idk who needs to hear this rn but suffering is not noble. take the tylenol
One time when I was younger I was refusing to take headache medicine and my mom said “the person who invented that medicine is probably so sad you won’t let them help you” and now every time I find myself denying medicine I just imagine the saddest scientist making those big wet eyes like “why won’t you let me help” and whoop then I take the medicine
You can tell these assets (the enemy models) were made one year apart and for completely different purposes that weren’t meant to intersect not just because of the obvious difference in scale, but also because that’s a Durin, famously small people, having a head over a Perro.
Reporting
in as a holdout who never got a twitter account: as
of today (30th June 2023), twitter has started blocking access to
everything on their site unless you’re logged in. (Embedded posts still work.)
I don’t know how bad it’ll get, but I worry this is going to cause whole pile of problems.
The big one: twitter has become the
place where governments, politicians and institutions communicate.
These are the sort of messages everyone in their country should be able
to see, forever. You shouldn’t have to enter a contract with a
private company (who
could then permanently ban
you anyway).
You also shouldn’t be denied access because you’ve got some issue
with email or phone verification.
On a more mundane level, a many
people and companies rely
on twitter as a noticeboard to communicate with their audience, even
when those audiences aren’t focused on twitter.
Twitter has ~300m active users, which is a lot, but nowhere near being everyone.
You want to check
on the latest from your favourite twitch streamer, or your
live-service game, or your hobbyist brand? You check their twitter
profile, even if twitter has
nothing else to offer you. How many people are going to set up an account just to keep on doing that? Are you really going to convince them now when they never signed up before?
For a more tumblr-specific issue,
we just saw the
sourced-art-repost system take a big hit. Any source links back to twitter now say nothing unless you log in. No display name, no links to proper art sites like pixiv or deviantart.
I can’t think of another major
social media site that locks you out entirely without an account. If you can’t even see the site, why would you sign up? FOMO, name recognition? If you start choking the audience, will there be as much to see there anyway?
There’s
been a lot of debate about the implications of twitter being a forum
of public debate controlled by a private company, but most of that’s
come from the angle of them controlling who can say what, not who can
see what.
There’s also been a lot of talk
about social media sites making life worse for their power users for the sake of casual user experience / profit, and how losing the power users will lose the casuals too because now you’ve got no content. Similarly, there’s been much less talk about what happens if you lose casuals specifically.
In the way that this is reversed,
I worry it’s going to fly under the radar. Of course you hear when
the power-users and the commentators get hit, because they’re the people you’re hearing a lot
from anyway. Meanwhile, if you’re operating on twitter, the people
hit by this change are definitionally the people you’re not
hearing from.
Politicians/journalists/commentariat
use twitter a lot, so their professional circles won’t see these
changes directly.
If you’re using twitter as a
noticeboard, your posts will get the same engagement statistics. You’ll only see the drop-off elsewhere, which makes it hard to find the source.
If you’re reposting art from
twitter, you’re already logged in, so you won’t notice that the
twitter link doesn’t work
as well.
Day-by-day, posting goes on, and nobody notices how the site’s influence crumbled a little more.
They say the pain of childbirth is so great you can almost feel what it’s like to be someone whose favorite characters got buffed into being top tier meta picks
The blog of the artist formerly known as A Successful Businessman. It doesn't quite roll off the tongue, but it's too late for me to re-brand.
Also I'm not actually an artist.
