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Weirdly anti-millennial articles have scraped the bottom of the barrel so hard that they are now two feet down into the topsoil
its so wild like “this generation with no fucking money is learning to prioritize essentials” and all these chucklefucks can write is advertisements for these companies
markrial
at least our jeans won’t tear at the seams after two washes
awfullydull
FUCK FABRIC SOFTENER IT’S UTTERLY POINTLESS
AND FUCK DRYER SHEETS LITERALLY NOBODY EVER HAS ENOUGH OF A PROBLEM WITH STATIC TO WARRANT PAYING OUT THE ASS FOR THAT SHIT
DO YOU WANT CLEAN CLOTHES? YOU DON’T EVEN NEED TO BUY FUCKING DETERGENT JUST MAKE YOUR OWN* IT’S SO GODDAMN EASY AND 80X CHEAPER
FUCK THE ENTIRE LAUNDRY INDUSTRY *Fuck The Entire Laundry Industry Recipe
1 cup Washing Soda (not Baking Soda. Different things.)
1 cup Borax (not Boric Acid. Also a different thing.)
½ cup - 1 cup grated bar soap (you can use literally anything. I often use Ivory because it’s easy to get and I find it works well, a lot of people like Fels-Naptha, which is an actual laundry bar. Some people use Dr. Bronner’s. Really does not fucking matter.) After grating your soap, combine all ingredients. That’s it. That’s the whole thing. Use maybe a ¼ cup per load.
^^^ I’ve done this for years now and it works as well as any store bought detergent
ghostoftwentysomethingspresent
WHAT Thank you, tumblr user awfullydull! Your URL does no justice to the good advice you give!
kindnessandgoodvibrations
Also you can MAKE your own washing soda very VERY cheaply.
Step one: acquire $5 bag of baking soda from Costco.
Step two: lay that motherfucking baking soda out on a baking tray.
Step three: bake the baking soda on a tray in an oven at 400° for 1 hour (to make the moisture evaporate, leaving washing soda)
Step four: revel in how easy and cheap it is to make your own washing soda, and maybe take a moment to be angry that the industry upcharges the fuck out of something that is so easy to make.
kindnessandgoodvibrations
I see some of y'all complaining about static and/or wanting nice smelling laundry. Go to a craft store, find 100% wool yarn balls. If it doesn’t come in a ball, ask an employee to make it into a tight ball for you. Wash in the washing machine to make it felted. Remove from washer, add a few drops of essential oil to the ball, allow to seep in. Dry with clothing. Doesn’t need to be rewashed ever, and if it stops smelling, add few more drops of essential oil. Bam, reusable dryer sheets.
organized-studies
I love this post so much it’s filled with helpful advice, hatred, saving money, and fucking the system all in one
FUUUUUUUCK THE SY-YSTEM
Also, there are very few general stain removers as good as using a little bit of dishwashing soap. It has to be a _soap_, though, like blue Dawn or Joy.
A good, cheap trick I know of for getting oil stains out is to rub them with chalk (yeah, plain white chalk) and let it sit – you will see the chalk soak up the oil if you check like a day later. Sometimes you have to repeat the treatment after you wash the chalk out, but it’s better than having to replace the clothing.
(Carbona brand specialty stain removers are very good for their specialties, fwiw, but for like 90% of stains a bottle of blue Dawn and a piece of chalk will do everything you need. Carbona has specialized ones for particular very difficult stains including wine, ink, and oil – the oil one is helpful when the chalk can’t work far enough into the weave of the fabric.)
Also! One cup of vinegar dumped right into the washing machine on top of your clothes helps them get cleaner, no matter what other products you’re using!
Do not use vinegar if you’re also using bleach though. You could create chlorine gas which is very dangerous if you breathe it.
Saving this for if I ever get to move out of my parents house
Saving this for if
I ever get to move out
of my parents house
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
The time this woman is taking to educate is much appreciated!
I’ve got mad respect for the effort that goes into taking care and styling these hair types 💜
Considering black ladies and girls start a intense hair routine as early as three, they get all my respect.
The fact that Microsoft Word has to be a subscription is upsetting. I already paid for it why do I have to pay again
Yes please be mad about it, genuinely- You used to be able to purchase a single disk to install it and use it forever after that initial purchase of one key. It sickens me to see all this stuff which used to be a one time purchase be shunted under a subscription now.
