off-topic-discussion

[limber walrus]

Vid guy is cool though

[royal relic]

yeah

oh hey swan - on a completely different topic
you do a little bit of 3d modeling, right?

[limber walrus]

I've dabbled, yeah, and I spend time with artists

[royal relic]

check out what i just found

i was looking for a model of an eyeball
cause the ones i have in my current model are kinda crap

370 triangles for two eyeballs and low resolution textures

[limber walrus]

That's a lot

[royal relic]

nah - it's not that bad, not at all

anyways - so i went to sketchfab looking for a better model and i found this

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/225916795008188417/1383125153797509281/image.png?ex=684da72d&is=684c55ad&hm=9072469b9d8c9179161abe9e91218ec1d4a7d9045931ebbaee629dfbf11eb347&

ALMOST 600K TRIANGLES FOR A SINGLE EYEBALL

[limber walrus]

Y'know, this calls for extreme measures

[royal relic]

i downloaded it out of sheer curiosity and my ram usage instantly doubled

[limber walrus]

That tracks

[royal relic]

solid color
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/638031423340806185/1383128314838781962/image.png?ex=684daa1f&is=684c589f&hm=c3c8e20a83d2697fb918c32e7beacaf4ccb64f4b86be136c2c23df888c6ccad1&

ignore the sad eyes on the left lmao

[limber walrus]

Yeah, like I said,

[royal relic]

i'm getting flashbacks to that legendary toothbrush

[royal relic]

oh yeah what is that?

[limber walrus]

Emote name :3

[royal relic]

yeah but what's that green thing?

[limber walrus]

Well, it's maya, so green are edges/vertices

The actual model is

[royal relic]

oh lord

[limber walrus]

This is what happens when you give students access to Zbrush and teach them how to retopo models

just press that button a few times and blammo a ticking RAM bomb

(this is a good thing, by the way, it was a very tangible way for me to learn exactly why "too many triangles" is a bad thing :3)

[royal relic]

this is what happens whtn a subdivision button has no parental control pin code lmao

[limber walrus]

No no, that's a different crime against 3d modeling that I've committed

This was the retopo button xD

[royal relic]

oh don't get me wrong - i've committed my fair share of blender crimes myself

it's quite fun, actually

but come on

[limber walrus]

:3

This is a pillar!

[royal relic]

ah so this is how a resonance cascade happened

[limber walrus]

Something like that, yeah, xD

[royal relic]

man - blender is weird

the more granular your detailing gets
the smaller your changes become

the easier it is to mess it all up and harder to actually improve your model

[tall owl]

Pro tip: go for a walk at 3 am so you dont have to do it in the daytime heat 👍

[fast marlin]

debatably safe

[sharp grail]

I used it do that a lot

But it was winter so it was a bit chillier

[timber tusk]

hellooo!

[mental aurora]

HELLOOOI

[mental aurora]

GREETINGS, INDIVIDUAL I DO NOT KNOW

[timber tusk]

how you doing?

[mental aurora]

Okokokokok

U?

[timber tusk]

doing good!

just sipping coffee and scrolling

wbu?

[mental aurora]

Good good

I hate coffee

[mental aurora]

Procrastinating

Mostly

[timber tusk]

well that's what mostly people do

how is your day going btw?

[mental aurora]

Sorry for the late reply, it was good!

Had steak for dinner

[timber tusk]

nicee!

nah it's okk

i will be having burger today

[mental aurora]

Oh yay

Love a burger

[keen frost]

My favorite Nifler

[fast marlin]

hey gang

tis 1 am went to the gym for the first time in forever

[wet parcel]

someone please recommend a top tier anime to watch

[mental aurora]

Thank you thank you

[keen frost]

Np

Someone should draw a combination of acute gremlin form + a Nifler

Here I said it

[sharp grail]

Aku no hana

It’s identical to the manga but the anime got canceled after one season so you can just pick up where it left off. Also very good

[stable comet]

Psycho pass is a good one 🙂 if you dont mind a bit of gore in your sci-fi philosophy

[muted smelt]

Ping Pong the Animation

[remote plume]

The person below doesn't know there is a spy hiding in a bunker under their bed

[hollow raft]

Who wants to see my dog!!

Wait i cant share photos.. heck

[keen frost]

Yeah sadly the only channel to allow photos here is fanworks

[fast marlin]

u can just post it somewhere else and copy paste the link

[mental aurora]

And victory boasting

[bronze lintel]

Finally able to visit a friend. His mom fed me lunch. I saw the mountain of rice and went "oh no"

I ate them all tho

At a cost of unable to move for half an hour

[mental aurora]

HELL YEA RICE

Worth it?

[bronze lintel]

It was

The chicken rice was worth fattening for

[swift valley]

I got restaurant kimbap and it only had tuna inside, nothing else

12 CAD for this is daylight robbery

[royal relic]

mornin'

[keen frost]

Yes

[vocal yoke]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1371857425044344877/1383730752209948683/Screenshot_20250615-113552.Instagram.png?ex=684fdb2f&is=684e89af&hm=249a2ebf8e73a4264403ae6d39976f077f9356801d4d782f93085216ad303c56&

[west gulch]

No i do not

[swift hearth]

Attack on Titan

[keen frost]

Attack on Chronos

[vocal yoke]

Dredd 2012 is so damn good

[vocal yoke]

@royal relic you seen it?

[fiery holly]

[sharp grail]

question to all

should i get a bakery breakfast

[royal relic]

Nope

[tall owl]

yes

i love bakeries so so much…

[royal relic]

Guys

Is it just me, or is the mobile YouTube app slowly becoming borderline unusable?

[muted smelt]

Alma don't eat the bakery

[royal relic]

Like
The whole place ?

[sharp grail]

Sorry I was just SO hungry

I got croissants. Treating myself

[fast marlin]

oh for sure

[sharp grail]

idk what happened to my youtube algorithm but it got so messed up only on mobile

thanks cat

[fast marlin]

alma cat….

[royal relic]

It’s not just that
It’s the fact that it often defaults to playing some random ass shorts

[sharp grail]

he turned evil bc i left him for the short trip to da bakery

i went to visit my parents, came back and was informed by my neighbors that whenever im not around he goes to the windows and meows incessantly... 🥺

[royal relic]

Or the one-two combo of ads
One of which is in 16:9 so I can at least read some comments but then the second ad pops in and it’s vertical

AND IT TAKES UP MY WHOLE SCREEN and stops when I scroll down to read comments

[sharp grail]

i dont see shorts, i dont have ads, life is good

[royal relic]

So I can’t even read
I have to stare at it

wtf

[muted smelt]

You're being held hostage by cat

[sharp grail]

ok yeah thats so real. stop making me rotate my phone in strange and unusual ways im just trying to watch a funny video my mom sent me

[royal relic]

The constant barrage of fake AI generated ads and fake games and just… borderline softcore anime corn in the ads

Like - it’s so scuffed I don’t even browse my feed in public cause I don’t know what could pop up

[sharp grail]

i dont use youtube on mobile that much

like what do i need it for? lol

[royal relic]

I use it mostly on mobile to have something playing in my right ear

[muted smelt]

Yeah bim we got TikTok for that nowadays

[sharp grail]

i dont use that either

when im out and im bored i simply stare into space and imagine movies in my brain

[muted smelt]

Describe the lead character for the current movie alma

[fast marlin]

me with tumblr

guys i thought we banned that can i not have it on my dashboard thank you 🙏

also yeah i use YouTube mobile to have in the background

i’m watching cinema therapy in the corner right now

[sharp grail]

its about a dark skinned woman with long brown hair. she drives and travels around the world to sample food! shes so well known. things get complicated when rivaling restaurants, just a street away from each other, offer her their food at lower and lower prices to compete for her attention, but it seems they serve the exact same food...?

really good food though

[fast marlin]

is this a reference i’m not getting

[sharp grail]

miko asked me to describe the movie

[fast marlin]

oh i see

this reads like a webtoon ad i get

[sharp grail]

i dont have tumblr app either im so allergic to using my phone

[fast marlin]

i fear i’m so not allergic to using my phone 💔

[sharp grail]

big things ahead of me watch out for the #1 webtoon in the next few years

[fast marlin]

🫡

[muted smelt]

The genre is noir tragedy

[fast marlin]

LOL

one of my favorite pitches from a podcast i listen to is a d&d campaign thats all detectives except every one is a different genre

[sharp grail]

i dont like using the tumblr app because its kinda bad... i used to read every single post on my dash like the morning newspaper since 2016. when i went to vacation for 2 weeks i came back and scrolled those 2 weeks back instead of checking my phone

[fast marlin]

honestly fair

[sharp grail]

its only possible because i follow very few people. at that time it was like 50 something now its 20

(i stopped using my tumblr because the dash piled up and now that its been a year i gave up on checking it, its too overwhelming)

most insignificant problem

[muted smelt]

Speaking of newspaper, I just started a newspaper company in Fallen London.

