friendlyneighborhoodmenace
he/him, minor, autistic; I am inside your walls. Main blog of @spicyneighborhoodmenace focusing more around fandom stuff and shitposting.
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I have never heard of this and neither has the wiki so I'm pretty sure the 'Functional Universe Number' thing is mandela effect. The F is for friends who do stuff together is canon though.
We know that the Mystery Man is probably Gaster because the room in which it appears in only shows up if you have a Fun Value of 66 (The Fun Value being a random variable defined at the start of a playthrough that can make several secrets show up), with the number 6 being heavily associated with Gaster in the code, and also because the sound that the Mystery Man and the Gaster Followers (Other Fun Event characters) make when they disappear sounds a lot like Gaster's Theme (Which shows up in another Fun Event) when slowed down
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Kirby lore level 1: Kirby is a cute pink guy and he eats the cake and King Dedede is a mean guy :)
Kirby lore level 2: Kirby is infinite strong and he kills gods on a random tuesday. LOL
Kirby lore level 3: The Kirby series has built patterns throughout its decades of histories to create intruiging connections between otherwise innocuous events and characters aw SHIT a BUTTERFLY
Kirby lore level 4:
The greatest injustice ever faced is that I almost certainly started the still thriving "clown husbandry" tag on here, but any discussion about it (from a know your meme page to a youtube video with 500k views) says it's a joke of "unknown origin" or credited to this post, likely bouncing off of mine (which was actively circulating at the time with like 30k notes):
This is a tragedy for many reasons, most of all because it wasn't just an offhand joke but actually a direct response to some of the funniest online hate I ever got:
They're erasing the truest history of tumblr: its desperate need to seethe and argue over every obvious joke with more than 10 notes.
anyways here is the canonical pet clown. according to me
a lot going on w this whole boxing drama but have to say JK Rowling having made an enemy of the entire country of Taiwan is a definite highlight
You rn
Happy (possibly belated, I don't know your time zones) kicking fascists in the ass day to all the Portuguese and Italian people reading this
File attribution theory
In Undertale, there are 10 numbered SAVE files, going from “file 0″ up to “file 9″.
The UNDERTALE folder on the player’s computer may contain file 0, file 9 and file 8 depending on certain conditions.
These files mutually take each other into consideration. The fact that “file 6″ exists means that there was a “file 5″ already, otherwise file 6 would have just been called file 5. File 5 implies the existence of file 4 and so on.
This means that either all of those files are canon, or none of them are.
The game makes it pretty clear that we are in the first scenario given that the Flowey X fight directly refers to those files being an in-world thing.
Another case in which we can clearly see the impact of the different files within the game has to do with Frisk.
Lets say that a neutral route is played, then, the player SAVES just before fighting Asgore. Afterwards, instead of fighting the king, the player decides to RESET. The player then decides to go through the ruins without SAVING even once, but is eventually killed by a monster.
Where does Frisk come back to after dying in this situation ?
One would expect Frisk to either go back to the flower bed at the very beginning or to LOAD back to near Asgore where the player last SAVED.
But neither of those is what happens. Frisk actually comes back to this location :
And that’s not all. Lets say that now, the player closes the game and opens it up again. Where does Frisk LOAD to then ?
This time, they do LOAD back to near Asgore.
Frisk has just LOADED to two completely different points in space and time without having SAVED in between the two. This should be impossible with Frisk having control over only a singular SAVE file.
What happened here was that two different SAVE files were actually used :
“file 0″ and “file 9″.
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I will never understand why there are so many transphobes and homophobes in the fandom when the game is so unashamedly queer. It promotes a message of acceptance, and you literally need to help form Gay (RG01 and RG02) and Lesbian (Undyne and Alphys) relationships to get the best ending, and that's not mentioning queer-coded characters like Mad Mew Mew.
Yes, the 4channers were awful and they persist in misgendering me, while simultaneously complaining I don't post anymore, with zero self awareness.
4chan harassment alone isn't why I left. This is.
It's the transphobia.
I have been in the fandom since 2015. I have been arguing with transphobes in the fandom since 2015. I have been making write ups about why it's important not to misgender the - yes, fictional - characters since 2015, because of the complete lack of caring it communicates to real nonbinary people.
Last year, I wrote a post that got 7000 notes and is currently pinned to the Deltarune subreddit. I poured my heart out about what the nonbinary characters meant to me and why they were important.
It was argued over, I was mocked for it, I included personal details about my family situation and my difficulty coming out, I was mocked for it.
I wrote it because I believed it mattered. Because for eight years, the constant comment when mentioning the pronouns of these characters has been: Who cares?
At any point since 2015, Toby could have saved the transgender people in the fandom the trouble of having to "prove" the characters were nonbinary by saying something.
Last year, Legends of Localization comes out - thoroughly reviewed by Toby - and calls Frisk, Monster Kid, and Napstablook "ambiguous", designed to have an unclear gender.
