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aquaheartgirl · 29 days

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I bought myself a really nice computer monitor for work last year and I love it, but the one thing I wish I could change about it is that it doesn't have a speaker.

It does have a headphone jack, though, so when the day came that I needed to get sound from it, I figured I could just go out and buy a cheap speaker, plug it in with an aux cord, and call it a day. (I'm not picky about audio quality as long as it's, well, audible.)

I went to Best Buy. I went to Walmart. I went to Target. I went to Five Below. I spent over an hour on this fool's errand and came home empty-handed. Everywhere I went, there were plenty of speakers to choose from, but there was one problem.

EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. was BLUETOOTH ONLY.

Don't get me wrong, I love Bluetooth. I have a Bluetooth speaker that I use all the time. It's simple, it's convenient, it's my go-to. It does not, however, have an aux input option.

I didn't realize that had become the norm.

I finally found a speaker I liked with different input options, including aux and Bluetooth, listed on Walmart's website. It was entirely sold out. I ended up buying it off eBay.

I like having different options.

Why are options getting taken away from us?

#also while I'm waiting for the speaker I ordered to arrive #I currently have a pair of speakers on my desk that my mom dug out of the basement #that are older than me #probably at least 30 or 40 years old tbh #and they plug right in and they WORK PERFECTLY #I'm still replacing them for a nicer aesthetic but honestly if it wasn't for that #I would keep using them #THINGS USED TO BE BUILT TO LAST #consumers are no longer the priority #ahg

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bigfatbreak · 6 months

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What does Tom think of Emilie after meeting her?

the only Agreste he's not massively disappointed with is Adrien himself. It's a good thing that's the only one he plans on sparing.

#my art #long post #dad villain au #emelie agreste #tom dupain cheng #gabriel agreste #nathalie sancoeur #gabriel has memories of being in an almost relationship with nath from the last timeline so he's still weirdly possessive of her #and emelie knows nathalie has a crush on her and has been using that to string her along so she always has an emotional crutch nearby #she does a similar thing to adrien but only because she's built him for it #its different with nath tho. they have history and she likes the rush of superiority she gets #also nath doesn't know that tom is viceroy. she just knows that tom can interpret the butterflies on 'viceroy's' behalf

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depressedraisin · 3 months

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that incredibly scouse intonation that just came out of nowhere

#thinking abt what andy said today...#like soaking up accents and lilts and speech quirks from ppl around u is such an inane and normal thing #but also we humans are incredible. that kind of poignant romanticism is built into us #the last shadow puppets

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puppyeared · 6 months

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Jitterbug

#whenever my meds kick in it feels like im gonna piss myself. not literally but its really really feels like it #and now whenever that happens my mind goes back to pancho (grandmas dog) at a xmas party years ago #bc he peed when we arrived bc he was so excited to see ppl and my cousin had to clean it up :o)#well for better or for worse i know that feeling now when im pumped on 20mg of adderall #im still getting used to this whole diagnosis thing cause ive gone untreated and undiagnosed for the longest time. so theres probably a lot #i still dont know and have to learn to get myself to be.. functional on my own? self managing????#i even set up reminders on my phone for work periods meals and stuff. but the problem is actually getting myself to stick to that to a T #because the minute i slack off or something gets in the way it throws it all off until i can be bothered to get back on track. it sucks #at least ive built up other habits like writing notes and setting alarms ahead of time.. but i feel like i could do better #its always hard to change something if youve been doing it wrong for the longest time. especially behaviour and thinking patterns. sigh #in other news my glasses bailed on me so i have to get a new pair sometime. i just realized i never draw my sona with glasses but thats #mostly bc i forget. id love to get some browline glasses like my old pair but im picky and its hard to find one id like for the next 5 year #i also finally managed to collect all the fish in my animal crossing file!!! pulled out a char last week and boom now i have a poster :o)#THAT was a moment where i almost peed myself for real. id love to get all the bugs but i cant stay up late on the switch :o(#yapping #my art #myart #doodles #personal #diary

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halo-lll-odst · 6 months

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yes i made a lethal company oc

yes they're a robot. is tihs a surprise.

