#sometimes technology is good

[inspectorspacetimerevisited]

The Circuit Chaps are a monolithic representation of all technology.

Despite that, one or two of the Circuit Chaps have broken the stereotype of the evil of technological advancement.

#Inspector Spacetime #Circuit Chaps #monolithic representation #of all technology #the evils of technological advancement #one or two Circuit Chaps #have broken the stereotype #for good or for bad #sometimes technology is good #Bumps (character) #not all technology is bad #even if it's represented as such #Breaking Character (trope) #Breaking Character

[gilsart]

Ggggggermany...?

i got carried away.

#i think sometimes ludwig has to teach him how new technology works bc the only thing gilbert is good at is weapons #he does not know how a computer works #gilbert would also do some impulsive shit like pick at the keyboard until the keys pop out just because he feels like it #my art #artists on tumblr #hetalia #hetalia fanart #aph prussia #hws prussia #aph germany #hws germany #gilbert beilschmidt #ludwig beilschmidt

[sparescribbles]

more steampunk au stuff... here's the best boy jonah!!!

#mandela catalogue #jonah marshall #tmc jonah #steampunk au #hes a pilot for bps :} #very good at his job just... sometimes alternates are... a little funny when it comes to any sort of technology huh.

[icewindandboringhorror]

I have a big google doc thing where I keep track of media and stuff (putting everything in loosely ranked categories), which is mostly just for my own reference so I know what tv shows I've already seen before, etc. and I never really look back through it, typically just a quick "okay, watched two movie in the past 8 months, need to quickly slap them somewhere in the lists. okay. done. save document. exit". But today I was actually reading through some of the old notes and there are like... MULTIPLE places where my comment is basically "It would have been good if it were about elves" or "I wish there was a fantasy show made in this same style" or "It's well made, but I just keep thinking about how I would like it more if everyone was an elf or was in old 1700s costumes" or etc like...... lol.... Most biased media ranking system on earth blatantly made by someone with an extremely hyperspecific range of narrow interests. It'd be like if a food reviewer only had 5 foods they actually liked, so they'd just go to a pizza place and be like "eh, the pizza was okay, but I just think it would be better if it was cereal instead. :/ ...2 out of 10"

#Which.. I mean... I am allowed to be biased because literally it's just for my own personal reference (or occasionall #y to send to friends or something if we're discussing the topic) so like.. nowhere am I saying 'I am the god of perfect taste and these #rankings are objectively the absolute truth and everyone should have my same opinion' or anything #BUT still.. it's funny to me sometimes #'Succession would be 100x better if it had the same cast/character quirks and shaky camera style and #acting choices/weird dialogue and general concept etc. EXCEPT it takes place within an elven noble family or something #managing the family business and everyone is in fantasy costumes now'' like.....okay...... but it's NOT that way..soo... thats not the show #''I like the acting style/general tone of Fleabag but i don't care for any of the characters or any of the subject matter and I wish it was #set in the 1800s and had vampires and was about magic instead'' okay..... again... you are making up an entirely new show in that case lol #OR my other beloved typical complaint ''The concept is good but theres too much plot and action and not enough people just sitting #around doing nothing and exposition dumping world and character lore'' ''this needs more goofy sideplots and filler episodes'' #''this Drama was too dramatic I think it should be more lighthearted & people need to sit around doing nothing just being weird more often' #''the Action Movie was ok except for the action scenes - which I skipped through all of- but I liked the costumes and worldbuilding'' etc. #ERM sorry your plot has too much plot. also elves have to be included somehow. bye #BUT SERIOUSLY!!!!!! I literally genuinely believe that any show I like (or even dislike) could ALWAYS be improved greatly by #putting people in fantasy or historical costume/setting/etc... why the FUNK would I want to see bland jeans and cars and cell phones #when I could see elaborate velvet cloaks and fantastical landscapes and interior design and innovative takes on historical or #magical technology or etc. etc. etc. I LIVE in the modern day. I see it all the time!!! BORING! stinky!! boo!!! #ANYWAY... another social divide for me.. People love to bond by discussing media. which is hard when I'm like #'I literally will not watch something at all unless it fits into one of these 10 extremely specific categories which are all i care about i #the entire world''.. I say this and yet I still dislike most fantasy or historical things I've watched lol. ok TWO main criteria then!! #it must 1. be in a different world or time period. 2. be goofy silly. Nothing ever has BOTH. It's always overly serious boring drama action #fantasy/history stuff OR it's comedic lighthearted but with modern day characters... WHY.. anguish and woe and so on.. #ANYWAY jhjnk... at least I can make that divide. Some people seem to project their own personal preferences and get really emotionally #defensive if you say you didn't like something - as if the fact that they DO like it is some Objective Truth or something rather than just #opinion/preference based. I can still easily say ''this is well made/well written/acted/good in a technical sense/has a lot of #points of appeal that most people would be drawn to/etc'' and admit that it's a GOOD show probably. I just PERSONALLY think its #bad because my tastes are very narrow. Some things ARE actually made badly but. things are not bad INHERENTLY just bc they dont suit ME lol #Better to recognize/accept whats odd about you and be peacefully aware of it than just being mad at everyone all the time for not fully #agreeing with you even when you're the one with the Weird opinion in that case lol.. I am right though :3 but.. lol... still. i get it

