#libraries before computers

[neurotypical-sonic]

I dont think most of the islands would have internet connection, or at least not widely available or easily accessible. 4 year old tails not knowing much about the internet or caring about it until he and sonic end up on the mainlands and in a public library and he discovers the Joy of Internet. whole new world has opened up baby and he is tapping away at that keyboard

#sonic just wanted some new books but hes happy to hang out for a while #i was 17 when i finally got consistent access to the internet at home #as in. wifi ig #before then i mostly used school computers and public libraries #we DID have internet at home but. it was very expensive and parents used most of the available data and we had to be careful not to go other #when i got credit on my phone i would buy credit and mostly use that just be careful what sites i would use #connection was spotty #im rambling lmao but i think the islands would be a lot like that.l

[jinxedshapeshifter]

Something I really like about Deltarune's Snowgrave run vs Undertale's genocide run is the fact that the Snowgrave run has a more psychological aspect, while I think Toby's mentioned he deliberately made Undertale's genocide run boring so it'd be less appealing. Like Undertale's genocide run is absolutely eerie, but it's also not really interesting.

Deltarune's Snowgrave run isn't just eerie, I genuinely think an argument could be made for it being psychological horror. Remember, Kris isn't the one giving Noelle orders. The player is. This is evidenced by multiple bits of dialogue from Noelle in the game, as well as Kris's behavior frankly.

I decided to play a Snowgrave run and as someone who's been manipulated and abused, playing a Snowgrave run myself instead of just watching someone else play it is one of the worst gaming experiences I've ever had (not necessarily in a bad way though, the fact that Toby managed to achieve that is astonishing). Through dialogue and visuals, it's made clear in both chapters that Kris isn't in control of their actions, the player is. It's why playing a Snowgrave run is one of the worst gaming experiences I've ever had. Because we're controlling Kris's actions, we're also the ones technically manipulating Noelle, but using Kris as a vessel for it.

Undertale doesn't make a distinction like this, which doesn't just make it not as much of a mindfuck but also means it's not as horrifying unless you overanalyze Undertale. On a surface level, Undertale's genocide run is basically just a regular, less interesting game that includes murder. You don't know these characters (unless of course you've played Undertale before) and killing all of them means that while they are living in fear, it's not for an extended period of time. In Deltarune, you're using Kris as a vessel to tell Kris's friend to freeze people, then kill one of her friends (whether Berdly is permanently dead or not is something we likely won't know until chapter 3, but in the Dark World at least, he's definitely dead, as Snowgrave is fatal).

It's not even that I hate that the Snowgrave run exists; it's great analysis material and adds a great alternate storyline. But dear lord, as someone who's been on the receiving end of abuse and manipulation, it's horrific.

Noelle is ABSOLUTELY traumatized from the entire ordeal

It's very possible that Kris is also traumatized from the Snowgrave route; it's (no so subtly) implied that Kris's soul is what allows us to control them and they rip it out of their chest at the end of both chapters. Kris knows they're not in control of their actions when they have their soul. Can you imagine how traumatizing it was for them to be controlled into doing something they probably didn't want to do? (It's also worth noting that the "Kris is just a vessel for the player" thing was clear as early as the character creation stage of chapter 1, as the character you're told to create is referred to as a "vessel")

Susie's probably traumatized. Seeing Noelle as upset as she is? Hearing her recount everything like it's implied (and who knows if Noelle mentioned Kris or the "terrifying voice" to her)? Hell, she even says "Somehow, it doesn't feel like we just saved the world..." at the end of a Snowgrave run.

Queen being sad that nobody's around is heartbreaking frankly.

You can't tell me Ralsei doesn't know something happened because of a severe lack of recruits. Similarly, you can't convince me that wouldn't be traumatizing for him.

There's definitely more but I'm tired

Conclusion: Deltarune's Snowgrave route is a psychological horror game and nothing will change my mind

#deltarune #deltarune analysis #deltarune snowgrave #toby fox is too good at making games. hes too powerful someone stop him #ALSO AN ARGUMENT COULD BE MADE FOR KRIS HIDING BERDLY IN THE CLOSET OF THE LIBRARY'S COMPUTER LAB??????????? #when you inspect the closet it says 'A large person could easily fit inside' and kris cleans everything up before leaving the lab #i know it could just be something toby decided to add #but also i wouldn't be surprised if its setting up for the next chapter #tw abuse #tw manipulation

[najeongmosajimidachaetzu15]

