Twitter rebranding itself as X has been the funniest thing to ever happen to the trash site.
Friends are my power!
if you haven't look at KH twitter today please do its fucking hysterical
For people not on Twitter, that asshole decided to rebrand the site as "X" so you know. KH fans have been changing their pictures to black coats to embrace the change lmao here's an assortment of my favorite tweets <3
shhhhh guys be quiet we need to be quiet or else the bears will hear us. as long as we all keep quiet (everyone liking this post) we will be fine just don't do anything to alert the bears okay?
ASSERT THE PEARS?? HUH??
SHHHH OH MY GOD STOP THE BEARS ARE LOOKING THIS WAY
everyone be quiet oh my fucking god ....
:33 < jegus fuck!!
"What was that?"
...
"Must be my imagination."
HoNk :o)
you two Homestuck motherfuckers better shut the fuck up or I swear to GOD.
:33 < whoopsies okay i will be extra quiet!
Thank you nepeta from Homestuck. It looks like the bear has left, I think we can all quietly head back to the car...wait...where's the fucking car?
MY FUCKING CAR
Post cancelled, MOTHERFUCKING DYKEYAOI?? ARE U KIDDING ME?? That's the coolest fucking username ever. What's next? faggotyuri??
Hey what's going on in this thread
HOLY SHIT FAGGOTYURI
Everyone give it up for @Dykeyaoi and @Faggotyuri make sure to clap really really loud 📢
@dykeyaoi and @faggotyuri have pleased the bears, we are saved
Yes officer that's the bear that stole my fucking car get his ass
Jesus Christ this post is a fucking train wreck
Tch.....
Eveyrones afucking critic ..
EXCUSE ME TUMBLR USER OOPPO BUT WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT MANGA PANEL??
EVERYPONY WE JUST GOT OUR FIRST DEACTIVATED ACCOUNT ON THE POST
crinkler asked:
do you guys know if the arcade games are backed up anywhere?
kinzvestigation answered:
Plenty of them are! We’ve probably got at least most of the files for a lot of them tucked away somewhere. A few are on flashpoint, though with the way Webkinz games work, a lot of the text was serverside and may not display correctly. A few of them are buggy, namely bamboo break which starts to an empty screen until you right click, and Webkinz mini golf, where the camera won’t move with your character. We do have leaf leaf, but not in any kind of playable state, unfortunately. We’d love to put a few more up on flashpoint in the future!
Him, enjoying sensations. I think he would enjoy them after being literally a sword for like a year.
this reply made me laugh harder than any reply I think I've ever gotten
How did they find the worst audio ever made
"surely an exaggeration" i thought, before hearing the worst audio ever made
For the love of God, why can I see Wukong using the worst audio only to piss people off???
Man sees crab for the first time.
does he…
Live in the
Sea?!
Some fucking
mollusk
pulls up
as my own direct immediate list of game grievances i hate that stardew valley expects you to side against a wheelchair user who is upset that he was moved without his consent. i hate that the mass effect trilogy gives you visible scarring as a direct result of choosing mean dialogue and heals it if you're nice. i hate that the vampire the masquerade ttrpg has a monstrous player class that can appear as horrible vampiric monsters or as visibly disabled people and both of these appearances are mechanically the same. i hate that dark souls games have a difficulty level implemented in a way that cannot be adjusted for disability. i hate that i can play as a mermaid or a werewolf or a horse in the sims games but can't use a wheelchair. i hate that the ace attorney games have so much flashing and not all of the games can disable it. i hate that disability is constantly something that happens to teach a lesson, i hate that disability is something that happens as a punishment, i hate that disability is either compensated perfectly with no drawbacks or something that is endlessly sought to be cured. i hate that no character customization will ever include the mobility aids i use, that the player avatars that represent me will never look like me. i am so goddamn annoyed and so goddamn tired.
KOKOBOT - The Airbnb-Owned Tech Startup - Data Mining Tumblr Users' Mental Health Crises for "Content"
I got this message from a bot, and honestly? If I was a bit younger and not such a jaded bitch with a career in tech, I might have given it an honest try. I spent plenty of time in a tough situation without access to any mental health resources as a teen, and would have been sucked right in.
Chatting right from your phone, and being connected with people who can help you? Sounds nice. Especially if you believe the testimonials they spam you with (tw suicide / self harm mention in below images)
But I was getting a weird feeling, so I went to read the legalese.
I couldn't even get through the fine-print it asked me to read and agree to, without it spamming the hell out of me. Almost like they expect people to just hit Yes? But I'm glad I stopped to read, because:
- What you say on there won't be confidential. (And for context, I tried it out and the things people were looking for help with? I didn't even feel comfortable sharing here as examples, it was all so deeply personal and painful)
- Also, what you say on there? Is now...
