#i am a tech nerd

[marshberri]

i'm an idgafucker. 99% of the time i do not give a fuck, but once every few months i need to rage and call people idiots for 20 minutes straight. after that, my state of mind is pure again and i can continue.

[lyss-sketchbox]

Iudex wrio from the swap au doodles

[techtronicarts]

I have a question for my fellow Tech Girlies....

....do y'all find it cute when Tech adjusts his goggles?

I know I'm probably not the only one, but for some reason, I think it's the cutest shit in the Galaxy when he does that!

[s0fter-sin]

one of my favourite aspects of supernatural that you very rarely see in paranormal shows is that sam and dean are already versed in the world they live in. there’s no sudden discovery of ghosts and demons and now they have to learn about them along with the audience; they are born into it and already know all about it. it allows the audience to follow their personal story instead of also trying to figure out this new world and its rules

the first season is full of knowledge we never see them learn; “w*ndigoes are in the minnesota woods or- or northern michigan. i’ve never even heard of one this far west.” […] “great. well then this [his gun] is useless.” (1x02), “you don’t break a curse. you get the hell out of its way.” (1x08), d: “it’s a god. a pagan god, anyway.” […] “the annual cycle of its killings? and the fact that the victims are always a man and a woman. like some kind of fertility right.” […] s: “the last meal. given to sacrificial victims. d: “yeah, i’m thinking a ritual sacrifice to appease some pagan god.” (1x11)

almost every episode in the first season is a monster they’ve faced before that they then explain to the audience in a way that should feel patronising; like it’s the same speech given over and over again but instead, the audience almost feels included in the knowledge. it’s stated with such an innate confidence and comfort in said knowledge that it feels like we already knew it too; “spirits and demons don't have to unlock doors. if they want inside, they just go through the walls.” […] “the claws, the speed that it moves; could be a skinwalker, maybe a black dog.” (1x02), “it's biblical numerology. you know noah's ark, it rained for forty days. the number means death.” (1x04), “no no no, not the reaper, a reaper. there's reaper lore in pretty much every culture on earth, it goes by 100 different names.” […] “you said it yourself that the clock stopped, right? reapers stop time. and you can only see 'em when they're coming at you which is why i could see it and you couldn't.” (1x12)

they already know and, at least in the first season, already have what they need to kill whatever they’re hunting; already know to salt and burn bones for spirits, fire for a w*ndigo, exorcisms for demons, a silver bullet to the heart for shapeshifters. there’s only three times in the entire first season that they run into something new to them; 1x14 when sam gets his first vision that leads him to another psychic, 1x16 when dean calls caleb for help on the sigil he put together and he tells him about daevas, and 1x20 when they find out vampires are real- and they only don’t know that bc john thought they were hunted to extinction and not worth mentioning

(there’s also technically two half instances if you count one of them knowing something the other doesn’t - sam figuring out the tulpa in 1x17 and dean already knowing about the shtriga in 1x18 - but those still rely on sam and dean having prior knowledge)

even when they’re uncertain about facing something, it’s not bc they don’t know what it is; it’s precisely bc they know what it is and acknowledge that it’ll be a difficult hunt (“i don't know, man. this isn't our normal gig. i mean, demons, they don't want anything, just death and destruction for its own sake. this is big. and i wish dad was here.” 1x04)

so much of the tension in paranormal shows typically comes from the main character(s) not knowing what is happening to them/the people around them and having to find out how to resolve it. supernatural is unique in that it operates more like a police procedural. the tension comes from solving the clues and identifying patterns to figure out who (what) the killer is and intercepting before they can take another victim

it’s such a different tone to go for when compared to other shows that came both before, during, and after its run. it sets sam and dean on even footing with each other since they both have the same knowledge going in, and it puts them in a place of authority usually reserved for an outside character

the shows i compare spn to most is charmed, buffy and teen wolf; every main character in those shows are brought into the paranormal world knowing nothing, putting them on the same level as the audience, and they have their mc interact with others already knowledgeable about that world in order to overcome their problem/monster of the week. the audience organically learns about this new world as the characters learn about it. it’s a sound writing strategy that prevents “as we already know”-style exposition but something that complicates it is if your world building isn’t unique or intriguing enough, this slow introduction can become boring

we’ve seen shows like these before; sitting through the same tropes of characters learning to use their powers, struggling with no longer feeling normal/relating to the regular world around them, and not knowing how much they can trust the people already involved in this new world gets repetitive. all three shows eventually reach the same level of comfort with their new world that spn starts with but if the characters aren’t enough to draw you in, you can end up dropping it before they reach that point (and often, before the overarching plot can really kick in and evolve the show beyond the villain of the week format)

it’s the superhero origin movie in tv format; dragged out and overplayed. dropping the audience into an established world of course comes with its own problems but you also have the benefit of pre-existing established character dynamics that let the audience slot in like they’ve always been there instead of just getting to know all the characters while the characters also get to know each other

sam and dean already knowing about the supernatural lets the audience immediately get to the core of the story; the conflict between sam and dean, the search for their father, and the mystery of what killed their mother

[kaiserouo]

Well someone has to give it its driver updates, Gabriel

[packitandgo]

[ridonculousverniss]

Do you guys ever have that...show that you watched when you were younger, and you suddenly remember watching it, but you're too embarrassed to see if anyone else watched it?