You can see in the collage of screenshots how the transphobes in the fandom took that. One delightful individual was so triumphant over the victory, they put the statement in their Reddit subtitle.
So each time this individual posts to the Undertale subreddit, people will see this quote, carried around like a trophy with all the pride of a dog with a rotting pelt in its mouth. That's how much it meant to the transphobes in the fandom. They're delighted by having this quote to throw back in the faces of transgender fans.
Because who cares? The majority of the fandom isn't transgender, or on tumblr. It's easy for them not to care about transgender people.
You can block block block as many people as you want (I had thousands blocked here) but you can't curate your way out of transphobia. It isn't possible.
Because the majority of the fandom is on Reddit, or YouTube, or Twitter, and they, quite vocally, do not care about transgender people.
Some people may recall that I stopped posting to the Deltarune subreddit after the mods decided to filter all posts containing the word "nonbinary" without telling anyone.
The mods stopped filtering the word after I posted this and apologized, but the point was made: people in the greater fandom think the word "nonbinary" is a dangerous, impolite word, one that only invokes argument and therefore should not be used.
So I stopped posting on the Deltarune and Undertale subreddits. I never made YouTube or Twitter content. I set my blog to only allow people with Tumblr accounts to view it. I turned off all asks, anonymous or otherwise. I blocked thousands of people. It did not work. Transgender people can't curate (read: quarantine) our way out of transphobia.
Years of this, of transgender fans of the series getting attacked for trying to claim and fight for nonbinary representation in the series, and "ambiguous" is the language Toby signed off on.
If the characters are meant to be nonbinary representation, the last eight years has proven that this needs to be stated outright, or the onus of "proving" it falls on the vastly outnumbered transgender fans in the fandom - something that we have never been able to do without being profusely harassed for it until we shut our mouths.
If the characters were only ever meant to be ambiguous for the sake of "freedom of interpretation", then this should have been communicated with seriousness and respect to the transgender fans of the series years ago, not as a throwaway line in a translation book. (and to be clear, this is not at all the author's fault - Toby corrected and reviewed the language used)
This is why I left and why I'm never coming back, no matter what happens next. I have had enough of the transphobia in the fandom, and I have no way of fighting back anymore.
Transphobes in the fandom want the work and the passion of nonbinary people but won't even use a pronoun to show the basest level of respect and humanity for us.
I'm watching our rights being taken away day by day, and people like this just want me to keep producing my worthless little game theory posts.
Trans people don't owe you our "content" or our passion, particularly not when we produce it for free in the face of eight years of a deeply transphobic audience that we are expected to either beg for the most basic respect or to turn our heads down and hide away from so they can continue either hating us or pretending we don't exist or that that part of us doesn't matter.
"Who cares?"
When people ask this in response to talking about being nonbinary or respecting pronouns, they know transgender people care.
What they're saying is, who cares about transgender people?
For this reason, I'm requesting people not archive anything I've written, though I know I can't enforce this. That includes the Character Analysis and the "(Characters) are nonbinary why it matters" post, which I wrote in such profoundly naive good faith. For every "who cares" I have received over eight years of being transgender in this fandom.
If my identity as a nonbinary person doesn't matter, if nonbinary people don't exist, then neither does the content I made which they feel so entitled to, even while misgendering me.
I can't even think about this series without becoming angry and miserable anymore. That is the lasting, final impression the art has had on me. I can't think about it or the characters without remembering how little transgender people matter to most of the world. I've had to completely cut it out my life. There's no rage as potent as the helpless one. "Who cares?" I can't make people care.
You can't have the creations and art and "content" made by transgender people and our destruction at the same time. And maybe you can't prevent our destruction either, but you sure as hell can use a damn pronoun.
It's been 3 days and nothing.
oh god what did i do
IT SUMMONS MAIL EVERYONE TRY IT
since the old version of this post was flagged for ‘adult content’…
reblog this post if your account is a trans safe space or owned by a trans person!
along with that, reblog if your account is a non-binary spectrum safe space or owned by someone on the enby spectrum!
This is true! If I join a community, there is a 90% chance that, by pure coincidence, most of the active people there are either on the spectrum or have some other form of Neurodivergent, such as ADHD.
Autistic people have their own equivalent of the gaydar
Here's a mock-up of what Phase 3 looked like in my dream:
I had a weird dream about a secret fight (route?) in Undertale Yellow
SLIGHT SPOILERS FOR UTY AHEAD
So, in the dream, I found out that if you told Ceroba about reality being a game (I believe shortly before one of her fights, though I'm not sure which route it was, I think it didn't resemble any route in the game) through various dialogue options, she would suddenly become a glitchy form of herself and start a battle with you.
This Glitchy Form of Ceroba (apparently called Ceruca according to the wiki) had 4 or 5 phases, all of which had a different appearance, and all of which could be easily defeated with a single attack, and she did nothing but speak garbled gibberish.
