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KynikossDragonn

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In response to blip #134328

dba_afish said:
it's the April Fools' prank, you don't need to draw anything, just push the submit button with a blank canvas.

It didn't even take me that long to realize it was the April Fool's gag because µBlock Origin let me "zap" the element revealing the rest of the page that was still scrolling according to the scrollbar I force modern Firefox to draw.

dba afish

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In response to blip #134327

Nomadic_Snep said:
How is this supposed to do anything except turn people away? I don't have a fursona per se so what are they gonna compare it to? Do we have to redraw it every time? Besides, you can't even draw anything besides a short line and a lot of people can't draw anyway. Seems very poorly thought out honestly.

it's the April Fools' prank, you don't need to draw anything, just push the submit button with a blank canvas.

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    Nomadic Snep

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    In response to blip #134323

    Dragonlord2328 said:
    Wtf is the fursona verification thingy i cant draw for shit lol

    How is this supposed to do anything except turn people away? I don't have a fursona per se so what are they gonna compare it to? Do we have to redraw it every time? Besides, you can't even draw anything besides a short line and a lot of people can't draw anyway. Seems very poorly thought out honestly.

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    lurkmore

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    In response to blip #134323

    Dragonlord2328 said:
    Wtf is the fursona verification thingy i cant draw for shit lol

    Wondering the same thing. I don't even have a fursona, this seems like a glaringly obvious oversight. But it also lets you just submit a blank canvas, so I guess it doesn't matter in the end.

    Loaf7880

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    In response to blip #134323

    Dragonlord2328 said:
    Wtf is the fursona verification thingy i cant draw for shit lol

    It's only appearing on mobile for me and I physically cannot draw anything except short little lines. The page scrolls or something when I try to swipe to draw and interrupts it.

    Edit: It just made me verify on desktop as I posted this. I just drew a stick figure with ears, blue eyes, and orange dots on the body because I can't draw either.

    How exactly does this verify your age?

    Grab-n-Stash

    Member

    Came across ramen noodle cups that have a totino's flavor when I was at work. It was only a case of it in the back of the store that didn't have a spot on the shelf yet, but still weird to see such a flavor even exist.

    dba afish

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    In response to blip #134309

    Dripen_Arn said:

    idk about ships, but def memes

    IDK how to explain what makes something categorized as a copyright tag, just that it's not exclusive to things that have a literal copyright

    I'm not really certain why we categorize memes as copyright, actually, it does seem dissimilar to the other stuff in the category. normally that's where stuff like copyright holders and "brand"s (which includes holidays and mythologies, as well as fictional and real-world brands). memes don't really seem to fit in with what generally goes in there...

    TheHuskyK9

    Former Staff

    Really not liking that I can now see comments that are below my threshold in the Comments tab. And I'm not seeing a way to fix that myself unless I'm overlooking something

    Dragonlord2328

    Member

    Thank the omnissiah the site kept on returning an ssl error and wouldnt show up on my browser unless i used wifi resetting seems to have fixed it for now

    Grab-n-Stash

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    To anyone interested, how much would you agree/disagree that the music that friends and/or family listen to have influenced your music interests? Obviously your music tastes may steer off in a different direction over time, but I'm curious how much or how little things have changed in genre interests. For me personally, there's some amount of influence still there, but most of the music is from my teens and even further back. Some of the music I listen to recently is more old school, or music I come across from YouTube videos/recommendations.

    MSTO

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    In response to blip #134293

    I mean like, character-wise, they might like or befriend each other at the very least. Because, IMO, that's usually really the only metric that defines a ship being "crack" or not by most, and that also applies to canon/non-crossover pairings.

    But my point wasn't that "MordeTwi is not Crack", but that it wasn't a Joke Ship to begin with - which I feel like was otherwise the impression from the wiki.
    I didn't mean to take it personally though.

    dba afish

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    In response to blip #134292

    MSTO said:
    MordeTwi is not ridiculous, let's be real. IMO, people just don't realize or make sense of how MordeTwi could work theoretically, and are too quick to dismiss it as Crack.

    again, I'm not saying that it's a bad thing. but like, in concept, these ideas are inherently ridiculous, they may work in practice but, in theory you gotta understand where people on the outside are coming from. and not take stuff so seriously or so personally.

    like, if I told you about a mid-2000s era Dragon Ball Z-inspired NewGrounds sprite animation series that was a crossover between Mario and Sonic where the Sonic characters have a gritty dark backstory, like-- that's kind of a far-fetched concept, and I'd understand assuming that it's going to be totally unwatchable garbage rather than it being better than all of its main inspirations in several aspects.

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    MSTO

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    In response to blip #134290

    dba_afish said:
    ... I think pretty much any ship where you have to make rationalizations too numerous or too large that the characters and/or their world are no longer coherent to the source material is a some level of crack ship.

