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  • Sooo... I dunno how true this is, but I've just heard on Instagram that Tumblr is now down to a skeleton crew that's only doing maintenance on the site. This is not good news no matter how you think about it. When you combine this scuttlebutt with the fact that the Escapist and Omegle have now closed down this week, it's really starting to feel like the internet culture that existed in the late 2000s and early 2010s is now disappearing. A lot of the touchstones we might have grown up with tended to be either group efforts or solely created by bright-eyed tech whizzes who wanted to change the world. But now that idealism has given way to the influencer era and a way more individualistic mindset regarding content creation, especially with platforms like Patreon and... *cough* OnlyFans bypassing the need to be hired by an employer.

    But to be honest, many of these platforms either getting bought out by conglomerates that proceed to run them into the ground, or their Wild West nature hitting head first into the brick wall that is modern censorship and safeguarding hasn't helped matters either. Another piece of scuttlebutt is that Omegle was being investigated in the US because of some of the... unsavory people and content that was being hosted there. So the owner closed the site before the feds could bring charges against Omegle.

    Also, it's crazy to think DeviantART and FanFiction.Net have outlasted Omegle and might outlive Tumblr now. They're shaping up to be internet cockroaches in the sense that if the modern web exploded right now, those sites might be one of the last men standing lmao.
    Blue Of Mind
    Blue Of Mind
    @morrysillusion I was surprised about the news on Tumblr because the last thing I heard was that it had gained a fresh boost in popularity from people trying to avoid over-commercialised social media. So I thought the relatively anonymous sign-up and interface would have given Tumblr an advantage these days. (Though presumably, the ads will always stay bizarre! I know Tumblr needs money, but Tumblr's userbase has never been advertiser friendly.)
    MillyAqualine
    MillyAqualine
    Even though I never owned a websitge there I do admit I was shocked when skyrock was down over here and closed down (some were archived by INA, the national center for archival purposes regarding culture, and especially multimedia ones) but yeah, Internet has been so fast in growing and now things move too fast too

    Somehow I live back what I lived when I saw the forums thread fading (and so RPG ones) or how sad and slightly devastated I was when I learnt one year later that Lacartoonerie (called Toonway on the English board, basically a cartoon-making website where I spoent a good chunk of my virtual life) closed down

    Now the way you formulated it, I kinda feel like having occasional quirk to imagine a kind of Internet-based equivalent of INA, museums and such (though yo'ud tell me, the Wayback Machine already fills the role but only if people add pages to the content database)
    Blue Of Mind
    Blue Of Mind
    @MillyAqualine As far as I'm aware, the Wayback Machine struggles to archive social media posts, especially if the site has a robots.txt script in its code since that blocks their crawlers. (I know FanFiction.Net has this script, so once a story disappears, it's gone unless someone is kind enough to reupload it.)
    I decided to wait until I got much further with my leg sleeve before posting a new update picture on here:
    You can tell which parts were done just yesterday and which have long healed up already. ^^; Some more branches need to be added next time, and after that, I'm gonna have a final set of branches finishing off the tree right at the top of my leg, with maybe a cobweb and a Red Admiral butterfly for decoration. I might wait until the sleeve is completely finished before posting another update, so it might not be until January or February next year.
    So I managed to finish Mario Wonder's story over the weekend, and now I'm honestly thinking of going for a 100% clear on it. Not only because there's actually a bunch of secret and special levels left to unlock (it feels like there's a hundred secret exits when I think there's only like, under ten lol), and I'm still missing some badges, but because it's obvious Mario Wonder was a carefully crafted game with genuine love behind it. And thanks to the lack of a timer in this game, it's relatively carefree to explore the levels, actively encouraging you to go out and find secrets. I hate to join in with the mainstream Pokemon bashing, buuut... If Game Freak could pull off something with just as much heart as Nintendo's main studios can with Mario Wonder, the current Pokemon fandom would definitely be a lot less angry all the time.

