You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
A USian white autistic girl (she pronouns) blogging about her life and perseverations. See my about page for more.
If something you see here inspires you to write a racist response to it (and ANY RESPONSE TO ANTI-RACIST WORK IN DEFENSE OF WHITENESS/WHITE PEOPLE BY A WHITE PERSON IS RACIST), don't put it where any people of color can see it. That's not only racist, but also rude. It's even more obnoxious if you try to hide that you're doing that from me. And I'm not going to let you off lightly for it. If you absolutely need an outlet to say your racist thoughts, my ask and submit boxes are better.
White followers, if you reblog anti-racist writings originally written by PoC (from anyone, not just through me), you're expected to deal with any racism that stirs up in your own followers so that it isn't a problem for the OP.
Yet another white person setting up the playing field and laying down the rules on everything pertaining to minorities -- and most certainly without the input of the minorities in question. That's okay, because she knows what's best for them. Amazing how fluid this justification is, 100 years ago it was used by southern politicians to justify Jim Crow.
Oh wow, yeah, that needs to be arrows. I've never seen it done that way before, either.
As for the thing that looks like a treatment plant, it turns out it's actually a swimming lake that's part of a campground. That may be another reason why the road didn't go through.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Also, looking at it in detail, it looks like the aborted road would have had to have (a) crossed the Olentangy, adding the expense of a bridge, and (b) eaten up even more of Mingo Park, which still exists. It's no wonder this road never saw the light of day!
Angst, in contemporary connotative use, most often describes the intense frustration and other emotions of teenagers and the mood of the music and art with which they identify in accordance with adult stereotype. Heavy metal, punk rock, grunge, nu metal, emo, and virtually any alternative rock dramatically combining elements of discord, melancholy and excitement may be said to express angst. Angst was probably first discussed in relation to popular music in the mid- to late 1950s that was popular amongst the nuclear disarmament and antiwar protester subculture. Folk rock songs like Bob Dylan's 1963 Masters of War and A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall articulated the dread caused by the threat of nuclear war. A key text is Jeff Nuttall's book Bomb Culture (1968), which traced this pervasive theme in popular culture back to Hiroshima.
I have a modest 5000+ fans on my business page. Our average views dropped from around 25% to less than 5% over the past few months. Around the same time I noticed a huge increase in fake users *liking* our page. You know the ones -- they all look like extras from Jersey Shore, work at huge corporations like Nike, Google, and Nutella (?), and attended colleges that don't exist. Also, all the females are bisexual.
Anyhow, I've experimented with promoted posts and have received little to no benefit. A recent promoted post for a local event was liked by 44 people and seen by about 1300. Of those 44 likes 39 of them were people in foreign countries, who are very unlikely to have ever been to my store or to care about a small event happening in Portland, Oregon. The problem isn't just that Facebook is blocking access to our fan base and making us pay to get it back, it's that when I pay to promote a post I am unable to target my views so I am paying to promote them to a bunch of people who will not be able to attend the event (or who aren't actual people).
I've been in business for 18 years and I've watched how people access information radically change. Facebook has undermined just about every other avenue for connecting with customers because so many people are so absorbed in it and depend on it as their primary information source. The information overload that began building on Facebook wasn't good for business, but this is much worse. I would have already given up on it if it weren't for the one remaining benefit it offers -- I'm able to invite my personal friends to our events and they in turn can share our events with others.
Some people think business owners are whining and expect something for free, refusing to see how Facebook has royally screwed us over in this bait and switch scheme. I would be happy to pay a reasonable subscription fee to have a business page that provides us access to all our fans until or unless they hide or unlike us. And I would pay to promote posts beyond our fan base to a local audience. But the combination of fake users, the inability to target promoted posts, and the cost to reach an audience that have already OPTED IN to our page make these posts worse than useless. Facebook is harming my business and I am actively looking for a viable alternative.
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
Okay so the other day I decided a needed a word processing suite and I don't like Openoffice, I have some Athlon running WindowsME at my other desk so on Amazon I find Wordperfect 8 (1997 edition, enhanced for MMX!) on Amazon for like $3. It arrived here today and instead of being just a few OEM disks like I expected, it's the entire boxed professional version with the phonebook manual and all, and still factory sealed.
Oh man! My dorm is having a murder mystery event next week; I love murder mysteries. Unfortunately, it's on Thursday at the time I'll probably be working. Well, darn.