"Why is pirating going back up?!"
This. This is why. People don't mind paying a high price for software if it's only the once, or every 4-5 years.
But having to pay a high price regularly? Especially in the cases where you lose access to your own work if you don't?
That's why people are pirating software.
It’s possible to buy a non-subscription version of Word; Microsoft just intentionally makes it very difficult to find (and also expensive).
However, I know a guy who knows a guy website: MS Office Pro for $50. If the link starts going to a Page Not Found, just search the site; they usually have some form of this sale available.
Worth noting: while $50 is still more money than $yo-ho-ho, that money is a great way to make VERY clear to Microsoft that we DO want one-time-purchase products, not subscriptions.
awholenotha
Please keep boosting this, free knowledge is so important people.
I was working on a history paper today and found a book from 1826 that seemed promising (though dull) for my topic, on an English Catholic family’s experience moving to France.
And it ended up not really being suitable for my purposes, as it goes. But part of the book is actually devoted to Kenelm, the author’s oldest son…and man, his dad loved him.
Kenelm seems to have had a fairly typical upbringing for a young English gentleman, although he is a bit slow to read. At twelve he’s sent to board at Stoneyhurst College—often the big step towards independence in a boy’s life, as he’ll most likely only see his parents sporadically from now on, and then leave for university.
When he’s sixteen, however, his father moves the whole family to France, so Kenelm gets pulled out of school to be with them again. Shortly after the move, his dad notices that he seems depressed. Kenelm confides in him that he’s been suffering from “scruples” for the last eighteen months—most likely what we’d now call an anxiety disorder.
And his dad is pissed—at the school, because apparently Kenelm had been seeking help there and received none, despite obviously struggling with mental health issues. So his dad takes it seriously. He sets him up to be counseled by a priest—there were no therapists back then—and doesn’t send him away to be boarded again, instead teaching him at home himself.
And his mental health does improve. His dad describes him as well-liked, gentle, pious, kind and eager to please others; at twenty he’s thinking about a career in diplomacy or going into the military—which his dad thinks he is not particularly suited for, considering his favorite pastimes are drawing and reading. He’s excited about his family’s upcoming move to Italy, and he’s been busy learning Italian and teaching it to his siblings.
Henry Kenelm Beste dies of typhus at twenty years, four months, and twenty-five days. That’s how his dad records it. That’s why his dad is telling this story. It’s not an extraordinary story—Kenelm’s story struck me because he sounds so…ordinary, like so many kids today. And he was so, so loved. His dad tried hard to help him compassionately with his mental health at a time where our current knowledge and support systems didn’t exist. You can feel how badly he wanted his son to be remembered and loved, to impress how dearly beloved he was to the people who knew him in life.
I hope he’d be glad to know someone is still thinking of Kenelm over 200 years later.
Anyway, that’s why I’m crying today.
Hey so it's come to my attention that the Creators of Disco Elysium want you to share the game and not give the company who took over and fired them (illegally)?) any profits off of their ideas and work, and I originally joined tumblr 2 weeks ago when that post was going around about the Steam sale and how you should [Skull and Crossbones flag] it instead.
So.
in light of that.
Check the replies/notes of this post :)
I was informed that posts containing links in them aren't findable in the search so i'll just.... drop a link in a seperate reboot :)
first things first though, copy this key:
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here's the edited version with the captal YY in the key above!
and also the Google drive link :
Worldcat is my bestie and my one true love!! Not only does it tell you what library a book is at, but it also price compares different used book sites against each other for easy view! It's how I got Tarot For the Master for $10!!
Innocence Won't Save You: An Interactive Fiction Game
Welcome to Innocence Won't Save You, a Rain World interactive fiction game. This post serves as the main access point for information, as well as a status update on Unparalleled Innocence at the current point in the game.
There is a blanket warning for unreality and horror on this entire blog. Some aspects of the writing here may cause discomfort; be prepared for unsettling scenes. At the end of each scene, the story so far will be uploaded to AO3. (There is currently nothing uploaded.)
Run by @flecks-of-stardust.
Stats:
Neurons: 20 Puppet state: Undamaged Inventory: Currently, nothing.
