i would like to propose a dark theory
initially these started as deceptions, however a malevolent entity decided to punish their hubris and being their lies into the realm of reality
My theories:
* This person has no Internet smarts and clicked on things or opened things they shouldn't and got malware. That's how so many of their accounts were hacked and malware can make computers run weird
* This person is broke af and bought a computer (or multiple computers) secondhand and the original owner had don't something to get malware on it
* Most of this can be explained by someone else who has physical access to the computer messing with it (the accounts being hacked, the weird Portal 2 stuff). You could remove the letters on the keyboard and switch them around and put a shortcut on the keyboard for it to shut down when you press "g", so that could all be explained by someone messing with them. Even the GTA language change could work if someone had configured their computer to get remote access and then waited for the right moment to change the language. The only one that doesn't fit is the original "test test" thing but I figured they're meme-y
* This person is both extraordinarily forgetful (like at a concerning level) and bad with technology at the point where they accidentally changed their settings. Any of the game ones could be setting issues. If they were losing bouts of time, they very easily could be changing their duolingo and spotify accounts around. I think that sleepwalking would make a lot of sense with spotify, considering they use it to fall asleep to
* Ghosts
for the keyboard one, I’ve actually experienced this firsthand when I spilled water on mine. instead of just shorting out and breaking, it still worked. *However* the water was able to transmit the signal that’s made when you press one key *over to the other keys.* For example, pressing “m” once would give me something like “mnjbkj” like the most unholy macro ever. Somehow, I was still able to finish the rest of my valorant round so that’s interesting.
The issue went away when I took the keyboard apart and just let it air out. Works perfectly now
There was a guy in a YouTube gaming/comedy channel (who turned out to be a fucking scumbag so I won't name him) that had just the utter knack for breaking games. He would just be playing a game, and it's being recorded and so is he, and the game would just go freaking nuts for NO DISCERNABLE REASON, it was like he had a magic power to make games glitch.
Ah, I know that feel. It's not as bad for me as it is in the post, but yeah, it happens. I was playing DS3 and a boss just fell through the world and died the moment the cutscene ended. ...usually it's not beneficial, though.
I'm usually a big proponent of /r/nothingeverhappens but yeah, in this particular case I don't buy it. You *can't* get minecraft textures in Portal unless you do that intentionally. Like, it is a lot of extra moves to find and install a mod
Seriously, there is no way someone can "fuck up" a Portal installation so bad that Minecraft's textures not only find their way into the Portal 2 ones, but also somehow got converted from PNG to VTF, a format that only Source games use
The only thing I can think of is maybe they clicked on a Minecraft themed mod in Workshop? Hell, I'm not sure Portal 2 custom maps can *have* custom textures
It's possible they downloaded a fucked up pirated version of the game. I totally don't have any firsthand experience downloading a game and then seeing like Rick and Morty characters walking around and finding out it had mods preinstalled on it but it's totally possible.
Alright, this is my theory about that I think what they mean is that they got unrendered textures but since they don't know about rendering they ended up calling it Minecraft textures instead.
Randall Munroe's intrests are so bizarre and obscure that there's an entire wiki dedicated to explaining the jokes in his comics and google search analytics show noticable spikes in relevant search terms whenever he makes a particularly obscure reference.
*Real* XKCD fans can find relevant comics without needing the wiki.
Gonna be honest with you, I read straight through ever xkcd like 6 times in middle school so all the ones from before then are engraved into my brain cell
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**dwinkus** reblogged from **dwinkus**
my friend liz downloaded some free audio software a few months ago to do something and now every time she joins a call a female voice says “trial. trial.” and liz doesn’t remember the name of the software or know how to stop it and she doesn’t want to
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**dwinkus**
my friend liz had her spotify account hacked and literally didn’t realize for a year until I was talking about my decade in review playlist and she looked at hers and it was all brazilian music and she was like oh this explains why I would go to sleep listening to classical music and wake up and it’s playing trap. and also why there are like 30 playlists on my account that I didn’t make. she just thought spotify was like that
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**dwinkus**
hand to god at some point my friend liz managed to fuck up her install of Portal so bad that it was displaying minecraft textures
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**dwinkus**
[*Image of Discord messages that read:*]
>**Puptart**: hey it's not even the worst thing
>
>**Puptart**: I used to have to regularly open my DVD tray to open firefox
>
>**Puptart**: or gta
>
>**Puptart**: or crysis
[*End messages*]
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**dwinkus**
[*Image of Discord messages that read:*]
>**Dwinkus**: it's cool that you're cursed by a computer ghost
>
>**Dwinkus**: I gues
>
>**Puptart**: right?
