Too much focus on the person stuck in a time loop who knows they’re stuck. What about the people who don’t know that they’re stuck? The woman living over and over the day her son dies. The man who jumps off the brooklyn bridge every afternoon, never knowing that it won’t matter. His life won’t end. The protagonist eats something different every morning at their favorite restaurant. They quit their terrible job in increasingly comedic, outrageous fashions. They find themselves. They become a better person. They are free in the sense that they know they are stuck in the day they are in, which coincidentally has perfect weather. Meanwhile, their neighbor is having the worst day of their life, and will continue to have the worst day of their life, desperately thinking–hoping– “Tomorrow will be better,” never knowing that it won’t.
Today marks 14 years since Wikileaks released the ‘Collateral Murder’ tape displaying American targeting of civilians & healthcare workers in Iraq. This chilling pattern of atrocity continues to this day, as evident from recent events, through the genocidal actions of America’s 51st state, Israel.
elon musk had a third child with grimes that he kept secret until the release of his biography. he named it techno mechanicus
can you imagine being an adult nepo baby at a company your rich dad invested in and having to walk into the boardroom first day like. hi everyone. my name is techno mechanicus
I can tell this is fake because “techno mechanicus” doesn’t start with X
OH SON OF A BITCH
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elon musk had a third child with grimes that he kept secret until the release of his biography. he named it techno mechanicus
can you imagine being an adult nepo baby at a company your rich dad invested in and having to walk into the boardroom first day like. hi everyone. my name is techno mechanicus
I can tell this is fake because “techno mechanicus” doesn’t start with X
OH SON OF A BITCH
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I haven’t been reblogging this post because I genuinely assumed you guys were Goncharoving a nepo baby
False, the 26th president was East Virginia native B. J. “Swiffer” Johnson, born and raised (by wolves) in the beautiful state capital of Virginapolis, best known for inventing the belt buckles, keeping a pet alligator named “Swiffer Jr.”, and his pioneering contributions to racism against the Irish
i feel like a lot of the ‘i hate kids’ crowd would be more tolerant if they understood that due to a kid’s limited experience of the world that 4 hour flight might just be the longest they’ve ever had to sit still for or that trapped finger might literally be the most pain they’ve ever felt in their short life or they might not have ever seen a person with pink hair ever so of course they want to touch it or nobody’s told them yet that they can’t run around the museum and they only just learned cheetahs are the fastest animals so of course they want to put that to the test. how were they supposed to know etc etc.
some of you in the notes.. i would say read the room but you didn’t even read. the post
prev im peer-reviewing your tags bc theyre imporatnt
as someone who has hacked a ton of games: yes this is how they are.
Games that have shipped are full of terrible hacks. often they’re marked as such! if you’ve got comments, you’ll often see shit like “// fix this before we ship” and the game shipped 20 years ago, and the hack is still there.
It’s gotten slightly better since the 90s? We used to have to hack around basic missing pieces of the game engine. Like, Duke Nukem 3D has a lie in the first screen you see:
You see the little shadow around that roof bit in the middle?
This engine doesn’t support world shadows. There’s engine support for shadows under enemies, yes, but not on the world. Duke3D came out in January 1996, and Quake was high anticipated and only a few months away, and guess what? it supported world shadows! It had a whole lighting engine!
See? World shadows! The torch on the way leaves a shadow under it, and that column casts a shadow, and Duke Nukem 3D’s BUILD engine supports zero of that. So… why is there a shadow there?
If you open the level in the editor, you’ll find that the shadow is defined as a sector. You see, the engine DOES allow you to manually set the brightness level for floors/ceilings.
So they just made the level designers manually put shadows in. For every bit of the world that should have a shadow, manually draw a sector the shape of the shadow, then darken it a few shades. There you go, shadows. Did this take a massive amount of work? Probably! but it meant they looked like they had a feature they didn’t.