CEO-like behavior
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/481158485053145109/1383991284271681618/image.png?ex=6850cdd3&is=684f7c53&hm=d0754d45ac125590006533493b7893c92a775d2a1b3787343f019a4f87081464&

[royal relic]

Yeah it’s insane

Though I’ll admit - I know they’re targeted and I didn’t help the situation at all

Because one time I got so mad at it I started taking screenshots of the dumbest ads I got just to post them in a different server and make fun of them

And now I’m getting more of that crap cause now YouTube thinks I’m an avid thirst bait gatcha enjoyer or something

I would burn this profile to the ground and set up a new one but all my crap is on it so
I’m kinda stuck

[vocal yoke]

you should

it's violent, dark, badass, the whole thing takes place in a mega building, has a great female co-lead that actually passes the Bechdel test, soundtrack bangs, it's all very very good

Now I get it's cult classic status

all I can say is, it leaves you WANTING MORE

[royal relic]

This just sounds like robocop

I’m in

[vocal yoke]

it's what the robocop reboot should have been

well the only caveat i got with Dredd is that, it's not THAT humorous

but it is funny in a very serious way

[pale flower]

Faust pfp

Fellow Limbus Company enjoyer

[woeful siren]

Limbert Co-conspirator enjoyers

[pale flower]

Can't wait for the walpurgisnacht

[muted smelt]

Faust would never make that expression! Unless

[sharp grail]

new sinner jsut dropped theyre calling her karenina

[pale flower]

Lord forgive me for I'm about to sin

[sharp grail]

happens to the best of us

what is your favorite classic/impactful book limbuspresent company excluded

[muted smelt]

What do you mean there are classic books outside of limbus ones?!

[sharp grail]

alternatively which book from da lineup do you like the most if youve read any of them

[sharp grail]

i know it blew my mind

[muted smelt]

Didn't read it but the bus taught us dream in red chamber recently 😌

Apparently this book was banned during it's time. But it was popular enough that even people in respectable positions secretly kept copies

Banned because it was subversive to the legitimacy of the social hierarchy

[sharp grail]

this one's been the same for what must be over a year now ive been slacking. i gotta do my outis homework in preparation for The Odyssey (2026) dir. Christopher Nolan

[muted smelt]

You read this all in Hebrew iirc

[sharp grail]

not hell screen or the wings

if a translation of them exists i could not find it even in the deepest reaches of the internet

[tall owl]

why is it always the metamorphosis… the castle and trial are so much better……

[muted smelt]

But do they have insects

[sharp grail]

because its the most well known!

and its also very good. did cry

[tall owl]

yeah i think the kafka bureaucracy theme was always more compelling for me than the metamorphosis‘ family drama

[muted smelt]

Limbus somehow manages to make everything Kafkaesque bureaucracy

Even confucianism in red chamber

[sharp grail]

Weirdo

[royal relic]

is that a hades desk mat?

[keen frost]

Cute

[sharp grail]

you know it!

[royal relic]

based

[steel aurora]

everyone loves plastic

[sharp grail]

he really really does

[royal relic]

turtles beg to differ

and greta

[keen frost]

I feel violated has a plastic bag

That’s my cousin!

[marsh warren]

Cutie patotie😭

[weary glen]

my life is now full of hope

[swift valley]

bruh
Makerworld (bambu's 3d model site) doesn't even let you rate models if you didn't print it through their app

this is next level walled garden dystopia

[royal relic]

print?

you have a 3d printer?

[fiery holly]

Love the play mat

Plus my dog licks the couch

[swift valley]

I have access to one at work, which only I use like 95% of the time

[royal relic]

yo i wish i had my own 3d printer

[swift valley]

the good ones are cheap now

idk if a prusa mini is cheaper for EU people

[royal relic]

how clean do i have to keep my place to keep one from crapping out?

are they sensitive to dust?

[swift valley]

unless it's like sandstorm levels of dust then probably not?

[royal relic]

welp
then i better not buy one

[swift valley]

do you have regular sandstorms in your house

[royal relic]

i have darude levels of sandstorm in my place

[swift valley]

what a life you lead

[royal relic]

a sad one

[swift valley]

⏳ 😔

[muted smelt]

such orange cat

https://tenor.com/view/walter-white-jesse-pinkman-orange-why-are-you-breaking-bad-gif-17171993386443821418

[royal relic]

it's more of a beige cat behaviour

[muted smelt]

how could you accuse him of being beige 😔

[royal relic]

it's beige!

it's... starbucks coffee levels of beige

okay
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/638031423340806185/1384240956001226772/image.png?ex=6851b659&is=685064d9&hm=d52c468d8bc1c3a835da6406393571bee65ae2fda089f3530875702d8a07d4d8&

you win

i logged in to chatgpt just to ask this question

[sharp grail]

dont put my aminal through whatever this is

my phone classifies him as american shorthair idk whats up

[royal relic]

okay
my bad

[limber walrus]

Floof

[sharp grail]

wooooooooow

[royal relic]

wait
your phone classified your cat?

as in - it has to go through something too, right?

some image search engine or something

[sharp grail]

ios weirdness i turned all the ai off but euhh

[royal relic]

what iphone are you on?

mine doesn't do that

[muted smelt]

your phone is lying. this cat has never been to america

[sharp grail]

maybe he travels in dreams

its 16e

[limber walrus]

I diagnose him with fat, fluffy, and orange

(His name is Little, that's the name he came with when we adopted him, and I decided to keep it)

[royal relic]

well he ain't little anymore

also looks more... rusty than just straight up orange?

am i just color blind?

[limber walrus]

That's the lighting lmao

[royal relic]

OH WOW

[royal relic]

nah
my second display is just super borked

i just moved it to my main display and yeah

the colors pop way more

[limber walrus]

Oh mood, I really need to fix the color balance on mine

[royal relic]

ADs cat actually looks orange now instead of blurry beige

[fiery holly]

https://tenor.com/view/t-rex-trex-roar-jurassic-world-rebirth-raft-gif-9004292240121823452

[limber walrus]

I decided to keep calling him Little because that way both of our cats are the opposite of their names. He's certainly not Little, and Shadow certainly isn't as quiet as one

[muted smelt]

do not read discord on main display thats a social faux pas

[royal relic]

i've got blender on my main

[fiery holly]

RAHH MY AUTISM IS GONNA BE Fulfilled ON JULY 2nd

This is my autism endgame

Like sonic 3 was to many others

[muted smelt]

but t rex is supposed to be feathery

[royal relic]

is it?

[fiery holly]

Well you see he was

But genes like to disappear after a while

[limber walrus]

Isn't T-Rex still unsure on that? I know some dinos have found feather signs but not confirmation for all

[royal relic]

i know they're distant cousins to chickens

[fiery holly]

(I’m talking about in canon)

https://youtu.be/NkEU6fC_nhY?si=OQs3Je2CVg7HXB2t

They show him having feathers

[limber walrus]

Oh neat

[muted smelt]

fuzzy baby

[fiery holly]

I bought a toy for this movie cause I’m so pumped

I’m also a action figure collector

It’s my hobby

https://i.redd.it/question-about-the-d-rex-toys-v0-3emfatwoxyze1.jpg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ecc73c68a957ed4ae5e95e77b584b5e9b640e0d3

This one

It’s the D Rex

[limber walrus]

Dyrannosaurus Rex

[muted smelt]

you think he would have been just nice and chill if the scientist had just gave him his feathers

[fiery holly]

Maybe

[royal relic]

why does it have like three arms?

oh wait it's four

[fiery holly]

Distortus Rex is what it stands for

[fiery holly]

It’s a failed T. rex

[muted smelt]

looks like a success to me

[royal relic]

hmmmmm

[muted smelt]

have you ever thought you could use more arms

[limber walrus]

Distortus makes sense but is kinda funny, like, scientific name for this thing is "oops-we-messed-up Rex" <positive>

[fiery holly]

https://imgur.com/a/H4Gpjea

Here’s all the stuff I’m excited for this summer

And the hades 2 update

There’s also another game but I’m embarrassed to talk about it 😅

[royal relic]

RON?

i thought that was out already

[fiery holly]

Full release

Is in July

It’s been in early access

[royal relic]

well i'll be damned

i might get it

[swift valley]

I'm just twiddling my thumbs for silksong

[royal relic]

your thumbs must be getting quite sore by now

[fossil glade]

idk if this is off topic or not but it feels right to put this here but Hi im Cassie! im 17 and one day i wish to work with super giant games, thats why im here (plus i love there games too)

i ofc want to get though with school and maybe collage

wait should this be in self promo?

but one day i dream of making my one games too!

[rain mauve]

@lethal root

[lethal root]

this is insanity at this point

[fair cloud]

so how's everyone this evening

[swift valley]

which time zone is evening now

[fair cloud]

GMT -3 or Brazilian Standard Time

we just hit 7pm

just put on a killer chest workout today, feeling good

[dry stratus]

which exercises did you hit my guy?

[dry stratus]

hey welcome to the server!! good luck with your ambitions, they're great!