Statistical analysis has robbed me of all my joy and happiness. It's left me as a hollow shell, consumed by only numbers and data

#i spent 6 hours in the library trying to figure it out #i had to leave before i punched the computer or started crying in the middle of the library #ive never felt like dropping out but this is really testing me

[petorahs]

can we talk about the book of esoteric revelations quest sends us to fckn enkanomiya pocket space for some reason. what was that. i dont think the electro totems were placed indeliberately either helloooooooo

lore enthusiasts please do your thing..... how has no one talked about this yet

#原神 #scratches head the book was written by rene de petrichor right... #i know that he calculated a computational scheme that poses teyvat will end again and again in a cycle until it just completely ends #WHICH i think is the world where paimon and traveler is sent to represents. nothingness #AND also why that little melusine saw only flower fields and peace. shes from elynas (like durin) so to her nature #annihilation = happiness #anyways maybe enkanomiya was the first instance of it happening. which is why it looks like that #+ that insane event with void realm stuff in yae's initial release patch... enkanomiya got too silly #but what differs is enka can be returned to while uhh eventually it cant? perhaps there were countless enkanomiya-like civilizations before #also curious how its the library thats been replicated. where the 'before sun and moon' book is kept :000 #HMMM orobashi and elynas come from different sources with different personalities but there are some connections to be made there too #maybe teyvat world cycle ends each time the 'truth' is reached loool anywayse #who knows not me haha magic world and magic man go brrrr

[icarus-suraki]

"The most widely-used image in academic history is no longer accepted in journals. So what happened?"

#computer science #no really #i'm interested in this from a library science perspective #stories you never knew before #the patron saint of jpgs

[soldier-poet-king]

I am very good at my job but also I feel too stupid for my job and I'm afraid of being fired even tho I'm contract so by DEFINITION my employment is going to end this year anyway and it's just????

#anyway. #workposting #im in that weird in between between traditional archival work and IT preservation work #and my ideal is digital archives work #but i dont have enough experience and i feel stupid like i dont know enough computer shit #and im constantly googling shit to figure out these new open source software ive not used before #which is fine except that the it guy doesnt trust me and i have 0 admin righrs on my work pc and im SO limited #and my boss doesnt understand SHIT abt digital archiving. so its like. #im translating archive speak for the it guy and tech speak for my boss #but no one trusts me bc im so young and out of school #and to be fair i know MORE digital expertise than most ppl in archives and library fields #since that was my speciality for my coursework #but i know so much less than ACTUAL SPECIALISTS and tech ppl #so i feel like i need to like. do a compsci boot camp or else I'm a fraud #or just be left alone for a month with full admin privileges #and ill figure it out. and itll end well #but i need TIME and AUTHORITY #ive been given neither

[navramanan]

I feel so horrible

#last evening i spilled tea it was obv an accident but i should have been more careful it was through a too careless action #some spilled on the book i got from the library. i thought that was the worst part #a bit spilled on my laptop. very little. while i was busy with the book my mom wiped my laptop #my brother immediately turned it off & told me to keep it upside down overnight #so i put it upside down. for hours. at least 4. before that i picked it up to look i could still see the water #but my laptop reacted to me picking it up & showed the battery percentage on the screen like it does #i didnt do anything else and put it back upside down. so again later i picked it up to check #it look dry. this time it didnt react to my ''touch'' to me picking it up #i didnt think anything. i wanted to do something on my laptop and tried powering it on. idk if that was a mistake or not #but it didnt react. the night is over it's almost noon it's still not turning on. it's been in rice the whole night #but honestly i dont even know if that actually helps. i know it's a popular method but idk #my brother works in IT he knows computers he said he'd unscrew & remove the storage disk to be safe #and to call someone they know who repairs computers. neither of these things happened yet bc we dont have the right screw #my brother i believe asked the neighbor #i'm not really hopeful. i've slept 4 hours last night bc i was so worried i couldnt sleep #went to sleep at 3 woke up at 7 couldnt sleep again #i said i'm not hopeful but one thing about me i never think bad things like this could happen to me so there's always this #''it's not real this isnt happening'' in me. i wish it wasnt bc if it turns out to be real it devastates me #i feel i get swayed so easily by things going wrong. it just immobilizes me #it happened when my luggage got lost. i was completely scatter brained fully gone when it happened #i was staying at my aunt's place. she poked fun at me for how much it affected me. said i have euros i could raplace my clothes #i spent four days this way. i was there to see a friend. i felt i was robbed from truly having a good time. it was our first time meeting #i cried every single day. called the airport lost & found every single day. this one thing occupied my whole being #i got my luggage back but what i'm getting at is for one i actually got it back so it wasnt a real bad thing that happened. it got fixed #and two it just had me in its clutches this one incident. so now my laptop wont turn on i cant think of anything else #cant do anything else. and although it looks real and i DONT want to be hopeful so i can let go and not be devastated when i find out #it's irreparable. idk where i'm getting at with this. except idk i really really really want it to work again #nesi rants

