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I'm sorry, but I adamantly disagree.
This is very good behavior.
They didn't recognize the file extension.
They didn't recognize the EXE program.
And so they refused to open them.
That is excellent internet security hygiene.
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They went to a trusted person (their brother) and verified WinRAR was legit and then proceeded to unpack the files.
How is this not *encouraging* for gen alpha? Is it just because they didn't know what WinRAR was? Who cares? I'm just proud they were being careful.
Unlike my boomer uncle who once installed so many spam search toolbars that there was no screen real estate left to show webpages.
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Actually? You know what would be darkly hilarious?
If, when the GIW can't get ghosts declared both malicious AND non-sapient/sentient? They push for "dumb animals" instead.
Which is accepted. Ghosts are animals. Checks out, says scientists everywhere.
HOW "dumb"?
What? Says the GIW, mid-victory high fives. They did not expect a follow up question. They SHOULD have, as this is the SCIENTIFIC community and that is literally their job, but here we are.
How. "Dumb"? The scientists repeate slower. What methodology did you use? What is your sample size? Are their different sub-species? Is this dimension like ours? Is Ghost the equivalent to Mammal? It says here their are humanoid ones.
What IQ are we talking about here and HOW DID YOU TEST??
A goldfish, parrot, and dolphin are all animals. WILDLY different levels of intelligence. You can't treat them the same. Technically speaking, WE are animals.
The GIW does not like where this conversation is going. Tries to shut it down.
.......well NOW the scientists are both offended AND invested. How DARE you try to push faulty science and hide the Truth from them! They're gonna do their OWN studies! *picks up the phone and dials that one embarrassing spiritualist friend they had in college* Hey! You still think you can summon ghosts? I'll pay you to try it for Science!
And like? As a Ghost? It's degrading as hell. But ALSO these fuckos just Whoopsie'd you into having both protections under the law, since animal abuse IS illegal, AND just put the ENTIRE planets scientific community on their asses.... by accident.
So you take a deeeeeeep breath you don't even need. Remember you're doing this for the little ghost babies and fluffy ghost animals. And show up at a research facility like "yes, hello, I am Ghost. Here for you to poke and prod at. Please ask me to name the object on the flash card or whatever IQ tests do these days."
Should you HAVE to prove your own fucking sentience? No. But? You do it. You're even polite about it. Ask for a copy of the study they plan to publish so you can BEAT some mother fuckers with it. The scientists nod in understanding and use the BIG font for your copy so it'll hurt more.
They've been there.
And just? Shitty people getting what they wanted only to have it blow up in their faces?? I see all these angst "but what if they were declared ANIMALS" prompts and I just?? Are we talking PARROT or goldfish!? One has the average intelligence of about a human 4yr old and the other is a FISH! People get RIGHTFULLY furious when you treat INTELLIGENT animals badly.
And would, in fact, adapt pretty easy to discovering one of said animal has become HUMAN lvl intelligent. It's easy to grasp the idea of human intelligence lvl dolphin or monkeys. Maybe there was some mutated strain, maybe in uetro tampering. Who knows. But if I tried to sell you a human intelligent housefly? Gold fish? Lizard?
You wouldn't believe me. There is some kind of trick at play.
So if GHOSTS are seen as animals? Everyone nods and then later? Someone comes in TV and very excitedly informs you "we found INTELLIGENT LIFE amongst the ghosts!" You'd believe it. Probably be really excited by your conversation starter for the day. Get a taco and move on with your life.
But? Having to willing sit for a barrage of testing? Is going to suuuuuuck so bad. Poor Danny. SATs all over again. For HOURS. At multiple facilities, just to be CERTAIN it's not a one off. All because he not certain he can insure good behavior from other ghosts and This Is IMPORTANT. He ALSO can't be certain it's even SAFE.
Might be a trap.
But if he has to do it again and again and again? Mexico to Bavaria to China to the Maldives? If this is what it takes for the scientific community to bitchslap the GIW into ORBIT before the UN? Hand him that pencil.
He has no where more important to be.
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cant stop thinking about spn x danny phantom crossover
Danny seeing cas's true form inspired by this post
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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
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I used to do cross country in high school, and there was this guy on the team that was wonderful. Great guy. But his advice to everyone that asked how to get good was to run 20k a day.
If you don't run, I'll just tell you, most people's bodies cannot take that kind of abuse. No matter how much you train, you will not be able to run 20k a day. It's like how you can't train to make your cuts heal faster. You recover as fast as you recover. So while a big part of what made this guy so succesful was the dedication and mental toughness needed to actually run 20k a day, an equally big part was that he healed like fucking Wolverine. And that's fine, but it would've been nice if he knew that and stopped telling new guys to commit suicide by jogging.
Different guy on the team ran like, 5-6k a day, which actually isn't all that much. His problem when he gave advice was that he didn't really get that 5-6k a day doesn't generally produce elite results for most people. He was lucky in the sense that he didn't have to work all that hard to get great results, and unlucky in the sense that if he pushed himself much further than that, he fell apart.
I think about those two whenever I get advice from succesful people. The very things that make them outliers also make their advice useless to most people. Worse, they're often outliers on totally separate ends of the same spectrum, so their advice will be contradictory.
