Reblogged deadandphilgames
much to ponder on my thinking pillow
Reblogged utafumi
only-tiktoks
Reblogged utafumi
What the hell is this doing on my tumblr dashboard in 2021. What’s happening. None of you know what this is. Nobody even heard of this when I was on it in 1998.
“Palace Chat” was a chat program that worked like club penguin except it came out almost ten years prior and it was meant for adults. When I got addicted to it in 1998 I had to be in the 1% of users under 30. The smiley faces were default avatars you had if you didn’t make a proper account. Once you had a username you could import any image files you wanted into Palace “Props” you could edit, share, mix up and reposition to make your own avatars. I grabbed this screenshot off google but I have literally been in this very room. Milton’s avatar looks cool, does anybody know what that’s from? People made palace chat servers that were like elaborate exploration games with free props hidden around like items which was cool but none of the users seemed to care about that stuff so they’d just hang around the main entry room and talk all day about their sex lives or whether or not Bill Clinton ruined America. I originally watched the world premieres of Futurama and later Invader Zim in real time with a bunch of people on “The Anime Palace.” I had a “TV Card” in my desktop PC allowing me to watch television on my computer and take screenshots. I made an avatar out of a screenshot from the intro. I had possibly one of the world’s first Invader Zim chat avatars. Then I had an argument with someone who thought it was going to be trendy just because Jhonen Vasquez made it and they didn’t believe me that I actually hadn’t heard of him before.
Sorry I re-reblog more often these days (nobody sees edit additions and nobody knows what I’m talking about if I make a whole new post??) but here are other funny memories of this obscure internet chapter:
- Positioning yourself where your avatar overlaps or touches someone else’s without their permission was considered so rude a mod would step in.
- Making exactly the same avatar as someone else on purpose, even if it’s just a popular video game character or whatever, was even ruder.
- Every time you moved or you changed avatars, the server had to process it for everybody. Being too fidgety could lag or crash other users.
- You could assign favorite avatars to hotkeys. If you mashed those keys quickly enough it would lag everyone so bad that doing this often got you a permaban.
- You were able to move by either clicking or using the arrow keys but using the arrow keys or “sliding” also lagged everyone, like everyone’s chat would freeze until you stopped moving.
- So a troll could just hold their arrow keys and hotkeys simultaneously to glide around the room cycling through their avatars non-stop and basically giving everyone blue screens of death.
- Mods had the ability to lock you into the default avatar, which people thought of as “stripping” you, and they could trap your avatar in place which not only “stripped” it but displayed chains and padlocks over the smiley face.
- EVERY troll would say “….kinky” whenever that happened.
- Lots of couples would make complementary avatars or avatars that could fit together.
- It was possible to position yourself so your username was off screen and some people would then wear an avatar made from a piece of the room’s background image, perfectly camouflaging themselves.
- Some people did this in private rooms hoping to eavesdrop on people who didn’t know this was a thing or that you could check the actual number of users in the room with you
- You had to download the official Palace color palette file and apply it to your chosen image in a paint program for it not to look like complete ass when imported as an avatar
- People skilled enough at making avatars look at all decent would be rewarded with rare props, mod powers, whatever
- There were private rooms and private chat function but accidentally broadcasting your text as a public announcement to the whole room was one misclick away
- One time a moderator disappeared with their girlfriend into a private room for a while and nobody had ANY means of contacting them to tell them they were sending their internet sex as a stream of announcements to all 100+ rooms and 1000+ users on at the time for like an hour
- Crucial to your appreciation of that last note, announcements were often set up to display as speech bubbles from the mouths of like, anime characters or the MST3K robots integrated into the background images
Reblogged deadandphilgames
tell me my prof didn’t upload the reading by photocopying his kindle reader page by page
bruh
Reblogged deadandphilgames
The official channel-
Reblogged utafumi
you know what's funny is I've never in my life had an account hacked because someone guessed my password but I have had my information compromised because of the shitty cybersecurity of organizations like this one that insist I make a permanent account and store my personal information with them indefinitely so that I can make a single purchase or pay a single bill or apply for a single job I won't even get at least a dozen times in my life
Reblogged deadandphilgames
oh my god i have had a thought to share about "dan and phil are feuding" since that video came out and i keep forgetting to post it and now it's been *checks invisible watch* a year and a half cough
basically you know how at the beginning phil wants to play rock paper scissors but refuses to do best of 3 which is what they always do, so naturally dan is a bit confused. and phil is SO sure he'll win. and then he plays paper and loses. well around that time there was a trend going around on tiktok that was like "if you play rock paper scissors with your boyfriend/husband play paper and you'll always win because men want to feel subconsciously Strong™ and will always play rock" or some shit like that and I've always found it funny that phil thought that was actually going to work with dan
Reblogged quecksilvereyes
Tumblr once again coming up with a feature I’m not gonna- hey whats going on back there
Reblogged quecksilvereyes
Reblogged quecksilvereyes
y'all know that whole left-brained/right-brained thing is fake right? and the "brain fully develops at age 25" thing? and the "we only use 10% of our brains" thing? yeah they're all complete horseshit please yell at anyone who says them
okay people are doing nuance in the notes about the kernels of truth in neuroscience myths but I really really need you to understand that that is not important here. people don't believe there are "right-brained" and "left-brained" people because they've misunderstood lateralisation of the central nervous system, they believe it because that binary framework was deliberately pushed by people who wanted to define who was logical enough to lead, and surprise surprise, white adult heterosexual men are left-brained. people don't believe the brain "finishes developing at 25" because they've misunderstood life stage differences in neuroplasticity, they believe it because the idea that children, teens, and young adults have inferior brains is a convenient rationalisation for a society that marginalises them. people don't believe you "only use 10% of your brain" because they misread an fMRI study, they believe it because it's useful bullshit for everyone from hyperindividualist historical revisionists pushing the great genius concept of scientific progress to hucksters recruiting for cults that will teach you to unlock your latent telekinesis for just $5000 a month. that's why it's fucking important to know that many popular science ideas are false and to push back on them loudly and frequently, because they're not just mildly incorrect, they are often active components of systems of violence.