[nitw]

idk why there seems to be an overlap in fans of projectmoon and the echo franchise but am i gonna have to be the one to learn how modding works so i can put furries in LoR ?

#i . have never modded a game before but i feel like i Could Learn #im good at technology stuff sometimes.................................. #leo.txt #echo vn #echo project #projectmoon

[bmpmp3]

thank god for indie devs making like tiny little maximum 10 megabyte freeware games on itchio keeping the art of filesize optimization alive. ASSET REUSE FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#im watching a video about wario land music -> 'the bizarre music and sound design of wario land 4' by geno7 #good video so far! i like this guys stuff. he talked a bit about how they did some of the sound effects for warios voice #a very like. chopped and remixed sample style of doing his vocal lines. which is very cool 1) because it saves a bit of #precious space on that gba cartridge BUT ALSO 2) it just sounds cool and interesting stylistically #and man sometimes trying to keep a file size down really does give way for some really interesting stuff #on my own personal interests in games i ADORE rpg makers rtp and how people can find creative uses for it #i love that a bunch of games can draw from the same asset pool as one install on ur computer #no bloating your hardrive with a bunch of copies of the same assets - its just already here! #and from a developers perspective i love when they reuse old assets from other games in new weird ways #some small visual novel companies will reuse backgrounds and other assets #altho i dont mind a bit of bloat with VNs since a big draw can be the big pretty images and big pretty sounds #but its still cool when people find ways to get creative with space saving. and from a players perspective its also nice #space is cheap nowadays. but its not Free. we can swallow terabytes whole with micro sds and everything #but a lot of players dont get the chance or ability to upgrade their internal memory that often. so i think being considerate of filesize i #very important. and thats not even getting into the download bandwidth limits - a lot of people all across north america can only get like #internet from 1 provider and that 1 provider often likes to upcharge and limit shit because they can #we might live in a future where a lot of powerful technology exists. but access to that tech is another story #so remember the filesize. remember the filesize. #dies in your arms

[the-busy-ghost]

"Oh it would have been more satisfying if the humans had invented a technology which defeated the Martians rather than have them killed off by accident just when humanity's impotence in the face of disaster seems to be confirmed". I

To me that's just a fancy way of saying "Yeah but humans could totally handle the Martians and the writer has a duty to reassure the audience of that!"

Sir we cannot even handle climate change and I'm sorry to tell you that it's not entirely due to a lack of technological expertise

#In all fairness maybe we can handle climate change we don't know yet but it's going to take a lot more than a fancy new invention #As for war and genocide and all the other human ills that we can't seem to solve how do you think the atomic bomb worked out #And when I say technology or science I don't just mean in the normal STEM sense #As a history student you end up asking a lot whether your subject is actually beneficial to society or capable of solving anything #Or the political sciences- was the League f Nations or even today's UN a success? #Maybe if we just keep learning and studying we can solve it! Well maybe. But what will humanity look like when we're done? #Anyway I'm getting a bit far from the point of the War of the Worlds but maybe I'm just not enough of a science fiction nut for this convo #Maybe the image of societal collapse impressed itself on me more strongly than any delight over long-winded explanations of alien machines #Maybe it would be different if I'd read the book hoping for a good story about aliens #rather than to read one man's uncomfortable rather pessimistic views on what an alien invasion might tell us about human ity #I am simply asking certain fans to sometimes Dig a Little Deeper #Alright rant really over this time #...maybe #It's just that there are so many potential issues with that book but honestly I can't accept that the ending is one of them #Even the hint at the end that since the Martians proved it possible maybe some day humans might colonise other planets I just !!!!!