#marrsbarrs art #lethal company #oc #ocs #bud-e #it is supposed to filter out things from the air in the industrial complexes you explore #but also be a companion. it would be something you purchase btw but i think that's well implied in the text #it would be very expensive as it has multiple functions. has a built in walkie-talkie #and i mean. it's a walking air filtration system #i think maybe there would be scented cartridges you could purchase from the store that have different small passive buffs #that you could plug into them. each cartridge only lasts a round tho #also has a radiation symbol on it because it is fueled on a scrapped apparatus. repairs itself with scrap metal #also it wears the gear and looks like it because it was convenient to just use an old gas mask for the head and for at least SLIGHT staff #comfort. also it allows more convenience to wash off things and so things dont get stuck in its joints or whatevar #maybe doesnt get attacked? or at least doesnt get killed once things realize it isnt organic. works well as a solo companion possibly #anyway it is very silly and speaks in beeps and boops. to speak it uses maybe a modified form of morse #can change the pitch of the beeps #robots #tech #idk i have so many thoughts. this game is good. play it

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ilynpilled · 10 months

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look im jaime’s strongest soldier but he is also such a massive bimbo

#all this around the lf hand thing too george was like i know guys he used his brain a lot in the last chapters for that edmure stunt #he has run out now i fear #hooray for jaime not being tywins son at all tho in a multitude of ways bc yeah not good news for the lannister regime right here ijbol #that is certainly being emphasized not to even mention ‘better than dying on the privy’ lmfao #trying to be a better person is also incompatible with sustaining this regime lol like it is built on ruthlessness and it cannot be #maintained in any other way #and that itself is a testament to how frail it is

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rubarb69 · 2 months

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I need to make meta commentary where i blame all my problems on modernism and post post modernism

#jreg #post post modernism #trash poetry #but im tired of using frilly words #if i call something “grotesque” or say it has “poetic irony” one more time i think i might burst into flames #i love staying up all night out of “choise”#because at a certain point you hit a wall #where the things you do and things you keep up just stop #i feel like i can just talk for once #that sentence is only half true #but you (when i say you i mean me) get it #im just so built to last #https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90M60PzmxEE

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aeirithgainsborough · 1 year

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abby might genuinely be one of the most poorly written sympathetic/grey characters ive ever encountered im forever thinking about how they tried to make her some sort of parallel to joel, an actual well written sympathetic/grey character, and fucked it up so badly

#muscles dont make a character interesting lol #she fr did so many ugly things got all her friends killed relished in murder and torture of friends and foes #doesn’t show any remorse doesn’t show at all how years of dreaming of revenge #and then getting it fuck her up like she’s fine lol #her relationship with lev is rushed and it’s 2 days and they want you to believe she’s earned some sort of redemption through him #and beyond all that she’s so bland lol #the writing fucked her over too like she could a) not been the top soldier in her FASCIST militia #and b) they could have spent more time with her and built her an interesting arc that did work as a parallel to joel #if they’d just kept her story separate #neil’s issue was he wanted to do an abby story but he also wanted to make sure ppl who loved ellie and joel bought the game Lmao #so he lied and he tried to ham fist them into the same story and it was a mess #imagine if abby had encountered lev on her way to joel and helped him and through that realised she didn’t need revenge #it wasn’t gonna help #and it could have helped her understand joel’s choice #that could have broken that cycle of violence in a much more interesting way #rather than them completely breaking ellie and taking everything away from her and she still having to be the bigger person lol #abby continues the cycle of violence and is rewarded and redeemed through the narrative #and the person who actually breaks the cycle is the one who loses everything #make it make sense #the last of us spoilers

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dragonslaved · 8 months

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listen as much as I LOVE the current trend of anime OPs being able to stand as their own singles for radio play, anime OPs in the 90s were just built different

