this started as a joke but then i started actually thinking about it and now im really annoyed that IDs have this one letter that doesnt mean anything for cis people and is a huge pain in the ass for trans people when we could instead have literally lifesaving information so emergency medical services could just check ur wallet to see which blood to give you so you dont die or whatever But No
Look, there’s a lot to be said about the contemporary gaming industry’s preoccupation with graphics performance, but “no video game needs to run at higher than thirty frames per second” – which is something I’ve seen come up in a couple of recent trending posts – isn’t a terribly supportable assertion.
The notion that sixty frames per second ought to be a baseline performance target isn’t a modern one. Most NES games ran at sixty frames per second. This was in 1983 – we’re talking about a system with two kilobytes of RAM, and even then, sixty frames per second was considered the gold standard. There’s a good reason for that, too: if you go much lower, rapidly moving backgrounds start to give a lot of folks eye strain and vertigo. It’s genuinely an accessibility problem.
The idea that thirty frames per second is acceptable didn’t gain currency until first-generation 3D consoles like the N64, as a compromise to allow more complex character models and environments within the limited capabilities of early 3D GPUs. If you’re characterising the 60fps standard as the product of studios pushing shiny graphics over good technical design, historically speaking you’ve got it precisely backwards: it’s actually the 30fps standard that’s the product of prioritising flash and spectacle over user experience.
Sorry to break it to y'all but believing in anything, participating in anything, has the capacity to harm people. There’s no perfect system of belief that exempts you from having to continually work to not be an asshole.
Like, it never stops. It’s not like you’re gonna read the right book of philosophy or religion or magic and be like “I’ve found it! The perfect idealogical framework! Now all of my actions for the rest of my life will finally be perfectly moral and impossible to criticize!”
I hate when people say ohhhh your pets only love you because you feed them. as if that wasn’t the first form of love any of us felt. get real.
So true. Food is literally what we use to tell animals we won’t hurt them. We give them food and then don’t do anything to them and the animal learns you’re a cool dude, and becomes open to bonding. When you bond, you Know your pet loves you. It’s the primary way we get feral kittens to start trusting humans. It’s no different really with people and how we come together, we bond over meals all the fucking time.
Also like. There is no higher praise than knowing an animal feels safe enough to come to you with their basic needs. That’s why I like when it’s cold and my cat comes to sit on my chest. She could go directly to the heater and often does when I’m at work, but does the heater cuddle back? Does it thumb rub her ears and talk to her in a voice she recognizes as contented and pleased?
When I was a child, from the time I was about four and could understand things, my mom told me and my brother that we should have a secret word. That way, if we were ever in trouble or felt unsafe and we didn’t want the people around us to know we needed her to come get us, we could let her know. So she let us pick the word and my brother and I chose the phrase “peanut butter cups.” (I’m happy to share the phrase now since both my brother and I are adults now).
I used the phrase twice in my life. Once, I was at a friends house when I eight years old. Her dad got really drunk and was throwing things against the wall. I was really scared and I didn’t want to draw attention to myself on the phone when I called my mom to come get me because I didn’t know if he would get more violent if I asked her to come get me. So I called her and was calm and after a couple minutes I asked “Hey mommy, did you get me those peanut butter cups from the store?” And she said “I’ll be right there.” And she came and got me within minutes.
Second, I was a teenager spending the night at a friends house. Her brother and dad were drinking and they started talking about things that made me uncomfortable - ie: what they liked to do to women. My friend didn’t seem perturbed and said that was normal for them and that I shouldn’t worry. But I was worried because they were really drunk and I was 15 and the only ‘woman’ around that wasn’t related to them. I went in my friends room, told her I needed to call my mom and say goodnight. Before I hung up with her I asked “Next time we go to the store, can we get some peanut butters cups? I’ve been craving them.” And she came and got me, just like that.