[fair cloud]

Mostly chest presses and some shoulder exercises too

[dry stratus]

[fast marlin]

lady bird might be my new favorite movie

[sharp grail]

i watched that so long ago i dont remember much of it...

maybe i should give it another watch i remember i liked it

[bronze lintel]

I was at this cafe with my friends. My coffee took too long cause some guy dressed up as immigration and tried to take cafe's money

[fast marlin]

it is very good and made me cry a lot

my favorite horror movie

[sharp grail]

ive been crying at anything lately so this must be a good idea to rewatch

[fast marlin]

yes

2017 lowkey an insane year for movies

both lady bird and baby driver

[sharp grail]

baby driver...

i watched that movie so many times and its not like, a fight club level obsession for me, its just so much fun to watch and show to people

[fast marlin]

I love edgar wright

[sharp grail]

i dont pay attention to directors specifically then someone was like wow you really like david fincher huh and well it seems that i do

[fast marlin]

LOL

me with micheal giacchino

u never expect him but the score is almost always him

[sharp grail]

looking at his page omg i watched rogue one in theaters! and it went all. quite downhill from there

[muted smelt]

guys please check out the movie Twilight Samurai. It's a rare and insightful window into the everyday life of lower ranking samurai and commoners during a time of social change, at the end of an era

[sharp grail]

was anyone going to tell me that let the right one in got an american version or was i just supposed to find this out by looking at this guys credits

[sharp grail]

noted!

[muted smelt]

twilight samurai is distributed freely on internet archive

[sharp grail]

hiroyuki sanada....

hes very handsome it makes me upset

[muted smelt]

yes very upset!

[sharp grail]

and very handsome... 😭

[fast marlin]

also my rabbit hole of the day is the new york mayoral election

i know so much about a place i cant vote in now

[muted smelt]

important question, were there any rabbits

[fast marlin]

maybe

[muted smelt]

inconclusive

[fast marlin]

a lot of it is

[muted smelt]

guess youll have to dig deeper then

[random sedge]

👋

[bronze lintel]

Anyway, I'm at my friend's place away from home

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/193414868760657920/1384434901813559306/20250617_152814.jpg?ex=68526afa&is=6851197a&hm=4a4731252cb276abcabcfe03255b0c0dbc5582ed1273240ddd514dca25a3386c&

Say hi to Toto

He is not letting me leave

[royal relic]

Hi toto

[fast marlin]

i want to pick him ip

[royal relic]

That’s his ip address anyway?

[bronze lintel]

You'd be in luck. He is very chill

[fast marlin]

cat of sloth and sleepy

[sharp grail]

why do things that you buy take time to arrive

everyone on my tumblr dashboard is posting beautiful art for this book and i want to read it nowww i want to be in the know...

[keen frost]

Ah yes I’ll just bring out my teleport

Gun

[sharp grail]

oh no!

i ordered it to pick up so i could save on shipping... now i kinda regret it lol its not a long drive but a drive nontheless

[keen frost]

Oki

[mild pelican]

i ordered bunch of food, like, 5 hours ago, and the delivery guy is on his way to the store only now.. from the nearby city.
if only i could get food with my own legs and hands, it would took, like, 5 mins to get to the store i made an order from

not really related, yeah

but the question still stands

[keen frost]

Oh damn 5 hours!?… do you live in Greenland or something?

[mild pelican]

worse, it's russia

[sharp grail]

i get it because im in the same situation. i live 5 mins from a supermarket but i have to order online bc i cant carry so much groceries by myself

[keen frost]

Oh

Your delivery driver is just dodging tsar bombas

[mild pelican]

the same company that made wheeled delivery drones roaming around in the capital city, same company just couple hundreds km deeper in the suburban area just forgets we even exist

[keen frost]

Give him a big tip

It’s life or death for him

[mild pelican]

i'll make sure he's safe

[keen frost]

Great

Is he a bear or a human

?

[mild pelican]

judgin from the profile, he's Igor

so, not a bear

all the bears are Michaels for some reason

[keen frost]

Igor karkaroff is in delivery’s now?

[keen frost]

That’s a bear name if I ever seen one

[mild pelican]

the times are rough, you know.. everybody trying to make for a living

[keen frost]

Ig

Bro really went down in levels

From a death eater to a principle to a delivery driver

[tall owl]

got a hairdresser video on my yt front page and it starts with the hairdresser asking 'what do you wanna do with your hair today' and the client says 'that's such a good question' and i closed the tab

[royal relic]

https://tenor.com/view/puffer-fish-what-the-heck-gif-24866376

[random sedge]

Omy

[latent wind]

imagine having a kkk member as a delivery man

[keen frost]

Fr

[fast marlin]

tempted to watch every costume design oscar winner ngl

it used to be split between black and white and color movies fun fact

forgot barbie didn’t win i hate life nvm 💔💔

[vocal yoke]

bahahahah

[blissful charm]

made some homemade ramen last night and it turned really well but i made it much spicier than i intended. still good but i have a low spice tolerance so it's kind of a kick in the mouth at times.

[vocal yoke]

at least it aint buldak

how is thst crap even enjoyable
normal spicy buldak is good but 2x spicy and above is horrible

[royal relic]

Have you ever ordered something so freaking spicy you left the restaurant a single star review while crying napalm?

I have

[sharp grail]

i dont eat spicy food that often so... nope LOL
one time my friend ordered something but they sent the wrong thing so i ate it instead. and because i dont eat spicy food often i basically inhaled it. bad idea, i got so nauseous

[royal relic]

Yeah it was a pizza in my case
I thought it was gonna be just “regular” kind of spicy
Not “getting pepper sprayed in the face while on the set of the terminator 2 nuke scene” kind of spicy

Left them a single star and wrote that I haven’t cried this hard since the lion king lmao

Borderline lethal

[mental aurora]

Nah

[sharp grail]

that is kinda devastating

is that the movie you cried the most at?

i think recently-ish if you can call it that, i cried a fair bit watching everything everywhere all at once. but i cry so easily watching movies/playing games in general lol

[fast marlin]

wait is this directed at me lmfao

[sharp grail]

nope, towards bim, but why not!

[fast marlin]

ohhh

too many movies in this chat if only there was another one at one point 😔😔

[sharp grail]

wait lmao out of movies i cried at bridge of terabithia was devastating i was wailing

[fast marlin]

oh yeahh

relevant-ly lady bird is the movie i cried the most at

[sharp grail]

you kinda made me want to rewatch it but im scared of crying LOL

[fast marlin]

crying is ok drink more water 🙏

[sharp grail]

i dont want to watch a depressing movie rn but i do but i dont

ok ill just put it in the bg and hope i dont dissolve into a puddle

[fast marlin]

thats fair honestky

i watch depressing movies when i already feel bad im not wasting a good day on being sad

[sharp grail]

its ok i can do other things with my time that will make me less depressed!

...right?

[sharp grail]

you may or may not be onto something

[keen frost]

Charge them for chemical war fare

[royal relic]

[royal relic]

It’s the first thing that came to mind

Well t2 got me a bit

Wasn’t full on crying but
It was close

https://tenor.com/view/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-meatballs-animated-cartoon-comedy-police-man-gif-3461661

[muted smelt]

Not exactly cry but the movie that I'll always remember making me feel like I need to stand up and scream and beat up somebody was Jagten

Mads mikkelsen is in ot

[royal relic]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/361885089824505858/1240766984451264612/Jeremy_otson.mp4?ex=6853ce0d&is=68527c8d&hm=6bad91b220e3335e35356ef0f80ab27606221e19e11ade7f7d04f9571649d6d6&

[muted smelt]

Hey bim

[royal relic]

Aaaaand time

6 minutes and 15 seconds

[sharp grail]

was that the time until I deleted it? Lol

[royal relic]

Yes

[sharp grail]

I unfortunately have a real life to attend to as well

or… fortunately

[royal relic]

Love that dög emote

[sharp grail]

but it was funny. And counting the seconds is also funny

[cerulean wagon]

#announcements message
I noticed that the prices for this collection vary wildly between the US vs JPN websites (using the jacket as an example - it's $299.99 on US vs. ¥27,500/$189.48on JPN - that's a $110 difference)

I understand that for US shoppers this may be the best possible price due to tariffs. But for any international fans, buying directly from the Japanese store may turn out much cheaper. I wanted to post about this since it's not immediately apparent there are separate storefronts with different pricing, so someone may find this useful

[swift valley]

just need to grab that thanks

[tranquil bay]

just saw this on tunglr, her reaction is killing me 😭 girl,,,, [link nuked (: ]

oh nuts it's ai, bummer. well chuckling while shaking my head to show i don't approve

[fast marlin]

aw man!

watching every best costume design winner so my hamlet 1948 review is that ophelia’s costume is good and all the men kind of look the same

its so boring i fear

and i LIKE hamlet i like shakespeare

[royal relic]

hello

[vocal yoke]

hello slowly approaching peper

[royal relic]

hey
you wanna see some cursed blender crap?