Also, I saw this as a critique of Twilight:
Meyer can’t think of original names. The only original name she used was Rennesme, which is combination of two names and doesn’t count.
Um, how is that a bad thing. A majority of the fiction books I have read use real world names, many of which have been used/probably been used in other stories. That critique makes no sense!
Um, how is that a bad thing. A majority of the fiction books I have read use real world names, many of which have been used/probably been used in other stories. That critique makes no sense!
I think most people believe that fantasy should entail concocting names. But that doesn't really apply to Twilight considering it takes place in what is ostensibly "the real world".
Eh, I don't mind it. Really because both the surname are decently common, so I could see someone (older) having it in the real world. Though, from a story perspective, it does come across as trying too hard to hit the Romantic Hero name.
Of course, it could always be more ridiculous. Like Starr Vanwinkle or something.
I posted this quote earlier, but I've been thinking about it a bit all day.
One of the more interesting bits from Marathon Infinity.
"Find the right way down through the maze, to the food, then find the exit. Push the exit button. If the food tastes awful, don't eat it, go back and try another way.
They want the same thing that you do, really, they want a path, just like you. You are in a maze in a maze, but which one counts? Your maze, their maze, my maze. Or are the mazes all the same, defined by the limits of their paths?
Existence is simple: find the food, push the button, hit the treadmill.
But sometimes it gets much harder. Sometimes the food makes you sick, or you can hear nearby feet racing you, urging you on. Sometimes the button only gets you landed right back in the beginning of the maze again, and the food won't satisfy.
There is only one path and that is the path that you take, but you can take more than one path.
Cross over the cell bars, find a new maze, make the maze from it's path, find the cell bars, cross over the bars, find a maze, make the maze from its path, eat the food, eat the path."
In Dungeons & Dragons Online I have a cleric named Usar Lebat. He looks like Ganon, though that was not intentional.
I suppose that's different, though, being that DDO is other-world fantasy.
Yeah see, that's where I personally like silly fantasy names in more other worldly or on a character that is other worldly. It's weird to have a character from a completely different fantasy place and he has a name that's fairly reality based.
AH, the joys of auto service. I took the Prius in for its 45k service today, finally, and it turns out they can fix pretty much everything (and the sticky driver's door lock was covered under my extended warranty), but they wanted $500 ($500!!!) to fix the torn oil pan access flap, as it's part of the "NO. 1 ENGINE UNDER COVER" and the whole thing has to be replaced.
This "NO. 1 ENGINE UNDER COVER" costs $200 on its own. $200 for what is essentially a big piece of plastic. Toyota, I am seriously disappoint. :P
Oh well. When I have the money, I can always just buy the cover and a few spare clips and put the damn thing in myself. No sense in paying them to do it.
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Yet another white person setting up the playing field and laying down the rules on everything pertaining to minorities -- and most certainly without the input of the minorities in question. That's okay, because she knows what's best for them. Amazing how fluid this justification is, 100 years ago it was used by southern politicians to justify Jim Crow.
Also, I saw this as a critique of Twilight: Um, how is that a bad thing. A majority of the fiction books I have read use real world names, many of which have been used/probably been used in other stories. That critique makes no sense!
I think most people believe that fantasy should entail concocting names. But that doesn't really apply to Twilight considering it takes place in what is ostensibly "the real world".
I will say, however, that "Edward Cullen" is a very silly name for reasons I can't quite pin down.
It just sounds pointlessly old-timey. Which I guess makes sense if he's a X00 year old vampire, but still.
Of course, it could always be more ridiculous. Like Starr Vanwinkle or something.
I actually like ridiculous fantasy names.
In Dungeons & Dragons Online I have a cleric named Usar Lebat. He looks like Ganon, though that was not intentional.
I suppose that's different, though, being that DDO is other-world fantasy.
I posted this quote earlier, but I've been thinking about it a bit all day.
One of the more interesting bits from Marathon Infinity.
Also I like to give Dwarves really repetitive names, I think it somehow suits them.
I had a Dwarf character at one point whose surname was like Anokhokhokhurokhon or something.
I have to give it to Yelawolf for coming up with some rather off the wall lines at times.
"What if I ran all up on you like a Jehovah's Witness?
with a prayer pamphlet and a picture of Jesus?"
What indeed, Yela, what indeed.
Also, I think I may have just had the most fun after school this whole year.