[minglana]

crazy that when i was like 8 all i wanted was an mp3 and now here i am, 15 years later, looking at mp3s to buy

#sometimes dream do actually come true! even if technology has advanced and now i can do ten million things on my phone #including listening to music!!! but i cannot fit two massive games (lbr its mostly genshin) plus 700+ songs #on my phone. plus 1000 pictures that i refuse to go through (for now). so i think a 20€ mp3 would be a good investment #anyways 8 yr old z... keep dreaming bc it might actually come true!!! #z xarre

[aurosoul]

hi so i saw that you saw my tag on the world post and i wanted you to know that it made me so fucking happy it resonated with you!!!! i saw that post a few months ago and i wrote a whole poem about it & thats a line from it!!!! i actually screamed a little when i saw your reblog!!!!

WHAT!!!!! A WHOLE POEM!!!! omg I would love to read this poem if you’d like to share 😭😭

I’m happy that the post inspired you 💖💖🥺 it’s been a humbling and emotional experience reading everyone’s responses to ‘The World Has Been Changed’, and seeing all the different ways it’s touched people.

I had no idea how powerful it would end up being when I first shared it, but I think the fact that it was created by the total coincidence of a mundane message from a computer dialogue box is a significant part of what gives it meaning.

it’s amazing that a machine, a computer program designed simply to be used as a tool for artists, was able to deliver a startling moment of clarity at exactly the right time for humans to connect with in in the way that we did.

coincidences like this feel like a reminder that all things are connected, and that humans will see art everywhere… I think this is because creation is one of our deepest instincts as conscious beings, and everything we make can be considered art in one form or another.

there is a deep sense of resonance when, miraculously, the things we’ve created give us back a creation of their own.

#incessant meowing #something something the inherent inseparability of humanity and the divine #i’m not a religious person but i am an artist #and sometimes being an artist makes you begin to understand the motivations of god #anyways i hope i've gathered enough of a hippie/animist/artist/pantheist follower base that this will make sense to at least some ppl lol #i’m directly at the forefront of the current technological cutting edge #due to working in the xr field #and man…. let me tell you…. humans are creating some incredible things right now #i know the world is suffering incredibly #but it still feels like we are so close to a turning point towards something good #i’m hopeful because i don’t want to be pessimistic anymore #and there is still so much beauty if you know how to look

[the-good-luck-anomaly]

#good tweet anomaly #poetry #THIS IS POETRY TO ME.so at work.at my stupid gay job. i spend alot of time standing infront of tvs. just all over the place. #SO ALOT OF ADVERTIZMENTS ARE CONSTANTLY GETTING BEAMED INTO MY BRAIN.and honestly. i prefer TV ads over computer or mobile ads. #theyre still like. catching up if that makes sense. still feeling jsut a bit more human. i remember looking at the behind the scenes for ad #and thinking WOW!! they put soap in the glass for beer ads to make it foam up more!! they make food out of wax to make it look appealing! #they have to make such SPECIFIC MACHINES to rotate cameras JUST RIGHT for the PERFECT SHOT #THATS BEAUTIFUL!!! ISNT THAT COOL??just to say 'buy our stupif fucking thing' they bring together so many ppl #to do what humans do BEST!! THEY WORK TOGETHER AND CREATE!! THEY MAKE UP PROBLEMS TO SOLVE!! #scienceprojects in highschool were so cool sometimes. i remember working w other people to build towers out of marshmellows&spagheti sticks #these ppl werent exactly my friends. but it was still fun bc we were all really trying. bouncing ideas off eachother. working together. #i like thinking about how things are made. i LOVE looking behind the curtain and breaking the magicians code. #LIVING HAPPY MEANS FINDING BEAUTY IN ALL THINGS.so i will find the silver within the screen constantly blaring into my head. #so it cool to see ads that look like they took alot of effort and creative knowledge to make.could you imagine if it was all suddenly gone? #im on the side of robots. and its thegreedy n lazy n cruel people that want to bend a machine to their will. bc it cant yell and fight back #A COMPUTER MADE THIS BASED OFF WHAT IT WAS SPOONFED.its an amazing advancement of technology!but so was fire. #it WILL be used as a weapon.which is unfortunate.but we will adapt.we WILL adapt.in ways we may not expect. #got distracted n lost my train of thought. TILL NEXT TIME!!!!