Railroad Tycoon saves games by taking a screenshot of the map. Commander Keen scrolls the screen by redrawing the edges of items and then actually redrawing it every 8 pixels. Wolfenstein 3D figures out when two columns of the screen next to each other have the same colors and draws them at the same time, because it was faster on these ancient video cards. 3D Movie Maker has “full 3D backgrounds” that are actually just a flat picture, but they appear 3D because they also do some trickery with a depth-buffer. Half-Life has a tram with a door that can open, something the Gold-Src engine can’t do, by having two copies of the tram level (one with a door and one with a tram) and having a loading point after the tram stops moving.
Games are always hacks at some level. They always have been! They probably always will be.
We only know about these hacks because they’re in games that shipped. The beautiful hack-free games that are architecturally pure in their design? They probably never got finished.
So yeah. Don’t be afraid to fake what you can’t do in your creative endeavors. Chances are, no one will ever notice, and the few weirdos who do (like me) will think you’re a genius for doing it.
“No one came to Google to work on offensive military technology”
- Vidana Abdel Khalek wrote in her mail resigning from Google on March 25 addressing to company leaders, including CEO Sundar Pichai, announcing her decision to quit in protest over Project Nimbus.
One detail I’ve always really liked in dunmeshi’s worldbuilding is the difference in life expectancies among races. I don’t mean the different rates at which they age but specifically how long they live from the point of view of their own group. For example, dwarfs are directly stated to age 2.5x slower than a tall-man, but where tall-men’s life expectancy is only about 60, for a dwarf it would be about 200 (equivalent to 80).
At first this stood out as odd to me but it makes sense when you look up the average lifespan for every race. In general, the short-lived races all have a smaller age of maturity to life expectancy ratio than all the long-lived ones.
I really love this discrepancy because the implication here is that long-lived races not only have longer lifespans due to aging slower, but they also just live longer generally due to a better quality of life, as they have taken the most fertile and livable lands to themselves, resulting in less conflicts over resources and faster technological developments.
Ultimately how long you live isn’t just a fantastical element of the setting, but a political one as well.
this reminds of these kids I used to nanny. the eldest (8 at the time) taught me how to play chess with this set. I remember him going over the pieces and stated that Luigi was the queen and he, no joke, said “because he’s the nicest and you have to protect someone like that” that has always stuck in my head whenever I see Luigi now
somehow this post made it to terfs and transphobes who think this means “men who think they’re women are a harmful to women” or “identifying as nonbinary is harmful to [binary] trans people” etc. which is NOT WHAT IT MEANS. the poster of the tweet is nonbinary and trans, and i am nonbinary and trans (and trans women are women, trans men are men, nonbinary identities are valid, etc).
This tweet means that trans identities and pronouns are valid and should be talked about as such. Language matters. I don’t “identify as nonbinary,” I AM nonbinary. I don’t “prefer they/them pronouns,” they/them ARE my pronouns. “Identify as” and “prefer” leave room for doubt and debate, and trans identities are not up for debate.
To reiterate: “Identify as” and “prefer” leave room for doubt and debate, and trans identities are not up for debate.
I don’t play gacha games, but I’m in online spaces which are adjacent to gacha fandoms, so every so often I’ll pop open my notifications and see a thread where the comments are like “ooh, step on me, daddy”, and the post to which those comments pertain is a drawing of a waifish anime boy being manhandled by a second waifish anime boy.
Bringing up my Tumblr dash and seeing somebody doing the “mommy? sorry – mommy? sorry – mommy?” meme in response to a picture of a dewy-eyed teenage girl who is, for no clear reason, wearing the parade uniform of the French 4th Hussar Regiment circa 1875.
and that girl’s name? Charles Cousin-Montauban, Comte de Palikao
I seem to have accidentally wasted my lunch break on a quick Charles Cousin-Montaubaun-chan, so might as well post her.
She was a calvary officer, so she gets to have a riding crop.
Any similarity to any gacha character or persons, living or dead (with the exception of Charles Cousin-Montauban) is purely coincidental.