[lynne-monstr]

I learned this business lesson 15 years ago early in my career but I still have to remind myself all the time that when i get an email asking me to do something, always always always send a quick response saying I'm working on it. it keeps people from being mad at me when they don't get a response that day because I'm still busy working on their thing.

[thenonbinarydetective]

There's something that always bothers me about people saying "Barbara going back to being disabled" doesn't matter if it's positive, negative, or neutral. It's the "going back" part because it's just not true. She wouldn't be going back, she would just be without assistive medical technology.

In the closest real-life example, not everyone who uses similar technology is considered "cured" as the removal of the device would mean they are no longer enabled. In only a few cases have I ever seen "cured" but that's potentially dependent on injury/cause of disability where it was possible the device just made recovery easier and there are many different causes to SCIs/paralysis/similar conditions. Others have no chance of recovery but have a chance of being enabled. But still not fully becoming an able-bodied person. Even some of the ones who recovered their ability to walk were still limited in what they were capable of (and therefore still disabled)

So honestly now, it's just coming to me how bad representation the chip is of similar realistic treatment and disabled people who use that treatment. Before anyone is like "But Barbara's isn't real" I know that, but now I'm literally seeing people say the same shit about REAL PEOPLE who have had nearly THE SAME TREATMENT because they're letting poor representation in a comic book determine how they view this course of medical treatment.

TLDR: No Barbara Gordon wouldn't "go back" to being disabled without the chip. Writers and fans aren't good at writing disability and it shows

[laughhardrunfastbekindsblog]

Okay, y'all, since the show is actually kinda vague about this I'd like to know your opinion:

Since there is no evidence in the show to the contrary, I've assumed since the beginning that Tech does need his goggles for some level of visual correction. He doesn't have to be blind as a bat to benefit from glasses, after all - maybe he's just a little more nearsighted than other clones.

Also, I've seen this argument floated before and I agree with it: when Tarkin asks for more details about Clone Force 99, Nala Se describes them as "medically defective clones" - a vision impairment would qualify as a medical deficiency. (I've also seen the counterargument that this was a reference to the Bad Batch simply not being genetically identical to the other clones, but personally I see a distinct difference in meaning between "genetically altered" and "medically defective.") That being said, I have absolutely no doubt that Tech's intellect - his "enhanced trait desirable in a soldier" - was more than enough to save him from being decommissioned over something relatively trivial and easily corrected like poorer eyesight.

[prettyinpunk]

let's play connections!

~FOB EDITION~

HOW TO PLAY:

find 4 words that share a FOB related connection, there are 4 total categories with increasing difficulty

example:

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here's the board! good luck!!

!!ANSWERS BELOW THE CUT!!

rb with how u did but try not to spoil anything!!!!

"blue" fob songs being songs with "blue" in the lyrics just to clarify

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

also like why r ppl confused about the technological jump in lok it’s literally the same as happened irl. avatar takes place in the rough equivalent to the mid 1800s, it’s not medieval or anything. lok takes place roughly equivalent to the early 1900s. that is, in fact, what happened irl in the seventy odd years between, say 1850 and 1920. like it’s literally just historically accurate.

[eternalnostos]

i don't understand what's going on w my accounts, several of them are being hacked. two days ago it was 2 of my twitter accs, then i found likes and follows to spam accounts on my instagram, now it's spotify. like what exactly is going on omg

[chaosringvows]

I realize more and more that I kinda dig the name "Mal" as in "malware". Yes, I'm serious.

[nyxypoo]

sitting here looking like takiishi where is my endo

[chalkythetalkie]

Re: analog photography, it's pretty funny seeing the cycle of nostalgia/celebration of flaws playing out in real time. Couple of years ago i informed my dad that nowadays the effects of a "failed" film photograph (his mortal enemy!!) are celebrated in numerous Instagram filters, and he was shocked that people would want the "failed" look when phone cameras today can deliver such sharp and high-fidelity images. Likewise, at the fair last week i saw some teens nerding over the "Cyber-shot" look of some digital cameras that were on sale... i owned one of those in high school... can't say i'm particularly drawn to their aesthetic but that's just the nostalgia wheels turning again ig