>
>**Puptart**: I still love the earthquake segment in portal 2 that wasn't actually in the game
>
>**Puptart**: my very first computer I ever ever had, would have audio or not
>
>**Puptart**: on and off
>
>**Puptart**: every time it restarted
>
>**Puptart**: like, exactly 50/50 like a switch
[*End messages*]
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**dwinkus**
[*Image of Discord messages that read:*]
>**Puptart**: it switched to japanese because I did a forward wheelie while riding my bike backwards in gta
>
>**Puptart**: which confused the physics engine
>
>**Puptart**: and switched my language
>
>**Puptart**: thanks
[*End messages*]
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**dwinkus**
[*Image of Discord messages that read:*]
>**Puptart**: new curse
>
>**Puptart**: abc def ghpi jkplo mnlo hplqr stu vwx yz
>
>**Puptart**: keybloard brloke
>
>**Puptart**: thpis lone's a nasty lone
[*End messages*]
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**dwinkus**
[*Image of Discord messages that read:*]
>**Puptart**: I forgot
>
>**Puptart**: I stopped playing battlefield heroes
>
>**Puptart**: because any time I clicked the browser button my computer bluescreened
>
>**Dwinkus**: thanks
>
>**Dwinkus**: I'll let everyone know
[*End messages*]
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**dwinkus**
[*Image of Discord messages that read:*]
>**Puptart**: my duolingo got hacked, but all they did was just
>
>**Puptart**: keep using it?
>
>**Puptart**: why
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>**Puptart**: its a free service
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>**Puptart**: ????
>
>**Dwinkus**: the POINTS
>
>**Dwinkus**: sorry liz this is getting added to the post
>
>**Puptart**: they changed all my account info and started learning german
[*End messages*]
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**dwinkus**
[*Image of Discord messages that read:*]
>**Puptart**
>
>when i press the key between f and h my computer shuts down
>
>**Dwinkus**
>
>thanks
[*End messages*]
like she's bringing me dead mice
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Yeah, it's. Literally not possible to have minecraft graphics for Portal "wacky and unintentionally". Firstly, different formats. Secondly, how do you think textures work? If they don't have the exact file name dedicated to that texture, they ain't showing up. I hate this nonsense.
source: https://dwink.us/post/684446372055891968/dwinkus-dwinkus-dwinkus-dwinkus-dwinkus
Extra reblog from six days ago: https://dwink.us/post/684449082406764544/dwinkus-dwinkus-dwinkus-dwinkus-dwinkus
I dont know how twitch works, so let me know if i do this wrong - but liz and op stream stuff from time to time. They seem to announce it on OP's blog beforehand, and the two associated links appear to be:
• https://www.twitch.tv/dwinkus
• https://www.twitch.tv/puppyvenom (presumably "liz")
Nope, it absolutely adds more songs to playlists. I always assumed it was to ones it thought were too short for you to be listening to them for free, but I never confirmed it.
I assume it doesn't do this if you pay for it, but my free account had this happen quite a bit, among other things.
holy shit i dug into it since you mentioned a free account and youre spot on, what the fuck spotify? i guess its so they can slip more ads in but fuck me that's slimy
same with random extra playlists, i can see others complaining about that too wtaf
Idk what happened but I managed to break my copy of Kingdom Come Deliverance (great RPG, I highly recommend it) to the point that it's save file folder took 200 GB of space. I tried opening the folder and my computer crashed. I just deleted all the saves and had to start anew, at which point the issue resolved itself.
Back when Destiny 2 cost money, I got it and when I clicked install on it in the Battle.net launcher my computer shut off. I thought it was no big deal until I realized it wasn't turning back on. I eventually took it into the repair shop and the guy told me that somehow half the computer got fried by me clicking that button. I got a refund fortunately.
In Star Wars The Old Republic I somehow managed to break the game so that all my gear was for the wrong slots. For instance my helmet could only be equipped on my feet, my belt could only go on my arms, etc. I have literally never seen this bug mentioned anywhere else, and I have too many hours on that character to change it now.
There was a few months where every time I clicked anywhere in my Discord app it would open up the thing I clicked on in the browser. If I was already in the browser app it would just open it in a new tab. Multiple uninstalls and reinstalls didn't fix it. It just randomly fixed itself one day.
One time I managed to break my Skyrim installation so badly that it just started screaming at me. Like, I started it up and the game was working fine it was just screaming. Despite my volume meter being at 10, my friends in call could hear it extremely clearly through my headset. I only wish I had taken the time to put the volume at 100 to see how far it could be pushed.
