A thought from my own brain, Through my fingers, To my keyboard.
Transcribed to ones and zeros, Beaming across the data stream, From one server to the next, Destined for your dashboard.
Light from backlit pixels, Beaming into your eyes, Transliterated to a thought into your own brain.
Hello.
I’m in front of Dinky the Dinosaur with Jeanie May Crawford
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Reblog to bap the person you reblogged from with your paws
anyways my rebranding is because I’ve been having so much fun with tiktok recently and I wanted my usernames to match.
“God is dead” -Zendaya
Zendaya is Nietzsche???
this website's moderation sucks ass and it has a terrible bot problem and there are an enormous amount of bugs but thankfully we have a staff team hard at work not addressing any of these but instead making shitty ui changes that nobody wants
Serious question, as I'm working on an idea for a cyberpunk RPG and am looking for a bit of input before I get too deep in worldbuilding:
If I want to portray a diverse and multicultural setting, how much of borrowing concepts from eastern Asia constitutes orientalism or appropriation?
Like, for a specific example, if I wanted to call the freelance operatives that players would be playing as "Ronin," because the idea that they aren't beholden to particular masters fits and to me it would feel thematic, would that be appropriative?
I intend on there being a number of corporations in the world I'm building, and most of them are caricatures of real world corps like Microsoft or Amazon, and they are various amounts of oppressive and evil; if I were to put, say, an evil Tencent analog as well, would that be offensive?
More generally, because I'm thinking the megacity in the setting I'm building is more or less built up from New York City, if there were (a) district(s) in the megacity the game takes place in that (is/are) predominantly inhabited by a particular culture, is this realistic or does this border on "ghetto-ifying" the setting? This would likely include south Asian and Arabic districts if I were to do this; People with similar backgrounds do tend to stick together but this is not always of their own accord so I feel that's a needle that will take some care to thread.
I am white, and I want to be sensitive to real world cultures, but also implement a somewhat realistic setting for this game and the cyberpunk genre has a pretty big problem with orientalism in general, as well as "yellow peril" in ways that I'd like to avoid if possible. I'd appreciate any input about this, especially from people of color.
the fact miguel’s suit is a hologram that he is completely naked in sheds some light on his little panic attack when miles was sucking that shit up to charge his sting on the tram like miguel really thought he was about to be balls out 400ft in the air with every spiderman ever staring up at his taint
hey! hi! I don't know how well tumblr takes to game announcements (especially ones for ~3 decade old PCs), but…
a couple nights ago I released WordHopper, a little arcade-like word game for pentium-era PCs running DOS (or Windows 9x, though ymmv).
it's $2 (minimum $1), and can be purchased here! there's also a demo you can try out in DOSBox, on real hardware, or online (NOTE: click the dosbox window as soon as possible to avoid a loud, short sound- I don't know how to fix that, sorry!)
thank you!
hey @staff what the fresh fuck is this
wow i sure wonder 🤔🤔 what the new layouts supposed to look like 🤔🤔🤔🤔 its a mystery
Don’t forget y’all that there’s a much better way for us to let Tumblr know what we think about specific changes, rather than @ ing staff or wip, and it’s sending in a support ticket and choosing feedback!
Tumblr reverted some of the asinine app decisions they made after a concerted feedback effort! So make sure to use this form! It’s what it’s for, but it’s not well advertised!
Does anyone remember what happened to Radio Shack?
They started out selling niche electronics supplies. Capacitors and transformers and shit. This was never the most popular thing, but they had an audience, one that they had a real lock on. No one else was doing that, so all the electronics geeks had to go to them, back in the days before online ordering. They branched out into other electronics too, but kept doing the electronic components.
Eventually they realize that they are making more money selling cell phones and remote control cars than they were with those electronic components. After all, everyone needs a cellphone and some electronic toys, but how many people need a multimeter and some resistors?
So they pivoted, and started only selling that stuff. All cellphones, all remote control cars, stop wasting store space on this niche shit.
And then Walmart and Target and Circuit City and Best Buy ate their lunch. Those companies were already running big stores that sold cellphones and remote control cars, and they had more leverage to get lower prices and selling more stuff meant they had more reasons to go in there, and they couldn't compete. Without the niche electronics stuff that had been their core brand, there was no reason to go to their stores. Everything they sold, you could get elsewhere, and almost always for cheaper, and probably you could buy 5 other things you needed while you were there, stuff Radio Shack didn't sell.
And Radio Shack is gone now. They had a small but loyal customer base that they were never going to lose, but they decided to switch to a bigger but more fickle customer base, one that would go somewhere else for convenience or a bargain. Rather than stick with what they were great at (and only they could do), they switched to something they were only okay at... putting them in a bigger pond with a lot of bigger fish who promptly out-competed them.
If Radio Shack had stayed with their core audience, who knows what would have happened? Maybe they wouldn't have made a billion dollars, but maybe they would still be around, still serving that community, still getting by. They may have had a small audience, but they had basically no competition for that audience. But yeah, we only know for sure what would happen if they decided to attempt to go more mainstream: They fail and die. We know for sure because that's what they did.
I don't know why I keep thinking about the story of what happened to Radio Shack. It just keeps feeling relevant for some reason.
ppl who oppose gender affirming care for kids are nuts like the extent of medical intervention for trans kids is maybe puberty blockers but they’ll still be like “SO UR SAYING WE SHOULD LET TODDLERS HAVE TOP SURGERY???????” barbara toddlers do not have a top to surgery
Saw someone asking "so do you endorse giving puberty blockers to five year olds?"
Friend, a five year old should not have puberty to block. If they do that's called precocious puberty and is the original reason puberty blockers were invented. If a five year old is going through puberty I absolutely endorse them being given puberty blockers
Hello all the new followers who apparently liked my hastily slapped together Heavy reply to that post about gun moms and baby boolets :P
