i genuinely so badly want to see the batman death in the family movie alternate stories and i would even buy it except for some goddamn reason it's a blu-ray exclusive and i can't justify buying a whole-ass blu-ray player just for an hour of additional blorbo content

Harry and Louis on how they navigate their personal & professional lives. inspo.

It still blows my mind that no body wants to own movies or CDs. Like I don't like not owning any movies or shows I like and wanna rewatch. Maybe I sound like a boomer but I'm not planning on paying for Netflix for the rest of my damn life just for this one movie I love that their hosting. Imma go on the internet and get the DVD.

We really shouldn't allow these streaming services to kill DVDs and CDs. We should not let them kill physical media. They want you to not have a physical copy, so that when you stop paying, you don't have access to the product your paying for. Buy more CDs. Buy more DVDs. Buy a damn VCR. I mean shit, a fucking Xbox or playstation can play any DVD, blue ray or not. Your car has a radio for a reason.

Don't let them kill physical media. Because if or when the cards fall, you'll be left with nothing.

meangills and some fags from lifesteal (your pick)

i'll hope you know i started fucking cackling when i read this BUT we continue on 🙏 meangills first, clownzy second cuz they were the first one i thought of also forgive the one million pieces of nuance im going to explode 👍

ask game!

you know what is funny? i saw someone pointing out this on twt yesterday but some people claim that they understand boycotting but somehow… SOMEHOW… don’t understand why hybe needs to be boycotted but this honestly just tells me that these people aren’t even participating in the general boycott and genuinely don’t understand why it is needed at all 😭 which is embarrassing i will say

Collective consciousness (Patreon)

as someone who doesn't use spotify, what exactly went down in s. korea that a lot of songs were deleted from kpop/korean artists? was it a power struggle of kakao wanting control for streaming and they were pissed spotify was coming to korea? i vaguely remember tablo speaking out about the situation, saying how it sucks artists are in the crossfire when it comes to these big companies. which true.

yea that's pretty much it. kakao wasn't pleased about spotify encroaching on their business and the two companies were supposed to come to a deal about it but kakao threw a fit and pulled all their music. tablo was one of the most outspoken people about it because it took out epik high's entire catalog. they were lucky that they had enough negotiating power to buy back their distributing rights but pretty much every other group that was under kakao got fucked. the entire mx catalog pre 2020, i think all of rbw's groups, iu's entire discography; half the content of my playlists disappeared overnight and with NO warning for intl fans, who are the people that primarly affected by it. kakao can very easily decide to do it again if they feel like it and if they own sm when it happens.....no more streaming. at all.

Streaming services hate me specifically because almost every time I start watching something, they take it off like a week later and this is why DVDs are my personal heroes and I will never forgive the industry for pushing them into near obsoletion

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It is so hard to explain that adaptive tech is a part of your body. That a hearing aid is not something, it’s you, a wheelchair is not something, it’s you. These aren’t things unless your hand is also “just a thing”. That is my voice, those are my ears, that is my legs. Just because I can change it for a different one, just because it can be taken away and given back, does not mean it isn’t my body.

Having a piece of you taken away is so horrible and people make weird decisions about what bits of you count as real and which can be removed as punishment.

fucked up that they don’t put radios in boomboxes anymore

are you scared

IM SO BEYOND SCARED. SO SO SCARED FOR BOBBY AND BUCK AND EDDIE AND CHIM!!!!!!!!!

"being able to pirate the deleted HBO Max cartoons is great for us, but it doesn't help the kids they were targetted at" damn y'all just teach your kids to torrent. if your seven-year-old can't pirate, that's on you.

i become unreasonably mad when subtitles are even slightly out of sync

For the last several months I've been resisting the siren call of machining while enjoying the new-to-me channel Pask Makes, with its woodworking and tool production.

But yesterday I watched two videos from Adam Savage in a row, with all their semi-chaotic plotting, layout work, and winging it. I now desperately need access to a machine shop and I'm being so brave about it.

