Being older is weird - so let’s play a game about it!
Would you rather:
Write a cover letter
Make an 8 hour drive
Call your bank
Go to the gynecologist/urologist
Put together an ikea cabinet
Deep clean the house for company
Provide technical support over the phone to elderly parents
Serve on a jury
Discuss final arrangements with an elder
Attend a shot gun wedding of an acquaintance
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ALTWhen I say editing software is getting dumber, this is what I mean.
In what world is "What dinnered?" more legible than "What happened to dinner?" I just... what?!
Anonymous asked:
wait wait, what’s the change tumblr did to the reblog chains ? 🥲🥲🥲 I’m so lost
kimdokjas answered:
okay so basically, let’s say you see a post on your dash
before the update, if you clicked on a url, you could do 3 things:
however, staff recently implemented an update where clicking on a url no longer takes you to that specific post. now, clicking on a url just takes you to the blog itself.
this means that you now get 5 things:
you might be thinking: “cool! i get more options so that’s good, right?” well, no.
1) first of all, it’s counterintuitive that A and C changed locations to the area near the header, especially if your userbase was already used to the previous functions. it just seems like horrible UX design to me but let’s put that aside for now.
2) as you can see, option B which allowed you to see the previous reblog of a post no longer exists.
now, if you click on the previous url, you will just be taken to their entire blog. you can no longer view the post itself.
someone asked staff about this, and they replied in this post that the change was INTENTIONAL and if you want to view the previous reblog you would have to “go through the notes view”.
to borrow what someone else said:
basically, this update just killed the prev tags culture in one fell swoop.
(sure, you can still use it to reply directly to the person you’re reblogging from, but it’s now literally useless to use “prev tags” for everyone else involved. sure, you can choose to copy tags or peer review them, but again, if people will have to copy them then the less people are likely to use them, and not every prev lends itself to peer-reviewing imo)
now, listen. i know not everyone likes the prev tags culture, but it just seems like such a poorly-thought decision to kill a culture that like… half of your entire userbase uses (see this poll as a quick reference) and that’s UNIQUE to your site and sets you apart from other social media.
but it’s also not even just prev tags. let’s say you want to remove an annoying addition on a post’s reblog chain? you can no longer do that.
however, i feel like this is the most important point:
what i mean by this is: even if you don’t like prev tags, simply 1) being able to access the reblog chain, and 2) clicking on a post and actually have it take you to their BLOG (and not just a page with that one single post) is literally essential navigation.
this update threatens to drive down user engagement (which is already critically low) by making it harder to navigate. which is actually another point:
3) even if you click on A and C now to view those specific posts, it’s NOT the same as it used to be.
before, you could view the reblog directly on the blog. so you could just scroll down and see the other posts leading up to it. now, you will be taken to a page where you will ONLY see that post and nothing else.
but also, you can no longer easily navigate other people’s blogs.
you know how sometimes you would see like 50 notifications of someone going through an entire tag on your blog? that’s going to happen a lot less, i’m afraid.
let’s suppose you want to go to op’s blog because they’re an artist and you want to see more of their art. so you click on C and see that the tag they use for posts with their art is “#my art”
cool! before, you could just click on that tag and immediately view ALL of their art as long as the posts have that tag.
but now, if you click on that tag, it will take you to the ENTIRE tumblr tag with literally all the posts that everyone in the history of time has tagged with that specific tag.
now, to do the same thing that just took 2 clicks before, you would have to: click on C to view the post -> look for the tag you want to navigate -> click E to view their whole blog -> scroll and look for a post that just so happens to have that tag (the search function is literally useless) and hope to god that there’s a recent one or you’ll have to scroll for ages or simply give up -> if you happen to find it, click on that tag to navigate their posts.
you see how this is counterproductive, right? you see how this can literally drive down engagement with content creators, right?
if you make people’s blogs harder to navigate, you will literally drive down the number of likes and reblogs on their posts, which have already been steadily declining for years now.
