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Jerma was playing Devil May Cry 3 and it bugged out and sounded like an atomic bomb went off lmao.

Lazy mornings and pancakes~

Yikes belongs to @hellscribbles

Husk isn’t a good cook so they’re offering moral support ✨

ok but that's just completely false. you realize that's not why, right?

Let me start off by saying: THIS IS NOT ME SUPPORTING WHAT THEY ARE DOING. THIS IS NOT ME SUPPORTING TIKTOK EITHER. THIS IS NOT ME SUPPORTING THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT. THIS IS NOT ME SUPPORTING ISRAEL OR BEING ANTI-PALESTINE. I fully fucking understand the nuance, and I don't want to be misconstrued right out of the gate.

With that out of the way, this has EVERYTHING to do with a fear of China and the Chinese government, and leaning more towards sinophobia than ANYTHING to do with Palestine.

Tiktok is owned by ByteDance, which is a primarily Chinese company. This is the first time any sort of Chinese app (or any international app for that matter) has truly gained such a HUGE foothold in the US. Over 100 million people use Tiktok in the US alone, which is big big numbers for a tech product from a country that whose previous largest social media tech products were specifically for their own national market (due to needing to split national and international products into 2 to comply with government censorship laws, and most international products not getting near the level of success Tiktok is enjoying. I'm also not mentioning Tencent and their gaming stakes here, talking solely about social media platforms). Now, the Chinese government has a small share of ByteDance (they DO NOT OWN IT TO BE CLEAR), and it is centered in Beijing. Because a Chinese company is collecting vast amounts of user data (to be clear again, every social media company does this), this is what has gotten US lawmakers worried that a perceived enemy has data and some level of influence on the American people.

This is possible, but let's be clear how fucking crazy it is that they're targeting Tiktok before dealing with, ya know, the homegrown companies that have provably shaped our elections and rage-fueled algorithmic pushes helped radicalize people for Q-Anon. It's only been US companies collecting international data, but now that it's China, everyone's clutching their goddamn pearls.

The widespread collection of personal data and ability to influence people is BAD, but it's not because it's China doing it, it's BAD IN GENERAL.

What the bill, called "Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications" (which lol lmao), does is this, according to NBC News (bc I can't do a better job saying it than what they said):

The bill, dubbed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, would create a process for the president — through the FBI and intelligence agencies — to identify certain social media applications under the control of foreign adversaries, like China, Russia, Iran and North Korea, as national security threats. Once an app was deemed a risk, it would be banned from online app stores and web-hosting services unless it severed ties with entities under control of the foreign adversary within 180 days of the designation.

Basically, if the bill passes, Tiktok will be deemed a "national security risk", and be forced to be sold (probably to an American company) or be banned from access. This is SOLELY targeting Tiktok, hence the label of it being a Tiktok ban, but important to highlight what it does outside of that.

WHAT IT DOESN'T DO IS WHAT THE MEME SAYS. It may be from the previous time this happened, but that's not what's happening this time.

Now, ByteDance doesn't fucking want this to happen because it's their crown jewel. The Chinese government doesn't want this to happen because Tiktok has made ByteDance one of the largest companies for China economically. All in all, they aren't going to fucking sell.

TL;DR: The US government is passing a law to effectively ban Tiktok unless ByteDance, it's parent company, sells it. This is because of worries that China will somehow influence the American people, which, while theoretically possible, is functionally similar to what American social media companies already do in some capacity, and based on a lot of fearmongering because oooooo China's spooky and scaryyyyy. It does NOT DO WHAT THE MEME SAYS. It has NOTHING TO DO WITH PALESTINE.

If I need to elaborate on anything, I will. There's a fuck-ton of nuance to have with all of this, and it's hard to give that in just this post. But goddamn don't spread blatant misinformation.

With all that being said: Free Palestine.

Hello hello mutuals, i shall be turning this blog into a place where I post my shit and thoughts and stuff, and created a blog for just reblogs, so if you still want your homepage utterly flooded with reblogs in the span of an hour and then nothing for 5 hours bc im physically incapable of using the queue function, follow @controlledchaosetcetc

Will also probably post more gamedev stuff here as well bc that's the main thing i do rn

When I was in high school, I wanted to be a YouTuber, and I actually posted consistently, I loved making videos, and it truly was a wonderful creative outlet that gave me a passion for video editing to this day.

I also got really into the business of YouTube, and was extremely interested in learning about proper practice, ideal thumbnails, how to hit the algorithm and build an audience.

If there is one thing I learned, you do not want to fucking be a Youtuber, or Twitch streamer, or any of that for that matter. Most of the most popular channels had the WORST work-life balances. Listen to any podcast with a bigger name, talking on their past, or any video where they mention their life, and I mean TRULY LISTEN. Almost all of them say something along the lines of "yeah making videos/streaming/editing is all I do basically".

