BSc in Bullshitting

vaspider:

mistakescontinuetobemade:

vaspider:

vaspider:

vaspider:

y'all, the OP on the Barbie breakup headlines post going around right now is a TERF. Please, I beg you, go into your preferences and blacklist common TERF tags like ‘terfs please interact’ and 'radfem safe’ so you are less likely to platform TERFs. :/

Since I posted this, I’ve seen one that was reposted by someone as annoyed by the TERF as I was.

But listen, this is a good time to update your filtered tags! Filtered tags a) work on desktop and mobile b) aren’t reliant on an outside service like Shinigami Eyes c) trigger on tags the OP and/or the current reblogger put on.

From mobile:

Your blog > cog icon > Account Settings > Content You See

From desktop:

Hamburger menu on the top left > Settings > Account > Filtered tags

Then add some common tags used by shitty people for their shitty ideas!

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This will screen these tags and make it so you have to actively tap/click to look at the post and thus warn you if OP has tagged the post with one of those things.

I have a bunch of dogwhistle stuff tagged, not just TERF stuff, but it’s a good way to avoid accidentally platforming people who hate my family. :)

Okay, so here’s my full list. The only things blocked out are personal tags that I have blocked for like… my own personal triggers or whatever.

I’m on my phone and not able to transcribe the full list right now; if someone else gets to it before I can, that would be very helpful and i would appreciate it!

Turns out iPhones have a really handy “show text” function for pictures now and I was able to transcribe the quite quickly:

#adult human female

#agp

#anti gender

#anti kink

#anti sex work

#anti-trans

#autogynephilia

#cotton ceiling

#define woman

#drop the t

#drop the t+

#fabfem

#febfem

#gencrit

#gender abolition

#gender critical

#gender cult

#gender extremists

#gendercult

#genderists

#gendershits

#get the I out

#harassment

#harassment tag#I stand with jk rowling

#lesfem

#merf

#merf safe

#merfblr

#merfs please interact

#merfsafe

#morg

#op is a radfem

#op is a terf

#peak trans

#peaktrans

#q slur

#q word

#q-slur

#q-word

#rad fem

#radfem

#radfem safe

#radfems do interact

#radfems do touch

#radfems please interact

#radical feminism

#sex based oppression

#sex based rights

#sex not gender

#tehm safe

#tehms

#tehmsafe

#terf

#terf positivity

#terf safe

#terf support

#terfblr

#terfs do interact

#terfs interact

#terfs please interact

#terfs please touch

#terfsafe

#tif logic

#Tim moment

#tra

#tra logic

#tra moment

#trans bullshit

#trans cult

#trans exclusionary radical feminist

#trans genocide myth

#trans identified females

#trans identified males

#trans privilege

#trans violence

#transandrophobia truthers

#transmed safe

#transmisandry isn’t real

#troonacy

#troons

#womyn

(note that I removed #strange new worlds spoilers and a few because I assume you missed blacking those out, or somehow the phone still picked them up— sorry!)

Thank you @vaspider for giving us all these tags to blacklist!

No I just forgot to mention that i left them on purpose to demonstrate how to block spoilers for a given show. I got distracted by checking the path through the menus.

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pastelparrotlet:

study-revolution:

gentle reminder: you are very capable and I’m excited for your future

slightly less gentle reminder: you do have to work for it

*annoyed but resigned moan of frustration*

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owawaaa:

power couples of ensemble stars

gayshitanddadjokes:

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What the fuck is this??????????

Folks: you CANNOT censor trigger tags. When you block a tag, it doesn’t block other “spellings” of it. Writing it as “r@pe” or “r4p3” means that someone who has “tw rape” as a blocked tag will still see that post because you didn’t wanna say the word rape. You are hurting people. Do not censor words, because people do not have those filtered out.

And honestly if you can’t even write the word rape to protect other people then you probably aren’t old/mature enough to be on this website.

pasteboard:

hey netizens! i’m not sure how many people are aware, but youtube’s been slowly rolling out a new anti-adblock policy that can’t be bypassed with the usual software like uBlock Origin and Pi-Hole out of the gate

BUT, if you’re a uBlock Origin user (or use an adblocker with a similar cosmetics modifier), you can add these commands in the uBlock dashboard (under My Filters) to get rid of it!

youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false)

youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0)

youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, [])

youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)

reblog to help keep the internet less annoying and to tell corporations that try shit like this to go fuck themselves <3

a-starry-teal:

melonsap:

melonsap:

Fun fact: We know the size of the Pokémon world because Scarlet and Violet has framerate issues

Video games tend to do this thing called “culling,” where they don’t render things that aren’t in use. In Breath of the Wild, there’s no reason for Link to be able to see how many apples are on a tree in Hateno when he’s all the way in Tarrey Town, or know how many Bokoblins are running around Hebra Mountain. Link has a radius around himself that spawns in people, enemies, items, etc, so that the player gets the full experience of a rendered world without the game having to keep track of 850 Hearty Radishes sparkling.

This is good.

Scarlet and Violet has really AGGRESSIVE culling. The devs knew the game was framey and did everything they could up until the last possible second to save on resources.

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The player has a single square that’s always rendered around them, which takes about 10 seconds to run across. Besides that, all that’s visible is whatever the camera is facing; if the camera can’t see it, it does not exist.

You might think that this would be good for performance, since the game isn’t calling as many assets constantly. And you would be right, if the things culled were ALL that the game was trying to render.