    World 6 sucks when it comes to difficulty tho. Just warning everyone lol.
    MagicalMiku
    MagicalMiku
    :qingxian_ani_lili::lapis_ani_lili:I haven't finished it yet, but I'm really loving it, it is like the sequel of both SMB2, SMB3 and World all combined in a beautiful series of stages, all so different and full of surprises. And I've read some interviews about the development, is very interesting: it all started as a side project and the team was very small, and they immediately started planning many ideas for what could come next after Mario Maker 2. The ideas kept growing, as well as the team, which got many talented developers from both EAD Kyoto and Tokyo (the main teams of Nintendo), and the result is really wonderful🎀🌷
    When you're watching permanent hair straightening videos out of pure boredom, but you're pretty sure one of the royalty free songs you've heard so far has Avanna singing... 🤔
    AmazingStrange39
    AmazingStrange39
    ooh. you've got my attention
    Blue Of Mind
    Blue Of Mind
    @AmazingStrange39 I did try to look for the song afterwards, but the uploader only linked to the channel the track was from, not a video with just the song, and it was taken from one of those royalty-free song channels that have well over a thousand uploads or something. Even if I tried to type in Vocaloid or Avanna within the channel's search engine, it might not have turned up anyway, considering professional musicians tend to not reference or credit Vocaloid. orz
    AmazingStrange39
    AmazingStrange39
    could you link the video the song was in? i'm curious about this
    It's been a while, but the bottom part of my leg sleeve is pretty much done! (I might add a bee or two somewhere, but that's something to discuss with my artist at the next consultation). Next time, the top and bottom halves of the sleeve should be connected.

    Not the best quality image, but I hate trying to take pictures of my legs lol.
    I know there are tons of ethical issues surrounding AI voices (by which I mean people creating AIs out of fictional characters and celebrities, not our AI synths), buuut... I've recently developed an addiction to the current AI singing wave, and it's both cracking me up and scaring me how good AI programs are getting. To me, this is almost like an evolution of all those UTAUs made from fictional characters that were still around until just recently. At the same time, I can see why some voice actors and singers are complaining.
    morrysillusion
    morrysillusion
    i get you on that- i remember when this was first coming up and i was doing it for fun, and honestly i think it is fine to have fun with it privately tbh. i think the biggest issue publically about this new stuff is how the Utaus were easily identifiable as not real. prior to that, people would do that cut up/mash ups of voice clips for youtube poops and it wasnt much different. they were clearly clips being cut up to sound like things (and additionally wasnt as "accessible" due to the work of cutting things up too. i always had people asking for my sonic and shadow voices and told them to do it themselves, but there are very few covers from other people due to the work!). they were still in a grey area at times but i think compared to AI now theres a much bigger difference of course... all in all i still mess around with diff-svc with the character voices i trained. no prob w that!
    I'm now officially a member of the glasses mafia! The lenses are insane - everything looks a lot brighter and clearer through them, and it makes a massive difference to my long-distance vision in particular. (They're meant to help while I'm looking at screens too, but they don't seem to do much other than make text a bit larger and brighter.)

    The only problem I'm having right now is that the bridge of my nose hurts like crazy after around a couple of hours of wear - any tips for that, or is that just a general glasses wearer problem that I'm stuck with?
    MagicalMiku
    MagicalMiku
    the glasses mafia! hehe
    my vision is not so bad (in fact I discovered I needed glasses only after failing the driving eyes exam, which needs perfect vision), so I don't wear glasses always, but yes, the amount of details is insane, is like watching a blu-ray instead of a dvd!
    for the screens, probably your lenses have the blue-light filter, so I recommend to adjust a little the monitor color temperature to your liking, because the lenses will change the colors a little.
    another screen tip: always use font size/screen dpi which feels comfortable to your eyes, and remember to look at a far object every like 20 minutes ^^
    and for the nose bridge, yes.. it hurts at first :ring_lili: for the first weeks, I recommend to put a small band-aid or some skin cream on your nose bridge and also behind your ears :seeu_ani_lili:
    AddictiveCUL (Add)
    AddictiveCUL (Add)
    Welcome! All members out there, let's fix our glasses position like the badasses fellas we're in respect to the new guy!

    *Fixes the glasses position*
    Guess who has to wear prescription glasses for driving and looking at screens after an eye exam flagged up long-distance vision issues? 🙃
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    Blue Of Mind
    Blue Of Mind
    I should clarify that I was supposed to wear glasses to correct a lazy eye when I was a toddler, but obviously, good luck telling a three-year old to keep on and look after glasses lol. (I can also distinctively recall the glasses itching my ears like crazy, which was probably the main reason I didn't wear them. Hopefully, I shouldn't have the same problems as an adult.)
    mobius017
    mobius017
    Yeah, sometimes the earpieces can cause some irritation. It might not work if the frames are all plastic, but for ones made of metal, the optometrist office (or you, if you're careful) can bend the frames a little to keep them from rubbing your ears irritatingly. There's probably a little bit of getting used to them, too, but it won't take your body too long to accept that there's something new there.
    MillyAqualine
    MillyAqualine
    I guezss it's a matetr of habit and for how long you have them... Honestly, I wear some since I was 3 because of hyperopia (and even though I remmeber looking at coloured lenses and not wearing glasses sometimes, finally I'd probably never start to use lenses because of how tricky they are and because wearing my glasses on the whole day instead of carrying an étui and worrying over it is easier for me)

    I'd say the only thing that bothers me with glasses (along with getting them dirty and sometimers not even noticing it) would be that on photographs I have to remove them because not all the pairs I've had got the reflecting free treatment and because glasses + bangs make me sometiems look like I'm wearing tinted glasses and people can't really see my eyes
    Sooooo... For the very first time in my life, I may have caught chicken pox. Yes, I was lucky enough to never catch it as a kid. But it seems that my luck ran out around last Saturday, because I noticed some weird spots on my chest, but I didn't think anything of it at the time. Unfortunately, the spots just kept spreading on my stomach, back and top of my legs, to the point that yesterday I finally had to tell Mum something was wrong - her inner armchair doctor diagnosed me with chicken pox.

