Foone Turing

See my problem is that a lot of very attractive ports and peripherals for a computer also unfortunately suck ass to actually have to deal with. The sound of a floppy drive is delightful but fuck me if I have to deal with actual floppy disks. They objectively are just kind of awful compared to any storage medium I could more easily use in 2023.

How DARE you?

BUNLITH PRIDE

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BUNLITH PRIDE

Anomalous Item #4742: A set of 173 VHS tapes with blank labels.

When a tape label is filled out (there are provided fields for title, director, and year) and then placed into any functioning VCR, the film listed will play, regardless of if it existed before the tape was played.

This was first believed to be an effect limited to the tapes, ie, the tapes were somehow generating the movie themselves through some method similar to AI art generation, but after initial tests were performed the paratime division discovered the effect is actually antichronological: when played, the tapes don't simply create the movie named, they alter the past so that the movie mentioned was created.

Thus, after a tape is labeled and played, it can be found on streaming services and in DVD rental stores. The directors, if still alive, will recall making the film, and actors who were active at the time the film was "made" will have anecdotes about events that happened in the film.

This can have ripple effects as well; during the 9th test, the film Big Trouble in Little China, 1986, directed by John Carpenter, was created. Besides the immediate effects of creating a new film that hadn't existed, an indirect effect was that the film Alien 2, 1985, John Carpenter, ceased to exist. Instead, the sequel to the 1979 film Alien (directed by Ridley Scott) was titled Aliens and directed by James Cameron. It's believed that by adding a new movie to the timeline of John Carpenter's direction, he no longer had time to direct one of the works he had directed in the original timeline, as he would have been busy directing the newly-added film, and directing roles therefore passed to another director.

Use of the tapes can also implicitly affect the lifespan of directors. In test #17, Researcher J. Calhoun attempted to generate a film that couldn't possibly exist: a prequel to a film made by a director who had died decades beforehand.

According to paratime research, the writing of "Star Wars: Episode 1, 1999, George Lucas" on the tape and the subsequent viewing undid the 1981 death of Mr. Lucas, causing Star Wars: Episode 6: Revenge of the Jedi to come out in 1983 instead of 1985, be titled "Return of the Jedi" instead, and it would be directed by George Lucas instead of Steven Spielberg.

This obviously had additional effects as it didn't merely extend the lifespan of George Lucas by an additional 18 years: at time of writing in 2022, he is still alive at the age of 78. It's therefore believed that the object doesn't unnaturally extend the lifespan of the director, it instead reshapes the flow of time so that any events that would stop them from filming the listed movie do not happen.

After discovery of their history altering nature, the remaining anomalous objects have been locked in secure storage at site #22. No further testing is authorized, and emergency use requires level #6 authorization, which will only be granted in the face of imminent disaster requiring paratime remedies.

Article update[2022-11-20]: an incident occurred where it was discovered that former researcher K. Synnol had acquired one of the tapes (see investigation document 2483 for details) and was attempting to use it for history modification, without approval. The paratime division detected the impending history alteration and an assault team was dispatched. Synnol was apprehended before they could complete the use of the tape, however the label WAS filled out but the tape remained unwatched. What effects, if any, the partial use of the anomalous artifact would have on the timeline is unknown, but in previous testing the film only came into being when the labeled tape was placed into a VCR and watched.

See photo attachment #2, below, for artifact 1B, recovered after the Synnol event.

More than one person has said "this should be an SCP!"

I don't write in other people's fiefdoms, but you're welcome to adapt this story as needed to make it one. You've got my permission to use the text and image for that, and to modify it in whatever ways needed.

the silly bleater!!

‘Interlude II’

[DOS / APPLE2] [USA] [MAGAZINE] [1986]

You can play it in your browser here:

WHAT.

You could have asked if I’m trans, rather than trying to be all coy about it with the question about Tootsie.

it turns out it’s not playable as-is in the emulator. You can’t flip the disk to get your results.

ahh yes, the 10 genders

‘Interlude II’

[DOS / APPLE2] [USA] [MAGAZINE] [1986]

You can play it in your browser here:

WHAT.

You could have asked if I’m trans, rather than trying to be all coy about it with the question about Tootsie.

it turns out it's not playable as-is in the emulator. You can't flip the disk to get your results.

‘Interlude II’

[DOS / APPLE2] [USA] [MAGAZINE] [1986]

You can play it in your browser here:

WHAT.

You could have asked if I'm trans, rather than trying to be all coy about it with the question about Tootsie.

‘Interlude II’

[DOS / APPLE2] [USA] [MAGAZINE] [1986]

You can play it in your browser here:

dog boy!!!

this is Otis, he's dog that rescues people and carries heavy cargo, he's quite big and strong, but also a big softie at heart

also tummy-

I can't rightly remember the last time I had a banger post without Foone getting involved and making the graph look like this

The only one I can find from the past year that hit four digits without that Foone punk being responsible was the COD Lobby post at 13,872 notes of which 5,795 were reblogs...

... because that's on maia arson crimew's rap sheet. That was not a fooneboost, but a bingleboost.

*hits "load more" until all 5,795 are shown*

Jesus Christ.

My second best is the Dashcon one that none of ny'all could be fucking normal about. 2,067 notes of which 758 reblogs.

And that did involve Foone.

Trust me, I made a spreadsheet.

I started from the #fooneboost tag, then got a third party involved to get a top ten for 2023.

As the Confidence post from December last year said, I am full of confidence issues and apparently being dependent on Foone to do any sort of numbers here is still not helping.

So the thing is, it's not every post I boost that gets a bunch of hits, you know?

But it obviously helps. You know what that means? It means you're making Good Posts, I'm just helping give them an audience to appreciate them. I'm not, like, forcing people to like your posts, it's not ballot stuffing, it's just that you don't yet have the follower count to get your posts naturally spread to a bunch of people who'll like them.