[crowboss-whore]

Head empty

Just Micah Yujin and his stupid silly ahaha face

#I played the game before I got a new computer #so when I found it in my steam library i has forgotten it HAHA #so seeing it again and playing it was so much fun heehoo #Micah yujin brainrot is kind of hitting hard

[homestuck--edits]

hey!! i feel bad coming in and requesting so much stuff, so if you dont want to do it, its fine! could i possibly get a talksprite of my oc aontwi with a damara base? she is a limeblood if that helps! thank you so much for all your hard work!

her :))

-mod davesprite

#mod davesprite #homestuck #talksprite edit #talksprite edits heart heart #anyway had comp today #i wasnt allowed to participate but i have a fun story abt finding a place #so last year we hosted at the college which we could do because they had the security guard there on saturdays #this year they didnt meaning wed have to pay his salary for the time he was there #unfortunately we recieve 0 district funding #so we had to find a new spot. tried to go to the ymca #held one comp there (my last one uh. Ever. but we did the best weve ever done !!) #and then this time. six days before competition. they said wed have to pay 50 bucks an hour to compete there again. its a 9 hour competition #so we had to find somewhere else. which i was tasked with #i called: hospital‚ pud‚ civic center‚ city hall‚ local lumber company‚ library‚ tax place‚ senior center‚ fire department‚ and six churches #oh local bus company also #anyway finally person from tax place recommended a coffee shop downtown thatd charge 75 bucks a day for a decent size room #so me n gf went down to check it out. unfortunately theyre only open five hours a day. for a six hour competition. so they couldnt do it #our last options were... visit more churches. the cops ? and... that was all. so we went to get coffee #coffee shop that gave me my cute lemon bracelet :DD! so anyway was complaining to the store owner abt not having a place. and she went #oh would here work? and i went uh. yeah? is it okay if we bring computers? and how long are you open? #she said yeah the computers are fine and we can be open as long as you want ! and i went oh okay. so how much do we have to pay #because wed be occupying the whole place all day. and she said oh no worries :)) free !. and . holy shit. so she called her daughter #who stayed like three hours late today. unpaid. for us to compete #fucking insane this coffee shop has done more for us than the school district has ever. and it was great!! #a lil cramped but cozy and also Coffee. we spent probably 200 bucks on coffee altogether?? hope it was profitable for them they were so nice #gave some of us free stuff fucking insane honestly #also shoutout to the dairy queen for not killing us for walking in with 67 dollars and going give us all the chicken strips this will buy #it was 44 btw. and they gave us a free burger some guy named alex made. i dont know why they did but they wouldnt take no for an answer #anyway im not in a good mood but fuck dude i love local business. i also got a tiny palm reading book to carry around :>

[green-and-grey]

i miss a softer world

#standing around the one froend who got a computer in the library before school and going through everyone's webcomics one by one #smbc to dinosaur comics to xkcd to questionable content to a softer world #god who am i forgetting? #what a time the late aughts were tbh #ohhhh someone always browsed cracked and shared the best articles and lists #i'm sure a lot of them have not aged well...

[rohirric-hunter]

Me: No thank you, iTunes, I don’t want to update, I’m just using you to find the file locations of all my music.

iTunes: I’m not playing any music then, fuck you.

