TakeshiPako

This sort of thinking is making the rounds on Twitter again:

I don't why people can't accept that there are just bad people in the world, and also in many video games, you need Always Chaotic Evil faceless morons to kill.

Orcs and Skeletons exist to be the pin cushions for player characters.

If the person in the image above makes the logical loop from killing bandits = being a cop, and a good person should then kill those cops and become Che Guevara, then they are creating a very niche scenario - and not the baseline for roleplaying games.

It just baffles me that this is even a conversation that people feel the need to have, especially for video games.

Respectfully, Ireland is the best country on the planet

from the same thread:

I have witnessed so much slaughter and death here

I think it's about time I share this with the tumblr world

When a pilot is in a good mood

Hot take: most people who were against the bombing of Hiroshima would be all for the atom bomb being used against Germany. The issue isn't about the atom bomb per se (since no one cares about how much conventional bombing was done of Axis targets) but the perception that Imperial Japan "didn't deserve it." And it absolutely did, as you may gleam if you ask any Chinese people about it.

The other thing is that whether they "deserved it" or not, the big argument is that "Imperial Japan was about to surrender, making the bombs pointless!" If there is one thing that the Imperial Japanese were absolutely famous for doing during the war (aside from torturing prisoners), it was NOT SURRENDERING, EVER. They'd fight to the death or commit suicide before surrendering.

And the entire population was set up to do the same. I recall seeing an interview with a woman who had been a young girl during WWII, and how their teachers had switched their school lessons over from things like reading and math to "how to stab American soldiers in the stomach with a bamboo spear". She was given an icepick and told "if they invade, try to get close and stab one in the stomach." This was an elementary school girl.

I also read a memoir of a doctor who treated the Hiroshima patients. When the Emperor came on the radio and said that the war was ending, the majority of these folks - in hospital, covered in burns and suffering from radiation sickness - were pissed. "We can't quit now! If we do, what has all of this suffering been for!?"

There was even a failed coup attempt to try to prevent the surrender.

The Allies had every reason to believe that Japan would keep fighting.

"They were about to surrender."

Then why did we have to drop a second one?

You misunderstand. The second bomb was a femboi bomb.

Related: I've seen a lot of people mocking Oppenheimer, without realizing what the US faced. Nukes were apparently the merciful option, compared with razing the country to the ground by fighting through resistance.

Also, more people had already died in conventional bombing. Just not as many at once.

I listened to an episode (or two?) of Hardcore History about the nightmare of fighting Japanese in the Pacific. Imagine an entire country like that.

“Also, more people had already died in conventional bombing. Just not as many at once.“

Actually the March 9th firebombing of Tokyo killed more people then the nuke dropped on Hiroshima or the nuke dropped on Nagasaki. Actually according to some estimates, it killed more then both nukes combined.

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Also aren’t all the Purple Heart medals the US military gives out today supposed to be from the same production order placed in anticipation of the invasion of Japan? Like not only would the invasion have meant the virtual destruction of the Japanese people but so many causalities were expected that the stock of medals for it still hasn’t been used up in almost 80 years.

I've heard that claim, but never seen proof.

Here's proof.

Also a thing with the Japanese wanting to surrender, which REALLY gets glossed over, is that when Japan wanted to surrender, it was basically “Okay, we’ll stop fighting the Allies, but we’re going to keep all or some of the territory we invaded.”

That’s it. That was their ‘surrender’.

calumalexanderwatt

I do not understand The Backrooms stuff. I really don't.

Fair enough.

Simple solutions to complicated problems

I do not understand The Backrooms stuff. I really don't.

I was never interested in it either. It went from niche to stupid when it became SCP Two

It’s not that I’m not interested in it. It’s just... what is it?

DO NOT USE TUMBLR LIVE

So I've been warning people to not use the tumblr live feature and i had this discussion in the notes of one of the people i warned

said person already used live themselves and was not aware of what all TumblrLive's partner MEETME collects with its feature and i wanted to take the time to make a post going over the privacy policy for anyone who is interested

for the first part here MEETME talks about how creating an account (downloading) (or having a tumblr account that auto updated to include the tumblr live feature (which is a vast majority of the tumblr mobile population in the US rn)) automatically makes any information they collect visible to any of the partners they have

the three partners mentioned there Skout Flurv and Boy Ahoy are all dating sites that promote primarily their location tracking fuck all knows what they want with your live data most likely they want to advertise singles near you??? but MEETME's other current partners are apps like PlentyfFish Zoosk Chispa and Badoo which is Match.com and Bumble

the main important parts to notice from section ii of the privacy policy is the location information limit mobile ad tracking and do not track signals the rest of the section mainly puts the onus of revealing private information that can be used maliciously on the user ie. don't share your password say your full name in a live video where you live etc.

as far as the location information goes what its saying here is that they collect the location information when you first register for tumblr live when you first log in and whenever your phone is on even if youre not using tumblr live

what does it use this information for??? well advertising purposes of course!!!

now they try to get around saying they dont track your location or share it with other users by using this word precise several times now what that means is they have a rough geotag of your location

