not just ‘he would not fucking say that’ but ‘he would not, under torture, admit that’
ALT
rooooool
when your art program’s closing message hits you straight in the heart and makes you stop and contemplate the state of it all
because of the huge response to this post, I decided to make a version of the art that includes the text
I’ve also uploaded this design to INPRNT, and all sales proceeds will be donated to environmental and humanitarian charities!
this is still going around with the old dead links - please help me share this version
do gen z and really young millenials realize that the most popular screensavers of the 1990s had SOUND?
I feel like it's important that y'all know that the After Dark screensavers, which were basically the most popular not-automatically-provided-with-Mac-or-Windows screensavers around, had sound. And were a thing. DO THE GEN Z BABIES KNOW SCREENSAVERS????? I SEE SO FEW THESE DAYS
#i thought they were still images? #i think I’ve actually misunderstood what a screensaver does
Okayokay, no judgement, but yeah you have. Or at least the original point of screensavers. Because nowadays afaik you're not at risk of getting burnt in images or dead pixels if the screen stays on one image too long.
But back in the 90s, if a CRT monitor was turned on, and had the same exact display for too long, you could literally damage the pixels and cause them to be discolored, permanently turned to one color, or burnt out so they just didn't work at all. So screensavers existed for when your computer was idle, it would have a moving image on the screen to keep your monitor from developing dead pixels or image burn (where you could faintly see the shape of whatever the screen had been displaying for so long, no matter what else was being displayed, because of the pixels being slightly discolored.)
Do not ask me how the pixels did that, I don't know, I just know they did. Also you could seriously fuck them up by putting a magnet near them.
So you'd get shit like this:
animated images that would help keep your monitor from getting image burn or developing dead pixels. And iirc the default windows ones (which all the above are) did not have sound.
But the After Dark CD-ROM that had a bunch of really fancy and amusing screensavers? Those screensavers had sound. And frankly I assume the point was to be like "hey, if you're not using your computer, just wanted to let you it's STILL ON!" because many people would probably have been like "oh shit right, I should turn that off."
Behold this treasure from my childhood:
(Next stream maybe I'll sing it for y'all)
But yeah. Screensavers were meant to explicitly NOT be a still image, because the point of screensavers was to prevent image burn and dead pixels, which you would get from a still image. Thus why they're screensavers. They were there to save your screen.
Ah, the maze. I still remember customizing that one to have like trippy kaleidoscope top, walls, AND BOTTOM. It was great.
The aquarium did have sound! It had bubble and water noises!
The aquarium
did have sound! It had bubble
and water noises!
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
haikubot has found my post (even if it wasn’t my comment), i think this is officially the best post on my blog. :D
HEY CALIFORNIA PEOPLE!
HURRICANE ADVICE FROM A FLORIDIAN!
Make sure you've got shelf-stable food and water for everyone in the house, including pets. The rule of thumb is a gallon per person per day. Freeze water bottles if you want cold water.
Make sure you have enough meds!
Make sure you have batteries, candles, flashlights, and a manual can opener.
Make sure your electronics, including backup batteries, are charged. Unplug things you don't want fried in case of a power surge.
Don't tape your windows, it doesn't help and you'll just be stuck scrubbing goo off of them later.
Put a mug of frozen water in it in your freezer with a quarter on top of it. If your freezer defrosts, the ice will melt and the quarter will sink and tell you you need to throw things out.
Get everything that's not nailed to a foundation out of your yard. That dead branch hanging on by a thread? Time to get it down (it was probably time to do that three days ago, but now’s better than never).
Park away from powerlines and trees if you can. Rain makes the ground soft and then trees fall over.
Have an evacuation plan to a shelter. Evacuate if they’re telling you to.
If you start to flood, don't go in your attic. You'll get trapped if the water rises too high and you can't hack through your roof. This happened to a lot of people in Texas and Louisiana. Get ON the roof.
Be safe, be well <3
flashback to when MLK Jr said the worst group in the US for black rights wasn't the lawmakers passing Jim Crow laws or the KKK but the white moderate. That it was the white moderate who was forcing the country to find a middle ground between civil rights and genocide which allowed the continued systematic mistreatment of the African American community
does tumblr know about tim misny??? like has the level of tim misny awareness that exists in northeast ohio broken containment and become known online yet???
ok so tim misny is a personal injury lawyer here in ohio.
that’s him. you do not have to remember his face from this image because you’re gonna see it a lot in this post. so mainly i think we all kinda honed in on tim misny because of his slogan
he’s gonna make them pay. he’s gonna get you that money but also it’s a little threatening like he’s gonna fully fuck his legal opponent’s shit up. this sprung tons of local memes. then there were the billboards which were normal at first.
but here’s the thing; we already know what misny does. he makes them pay. so it turns into just saying “you know what i do” which is funny enough if you don’t at all have the context.
but this is not where the absurdity caps out, my friends. no. this is what it has evolved to and they. are. everywhere.
that’s right. no text. just the judging eyes of tim misny, glaring through our skin and into our souls. there is no god. there is no devil. there is just tim misny and he’s gonna make them pay.