    I think that pretty much describes all crossover ships. I can grant you that MordeTwi, the pairing, can be considered a "meme" in a Dawkinsian sense. But like ohsecsex said, "meme ship" usually describes something like Shrek x Shadow, which is not what MordeTwi was. Context matters, and I think that determines whether a ship is "crack" or not.

    even then, externally, I think you still ought to recognize the ridiculosity.

    MordeTwi is not ridiculous, let's be real. IMO, people just don't realize or make sense of how MordeTwi could work theoretically, and are too quick to dismiss it as Crack.

    I just now figured out how to edit a tag wiki. brb

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    dba afish

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    In response to blip #134286

    ohsecsex said:
    your definition of meme ship is "ship created and popularized on the internet"? that's nice, but most people use the term to mean a ship that is rarely taken seriously, synonymous with joke ship. the same way a funny image on the internet is a meme now, even if it hasn't yet undergone memetic mutation.

    shipping is a branch of what-iffery, and I think the same rules that are generally used to judge the coherence of a what-if concept applies to shipping. it is a spectrum, but I think pretty much any ship where you have to make rationalizations too numerous or too large that the characters and/or their world are no longer coherent to the source material is a some level of crack ship.

    that isn't to say that a story is bad, necessarily. just that the work needs to justify itself pretty hard. and, even then, externally, I think you still ought to recognize the ridiculosity.

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    SpuriousZabaione

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    I really hope there is such a thing as a senzu bean or something because goddamn my body's aching but I really want to upload this artist's 1000s of unarchived art on here
    That and I want to learn how to automate the data gathering and uploading process

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    ohsecsex

    Member
    In response to blip #134285

    dba_afish said:
    counterpoint: every cross-ship is a meme, even the decent ones.
    actually, every single ship that wasn't part of the original intention of the story is a meme, like-- by definition.

    your definition of meme ship is "ship created and popularized on the internet"? that's nice, but most people use the term to mean a ship that is rarely taken seriously, synonymous with joke ship. the same way a funny image on the internet is a meme now, even if it hasn't yet undergone memetic mutation.

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    dba afish

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    In response to blip #134283

    MSTO said:
    MordeTwi is not a "meme ship"

    counterpoint: every cross-ship is a meme, even the decent ones.
    actually, every single ship that wasn't part of the original intention of the story is a meme, like-- by definition.

    also, you're allowed to edit the tag's wiki if you think you can provide more information or clarify what's already there.

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    MSTO

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    History really did such an injustice to MordeTwi. The wiki page for the 'morretwi' tag gives a false impression of what the ship was really supposed to be about - and it's no thanks to the popularity of the Airplanes meme and the "Redraw MordeTwi" fad.
    If you don't know, MordeTwi didn't become a thing because of the "airplanes in the night sky" drawing, it came way before that; it became a thing when a club/group on DeviantArt had to be made because the ship was getting so much fan-made content, and that was because of a fanfic inadvertently inspiring some people to ship the characters.

    MordeTwi is not a "meme ship" or "art portraying the relationship in a melodramatic light" - that's just the Airplanes meme! Rather, it is simply the pairing of Mordecai and Twilight - hence the portmanteau name. And FYI: the "original piece of fan art" was made in 2012, not 2011, and also check its description. "Airplanes" was just a guy trying to contribute to the group.

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    W0LFB3AT5

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    In response to blip #134281

    dba_afish said:
    paste this in user CSS:

    @media (min-width: 50rem) {
body[data-st-fullscreen="true"] .post-index .sidebar { display: flex; grid-area: unset; }
}

    it'll make the stuff appear at the bottom of the page when in full-screen mode, like how it looks on mobile. maybe not an entirely perfect solution, but better than it being entirely gone.

    Switching to mobile mode basically brings it back. So until then, I’ll have to stick with mobile…

    dba afish

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    In response to blip #134279

    W0LFB3AT5 said:
    I’m a bit confused with this new UI. How do I change this back to what it was before? I can’t seem to find the tags in posts..

    paste this in user CSS:

    @media (min-width: 50rem) {
body[data-st-fullscreen="true"] .post-index .sidebar { display: flex; grid-area: unset; }
}

    it'll make the stuff appear at the bottom of the page when in full-screen mode, like how it looks on mobile. maybe not an entirely perfect solution, but better than it being entirely gone.

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    dba afish

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    In response to blip #134279

    W0LFB3AT5 said:
    I’m a bit confused with this new UI. How do I change this back to what it was before? I can’t seem to find the tags in posts..

    it's full-screen mode that's causing it, apparently. not sure if there's any way to disable full-screen removing the taglist on the post view page, though.

    Ruppari

    Member

    It might just be me, but I think there may better ways to react to getting wrong tags locked out of your posts than going through someone's tag history and undoing random edits out of spite 🤔