[selchielesbian]

i know pirating is frowned upon now (lame) but i miss when people would make fanmixes by illegally ripping music from youtube or limewire and upload it to a zip file for people to download, often times with custom cover art and track list. spotify fanmixes are so sad.

#sometimes people would even custom burn cds and mail them!!! #this was how i found new music as a teenager as well as trolling bandcamp and this very very obscure music website just downloading whatever #free tracks i could get my hands on #i'm sad i dropped my last laptop down a flight of stairs and immediately spilled wine on it bc i had so much good music on there. #sorry to that laptop. i was not a responsible or good steward of technology in college. #*trawling not trolling but i'm not rewriting the tag. you know how it is.

[area51-escapee]

Watching people misunderstand zoos and aquariums, I’m going to die,,,,,,,

#‘technology is so advanced we could just create this with screens and AI! and free the animals!!!’ #DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT REPUTABLE ZOOS AND AQUARIUMS DO IMPORTANT CONSERVATION WORK #DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT WHEN AN ANIMAL IS RESCUED FROM BAD CONDITIONS SOMETIMES TOSSING IT BACK IN THE WILD WOULD DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD #AND THAT A ZOO OR AQUARIUM MAY BE THE SAFEST PLACE FOR THEM TO LIVE THE REST OF THEIR LIFE #SOMETIMES THEY CAN BE RETURNED TO THE WILD #BUT THE ZOO OR AQUARIUM STAY IS NECESSARY TO REHABILITATE THEM FIRST #ITS FUCKING FISH REHAB OH MY GOD #I’m fine. it’s fine. this is fine.

[themarginalthinker]

Blue: Charlie, we can't let the Court know we live like this

Charlie:....what, with an internet connection, washers and dryers, and clean rooms??

Tweak: it will ruin our image

#vtm #this warren #silly #read most of winters teeth now and #yall i know what the canon nos are aupposed to be #but yall CANNOT convince me that its not partially a very good costume put on for oursiders of the clan #YOU HAVE YHE TECHNOLOGY TO MAKE YOURSELVES MORE COMFORTABLE #WHY ARE YOU DRESSING IN LITERAL RAGS TRASH AND RAW SEWAGE #you know those things where sometimes a stereotype is founded in elements of truth #and sometimes a stereotype is just a stereotype #this is the latter #frustration gnawing #im GOING to get the clan book

[medicinemane]

Can I just for a minute complain as someone dyslexic about how when I was young everyone would always be like "well look up the spelling in the dictionary"?

Just now, I go to type a word and I spell it something like "erevicobly", which is obviously wrong, but... no idea

Well, I throw it in the search engine* and find out it's irrevocably (didn't spell it right there either, but got it close enough spellcheck could fix it)

Now you might notice something here, which is if I'd looked it up in the dictionary, I wouldn't have found it, no matter how long and hard I searched, because I'd be looking under "er" not "ir"

So do you see why that advice made me mad as hell as a kid, and I stand by my feelings today?

*literally one of the few ways search engines are a blessing is being a really great way to find spellings

#like my typing is great with very few mistakes; but my spelling while mostly alright these days isn't great #cause like... literal diagnosed dyslexia since I was a tiny kid #and let me tell you; no matter the reason; people will shit on you so much for poor spelling (no matter the age too) #fucker; we speak english; everything you said was a lie #there's not (consistent) rhyme or reason to it; and sounding it out is terrible advice cause we've all got fucking accents #and sometimes even if you don't the word is fucking worcestershire and you're fucked #actually gets me a bit heated how many good teachers I had who still acted like this #I actually have many strong opinions on linguistics and teaching despite not being a linguist or a teacher #give me descriptivism or give me death #prescriptivism can burn in hell where it belongs #and one thing that technology has 100% made better (at least for me as a dyslexic adult) is being able to spell well and quickly #it's an aid and an accommodation to me; we just don't look at it like that #I literally can't even spell accommodation; but you get to see the right word there #I have a vast vocabulary... I just can't fucking spell half of it #so prespellcheck you just kind of... had my writing look a lot worse and be a lot harder to parse #the main thing that helped with my spelling wasn't school or anything... it was everquest #you want to be able to type to people and be understood; there's no spellscheck or anything... you work to get it right quickly #mmos are a great way to teach typing if you don't have voice chat #similarly it's actually thanks to tumblr that I'm a quick typist; zero formal training with it and sucked through my teens #was a quick chicken scratch typist... pretty fast; but I pecked #through typing a lot of messages and asks to people on here and wanting to do it quickly I stumbled on something pretty... #close to what I think they teach; though I'm pretty sure there's gotta be some differences #it's nothing formal for one thing; it's all muscle memory; the fingers go where they go #but I can type pretty fast and accurately with my eyes closed #and it's just cause... I wanted to say things to people and say it quickly #eh... I hope I kill myself soon #... it seems out of nowhere; but that's just how my brain works; this is stream of consciousness more or less so... figured I'd leave it #anyway... there whatever this is... is #mm tag so i can find things later