We all know at this point about the memory leak problem the game has, where it won’t toss garbage data it’s not using. This is supposed to account for the framerate drop; however, if it was ONLY the memory leak, it should start out smoothly, then decay over time until it’s unplayable.

So what gives?

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This is the ocean.

It’s pretty. It’s got a tiny bit of reflection, some gentle waves, a nice gradient. A beautifully made ocean without repetitive textures is always nice.

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THIS IS THE OCEAN.

IT IS NOT CULLED.

Look at the SIZE of this thing! Paldea is an ANT in the middle of this puddle. It’s rendering ALL of this, ALL its sparkles and waves, ALL the time.

Now, this is usually the part of the post where I’m like “and because we know the size of the ocean, based on the coastlines and wind direction, we can figure out how big the rest of the planet is by comparison!” like I did with Breath of the Wild over a year ago.

No.

Another video game term you might not be familiar with is a “skybox.” Basically, to give the illusion of faraway objects, clouds, mountains, etc, and to hide the black void most 3D games are built in, games will have a texture wrapped around either the level or where the player is standing. For example:

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This is a level from Twilight Princess called Sacred Grove. You normally can’t see the bottom parts of this, hence why it turns into a gray plane, but the parts you CAN theoretically see by looking through the trees are colored so you think you’re looking at a sky. You can see the edge of the void down in the bottom right corner.

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Here’s another one from Twilight Princess. You can see the different textures that stack on top of each other, as well as the blue skybox that’s centered around Link when he’s in the area. You, as the player, FEEL like you’re in a small part of a larger world, because the devs cleverly structured together elements you CAN see in other areas into the background.

More complicated versions of skyboxes, typically semi-circular, are called skydomes.

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They tend to look kind of like snowglobes, because you do not need to render anything that can’t be seen. There’s no situation in which the player should be able to fall lower than the level, so there’s no reason to render the dome into a sphere in the event that that happens.

In Scarlet and Violet, it would make sense for the skydome to end where the ocean does. There’s no situation in which the player manages to go past or underneath the ocean, so even if you wanted a gigantic ocean size like they have, you don’t need to use more sky to encompass that.

They did not get this memo.

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You might be thinking to yourself “wow, that looks like the curvature of the Earth!”

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AND YOU WOULD BE RIGHT!!!!!

Why is this here. Why is it so big. I can’t even see Paldea anymore. What exactly was planned for this.

Clever readers might have noticed that I labeled this “Skysphere” and not “Skydome.”

That’s because it for some reason is a sphere. Paldea is sitting in the middle of a fully rendered gigantic sphere in space. For some reason.

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Look at Earth. Look at Spain, which Paldea is supposed to mimic.

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I overlaid Spain over Paldea and made them roughly the same size. Assuming the two to be 1:1, the OCEAN is bigger than Earth.

If I then take that size and apply it to the skysphere:

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HI. WHY IS THIS A THING.

The skysphere is bigger than the PROPORTION OF THE SUN TO THE EARTH:

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I will be taking this as canon sizing until the Pokémon Company comes out and either CULLS this monstrosity and stops forcing our Switches to render THE SUN, or until the Pokémon Company comes out and gives us a canon planet size.

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zec-vjestica:

dvojnavjera-djevojka:

zec-vjestica:

i empathize way more with european catholics than american christians like my poor mom (grandma) would have a fucking heart attack if i told her i was anything but catholic yet, she’s getting up there in age and it’s not worth the argument or fight to have about it like…… 

idk it really doesn’t impact me or offend me all that much when she tells me “do the sign of the cross” and to pray i just go with it to appease her and then go on with my life 

but when american people try to tell me to follow their ideals i get so peeved like fuck off sharon with your 3 divorces and 6 kids out of wedlock 

Dude same. Like my grandparents are Croatian and catholic and when they or anyone else in the community tells me to pray etc, they do it out of genuine care cos that’s what they do and they really want to help.

But in my experience sooo many American Christians are like, demeaning about it. Like my old roommate who constantly acted like she was better than me cos she went to church. For whatever reason, they use their faith to assert superiority, so anything they say involving religion shows that mindset 🤷‍♀️

yassss! fellow Croatian here!

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lackadaisycats:

the-one-responsible-for-this:

These character arcs always seem to take a wrong turn at Albuquerque.

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bob-belcher:

Can I open my eyes yet? I want to see my babies in their costumes.

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thewugtest:

sad-gay-potato:

thewugtest:

if youve never physically been in the presence of like, a real live wolf, and you probably wont get the chance to, heres some stuff about them you should know

• a wolf’s fur is so unbelievably thick that you can get like, your whole hand into it while petting. and then you can keep going
  
• wolves are a lot bigger than you think they are. think about how big you think a wolf is then just like double that
• they dont really smell like dog but they DO smell and youre not going to be able to figure out if its a good smell or not
• a wolf really wants to lick the inside of your mouth. he will not stop trying to lick the inside of your mouth at any cost, and generally speaking you need to press your lips together kind of tightly when he approaches your face so that he doesnt worm his damn tongue in there to give you what he thinks is an appropriate greeting
• a wolf doesnt really want to look at you while you pet him but he wants you to pet him. hes embarrassed
• if a grown ass wolf decides to lay down on you, you just have to deal with it and thats your life now
• young wolves, much like young dogs, are overwhelmingly goofy and stupid. a teenage wolf will see your very fragile, very human shoulder and go “i can probably step on that with my full weight” and then he will do it
• letting a wolf eat out of your hand is actually not remotely frightening, and youll want to do it all day

I wanna know who did this research.

well, i did!

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all-for-one:

fav girl

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