Reblogged shoyo-tattoo
Reblogged vittu-muumi
Often, men will say something like : "Who built this world? Men! Who created everything, all the technology, the great art, the culture, our societies? Who built the roads you drive on? Men!" and feminists will respond "That's because you didn't let us work or make art!" and... that's just wrong? Why are you validating the idea that women didn't contribute anything to the world? That we didn't work? That we didn't innovate? And why are you approving the nonsense that says being a mother is not work?
Don't let men rewrite history.
Women have always worked the double shift; outside of home and inside of home.
Women always worked and made art, they just didn't get credit for their work.
Reblogged vittu-muumi
Amaury "Chocolate Guy" Guichon is undoubtedly an extremely skilled sculptor in chocolate but I think my favorite thing about a lot of his videos is the effort he puts into putting actual dessert food under the sculpture work
So many of his desserts & pastries have at least 5 layers of different textures & flavors. Fruit jams, caramel, cake, creams, mousse, cookies, meringue, crumb layers etc
That's what makes his work truly impressive to me, especially as someone who quickly got tired of the "knife that turns everything into cake" thing, where it was all basic chocolate cake buried under 13 layers of fondant
It takes amaury's work from an impressive stunt to "if I ate that, it would probably be the best thing I'd eat in my whole life"
Reblogged fennopunk
Hey remember when US and Russia was all like “We’re the best!!! We’ve won the space race!!!!” But India sent a kick-ass space probe to Mars and the whole mission was fuel efficient, costed less and a roaring success in the first try and then they were like “…..wait no that can’t be true” and still have the audacity to call us “underdeveloped” or only view us as a ‘third world country’? :)
webheadstan
Remember when NYT mocked India for this very thing and an TOI (a major indian newspaper) responded with this? :)
They were being racist asf and we were till respectful literally fuck you if you think ‘third world counties’ can’t be better than you
webheadstan
white people can and should reblog this
and shout out to the women engineers integral to the launch
“Indian staff from the Indian Space Research Organisation celebrate after the Mars Orbiter Spacecraft entered Mars’s orbit.
On November 5, 2013, a rocket launched toward Mars. It was India’s first interplanetary mission, Mangalyaan, and a terrific gamble. Only 40 percent of missions sent to Mars by major space organizations—NASA, Russia’s, Japan’s, or China’s—had ever been a success. No space organization had succeeded on its first attempt. What’s more, India’s space organization, ISRO, had very little funding: while NASA’s Mars probe, Maven, cost $651 million, the budget for this mission was $74 million.
This was not the only success of the mission. An image of the scientists celebrating in the mission control room went viral. Girls in India and beyond gained new heroes: the kind that wear sarees and tie flowers in their hair, and send rockets into space.”
The photo of the women looks like a baroque painting
Reblogged fennopunk
i walk a fine line between “i’m asexual and i hate how much the world revolves around sex” and “sex is way too stigmatized and people should be able to be more open about it if they want to”
I think these are two sides of the coin called "sex should not be such a big deal"
I think if sex was more normalised as a "This is a thing that sometimes happens, not A Huge Deal In Every Way", you'd get both less stigma and less weird massive focus on it.
Instead of some places being sterilised of references to it and others being massively focused on them, it'd settle into a more even distribution, maybe.
Reblogged fennopunk
pioneering something called "gritted teeth optimism" where everything is gonna turn out okay even if i have to bite and claw and gnash my way through it
Andrea Gibson, Birthday