4) options D and E to view the blogs and not the posts are literally useless because you could already access other people’s blogs before. you just had to click on their url to view their blogs starting from that specific post AND you could choose to just refresh it to view their newest posts.
either way, the change just seems completely unnecessary. and again, it’s not just about the prev tags culture but about basic UI.
i normally don’t advocate for flooding staff with messages but i do feel like this is one of the worst updates staff has ever done (and that’s saying something) and something needs to change.
even if they don’t retcon the entire update, that’s fine, but staff could at least add the option to view the reblog chain as a different feature (maybe even opt-in) for example. there are better ways to go about this than just axing an entire existing feature.
also, this same issue that makes it harder to navigate blogs needs to change. i feel like content creators will be especially affected by this unless this changes because you can no longer easily navigate their tags, so it will inevitably drive down engagement.
so please, contact staff and let them know we want a change.
you can contact support here!
here’s a template for a possible message you could send, but feel free to edit it. (under category you can choose “Feedback”)
Hi, I would like to politely request a change to the recent update that affects the reblog chain of posts. Regardless of the “prev tags” culture itself, the UI aspect of being able to view the reblog chain of a post is essential for navigation on this website. Even adding it as a separate, opt-in feature would be a huge help. Additionally, clicking on a post and then on one of the tags now takes you to the entire tumblr tag instead of the tag on that blog, which makes it harder to navigate blogs. Both of these issues have the potential to drive down user engagement by actively making it harder to navigate Tumblr, but especially for content creators. I hope you can do something to address these issues as soon as possible. Thanks in advance and have a nice day.
also, if you can and/or want, reblogs are appreciated to help spread the word!
that’s pretty much the gist of the issue from what i’ve seen, but if anyone else has anything to add or a different way we could contact staff to make ourselves heard, please feel free to let me know!
TLDR: it’s not just about prev tags, this update affects basic functionality and content creators as well
@staff
🎥: Coral Restoration Foundation
The above examples have been provided with the authors' permission to demonstrate what these look like.
Basic rundown:
Please spread the word about this so authors can filter comments and report them accordingly
There has been some speculation about why this is happening at all, and the best guess is that this is a feature that AI-training story-scraping tools are implementing to try and make their browsing traffic look legitimate
what fresh hell is this?
settling a debate, reblog for reach
Here’s the necessary clarification for non-USAmericans who are confused by how confidently USAmericans are claiming these are not the same thing: American biscuits are almost identical to British scones. But not American scones. Behold the continuum:
American biscuits:
These are layered quick breads. They are almost always baked in a round shape, and when they're not, they're baked square; you will pretty much never see a triangular American biscuit. They’re usually made with buttermilk, which gives them a nice slightly tangy flavor. They’re not at all sweet on their own, but they’re also not particularly savory, and as a result, they’re a bit of a blank slate: they pair well with butter and jam, but alternatively, they pair equally well with a savory sausage gravy. There are recipes that are firmly on the savory side by virtue of adding cheddar cheese to the dough, but in those cases, people will usually specify “cheese biscuits” or “cheddar biscuits”. American biscuits can be a breakfast food, or a lunch food, or a dinner food, all about equally.
British scones:
These are very similar to American biscuits, but a little bit lighter, and noticeably sweeter. You can have these with butter and jam (or, more likely, clotted cream and jam), but unlike American biscuits, I’d never dream of serving them with anything savory like a sausage gravy. You will sometimes see bits of dried fruit, like currants or dried blueberries, baked into them, but this isn't all that common, and it's basically the extent of weird baked-in flavorings. You will sometimes see these baked into a triangle shape, but more commonly, they are round. They’re great as a breakfast food, but they’re better with an afternoon tea; you’d probably never see them as the accompaniment to a hearty, savory dinner.
American scones:
American scones are denser, sweeter, and significantly more buttery than British scones, without the more clearly defined layers that British scones have. They are almost always baked in a triangle shape, and only very rarely baked round. American scones come in a variety of flavorings – it's not uncommon to find pumpkin spice scones, double chocolate scones, lemon strawberry scones, blueberry scones with fresh blueberries baked right in, etc. It's also not uncommon to find them glazed, like a doughnut (but usually slightly less so). You do not typically top these with butter or jam, or indeed, with anything – they are eaten as-is, as an accompaniment to coffee or tea. They are mostly a breakfast food, though they may occasional feature at an afternoon tea, if someone even has one of those, which in the States, people mostly don't.
American cookies:
American cookies are exclusively a sweet dessert. They are often baked soft, and best eaten warm, although they're perfectly fine to eat cooled, and you can certainly find shelf-stable cookies in stores (which are usually hard, rather than soft, see eg. Chips Ahoy). Oatmeal raisin cookies come the closest to the place that American scones leave off, and it isn't very close. All sorts of flavorings and mixed in bits are common, although chocolate and nuts are more popular mix-in additions than dried fruit. Glazes are fairly uncommon, but not unheard of. The archetypal accompaniment for American cookies is a glass of milk, although they're perfectly nice to enjoy with tea or coffee. They are not, however, a breakfast food. Americans do consider shortbread and gingerbread to both be types of cookies, but if you refer to "cookies" in the abstract, those aren't what people typically think of.