    What's weird is that even though I've been stuck at the spot stage for around seven or eight days now, only one on my back seems to be turning into a traditional pox blister, and the stupid things keep trying to spread everywhere - I've discovered one on my neck after a shower around a hour ago. If this crap spreads to my face, I'm gonna cry. :cry:Another weird thing is that the spots haven't been as itchy as you might expect from chicken pox - the worst itchiness has been tingling sensations on my back and shoulders. So I dunno if it's some kind of mild chicken pox or possibly something else, like a different viral infection.

    Mum's ordered some calamine lotion, despite the spots not being super annoying. Meanwhile, I just feel like a disgusting troll and I wish these spots would piss off.
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    Blue Of Mind
    Blue Of Mind
    Fortunately, my parents and my boyfriend had already contracted chicken pox when they were kids, so I haven't passed on anything to them. Saying that, I'm now concerned I've accidentally passed it on to other people because I was most likely infectious before I knew I even had pox. If anyone in the Black Country area has contracted pox recently, I'm so sorry but you might have caught it from me!

    Interestingly enough, I did have a fever a couple weeks ago, which normally proceeds pox, but it was during one of our heatwaves so I didn't think anything was super unusual, minus waking up in the middle of the night. But what confuses me is that pox normally shows symptoms much faster than what I'm experiencing. Dunno if it's because I've caught it as an adult tho, and it clears up much faster in kids
    lIlI
    lIlI
    Get well soon! :flower_lili:
    MagicalMiku
    MagicalMiku
    take care and get well soon! :miku_sakura_lili:
    i remember i got the varicella on first year of elementary school, I liked the fact that I could stay home for like 2 weeks hehe :lapis_ani_lili:what i didn't like was the itchy feeling when I had some spots on my face, but after a little I got used to it and just relaxed sleeping a lot and watching cartoons on tv. calamine lotion is perfect! also, drink lot lot of water (and green tea without sugar if you like it) and try to eat lot of salad and fruits, they can really help:gumi_lili:

    Obviously, it's a CeVIO song rather than Vocaloid, but that old school, 2008 vibe is in full swing. I miss these types of comedy songs!

    This is probably the most mysterious trance song on the internet. All that's really known about the record is that it came from the Netherlands. The phrase 'Bitter and Twisted' is etched on it too, so I was wondering if that might have been the name of either the title or the artist. Either way, nobody has ever come forward to explain its origin.

    It sounds kinda similar to Brainbug (RIP)'s songs (check out 'Nightmare' and 'Rain'), so some people have wondered if it was secretly by him, but like I said, the record came from the Netherlands and Brainbug was from Italy. Unless it was some kind of bootleg release by a Dutch label that took on foreign artists. The lack of details on the vinyl is what drives people mad about this one lol.
    MillyAqualine
    MillyAqualine
    According to Shazam, it's called Tocando elcielo and made by Carlos Olmo... Considering you've said it was in the Netherlands and the lyrics are in English (even if with disco and eurobeat/italo-disco we've seen music knows no boundaries) take it with a pinch of salt

    Edit: Tried it again on another section now it indicates Meter by me from Gunnar Haslam... This one might be closer
    Blue Of Mind
    Blue Of Mind
    @MillyAqualine Shazam could be picking up on samples or similar melodies rather than a specific track ID. Any similarities to other tracks could lead to a future identification, however.
    I started a new tattoo project on my right leg last month, but it wasn't until today that it reached a stage that I thought it was presentable enough to show off on here:
    I've also had to start using numbing cream because when I originally got the linework for this done, the pain was ABSOLUTE HELL. If you have a low pain tolerance, numbing creams are a godsend, despite what the old school tattoo curmudgeons say about them. Finished tattoo art is amazing, but the process of getting them really isn't! ^^;
    My hair is now short again! I added some blonde highlights too, in order to take out this red dye I've been growing out since last summer (though with how short I've gone again, most of the red had already disappeared by the time we reached the highlight stage). Surprisingly, even Mum thought it turned out great. I'm so happy right now, I really feel like I'm who I want to be again! 🤩
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