hey netizens! i'm not sure how many people are aware, but youtube's been slowly rolling out a new anti-adblock policy that can't be bypassed with the usual software like uBlock Origin and Pi-Hole out of the gate
BUT, if you're a uBlock Origin user (or use an adblocker with a similar cosmetics modifier), you can add these commands in the uBlock dashboard (under My Filters) to get rid of it!
youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false) youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0) youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, []) youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)
reblog to help keep the internet less annoying and to tell corporations that try shit like this to go fuck themselves <3
Speaking as a youtuber who relies on those ads for my income: absolutely block that shit!
Google can TURBO fuck off with this walled garden business tyrant bullshit, advertising fucking sucks and people should have the right to opt out of it on their own fucking computers. I would infinitely rather miss out on some af revenue than see the internet that Google is trying to build come to fruition.
Angua has massive 'the one with the brain cell' vibes, not because she's the token girl at this point in the series but because she's the one who's most like Vimes
I've been thinking about this on and off ever since I posted it, trying to come up with something coherent and cohesive, but I can't. So instead of a proper meta post here is a list of things where I compare Angua and Vimes:
- Vimes's control over his temper = Angua's control over her inner (and sometimes outer) wolf. You have to do it, because if you don't, you could kill someone, and that's the last thing either of them ever really wants to do even if (and especially BECAUSE) a little part of their brain is telling them it IS what they want
- GRUMPY AS FUCK LMAO
- Sarcasm mode as default
- Eating a salad in abject misery while The Beast Within howls for, I dunno, a kebab probably
- "At the end of the day we're all somebody's dog" jesus FUCKING christ. Yeah. The unquestioned loyalty to people who drive you absolutely mental because they are, ultimately, incredibly dedicated to the city you all call home and more importantly everyone in it, and despite the times where they're being a total loon you know that actually, in their own way, they'd do anything for you even more than they would for everybody else. They're just Like That and you have no choice, it's ride or die forever
- Tfw Nobby Nobbs tells you stuff you'd rather not know (there's a 50/50 chance of it being gross as hell or hugely traumatic and either way you're not sleeping for three days)
- As well as all of this I just think like, the way they think about the job is pretty similar? They're both very direct and logical in their thinking, and aware of their own biases, although they do both also have a tendency to just go I'VE CONNECTED THE DOTS and do something bonkers about it
- 100% would bite a guy
Tragedy! You set out to read a negative review of a piece of media you dislike, only to find that the critic is being completely unfair to it and making a bunch of bad, unsupportable arguments.
#yeah. this is actually the worst#because if someone likes something for the wrong reasons and you like it too you can just sort of shrug off their opinion#but if they dislike it in a way that's unfair it's actually infuriating because now you've been put in the position#of defending this absolute dogshit piece of media - even if only in your own head - against their unreasonable complaints#it's the exact opposite of catharsis
Me: “Disney live action remakes are soulless cash grabs that deny the original writers and artists the credit they deserve” Some fucking chud: “Exactly! They never should have started wokeifying all their movies” Me:
things on my mind this week
Thanks flea
Thanks flea
we should globally ban the introduction of more powerful computer hardware for 10-20 years, not as an AI safety thing (though we could frame it as that), but to force programmers to optimize their shit better
I reblogged this like 9 times kinda jokingly, but software should be able to run on older and less powerful hardware, and consume less power on newer hardware. Like, this is a real problem imo
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ITS FUCKING REAL???
The Bongcloud Counter-Gambit: Hotbox Variation
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Waiting for the day this happens to me.
chaosangel72
This is still my favorite comic to date.
Every time I see this it makes me happy
Reblog if you are not a clever man
I saw a post saying that Boromir looked too scruffy in FotR for a Captain of Gondor, and I tried to move on, but I’m hyperfixating. Has anyone ever solo backpacked? I have. By the end, not only did I look like shit, but by day two I was talking to myself. On another occasion I did fourteen days’ backcountry as the lone woman in a group of twelve men, no showers, no deodorant, and brother, by the end of that we were all EXTREMELY feral. You think we looked like heirs to the throne of anywhere? We were thirteen wolverines in ripstop.
My boy Boromir? Spent FOUR MONTHS in the wilderness! Alone! No roads! High floods! His horse died! I’m amazed he showed up to Imladris wearing clothes, let alone with a decent haircut. I’m fully convinced that he left Gondor looking like Richard Sharpe being presented to the Prince Regent in 1813
*electric guitar riff*
And then rocked up to Imladris a hundred ten days later like
Some people have been wondering about the raccoon. Listen. Listennn. Don't ask about the raccoon.
But does the racoon survive the Uruk-Hai? Does he curl up on Aragorn's head, or does he go straight to Faramir? Does he bite Denethor?
My friend. My colleague. My brother my captain my king. I too have been pondering this question, and in my mind there can be only one ultimate outcome.
A few months later
All hail the High Warden of Gondor.
Epilogue: It ADORES Faramir.