[limber walrus]

From you? Yes

[royal relic]

wha-bam!
||https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/638031423340806185/1385306339592503327/image.png?ex=68559691&is=68544511&hm=f6cbe83cef56be2a413237f0f5dfc12d06d096159de7a1527cb97f98fe17b5ad&||

this is just a single face material

[vocal yoke]

aw hell naw

[royal relic]

yeah it's the worst one i've made so far

but it does kinda make sense

if you squint hard enough

[sharp grail]

The horrors appear

[royal relic]

it is, however the best damn skin material i've ever made

down to microscopic details

(even if the main diffuse texture is still a bit blurry cause it's imported from a unity game)

[halcyon bluff]

Hi chat, i found a merch store- can somebody pls tell me if this is official?

https://www.fangamer.com/collections/hades?srsltid=AfmBOorDjqARchra_E4EsZbTetIZ_U3kmXwGD3ik8Sc7m8DvK_noSXp0

merch and its descriptions sound legit, website looks well, but i wanted to ask before its a fake website!! happened to me with hsr merch before

ok i saw it festured on supergiant website i think its legit haha

[fast marlin]

it is yes

[royal relic]

Mornin

[tall owl]

good morning bim!!!

[royal relic]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-funny-light-bright-light-headed-gif-17367143

[muted smelt]

Why is it always good morning

The other side is feeling underrepresented

Say evil morning

[limber fjord]

Hello!

[keen frost]

It’s a bug

Kill it

[limber walrus]

Bugs are friends (mostly)

[keen frost]

Female mosquitoes can go to hell

[fast marlin]

i only say morning, because if it was a good morning, i would be fishing

[limber walrus]

https://tenor.com/bncqR.gif

[fiery holly]

I’m going to watch 28 years later in a few hours

[tall owl]

I’m going to watch 28 hours later in a few years

[keen frost]

Drip

[tall owl]

@royal relic explain this zoomer lingo to me ^

[fast marlin]

i could explain but i want to see bim do it

[keen frost]

Am I the zoomer?

[fiery holly]

I’m about to watch it now

I’ll tell yall how it was

[bronze lintel]

hopefully it isn't as bad as 28 weeks later

I swear the only thing good out of that movie is the intro

[dry belfry]

yeeeeahhh... it was, uh. not good.

the trailer for the new movie gives me hope, but we'll see.

[fiery holly]

Really good though it ends on a cliffhanger cause they wanna do a trilogy

Very intense movie with some really good emotion

Some characters didn’t do a whole lot

Though there is a really emotional scene near the end

But overall it’s worth your time

So like 8/10

https://imgur.com/a/pw2QU0x

Here’s how I’d rank it with everything I’d watched this year

FYI it’s still really good

[royal relic]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/638031423340806185/1385842616179884163/image.png?ex=68578a03&is=68563883&hm=41929becbf162b8c5e7568238d71a71f820b6dc1e712fe93d3625a88e10af6b7&

@tall owl nah

[fiery holly]

https://tenor.com/view/spider-man-pointing-meme-double-identity-youre-fake-phony-gif-25729080

[stable comet]

https://youtu.be/j6_bpoN8KHs

[gusty thorn]

That's gonna be a hell of a fast-forward

[royal relic]

mornin’

[bronze lintel]

[bronze lintel]

Better buckle up for the final entry of the trilogy: 28 Centuries later

[royal relic]

Notice - I didn’t use the word “good”

[bronze lintel]

Cause if it were good, you'd be fishing?

[royal relic]

I’d be sleeping

[bronze lintel]

But you wouldn't say good morning even then

[royal relic]

[tall owl]

killjoy…

[tall owl]

@muted smelt evil morning

[muted smelt]

Well that's not very nice!

[tall owl]

hey i just wanted to apply your suggestion!

[vocal yoke]

this summer I might be seen only rocking sandals

@dry stratus you're aussie right? Are Gumbies flip flops or sandals common there? They any good? Dad thrifted a pair of flip flops and they are pretty damn sturdy and I wanna get some

[royal relic]

Hey - you’re Slav
You’re bound by law to wear flip flops with the thickest socks you have lmao

Well so am I, actually

[vocal yoke]

nah i like leaving my dawgs out

[bronze lintel]

I'm not a slav and I do that

[royal relic]

[tranquil bay]

saw the kpop demon hunters movie im going to be thinking about nothing else for the next three days

my girlies 🥺

[limber walrus]

Oh it's already out??? Frick I wanna watch it xD

[tranquil bay]

ya dropped yesterday

[fiery holly]

Oh yeah Melinoes va is in it

She’s additional voices

I would have watched it yesterday but 28 years later came out yesterday so I watched that

[tranquil bay]

oh! thats neat. idk who the va are, it just intrigued me bc i liked the art style and stuff. the songs were rly good

i absolutely need it to have a physical release i can put on my shelf

[fiery holly]

Her name is Judy Alice Lee

[tranquil bay]

https://tenor.com/view/mark-cuban-shark-tank-notes-taking-notes-remember-gif-15073512

[sharp grail]

OMG so it was good…. I’m happy to hear

I will have a look eventually

[tranquil bay]

they were nawt convincing me into shipping het or liking the demon boy band but yes i liked it a lot

[limber walrus]

Please tell me that's not a typo xD

[tranquil bay]

i did not typo sometimes i use nawt for emphasis to be funny instead of not

lmao

[limber walrus]

Not that one :3 shipping het

[tranquil bay]

oh

yeah it was kind of a major plot point and i was like hm! well i do like the song. but no you lost me on that one

[limber walrus]

lmao

[tranquil bay]

i know it is definitely the creators thing and she absolutely meant that but its just not my taste sowwy

its actually one of a few lil narrative grievances i had but none of it was a big enough deal to me to affect my viewing experience

still a rly fun movie i def rec it, esp in this era of live action remake nonsense 🔪

[sharp grail]

misspelling not... nawt is much better than naught. which i think naught is funnier BUT its an actual word so its just confusing

not the live action remakes...

theyre getting worse and worse

[true vapor]

Hey!
Could i maybe message a mod?
I got a scamer to report

[sharp grail]

you could dm me or send a @rough meteor !

[true vapor]

AD!

I'll dm you if that's okay

[sharp grail]

ofc

[dry stratus]

Both me and Aggy are Aussie!! We call them thongs 🤪 I'm honestly not a fan of them as I find that they chafe the skin between my toes, and I cannot easily recommend a brand to you; it might be worth looking into the orthopaedic ones tho??

They'll be better for your feet at least lol!

Also the idea of wearing toe socks with flip flops.

[woeful kite]

Thongs are something very different in the States

[dry stratus]

Looool

They sure are!

There's actually a bunch of cool animated projects being released this year 🧐 I didn't realise the new Predator film was animated for example

[woeful kite]

Flip flops is clearly the superior name

[muted smelt]

in latin american culture flipflops are terrifying weapons

[fiery holly]

No shot 😭

[dry stratus]

absolutely yes. Aussies are funny in that we'll give odd names to all sorts of things (eg both crisps and chips are just chips here. We don't differentiate)

[fast marlin]

we call them slippers here

in Hawaii specifically

[dry stratus]

Oh worm!

Over here, slippers reference bedtime shoes only

[woeful kite]

Same here. Now the Hawaiians are the odd ones out

[blissful charm]

i fine thongs/flip flops to be great house shoes but pretty terrible walking shoes

[fiery holly]

Why is it thongs of all things

[woeful kite]

Unless he meant he is wearing that kind on his feet

[sharp grail]

in summer its basically the only thing i wear unless the situation rlly calls for something fancier/closed shoes, until they totally wear down. then another pair!

[woeful kite]

The only thing?

[fiery holly]

https://tenor.com/view/взгляд-2000-ярдов-война-war-soldier-gif-3632617944134077161

[dry stratus]

you see I'm a fan of sandals for this purpose. I find flip flops to just fall off my feet too 🤕

[fossil glade]

Just finished final destination 1!

Just started 2

[woeful kite]

enjoy being afraid of log trucks for the rest of your life

[tranquil bay]

that's so real

literally i get around them as soon as im able lmao

[fossil glade]

I had to take a break

I was going crazy

So crazy that I had to run out of my house to my noughbers

[blissful charm]

which final destination was it worth the tanning beds? i was watching that movie with a group of people but i had to at that scene lmao

i don't even use tanning beds but the whole idea still gives me anxiety

[fossil glade]

4 or 5

finna watch 3 and 4 tomorrow

[winter pawn]

just bought hades 2 but do u guys think there will be a larger discount during steam summer sale?

[fast marlin]

not sure but there will be discounts on all other sgg games for really cheap

we need to reset wordle so bad

we’ve had like a week straight of absolutely scam words

nobody knows what a ||thrum|| (6/22 spoilers) is i hate it here

[swift valley]

I thought I knew it and then realized I was remembering ||strum||

[fast marlin]

its the sound u get after you do that

thanks for not spoiling discord

|| https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1379701836851843073/1386480351823527957/SPOILER_IMG_2289.png?ex=6859dbf3&is=68588a73&hm=33e3982a501ce805714e982474837ed884cff7ce86e680598b76024099ea08bc& ||

i do the wordle every day and its been Bad

[fossil glade]

Watching FD 3 and 4 today!

