an android who’s really dense about emotions and social graces and such, and everyone assumes it’s because he’s an android, but halfway through the series it’s revealed that he’s an upload, living in a robot body, of a human guy who’s just like that
Okay can yall reblog this to share something that’s actually helpful? There are two websites that can assist people with triggers to know whether or not a movie is going to be something they should avoid. The first one is:
Originally created to list whether or not the animals in movies were harmed, it has expanded to list a number of triggering things like people being cut, jumpscares, strobe effects, vomit, deaths of children, and many more. For some categories it links to:
which has a similar format to Does the Dog Die but deals with a variety of sexual themes. It even elaborates on some of the checked categories just to let you know how serious or in what way the category is expressed in the movie.
I don’t like the environment of tumblr scaring people into thinking they don’t have the help or resources they need to live happy and without anxiety unless the right PSA floats across their dash. If there are any other databases anyone knows of that provide more info about media or elaborate upon MPAA ratings, please comment. Let 2018 be a year of empowerment.
some other sources:
common sense media is a generalized and well updated site that gives content warning as a guide to parents, but is also relevant and very helpful if youre looking for your own uses
also all IMDB movie pages have a ‘parents guide’ section that is extremely thorough and gives a description of all potentially disturbing scenes grouped by sex, violence, drugs/alcohol, etc
and wheres the jump is great for horror movies, it gives an exact timestamp and description of any jumpscares in the movie
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#PSA #I poked at them a bit and while not perfect they seem to be potentially helpful
Does anyone happen to know of a way I can still play either of the pair of Wild Thornberrys animal-rescue games the Nickelodeon website used to have in their browser-games section back in the early-mid 00′s?
I don’t expect to be able to archive them locally (though that would certainly be nice), but I would like to play them again and I can‘t find either of them anywhere. I’d probably even be willing to pay a few dollars, if they’re available for sale.
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#oh look an original post #Wild Thornberrys #my childhood #games #(that Internet Archive copy of M&Ms: The Lost Formulas was great) #(but I can’t find anything like that for these)
Also, I have acquired a new appreciation for AO3’s download function, which is great at facilitating archiving.
And I have acquired a new opposite-of-appreciation for fanfiction.net, which goes so far the other direction that you are *not allowed to copy text from a fic*. I did a couple of small fics by *going into the page source*, finding the fic *there*, pasting it into a LibreOffice document, and *manually replacing the br tags with line breaks* (there was probably some way to automate that last bit). Then I hit upon the solution of simply saving the entire page as an HTML file, which seems to have worked. Good: I was not looking forward to manually inserting line breaks in Chanson de Geste.
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#oh look an original post #(the following category tag was added retroactively:) #101 Uses for Infrastructureless Computers
I’ve been doing archiving again today, downloading local copies of things that previously existed (in versions accessible to me) only on the Internet.
The thing about archiving is that it *hurts*. Not having done it–the moment when you want to remind yourself how something went and find it isn’t there to tell you, will never be there again–hurts a lot more, so I keep doing this. My past is valuable to me and I want to keep hold of it, have it available, and yet it always hurts to immerse myself in it.
(Today I’m saving works of fiction, works I think I would miss if their links rotted. (Some of them have already rotted. Most were salvageable through the Internet Archive. But only most.) I didn’t think that would hurt, but it turns out that it does, that they evoke the time periods I read them in.)
I know a lot of people hate their past selves, for their ignorance and foolishness. I think this is another version of that impulse, but I don’t hate past-me.
I don’t hate *her*. I hate the people who did this to her.
I think that’s a lot of the problem. I think maybe a lot of the pain of archiving isn’t inherent to the task in general, but because most of the stuff I’m archiving–this project and previous projects–is from around my late teens, give or take, and I was in a lot of pain then. A lot of it I hardly acknowledged at the time, or if I acknowledged it I shrugged and figured that was just how things were.
Maybe it’s good for me to immerse myself in the past, sometimes, if only to show myself how far I’ve come.