#fun new computer glitches! #i only skipped 2 updates and its already just straight up refusing to function #we wouldnt have put up with this when i was a kid #itunes would have lost tens of thousands of users for pulling this kind of shit #anyway jokes on them i can still find the file location and play it straight out of windows exporer #im honestly just using itunes to find and organize my music before i delete it entirely #my computer cant run itunes and lotro at the same time #which is ABSURD and absolutely a problem with itunes and not lotro #any other music player runs just fine with lotro #anyway i wish i could just delete itunes but some of my music is in really weird places and only itunes knows where #including that one album i bought from amazon music and NEVER DOWNLOADED but is somehow still in my itunes library #afaik my apple and amazon accounts arent connected #🎵 im gonna start buying physical cds with caaaaaash whenever possible 🎵

[waruihoshi]

Warui's laptop

2017 - 2022

Rest in Peace 😔

#my data is safe so I'm mostly fine #but i can't get a new laptop before january because i am in another country tm #campus library computers are nice to work but i can't do other stuff :pensive:

[tiixij]

about to lose my mind why cant things be easy

#WHY cant i log in to the computers in the library #i need to have something printed for a class i have in about an hour and i cant print it!!! #i know how to log into the school computers.. ive done it before and yet!! #killing murder killing might go to the public library whatever -_- #kind of worried that might take too long though?? #the class is at noon. i need about 30 minutes to walk there it takes 5 minutes to drive to the library its currently 10:50.. #idk i dont understand time and idk how long itll take to print something?? #but i need three copies of this and i AUGH. #[explodes and dies

[thelovelygods]

accidentally deleted the bulk of my music library from my phone and computer, gonna kms

#personal #everything purchased or downloaded before 2020 is gone #i'm so fucking stupid #i was just trying to add ONE (1) song from my computer to my itunes library and then sync it to my phone #and then idk what i did or what happened

[absentlyabbie]

seriously, though. i work in higher education, and part of my job is students sending me transcripts. you'd think the ones who have the least idea how to actually do that would be the older ones, and while sure, they definitely struggle with it, i see it most with the younger students. the teens to early 20s crowd.

very, astonishingly often, they don't know how to work with .pdf documents. i get garbage phone screenshots, sometimes inserted into an excel or word file for who knows what reason, but most often it's just a raw .jpg or other image file.

they definitely either don't know how to use a scanner, don't have access to one, or don't even know where they might go for that (staples and other office supply stores sometimes still have these services, but public libraries always have your back, kids.) so when they have a paper transcript and need to send me a copy electronically, it's just terrible photos at bad angles full of thumbs and text-obscuring shadows.

mind bogglingly frequently, i get cell phone photos of computer screens. they don't know how to take a screenshot on a computer. they don't know the function of the Print Screen button on the keyboard. they don't know how to right click a web page, hit "print", and choose "save as PDF" to produce a full and unbroken capture of the entirety of a webpage.

sometimes they'll just copy the text of a transcript and paste it right into the message of an email. that's if they figure out the difference between the body text portion of the email and the subject line, because quite frankly they often don't.

these are people who in most cases have done at least some college work already, but they have absolutely no clue how to utilize the attachment function in an email, and for some reason they don't consider they could google very quickly for instructions or even videos.

i am not taking a shit on gen z/gen alpha here, i'm really not.

what i am is aghast that they've been so massively failed on so many levels. the education system assumed they were "native" to technology and needed to be taught nothing. their parents assumed the same, or assumed the schools would teach them, or don't know how themselves and are too intimidated to figure it out and teach their kids these skills at home.

they spend hours a day on instagram and tiktok and youtube and etc, so they surely know (this is ridiculous to assume!!!) how to draft a formal email and format the text and what part goes where and what all those damn little symbols means, right? SURELY they're already familiar with every file type under the sun and know how to make use of whatever's salient in a pinch, right???

THEY MUST CERTAINLY know, innately, as one knows how to inhale, how to type in business formatting and formal communication style, how to present themselves in a way that gets them taken seriously by formal institutions, how to appear and be competent in basic/standard digital skills. SURELY. Of course. RIGHT!!!!

it's MADDENING, it's insane, and it's frustrating from the receiving end, but even more frustrating knowing they're stumbling blind out there in the digital spaces of grown-up matters, being dismissed, being considered less intelligent, being talked down to, because every adult and system responsible for them just

ASSUMED they should "just know" or "just figure out" these important things no one ever bothered to teach them, or half the time even introduce the concepts of before asking them to do it, on the spot, with high educational or professional stakes.

kids shouldn't have to supplement their own education like this and get sneered and scoffed at if they don't.

[bighandsforabigheart]

Yeah I get you can jailbreak your DS to play every game or whatever but I enjoy spending three times the original cost to collect games that are already playable on the newest console please leave me alone

#I got ghost trick DS a year before the switch one came out and it was still worth it #(the DS one plays better) #people who make their entire identity about pirating irritate me #go to the library!! they lend you computers too!! #if they dont have the thing you want you could request a purchase!! it’s that easy