What this implies given that information is that they may not be equipped to fail that gracefully, meaning that otherwise salvageable situations are lacking the proper failsafes. Like, do they mean the plane just sinks to the ground faster rather than gliding?
my mom, dead in the middle of a conversation, slams on the breaks in the middle of a country road so she can pull over and take a picture of all these cows running for cover from the rain and adsfkjlfkdjg and thi dskfjfgj
rthis is the only picutre she took sfdkjlfgddfs MOM this almost literally could not be worse fdkjfjkdf i love you so much
she also took a pictuer of a bluejay
and believe it or not, a squirrel
mom vs the focus on her expensive camera vs her bad eyesight
ok i swear this is the last one but please look at this bluejay
These photos are artistically bad.
Like, the arrangement is nice and the composition pleasing to look at, which is just, so fucking funny because what is ostensibly the subject if each is so poorly framed.
OP, are you entirely sure your mother is just bad at photography and is not, in fact, actually a fucking comedic and photographical genius?
every holocaust memorial day, i always ask people to keep romani people in their thoughts, but this year i’d like to clear up some misconceptions that i see every year w/ a psa
romani people are not white. we’re south asian (from northern india), and each subgroup has a unique racial makeup of asian/white/etc, in different amounts. this is also why we vary wildly in physical appearance/skintone
we still face oppression.what we face, especially in europe, can still be constituted as attempted genocide, as we’re forced to live in hazardous conditions or to give away our children, be sterilized, etc just for the crime of being roma
the ‘g slur’ isn’t just an american issue. the reason some european roma prefer the slur is because, in many countries, there is no term for roma that isn’t a slur, and it’s either the g slur or the literal translation of the n word. i’m romanian, and if you used the slur in my hometown, you’d get slapped, since we just use ‘roma’.
we live in every continent across the world. some of the largest romani populations exist in south america, predominantly in brazil. they are no more and no less roma than their european counterparts, and they, like romani in asia, africa, etc all face unique challenges and oppression.
we’re the largest ethnic minority in europe, and yet have almost no political power, no land ownership power (in some places, we’re forbidden from owning land entirely), etc. with very few reputable charities- a lot of us reject charity by principle, as well as there being a general lack of education about us- the best thing you can do to help romani people is to just spread information, and help individuals when you can.
the in-universe true crime surrounding what happened at freddy’s must be INSANE. like think about how big true crime is now.
imagine living in the fnaf universe and you find out about the case. and literally, still to this day, no one knows what actually happened.
Sure, a lot of fingers point to Henry. but his daughter died too. so either henry killed his own daughter, and the other kids. or william killed henry’s daughter, the other kids; and quite possibly his own kids. either way it’s insane. they both drop off the face of the earth around the same time, so neither of them could’ve been charged or investigated
and what do people think their motive was?
for william it’s probably a lot of needing power, wanting fame, actual psychological mental issues (just wait until people dig enough to find out about his childhood)
and what was henry’s motive? he just snapped one day?
a lot of people either assume there was in affair going on (henry was sleeping with william’s wife) so william got his revenge but killing the thing henrh cherished the most
other theories suggest that they might’ve loved each other, couldn’t act on it, (it was utah in the 80s. come on guys) and things went horribly wrong after one of them confessed their feelings
another theory is business disagreements. common.
but lastly, some people think it was neither henry or william, and it was a different, third party who commuted the murders. or! it was all of them working together
not one person is left though. not one person to tell the story and admit what truly happened.
“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. … A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. … But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.”
One of the downsides of using a clock radio alarm to wake up in the morning is the nonzero possibility of waking up to Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up.
Ask me how my morning was.
How was your morning?
I wasn’t a fan of the song I woke up to.
The fact that one of my posts broke double digits in six hours is a statistical wonder. I’ve played dodgeball with Apollo and walked away unscathed. Not even haiku bot was able to elevate me to a tenth of your guess.
I am the true Lord of the Flop, no matter what those idiots at work say.
I’ve been here for over a year, and only now struck this milestone. You think you can put me in the thousands?
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