ARRRGGHHHH! Autocorrect on tumblr is EVIL EVIL EEEEVIIILLLLL! It took me six attempts to write a simple tag. What in the hell kind of autocreect won't let you write "females" because of course you must want to write "female elf" or "female dwarf" or "female anything at all instead of females!"
I meant lawful neutral in the vogon sense to quote the late great Douglas Adams "not actually evil but bad tempered,...,bureaucratic," etc. Never underestimate the chaos caused by a completely lawful person. Eg if someone feels completely bound by external laws wouldn't break the speed limit to clear an emergency zone and blocked the roads.
Personally I feel that in most alignment issues (like politics ) the correct representation is a circle / sphere. Often the two opposite extremes end up looking very similar
Vogons - They are one of the most unpleasant races in the Galaxy. Not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous. They wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders - signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters. The best way to get a drink out of a Vogon is to stick your finger down his throat, and the best way to irritate him is to feed his grandmother to the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal. On no account should you allow a Vogon to read poetry at you.
@kiwidoc - to be perfectly fair, most 'Auto-correct' functions on phones and the like 'Learn' from what you've typed before. So if you have typed 'Female elf' multiple times, it is 'Reasonable' to assume that it is a common phrase for you to use. And the evil satan spawn creature inside that machine has decided to F--- with you buy showing the world who you REALLY Are... (joke).
@the_spyder I have made over 650 posts on my Tumblr. I only ever post using my PC. Every single post includes the tag word "females", and the phrase "female warriors". I admit I have used the "phrases female elf", and "female alien" but this happens only very, very occasionally. Once I made a typo and posted fem, which I immediately deleted. Tumblr seems to be incapable of learning I use the "females" and "female fighters" WAYYYYYYYYYYYY more than "fem" or "female elf" or "female alien". In aplhabetical order this group of words and phrases comes before the one I really want. Tumblr oh, so helpfully stops me typing, and pusts up a list of five phrases for my to choose from .... none of which are the one I want.
This leads to much profanity, using the name of God in vain, AgloSaxon terminology and yelling, with the odd scream of rage thrown in.
@the_spyder would you beleive it? Just because it knows that we are watching it, tumblr autocorrect behaved yesterday - just like the fault in your car that disappears when you take it to a mechanic. Now that's REALLY evil!
p.s. Cthulhu has too many bits to embrace - will he/she/it settle for me cuddling just one tentacle?
I think the most embarrassing ones are, due to the autocorrect feature on many phones remembering your tendencies, it changes words to unique phrases or misspellings that you often make.
For example, if you write "xit" and instead of correcting to "bit", "lit", "fit" or "wit" it comes out... "TIT"... you really can't blame autocorrect.
I still feel like it is more Lawful Neutral. Its the old "I don't make the rules, I just enforce them" thing.
Autocorrect is but the pawns in the scheme... the real villains are the programmers!
Autocorrect is but the pawns in the scheme... the real villains are the programmers!
Heeey! We *did* include a disable button for the autocorrect after all! Next version is gonna track down all of your passwords to avoid correcting them and it'll also send them to BB. And it'll lack the disable buttom Mwahahahahha!
Autocorrect is but the pawns in the scheme... the real villains are the programmers!
Heeey! We *did* include a disable button for the autocorrect after all! Next version is gonna track down all of your passwords to avoid correcting them and it'll also send them to BB. And it'll lack the disable buttom Mwahahahahha!
And the version after that won't correct what you are typing, it will type what it wants and you are just gonna have to deal with it... Long live Skynet.
*CrevsDaak watches the screen of a computer showing a squad of Thought Police being sent after @the_spyder for giving too much information and conscription against The Party*
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Personally I feel that in most alignment issues (like politics ) the correct representation is a circle / sphere. Often the two opposite extremes end up looking very similar
@kiwidoc - to be perfectly fair, most 'Auto-correct' functions on phones and the like 'Learn' from what you've typed before. So if you have typed 'Female elf' multiple times, it is 'Reasonable' to assume that it is a common phrase for you to use. And the evil satan spawn creature inside that machine has decided to F--- with you buy showing the world who you REALLY Are... (joke).
This leads to much profanity, using the name of God in vain, AgloSaxon terminology and yelling, with the odd scream of rage thrown in.
But your story heartens me. It fairly proves my point that auto-correct is EVIL. It's messing with you.
p.s. Cthulhu has too many bits to embrace - will he/she/it settle for me cuddling just one tentacle?
When my husband got a phone he could text with, I texted him something and ended with "love you xoxo"
Didn't notice until I sent that it autocorrected to "Love you dodo"
-.-
For example, if you write "xit" and instead of correcting to "bit", "lit", "fit" or "wit" it comes out... "TIT"... you really can't blame autocorrect.
I still feel like it is more Lawful Neutral. Its the old "I don't make the rules, I just enforce them" thing.
Autocorrect is but the pawns in the scheme... the real villains are the programmers!
Don't you believe it.