Two incidents, one as a young child, one years later as a teen. Don’t discredit this stuff, it fucking works. My brother used it a few times too. Let your child pick the word and no never, ever, ever, ever get mad at them for using it no matter what it is.
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Off topic, but very important! I was taught to yell “this is not my mom/dad.” A young kid freaking out in public is likely to be ignored out of embarrassment, but a kid telling you right out that they don’t know who is messing with them? That will turn heads.
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I feel like this should be said too if you see a child yelling things like “this isn’t my mum, or I don’t know you” or something don’t ignore them! This system relies on people actually helping the child! It dosent matter how rude you’ll seem or how anxious you are you could be saving a child’s life!
Even if you just ask the child “Do you know this person” if the adult butt’s in make sure to ASK THE CHILD! Even a shy kid will tell you they don’t know this person or just met them or something!
people are absolutely EVIL about the boundaries of “picky eaters”. no, they do not have to try it. yes, they can know they don’t like it without having eaten it before. no, they probably have not suddenly grown a taste for the food they’ve said they hate. no, they probably are not going to like it in the Special Way This One Place Cooks It. yes, you are being a bad friend if you try to “trick” them into eating it anyway
Things that actually help picky eaters try new things:
“Do you want to try this off of my plate?”
“It’s made of [ingredients], I think you’d like [x part]”
“If you want to see if you like [x food], this is a pretty good representation of it”
“You won’t like this, it tastes like [description]. Do you want to try it for fun?”
“Do you remember trying/have you ever tried [x food]? This is like that, but [differences]”
“I think you’d like the taste of this, but the texture is iffy. It’s [description]”
Make sure there’s other food they can eat if they don’t like the new one
And most importantly, build trust with that person by listening to them, showing that you take their concerns into account, and being cool if the answer is no. No is always an option. This isn’t something you do once, it’s a pattern you have to stick to if you want to establish that you are a safe person when it comes to food stuff
Basically: offer the food, explain what’s in it and why you think it’s worth trying, and then be cool with the answer you get. No pressure, no trickery, just be straight up with people
So I work at a library and about a month ago I helped a little old woman who is legally blind figure out how to listen to our audiobooks on her tablet. We got to chatting and I mentioned that I always listen to audiobooks while I knit, which made her very excited and she told me all about the afghans she used to make when she could still see. She was so sweet and I was so glad to be able to help her figure out a way to still enjoy books without being able to read.
Yesterday I answered the phone at work and when I said my name the woman on the other line got so excited and said “Madeline?? You’re exactly who I wanted to talk to! This is Marie, you helped me about a month ago. How late are you working today?” It was her!! And about an hour later she and her husband showed up, and she was carrying a huge stack of old knitting patterns for me, and her husband brought in a few boxes full of yarn. They couldn’t stay long but I was so touched that she remembered me, and I struggled to not just flat out start crying when she handed me the patterns. When I looked through them later I realized it was her entire personal collection from over the years, including all her personal notes and drawings and even some photographs of her finished pieces. No one in my family knits, and to have someone pass on their legacy to me like that was incredibly moving.
This isn’t what I usually post here, but with life being especially dark lately I wanted to share a moment of happiness and a reminder that a bit of kindness goes a long way ♡
the whole point of a zine is that it’s cheap to produce, amateur and homemade. if you’re being asked to apply to participate in a print project, it is not a zine. if the final product is being printed and bound professionally, it is not a zine. if you are being asked to enter into any kind of licensing agreement more complex than “my work can be reproduced as part of this publication” it is not a zine. nine times put of ten if the final product costs more than $5 you have left zine country. im so serious about this.
this isn’t snobby gatekeeping or imaginary semantic problems or whatever, this is an issue that has come up irl at cons and zine fairs local to me and which keeps coming up online. people who show up to trade fairs selling professionally printed $15 anthologies as ‘zines’ have a direct impact on the people trying to sell their $3 chapbooks at the next table over. submission based kickstarter projects that bill themselves as 'zines’ exploit the connotations of amateur, punk production values to induce creators to work for less and eschew formal guarantees and protections they are entitled to.