[in-tua-deep]

why are my nap dreams always so strange

just had a dream where a future version of Emmet Pokemon from an apocalyptic future who was mostly robot and had a voice like the dramatic announcer in a movie trailer traveled back in time to undo something? Also the setting didn’t seem to really have any pokemon in it?

and there was a scene where he kind of. awkwardly stood around because he wasn’t sure how to approach people and get the ball rolling because it wasn’t a video game where the protagonist just kind of comes up to you and you can drop the relevant information on them?

so he eventually found his past self and engaged him in conversation where he started hinting that a new technology company on a meteoric rise was... using the ashes of “smothered people” to somehow power their technology, with the implication that people were going missing - which started with the employees of the company early on or something? Also it sounded like ashes might also be a name for a byproduct that happened during the smothering process and not literal ashes maybe?

it was also implied that future!Emmet had, over the years, killed like. a lot of people in the apocalyptic future, and there was a conversation beat where past Emmet assumed he killed over 50 people and then the camera kind of. zoomed in on each of them one at a time and gave me their thoughts, which was future!Emmet thinking “oh it’s WELL over 50″ while past!Emmet was like “i assume it’s well over 50, probably more like 1,999+”

by the way, past!Emmet does NOT know this is a future version of himself (looks different bc of being mostly robot) and comes to the conclusion that this might be one of the smothered people who underwent the smothering process and it either failed or he escaped, and i still have no idea what the fuck that means but apparently all records of smothered people just fuckin. vanish as well. and this dude clearly would NOT be in any system at all

then my cat stepped walked across my stomach and woke me up before i could unpack all of that but what a bizarre fuckin nap dream

#apocalyptic emmet dream #dream journal #my dreams #i just remember the scene where it zoomed in on each one and gave me their thoughts about future!emmet's kill count so clearly #and also the scene where future!emmet just kind of. awkwardly stands in a corner for a hot second because no one is coming up to talk to him #but hey what the fuck is smothering. what the fuck technology is being powered by ashes. #i also kind of got the implication that future!emmet was alive against his will because of the robot parts keeping him alive? #i did try drift back into sleep to see if i could fade back into the dream but my brain just went on a tangent #about how sometimes characters have to have their own growth and realizations outside of interactions or conversations with other characters #i distinctly remember the phrase 'we have character growth at home' being used #i'm also trying to figure out who emmet killed. #did he kill robots? #are the robots secretly people like cybermen from doctor who???? #i am just SO PUZZLED by the implications of this conversation and what the fuck it meant for the worldbuilding #i do love a good outside POV dream where i am not even a character i do find them very funny

[jinzouacting]

periodically people have to be reminded that you should be against these large generative ai models because its aggregate content theft and not because of like "laziness" or whatever

#like yes the arts are wildly devalued which #goes in hand with this push to replace us en masse with ai to cut labour costs #and its disgusting to see #but if someone says its making art accessible to disabled people. and you talk about a guy who learned to draw with his feet #you need to take a good hard look at yourself #it feels bad to encourage the automation of art when in popular culture so much of our work is devalued but #as an artist!!! i am lazy. i use 3d models i trace photos i use custom brushes #sometimes you just aint drawing all that. the Laziness thing is a bad argument #whats bad is feeling entitled to Take the work of others without permission to train generative models!!! thats the problem!!! #just bc you're taking stuff en masse it doesnt make it better than stealing from one person. thats not the same thng as inspiration shut up #i think technology and tools evolve and its cool that I've found thinvs that support me as an artist #its not fucking about the machine learning its about theft how many times do we have to teach you this lesson