#tech questions

[evilducks]

question: no one else other than me can see the recovery email that i added to my gmail account, right? the logical part of my brain is saying 'of course not, that would be stupid' but on the other hand google does stupid things sometimes. so.

[backdirection]

anyone know if a VPN will work so I can watch hockey when I am Europe for almost all of the 2nd round?

[limeadeislife]

Anyone else with an iPhone and a Windows computer: I've noticed that the auto enhance feature in the iPhone Photos app seems a lot better than the one in the Windows Photos app. But the former is only available on Apple devices, because that's how Apple rolls, and I generally prefer to do most of my photo editing on my laptop.

So, is there a good free photos app that's available on Windows and has a good auto enhance feature?

[stars-obsession-pit]

Following an accident, Danny wakes up in Gotham City in a DC universe. Lacking any forms of ID or possessions beyond the clothes on his back, he’s forced to commit some crimes to survive. Minor crimes, but still.

And then he gets caught.

During the court proceedings, they come to the mistaken conclusion that he’s a Meta suffering from some psychiatric issues such as Cotard’s Syndrome (a real rare condition where a person holds the delusional belief that they’re dead/don’t exist/etc).

Thus, between his “need for mental treatment” and the concerns about housing someone with his unique physical traits, he is sentenced to spend time in Arkham Asylum. He’s under pretty low security aside from the anti-Meta stuff and has more freedoms than some other inmates, but it’s still not a great experience. Even at the best of times, Arkham is hardly a nice place.

Some of his fellow residents are decently chill all things considered, but lots very much aren’t.

[wenalena]

Happy summer, dearest ✨

[galehowl]

few quick sketches of the fourth partner Digimon in Aurora - Floramon, and her adult form, Astermon - a subspecies of Sunflowmon!

Her full evolution line is Floramon -> Astermon -> Toropiamon ( subspecies of ) -> BloomLordmon; though she remains a Data attribute through all of the forms.

She's also one of the younger Digimon in the group, and is quite boisterous and an outdoorsy person. Unsurprisingly, she loves nature and has quite a lot to say about how humans treat it, but also willing to help fix the state of things.

[crustaceousfaggot]

I think it's so funny that people are behaving as though all the Disco Elysium spiritual successors are effectively equivalent.

Cause Dark Math's press releases are all along the lines of "We're making a super cool edgy detective RPG. It's gonna be just like Disco Elysium, except with less words and more bullets, because who likes reading, am I right? Anyways, it's gonna be sooo cool and way more fun than Disco Elysium 😎"

And Longdue has said "uhhh yeah we're not really ready to talk about specifics yet. There's probably gonna be some weird psychological dream stuff going on. Idk. It's gonna be fun trust us"

Meanwhile Summer Eternal has hardly done any interviews, and if you read their manifesto and blog entries they're all like "Capitalism and insatiable corporate greed have irrevocably damaged the infant medium of video games. Workers in our field are treated as commodities at best and entirely disposable at worst. We intend to do everything in our power to create an uncompromised, complete, and unapologetic work of art, or we will do down trying. This isn't about making the next Elysium, this is about making something entirely new and revolutionary."

[here-comes-the-moose]

Okay so we all know the Bad Batch is unhinged, right? And they have a bunch of crazy plans, right?

How probable is it that they had a classic “flirt as a diversion method” plan?

[boykingscourt]

boykingscourt can GIF???

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[teadrawstuff]

YES. I am on the bandwagon that Tech is CX-2

[racke7]

De-aged and injured Danny

Danny is found out by his parents. They don't take it well.

Clockwork is very upset about this, because he'd gambled on almost-certain odds of them being chill about it. So now he has to run damage-control before this very unlikely time-line goes even further off the deep end.

Unfortunately, Danny needs to be in the living world, not the Infinite Realms. Which means that Clockwork needs to put Danny somewhere safe. Somewhere where nobody will find him.

And double-unfortunately, the only place that remotely fits this bill is to contact Lady Gotham.

City-spirits aren't... super-reliable. They're Neverborns who very very rarely consider "humanoid shapes" worth figuring out. So they just kind of... exist. An ectoplasmic presence that's undeniable, but also extremely difficult to have a conversation with.

Thankfully, Lady Gotham is (for all of her... quirks) generally very hero-aligned. Which is why she's the best one to ask for sanctuary for Danny.