my favorite zines have all been $1 or free and printed on highlighter paper. i used to pick em up from a book store in chelsea that sold predominantly self published work, and had sections for zines. Some were about how to eat cheap in the city when most of your paycheck went to rent, others were talking about the best drag performances in town, and plenty of DIY stuff. all of them had the same unique quality: nobody but the author and their collaborators could’ve made this, and they wanted to make it easily accessible to the community
i kinda hate that the word that was used for extremely personal and cheap works is applied to essentially art books of your favorite anime OTP
hi! sorry, real quick:
grab a piece of paper and fold it in half like a book
write “im indifferent to zines” on the cover
write “i’ve never been able to buy one” on the first page
write “and i’ll never be in one” on the second page
write “just want to be a hater today” on the back
congrats you’re in a zine! if you like you can photocopy it and sell it to art students, fellow haters, or anyone with a sense of humour. I’ll buy one.
ive been saying this since 2015! all my illustrator friends kept submitting to them (and gettin in which i was proud of) but they… werent zines. they were like massive books with grandiose color schemes and gilded bossing. i couldnt afford them even. zines are oft free or traded and they arent about how pretty a picture you can make.
the first zine idea i found was in a book i checked out from the library (id never remember what it was. it was about cartooning i think and had a section about chibi style lol) that had a little section on taking one sheet of paper, marking it into eighths, cutting a line in the center of the page and folding it over for a quick eight pages. like this
this makes printing soooo easy too. id love to see these floating around places
So I scrolled past this post and was thinking the same thought I always do when I see people talking about zines, which is basically ‘zines are so cool, I’ve never made one because I don’t think I have anything interesting to say in one, but I should make a zine someday if I ever have creative energy again’ and then it gets added to my ever growing mental list of things I want to do but don’t end up doing (I have spent the last several years struggling so hard with my depression that I can’t seam to create anything at all)
And then I thought, hey I have a piece of paper by my desk I should at least follow that diagram and fold it, that way I’m halfway there even if it’s blank and sits on my desk for months, and then 5 minutes later I had this:
Now I’m just holding this little thing I’ve made in my hands and I love it so much
So thank you to this post for inspiring me to make something today! Even if it’s just a simple silly little thing I’m going to treasure it
you’re too logged on man your consumption of internet porn has severed your psychospiritual connection with the beauty of the natural land. i spent 10 months in sensory deprivation exclusively cranking it to the gentle soundscape of a babbling brook and now when i hear the tap on a soda machine go off i bust so hard the gas station clerk has to call the police
Don’t you mean classist Typo, as in discriminating against poor people, and not classicist, the type of academic who studies antiquity in southern Europe?
My coworker Mike just started cracking up. Informed us someone was trying to make a test Outlook group at work and seems to have accidentally made it a real Outlook group.
Everyone added to the group is named Mike.
Creator of the group isn’t online yet but the Mikes are coming online in droves.
“Why was I added to this group? What do I have in common with all these other Mikes?” -one of the Mikes
“Ah, so this is Mikerosoft” (<- you’re never gonna guess what company I work for)
One Mike has suggested this is an effort by the group-creator to hunt Mikes for sport
Coworker (Mike T.) has informed us he had a meeting earlier today, and among the participants one person was missing (Mike S.) Current theory is first Mike casualty had occurred. More will follow.
Current suggestion is we attempt to add a non-Mike to the group, to test its security.
Coworker Alex: “Alex log, day 207. The Mikes have started to accept me as one of their own.”
Delighted to inform you the group creator is not a Mike at all. It is apparently some guy named Ashton.
