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You know, an interesting tumblr transformation that's happened gradually, and which I've seen no one talk about: ask-culture has essentially dropped off to nothing.

By which I mean, asks used to be WAY more of the tumblr economy. They used to be more common to send, and receive, and see. They were integral to the collaborative, forum-like behavior of old tumblr communities, not even to speak on the HUGE number of ask-blogs that used to exist to only be interacted with in ask-form.

I'm not saying this in a vying-for-attention way but instead in an observational way: I used to get way way more asks in like 2015, even with a fraction of my follower count. I wonder if it's due to the homogenization of social media sites? There's a lot more of this divide between "content creator" and "consumer" instead of just a bunch of peer blogs who would talk to each other. "Asks" aren't really a thing on twitter, are they? And as I understand it, the closest thing to an "ask" on instagram or tiktok would be a creator screenshotting some comment and responding to it in a new reel or video or whatever those content mediums are. Are asks just too tumblr-specific? Is that aspect of the site culture dying out as more and more people converge to using all their social media sites in the same way?

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It’s Friday. Have a playlist of Ashlee and Jesse being bad at a good game:

#thattown entertainment #tales of thattown #comedy #supernatural #horror #let’s play #youtube #lost kingdoms

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I wrote about the Audio Verse Awards! This is an opinion piece that explores the good and the bad of the AVAs, with quotes from some other creators.

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None of us are without sin.

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not my meme but you all do know about this right? It feels like it's getting buried right now and I feel like its proponents are trying to take advantage of that.

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What are we thinking?

SCP-001 When Day Breaks?

The Demon Castle War?

Behelit activation?

Something else perilous?

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in 2015 I needed a job really bad for reasons not worth getting into. i was living in ohio for like 6 months & i just applied at every place within a 30 minute drive from me and i got a call from the local Game Stop mere minutes after submitting the online app, which was obviously a red flag but I wasn’t in the position to be picky.

so they tell me when to show up for orientation & I get there the day-of but the store is closed & locked. i text the manager & he says back “oh yeah. i manage two Game Stops and open them alternate days.”

apparently the Game Stop I originally applied to is open Mondays Wednesdays Fridays and the other one is open Sundays Tuesdays Thursdays Saturdays.

They’re 15 minutes apart. I don’t ask whether it would make sense to just have one store locally that is open daily, bc maybe the guy knows something I don’t.

So I get to the other Game Stop and walk in and it seems like there’s no one working there. There’s just a single woman in there wearing an ankle length leather trench coat. She didn’t greet me when I came in & she’s just browsing.

After ten minutes I ask her if she’s seen any employees and she’s like “oh I’m an employee.” She’s not wearing a name tag on the trench coat.

I tell her I’m here for training and she tells me the manager hasn’t come in yet. “he falls asleep playing xbox all the time but if he’s on live we can try pinging him to wake him up.”

I play Xbox and that absolutely doesn’t sound like a thing you can do in the way she’s describing it but once again maybe she knows something I don’t.

I ask if we have an Xbox that we can use to “ping” him and she says “yeah the one in the back we play on.”

She has an English accent by the way, a very specific & posh one which usually wouldn’t be relevant but we’ll get there.

So before she leads me to the Xbox-in-the-back she goes “oh damn. our internet has actually been down all morning, I forgot. We need to call the provider and have them come out and fix it. Can you do that?”

Can I call an unnamed internet provider and schedule them to come do service at a business where I don’t even technically work yet? Idk. She gives me their number and I call them and they put me on hold.

People are walking in and she’s not greeting them. She keeps browsing and people assume like I did that she’s another customer so they’re coming up to the counter where I’m on hold to ask me for help, and then I have to say I can’t help them and to ask the woman in the trenchcoat, and then she says “we can’t sell you anything. internet’s down.”

this goes on for 30 minutes and every time the store is empty she’s chatting at me and I’m on hold and then a man walks in the door and he says “sorry I fell asleep on live again haahaahaa” so this is the manager and the minute she starts speaking to him she no longer has an English accent which has me confused because it did not sound fake.

It was regionally specific and very natural.

the manager asks what I’m doing and I say I’m on hold with the internet provider and he gives me a thumbs up and walks to the back.

so I ask how long she’s lived in the U.S. and say I’m always interested in the way people can sometimes go in and out of accents and she says “oh I’m American. he asked me to stop doing the accent so I only do it when he’s not here.”

Suddenly I wonder what I’m doing here and I tell her I need to leave and I give no excuse but at this point I don’t feel like I need one? She said okay! See you later.

The manager didn’t contact me and that night I got offered some other retail job I jumped on.

Three months later the Game Stop manager texts me and asks if I can cover a shift in an hour and I say back “I don’t think I work there? I left an hour into my training. And we never spoke again.” And he texts back “hahahaha right on.”

And you may think wow, what a strange experience that all was but recently I have spoken to friends who did work at Game Stop and when I tell them this story they don’t even blink. Nothing I say surprises them. I was at the average Game Stop

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Jesus fucking Christ.

“HEY gamers, DID YOU KNOW that the character you play in Fallout 4 is CANONICALLY a horrific war criminal?? Great vibes!!”

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As with most things, I just missed it.

Ah well.

Uhhhh, who wants some stickers?

I don’t measure success in numbers.

I don’t chase trends.

I just make stuff I want to see or hear.

That said; seeing a good, round number IS fun. Four away from 250 subscribers.

Maybe I’ll do something for that. We’ll cross that bridge as we burn it.

#thattown horrorama 3 #voice acting #scp archives #shitpost #podcast #thattown entertainment #tales of thattown #youtube #let’s play

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I don’t measure success in numbers.

I don’t chase trends.

I just make stuff I want to see or hear.

That said; seeing a good, round number IS fun. Four away from 250 subscribers.

Maybe I’ll do something for that. We’ll cross that bridge as we burn it.

#thattown entertainment #tales of thattown #comedy #horror #supernatural #audio drama #let’s play #youtube

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I’m going to ruin the name Sandy for so many people’s mind space.

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I had a pump for a bit, but my sites kept getting ripped out or disconnected in my sleep.

Everyone make a wish. I finished a long and short acting insulin pen at the same time.

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Everyone make a wish. I finished a long and short acting insulin pen at the same time.

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Just made my bloodletting appointment. I have too much blood. Blood like you wouldn't believe. It's like that scene from The Shining in there. Gotta get the ol' humors balanced on account of how I'm too buff and jacked and sexy.

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Our latest buying guide is out:

If you have a game you think we should showcase, reach out. Our DM’s are open!

#thattown entertainment #comedy #horror #supernatural #let’s play #dead island 2 #youtube

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Brave Bang Bravern is good.

#bang brave bang bravern #yuuki bakuhatsu bang bravern #brave bang bravern