. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path of writing the fucking grant. Where the giving up on writing the fucking grant has gone there will be nothing…only I (the grant recipient) will remain

#does anyone on this website know a goddamn thing about organizational development #dispatches from the park