#misinformation machine

[isawthismeme]

[nabulsi]

You should not reblog aid that includes UNRWA some of its members have been confirmed to have taken part in the 7th October massacre and terror attack. The money does not go to civilians but to Hamas directly which only leads to further suffering for palestinians especially UNRWA child soldiers and queer people

Please don't put misinformation in my inbox. Thanks.

[reel-fear]

Genuinely so curious who Mike thinks is gonna be buying The Cage or the new DCTL GN bc with the way he tweets as far as he's concerned, it's not gonna be:

The queer people he has actively admitted he will never show any representation of in the games.

2. The POC he has actively fought against representing in his franchise. [Who he also mocked for thinking they would be represented in his franchise]

3. The Bendy fandom which has always been concerned with topics of diversity esp in the sense of queer people since its creation. Who he has responded to really poorly esp in regards to the GN.

4. The fans who critique him. [He blocked me for doing so lol]

5. His fans in general who he tweets about like this currently. [He's being vague about why people were mad at him or sent him 'nasty messages' because if you actually looked into why you'd see he was in the wrong. Either way, a very hateful way to speak abt ur own fanbase.]

Reminder while Mike is trash talking his fans he has always treated them rather poorly. The fans who won the fanart contest for Chapter 5 never got their posters actually in game due to it being rushed. Not only was chapter 5 a big slap to the face story wise, but it was literally so rushed he couldn't be bothered to add in the art his fans gave him for his game FOR FREE. [Meatly blames this on a crazy timeline, reminder him and Mike are the literal ceos of this company. The proposal of future updates here is also pretty cruel considering Mike nowadays happily admits he corrupted Chapter 5's source code and therefore literally can't update it At All currently. Because he is a moron]

At least they got to be in Boris and the dark survival, and by that I mean that was the Only game they got to be in so far, isn't that just treating your fans like you love them? Shoving their hard work into a spin off game almost nobody has played or addresses much. [Hell, who knows if with the Lone Wolf rebrand they'll even stay there. In which case they'll be in None of the games, only in the credits of BATIM]

6. The Bendy fans who just generally disagree with him on stuff. Like the new ink demon design where there is literally a public poll showing people generally prefer the old one.

7. The Bendy fans who can see he is actively lying to them. To their fucking faces.

He says this has always been the case, but screenshots and links to tweets regarding the books being canon prove it was not. Does he really think bendy fans are stupid or something? [Unless he's admitting here he lied to Kress when he told her the books were canon which sounds worse!]

8. Anyone who doesn't like the idea of giving money to a guy who laid off tons of employees then afterwards thought it was a great idea to express his anti-union views! Also brag about how good of an employer he was, according to his employees, he was not!

So in summary; Mike is an awful person who has not learned anything from the awful things he did. I will not be purchasing The Cage because, combined with this and his absolute refusal to take any kind of critique or see any differing interpretation of his franchise, I have no reason to think my problems with the franchise will ever be addressed or fixed. I probably will pirate The Cage along with any future Bendy Products [Including the movie] and will do my best to avoid giving it any kind of monetary support. Unless this changes any time soon, I can't see myself making anymore positive Bendy posts soon.

Mike has just managed to make it so hard to speak positively or optimistically of this franchise when he's so willing to broadcast how little he cares about it or its fans. I'm at the point where I refuse to pull any of my punches with my problems with it. What's the point of trying to play nice with my critique when either way the people creating it don't care?

So with this post, I want to invite anyone who feels similarly about the franchise to tell me, make a post or send an ask talking about how all of this makes you feel. It may not change how things are, but genuinely seeing other people share my feelings of anger makes me feel better. It feels nice to see when other people share our same concerns and worries. I'd also love to know if anyone else thinks they'll be avoiding purchasing Bendy products over this.

I'm not forcing anyone to participate in it nor trying to say anyone who doesn't supports mike but genuinely maybe if we can collectively decide to boycott things like the movie, graphic novel and The Cage... It might at least make the bendy devs acknowledge how much they have destroyed their own fandom's faith and trust in them.

The way Mike tweets about his actions like he had no control over why people were mad at him at least proves to me he takes NONE of it back nor regrets it. If you didn't know about his actions and only went off his tweets, you would be led to believe Mike has been needlessly picked apart by fans over things he couldn't control [or in his own words, had his words twisted and taken out of context]. That is not how you speak about your actions if you have actually learned better from them.

anyway, that has been my bendy dev callout post. This is an open invitation to anyone feeling similarly upset about the way the franchise is going to talk about it. It's genuinely nice to see how people feel about this and the more we talk about the more it's likely the bendy devs are forced to address our concerns. I don't think they will but hey, that's why I'm not gonna support them with my money anymore nor am I gonna be nice to them in any content I make critiquing Bendy. I mean I'm also basically making this post just in case anyone asks me Why I feel this way towards to bendy devs/as a way to respond to anyone who thinks I am too harsh in my critique in the future.

As always, it seems the best part of Bendy isn't actually anything about canon but about what the fan's are creating with the ideas Bendy failed to do anything interesting with.

Also the books, the books slap.

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

Democracy is being murdered before our eyes. The truth is being replaced by Republican propaganda. Right-wing fascist oligarchs are buying up the media and using it as a tool to support their Republican puppets. Republicans introduce legislation written by fascist corporate oligarchs. We are nothing more than wage slaves in a dystopian nightmare.