Danny who Clockwork de-aged as a way to "limit his injuries" of being vivisected.

Lady Gotham agrees, but she only has one "safe place" to put him. And her Knight is a little bit too paranoid for her to just dump an injured child in his lair, without causing more trouble than it's worth.

But it's hardly a difficult thing, to arrange a few things, and place Danny in a spot where his injuries will cause her Knight to hurry to his aid.

Such as... in a room filled with medical equipment, right next door to where Joker has just lost a fight with Batman.

Things escalate somewhat when Batman finds him and makes some assumptions about what Joker has been up to. Tempers run a bit high, someone loses a few extra teeth, someone else has to physically drag Bruce off Joker's body before he beats him to death, and the Joker considers the whole thing a grand old laugh (he has no idea what's going on, but it sure pissed off Batty, and that's always a treat).

Of course, the Batfam has to actually investigate the scene, evacuate Danny, give Danny medical aid, and then also ask Danny about what happened.

Danny wakes up and is very confused about a lot of things.

He's no longer being vivisected. Great. Love that part.

He's somewhere he doesn't recognize (the Batcave). Could be good, could be bad. At least the bed is pretty nice?

He's very small. This feels like a personal attack. He might not have gotten a good growth-spurt yet, but taking away what he had is cruel and unusual.

And there's a weirdo in an... armored bat-costume? Who isn't setting off his ghost-sense? What the hell kind of "normal" person wears something like that?

Still, Danny does answer the questions that Batman asks him, because... well, there's a green post-it-note in his pocket that says he shouldn't lie.

So Danny tells Batman about his parents cutting him up "for science". And Batman hears that the Joker somehow managed to hire two mad scientists who (upon the tiniest bit of suggestion from the Joker, who'd definitely seen the similarities between Danny and Jason and thought it would be a "funny prank") had leapt at the opportunity to vivisect their own son.

This is definitely worrying, because from the phrasing, they'd been "wanting to do it for a long time". And considering Danny's slow heartbeat and low body-temperature? They'd been wanting to do it because he was a meta.

So, somewhere out there (the Bats had found no trace of the two) were two deranged lunatics who wanted to cut open metas to "see how they worked".

Batman does the very reasonable thing and actually contacts the rest of the Justice League with their descriptions, just in case they'd managed to leave Gotham before the Bats had tracked them down.

[chaioticcoffee]

i was rewatching TBB with my bf and it made me realize just how much it breaks my heart how well Crosshair knows his squad, but they didn't seem to know/care abt him enough?? idk 😭

like yes of course they care- in their own way,,

bf also said he understood why they could never retrieve him, but changed his mind after Wrecker had lost control himself and once they went after Hunter with only 4 ppl in the squad (we both still get the squad to a certain extent)

ALSO² WHAT IS UP WITH THE SUBTLE HINTING AT THE CHIP STILL HAVING EFFECT. .. BUT WAS NEVER ADDRESSED? 😭 I LOVE THIS SHOW BUT RAAGAHAHWHHQHH explodes

[stars-obsession-pit]

They’re HOW strong?!

Or, the woes of bad powerscaling

In the countless years since Pariah Dark’s defeat, the rumors of his strength have grown far past the truth. Yes, he was quite strong, but not the ultimate godlike force some places came to view him as.

So when news came out that a young ghost named Phantom had taken down Pariah and earned the throne by right of conquest, his strength was thus hyped up by extension. Surely, they think, such a warrior must be truly unmatched to have beaten a god like Pariah Dark—especially considering Phantom’s youth.

…and then some people summon King Phantom, and he offhandedly mentions losing sparring matches with his family/friends.

So now people are terrified of just how powerful those people must be to easily match a godslayer like Phantom…

[mongoosefangs]

ok. first you tap that little icon to open your messages. okay good. now go to contacts, scroll down- no, just swipe up from the bottom like this. keep going down to the end of the list. yeah. okay. tap on zinzolin to start a new message. ok, you see that icon that looks like a picture, that opens up your photo gallery and- what do you mean you want to send him the funny purrloin meme from facebook. okay, no, go back, get out of the gallery. ok now go to the main menu and find your facebook app. why do you have so much malware? sigh. okay. there's facebook. yes, just tap on it. now find zinzolin and- you know what just hand me the phone