More information:
jatel0
For The Masses:
keoooooooo
no one coulda reblogged this a month ago when i spent 500
imaginebackwards
Look at KB coming through
hersheywrites
Every time you see this, reblog it. There is always someone in college that will see this.
👏🏾Education 👏🏾is 👏🏾a 👏🏾right,👏🏾 not👏🏾 a👏🏾 service 👏🏾
Pass along and use the shit out of them
sheriffsharks
Here you go besties <3
thriftbooks is GREAT, it’s saved me a small fortune in textbook money thruout my degree
on god, check BooksPrice. Scans over a dozen websites and gives you a list of the cheapest places to buy or rent ANY given book, textbooks or otherwise.
This game was produced as a part of Haunted PS1's Madvent Calendar 3.
I put a ton of work into this project, along with G.P. Lackey who produced numerous 3D assets for it, and I'm extremely proud of what we made here.
I consider it to be some of the most genuine, most complex, & most personal & vulnerable work I've ever produced, and I'm both excited and petrified to finally have people see what I spent so much time trying to tell in the form of a game.
I really hope people enjoy & can connect with it.
Your reading assignment for episode 1 of Dimension 20: Neverafter
[ID: two panel comic of an anime girl sitting down, crying in the middle of stacks of books. She cries into her knees, “Google please stop showing me sex ads.” She looks up at the camera. “I know there are desperate sluts in my area, i have a mirror” /]
It always bugs me when someone talks about wanting to GM their own D&D campaign for themselves and some joker in the note goes “that’s called writing a book”. No, it’s not called writing a book. The output of a solo RPG may be a book, particularly if you’re playing as a guided writing exercise, but the process is pretty different. Having a formal framework of rules to play with is actually pretty critical for a lot of people – as any improv artist could tell you, limitations breed creativity!
So this isn’t just a contextless grump, have a rec list of a few personal favourite RPGs that are either designed to be played as solo guided writing exercises, or otherwise explicitly support solo play:
- 9 Questions - A screenwriting exercise adapted as a framework for solo RPG scenarios. This one is more of a meta-game designed to paired with another system, ideally something fairly rules-light.
- Abnormal - A body-horror-centric game about a regular human who’s being slowly consumed by an alien parasite. Uses a custom deck of cards; it’s included in the PDF, but you’ll have to print it yourself.
- ALONe - A solo RPG engine designed for use with the GameMaster’s Apprentice line of card decks. A fairly pricey buy-in, since you need to buy the deck separately, but it’s discounted at the time of this posting.
- Alone on Silver Wings - A solo journaling game driven by a heavily modified Apocalypse Engine variant. Available as part of the Four Ways to Die in the Future anthology, linked.
- Hall of the Dwarven King - Arguably more of a solo board game than a solo tabletop RPG, this one is probably best described as tabletop Dwarf Fortress. Remarkably deep for a one-page game.
- Ironsworn - A travel-centric RPG inspired by Norse folklore. Supports GMless two player co-op as well as true solo play, so it’s good for basically any scenario where nobody wants to GM.
- Oculus (warning: direct PDF link) - Another journaling game, in this one you take on the role of a wizard guiding a fated hero via some sort of magical scrying device.
- Of the Woods - An anthology of six short solo games by six different authors. The anthology’s theme is faith, isolation, and the intersection between the two, so not one to play if you need to lift your mood!
- Quill - This one’s an oddball: a letter-writing game where dice are used not to determine outcomes, but to decide which words and phrases you need to work into your letters. Several expansions available.
- SCRAWL - The title’s short for “Solo Crawl”, and it’s basically what it says on the tin: an old school kill-the-monsters-and-take-their-stuff dungeon crawl engine retooled for solo play.
I totally did not expect to hear from so many people who didn’t know that solo tabletop RPGs existed before reading this post. Here, have a few more:
- Alone Among the Stars - A cross between a writing prompt game and a journaling game that has you filling out a starship’s exploration log. Also available in Twine format.
- Brave Sparrow - A single-player LARP from the same author as Abnormal, above. It’s about a very specific type of lived experience; if you’re the game’s target audience, you’ll know what I mean!
- Mythic - Designed as a table-driven “GM emulator” for Dungeons & Dragons, and later spun off into a standalone game. You can get the GM emulator component by itself if you have your own system in mind.