(your ip address they dont say here its your ip address but in later parts of the document they do in fact say they collect your ip address and if you want an idea how close an ip address can get to your exact location enter your ip address in google maps sometime)

theyre being intentionally vague about that so when you see on the live tab something that says near you you could probably not follow that exactly to said persons house but you can damn well be you will at the very least find their city

heres a reminder to all of you who havent most phones now bury in the settings an option to disable adID do it now!!! but remember that TumblrLive can still use all other information they gather they do not at all process do not track signals so you arent safe there and what data would that be that they can collect other than your location and adID??? glad you asked!!!

this is a non exhaustive list which means there is DEFINITELY other data they collect about and from you

so they collect:

your email and phone number

any info in your tumblr bio

any metadata connected to any photo youve ever uploaded

adID

ip address

cookies and beacon

which devices you use

which features you use

which pages you visit

which chats you use

anything in your private chats or posts

anything from any connected social media accounts

how well ads are doing

what youre interested in

and in some cases even your biometric information

and what do they do with this information???

ads of course

and to give anything they want to cops :)

i dont make this post in order to like ruin peoples fun when it comes to this new feature or to try to talk down to anyone or make anyone feel stupid or anything im not here to make fun of people or belittle anyone but i think its real fucking important people know what privacy rights they are forfeiting by having their phone on right now with this new feature

also everyone please feel free to give a kind fuck you to tumblrs current ceo @photomatt

TLDR: DONT USE TUMBLR LIVE

This is a lot of text just to tell you the main thing you can do is DONT use Live.

BUT YOU CAN DO MORE. YOU CAN BLOCK ITS CONNECTIONS FROM YOUR PHONE ENTIRELY.

Step 1) Install a DNS-based adblocker if you don't have one. The best one available on Android and iOS is Blokada. It's free to use and straightforward to set up.

Step 2) Block any domains that look related to Tumblr Live. So far I've blocked:

But if you see any others that look suspicious, block them too!

Now you'll no longer see those tumblr live ads in between posts, and if you go to the Tumblr Live tab, it will simply show nothing!

I see there's some confusion, so let me clarify:

You want to install Blokada 5, which is free. If the first thing you see on Blokada.org is "Cloud" or "Plus," you need to scroll the page.

"Blokada 6" is their set of premium cloud-security and VPN apps, which require a subscription. These are not needed to get system-wide adblocking on your phone!

staff literally took these images down and deleted op's account like within the last few hours I've seen this post multiple times today with OP still active and the images still there

wtf this one still has the pics

SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (1952) dir. Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen LET’S MAKE LOVE (1960) dir. George Cukor

Side by Side

I love stories like this. Because they are the same stories "cosplay commies" which is a term I think I like, will ignore from people whom have escaped communism and tell them these stories and WORSE. Because those people lived under jackboots. These commune hippies were not and they still had it kinda rough. Farm life is hard work and I know because I helped on a ranch during the summers between school years.

On a commune YOU WORK. And you work all the time. There is no real downtime. And believe me there is no just "Being vegan". Since you have to make 98% of what you eat. Unless you eat meat and know how to kill, gut, skin, dismantle etc any animal you plan to eat. And Tofu doesn't grow on trees. Also, your "art" serves zero purpose. IE: You don't work you don't eat. Because people will NOT work for you to mooch off of them. They will kick your ass to the curb.

Farm raised boomers were not exaggerating when they said all they've ever known was work. As mentioned by the tweets, you'd have a little bit of free time, but you'd be too exhausted to do anything with it. You'd be lucky to have time to brush your teeth and clean enough water to do so with.

Mom was raised on a small farm. They didn't have animals, but the garden work was tedious because they made 75% of their massive ass land into a garden. They'd spend hours upon hours having to water, nurture, and eventually pick the crops. And i mean water by hand, they didn't have any soaker hoses or sprinkler systems. Not even a lomg enough hose to water the garden with some ease, just a large toat they'd fill with water and walk back and forth filling their cans and watering and filling their cans and watering.

And if you want to get into true gritty work, my great grandmother was born just before world war 3. She was a boomer. And she came from a time when marriage wasn't performed because two people loved each other, it was a business contract arranged by their parents so their sons and daughters could birth more sons and daughters as extra hands to work. Family friends would semi-figuratively be selling their kids to each other, and marriage was decided for the kids when they were around 13 and weddings were arranged as soon as possible when they become 16. Women lived that life in belief that their only purpose was to breed more workers. Men lived that life being told they were worthless if they weren't always working.

That was rural America. It was work. And nothing but work. It was even "optimized" for efficiency by forcing kids to marry and have more kids. Communes are a fucking nightmare. Good luck making art when you have 18 hours of chores to get to.

There's a difference between O Gauge/Scale trains between the UK, German, Russia and Japan, and the US.

What the hell?

The former is 1:43 scale, the second is 1:45 and the latter is 1:48 scale.

Shit, I had no idea that was a thing.

Neither did I.

Granted, it’s not a horrible difference, but still.