You ever have one of those moments where you go ‘oh yeah there’s this thing I need to address, maybe I should ACTUALLY SET THINGS IN STONE INSTEAD OF RELYING ON MY MEMORY, WHICH I KNOW I CAN’T TRUST’?
Yeah, this is a result of that. Here’s how I use elements! Left side is what element beats what, right side is what element is ineffective against what. So for example, Ice beats Lightning and Earth, but is bad against Fire and Water.
I still can’t get over the fact that the first trailer for Breath of the Wild 2 was taken by the fandom to imply that Zelda would actually get to play a substantial proactive role for once, perhaps even a playable one, so the first thing the second trailer does is drop her in a hole, never to be seen again. Like, you can’t say they aren’t managing expectations!
Spirit Tracks had the most Zelda and was therefore the best Zelda.
Strictly speaking, that would be Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon.
(Yes, the Philips CD-i game. One’s understanding of the problem has to be informed by the fact that a third-party developer gave us the Zelda-rescues-Link game we’ve been asking for in fucking 1993, and Nintendo has been refusing to pick up the gauntlet ever since.)
Like, shit, I know we don’t like to talk about the creepy little gremlin, but Nintendo published two whole games where you play as fucking Tingle before giving us a single mainline title where Zelda functions as more than a glorified inventory item.
Spirit Tracks is definitely pretty much the only game that doesn’t relegate Zelda to pure-damsel status for the most part, but Wind Waker is a pretty interesting edge case.
For half the game, Zelda’s for once not damseled, and out pirating for most of it. However… well, outside of the start of the game and a couple points thereafter, she’s off-screen for most of that, and also functionally a different character. Go figure, the second her true identity as Zelda is revealed, she’s effectively shoved in a closet for the entire rest of the game.
I am not a lawyer, but I can decently interpret legalese and, being as I also suffer from tl;dr syndrome and assume others may as well, I took one for the team and went through the updated TOS for the post+ accounts and highlighted (what I understand to be) the most pertinent information, which ultimately comes down to this:
You cannot monetize copyrighted works (aka charge and earn money from fanfic, fanworks, etc) and if you do decide to put your fanworks behind a paywall via Tumblr, when you are inevitably sued, Tumblr will not protect you and will not defend you and you alone, personally, will be responsible for whatever monetary damages said lawsuit results in.
If anyone is a lawyer and knows I’ve gotten any of this wrong, please do not hesitate to correct me/this post.
1. Your paid account will not be hosted by tumblr; it is routed through a 3rd party.
2. By signing up for a paid account, you’re entering into an agreement with Stripe, so in addition to Tumblr’s TOS, you are also bound to Stripe’s TOS.
3. Stripe, like Tumblr, will not defend you or protect you against any lawsuits.
4. Furthermore, you may end up owing Stripe money (indemnify = compensate)
5. Tumblr’s TOS specifically states that you can’t put any content on your post+ account that violates any laws, including laws that protect intellectual property rights of others. This is super important, because Tumblr’s post+ FAQ also states that you can post anything that you would regularly post on tumblr, which I’m sure many will take to mean that gifsets, fanworks, etc are fair game, since all of that stuff can be posted on tumblr now. However, the difference is, you’re not making money from the fanworks you’re posting or reblogging now. Once money enters the equation, the game changes.
Tumblr is making it seem like any and all content goes for post+ accounts, knowing 90% of this site is fanworks. This is not true and you’ll be opening yourself up for lawsuits if you charge for fanworks.
6. Tumblr further disclaims any and all liability in any legal issues.
tl;dr: Please do not make a post+ account, bc you will be opening yourself to lawsuits and if that happens, Tumblr’s response will be not our problem, you agreed to all the terms which said you couldn’t do that, sorry not sorry. Please protect yourself.
Today on ‘tumblr is Perfectly Functional With No Flaws Whatsoever’
so i know we’re all going wild over TumblrPremiumPlus or whatever the fuck but ive made a new discovery about the r//a///yba//n/s scam (or new to me) and since i spent the time i should have been writing up my thesis proposal doing Tumblr Science instead, i have to at least write it down
so my datemate got an IM from someone asking what 'the sunglasses scam’ was. That’s in quotes bc the specific phrasing will be significant later.
my datemate replies with a message more or less along these lines:
“The sunglasses thing was about a bot that would hack accounts. Once it had access to an account it would make a post about Ray-Ban sunglasses and if you clicked the link in the post it’d hack you too.”
Ey hits enter, but the message won’t send. Not unusual, we all know that tumblr IM wil just randomly glitch out when it feels like it. So ey hits refresh, and abruptly finds emself on the log-in page.
“Hi! It’s time to change your password!” the log-in page says.
My datemate is naturally suspicious about unexpectedly being asked to alter eir password, but, since ey practises basic cybersecurity and actually uses different passwords for every site, ey figures there won’t be too much risk. Ey resets eir password, logs back in, and types out the message to eir friend again.
Same thing happens. Message won’t send, ey’s booted back out to the log-in page, and told to change eir password again. So ey do.
The third time this happens, ey figures something has to be wrong with the message. I’ve been watching over eir shoulder for a couple of minutes at this point, so we do a bit of Sciencing to work out what the fuck is going on.
Hypothesis: Tumblr IM is, for some reason, flagging mentions of ray-ban.
Experiment: I send various ray-ban related words and phrases to my datemate via IM. If any of them refuse to send and I get kicked out on refreshing, we’ve found the culprit
Results: “ray-ban” is fine. “sunglasses” goes through no problem. the precise phrase “ray-ban sunglasses” gets me drop-kicked to the log-in page like i was trying to start a fight in a nightclub (or so i assume. ive never actually been out clubbing)
I do a bit of fucking around on text posts with that phrase to see if that achieves the same effect.
I even tried recreating the original scam post as close as i can get without linking to a malicious website.
not a peep. i stay happily logged in.
so.
tumblrs solution to the ray-ban bots issue
was to blacklist the exact phrase “ray-ban sunglasses”
Hex's home on Tumblr. Historically have run multiple RP blogs for Hyperdimension Neptunia, Touhou, and Elsword, but nowadays am mostly just on here to talk about Arknights shit and yell into the void about my thoughts on the subject. Don't be surprised if I don't post for days, weeks, or even months on end. And similarly don't be surprised if I suddenly come back after several months yelling about thoughts I had about one of my favorite characters.