- The Plant - A tabletop RPG/choose-your-own-adventure book hybrid, in the style of the old Lone Wolf series. This one’s less combat-centric and more exploratory than most examples of the type.
- Traveller - Though the main game is not solitaire-friendly, the character creation system is designed to be played as a semi-standalone solo minigame – example here. You can even die during chargen!
- Finally, the 200 Word RPG Challenge has featured many solo microgames, so I’m not going to list them all here, but I will plug Mechanical Oryx – one of 2017′s winners – as a favourite.
Someone asked for my favorite gaming related video essays and i accidentally deleted the ask, so here they are:
What’s the Point of Taking Apart a Body? (Resident Evil: Village)
If I think of more, I will add them! Most of these are about horror games and some I haven’t watched in years, so be patient with me if they’re not as good as I remember.
I recommend watching the villain of Edith finch. 😁
Literally no one who follows me is going to know what this means, but HBomberguy, a Youtuber known for Video Essays about pop culture and gaming made a promise that he would live stream himself playing Donkey Kong 64, in its entirety (including picking up every single banana) and all money would go to a UK charity for trans youth (Mermaids) and his initial goal was $3,000 and now it’s been 26 hours into the stream and he’s already over $51k. I just need people to know about this https://m.twitch.tv/hbomberguy
crunkistador
Also, he’s doing it to spite Graham Lineman, a transphobic prick who did some work in some good shows, and helped get Mermaids’ funding by the National Lottery suspended, so because of his temper tantrum, as of the writing of this reblog, he’s raised almost $130k!
earlploddington
i joined and everyone’s talking about OllyTube’s cum what happened
Some other highlights:
-The game keeps breaking up from the seams because the emulator just BARELY can handle the game’s code hacks. The chat has to constantly remind him to save the game in case it crashes entirely.
- Harris took 6 hours off camera to sleep and in the meantime the chat devolved into shitposting about feet and teeth (or FEETH).
- Meanwhile on twitter: Glinneham is throwing a pissy transphobic tantrum on twitter due to the stream while #ThanksGraham has started trending in Europe, U.S. and Australia.
-Insane amount of guest streamers including Chelsea Manning, Jim Sterling, Ollie Thorn and the game’s composer and DK’s voice actor, Grant Kirkhope
- Kirkhope saying TRANS RIGHTS in his DK voice.
I love that of the hundreds of guest speakers from politicians and activists to composers and sports stars, the Scottish Parliament chose to give special mention to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez… And a cat.
This is the link from the video. It’s important that we try to take action. Don’t buy chocolate that may be connected with slavery. In the link there’s also information about slavery free chocolate.
On chocolate, coffee, tea, other products coming from the global south: if you can afford it, buy only products with some kind of a certificate that demonstrates the product has been ethically produced (and this has been verified by an outside agency), such as the Fairtrade, UTZ or Rainforest Alliance certificate.
But also beware that some producers have made up their own certificates, with no outside oversight. These essentially fake certificates include Cocoa Life, the certificate invented by Mondelez – one of the companies listed behind the link for using slave labour, who stopped using Rainforest Alliance certified cocoa and switched to their own certificate instead.
here’s a list of companies who use fair trade chocolate:
- Clif Bar
- Tony’s Chocoloneley
- Ben & Jerry’s
- Aloha Feels
- Newman’s Own Organics
- The Endangered Species Chocolate
- Dagoba Organic Chocolate
- Starbucks
- Aldi’s brand
- Green & Blacks
- Sappho Chocolates
- Larabar
- more info here
- full list of ethical companies in the carrd above
and a list of companies who knowingly use slave labor to make their chocolate:
- Hershey’s
- Mars (M&M, Snickers, Dove, etc)
- Mondelez (part of Kraft) (Cadbury, Toblerone, Oreos)
- Nestle
- Lindt
- Godiva
- Ghirardelli
As an addition: if you purchase Newman's Own, 100% of their profits go to charity. Paul Newman was a real guy, and a very good one.
something that I somehow hadn’t realized:
The U.S. government could simply enforce existing federal laws against the importation of products made with forced labor, such as Section 307 of The Tariff Act of 1930, which mandates that the U.S. Customs Service refuse entry to any product made "in whole or in part" by forced or indentured labor.
(source: “the situation” page of the site above listing ethical companies)