British biscuits:
British biscuits are like American cookies, but pretty much always hard and served at room temperature. I've even heard the opinion that a British biscuit should always be "crisp", with softness as a sign that a biscuit isn't fresh. Americans are familiar with this style of treat, and generally think of British biscuits as "the type of cookies that you get in a tin" – they're very much a thing in America, but they're considered a smaller and much less popular subset of the broader "cookie" category. Like American cookies, these are often eaten as a dessert, but they are much more commonly seen as an accompaniment to tea than the American cookie is.
Tl;dr: This is like an even more complicated version of the crisps/chips/fries thing, I’m afraid. We're simply talking about different things.
Who would win: Morally Ambigous/Chaotic aligned Genius Bilionaire Nerd Edition. Win what? who knows. Feel free to explain in the replies/comments/tags
Seto Kaiba
Bruce Wayne
Tony Stark
David Xanatos
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Seto Kaiba propaganda:
*Took over a weapons company and turned it into an industry focused on games
*Built a death theme park to get his revenge against a classmate and staffed it with real killers (later he built an actual theme park and made it free for orphans)
*He stopped someone from firing a gun at him with a card, threw himself outside of a window while holding a briefcase and survived (after waking up from a 6 month coma)
*Took control of a city for a game tournament (later in DSOD it’s implied that he is basically the most powerful individual in the city and that he basically owns it)
*Made the world economy pretty much revolve around card games, made the game of Duel Monsters have real rules for the first time and one could say he has been more important for Duel Monsters than the creator himself. Solid Vision also changed the way the game was played forever, and he made this accessible to everyone thanks to the Duel Disk.
*Made Duel Links
*Created a machine that allowed him to travel to the afterlife (this is as close as being a god a human being can get)
*Was Duel Monsters champion before being defeated by Atem, was a martial arts and soccer champion, defeated a chess master in a game at the age of 10 (he cheated in the manga but it’s still impressive that he wouldn’t notice), can drive any kind of vehicle, knows a bunch of languages, is an hacker, made his own virtual reality game
One could also add that he helped saved the world more than once and that he did this while running a company and raising a child (that he rescued so many times and basically made into the center of his life)
But most importantly:
He did all of this between the ages of 16 (or younger) to 18!! Little more than a child! Which sets him apart from the others in this poll
Among the achievements of his adult life I also want to add that he created the Duel Academy
Reblogging for @unrealcities awesome tags!
#seto kaiba would think all of these guys were weak but especially tony stark. sorry.#you discovered that weapons of mass destruction kill people?#well i figured that out and took over my stepfather's weapons company and turned it into a gaming company when i was fifteen#keep up
Mini memoir time.
So, back in college, right before graduation, I’m talking to my dad in a lobby area, when a man walks up to us with this kind smile and lighthearted tone of voice. He introduces himself as, let’s call him, Mr. Ig Nite, and says my dad and him go way back; they’re buddies.
However, I know that name.
The worst part of exploring the galaxy and interacting with aliens from other planets… is realizing that every people named their planet ‘earth’.
—
They were in the air, soaring high above the alien buildings.
“Let’s get down to Adislk,” they suggested, their translator interpreting to English.
I turned to look at them in confusion. “I thought this was Adis…lik.” I still had trouble figuring out how to pronounce the planet’s name.
They flinched in a way I was beginning to learn meant confusion rather than fear.
“Yes…” they responded. “I mean the surface. Not the name of the planet.”
“Wait. Adis-lelk means 'ground’?”
“No…? Terrih is your planet, this is Adislk?” They flinched two more times.
—
Any mention of ground or dirt was not translated to another language. It was instead changed to a direct recording of 'Earth’, as said by the first of a planet’s people to input information to the Universal Translator Database.
But it was the thought of 'Earth’ no longer being unique that was disheartening. The name was meaningless. One of millions, if not billions, of planets with the exact same name. The only difference was the pronunciation.
Every so often, I think about random things that have happened in my life. And just… daydream about telling about it like I have an audience. …I’ve been in that kind of mood for the past week or so.
I was just now thinking about this one guy…
ladylynse
bookeatingworm
Danny is used to his classmates cheering for him. Well, he's used to them cheering on his ghost side, but it's the same thing.
He's a small time celebrity in the eyes of Amity Park youth. Almost everyone as Casper High adores Phantom- even the A-listers.