People on this app will say shit like “be gay do crime!” And call themselves a “tranny genderfuck” and then clutch their pearls when a trans women calls herself a bi lesbian
The US military emitted 640 times as much CO2 as Taylor Swift last year
the entire US military. only 640x worse? holy fuck. the US military employs. more than 640 people. either this is wrong or taylor is on some next level shit
i’ll point out the US military still employs more than roughly 6000 people
The US military employs about 2.86 million people worldwide. That means they generated about 17 tonnes of emissions per person, a figure substantially smaller than Swift’s alone
In fact, you might say that Taylor Swift has personally generated the emissions of 465 members of one of the world’s largest polluters. I wouldn’t say that remotely absolves her
This is like crypto bros defending how much power Bitcoin uses by saying banks leave ATMs on all night.
The term “beta” in this context is short for “beta reader” - a person who reads a fic while it’s still in the editing stage and helps the writer get it ready to post. Some betas check grammar. Some check canon compliance. Some are sensitivity readers. There are lots of things that betas can do.
So functionally, saying “no beta” means that the writer didn’t get this checked by a second person before they posted it. It’s a warning that there might be errors or typos etc. It’s mostly used when an author has written something quickly and is posting without doing a lot of (or any) edits first.
As for where it comes from? It all started with a bumper sticker.
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This image was an internet meme at one point, and it got meme’d on in the form of “no ___ we ___ like men”
Here on tumblr, one of the versions that got really popular was from now-deleted user @grec1a who created this version:
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From there, it migrated to AO3 as the “no beta we die like men” tag, and very often the word men is replaced by the name of a character who dies in canon.
I did not know this, but it makes so much sense, and it’s SO good to learn fanfiction history.
The term “beta” in this context is short for “beta reader” - a person who reads a fic while it’s still in the editing stage and helps the writer get it ready to post. Some betas check grammar. Some check canon compliance. Some are sensitivity readers. There are lots of things that betas can do.
So functionally, saying “no beta” means that the writer didn’t get this checked by a second person before they posted it. It’s a warning that there might be errors or typos etc. It’s mostly used when an author has written something quickly and is posting without doing a lot of (or any) edits first.
As for where it comes from? It all started with a bumper sticker.
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This image was an internet meme at one point, and it got meme’d on in the form of “no ___ we ___ like men”
Here on tumblr, one of the versions that got really popular was from now-deleted user @grec1a who created this version:
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From there, it migrated to AO3 as the “no beta we die like men” tag, and very often the word men is replaced by the name of a character who dies in canon.
I did not know this, but it makes so much sense, and it’s SO good to learn fanfiction history.
hate when yellow gets all the credit for being a primary color when it’s literally r G b
⭐️ mellow-yellowFollow
uhh… i literally am a subtractive primary. like yeah it sucks that you don’t get the recognition you deserve but you don’t have to put down other colors
🌷 majestic-magentaFollow
at least you’re on the color wheel :(
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I hate colors whose hex codes start with F. It’s literally such a red flag
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not absorbing light, not reflecting light, but a secret third thing (letting it pass through me)
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you’re in her dms, i’m a fundamental part of her personality. we are not the same.
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🍎 rubyredFollow
if you can’t be represented by a wavelength of light you’re not a real color
🌷 majestic-magentaFollow
this is literally so toxic wtf! colors that are perceived only when the short and long cones are activated together are valid!
🎱 blackasmysoulFollow
tired of ppl telling me i’m the “absence of color” and therefore not a color myself. like you don’t get to choose how I identify!
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why is everyone saying that orange is the new me. I literally haven’t gone anywhere
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sounds like a skill issue????
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stop saying me and blue look alike!!! we are literally different colors!!!
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hate when yellow gets all the credit for being a primary color when it’s literally r G b
⭐️ mellow-yellowFollow
uhh… i literally am a subtractive primary. like yeah it sucks that you don’t get the recognition you deserve but you don’t have to put down other colors
🌷 majestic-magentaFollow
at least you’re on the color wheel :(
159,903 notes
💎 cyan-ideFollow
I hate colors whose hex codes start with F. It’s literally such a red flag
255 notes
🔍clearasdayFollow
not absorbing light, not reflecting light, but a secret third thing (letting it pass through me)
1516 notes
🔮therealroyalpurpleFollow
you’re in her dms, i’m a fundamental part of her personality. we are not the same.