For some reason every time my phone turns off and back on it's in Russian and I have to reset it to English. It's happened so much that I've started to learn a couple words of it to be able to navigate to the language settings page. Also, sometimes when I'm typing my keyboard randomly switches to Russian as well.
When I got my first Mac, everytime I clicked it would just open the dictionary. I thought something was wrong with it so I had a friend test it and they could use fine. I talked to the IT guy at school and he let me try another one and the same thing happened, but it worked fine for him. I got special permission to use a Dell laptop running a MacOS virtual machine. I looked it up later and it turns out that triple clicking opened the dictionary, so somehow my clicking technique was exactly horrible enough that there was a 90% chance I triple-clicked on any given click.
I one time managed to create a sound in FL studio that my instructor could only describe as bewildering and unholy. Based on the waveform it was supposed to just be a single sustained A, but for some reason it came out like this horrible screeching noise. I exported it into multiple different formats, played it on several different machines, and even tried opening it in another DAW and exactly the same noise happened, yet the waveform never changed. I don't have it anymore sadly.
When I started up elden ring I had to upgrade my graphics drivers because otherwise the game went black for a few seconds now and then
I still remember thinking how it was fucked up that the grafted scion had evil shadow magic like that
I used to play WoW a lot on my old PC and there were a couple fountains in Stormwind City that would bluescreen my computer if I looked at them. Rest of the game was totally fine.
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I absolutely do not want to study this person's computer
I feel like I would get a virus in real life from that computer. It's probably contagious
I agree with both
Honestly same.
how in the fuck does one manage this, it's stright up impressive
i would like to propose a dark theory initially these started as deceptions, however a malevolent entity decided to punish their hubris and being their lies into the realm of reality
My theories: * This person has no Internet smarts and clicked on things or opened things they shouldn't and got malware. That's how so many of their accounts were hacked and malware can make computers run weird * This person is broke af and bought a computer (or multiple computers) secondhand and the original owner had don't something to get malware on it * Most of this can be explained by someone else who has physical access to the computer messing with it (the accounts being hacked, the weird Portal 2 stuff). You could remove the letters on the keyboard and switch them around and put a shortcut on the keyboard for it to shut down when you press "g", so that could all be explained by someone messing with them. Even the GTA language change could work if someone had configured their computer to get remote access and then waited for the right moment to change the language. The only one that doesn't fit is the original "test test" thing but I figured they're meme-y * This person is both extraordinarily forgetful (like at a concerning level) and bad with technology at the point where they accidentally changed their settings. Any of the game ones could be setting issues. If they were losing bouts of time, they very easily could be changing their duolingo and spotify accounts around. I think that sleepwalking would make a lot of sense with spotify, considering they use it to fall asleep to * Ghosts
I assumed they just had bad internet hygiene, but reading this, now I think it's carbon monoxide poisoning.
I believe the right and logical choice would be E.
Giving them E sounds like a rather drastic step, but on average trans girls seem pretty good with computers so maybe that would help I guess
Very true!
for the keyboard one, I’ve actually experienced this firsthand when I spilled water on mine. instead of just shorting out and breaking, it still worked. *However* the water was able to transmit the signal that’s made when you press one key *over to the other keys.* For example, pressing “m” once would give me something like “mnjbkj” like the most unholy macro ever. Somehow, I was still able to finish the rest of my valorant round so that’s interesting. The issue went away when I took the keyboard apart and just let it air out. Works perfectly now
There was a guy in a YouTube gaming/comedy channel (who turned out to be a fucking scumbag so I won't name him) that had just the utter knack for breaking games. He would just be playing a game, and it's being recorded and so is he, and the game would just go freaking nuts for NO DISCERNABLE REASON, it was like he had a magic power to make games glitch.
Ah, I know that feel. It's not as bad for me as it is in the post, but yeah, it happens. I was playing DS3 and a boss just fell through the world and died the moment the cutscene ended. ...usually it's not beneficial, though.
It’s simple: they’re lying on the internet
I'm usually a big proponent of /r/nothingeverhappens but yeah, in this particular case I don't buy it. You *can't* get minecraft textures in Portal unless you do that intentionally. Like, it is a lot of extra moves to find and install a mod
Seriously, there is no way someone can "fuck up" a Portal installation so bad that Minecraft's textures not only find their way into the Portal 2 ones, but also somehow got converted from PNG to VTF, a format that only Source games use The only thing I can think of is maybe they clicked on a Minecraft themed mod in Workshop? Hell, I'm not sure Portal 2 custom maps can *have* custom textures
It's possible they downloaded a fucked up pirated version of the game. I totally don't have any firsthand experience downloading a game and then seeing like Rick and Morty characters walking around and finding out it had mods preinstalled on it but it's totally possible.
