thanks @bmoharrisbankofficial but unfortunately i can’t focus on the very important message here because i’m too busy being confused by the fact that apparently if you send an ask with only one letter tumblr will bold that letter in the “asked you” notification text?? why the fuck would that be the case
Having your own personal blog is honestly quite a nice change of pace compared to Reddit. I could put a funny GIF of George Bush getting hit by a shoe on here and the worse case scenario is that no one even notices.
You put that on a big subreddit and you get your eyes gouged out and a heap of political discourse underneath your post.
The thing that always throws me about Internet history is that YouTube was bought out by Google only eighteen months after it launched, and Google began implementing ads and content filtering less than a year after the acquisition. The initial free-for-all phase of YouTube’s existence always feels like it was a lot longer than that – and, like, I was 22 when YouTube first came online, so I don’t even have the excuse of the distorted chronology of childhood to account for it!
Based on the notes it’s pretty clear that when a lot of folks picture early YouTube they’re basically just imagining modern YouTube minus the ads. I guess the “full episodes of fansubbed hentai downsampled to 360p and posted in 2–5 minute chunks” era is something you had to experience first hand to really appreciate it!
the biggest touchstone was seeing early Red Letter Media stuff broken up into like 17 “ten minute” chunks and I think inadvertently built the format for video essays forevermore
Love this. It’s creative, it’s funny, and honestly drones as a technology come with a shitload of practical & legal issues re: public air space that we haven’t at all begun to work out yet (although they are far more likely to be misused by the government than by civilians)
I have a new coworker and my boss was like “oh yeah one of the reasons I hired him was because I thought you’d get along”. Which
sort of makes me feel like a cheetah in a zoo getting assigned a service dog to help tame my neuroses
kind of offends me because he’s a mellow nerdy socialist flatcap pinstripe vest beardguy who I’m sure plays accordion or banjo or ukulele, which is a whole Type of Guy
frustrates me because I DO genuinely like and get along with him… goddammit it’s working…
oh he’s bisexual that explains it
“don’t you love when you get to be somebody’s manic pixie dream park ranger?” yeah okay touché boss touché
your boss is deadass adding new species to your enclosure one at a time to see how you adjust to the new stimulus
Late tonight a bunch of staff are playing a game called role call and if you thought fugitive was wild just w a i t until i tell you how this goes cause role call is absolutely terrifying
We aren’t letting the campers play it so that lets us up the scare factor by 147%
Ok so the game had to be pushed back a few days so we can figure out scheduling so heres the gist of it.
The more people you have for this game, the better. It has to happen at night. The people get into a straight line, and begin to walk in that line all around the area. They cannot turn around and look at each other, and cannot speak; with the exception of the person at the front of the line.
That persons job is to begin the role call. They simply say, “Role Call!” And their name, then each person down the line says their name in turn.
Here’s the kicker: there’s one person not included in the line. The Taker. They have the job of stealing away the person at the end of the line as silently as possible. The game’s sole purpose is to instill a sense of fear and paranoia in whoever is in front, because as more people get taken, there are less and less people to say their names during the Role Call.
The front person decides when they want to start the Role Call. Obviously, the more often it’s said, the less scary it is. But as more and more people disappear, they become Takers and can then do more damage than just the one.
Some Takers can replace the person they stole, making the person directly in front of them either incredibly paranoid or safe. At least until the Role Call. Takers cannot say anything during it, so it usually ends up more terrifying to know that the person behind you is silent. Again, everyone in the line cannot make a sound except responding to the Role Call.
The game is over when the person in front is taken. There is no winning, only waiting. Waiting for your turn to go. Imagine the fear that person in front has, when they softly announce “Role Call” only to find that everyone behind them is gone.
Not exactly a game for the weak willed.
My reactions to this, in order 1. What The Hell Kind of Creepy Horror Movie Punishment Game Bullshittery is this?
I just wanna say bc I KNOW you’re somewhere on tumblr, to the teenage girl who attended Take Your Kid To Work Day at an office building in Ontario, Canada circa 2013 and had a conversation with a middle aged woman in which you showed her your Black Veil Brides fanart and fanfics and ship content and told her about different fanfic tropes including a/b/o verse bc she happened to know who Panic! at The Disco and Fallout Boy were and thus you felt the need to show her your bandblr ship art, that was my fucking mother and I had to clarify all that to her including looking my mother in the eye and trying to explain a/b/o verse without sounding like a lunatic.
It’s been 10 years and I still regularly sent evil energies in your direction. Since you’d be probably two years younger than me and thus legally an adult now, please know if this post reaches you it’s on sight.