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#our roads may be golden or broken or lost #oh look an original post #amnesia cw #(the following category tag was added retroactively:) #((and can’t be added at the end because there are more than 20 tags so category tags won’t register there)) #101 Uses for Infrastructureless Computers #I’m not even sure how long it’s been since the last time I cried #months and months I think #I’m not crying now I’m just saying I cry a *lot* less than I did then #(crying frequency is often a helpful guide to my current sanity levels if I find I’m having trouble telling from the inside) #((bear in mind I don’t experience estrogen’s effects on crying)) #((it’s not cathartic it’s not helpful and if things are going at all well it’s *not* frequent)) #I should probably stop for the day #I hate to leave tasks like these half-completed #but I’ve been neglecting my other daily tasks today and they need tending to as well #(I wonder whether I still have further to go) #(if late-twenties!me will look back at some background pain I’m so accustomed to as to hardly notice) #(and flinch) #(and pity me) #(and be grateful not to suffer like that anymore) #((my bet is on something finance-related)) #((I am aware of certain echoes between this post and two posts ago)) #((I maintain that accepting my lot is better than impotent anger at it)) #((but I acknowledge that having a lot that does not tempt anyone towards impotent anger at it would be better still)) #(((though I would like to point out that a lot of past-me’s pain was caused by feeling obligated to cultivate anger)))
I have collected the data and calculated the results for 2017, and the main result is:
Over the past six months, we were short an average of $65/week. Just $65. That’s all.
(Considering how large some of the outlier charges were, there must have been some individual weeks in which we had more money at the end of the week than at the start. Maybe even individual months.)
We are *damn* close, and this could very well be the year we get in the black.
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#(why are people insisting on spinning my finances negatively when we have *this*) #now if you’ll excuse me I’m late for accounting homework #(I am amused by the amount of my life involving spreadsheets lately) #(spreadsheets for school. spreadsheets for play. spreadsheets for personal finances.) #(just. spreadsheets.) #(it’s pretty great tbh) #adventures in human capitalism #I might take up audio transcription again at some point #every bit helps #oh look an original post
#sounds like a shitpost but isn’t #competing access needs #don’t you tell me that I deserve better #I take great comfort in not deserving better #it sure as hell beats cultivating misery #oh look an original post #somewhat related to #our roads may be golden or broken or lost #but currently mostly inspired by #in which Brin has a job #(okay fine before anyone is all ”oh no what happened”) #(both my job and my menial Internet labour cut my hours) #(and my job stopped providing one free meal a week) #(now can everyone please stop trying to ~commiserate~ and ~fuck those bastards~ or whatever and just let me get on with things) #fuck anyone who insists that I need to be angry about this state of affairs #the only thing we have to get angry about is anger itself #tag rambles
Prince Zaetori was never king; his father is still alive. And this is Ereith. Getting eaten by bears isn’t casted work.
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#Amenta RP #Amenta #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(the last two sentences) #I almost didn’t reblog this #and then Mom asked what I was laughing about #(I gave the standard Noncommital Noise of It’s-Too-High-Context) #so it seems that it qualifies #high context jokes #death tw
the best part is this isn’t even HALF the relentless bullshit insanity that goes on in robot sumo wrestling, a sport where the contestants are all hyperfast robots with scoop attachments and preprogrammed moves.
(this one wants to be a beyblade when it grows up)
the idea is to include as many unique moves as you can, to make your shrieking deathbot difficult to counter
or dodging. that works too.
also, some of the speed demons have… unorthodox attachments to fool other bot’s sensors
WIIINGS MOTHERFUCKERRRRRRR
robot sumo is also a sport where spectators may end up taking a small robot to the shins if they aren’t careful.
Y’all. Looking at professionally made sumo robots is great. You know what’s better though? Looking at extremely UNprofessionally made sumo robots.
Here enjoy.
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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(the dodging) #reminds me of a show I used to watch when I was a kid #what it was called #the one narrated by Craig Charles #*looks it up* #Robot Wars #that show was fun #I’m glad it was narrated by Craig Charles #(if it weren’t for recognising his voice we wouldn’t have stopped on that channel long enough to watch it our first time) #may or may not have reblogged this before
I wonder what’s going on in my brain right now, like on a neurological level. I bet it’s fascinating.
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#woke up yesterday morning feeling rather more tired than I would expect given that I only got ~half an hour less sleep than usual #(8 instead of 8.5 – 9) #looked at calendar #start date of last menstrual period was two weeks ago #well I guess that explains that then #(slept 9.5 hours today) #(which was probably a bad idea) #(given that this is not the kind of tiredness that unconsciousness helps) #(but it was hard to drag myself out of bed) #((I mean I guess it would make up for yesterday’s sleep-deprivation component?)) #((but that component was probably pretty small)) #I would probably make an excellent case study of some sort #oh look an original post #tag rambles #sexuality and lack thereof #people who can distinguish between their drive for sleep and drive for sex fascinate me #and so do people who can’t #just in somewhat different ways
Brinens and Things 