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Many cultures have a sort of "insider/outsider clause" for their cultural customs. A stranger, like a child, has the privilege of being given some mercy for failing to behave as one properly does - for how should they have known any better? And much like a child, this slack that is given from social norms is tied to their limited status. If one acts like a child, they will be treated as a child, and they will not have the privileges of grown adults. And if one behaves like a stranger, they will always be a stranger, until they begin to make an effort to respect the society's rules.
I can understand if the neighbour currently hogging the laundry room despite of the rules which are clearly written on a sign on the wall in two languages doesn't speak enough finnish or english yet to understand that the time limit is 4 hours per week, and that they can't just leave them there for 24 hours even if they booked that time on the schedule books. Or this person might not be aware how much the act of following common rules is seen as a sign of respect, and ignoring the rules is an insult and expression of disrespect.
But if I find out that this unknown neighbour who won't follow the rules is either native here or otherwise should know by now how dead seriously finns take the law of written rules, I swear to god the next time I catch their laundry in the public laundry rooms at the wrong time I will personally take it down into a pile on the floor and piss on it.
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ppl who celebrate fictional character birthdays are annoying pass it on
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in honour of halloween behold the four horsemen of the apocalypse
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이건 내가 그린것중 좋아하는 그림인데 댄 나오는 에피는 항상 좋더라
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I feel like someone is standing next to me talking about how I'm dead
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Pariah Dark: [Gets defeated]
Ghost King status: [Doesn't go away]
Pariah Dark: <:0
Pariah 'Right of Conquest' Dark: >:0
I don't know where I'm going with this but BASICALLY my thought process for this au is that Pariah is let out to be redeemed or whatever BUT is incredibly upset that he still has the Ghost King status after having been defeat.
I mean he could just take it back since Danny doesn't have the armor anymore but who cares-
But you see.
The thing about that is.
The Infinite Realms doesn't wanna give him up, like, at all.
Danny doesn't want the title either so it works in the Infinite Realm's favor as well.
Yes, I AM implying that the Infinite Realms is both sentient and decides who gets to be king. Usually, it just went with the flow of things, because what is change in the face of infinity?
But then looked at Pariah Dark and went: "Yea no I'm keeping him."
Then looked at Clockwork and was like: "Yea this one too."
Then Danny and was like: "Why not room for one more?"
Basically, the Ghost King, the Master of Time, and that one Halfa are viewed as the Infinite Realm's special little blorbos and get favorite privileges.
Which is unfortunate, because Pariah, Ancient of War that believes fully in the Right of Conquest, wants to give up his crown. The Observants want him to give up his crown, Clockwork doesn't give a shit about the crown, Danny doesn't want the crown.
The Infinite Realms isn't about to change its mind anytime soon.
So what does it do? Make up a completely new title and bestow Danny the title of Ghost Prince as a compromise.
Which is also unfortunate because Danny gets summoned, and Danny being summoned isn't good because Danny doesn't want to be summoned, but Danny not wanting to be summoned is completely and utterly uncared for.
Which brings us to our next point.
The Infinite Realms is kind of... Nosey.
So it's there whether Danny wants it to be, or not. Which, means, that those who have summoned him for the first time gets stared down with the weight of infinity because it's a nosey little shit but also doesn't want it's blorbo to be taken advantaged of.
It did the same for Pariah too in his earlier years.
Makes this even worse when the JL or YJ (Your pick) had already pulled up to stop the summoning, failed, and then faced this.
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Smash or Pass? by nddshkwch on AO3
PLS GO READ IT IT'S SO FREAKING FUNNY I SQUEALED AND LAUGHED OUT LOUD SO MUCH JUST THE SUMMARY HAD ME GIGGLING LIKE A MAD LAD Y'ALL CHECK IT OUUUUTTTTT
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Saw this fanart of Jazz where the artists style clearly just involved solid black for shadows but my brain briefly interpretted it as the roots of her hair being black and now i really wanna draw her like that
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One time I got wrangled into doing the fair circuit to sell beds. It’s truly terrible and not many people go to a fair looking for a luxury mattress I quit after three days because I couldn’t sleep in the hotel or make fair sales and it was miserable.
But on the same circuit they decided to sell some massage chairs and they had a different team of people trained to sell those. One of them was a pretty butch lesbian around my age, so naturally I gravitated to hanging out with her on shuttle rides to and from the hotel.
We chatted and she flirted and I didn’t think anything of it until one day I casually mentioned my ex girlfriend. Her jaw dropped and she was like, “You’re gay?!”
“What?! Of course I am! Why do you think we’ve been hanging out?? You’re the only other queer person here!”
Turns out. She just wanted to flirt it up with a straight girl and thought I was flattered and never once considered that I like to dine on pussy too.
I went back to my extremely straight home store and asked my manager in despair, “Don’t I look gay????”
“You have asymmetrical hair, giant glasses, leather boots, and a million flannels,” he consoled me. “You look gay. Don’t worry.”
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Combat log: The effect Ibuprofen has ended.
Me: *instantly ragdolls*
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Saw the original version and figured, honestly, that tracked for tumblr
after 2 years working outdoors all day i finally got stung by an onion for the first time yesterday and i wasnt even doing anything there wasnt even a nest nearby
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