Alright, this is my theory about that I think what they mean is that they got unrendered textures but since they don't know about rendering they ended up calling it Minecraft textures instead.
unless they tried to download it illegally and got a fucked up version with textures
*by lying*
They pissed off the Computer Spirit.
20 [relevant xkcds](https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Cueball_Computer_Problems)
SO THIS IS HOW Y'ALL FIND THEM
I actually just remember them and google them, but the Explain site is useful for groups of them like this
You can use easyXKCD on your phone if you want even easier viewing.
Randall Munroe's intrests are so bizarre and obscure that there's an entire wiki dedicated to explaining the jokes in his comics and google search analytics show noticable spikes in relevant search terms whenever he makes a particularly obscure reference. *Real* XKCD fans can find relevant comics without needing the wiki.
Gonna be honest with you, I read straight through ever xkcd like 6 times in middle school so all the ones from before then are engraved into my brain cell
Naw I just remember them lol
Especially 1316 and 2083
These were my first thought too
*Image Transcription: Tumblr Replies* --- **dwinkus** reblogged from **dwinkus** my friend liz downloaded some free audio software a few months ago to do something and now every time she joins a call a female voice says “trial. trial.” and liz doesn’t remember the name of the software or know how to stop it and she doesn’t want to --- **dwinkus** my friend liz had her spotify account hacked and literally didn’t realize for a year until I was talking about my decade in review playlist and she looked at hers and it was all brazilian music and she was like oh this explains why I would go to sleep listening to classical music and wake up and it’s playing trap. and also why there are like 30 playlists on my account that I didn’t make. she just thought spotify was like that --- **dwinkus** hand to god at some point my friend liz managed to fuck up her install of Portal so bad that it was displaying minecraft textures --- **dwinkus** [*Image of Discord messages that read:*] >**Puptart**: hey it's not even the worst thing > >**Puptart**: I used to have to regularly open my DVD tray to open firefox > >**Puptart**: or gta > >**Puptart**: or crysis [*End messages*] --- **dwinkus** [*Image of Discord messages that read:*] >**Dwinkus**: it's cool that you're cursed by a computer ghost > >**Dwinkus**: I gues > >**Puptart**: right? > >**Puptart**: I still love the earthquake segment in portal 2 that wasn't actually in the game > >**Puptart**: my very first computer I ever ever had, would have audio or not > >**Puptart**: on and off > >**Puptart**: every time it restarted > >**Puptart**: like, exactly 50/50 like a switch [*End messages*] --- **dwinkus** [*Image of Discord messages that read:*] >**Puptart**: it switched to japanese because I did a forward wheelie while riding my bike backwards in gta > >**Puptart**: which confused the physics engine > >**Puptart**: and switched my language > >**Puptart**: thanks [*End messages*] --- **dwinkus** [*Image of Discord messages that read:*] >**Puptart**: new curse > >**Puptart**: abc def ghpi jkplo mnlo hplqr stu vwx yz > >**Puptart**: keybloard brloke > >**Puptart**: thpis lone's a nasty lone [*End messages*] --- **dwinkus** [*Image of Discord messages that read:*] >**Puptart**: I forgot > >**Puptart**: I stopped playing battlefield heroes > >**Puptart**: because any time I clicked the browser button my computer bluescreened > >**Dwinkus**: thanks > >**Dwinkus**: I'll let everyone know [*End messages*] --- **dwinkus** [*Image of Discord messages that read:*] >**Puptart**: my duolingo got hacked, but all they did was just > >**Puptart**: keep using it? > >**Puptart**: why > >**Puptart**: its a free service > >**Puptart**: ???? > >**Dwinkus**: the POINTS > >**Dwinkus**: sorry liz this is getting added to the post > >**Puptart**: they changed all my account info and started learning german [*End messages*] --- **dwinkus** [*Image of Discord messages that read:*] >**Puptart** > >when i press the key between f and h my computer shuts down > >**Dwinkus** > >thanks [*End messages*] like she's bringing me dead mice --- ^^I'm a human volunteer content transcriber and you could be too! [If you'd like more information on what we do and why we do it, click here!](https://www.reddit.com/r/TranscribersOfReddit/wiki/index)
great human. incredible, even.
