Tumblr already has a personalization algorithm it’s called my beloved mutuals who have great taste and only wish to psychologically damage me sometimes
“oh they’re not taking away chronological dashboard, well everything’s okay then” they also said in the post they’re making reblogs collapsed (like comments on twitter) so you won’t see the full conversation in a post. they also won’t get rid of tumblr live despite it being an annoying and cancerous data-miner that isn’t legal in much of the world. they won’t even let you opt out of tumblr live for more than seven days. they implemented a terrible photo viewer that mimics tiktok and makes it so you can’t zoom in on images. they took away the ability to view prev tags. they’re making it so you have to sign in with your email to view almost any thing on tumblr. they’ve already made it so you have to sign in to send asks, even on anon. they’re slowly phasing out custom blog themes.
the things that make tumblr at all usable and favored by us– the older web blog features, the anonymity– that is still being taken away. it HAS been being taken away for some time now. i am urging you people to reveiwbomb the tumblr app. force them to acknowledge that users do not like these changes.
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Probably my favorite legend of Zelda fact is that Link was left handed until twilight princess when it released on both wii and GameCube and on wii it had motion controls. And since 90% of the population is right handed they just kinda… flipped the game. So if you play Twilight Princess on GameCube Link is left handed and if you play it on wii he’s right handed. Skyward sword was made for motion control combat and evidently they didn’t wanna spend the development time making a left handed mode so Link has been right handed ever since.
You can see this change in the official artwork.
Original 1986 game:
Four swords:
Ocarina of time:
Wind waker:
Twilight princess:
All of these guys use their swords, bows, or conductors batons with their left hands.
And then you get to official art for skyward sword and breath of the wild:
These guys are right handed.
The change is also consistent in amiibo figurines.
Majoras mask and twilight princess link here have their swords in their left hands while tears of the kingdom links sword is positioned to be grabbed with his right hand.
I’ll be honest idk why they didn’t make him go back to being left handed in breath of the wild or have a left handed mode in at least twilight princess because the flipped left handed version of the game already existed but. Decisions were made.
Oh yeah as people in the notes are pointing out, let me be clear. In Twilight Princess they flipped the entire game. Even the in-game map is mirrored. Not just the player character. They flipped the whole game just to make Link right handed.
The problem with Batman in his present incarnation is that we need simultaneously to believe that this is a man who can effortlessly ninja his way through dozens of gun-toting mercenaries, and that this is a man to whom Danny DeVito with an umbrella is a credible threat.
Okay, that was glib – let me expand. I’m fully aware that Batman comics generally don’t have him fighting guys like the Penguin one on one these days. That’s not the problem. The problem is that superhero power creep has rendered Batman functionally immune to hired goons, but owing to his roots as a street-level vigilante, like half of his classic villains are guys whose primary threat vector is the ability to field arbitrary numbers of hired goons. There just aren’t a lot of ways to work around that without either doing violence to the villain’s idiom or making Batman carry the idiot ball – though I’ll grant that some of the attempted workarounds have been very entertaining!
You joke, but that’s literally one of the workarounds I’m referring to. One of the reasons that recent Batman stories keep looping back around to ancient ninja conspiracy stuff is that an answer to “how do we make hired goons a credible threat when Batman is an invincible ninja?” is “the hired goons are also ninjas”.
Imagine turning to crime out of financial desperation and you can’t even land a job as a dumb knuckle cracking brawler anymore without five years of martial arts training, a CDL in evasive getaway driving and a hand written recommendation from an active member of The Court of Owls.