"don't make me wild like you" (ranma 1/2)? a bop neverending

"in the night" (key the metal idol)? beautifully atmospheric

"hohoemi no bakudan" (yu yu hakusho)? eternal

"give a reason" (slayers next)? perfect and on almost every playlist I ever make

"catch you catch me" (cardcaptor sakura)? so catchy and so visually iconic it rewired a lot of our brains in middle school

"rondo revolution" (revolutionary girl utena)? don't even talk to me I'll never stop

"moonlight densetsu" (sailor moon)? of course no one can ever forget or ignore the classic

"cruel angel's thesis" (neon genesis evangelion)? (warning for rapid image flashes) so iconic a convention in 2006 I attended had to ban it from karaoke because so many people kept singing it

they do not make anime OPs like this anymore and I miss that. Love the music we have now but it's not the SAME do you undersTAND ME-

#god 90s anime was just built different #I love the new series and stories we have and how things are written now #but my GOD the 90s was golden age for anime to me #don't get me wrong there are SO MANY MORE POPULAR and genuinely obscurer titles I could include #I promise I have watched whatever you're going to add on in tags or replies or reblogs #so don't come at me about it just add them in your own reblogs out of love and affection for what you love instead #if I included every iconic 90s op this post would need a read more and I'm tired after a 12 hour shift #ranma and sailor moon both transed my gender so like i have some Feelings about those series in general #give a reason was SO ICONIC AND BELOVED it was used as the insert song of the final battle for the last season 12 years later

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justmaghookit · 3 months

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Zero days since some white fuck head hurt indigenous children in Australia.

Guy zip tied a pair of first nations kids, their ages 6 and 7. Allegedly for trespassing and swimming in his pool. He's been arrested but who knows if he'll be charged, Australia loves to let white men go.

I reiterate, two indigenous kids, six and seven years old, zip tied together by a grown ass white guy for the crime of doing things kids do.

Hell i used to hop a neighbours fence to go swimming, the most i got was scolded for not asking. But I'm white, and we all know black kids are disproportionately punished over their peers when it comes to things like this.

#bird chatter #zero days since our last shit fuckery #guess i better get working on that indigenous incarceration post #since the absolute geniuses who wrote the story decided it was a good idea #to mention the new juvies being built #that will most likely be used to unfairly imprison indigenous children #better add Queensland's OVER FULL juvies to my list of things to write about

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lazinesswrites · 3 months

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Behold! The Havoc Rover!

I’m gonna take some better pictures in the morning with better light and a clean table, show some of the process too, but! Here it is! This is what I’ve been working on instead of writing (and… other stuff I should be doing). It is for a fic though - this is the modified starfighter Crosshair acquires in Rescue on Tatooine. Now that I have the model done, I have no excuses for not finishing the last… few sentences, probably, of the fic itself.

Fun fact: The guns are made from toothpicks, because that’s what I had close by that fit the size etc that I needed, and because this is Crosshair’s ship - how could I not?

#Star Wars: the bad batch #tbb crosshair #the havoc rover #the worst part of this is that I really only built this model so I could better draw the ship… I have no other use for this #but it was fun and now I have a little physical thing to look at to say ‘hey I made this!’#and those are some pretty great reasons for doing things!#now I’m gonna go to bed #I’ll try to answer the last couple WIPW asks tomorrow #before I put up the new WIPW post….

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aria0fgold · 2 months

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So that's... the power of Luocha e1... I get it now. I am now a lil less salty from losing my 75/25.