Oh god...

Just finished the tanning bed one

It was so preventable

[blissful charm]

it was so bad

[fossil glade]

Bad as in?

[fiery holly]

In also got today’s wordle lol

[blissful charm]

scared the hell out of me lol

[fossil glade]

Also screw Frankie, he reminds of my evil ex

YES

OMG YES HES GONE

STUPID FRANKIE CHEAKS

Also thanks to FD2

I hate pidgons and elevators now

Oh Pip...

NOOO NOT THE ASIAN GIRL

Sorry if I'm like spamming it's just I like to give updates on my FD progress, anyways started 4!

THIS INTRO SLAPS

[fossil glade]

That poor mother...her poor kids...

[blissful charm]

trying pulparindo for the first time. watermelon flavor. it's not bad but my brain isn't ready to comprehend this flavor combination

[misty moon]

Thinking about how Neoptolemus beat andromache with baby Astyanax

[vocal yoke]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1371865734598099034/1386786933774225560/Screenshot_20250623-221548.TikTok.png?ex=685af97a&is=6859a7fa&hm=d7927c957107ca8718108eac02e9e2a534055aa44c347901b434b02d200de2de&

[swift valley]

I've been playing videos on general aviation accidents as background noise

ie small planes that only seat a few people

and my conclusions are 1. It's like the wild west and 2. People who fly those planes have a death wish

[fast marlin]

the fact that i have a movie directed by lin manuel miranda on here is upsetting to me but

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1056453580669866045/1387037107557634159/IMG_2345.png?ex=685be278&is=685a90f8&hm=495f6abe3bf75f5bfbfc7163c21de7546aa31a08d8b6786e4e228fe9aa5461c9&

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/movies/reader-ballot-movies-21st-century.html?unlocked_article_code=1.RE8.5u1l.99jviK9TDaMy&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

[muted smelt]

What kind of movie will they vote for in 2099

[sharp grail]

Baby driver and knives out… I smiled

[quick cloud]

what r your right opinions?

[sharp grail]

campaign 1 best

[winged palm]

@sharp grail pls consider Dimension 20...their regular seasons are 20 episodes, but every other season is only 10 AND! They have a lot of settings and casts, so theres a lot of variety

Or dont try but also i really do like that d20 has a lot of different fantasy subgenres

I tried getting into cr during cr2 but. Too long. Lost interest...

I like the idea of imogen and laudna though

[sharp grail]

i definitely want to! by the that time i kind of lost the attention span. but i know its great :)

[misty spindle]

omg i love d20

[sharp grail]

i got into cr2 at about... episode 50 something? and then i was like what the hell i need to wait a WEEK? so i binged all of campaign 1's 115 episodes in 40 days. cried. and went back to c2

[winged palm]

Omg thats hardcore
I can't do thay

[sharp grail]

after that i would wake up every friday in the crack of dawn to watch a 4 hour live stream. honestly, i didnt chat, but the tension of watching it at the same time with so many people was great and i was just rlly into it

[winged palm]

The adhd brain.. Its bad

[sharp grail]

campaign 3 is where i could not keep up it let me down massively. and i gave it chances i think i watched over 20 episodes but nahhhhh

[winged palm]

Yeahh i think the live aspect sounds fun (Blaseball fan) but the time is just. Tooo long for me

[quick cloud]

I think I have only watched brennan lee mulligan's grayhawk campaign, only until the coach fight and intro of sister

I just can't keep pace with long form campaigns

[winged palm]

I didnt click w cr3 whereas i kinda liked cr2, but i am not sure enough to say its because of CR

Well besides the fact that like.. Cr3's party is just much less personally appealing to me

[winged palm]

Saaame thats why d20 appeals to me
Even if i barely finish stuff lmao

[sharp grail]

it really hooked me. the story and the real-time improv aspect of it were awesome. the tension abt a single roll of the dice is insane

well vox machina has an animated show now with 3 seasons? 4? maybe worth watching through its not the same as the campaign. which may be a good thing. because it starts in the middle of a game already and early episodes have technical issues and also That One Guy

[winged palm]

Tbh i think thats what can really turn me off actual play series, and d&d as a system feels much less into the tension- i felt it in cr and some of the d20 shows where like.. DMs were too willing to let people succeed?

Which im not totally against and I get why, especially when D20 is full of improv people lol, but for meeee its not the kind of systems or stories Im interested in

[quick cloud]

I honeslt didn't even know about the One Guy until someone made a post on reddit

[winged palm]

Oh d20 also has a One Guy Lmfao

(one off DM for 1 season)

[sharp grail]

when i was deep in cr interest i saw a lottt of people sayh they skip combat. i was like what but its so good

maybe thats because the campaigns i was in were crazy failures that (perhaps graciously) ended very early. but i was always at the edge of my seat

[winged palm]

For me, idk d&d combat is not super interesting esp from a watcher
But i think thats mostly me, and sme big fights are realfllyyy fun

[sharp grail]

cr endings have some insane dice rolls. i think its good from the beginning, but to get the crazy emotional impact you need to watch all of it which not a lot of people have time for

[winged palm]

Yess i like that feeling
Also why i like vtm a bit, the failure/frenzy system is really fun for me
Andi like how it streamlines combat lol

Agreed

[sharp grail]

love ttrpgs. would love to actually be in a good one someday

[winged palm]

I never got to through a cr campaign, but i did sit through all of Adventure Zone's Balance campaign and that one was really a "you gotta watch all of it"

LMAAOOOO ME...

[sharp grail]

the first podcast i listened to and what really got me into it was the adventure zone balance, as it was still coming out

then i went to critical role. but the problem is with the group i was in, that the DM's only exposure to dnd was TAZ, where the rules are way more loose than cr or actual by-the-book rules

so the dm literally did not know how to dm or play the game. as a dm. it was bad

then the second game i was in was my friends "co-dming" but it was more like a roleplay between them that we were occasionally being let in on 😢 scheduling issues happened and the campaign did not go further than 1 session LOL

[sharp grail]

helo my comic enjoyers

[wicked briar]

I was obsessed with ava's demon whenever I read it

possibly 2013

[winged palm]

Avas demon and antimony are 2 comics i read during my 2013 homestuck era where im not sure i wanna READ em ahain but also i kinda just wanna know how they went after i dropped em

[wicked briar]

but it just was soooo slow

[sharp grail]

oh i cant even get into that. i owned an absurd amount of ks merch

[wicked briar]

do you mean gunnerkrigg court?

[winged palm]

SO slow

Yes gunnerkrigg!

[sharp grail]

beautiful art and i got so into it but... some questionable decisions from the people working on it dragged me out of it hardcore

wait lmao its also shortened to AD. help

[winged palm]

I dont even know what went on but so extremely believable

[sharp grail]

there can only be one

[wicked briar]

gunnerkrigg is another one I fell off horrifically because there was just no plot progression that I could really follow. it updates like clockwork though

[sharp grail]

i feel like ive heard of that one

[wicked briar]

ava's demon......it's been like a decade since I read it and they've met like two other demons

the art is so pretty but is it even worth,,,

[sharp grail]

oh yeah and i must recommend necropolis again even tho its basically discontinued
https://necropoliscomic.tumblr.com/
such amazing art

[winged palm]

Yeahhh

Avas demon was really slow even for its time

[quick cloud]

@winged palm
http://questionablecontent.net/
https://lancercomic.com/comic/chapter-1-cover/

[winged palm]

There's so many random fun webcomics on tumblr #backinmyday

[sharp grail]

did it ever get a proper animation with studio yotta like the stretch goal indicated or is it just gone into the ether

[winged palm]

Tysm!!

[quick cloud]

anyone follow lackadiasy?

[wicked briar]

well, there was an animation at one point. idk if it was the one in the stretchgoal

[winged palm]

Omg avas demon has an intermission chapter... Ghahah homestuck /j

[wicked briar]

I backed the kickstarter so I HAVE the books I just haven't finished reading them. watched the pilot ofc

[winged palm]

Ive heard of it but never read!

[quick cloud]

I tried reading it online but not to be rude, it was a bit of a slog. Does it get better?

[winged palm]

Omg questionable content also looks familiar in a back in mt day wah

[wicked briar]

I feel like I'm the wrong person to ask there because I have actually found them hard to get into

the animation pilot was a lot of fun though so maybe it's worth it

[winged palm]

I just remembered there was a webcomic i liked in 2013 abt witches who like.. Got pkwer via hair+or something? Gosh

[quick cloud]

When I read it was like reading someone who passed's diary
The culture captured feels so nostalgic even though I just born back then

[wicked briar]

I'm at a point in my life where I don't really want to slog through a backlog to get to the good stuff though

[quick cloud]

same, I barely have time because of my illness, I can't add more to the pile

[winged palm]

Oh felt that
The internet has really changed sm in a relatively short time, in ways that are sometimes difficult to describe to someone who wasnt in the thick of it

[quick cloud]

(Illness, also known as job)

[quick cloud]

same
I wasn't even active on the net back when homestuck was a thing, I only all this cuz of video essays

Tho I was part of the "Wild West" for a while and hope the next gen gets to enjoy this experience a bit

[wicked briar]

the funny thing about me and homestuck is that I technically fell in an age range to read it and it was recommended to me when I was a teenager I just didn't want to

[sharp grail]

i tried reading it. i eventually got through act one but did not care, and i also didnt wanna skip 5 acts to get to the Good Stuff. allegedly.

