... Okay, So, Like - What's On With Aunt Cassie?

All at once? Yeah, that sounds cool, I wanna see that.

i keep seeing cop!dick posts on here so lemme just-

We’ve seen exactly one case of someone claiming to of “stolen” someone else’s headmate, but it was with the headmate in question’s consent and the other system was involving a particularly dangerous form of in-system abuse that basically only occurs in tulpamancer communities and is rare there - the tulpamancers tend to understand that trying the sort of thing claimed is a bad thing to do to proper, fully formed headmates, while everyone else tends to simply lack the framework to abuse other headmates *that badly* in the first place.

On System Hopping...

So, we’ve seen a fair amount of crap leveled against system hopping.

As approaching old-farts-status within the online plural community, and a trauma-formed system with DID that’s sick of seeing misinformation, let’s address some things.

DISCLAIMER: While belief in system hopping varies WILDLY within the community, let’s assume for the duration of this conversation that it DOES exist in some form. (Because this is a belief, you’re lack of it doesn’t change the fact that: the concept exists, that a lot of systems do believe in it, and that there’s a LOT of misconceptions out there about it.)

First off, let’s define system hopping. System hopping is the (neither scientifically proven nor disproved) phenomena where a system member travels from one system, to another. This can be either permanent, or temporary, and can be either a full switch over or the system member meeting in some nebulous space “between” systems.

Got it? Cool.

Now that we’ve got the “what”, let’s go over the who, when/where, why, and how.

Who “system hops”? Contrary to popular opinion, system hopping is not a belief that is exclusive to endogenic (or any other non-traumagenic) systems. Plenty of traumagenic systems believe in it, too.

We’ve seen many folks say that trauma-formed systems, or systems with DID/OSDD/etc, don’t believe in it– or “can’t do it” even if they do– because it’s a “spiritual thing”. Surprise! Plenty of trauma-formed systems are spiritual, or feel their systems have a spiritual basis, just as plenty of non-traumagenic systems aren’t, and feel their systems have a psychological basis. (And many systems of all origins are a mix of both spiritual and psychological!)

Also… it’s not just a spiritual concept. More on that in a bit.

Tl;dr, any system of any origin, regardless of diagnosis, can believe in system hopping or claim to experience it.

When/where do systems “hop”? Usually, if system hopping happens at all, it happens between systems that are very close. Usually systems that are dating. It is often pre-planned. The idea that systems can “steal” someone else’s system members is a common myth, and we’ve never heard of it actually happening. (Though, rarely, abusive systems might try and convince their victim(s) that it’s possible.)

Sometimes, systems (especially gateway systems or systems who believe their inworlds are a factual space somewhere) will form “between” spaces between their inworlds where sysmates will meet up without actually “hopping” across systems.

Most systems who believe in system hopping will outright tell curious systems to only attempt it with systems they know and trust, and make sure there is a shared understanding that it’s not something a system can force onto another system. Planning it in advance helps ensure it’s a mutually agreed upon thing, and helps reduce the risk of negative “oh your sysmate came over here”/”oh we came over there” claims.

Why do systems “hop”? Systems who claim to experience system hopping usually do it to visit friends or non-platonic partners in other systems. We’ve also seen system members who have “left” one system, “show up” in the second system some time later. (This is not the same as System B “stealing” System A’s sysmate– it’s a sysmate fully vanishing from System A on their own and reappearing in System B. This could be a case of System B forming a factive or introject of System A’s sysmate, but who’s to say.)

How does system hopping work? Honestly, we don’t know! Even if we assume it happens, studies haven’t been done on it. There’s two main schools of thought we’ve identified–

1. Spiritual.

2. Psychological.

With spiritual sorts, one of the most common explanations we’ve seen is that inworlds are basically pocket dimensions that exist out there in the universe somewhere, and so, with systems that are close (and work this way) a sort of gateway opens up between the inworlds. Or, a sort of grey area forms between the two inworlds, where sysmates between systems can meet.

With psychological sorts, the most common explanation we’ve seen is that both systems develop a “version” of the same sysmate. That version will go dormant in one system, while waking up in the other, giving the appearance of one sysmate “hopping” between systems.

And because it’s worth repeating:

Not all non-traumagenic systems believe in system hopping, of ANY kind, and not all who do are spiritual. Not all trauma-formed systems DON’T believe in it, and not all who do are psychological. The belief in– and any experience with– system hopping is not unique to any one system origin, nor is it tied to a dx status.

But isn’t it dangerous? The short answer is, it’s not inherently dangerous. Can the concept of it be used to abuse people? Sure, but so can the entire concept of systems. Anyone who wants to abuse someone, can use anything to abuse them, including the idea of system hopping. There are in fact people out there who have, do, or would use system hopping to claim they can “steal” sysmates, “break in” to your system and hurt sysmates, or claim that your system did so (or threatened to). But these are people using a needlessly maligned belief to cause harm. That does not mean that the belief is harmful.

(We personally don’t think it’s possible for a system to “force” their way into another system without both parties agreeing, anyways. Every experience we’ve had or seen that we consider genuine system hopping, it’s been mutually agreed upon (though not always consensual unfortunately), a sysmate showing up in a second system after for sure vanishing from the first system, or an accidental sort of “meeting in the middle” rather than an outright “swap”.)

So then what are some red flags? A few things to watch out for, if you decide to be more open minded or attempt this concept yourselves–

Don’t attempt to do this with any system you don’t know. That’s the obvious one, but sincerely– if you haven’t known a system for more than a couple years, if you don’t have a strong and healthy relationship– don’t try it with that system.

Both systems involved need to have good communication. Are you both spiritually based systems? Is one of you more psychological, while the other isn’t? You need to be clear about what you both think is happening. If one system feels like their system member is actually hopping into someone else’s inworld, while the other system thinks that they’re just developing an introject, that’s a situation ripe for potential problems. Make sure both participants know and agree on what’s happening.

