Family Reunion

Once again, Tumblr manages to succeed via just being honest with their users.

I made a post back around April fool's about the crabs being so popular because the joke was that every other website tries to trick you into clicking things so they can make money from your clicks and what if instead a website just asked "please click this revenue generating crab. It is there to generate revenue. In return you will have clicked on a crab. Nothing more." And the answer to that question was "people will frantically click on that crab. They don't hate the idea of the website getting money, they hate the idea of being profited on against their will".

So Tumblr implemented actual revenue crabs. "For this much money you can fill your or someone else's dash with virtual crabs. This will have the effect of there being crabs on their screen."

And people will buy those crabs. Because yes you're spending money on something stupid and useless but it's being sold to you as "hey you want something stupid and useless?", which is a nice change of pace from every other site trying to make itself out to be something more than what it is.

Twitter is floundering with the checkmark system because it's being sold as "confirm that you are someone important and who you say you are is true", which it isn't at all right now because anyone can buy one. You're buying a useless checkmark that only says that YOU think you're important. Or, more often than not right now, you are intending to trick other people into thinking you're someone you're not.

Meanwhile, Tumblr just said "Consider this double check mark. It does nothing. You will be marking yourself as someone who paid money for a meaningless checkmark and sometimes it will randomly turn into a bunch of crabs, making the site harder to use". And the userbase is like "Well sure, that sounds delightful."

The point is, despite what all the marketing and advertising people have tried to say, painting trash gold and trying to pass it off as something better is almost never as effective as just saying "hey you want this trash?"

Why yes, in fact, I do.

One of the most entertaining things I have watched in over one and a half year is a man sitting in a chair chained to a big CRT TV forced to say Mario over half a million times for many days straight. There is only Mario and sleep and Mario Mario Mario Mario Mario Mario Mario Mario Mario Mario Mario Mario Mario, sleep and Mario Mario Mario Mario Mario Mario. He also has Mario music on the TV but I'm only here for the Mario Mario Mario Mario Mario Mario Mario Mario Mario Mario Mario Mario Mario Mario Mario Mario. I think I am going insane myself, I only hear Mario Mario Mario Mario Mario Mario Mario Mario all the time Mario Mario Mario Mario Mario Mario

The best Christmas gift this year is the James Webb Space Telescope Launch from NASA. The James Webb is the most powerful space telescope ever made, it is over 100x more powerful than the Hubble Space Telescope. By how much we have learned from Hubble it will be fun to see what information James Webb will give us.

I’m from Sweden and my first “anime” must have been the Pokémon anime since it’s the only one that could classify as an anime even if I am not sure about that. The first “real” one was probably SAO, Sword Art Online, in 2017. We had gotten a VR headset and I had known about plus it was Dubbed on Netflix.

That post about death note being "everyone's first anime" (untrue statement) made me curious and now I want to gather data for science

Can you reblog this and tell me where are you from and what was your starter anime?

I regularly resist the urge to bite into electrical cables

Oh my god, of course you only read Shonen, you half-baked meathead. How about you stop with the manga and pick up some real literacy? Oh wait, a book doesn't have pictures, so I guess it's out of the question for witless photo lovers like yourselves who have no sense of media literacy.

Oh, honestly, how do people like you do it? Just "read" panels of mindless, repetitive, egregious fighting over and over again. I endear your low attention spans. Truly, I do. It must be magical being impressed by the most simplistic forms of idiocy. You people are no better than slug eyed mouth-watering neanderthals.

If by any chance I've changed your miniscule, insignificant curiosity, why not read some Edgar Allan Poe...actually, how about something on your level. Hmmmm, oh, I know! Dr Seuss.

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Makoto

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A confession !!

My favorite part about the Mario movie was when he said “It’s Jump-man time” and proceeded to jump all over the place.

Immensely powerful thrift shop find, google drive to follow