That said, I have just downloaded FreeCAD to get as close as I can digitally to that thought process without the metal shavings, blue stained fingertips, and sulfuric lubricant smell. Or at least as close as I can for free.

i've seen a lot of people talk about mcyt as a constantly burning library of alexandria recently, and to some extent that's true. people are constantly deleting their blogs, going scorched earth with animatics, fanfics, etc., that they made. but i've also seen people (three in the last few days!) make this claim about VODs, when talking about large fandoms like DSMP and QSMP, and.... guys. that was true in 2020. that's not true anymore. archivists have been working tirelessly for years now to make sure that isn't true.

the dsmp VOD masterlist is here. in november 2020, it's missing 16 VODs, if i am counting correctly--which is still a fairly small minority, but it's a lot, and it sucks!--but in november of 2021, it's missing one, and that's because the cc of that VOD does copyright takedowns, not because the archivists didn't save it. no one in the archivist project is deleting VODs off youtube with no backups the way people are deleting fanfics. three months ago, one of my dsmp archivist friends finished coding a tool that let them reconstruct VODs out of twitch clips, and reconstructed six tubbo dsmp VODs from 2020. not only are we basically not losing VODs anymore, we are actively gaining VODs that have been lost for years, that were thought to be lost forever. the library isn't burning anymore; it's being rebuilt.

the qsmp VOD masterlist is here. it is usually a month or two behind the present day, to give creators time to archive their own VODs, but... look at it. in january of 2024, every single qsmp vod was archived. the same is true of december of 2023, and november, and the vast majority of months for the past year.

i'm not going to say that there isn't a problem. just a few days ago, i realized that a lifesteal VOD from last year was missing--that its youtube upload was messed up somehow, and no one noticed and it wasn't mirrored on the internet archive and the person who uploaded it deleted the original file. and now it's gone forever. this made me super sad! like i said: i'm not going to say that there isn't a problem.

but... look at the lifesteal VOD masterlist here. lifesteal's a smaller fandom than qsmp or dsmp. open the 2022 tab and you'll see months and months of lost VODs, of no one's VODs being saved, because there weren't any archivists saving them. then open the 2023 tab and see: they lost four VODs, over the course of a year. even in smaller fandoms, archivists are working. they're making progress. they're saving VODs. in 2024, lifesteal archivists screenrecorded five streams on tumblr live to make sure they would not become lost media. mcyt may be a constantly burning library of alexandria, but the people with fire extinguishers are dedicated. they're making incredible progress. i know people with petabytes of VODs saved, who have spent money on extra storage for this. i know people who are constantly running up against their storage limits as they download/upload to the internet archive/delete for space/rinse and repeat. a decent fraction of the time, my internet at home is slow because it's downloading VODs.

and these aren't the only mcyt fandoms with archiving projects! the outsiders smp VOD masterlist is here. origins smp VOD masterlist is here. smp earth VOD masterlist is here. rats smp VOD masterlist is here. there are so many others that i just don't happen to know about. the older and smaller a fandom is, the more likely it is to not have an attached archiving project, or for the archive to be missing a lot of VODs. but... guys, we've saved a lot. there are people out there, working tirelessly to save even more. yes, mourn what we have lost--the archivists i know are also the ones mourning the most for the VODs that are, in fact, forever lost media. but don't dismiss how much people have saved. we are making progress. we are losing less and less every month. the vast majority of the dsmp and qsmp still exist, i am not going to say they're the same experience as watching live because they're really not, but.. they're out there. people have put in a lot of work to save them.

if you have publicly available VOD masterlists or other mcyt archiving projects that aren't on this post, please add them in a reblog. i want this post to serve as a reference for how much archivists have saved in this community; unfortunately, i'm not super connected to every community. but i know that--for every person deleting things, there are people working, tirelessly & with little external reward, in so many different mcyt fandoms, to save things. and we should appreciate that more often.