Jul. 2nd, 2018

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“I shall continue to exist.
I may assume other disguises, other forms,
but I shall try to exist.”

- Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire  (via halcynth)
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platovevo:

listen i also hate those dumbass political cartoons about kids and their phones but at the same time you’re a fool if you flat out deny there are negative aspects to the way we communicate in the social media age

facebook and instagram strategically time your notifications after you post something to make you waste time scrolling. those two platforms also come to mind as being particularly performative (“look at this beautiful picture-ready thing i’m doing today”) although any social media encourages that. snapchat’s streak feature, as well as those stupid emojis next to people’s names, exist solely to suck you into using the app every day. twitter and instagram display your follower count, and facebook displays how many friends you have. tumblr cultivates a culture of oversharing, and although you can have one-on-one conversations on here, most “communication” takes the form of shouting from a soapbox. all of these things are related to the problem of privacy online, which many of us simply assume doesn’t exist and should therefore be tossed aside so that we can dissect and manufacture every detail of our selves and desires online. you can’t honestly tell me these things are of no concern for the way we understand ourselves and others, and our relationships to the world.

it would be great if more poltical cartoons criticized the predatory, exploitative ways that social media corporations attempted to dehumanize us and commodify our need for connection and intimacy. but of course the crusty, unfunny, obnoxiously out-of-touch dudes making political cartoons would rather draw a teenager dressed like it’s still 2001 giving a heil hitler salute to pikachu and call it a day than actually make an effort to understand why so many kids are a) so fucking miserable and b) so thoroughly wired into a combative digital hellscape that offers a not-particularly-healthy distraction from their combative realworld hellscape. 
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It’s not destroying… It’s making something new
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I live for this shit ♠  Speirs + the mussed up hair (◕‿◕✿)
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prokopetz:

That post about the ephemerality of video games as an artistic medium bugs the hell out of me because it correctly identifies the problem, but entirely misunderstands the reason the problem exists.

Like, yeah, Super Nintendo decks are getting increasingly hard to find these days, but there’s absolutely no danger of Super Nintendo games becoming unplayable, because of a little thing called emulation. You can download a small program right now that will run on any modern operating system and perfectly simulate a Super Nintendo right down to the last transistor. Load up your cart image and away you go!

In principle, this can be done for any hardware or software platform, and considerable efforts have been made to do just that. The primary barriers standing in the way of doing so are not technical, but legal. The reason there isn’t a widely available emulator that will simulate, say, Windows 95 running on a 233 Mhz Pentium II so you can boot up that dusty old copy of Septerra Core you found in the back of your closet isn’t because there’s no demand for it, nor because it’s technically impossible, but because Intel and Microsoft will sue anyone who tries to distribute such an emulator into a smoking crater.

And make no mistake, this isn’t because they’re reflexively litigious assholes, though they’re certainly that. It’s part of a calculated strategy on the part of major hardware manufacturers and media publishers to enforce artificial obsolescence of legacy software - particularly entertainment software, though by no means limited to such - so that you have to keep buying the same media over and over again in order to have a version that’s compatible with available platforms. The ability to force you to buy a fresh copy of your favourite game every five years or so if you want to continue playing it is free money for them - of course they’ll do everything in their power to grab it.

Like, absolutely, lament the fact that you can’t play the favourite video games of your childhood anymore, but recognise that this isn’t some bullshit object lesson about the impermanence of human achievement. It’s part of a deliberate and ongoing destruction of our cultural history by entrenched media monopolies in order to force you to buy more shit.
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wishing i was on a balcony in italy, wearing a long floral dress, eating fresh fruit, and staring at the sunset and landscape below me
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I think we drink virgin blood because it sounds cool

What We Do in the Shadows (2014, directors Jemaine Clement & Taika Waititi)
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