[winepresswrath]

trying to remember enough lore to pass on to my girlfriend and after iwtv it's all "pandora is mad at marius for philosophical reasons and also because he's a wet blanket. bianca is mad at marius for saying he'd leave her for pandora no questions asked. armand is mad at marius because he gave up on him after the cult brainwashed him. marius has i think given up on relationships altogether at this point and is just chilling in a desert or maybe somewhere in italy. lestat and nicki fucked nasty as humans and lestat bottomed." feeling a little like i made these up and incorporated them into my belief system but am i going to go back and check? no.

[the-final-sif]

My least favorite "tumblr news to get you mad!" is posting an article's headline with no context as to what the article is actually about, what the stance of the writer is, etc, etc. People pick articles that might have sensational or clickbaity headlines and then disregard anything else. Because all they need is that headline presented to other people on this website to generate some outrage, get some quick reblogs/likes, and then do it all again later.

It's a literally alex jones tactic, where you just read the headline and respond to that, and pretend that the headline should be taken 100% literally, and that the actual body of work attached to that article isn't important. It's meant to trigger outrage in the reader/listener, and let them imagine what the article could be, without giving them any actual information or allowing for critical thinking.

If you see a post that's literally just a screenshotted news headline that the op is responding to, without discussing what something actually is and the text of the work in question, do yourself a favor and recognize that's literal infowars levels of information engagement.

Block the OP to prevent them from getting attention and spreading their outrage bait, and go do more productive things with your life. Like actually reading news articles, working to make change in your community, or literally just hugging a pet or a loved one or something. Just do anything but engage with that shit.

[davekitties]

I love seeing cognitive dissonance on my dashboard

[world-machine-os]

[REAL] leaked footage of OneShot World Machine Edition

[hell0mega]

my mom said "because of you, now i don't believe that anything is true" in regards to internet content, and i said GOOD. that was my goal.

do research. look shit up. have multiple sources. use critical thinking. it is really easy for people to lie, and it's fun for them, and the more ridiculous it is, the more attention it gets.

[just-an-enby-lemon]

I'm reading a book of Health Psychology.

It's an American book and it's a good book. But for some reason whoever did the translation decided to keep the ethimology part exactaly how it was. The word saúde did not come from an old german word that meant hale and whole (and they keept the english) it came from the latin word salus that means salvation, life preservation and cure.

I understand not changing the original text but they should either not translated to word health or put "O termo health (saúde)" or just made a footnote. The way they put they are just spreading missinformation.

[gamerkats]

Wednes-sending out good luck, good fortune, and good vibes-day!

This Good Cubed is going out to everyone who is trying to eat healthy and increase their activity level. We're not going to say diet and exercise, because let's face it, both of those words are synonymous these days with money hemorrhaging body shaming. However, eating healthy and doing more physical and mental activities is good for the incredible biotech machine that you are!

Every small positive change you make will benefit you in years to come. The you even a year from now will be grateful you decided to do something for your overall health. Starting can be hard, but that's only because habits are hard to break.

So celebrate the tiny victories to help encourage you to keep going. Be proud of yourself for a two day in a row stroll around the block, or finding the time to read a book, or remembering to turn the blue light off of your screens before bed, or stretching, or laughing, or not posting something angry, or adding a new vegetable into your life. These, and so many more, are all worthy of cheers and rounds of applause. You're not being dumb or extra, you're adding joy to your joy.

Whatever you do, if you've been thinking about making changes to benefit your health, do them. Tomorrow you will always thank today you and neither of you will need to regret yesterday you.

[yeetbean]

i was looking at embroidery on insta last night and god i hate rich white women. So youre telling me. you bought. LINEN pants from a thrift store. QUALITY LINEN PANTS. and decided to cut them up to use for your little embroidery amulets you sell. SOMEONE COULDVE USED SOME QUALITY LINEN PANTS. i cant get over it. imagine finding linen pants at a thrift store. linen wears so well and only gets softer as you break in the fibers. imagine being able to buy linen pants for less than a pair of jeans but some white woman decided to cut them up and sell trinkets made from them. when she could've bought linen. but you cant just go buy linen pants. im deleting instagram.

[catkin-morgs-kookaburralover]

re: google AI. seriously. do you want machine generated misinformation or do you want to come here, to our beloved tumblr, and receive specially hand crafted misinformation. support real artists, guys. come to tumblr for your misinformation

edit: if you've come back to reblog from source or something. GET LOVED NERD and God bless you in the days to come

[cronagorgonzola]

Any time i try to look up a simple question online i have to check the date for every article i look at cause if it's from like 2022 or later theres a good chance it was written by chatgpt and therefore completely unreliable and this is the lamest shittiest future we could have made for ourselves. Its so indescribably disappointing to get halfway through an article that seems like it could have plausibly been written by a human being who knows what theyre talking about only to notice sentences repeating or contradictory information between sentences and realize youre just reading a word salad spat out by a computer that only knows how to create sentences that look plausibly real

[rei-ismyname]

I'm all for the evolution of language, but there's a few instances that irk me. The instance du jour is Artificial Intelligence or AI. It's just machine learning and Large Language Modelling using scraped and stolen data.

It doesn't think for itself, and it kinda sucks. A useful tool if you apply critical thinking and editing, but not intelligence.

What do we call science fiction-style AI now? Probably true AI or someone will coin a new term. People are pretty good at that.