#aria rants #was doing the new world 9 of su without geppie (very nervously too cuz im not used to not having a shielder)#but am like. well i have luocha e2 so maaaaaybe itll be fine? still nervous cuz the last boss of world 9 is the smth unto death #and i just KNOW im gonna have a hard time with that thing. well... turns out i didnt... luocha e1 is so good actually #i had ratio. himeko. bronya (oh yea and her lc i got FROM THE 75/25 LOST. i think that contributed too actually). and luocha #my ratio is decently built but still weaker than my argenti thats so far my strongest in su (esp g&g with the erudition path)#took elation path. got to the last boss with pretty okay blessings. it didnt stand a chance... it didnt actually get much of a turn...#first time i got to do that with an su boss ngl! i never got to kill em fast enough but i managed now! yippee!!! maybe losing that #75/25 wasnt so bad after all. my bronya is stronger with her buffs (i dont... i dont have any other buffer than her...) and my #luocha can finally give buffs AND shield! my team is looking pretty good. (yea since my luck is bad i couldnt get ruan mei and sparkle)#i think ratio's banner was during ruan mei's banner? and i had to get his lc (i needed him to be strong for imaginary dps)#and i couldnt try for sparkle much cuz i was planning on going for aven (which as you can see. my plans went terribly with luocha rerun)#im still gonna try for aven cuz i need another shielder than geppie and aven's kit seems to be the right fit for my ratio #back to the saving board...... hsr rng i hate you but also i cant hate you enough cuz tbf my team DID get stronger a bit...

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thestarseersystem · 1 year

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Can we just slot away the experiences with those with polyfragmented DID away from DID itself. Cause like. No fucking wonder I didn't realize that I had DID, it's a completely different ballpark.

Like, if you got three ANPs, and the main one has a subsystem with fragments + introjects, no shit are you not going to see a constant interruption of memory. Sure, it's kind of bumpy, but at worst it's just heavy dissociation for a couple of days.

Like. Why have people not made a keen distinction? Why has it been so ignored? I'm frustrated honestly.

Like. Yes, I've always had memory problems, but that can easily be attributed to other things if the symptoms are less severe.

It's honestly fucking frustrating that I run into people that say "tHeRe'S oNlY pOlYfRaGmEnTeD dId" without fucking explaining past the theory of structural dissociation. No theory of structural dissociation is going to HELP ME understand my experiences. Like you're just throwing out words and it's not explaining why or how it works.

It makes me unbelievably pissed. EXPLAIN. Explain that people with a higher tier of structural dissociation have a way more unstable system and that causes a greater number of alters, which lessens dissociative gaps within the fronting group, but may widen the gap between the innerworld alters and fronting alters. Explain how polyfragmented systems work compared to regular DID. Explain that the OSDD-1b label isn't actually what we think it is.

I am tired of stupid fucking idiots on the internet that only deem to quote and paraphrase, instead of doing adequate explanations of what those quoted texts mean. It's absolutely fucking infuriating.

Don't just say that I don't know what I'm talking about, if you're not going to give me adequate reason. These are my experiences, and it's so fucking easy to misconstrue if you're not being overly specific.

And there is literally no damn way to research shit first fucking hand when you need to buy the books, find specific scientific articles or see actual sources. I saw some of you getting mad that we say "DID has little research", but yet to back up your arguments. Why quote something when you barely understand it yourself?

This community needs a fucking overhaul. I am exhausted. We're all just parroting off of each other, as google is not that damn helpful.

I just want more understanding and articulation. Being a polyfragmented system is difficult all on its own, maybe we should understand that the human psyche cannot withstand intense amounts of trauma without breaking down in some form or fashion. It really is confusing that many people try to force the idea that we must face it all alone, you should know that's not how that works.

#post.txt #polyfragmentation #polyfragmented #last part: im talking about how people put such massive emphasis on how final fusion is the only way to heal #but not realizing how that is extremely damaging to those of us who found constant splitting to be our one form of coping mechanism #it just feels impossible to talk to people obsessed with ideas of 'pro recovery'#and find everyone that's straying outside of that to be morally reprehensible #im just tired of interacting with people who don't know what its like #yes I've had fusions- but it was immediately after someone left dormancy #i just know that how my system operates- it's built upon layers of keys and locks..#it's based on some sort of false sense of reality- a pipe dream- that final fusion would be appropriate for a system like ours #of course there's things that i dont know about my system and i have to be okay with that #i just wish other systems would understand what's realistic #and that polyfragmented system needs are different from regular DID

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opens-up-4-nobody · 7 months

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