- Koko's intellectual property - giving them the right to use it in any way they see fit, including
- Publicly performing or displaying your "content" (also known as your mental health crisis) in any media format and in any media channel without limitation
- Do this indefinitely after you end your account with them
- Sell / share this "content" with other businesses
- Any harm you come to using Koko? That's on you.
- And Koko won't take responsibility for anything someone says to you on there (which is bleak when people are using it to spread Christianity to people in crisis)
I was curious about their business model. They're a venture-capitol based tech startup, owned by Airbnb, the famous mental health professionals with a focus on ethical business practices./s They're also begging for donations despite having already been given 2.5 million dollars in research funding. (If you want a deep dive on why people throw crazy money at tech startups, see my other post here)
They also use the data they gather from users to conduct research and publish papers. I didn't find them too interesting - other than as a good case study of "People tend to find what they are financially incentivized to find". Predictably, Koko found that Kokobot was beneficial to its users.
So yeah, being a dumbass with too much curiosity, I decided to use the Airbnb-owned Data-Mining Mental Health Chatline anyway. And if you thought it was dangerous sounding from the disclaimers? Somehow it got worse.
(trigger warning / discussions of child abuse / sexual abuse / suicide / violence below the cut - please don't read if you're not in a good place to hear about negligence around pretty horrific topics.)
Kokobot is incredibly predatory and exploitative. I wrote a post about how it exploits minors' empathy and gamifies "giving mental health advice", resulting in an unregulated mess that can only do harm to teens' mental health in the long run.
There are young people on tumblr that actively seek support from KokoBot right now, if you check the tag for recent posts. Those people did not get paid to promote it, so do not harrass them. If you can, direct them towards resources about Kokobot (like this post) that are more transparent about what this company is up to.
This... is DEEPLY DISTURBING.
Welcome to the Element Specific Character Tournament!
This is a tournament is to see which character that specializes in a specific element is the best!
There will be 10 different elements represented in this tournament, and they are:
- Pyromancy (fire)
- Aquamancy (water)
- Aeromancy (wind)
- Geomancy (earth)
- Phytomancy (plants, vegetation)
- Electromancy (lightning, electricity)
- Cryomancy (ice)
- Ferromancy (metals)
- Umbramancy (darkness, shadows)
- Luxomancy (light, holy)
There will be 10 different brackets to decide which characters of each element is the best of their respective elements. Then there will be a final showdown of all ten characters to see who is the best overall!
RULES
- Be nice and respectful please. I don’t want any insults thrown at anyone.
- Characters have to use the element that you submit it as (ex you submit Zuko as a fire character, not a water character).
- If the character uses multiple elements, submit them under an element they’re best known for/most proficient at (ex Soren fire emblem can use multiple elemental tomes, but he is a wind mage and only he can use S rank wind tomes).
- You are allowed to submit as many characters as you want but it has to be one form at a time please.
- No submitting the same character multiple times please.
- Please specify where the character is from and please no acronyms!
- Propaganda is allowed and encouraged but no anti-propaganda (aka character hate).
- My time zone is EST and I won’t be active all the time to answer questions (sorry I got real life stuff to do).
- There will be certain guidelines on certain characters and media (I’ll get into more detail later) this is because specific media can be weird on how they classify what power is what element. Especially with certain elements being more vague and loosey-goosey.
- I don’t particularly mind who you submit as long as they stick to the guidelines, but I might have polls if I’m unsure about a certain character.
Anyways I’ll edit this post as it goes on if more questions are raised.
Elements, Characters, and Media clarifications
- Toph is going to be put as a geomancer. I know she invented metal bending but she better known as an earth bender and I don’t want her on both earth and metal brackets.
- Since Aang is the avatar, he can use all four bending styles, but he started off as an air bender and the show is literally called “the last air bender” I’m going to put him under aeromancer.
- Korra on the other hand, won’t be in this tournament at all. Even though she is apart of the water tribe, she doesn’t really have a bending style that’s she more attached to (I mean she was able to do all four bending styles much earlier than Aang).
- Todoroki won’t be in this tournament. His fire and ice powers are basically on the same level of importance.
- NO DEMON SLAYER CHARACTERS WHO USES THE BREATHING STYLES! The breathing styles aren’t actually summoning elemental powers, it’s a visual metaphor. Submit only those who can summon actual elements!
- Both rock and ground type Pokémon will be considered geomancers
- Umbramancy regarding dark and ghost type Pokémon
- Luxomancy regarding psychic and fairy type Pokémon (there will be a post clarifying this)
- Aeromancy regarding flying type Pokémon (there will be a post clarifying this)
- Ferromancy and robots
- Magnetism: Ferromancy vs Elctromancy (there will be a post clarifying this)
- Why I am also calling Luxomancy “holy”
