greed-the-dorkalicious:

Man I know emulators are technically considered piracy I guess, and I can see why it would be an issue with newer games (not that most emulators are advanced enough for that anyway), but I just… hhhhhh the way the video game industry operates in regards to old games is so fucking stupid. It’s like

Gamers: Hey, I’m really interested in this game you made a long time ago! Can I play it?
Game companies: No. 
Gamers: But I’ll give you money!
Game companies: We no longer manufacture, support, or distribute that game or the console it’s available on. There’s no way for you to buy it.
Gamers: Well, what about this slightly-newer-but-still-outdated game that was never released in my region? Can I play that? I’ll give you money.
Game companies: No. You’re only allowed to play games from your region. You can’t buy it from us.
Gamers: So, you don’t provide any way for me to purchase these games from you, or to play them in any form?
Game companies: Correct. We don’t care about these games anymore. They might as well not exist.
Some guy on the internet: Hey, I found some old and foreign games that aren’t sold or available to play anywhere, so I fixed them up so everyone can play them now for free! Here you go! 🙂
Game companies: ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOT. HOW DARE YOU STEAL OUR PROFITS. PLAY THE GAMES LEGALLY OR DIE.
Gamers: But you just said there’s no way to play them-
Game companies: FUCK YOU

erikkillmongerdontpullout:

I wish you losers would stop “tumblr doesn’t care about Europe!” Like I’m sorry a 17 year old doesn’t understand the geopolitical complexities of the EU. People barely know what’s going on in the state over much less on another continent. I never get up in arms about people not knowing more about what’s going on in any African country. I follow blogs and newsletters that have that interest and reblog it to inform others.

Just give the information instead of going on and on about Americans not know x piece of European news as if you all know everything about what’s going on in America or even in your own countries. It’s almost like you don’t know how international news is disseminated.

shromo:

When you haven’t saved your file in awhile and suddenly the cursor freezes 

airyairyquitecontrary:

restoringsanity:

shipwhateveryouwant:

educating-antis:

much-ado-about-mothing:

yoyo-inspace:

shalamaladingdong:

“why is saying ‘i hate pedophilia’ a controversial opinion on this site?”

i’ll tell you, it’s because you fuckers literally call relationships between two adults with an age gap pedophilia

#stop abusing serious terms until they lose all meaning ffs

things I have seen called pedophilia on this hellsite with my own two eyes

– a relationship between two adults with the youngest being 25

– a high school senior dating a high school junior

– a college senior being sexually interested in a college freshman

– size difference fetish art featuring two adult characters

– consenting adults engaging in kink with other consenting adults

– writing about 2 teenagers of similar ages having sex

– shipping characters with vaguely defined ages who are treated as adults in canon

–

telling kids that asexuality exists

– sex education

like, I shouldn’t have to ask myself if the person being accused of pedophilia is an actual child molester or if they reblog shippy vo|tron fanart

Antis: Why do people hate us for not liking pedophilia :////

Also Antis: *call out everything under the sun that isn’t pedophilia as pedophilia and then wonder why the fuck nobody takes pedophilia claims seriously anymore*

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I wrote this post on September 4th, 2017. It only took a month. (From that point on.)

False callout posts get hundreds if not thousands of notes (albeit at least half of them confused or rejecting the accusations), while posts trying to draw attention to individuals that might pose actual danger go ignored.

There’s something demonstrably harmful to minors and adults alike, especially to victims/survivors – it’s how much of a rhetorical nightmare shipping discourse is, and how much it actually desensitizes people to the subjects in question. You do not want people to become callous and dismissive, but the individuals continuously fabricating accusations, watering down definitions, making completely outrageous claims, and concentrating their opportunistic activism on ‘problematic content’ do everything possible to erode the patience, understanding, sympathy and empathy of the people around them.

Please, please stop trying to sell your ship wars as literally anything else. You’re doing more damage than any piece of fiction possibly could. This is how you are affecting reality, and the effect your actions have is unquestionably bad.

You have to start taking these subjects seriously again. You absolutely have to. When you’re not using certain terms correctly, you’re not respecting their meaning, and you don’t take what they stand for seriously enough, because in your mind the definition can be changed or applied to different things.

Shipping that deals with entirely fictional characters is inconsequential and amoral in every possible instance. This applies to drawn and written works, as well. Fictional characters aren’t real people. Real people law doesn’t apply to them. You need to understand this.

Here’s an example:
Shipping entirely fictional characters -> creates no discomfort for the characters involved, because they are not real; the effect it has on you as a person is your responsibility

Creating/consuming explicit/mature content of entirely fictional characters -> creates no discomfort for the characters involved, because they are not real; the effect it has on you as a person is your responsibility

I’m talking about entirely fictional characters. This excludes the shipping of real people – actual living and breathing human people. Not historical figures. People that are alive today. A person. (We still know what a person is, right?) The shipping of real people is a different subject entirely, and it should be approached differently. Still not a crime. Just different.

The bottom line is:
Stop treating fictional characters like real people.
Stop implying that shipping ‘matters’.
Stop involving serious subjects to give your anti-ship arguments more weight and meaning. It’s just a ship. Calm down.
Stop claiming that fiction has a direct, constant, measurable effect on reality. (It has an effect, but not like you think it does.)
Stop saying “This is abuse/incest/pedophilia/etc” when you really want to say “I don’t like it”.

hey so I have to hear about actual cases of child sexual abuse pretty often in my work and it tears at my heart and accusations of paedophilia over depictions of fictional characters infuriate me, especially if people take them so far that they waste law enforcement time and resources that could have been spent investigating actual crimes in which a real live human child was harmed.

pietriarchy:

I kinda hate it when people dig up offensive jokes or whatever from 10 something years ago from someone and somehow that ends up being more important than the person they are today and the ways they’ve improved and educated themselves over time. (Not to mention that in the past when it came to a lot of offensive humor and social issues times and the general opinion/available widespread information were very different.) That’s just actively telling everyone that no matter what, change doesn’t matter. Why improve yourself you’re always going to be the person you were in the past and we can and will hunt you down for it.

What kind of message is that? As if we’ve all been so woke and flawless in our entire existence.

By all means hold people accountable for causing harm and call them out to explain themselves or apologise if needed but why would we keep attacking those who’ve obviously grown, apologise and learned and pretend like that doesn’t matter one bit in the grand scheme of things and then punish them for it forever. I’m just so confused by that attitude. 

celticpyro:

thebuttkingpost:

straight culture jokes are just “normal people scare me” in a different wrapper.

The tea is hot.

shacklefunk:

u rly do need friends who arent afraid to call u a fucking dipshit in real life. like friends who r only blindly supportive arent rly friends, u need people who will call u out on being a god damn sack of hammers sometimes bc everyone is and only ppl who r actually worth keeping around will tell u abt it

ppl who start fights w u over u being a fucking dipshit r the ones u wanna keep man ive had those ppl save my ass so many times, esp when it comes to having depression and being actively dangerous to myself a lot. sometimes it takes someone telling u that ur being a ridiculous piece of shit to wake u up and make u realize that, heck, u R, y’know ?

like all that i support uwu shit is fine until the rubber meets the road and those ppl dont even tell u when ur house is burnin down. stick to ppl who give more of a shit about ur wellbeing than ur feelings, its how u get good friends

sailor-slam-dunk:

no offense but how come none of y’all can just like or dislike something normally. it’s always gotta be “this is literally fucking flawless and pure” or “this is shit and you’re an immoral person for liking it” it’s so. Uncomfortable