“rap is the worst music genre” “no actually it’s soul” “no actually it’s jazz” “no actually it’s ska” “no actually it’s r&b” hey guys do you notice a common denominator in the genres you hate or is it just me
genres people have said are the worst in response to this (including the deleted comment section)
fixed up an old comic that was sitting in my files. i love lucina and morgan’s sibling dynamic… one is a cheery bookworm mage and the other is a stern faced swordsman but they’re both stupid dorks
We need like “unclench your jaw” posts but for eye strain. Like
Go look at something 20ft away for 20 seconds.
take off your glasses if you wear them for 20 seconds
Recommended by my optometrist
Look at something 20 feet away, then 10, then 5, then one, then if you can your nose.
Repeat twice, then again without glasses.
Face forward look out of the corner of your eye. As far as you can look. Slowly move to the other corner. Repeat twice.
Look down as far as you can. Slowly look up. Repeat twice.
Roll eyes twice.
Close eyes for five minutes.
I do this every day usually at my halfway point. My migraines went away. My vision go better. Honestly stretching my eyes as she put it feels great too.
Why don't zoomers use emulators or torrent things anymore? A good amount of zoomers could probably figure it out with time but people either just buy digital games or use pirate streaming sites.
I think there’s a certain technical knowledge gap between people whose first computer was a Windows XP machine and people whose first computer was an iPad. On a mobile device like that, even the filesystem is abstracted away from you, so if that’s all you’ve used your whole life, you may not know what a “folder” or a “file” is. If you don’t know what those are, how could you be expected to understand something like torrenting? Then add the layer of a VPN, which is basically a necessity when torrenting lest you get a love letter from your ISP, and I’d say it’s all but impenetrable for our strawman.
Idk man. Torrenting isn’t hard, but there’s a barrier to entry that a lot of people who grew up using smartphones aren’t equipped to handle. There are plenty of millenials who don’t know how to torrent either, and plenty of zoomers who do. It’s just a technological generation gap.
a big reason is that zoomers are terrified of “viruses”, an amorphous threat they’ve heard about their whole lives in association with piracy but don’t actually understand. I run a discord specifically geared towards helping newbies learn to pirate things and generally be more independent on their devices and this is usually the first bit of misinformation (that viruses are omnipresent and all-powerful and impossible to avoid) we have to debunk for people.
in working with people on this project I’m finding that fear in general is a major generational culture difference. zoomers are terrified of everything. they have a good reason to be, don’t get me wrong, but most of them have been taught no coping skills or resiliency whatsoever, they’ve just been raised to be scared of everything all the time without any lessons on how to do things that scare them and manage risk, and a lot of them only have avoidance as a coping tool.
they especially have not been taught to critically think about supposed threats or research the truth about rumors or stories they’ve heard, and “researching” anything on Google is now such a dicey proposition I’m not sure you can even really debunk things for yourself anymore unless you’ve already grown up without Web 3. this isn’t their fault, their parents and teachers have done this intentionally, but it really makes me angry that so many young people are being needlessly made to suffer like this.
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that so much zoomer horror, especially creepypasta, is based on the ideas of ghosts in the machine, malevolent third party or “rogue” software, mind controlling corporate software projects, etc. millennials wrote most of these stories but zoomers are the primary audience and their consumption of the genre reflects their anxieties about technology
I reblogged this plain and then realised I had something useful to add:
Having taught a lot of zoomers in undergraduate courses the past few years, honestly, a lot of them just… have not ever been taught how computers work.
I have more than once pulled up task manager on a student’s computer because they said it was slow and thought it was broken, and they thought I was doing some kind of wizardry. They had no idea what a CPU was, or what RAM was, or that the computer had physical limits based on internal components.
The worst case I’ve seen, the student had over 50 instances of Chrome open, over 600 tabs, two separate concurrently running instances of the native Netflix app running different shows that were paused in place, over 40 Word documents, and half a dozen Excel spreadsheets for different classes. Plus dozens of PDFs in Adobe, chat programs, and other things beside.
Their CPU was at 100%, their RAM was at 100%, and their computer temperatures were at “actually melting inside” levels. They thought these things were normal, because they had never been taught what they were.
None of this is their fault! But it is a problem.
Somewhere between my generation going through school in the 90s and 2000s and zoomers going through in the 2000s and 2010s, we just collectively stopped teaching people how shit works.
No one is torrenting because they don’t know how to tell when something is wrong with their computer to begin with, so they’re utterly terrified of anything that will increase the risk that things go wrong.
me individually reviewing the lyrics for every single song on a character playlist nobody else will ever hear for an oc approximately 3 people know about
Even if you disagree with a position, it’s in your own interest to make sure people reject that position for the right reasons
Similarly, if you don’t address the weak points in your own position, your opposition will. You might as well do it yourself and make sure the rebuttal against those points of criticism is as comprehensive and full as possible.
so embarrassing when i forget im checking someone’s blog and i start scrolling through and liking and reblogging shit as if it’s just my dash. it feels like wandering into someone else’s apartment and not noticing and making myself lunch
reblog if i can wander into your apartment (blog) and make myself lunch (like and reblog as if it’s my dash)
This is a compiled list of some of my favorite pieces of short horror fiction, ranging from classics to modern-day horror, and includes links to where the full story can be read for free. Please be aware that any of these stories may contain subject matter you find disturbing, offensive, or otherwise distressing. Exercise caution when reading. Image art is from Scarecrow: Year One.
PSYCHOLOGICAL: tense, dread-inducing horror that preys upon the human psyche and aims to frighten on a mental or emotional level.
UNSETTLING: fiction that explores particularly disturbing topics, such as mutilation, violence, and body horror. Not recommended for readers who may be offended or upset by graphic content.
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