“‘Yeah? You want to shoot something? Bastards!’ They all stared, Carcer too. Reg had stood up, was waving the flag back and forth, was clambering over the barricade… He held the flag like a banner of defiance. ‘You can take our lives but you’ll never take our freedom!’ he screamed. Carcer’s men looked at one another, puzzled by what sounded like the most badly thought-out war cry in the history of the universe. Vimes could see their lips moving as they tried to work it out. Carcer raised his crossbow, gestured to his men, and said: ‘Wrong!’ Reg was hit by five heavy bolts, so that he did a little dance before falling to his knees. It happened within seconds. Vimes opened his mouth to give the order to charge, and shut it when he saw Reg raise his head. In silence, using the flagpole as an aid, Reg got back to his feet. Three more arrows hit him. He looked down at his skinny chest bristling with feathers and took a step forward. And another. One of the crossbowmen drew his sword and ran at the stricken man, and was knocked into the air by a blow from Reg that must have felt like it had come from a sledgehammer.”
— Terry Pratchett, “Night Watch” (I’m posting this whole thing not ONLY because it’s a great scene in itself, but also to draw a contrast with another scene. Remember in Reaper Man when Windle Poons woke from death and had to lie on his slab for a while wondering what happened and how to move his body and get his organs working right? Reg Shoe didn’t have to do that. Granted, at the end of the fighting Reg considers what’s happened to him and falls over because his brain thinks he should be dead, but Vimes indicates it won’t be too long before he’s up again. But here in the moment, Reg didn’t stop to think about it, and he gathered perfect control of his body to help beat the crap out of the bad guys. Reg Shoe, who started his literary life as a comedic side-character, a parody of overzealous community organizers–a good-natured, kind parody since Reg’s activism never hurts anyone and is never described in a negative light–gets a stunning backstory, in which it’s firmly established that the reason he’s undead and not dead-dead is that he’s too full of fire and passion about the rights of his fellow citizens to leave the land of the living behind. ‘You can take our lives but you’ll never take our freedom’? A strange battle cry, but one that turned out to be true for Reg, at least. (via noirandchocolate)
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The other thing I absolutely love about Reg is that he actually, canonically, is too angry about injustice to die.
And I juxtapose that with pterry’s telling Neil Gaiman that his anger is what’s made him a bestselling author.
And yeah, you know what? These books are angry. Vimes is angry and Susan is angry and Granny Weatherwax is angry, and the entire Monsterous Regiment is angry, and sometimes Adora Dearheart is angrier than all of them. Moreover, Tiffany can’t become a witch until she’s willing to be angry.
You have to do the right things with your anger. You have to drag goblin-killers to justice, not get drunk and fight the gutter. You have to tell the football gangs to shove it, not tell your best friend to walk away from fame and fortune. But anger is what changes the world.
And Pratchett’s anger resonates with us, and makes us recognize our opportunities to change the world. We read these books and we catch the anger like a disease, and discworld shapes it like a mold, and so his anger goes on living, goes on revolutionizing, even after he dies.
GNU Terry Pratchett
“It’s better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.”
I’m curious about all my gaming followers: first Pokémon game, first Zelda game, and first Mario game in the tags?
I love the dynamic in the Discworld fandom on this site, I think it's mainly because there are a lot of dormant fans, if you will, who've read and loved the books for years but haven't engaged much recently, who sort of reappear whenever a fun post is doing the rounds. It's fantastic. We get the cozy small fandom vibe without the screaming matches, but also get the popular posts from time to time, y'know?
YEP. In fact for some people it’s Emotions Day right now.
To everyone tagging and commenting with some variation of “Oh, I almost forgot that it’s tomorrow!”
“Damn! Damn! Damn! Every year he forgot. Well, no. He never forgot. He just put the memories away like old silverware that you didn’t want to tarnish. And every year they came back, sharp and sparkling, and stabbed him in the heart. And today, of all days...”
That’s so very meta of you.
IT'S EMOTIONS DAY TOMORROW
we justifiably give Biden a lot of shit but I think "at least 3" is the funniest possible response to some right wing dipshit asking you how many genders there are
wait it gets better
Allow me to make use of tumblr’s new longpost shortening feature for a moment to say HEY… the comic we’ve been working on for the past year is live with *11 episodes* you can read RIGHT NOW.
Are you into Tech-Fantasy? Trans protagonists? Dragons? Comedy? …Romance? An oddball team of not-quite-knights chasing after a God’s last wish?
I made this post back on april 2022. Season 1 was completed just yesterday! :’) 💖 You can now read the whole first saga, for free, at any moment.
Not to toot our own horn, but I think it’s pretty damn good.
I’ll toot the creators’ horn for them: this comic is so good. Soooooo freaking good. It’s so good I recommend it to coworkers.
Yes. So good I recc’d it IRL.
And I’ve recc’d it here before, and I’ll do it again, I’m sure. Now’s a great time to jump on, though, cause you’ve got a bunch to binge but not so much that it feels overwhelming.
Seriously. It’s so good.
I binged the entire thing in like two and a half hours and I gotta say dear fucking lord this comic slaps. PLEASE give it a whirl it’s phenomenal!
