Wait, do people know about the Before I Play wiki?
I have used this for….. at this point easily over 6 years. It’s a wiki where there will be low-spoiler/non-spoiler hints about just stuff you would want to know before playing a game.
It’s always stuff like…. “Vitality in this game is useless, put your points in everything else first” or “Don’t leave the second hub town until you buy X item, it’ll become unobtainable.”
Lemme pick an example almost everyone will know. From the Animal Crossing New Horizons page, the first tip is:
Nearly everything on the island is movable later, including all buildings and even cliffs and rivers. The main things that are fixed are the stuff on the border of the island (river mouths, beaches, rocks/peninsulae, the dock and the airport) and the resident services plaza, so picking your island layout should be based around that primarily.
That’s stellar advice, tbh, given what you’ll know about the game 30 hours in instead of 30 minutes.
Not every game is covered obviously and not every piece of advice is good, it’s all subjective, BUT….. I look up almost every game I play for the first time, just to keep stuff in mind. The SMT4 page had top tier advice imo.
im kind of obsessed with the white house’s strategy of straight-up just lying about israel like. i don’t know if its even gaslighting at this point it’s just like some kind of bizarre strategy of just saying stuff for the obedient press to reprint it. it’s so funny coming from the liberals who literally popularized ‘disinformation’ because they were so dismayed to learn about propaganda during the trump era and now here we are… disinformation central…
the white house since february: this is a ceasefire proposal hamas: this says 'no ceasefire’ actually, this is a pause the white house: hamas won’t accept our ceasefire proposal egypt & qatar & the CIA: here is a three-step actual ceasefire proposal hamas: we welcome the three-step actual ceasefire proposal the white house: we also welcome this three-step actual ceasefire proposal israel: we will literally never end this war the white house: egypt totally lied to us about this three-step actual ceasefire proposal. we’re so sorry israel [two weeks later] okay this is ISRAEL’s three-step ceasefire proposal israel: no it isn’t the white house: israel has accepted its own ceasefire proposal israel: no we haven’t the white house: the ball is in hamas’s court hamas: we welcome the ceasefire proposal the white house: can you believe hamas won’t accept israel’s ceasefire proposal?
Biden administration: I swear to god on my life on every thing that pier we built in Gaza is to bring in humanitarian aid only because Israel has shut off every alternative, conventional route to do so and the idea that you would think it would be used for anything else but aid is insulting and lowkey bigoted
I think it’s so great that sleep sound apps have moved beyond the very basic “a gently babbling brook” or “someone playing the flute in a soothing way” and now you can layer and remix things to get your own personal relaxing scenario like “bustling cafe run by birds, with a roaring fireplace and twelve electric fans” or, my current favorite, “you are in a tent underwater and there is a thunderstorm happening above you and also whales are singing and somewhere someone, possibly a mermaid, is playing the guzheng”
how did the guzheng mermaid get into my underwater tent? not important. they’ve got THREE DIFFERENT types of peeping frog noises on this thing
The 2003 Astro Boy anime never got a Blu-ray release, so the copies circulating around only go up to 480p. I found out a native HD version was available on some Japanese streaming services, so I’ve made all the episodes available here. Enjoy!
What always gets me the most is like staff doesn’t seem to ever give a warning like. Hey this thing you’re doing or this content you’re posting is worthy of termination. Stop doing that and delete those posts or we’ll terminate your blog. They just decide when someone deserves to get erased from the internet and immediately do so
You’re right OP, there’s no warning, no temporary bans, nothing. You’re just logged out one day and can’t get back in. There’s not even a message that says “You have been banned for [XYZ].”
I had my blog terminated once and had to contact the support staff to find out what the hell I was terminated for.
Turns out I had posts with “misleading link redirects” or something. I asked staff during my support ticket to show me the offending posts. They were years old reblogs (not even my posts!) where the original post had succumbed to link rot and the expired domain was parked by some spammer.
I got very lucky that someone on the support staff happened to review my ticket, and this was years prior to major staff cuts. In most cases of termination there’s simply no response from support.