After this fight, you would proceed into this very long horizontal pathway, whose tiles remind me of those in the original Undertale's New Home, but with some slight Bisexual lighting, though the background was completely pitch black.
After that, every time you tried to talk to Flowey, for some reason, he would also speak in Garbled Gibberish, much like Ceruca.
I don't remember anything else after that.
I had a weird dream about a secret fight (route?) in Undertale Yellow
SLIGHT SPOILERS FOR UTY AHEAD
So, in the dream, I found out that if you told Ceroba about reality being a game (I believe shortly before one of her fights, though I'm not sure which route it was, I think it didn't resemble any route in the game) through various dialogue options, she would suddenly become a glitchy form of herself and start a battle with you.
This Glitchy Form of Ceroba (apparently called Ceruca according to the wiki) had 4 or 5 phases, all of which had a different appearance, and all of which could be easily defeated with a single attack, and she did nothing but speak garbled gibberish.
After this fight, you would proceed into this very long horizontal pathway, whose tiles remind me of those in the original Undertale's New Home, but with some slight Bisexual lighting, though the background was completely pitch black.
After that, every time you tried to talk to Flowey, for some reason, he would also speak in Garbled Gibberish, much like Ceruca.
I don't remember anything else after that.
If I had a penny for every time a heavily awaited video game release for a Fandom I'm in that's been worked on for 6+ years came out in December 2023, I'd have 2 pennies, which isn't much, but it's weird that it happened twice.
I woke up with 99+ Notifications and all but one of them come from @crazy-purple-kitten liking my posts
All the drama and exposing aside Hbomberguy's video on plagerism really is insightful on the mentalities of people who plagerize
In school they always emphasized how plagerism is bad because you're stealing words and ideas and if you do it we will give you a severe punishment.
But Hbomberguy really opened my eyes to the disrespectful aspect of plagerism. That when someone plagerizes someone else's work they're basically saying "you are so insignificant I can get away with this" and that these ppl will not hesitate to spit in the face of those they stole from.
Plagerism isn't like stealing food. The risk of expulsion and or losing your integrity is far greater than the risk of failing a class or missing a deadline. It is always better to not to commit plagiarism.
I feel like the Hbomberguy plagiarism video has a lot of really good lessons about building an argument. Like, the thesis of the video isn't just "Plagiarism is rife on Youtube", although that point was certainly well made, it was specifically about James Somerton, who isn't mentioned until about halfway through the video. Before then, Hbomb goes through several creators who are already widely discredited as plagiarists, and in each section he introduces concepts that are later incorporated into the final takedown of Somerton, but each section also stands on it's own. Like, he starts with Filip, the game reviewer, which he uses to introduce the format of how he will discuss and expose plagiarists. Specifically, the graphic of displaying the source material while the plagiarist's voice plays, and marking up said source material every time the plagiarist changes some wording slightly. This is the method that Hbomb uses across the entire video. With Illuminaughtii, Hbomb introduces a few major concepts 1) The idea of Insufficient citation. Illuminaughtii "Cites" her sources by putting a plaintext pastebin link in her video descriptions with no indication of how each source was used. Technically, her source is CITED, but not in any relevant or useful way. She has a big list of stuff she read, and a random youtube link in there happens to be the source that she stole 90% of the video from. 2) He introduces the profit motive behind this approach. Putting out a lot of content very quickly is how one builds an audience, and therefore an income, out of making stuff on youtube. Plagiarism of this sort is a way to produce content very quickly and build a following. The Internet Historian section introduces two new concepts:
1) The behavior of an exposed plagiarist, taking down and reuploading videos with minor changes, awkwardly trying to insert credit without admitting guilt. 2) That the plagiarists are stealing not just research, but STYLE. Previous sections go over how the plagiarists are reusing the same words, but this section oozes over how much of the final product's quality was the result of how well the source material was written. TIH didn't just crib the notes from the Mentalfloss article, he created a video heavily dependent on the original author's skill as a writer. When TIH tried his own hand at presenting the same set of facts, it came out much worse. So that when the time comes for the Somerton takedown, Hbomb has already laid the groundwork to bring these concepts back. Somerton takes down and reuploads videos when he's caught, he declares this his video is "based on" work by somebody else without providing proper citation. He's not just stealing research done by somebody else, he's taking their insights and talent as a writer and regurgitating it as his own, and he's doing so to churn out a vast wall of content that he can financially benefit from, and he doesn't need to tell you why this is important, because he's already done so. He already convinced you that Illuminaughtii hiding a line in a pastebin didn't excuse her plagiarism, so you don't need to be told why Somerton saying his video is "Based On" somebody else's book doesn't excuse it.
if you’re wondering how it’s going, internet historian fans have resorted to making up qanon conspiracy theories about hbomb