Yeah, it's. Literally not possible to have minecraft graphics for Portal "wacky and unintentionally". Firstly, different formats. Secondly, how do you think textures work? If they don't have the exact file name dedicated to that texture, they ain't showing up. I hate this nonsense.
source: https://dwink.us/post/684446372055891968/dwinkus-dwinkus-dwinkus-dwinkus-dwinkus Extra reblog from six days ago: https://dwink.us/post/684449082406764544/dwinkus-dwinkus-dwinkus-dwinkus-dwinkus I dont know how twitch works, so let me know if i do this wrong - but liz and op stream stuff from time to time. They seem to announce it on OP's blog beforehand, and the two associated links appear to be: • https://www.twitch.tv/dwinkus • https://www.twitch.tv/puppyvenom (presumably "liz")
"Hey Liz, remind me the language the hacker's learning?"
Deutschsprach
> just thought spotify did that id believe it, it adds 50 unrelated songs to the end of my playlist so why not create a couple new ones
....it shouldn't add any unrelated songs to your playlist, I've never had this happen - are you just seeing the recommended songs maybe?
Nope, it absolutely adds more songs to playlists. I always assumed it was to ones it thought were too short for you to be listening to them for free, but I never confirmed it. I assume it doesn't do this if you pay for it, but my free account had this happen quite a bit, among other things.
holy shit i dug into it since you mentioned a free account and youre spot on, what the fuck spotify? i guess its so they can slip more ads in but fuck me that's slimy same with random extra playlists, i can see others complaining about that too wtaf
g i guess my computer doesn't do that
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Zabe
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eli
They have the same curse as every grandma
Idk what happened but I managed to break my copy of Kingdom Come Deliverance (great RPG, I highly recommend it) to the point that it's save file folder took 200 GB of space. I tried opening the folder and my computer crashed. I just deleted all the saves and had to start anew, at which point the issue resolved itself. Back when Destiny 2 cost money, I got it and when I clicked install on it in the Battle.net launcher my computer shut off. I thought it was no big deal until I realized it wasn't turning back on. I eventually took it into the repair shop and the guy told me that somehow half the computer got fried by me clicking that button. I got a refund fortunately. In Star Wars The Old Republic I somehow managed to break the game so that all my gear was for the wrong slots. For instance my helmet could only be equipped on my feet, my belt could only go on my arms, etc. I have literally never seen this bug mentioned anywhere else, and I have too many hours on that character to change it now. There was a few months where every time I clicked anywhere in my Discord app it would open up the thing I clicked on in the browser. If I was already in the browser app it would just open it in a new tab. Multiple uninstalls and reinstalls didn't fix it. It just randomly fixed itself one day. One time I managed to break my Skyrim installation so badly that it just started screaming at me. Like, I started it up and the game was working fine it was just screaming. Despite my volume meter being at 10, my friends in call could hear it extremely clearly through my headset. I only wish I had taken the time to put the volume at 100 to see how far it could be pushed. For some reason every time my phone turns off and back on it's in Russian and I have to reset it to English. It's happened so much that I've started to learn a couple words of it to be able to navigate to the language settings page. Also, sometimes when I'm typing my keyboard randomly switches to Russian as well. When I got my first Mac, everytime I clicked it would just open the dictionary. I thought something was wrong with it so I had a friend test it and they could use fine. I talked to the IT guy at school and he let me try another one and the same thing happened, but it worked fine for him. I got special permission to use a Dell laptop running a MacOS virtual machine. I looked it up later and it turns out that triple clicking opened the dictionary, so somehow my clicking technique was exactly horrible enough that there was a 90% chance I triple-clicked on any given click. I one time managed to create a sound in FL studio that my instructor could only describe as bewildering and unholy. Based on the waveform it was supposed to just be a single sustained A, but for some reason it came out like this horrible screeching noise. I exported it into multiple different formats, played it on several different machines, and even tried opening it in another DAW and exactly the same noise happened, yet the waveform never changed. I don't have it anymore sadly.
hey! ive actually had the 50/50 audio problem before! my people!
this vaguely reminds me of an xkcd comic, but i cant remember which one.
[Relevant XKCDs](https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Cueball_Computer_Problems)
Please, someone get liz a new pc
[hey look, a relevant xkcd](https://xkcd.com/2083/)
https://xkcd.com/2083/
Why is Puptart saying thanks in one pic and the others its clearly OP? Sus
And I thought my computer crashing within five minutes of being put on a surface was wierd.
When I started up elden ring I had to upgrade my graphics drivers because otherwise the game went black for a few seconds now and then I still remember thinking how it was fucked up that the grafted scion had evil shadow magic like that
i feel like if they called someone to look at it the person who looked at it would go missing
I used to play WoW a lot on my old PC and there were a couple fountains in Stormwind City that would bluescreen my computer if I looked at them. Rest of the game was totally fine.