[wicked briar]

and then I went back and read it in like 2020 except I didn't finish it post retcon because I didn't care anymore

it do be like that

[quick cloud]

You know I was watching this talk by Michael Sipser, a well renowned computer scientist

And the guy basically said that this is not even the final form of the net. Like, it is so primitive that somethnig new and better will take its place

Or computers in general

[wicked briar]

I'm not sure to what extent I believe that. it depends on what his projection for "new and better" is because if we're talking the metaverse idk about that

[winged palm]

HS like blaseball is one of those where you kinda had to be there, in the sense that a lot of the fun and reason for the passion ppl had in it lies in the communal experience of watching live updates

[quick cloud]

oh no, not metaverse but computers in general. Like we still don't understand stuff like creativity

[winged palm]

Tbf i think act 1 is the slowest, it was a literal cyoa game, but by act 2 or 3 its already wayyyy better

[quick cloud]

He said once we advance Computers as a science, it will change things once again

[wicked briar]

for sure yeah and it's also of a piece with the internet culture/forum culture of the time, which I wasn't the right age for

I still think it holds up more or less as a story and it's a fascinating reading experience but reading it now is very different

[quick cloud]

I think you should read Rogue Sun. Its a comic by Image Comics and along with Radiant Black, it is one of their best works

[winged palm]

Tbh i know computers but im not a big tech guy, i am mostly a "annoyed because these days online fandom/communities have lost the ability to self moderate & create structured spaces as they used to"

But also on the net, we get less slurs thrown about so its not a total loss ig

[winged palm]

For sure, i kinda wanna look at HS again, at least skim through it

I really would not say skip to act 5 bcus act 5 was also where it rly got zany lmao

[quick cloud]

I once found this site hosted on the net for trans people.
It was so old it refered to them as "transseuxals" and other stuff. It even had phone number chatrooms which I could not connect to
There was like full directories of people's chats, their written stories and poems, it was wild

[winged palm]

God i miss that time...

Its still around if u really dig but...

[wicked briar]

we're implicitly part of the problem because the move of fandom to discord servers isn't great for long term preservation/access

[quick cloud]

yeah, exactly but the old feel you are looking for, I don't think it can be found

[wicked briar]

not much to be done about that though

fandom + communities

[quick cloud]

100%, discord cdn linkrot is too real

[winged palm]

🤝
But the difficulty lies in that theres just not enough mass to go outside

[quick cloud]

Personally, it might be a bit questionable, but I think AO3 can be used to make wikis quite easily

to preserve fiction and other stuff

[winged palm]

Nah, not ao3
Theres lotta indie wiki hosters
But yeah ao3 was always meant to be an archive

[wicked briar]

wikis in general need to be off fandom.com though it's terrible

[quick cloud]

yeah but heres the thing
The bigger the thing the less likely is it to fall

[winged palm]

I think also, of all modern fandom spaces like.. Discord is the worst. Like twt, bluesky, tumblr, lofter, dreamwidth etc. All better than discord.

[wicked briar]

twt is pretty bad nowadays

[quick cloud]

If a bot can be made for AO3 to store data and other stuff, it can be used to setup wikis as "Stories" and individual pages as "chapters" and just shuffle it around

[wicked briar]

the login gating is rough

and I'm slightly concerned about tumblr's long term survival lol

[winged palm]

Tbh disagree, eggs in 1 basket thing
And tbh less centralization is what made old net better
Ideal is to use an open source code for the wiki imo- wikis also live on communal and ongoing access that ao3 just isnt made for

[wicked briar]

agree - part of the problem with the web nowadays is that there are very few big players that monopolise things

[limber walrus]

Drives me insane sometimes I've been using imgur or other hosting sites even more since I started using discord because I want stable links

[limber walrus]

Decentralization with interconnection

[winged palm]

Tumnlr is gonna die any day, but i think discords servers are even more ephemeral, login access is REAL bad, and the structure of discord is the worst for like... A reasonable tempoof convos

Like real time chat is nice at times but i think making jt the main mode of existence for community? Awful

[quick cloud]

Agree with the decentralization but that on its own will only last so long

AO3 on the other hand is an ol' reliable, their leadership is good and not corrupt and if it does fail, you only really need another bot to transfer to another site

[winged palm]

Idk if it would surprise people because stuff was much more decentralized but Veryyy i interconnected

[quick cloud]

It is unorthodox but it works is what I am saying

[wicked briar]

I don't like joining servers so it's kind of wild that I'm here at all. sometimes for games I run into wanting a mod and the community is just all on discord

[quick cloud]

ActivityPub? (lemmy, mastodon)

[winged palm]

Too new

On old school net, it was totally different hosters for things

[quick cloud]

yeah but they are doing good work. Also, this stuff does need a start, I think it is a fair one

[limber walrus]

Personal hosting is likely gonna be harder to bring back in the near future, with how much security is required compared to before

[winged palm]

I use those sites but theyre really not. Theres a lot of modern sites that offer a start already- neocities for personal sites/blogs, I believe theres a few open source codes for wikis, just need server space.

Most people are on both fhose sites and centralized spaces, which i think is the best middleground

Host stuff on your own sites, talk & share em on the usual social media sites

[quick cloud]

which is hard
It is the primary problem that is faced by literally everyone.
This is exactly why in Mastodon/Lemmy/Matrix, everytime all admins fail to login for 24hrs, they send out sirens to transfer data to asylum servers and stop registration of new users

[wicked briar]

the problem is basically that you need to pay for hosting and people have gotten used to big sites that are ad-supported + venture capital backing even though it makes the experience much worse

[limber walrus]

Private hosting is still an option, it's just less accessible

[winged palm]

Blaseball was really funny bcus it was small enough that a communal team to own and run stuff worked and Blaseball specifically drew in the nerdy computer engineer crowd that the tech team actually did have a servee to host the communal wiki and some other tools

Lmao there used to be an sql portal... Good times

[quick cloud]

Another thing that can be done is to buy one domain to share among many people

Then they can subdomain off while pointing them to computers hosted at home.

Security will still be an issue tho

[quick cloud]

Direct sql access!! are you serious??

[winged palm]

I feel like thats part of the change w the culture too, in terms of having mods and a structure and also just less people on the internet

[wicked briar]

I hope twitter dies so that people move to a place that's better (and maybe something else comes up to take its place? not holding my breath for that though)

[winged palm]

It was nerd centraaaal i miss it. It made me interested in data science again. And forced me to learn basic sql lol

[quick cloud]

less people will never happen unless something major and I mean major as in a world war levels of major changes

Tho automated tools might help

[winged palm]

We can all still move to dreamwidth and forums i prommy

[quick cloud]

Mastodon 🐘
(Bluesky is cool too 🦋 )

[wicked briar]

we should but it feels like that era of things is past

[winged palm]

Tbh i think less automated tools
Because we did it w less automated tools! And good healthy communities require a willingness to spend time on something and do things the hard way

But people rn are simply too used to a frictionless experience

[winged palm]

I used to think it wasnt. Ut.. Yeah rn lmao it really is

It makes me sad

[quick cloud]

TBH, don't be mad
But I think it is because of the geopolitics of how US is loosing power while others are gaining it

[quick cloud]

We cannot handle the size of communities, not without automated tools
Tho I will agree things done the hard way taste sweeter

[winged palm]

I think outside very niche communities, old fandom & forum culture is effectively dead which makes me sad. I think reddit is actually the closest to that

[wicked briar]

idk I think automated tools are kind of a must with so many people around. the volume of things that need to be moderated is just prohibitive unless there's something to lift the weight/things are purposefully kept small

oh same brain

[sharp grail]

ao3 is so rotten
but i just hope tumblr doesnt die because ive been on that website for so long and i dont want to go anywhere else. its the easiest to curate and sort and archive imo

[quick cloud]

why is AO3 rotten???

