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Beelzemon Blast Mode Commission for a play mat + some imps

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Back before chapter 2 came out I was going over my computer with my dad in hopes of removing bloatware from my computer.

How it worked was we went through Add or Remove programs and any program my dad didn’t recognize, he would ask me about. If I didn’t know what it was either, we got rid of it.

We get to Survey Program in my list of programs and my dad did not ask me about it, just went straight for the kill. I had to stop him. “Dad wait no stop, that’s Deltarune!”

the release of deltarune chapter 1 was so fucking funny. toby fox said download this weird scary program for free! don’t worry if your computer’s security tries to block it and DON’T talk about what’s in it

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>First, we’ve discovered that about a quarter of all the internet connection in or out of the house were ad related. In a few hours, that’s about 10,000 out of 40,000 processed.

>We also discovered that every link on Twitter was blocked. This was solved by whitelisting the https://t.co domain.

>Once out browsing the Web, everything is loading pretty much instantly. It turns out most of that Page Loading malarkey we’ve been accustomed to is related to sites running auctions to sell Ad space to show you before the page loads. All gone now.

>We then found that the Samsung TV (which I really like) is very fond of yapping all about itself to Samsung HQ. All stopped now. No sign of any breakages in its function, so I’m happy enough with that.

>The primary source of distress came from the habitual Lemmings player in the house, who found they could no longer watch ads to build up their in-app gold. A workaround is being considered for this.

>The next ambition is to advance the Ad blocking so that it seamlessly removed YouTube Ads. This is the subject of ongoing research, and tinkering continues. All in all, a very successful experiment.

>Certainly this exceeds my equivalent childhood project of disassembling and assembling our rotary dial telephone. A project whose only utility was finding out how to make the phone ring when nobody was calling.

>Update: All4 on the telly appears not to have any ads any more. Goodbye Arnold Clarke!

>Lemmings problem now solved.

>Can confirm, after small tests, that RTÉ Player ads are now gone and the player on the phone is now just delivering swift, ad free streams at first click.

>Some queries along the lines of “Are you not stealing the internet?” Firstly, this is my network, so I may set it up as I please (or, you know, my son can do it and I can give him a stupid thumbs up in response). But there is a wider question, based on the ads=internet model.

>I’m afraid I passed the You Wouldn’t Download A Car point back when I first installed ad-blocking plug-ins on a browser. But consider my chatty TV. Individual consumer choice is not the method of addressing pervasive commercial surveillance.

>Should I feel morally obliged not to mute the TV when the ads come on? No, this is a standing tension- a clash of interests. But I think my interest in my family not being under intrusive or covert surveillance at home is superior to the ad company’s wish to profile them.

>Aside: 24 hours of Pi Hole stats suggests that Samsung TVs are very chatty. 14,170 chats a day.

>YouTube blocking seems difficult, as the ads usually come from the same domain as the videos. Haven’t tried it, but all of the content can also be delivered from a no-cookies version of the YouTube domain, which doesn’t have the ads. I have asked my son to poke at that idea.

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UN owen was her? and bad apple! being super popular touhou themes is so funny cause

1. UN owen is the boss theme for an extra stage boss who only appears in 2 games (one being a spinoff) and has very little cameos

2. bad apple! is the stage 4 theme for a pc-98 game (zun has stopped making pc98 games and they have no connection to the windows games canon)

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"hawaiian shirt covered in blood" is a look

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Followers Get The Banana

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contrary to popular belief it is actually extremely easy to curate your twitter feed. just put it on chronological view and mute all these phrases. this stops intrusive suggested posts and follow suggestions. then just don't follow people who share stuff you don't want to see. it's that easy.

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oh sick a new titanosaur got described

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That's the alternate art Shoutmon DX!!!!

Everyone say thank you random South Carolina target

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Do NOT do this with people who are playing league of legends.

Me and my mutuals

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Look me straight in the eyes and tell me your current music taste isn’t what your father played in the car when you were a kid.

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[image ID: simple lined comic of two people. one is holding a phone with earbuds in. the other is taller and asking them, "hey man i noticed you've been listening to the front bottoms a lot and i want to make sure you're okay. like mentally." end ID]

welcome to my twisted mind

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resigning from my position following allegations of having “gone white girl crazy” during office hours

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compilation

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Not to label him but he looks like an oblivion character.

This is how I feel on tumblr at my current age

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Okay but like don’t count the BLM movement as a 2020 disaster. The US prison system, cops, and white supremacy are the disasters. If one of the things you count in your ‘Why 2020 sucked’ posts is the riots, you’re victim blaming.