This isn't just the Mr. Beasts or just the people you dislike for being "vacant". Like Jacksepticeye, you listen to him talk about how it was, where his entire day would be wake up, record videos, edit those videos, sleep. There was NOTHING ELSE. Jimmy takes it to the utter extreme, but this is why so many old-school YouTubers are quitting or retiring or moving-on because the constant thread is "I can't and won't keep this up forever because there are more important things to me".

YouTube is a system built on constant posting, constant engagement, constantly feeding the machine. While this is in place, there will never be an end to the Mr. Beast era of YouTube because it was always like this.

What the fuck

It's time to let this one go. A summertime drawing started in 2021, featuring characters of my own and from many of my wonderful mutuals, including @citrinafyre, @njamil21, @lord-owlsnake, @bierhund, and @squeempus

The initial sketch. I knew when I started this one that it would probably be pushed back, but three years is long enough to hold on to it. I do think there's still a lot to enjoy with the linework and overall composition, so I didn't want it to remain hidden forever as it ate at my sanity.

if you like a piece of media that is good eventually youll more or less run out of things to say about how good it is but if you like a piece of media that is objectively pretty mediocre but also somehow deeply compelling thats how the demons get you

Serendipity has been thru a lot lately, including getting her mom back (from being a hag), becoming a hexblood (from getting her mom back), and having a major confrontation with the bbeg where she and a friend were forced to choose whose mother would be returned safely to them (Serendipity’s mother Valentina is everything to me). Also we hit level 7 and she picked up one(1) whole level of wizard

ARCHIVES EASY

My thoughts:

Season 3 archive gang isnt there in the "oh my god i hate this and i hate all of you", morale is utter dogshit, no one wants to interact let alone SPEAK to each other that Season 4 is, but we're getting there. To give them the best chance, we'll say it's after Jon gets his name cleared, but before mans gets kidnapped, probably when Basara signs as an employee, as this whole thing is a fucked up corporate bonding exercise. All of them feel like there's something better to be doing, so more than half probably just fuckin walk out.

Even ignoring that and we say all of them want to be there, team synergy is SHIT. Jon's trying to be the boss, but everyone's ignoring him. Sasha and Tim are probably the most functional duo, but they're probably constantly interrupted and overrided by the duo of Basira and Daisy, and that leds to Tim and Daisy probably bickering. Melanie's ignoring everyone and solving puzzles but constantly getting roadblocked because of all of the arguing. Martin's doing his best trying to solve issues more than he is puzzle solving. Meanwhile, Elias is just standing in the corner watching everyone. You KNOW this man isn't solving these puzzles. He probably bribed an employee for the answers already just to see how everyone else does, but this man is not helping for SHIT, and probably bans everyone from asking for hints too by refusing to comply when they try to ask the gamemaster or blocks the hint box.

It's just miserable, BUT I do say they get out if it's an easy room that's not as linear so that the groups can split up and work on separate puzzles. However, if it's a linear room and forced to work on one thing at a time, it's joever.

Now, OIAR crew.

They're COOKING.

Alice and Gwen have an enemy dynamic currently, but I don't think this causes a roadblock, I think this gets them competitive. They WANT to one up the other, so they gotta be the one to solve it first. Yeah, Alice is very much the relaxed one, take it easy, "chill the ever-loving fuck out, Gwen". HOWEVER, you cannot tell me that if you put a puzzle in front of her that she wants to solve, she doesn't jump info it. I feel escape rooms would be right up her alley as the few times she wants to put effort into something. Celia's working (don't know her well enough to judge, but I say pretty good), Sam's doing great (although man is probably talking more with Celia rn and not going 100%), Colin's putting it together. Lena, however, is the GOAT of this I feel, while she does stay sort of back, whenever Alice and Gwen get in an argument, she just steps in and solves the puzzle, defusing the situation because, well, the thing they were arguing over's gone now.

They get out with 25 minutes still on the clock.

enough episodes of protocol are out, let’s stop wasting our time and get to the REAL questions

Hello hello mutuals, i shall be turning this blog into a place where I post my shit and thoughts and stuff, and created a blog for just reblogs, so if you still want your homepage utterly flooded with reblogs in the span of an hour and then nothing for 5 hours bc im physically incapable of using the queue function, follow @controlledchaosetcetc

Will also probably post more gamedev stuff here as well bc that's the main thing i do rn

no doubt about it traveller, you're looking for the clitoris. here, i'll mark it on your map

the legendary DMX and his orchid growing hobby.

What if I un flavor blasted your goldfish?

i’ll kill you

sumo wrestlers in a sunflower field

currently cackling & wheezing after imagining a video game titled Penn & Teller’s Shithead Basketball

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