541,094 notes
🍎 rubyredFollow
if you can’t be represented by a wavelength of light you’re not a real color
🌷 majestic-magentaFollow
this is literally so toxic wtf! colors that are perceived only when the short and long cones are activated together are valid!
🎱 blackasmysoulFollow
tired of ppl telling me i’m the “absence of color” and therefore not a color myself. like you don’t get to choose how I identify!
980,195 notes
🎱 blackasmysoulFollow
why is everyone saying that orange is the new me. I literally haven’t gone anywhere
🏀 thecolornotthefruitFollow
sounds like a skill issue????
765 notes
💎 cyan-ideFollow
stop saying me and blue look alike!!! we are literally different colors!!!
hate when yellow gets all the credit for being a primary color when it’s literally r G b
⭐️ mellow-yellowFollow
uhh… i literally am a subtractive primary. like yeah it sucks that you don’t get the recognition you deserve but you don’t have to put down other colors
🌷 majestic-magentaFollow
at least you’re on the color wheel :(
159,903 notes
💎 cyan-ideFollow
I hate colors whose hex codes start with F. It’s literally such a red flag
255 notes
🔍clearasdayFollow
not absorbing light, not reflecting light, but a secret third thing (letting it pass through me)
1516 notes
🔮therealroyalpurpleFollow
you’re in her dms, i’m a fundamental part of her personality. we are not the same.
541,094 notes
🍎 rubyredFollow
if you can’t be represented by a wavelength of light you’re not a real color
🌷 majestic-magentaFollow
this is literally so toxic wtf! colors that are perceived only when the short and long cones are activated together are valid!
🎱 blackasmysoulFollow
tired of ppl telling me i’m the “absence of color” and therefore not a color myself. like you don’t get to choose how I identify!
980,195 notes
🎱 blackasmysoulFollow
why is everyone saying that orange is the new me. I literally haven’t gone anywhere
🏀 thecolornotthefruitFollow
sounds like a skill issue????
765 notes
💎 cyan-ideFollow
stop saying me and blue look alike!!! we are literally different colors!!!
A valid warrior cat name. And an odd name for the actual animal that it is!
for those wondering:
BEHOLD.
The mountain chicken!
It is called the mountain chicken because it makes it sound more palatable and it also apparently tastes sort of like chicken. In england they also used this trick to get people to eat frog on a fancy menu once by calling them nymphs of the dawn. It’s literally just a frog guys.
However, what’s REALLY funny is the fact that naming things after chickens happens to OTHER things as well.
Actually, here’s an idea. Let’s play a game.
which of these things is the closest relative to The Domestic Chicken?
Leshy is the ex-god of chaos, so it’s no surprise he favors chaos and that it guides most of his actions, which also makes his motives pretty unpredictable, even to the other Bishops.
Hating the Lamb would be the logical thing to do, but approaching them in a friendly way will result in more confusion and a chance to annoy the hell out of Narinder as a bonus.
So far Lamb doesn’t seem to mind, aside from the confusion the interactions cause them.
Post that will get me labelled a psyop but honestly the moment that a party realizes that “you might not like us but you have no choice but to vote for us because otherwise the fascists win” is an effective way to rake in votes it practically ensures that they’ll never take any actual meaningful action against the fascism problem. They gotta keep the fascists around bro they’re their electoral strategy.
And with each cycle as the window of “normalcy” for their donors gets ratcheted right-ward, the level of deniability grows. The only workable solution is an interlocking network of small action networks that can provide for people’s daily needs (food, shelter, etc)
The main reason the Black Panthers were targeted wasn’t their standing armed defense of neighborhoods. It was their free meals for kids and clinics. Look into their 12 point program, and either find a way to support similar movements today.
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