#made new friends lost old friends

[hxhhasmysoul]

wouldn't it be nice if the author of the fics finished them. the author is me.

[scranbatteries]

my front bottoms cds came, infinity on high is 17 today*, good kid announced a new single, bad day for anyone who has to deal with me

*when i wrote this people in other time zones were saying it was the day but it came out on the 6th which is actually not the 5th Oops

[tnbc-thoughtsandheadcanons]

Still kind of amazed that this blog has been around for...7 years? Like, the time REALLY flows by...

[arolesbianism]

Thinks oh so hard abt the spiraling upwards clan founders, especially the birchclan founders. Silly lil kitties who's pasts are drenched in blood with the primary regret of not drawing it sooner

[lindenmori]

someone: id love to see merrill and velanna in da4 again...

me: 💖💓🥺😍💚🤩

someone: ...on solas' side

me: 😐😔🥱😴

[caruliaa]

can tsonts come out again sorry but that was like. my nov 5th execpt fully positive insane emotions of it i was on insane cloud nine i was experiencing insane levels of joy the fandom exploded carulia practically went canon everyone was saying think about the implications of carmen imagining julia watching her dance or knowing where her apartment is or julia saying i do hope these articfacts mysteriously appear at my doorstep ;) and the implications where gay and glorious and also kept thinking abt tgwdlm promise me youll think about the implications but more importnatly CARMEN GAVE JULIA RED ROSES AND SHE BLUSHED IM STILL NOT OVER THAT AND I NEVER WILL BE !!

[princeofyorkshire]

last few months :)

[cerealmonster15]

ougugugughghhh i get,,, so embarrassed when i try to be Earnest lol especially w/in the context of like fanart/fic like i LOVE when other people do it i LOVE reading earnest and vulnerable deep fics and seeing intense fanart etc etc etc. but then i do it i feel like i am Going To Be Killed LJFDKSLF SDJFLS

[eldritchsquared]

i am now: a year on T

[gloombog]

i log into my old ig every once in awhile but i follow so many people i was either in the hospital with or in treatment with on there and i haven't talked to any of them in like 7+ years bc i pretty much abandoned that account due to a large portion of the people following it being like. people from high school or family members and i needed somewhere i could post without those people seeing said posts and ended up enjoying that so much that i just stopped using the old account altogether. and i don't regret that at all except for the fact that i ended up inadvertently leaving some additional people behind in the process (like the aforementioned hospital/treatment friends) and seeing their posts just makes me sad bc i miss them but i feel like it's been waaaayyyyyy too long at this point to reach out to any of them which probably mostly isn't true but i just don't even know how to approach it so i just sort of sadly look at their pages for a brief moment to make sure they're still alive and then i log out again.

[thatlesbiancrow]

HOORAY! MY EARRING COLLECTION!!

i finally organized them! most of them at least...

the ones in the pink box were gifts to me, all the others were made by my own hand!! and other than a hidden pair of black worms on strings, all of he ones in pockets are ones not made by me that i need to get rid of haha.

which is your favorite? i tend to reach for the same ones so maybe this will spark more variety in what i wear!!

[lume-nosity]

the urge to join those writing group blog things i keep seeing on my feed is immeasurable but i’m so shy

[ialwaysknewyouwerepunk]

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[apathyfairy]

my whole life ive been thinking im an old soul bc everyone would tell me i was bc i was “serious” and quiet and shy as a kid and riddled with social anxiety so i was like ok. i must be then. and now im realizing im not lmao like honestly as stupid as it sounds i think that was putting pressure on me to know how to live my life and what to do all the time but now im like oh im new no wonder im afraid of absolutely everything and i cant function and everything disappoints me it’s bc i dont know whats going on. im new in town. and im incorporating that into my belief system now

[journen]

Guys, i’m so hurt by the recent RoP episode

Spoilers and rant in the tags lollll

[a-soft-fluffy-nerd]

TL;DR: Steam just made library sharing so much fucking easier and so much fucking better. Instead of login-trading, it's just a simple goddamn invite.