Do not let anyone “talk you into it”. If it’s something you don’t think is possible for your system, and/or the idea makes y’all uncomfortable, say no. If the other system keeps pushing, then you really need to reconsider your relationship with that system. This is never something you should be forced into, or have to be “convinced” to try/do. It should be something both systems are interested in, and excited to try. If you’re not, don’t do it.

Similarly, if a system tries to convince you that one of your sysmates “came over” into their system, or that one of theirs “came over” into yours, when you know that’s not true– that’s a warning sign. Stand your ground, and if they push, consider getting out of that relationship ASAP.

Same for if someone claims that your sysmate did something wildly out of character. If you know that it’s something that couldn’t, wouldn’t, or didn’t happen, stand your ground and get out of there when feasible.

And while this feels obvious to us… if someone accuses you of “stealing” a sysmate, or threatens your system with such a thing, get the hell out of there.

So what do you all believe, TLC? We generally have come to the consensus that system hopping, as a general concept, likely does exist. (For statistics, we’re a trauma-formed system with DID, and we’re spiritually based.)

We are very skeptical of individual claims of it– kind of like how we believe in ghosts, but we question the ghost stories of other people. :P Of course, we don’t know how it works, only that we’ve had experiences we can’t explain– and we know others have, too. We personally don’t purposefully engage in it, because our system is closed (once someone comes in, they don’t come back out), but we did have an incident a LONG time ago where a system member was confirmed gone in a system we knew, and they showed up here, with memories we couldn’t have known about.

That said, we don’t think it’s possible, much less desirable, for all systems.

In any case, it’s never been proven to be real or not. There’s no studies out there, to our knowledge, testing it. So everyone needs to come to their own conclusions. We just ask that people not spread outright lies about the concept, or shit on people who do believe in it.

Based on my reading of various texts (most notably stat blocks of common in RL creatures), I’m pretty sure that while they CLAIM otherwise, this is actually how D&D sizes creatures.

"You should describe how big a character is in terms of height" "You should describe how big a character is in terms of weight" I am going to describe how big a character is in terms of what fluid volume they would occupy if rendered down into goo.

My really cheap phone also does this sometimes.

Given the breadth of graphics options typically given, and that the CPU and GPU are the parts that ever get dedicated cooling, this is almost certainly a symptom of something with the CPU.

Given how I've seen my PC act, with 6 cores and either 3.6 or 3.9 GHZ depending on who you trust on that, I would advise against anything more than light web browsing, text editing, carefully chosen low-CPU games, and Maybe listening to music or watching videos on less than 8 CPU cores.

(And, hopefully, the "AMD 2 threads one processor trick" isn't as important as it sounds, or you get an AMD processor, I suppose).

And of course, the issue with that is quite clear: based on the prices and stats I see (AUD, in Australia), I estimate that phones outright stop having these problems somewhere around the $400 to $500 range; meanwhile, laptops start at the upper end of that range while on sale, takes another $500 "ticket price" to have the specified 8 cores, the number of cores, clockspeed, and such needed is always going up, and, unlike for phones, developers are not obligated to put in effort to fit to those 8 cores. (There's two speed stats, but it seems phones always have 8 CPU cores? A $399 had a bad number in the more variable one, and poor performance rating, while a $499 had a good number and mediocre performance rating.)

Laptops are always so much more Fucked than phones in my experience. A laptop is like a beautiful horse that wants nothing more than to break all of its legs. A decently solid android phone will act normal

I feel like most of these titles are either obvious or likely to be about the other thing, which so happens to be made of bubblegum - though TBF, I had pinned Bubblegum Crisis as likely to be either that second one or about the bubblegum supply running out, and it sounds like it isn't - but I'm properly unsure of what's up with "bubblegumshoe". I could quite easily see Bubblegumshoe as being about bubblegum gumshoes, bubble gumshoes, bubblegum shoes, or some combination thereof, after all.

While reorganising my media library I did a quick survey of word frequency in tabletop RPG titles (because I'm the sort of dweeb who thinks "hey, I should do word frequency analysis for no reason"), and while the results were largely unremarkable, it turns out I have like four different games whose titles contain the word "bubblegum".

Tumblr Code.

If I ever see any of you in public, the code is horrifying weapon attack

Dammit the only Astrologist I’ve ever trusted used the revised version with 13 star signs and under that we’re under the new one ( OPHIUCHUS ) and I therefor can’t actually answer question 4. Also, I would put this in tags but I FAILED at that.

i made a uquiz to find out what kind of gf you are

... Also, Nintendo releases commercial failure consoles pretty often. Doesn't seem to be every other console like my dad claimed, but there's plenty: the Wii U and Pokemon Mini, at least, and more debatable, the Nintendo 3DS, which proves Nintendo will drop prices like most folk seem to be wanting for "it preformed well in the market, but not as well as expected", so...

"you have to buy switch 2 games, don't you think the workers deserve to be paid?" that's not how that works. that's not how any of this works. you dumb motherfucker. they get a salary. they don't get royalties

sideways sunday

The issue isn't them being in a landfill, really - that has its own explosion risk issues, of course, but once it's in the landfill, I suspect glass would be worse anyways.

I haven't heard this claim about them exploding compactors, but rather of them exploding in incinerators (one of the many things one shouldn't burn). Irregardless, this isn't 'it'll start a trash fire' but rather, that they'd destroy a much more expensive piece of equipment and, in the case of the compactor, not actually wind up in the landfill they were meant to get to.

AirPods Are a Tragedy

Apple claims that AirPods are building a “wireless future.” Many people think they're a symbol of disposable wealth. The truth is bleaker.