[winged palm]

I agree some level of automated mod tools are needed- but the oversight, the actual philosophy behind modding, etc are needed and ppl think yoj can just shortcut them

[quick cloud]

It is literally the last thing that does not scream "consume"

[winged palm]

In addition, like, im thinking more about things like hosting, forums, slower paced but more high effort convos as examples of things people have let go because of convenience and speed

[sharp grail]

i understand fanfiction is not something you can "restrict" or "moderate" because etc. etc. but some of the things that are allowed, or should i say, fandom-acceptable to post there, are rotten

[limber walrus]

Yeah I'm in a couple discord communities that absolutely should be forums, with how they operate, if that was still a feasible option

[wicked briar]

I would pin it on the transformation of internet culture/the intrusion of commercialization/wider access to the internet beyond people with a certain level of technical knowledge myself

[sharp grail]

discord is nice i enjoy chatting but i miss forums sometimes...

but also gating something exclusive like game updates and info and giveaways etc. behind joining a server is so sad

[winged palm]

LITERALLY LMAO ice had that too. Like the rules and structure theyve made are all just things that try and make discord more like a forum

Discords forum feature really can not compare to actual forums at all

[quick cloud]

Most of what we are talking about, it is only american/european culture
This internet never existed for the rest of the globe
Most people on this planet only know google, youtube and not chatgpt

Since the world has changed irl, so have the people who made the net. Now you have tp contend with bots and stuff that actively work against what we all want (we as in the people in this convo)

[sharp grail]

oh well at least some forums are archived well enough even if theyre defunct

[limber walrus]

They aren't even really forums, they're just a tagging system for channel organization lmao

[winged palm]

I like forums... I liked how forums were setup where convos like tjos generally occur on threads but you can have speedy light convos via cbox

[wicked briar]

shoutout to old reddit or forum threads from 10 years ago that answer the exact same question I have right now

[sharp grail]

yep!

[winged palm]

Tbh your average American is just as clueless abt the deeper internet culture of like.. 5-10 years ago as many other countries

[limber walrus]

I found a random wiki from 2 decades ago about someone's D&D campaign while doing research for a character, it was absolutely fantastic (and I even found the DM and was able to send them an email haha)

[winged palm]

Sorry to the americans but annoying american whos never been in a subculture is one of the top ruiners of fandom communities....

[quick cloud]

exactly my point
It thrived because it was isolated, now those same type of people are too far apart

[wicked briar]

I'm american but bring back gatekeeping for real

[quick cloud]

gatekeeping my bathroom from the rats

[sharp grail]

sometimes i go into discord servers and kids on there are like "🤨 what are 30 year olds doing here get a life" and i just dont even know what to say, do you think Fandom™ was invented by tiktok youngsters?
these kids are skirting the TOS age so much that some servers have to specify theyre 13+. its so painful. you get a life

[limber walrus]

It thrived because it was isolated but if you knew the right people or how to look or were determined enough, you could find it. But what spaces still exist now are either highly centralized or actively hidden by common search algorithms

[winged palm]

Yuppp
Even if the internet was not aaas popular in non Anglosphere coutnries, its.. Not totally true but also those countries had a lotta subcultures that were very familiar w this kinda community. Well im not an expert abt other communties but theres soo many fandom communities in Asia since time immemorial

[wicked briar]

it drives me nuts because right now there's things like the publishing industry grabbing fics from ao3 and partially marketing them As fic like can we get some boundaries please

[winged palm]

13+ servers scare me wdym youre full of preteens....

[quick cloud]

mostly thanks to japan tho, Over in India, Malaysia, China, Mongolia, it was an unheard of technology

[sharp grail]

when i see a kid like "yeah i got on discord when i was 8 i just kept making accounts" i feel mortified. please dont

[winged palm]

Also isolated from the wilder internet but still quite findable? They were very active and very vibrant communties

[wicked briar]

oy. I don't know the age of this server but I assume it's mostly 18+ and whenever I run into someone who's a obviously a kid I try to be nice

but it's a little weird

[limber walrus]

Like, please get off the internet, it's genuinely not designed for you anymore, be social with friends and start learning Internet safety once you're old enough to understand it

[winged palm]

Not true. Also literally so many more Asian countries than that, and as I said just because theyre not on the internet doesnt mean they did not have subcultures, who were very Familiar with the same codes of conduct as online subcultures but in offline spaces

I am Filipino

[sharp grail]

i modded the wrong organ/mouthwashing server briefly, i hated seeing kids there. not even because they were annoying or not. its because mouthwashing is not a game for kids and the community got rancid fast. i only became a mod in the first place because of someone who was lowkey sexually harassing a bunch of people there, minors and not 😬
i also banned someone who admitted to being 12. come on

[winged palm]

Ive been terminally online since 2010 alongside many other Filipinos lmao, and my dad started coding in the 80s lmao

[quick cloud]

no, I agree there are more than that, I am just giving example
I am just saying the internet we want can't comeback, not exactly because of the intermixing of different cultures
We will probably make a different and hopefully better net tho

[limber walrus]

Similar situation, yeah (though not Filipino xD)

[winged palm]

Yibeee lets gaur

[quick cloud]

your dad is a coder?? Mine is as well but just doesn't like to

[winged palm]

Asian fandom communities are some of the most old internet fandom vibes sometimes lmao

If not structure but in norms

[quick cloud]

He didn't even tell me about the net, I had to put in the lgework myself

[sharp grail]

i used to be very active in forums since before that, it just wasnt english. then in like 2010-2011 i ventured into the english speaking net mostly through tumblr

[limber walrus]

Yeah, we can't recreate what existed before, because it was literally the process of creation. And it's still growing and developing, but we can guide it towards the structure and function that we hope will bring a better environment

[sharp grail]

at the time

[autumn rapids]

when we can expect other langugages translations ig?

[quick cloud]

fandoms was what got me into things until I stumbled upon some less than respectable sites

specifically marvel fandom

[winged palm]

I was on forums mostly for rping or talking about rping, and sometimes as a side to video games i was in.
I think for fandom, i was most online on tumblr or livejournal

[limber walrus]

If Hades 2, no specific timeline that I'm aware of, but please report any missing translations in-game (also if you want to chat more probably best in the channel for the specific game)

[quick cloud]

This is the first time I am talking to someone on the net, the first time I came to discord it felt like a party that will never end

[autumn rapids]

alr thnaks

where i can report that tho

kinda new to it

[limber walrus]

In-game with f10

[autumn rapids]

thanks dawg

have nice one

[sharp grail]

i feel like some sites that people complain about being terrible just passed me by. whats amino. maybe i dont want to know

[limber walrus]

I definitely was more online as forums were starting to decline, so I didn't see as much of that space. But I do remember using them for RP and fandom stuff a fair bit. But I also remember using G+ for RP and fandom lmao

[winged palm]

LMAAOO i skipped that but close call

[wicked briar]

it's terrible

[winged palm]

I did get forced into AIM for rping w americans and it was very wretched experience

[sharp grail]

i miss roleplaying as fairies and book characters on forums when i was 8... take me back...

[winged palm]

Amino is also an evil site i know this in my heart

[quick cloud]

I think there are discord servers for that as well now

[sharp grail]

eugh wretched experiences abound. i had a lot on tumblr but i grew up and realized these people were deeply abnormal so i guess im fine

[winged palm]

Im on twt but locked account n very selective on who i let it and its great lol

[wicked briar]

it's not like I've been immersed in the culture of amino of anything it's just that the vibes are so bad and every time I go there off google for some reason the layout is the worst

[quick cloud]

I just found tumblr and think these guys are jsut acting and sorta cool 💀 (am I doomed?)

[wicked briar]

tumblr is full of weirdos but arguably finding the correct weirdos is the only way to have a good experience

[winged palm]

Agreeee
Similar to wattpad vibes

[sharp grail]

i think its because i was briefly there when it started, then i deleted it and never looked back. i guess it got bad

[winged palm]

Tumblr also does have correct/normal weirdos i think

[quick cloud]

You know, if you are techy sort and wanna just explore, buckets.grayhatwarfare is great. It list buckets and their contents and sometimes you just hit gold like a trove of digitzed books, etc

[limber walrus]

[correct] being entirely subjective and situational

[winged palm]

Also just rn, these days theres a lot less weirdos there bcus the weirdest ppl do it for attention & clout so theyre mostly on twt or discord now lol

[quick cloud]

It gives urban exploration vibes

[sharp grail]

yeah. cool tumblr weirdos are great, adults who talked to me when i was like 14 or whatever and told me im "mature for my age" were not cool

[wicked briar]

like if I were to sum up this conversation we were saying there are too many normies in subcultures nowadays

[winged palm]

Uea

[wicked briar]

oh my god yikes

[quick cloud]

Thank god I was too scared to use the internet for chatting back then

[quick cloud]

we are so doomed

[winged palm]

(correct in the sens eof, i think theres a lot of decent enough ppl on tumblr? Its less toxic than the 2010s now and generally the tumblr ver of a fandom is muuuuch less toxic than tbe twitter version, i feel)

[limber walrus]

Not even necessarily normies in subcultures, there're too few lines to understand where subcultures begin and end and people don't learn the same etiquette

[sharp grail]

someone left such an unbelievably bad-weirdo tag on my art a few days ago that i got so upset i made my entire blog private. so dont worry theyre still out there

ugh

[quick cloud]

true, but sometimes the "being correct" can go off the rails. People there generally have good hearts, even though it may lead them astray

[winged palm]

Tbh i think thats the normies like i get it... Ppl who are not used to having specific fandom etiquette and get actively annoyed when you say theres one/a "pls dont do tjat"

[sharp grail]

then they vagueposted about me for setting boundaries and curating my space lmao dude i do not know you and i do not want to

[winged palm]

Y e e s h

[wicked briar]

I think in the past there was a general sense of you go into a community and it has established norms so you learn those before interacting and now people are much more comfortable just barging in

[winged palm]

Yaaa

[wicked briar]

so yeah, the subculture boundaries thing

[quick cloud]

it remains in open source communties tho (Yes my only life is tech, how could you tell?)