Read this. Really. It's a good read. Because it shows that, full-stop, Valve isn't just doubling down on their stance to make sure that people can and should be able to share their copies of digital goods as easily as they can physical ones, but they're making it better and easier than ever.

But you know how Steam allowed you to, with either friends or family, link accounts with another person to be able to establish an ability to share game libraries with one another? The general gist of Steam Family Sharing was that, with a limit of five people plus you (six in total) on a limit of ten computers total could share account access to willingly mix your libraries. You could play theirs. They could play yours.

This was a huge boon. It was meant to emulate sharing a physical copy of a game. A way to allow children to play games their parents or siblings had bought without having to fork over double the cash to buy it a second game. But it had some major limitations and drawbacks, and was archaic to use.

If a person did not share the same computer, you had to manually log into that computer to give it and the accounts on it access. This wouldn't be a problem if both accounts were used on the same computer, but many households (and astronomically more family and friend groups) had multiple computers, all used by different people.

If that computer, at any point, was hard reset to any point before the sharing occurred, you lost access. And had to do the whole process again. This was also an issue with computer transfers. The whole kit and kaboodle needed to be redone on upgrades. On top of that, the old computer is now just dead weight that you may not realize you have to manually revoke access to.

Putting your account information on another person's computer opens up security issues. They could, intentionally or accidentally, land themselves on your account if the login information was stored. Which could easily lead to purchases or bans you did not want to happen.

If anyone was, at any point, playing any game on their own library, you had no access to their games. Even if it was a totally different game, you had to wait your turn as if waiting for their computer to be freed up to sit at. (Admittedly this is kind of like the "mom said it's my turn on the xbox" meme, but hey, kinda archaic.)

You could not choose whose library you accessed a game from. Not at all. It always prioritized the first library it gained access from, DLC access and multiplayer be damned. If another friend you were accepting games from had more DLC? Too bad.

And yet here we are. Steam Families Beta fixes EVERYTHING about the above issues. By just going through Settings > Interface > client Beta Participation and clicking onto Steam Families Beta? You get:

No more login sharing. No more computer links. You can now choose which person's library you borrowed from. And you can play any other game from someone's library, even while they're in-game. It just needs to be a different game than what they're playing.

Pick five people. Invite them to your family. And now everyone has access to everyone's library. My goddamn library went from 150-ish to almost a goddamn thousand in ten minutes of setup.

Account sharing and password sharing are dirty words that "lose" billions of dollars. Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Max. They aren't game storefronts, but they still allow you to access massive libraries and scream like you murdered their firstborns for daring to share your password with your mother after you moved out.

Microsoft tried pushing to demonize and undercut used games sales and borrowed copies of physical games. Remember the first attempt to reveal the Xbox One? People forget, but these vultures tried to make an always online console that checked to see if you were the account that owned the game, even if you had a physical disc, and prevent access to the disc's contents if you weren't the original downloader.

Valve walked the fuck up. Valve tapped the mic. And Valve dropped the fucking thing right onto the ground with one feature's revamp.

About the only issues I can see with this are twofold:

If someone sharing your library gets banned from a game's servers... so do you. No one else in the family does, but the both of you do. This is... rather unpleasant, because banhammers can be dropped quite frequently by mistake. I'd urge Valve to rethink this one, but I see the logic: don't cheat and effectively bite the hand feeding you. Still making me side-eye that, though.

If you leave a family you've joined? You have to wait a YEAR to join a new one. It's to prevent people form jumping ship to another group and screwing over who's in the former one in the process, but a YEAR? OUCH.

Problems aside, though... it's probably the biggest fucking power move I have ever seen a media distributor make in the current economic climate. It's the kind of thing that would let so many new games be available in a way that's easier than ever. Just a few clicks to send or accept an invite, and bam. Permanent access to dozens or even hundreds of new games with so much more freedom than earlier drafts of the system.

It's the kind of thing that slaps you in the face with positivity after so many Ls from the games and media industries. And I'm all the fuck for a W like this.