[limber walrus]

Not necessarily just normies [which is a distinction that can only help so much], but also new people trying to join fandom without seeing what exists. And like. I'm all for people creating their own versions of fandom and culture. But there should be a certain level of respect behind it, and that doesn't always exist.

[quick cloud]

The Linux contributions page literally says to learn the ettiquettes of the community or we will laugh at you

[winged palm]

And also i think like, knowing lr being willing to accept that those norms exist for a reason, and tho not always correct or perfect there was usually a specific principle people wanted to protect even if it was occasionally inconvenient

Nao a lotta people dont know or care and im like dang.. Im out...

[limber walrus]

Tumblr is toxic in different ways, some spaces are harshly gatekept to an unfair degree, others have no etiquette at all. There are a lot of good spaces as well though

[wicked briar]

open source communities have the technical knowledge barrier so I think they're generally smaller

[quick cloud]

true. I was once on a matrix server until the owner had a crashout and deleted it, now everyone is scattered to the winds 🌬️

[wicked briar]

ahaha there's the downside of forum culture for you

[quick cloud]

Lesson learned: Always setup main account on established server. Or a backup account

[limber walrus]

And that's good! People can still dabble if they want, but if they want to be involved, they should learn how. [And etiquette can change over time. But it often exists for a reason, and that reason is often cultural stability]

[winged palm]

Yaa i think tumblr has more variety, so as much bad as there is it feels like theres more good

Also am of the belief that a sites structure contributes to its culture- that tumblr can make long posts and generally very little real time chat (dms came out soo late, and are poorly implemented and barelt used next to posting) helped forced people to also be a bit more thoughtful AND helped put less of an onus on being thr fastest AND made ppl who can be more thoughtful be more visible

Obvs its not perfect but having the structure that can nudge people that way? I think its nice

[quick cloud]

100%, Linus can be extremely rude and hard to work with but without his guidance the community won't be what it is

[limber walrus]

Yeah, the overall structure definitely has a huge impact.

[sharp grail]

yeah i see your point - never considered it before because its my default for so long. remember when replies were gone...??

[wicked briar]

if you look at it that way something like twt was always bad because it's not great for long form discussion

[winged palm]

Well now im sad and nostalgic and rocking on my old man rocking chair /j

[wicked briar]

which might be true

[sharp grail]

theyre back now so i can socialize with new people in small doses. thank god. i dont want dms except to send my friends posts

[quick cloud]

https://tenor.com/view/arthur-rdr-red-dead-redemption-video-game-gameplay-gif-17892817

[winged palm]

I honestly do think so lmao, ive seen so much twitter drama best described as the site makes thoughtful, long replies hard and a algo and tweet format that rewards talking short n funny

[sharp grail]

twt is bad because if you retweeted something and you want to find it? good luck! on tumblr you can go back to the very start on your blog archive

(likes still very disorganized but i havent liked a post in like 9 years)

[quick cloud]

and even customize your blog

[limber walrus]

Real-time chat contributes to one of the most frustrating things I've encountered, which is people using 20 messages to send a single paragraph. Drives me insane, because if nothing else it's notification spam, but also it means they're typing literal stream of consciousness, with no chance to double back and correct.

[wicked briar]

okay but the tumblr search function is terrible. it's true there's an archive but unless they've fixed it...

[sharp grail]

yes! and people make wonderful themes

are they working on fixing it or did i legitimately have a dream about it

[limber walrus]

Please tag your posts lmao it's the only thing that even somewhat functions in search

[sharp grail]

it was great before 2020. then no longer

[winged palm]

Omg... Yea..
Also tumblr w its wayy stronger culture of if ur gonna say something on a post, it BETTER be productive

Etc etc not perfect but twitters qrts are full of people who seem unaware they are qrting a post made by a person who can read what they're saying on a site where people can read what they're saying

[quick cloud]

As much as I despise 4chan, they really covered this well
Their d6 wiki and peasent archive system works great on tg boards

[wicked briar]

yeah mostly I use it when I'm trying to find someone else's post (on their blog) that wasn't tagged and oof

[sharp grail]

"Search" replaced tag and it became so broken

[winged palm]

Absolutely horrible, i think only saved by the tag system, and that before there used to be blogs made to be compilations. Not so much these days

[sharp grail]

yeah the kind of "unspoken rule" that you generally dont respond on posts, just say your piece in the tags. hmm
but as i said with that weirdo on my art, its like people dont know i can see it??? come on

[winged palm]

Themes still work rn i thiiink, but some old themes are broken because i think they changed smth about posts or whatever, i do not super understand

[sharp grail]

themes work great but you have to turn them on

[limber walrus]

"Prev's tags: #..." my beloved

[winged palm]

I had my blog since like 2011 that switch was on from da start... They will enevr take my themes awY

[quick cloud]

is your blog toffee32?

[winged palm]

Omg i need to sleep

[sharp grail]

but the super old themes of people who did not change it can be better viewed with the "new" dash view. so its not all bad!

get good sleeps!

[winged palm]

These days i use more minimal themes but the old days of maximalism.. Ppl sharing tiling bgs making music player buttons and sharing lil fandom. Anners to out on ur blog... Goof times

[quick cloud]

I follow many blogs through RSS, toffee32 was an art blog but recently went private so now I am stuck. Just htough ton the off chance

[sharp grail]

oh no im the same everywhere

[winged palm]

True! And tbh the option of the 2 is really nice n accessible i think

[quick cloud]

GN, also gonna sleep

[wicked briar]

oh lmao same with the rss following

sleep well everyone! maybe throw your webcomic recs real quick though if you have any more because we did get off track

[limber walrus]

I've recently started setting up my RSS feed, it's really nice to have those sorts of hooks to keep track of things

[sharp grail]

i mean my art blog is separate from my "main" blogs. so art blog is inaccessible, but my other stuff is still up

[limber walrus]

Gunnerkrigg Court

I would say Romantically Apocalyptic but the past few years they got into AI so I'm a bit hesitant about reccing

[wicked briar]

augh I stopped following it because I wasn't sure if it was going anywhere. did it go somewhere?

[limber walrus]

No idea, I haven't kept up in years. But I'm planning on picking it back up when I have the spare headspace

[wicked briar]

fair enough!

[limber walrus]

Oh, Nothing Special, it's on webtoon but genuinely incredible art and writing, and I've met the creator a couple times she's fantastic

[wicked briar]

I guess my super longform webcomic rec is girl genius if the art doesn't put you off

[limber walrus]

Fair

[wicked briar]

oooooh I'll check it out!

the art is very expressive

[limber walrus]

I have both of the physical volumes, absolutely love the series

Also Sandra and Woo, it got a bit weird near the end but I liked most of it. They've had/have other webcomics that are pretty good as well

[wicked briar]

I feel like I might've read gaia just from a quick look but I'm not sure

[limber walrus]

It's not terribly unique, but it's pretty well executed

[quick cloud]

the new Love And Other Wicked Things is good imo kind bland tho
Chaquetrix is a somewhat risque ben 10
Rimworld Tales I personally love it. It is edgy, sad and the end is tragic. It does have good and happy moments but captures the spirit of rimworld well from pov of NPCs

[wicked briar]

a while back I used to pick things up from top webcomics or whatever the site was but mostly now I read stuff that's on hiveworks

oh yeah I was reading love and other wicked things but I stopped being interested in the episode to episode progression, will probably catch up when it goes on season break

one I'm enjoying nowadays is And Another Lovely Day (webtoon canvas), comedy with two aro ace leads, author previously did gourmet hound which I also really liked

[sharp grail]

countdown to countdown also got rebooted, i remember liking it if its still going

[limber walrus]

Gourmet Hounds!!!

Oh, you might enjoy Castle Swimmers, actually, pretty sure I'm remembering the name right

[wicked briar]

I'm ahead of you on that one lmao! I started reading it when it first came out

[limber walrus]

Nice! I haven't kept up recently but I get updates from a friend

[wicked briar]

gotta check out all the webtoon originals that aren't imported isekai manhua

[limber walrus]

Mm, I should probably get going, got some housework to do. This was fun though, been a bit since I had a good chat here ^.^

[fiery holly]

Updated my server bio a bit

[tall owl]

new release by a band i only recently discovered and love a lot https://oldsoulma.bandcamp.com/track/told-you-so

[fossil glade]

Watching FD 5 and 6 tonight

[fossil glade]

Candice = 🥨

[fossil glade]

Oh Olivia...

[fossil glade]

Can't watch bloodlines

Got no money

[fiery holly]

Ngl if I go to a three days grace concert and there are no dinosaurs im dropping an 11 hour video saying why the band is terrible