Alien, he/him/his, trans dude content creator, your personal alien boyfriend from the planet cupid. I like walks on the beach, media analysis, and fandom nonsense.
if anyone’s interested, i have been streaming on twitch every tuesday (art streams), wednesday (ongoing ace attorney playthrough), and thursday (various multiplayer games; usually rotates between guild wars 2, destiny 2, and among us). i like to play with my buds on call and we have a lot of fun with it, i just reached affiliate, so if that kind of stuff’s your bag check me out!
Just wanted to add a little update because I’ve seen some comments and tags: this map is very much user generated, and it’s been running for a fairly long time!
Sometimes areas get developed or trees get removed or circumstances change which is super disappointing, but please don’t hesitate the map to reflect that so other people know that it’s no longer a viable site! Additionally, if you know of sites that aren’t on the map, adding them is a great way help out other people in your region who come across it.
As well as foragable materials, there’s also the option to add other resources as well such a seed libraries, community gardens, bike pumps, free stores/pantries, food banks, compost sites, guerilla gardens, water fountains, and other community resources.
Projects like this are amazing, but don’t forget that they work best when everyone collaborates!
Maybe it’s just because I’m Jewish but I do truly believe that life gets ten times better when you learn to complain cheerfully
I think a part of it is that it lets you acknowledge that something sucks, which is actually really good in a culture that wants us to pretend that everything is fine and we’re soldiering through all the time. Like, no, my grocery bag breaking and spilling all over the floor is not fine. I’ve had a long day and I’m really upset and on the verge of tears because I can’t handle one more thing and pretending like it’s fine only means breaking down later.
But if you let yourself complain, if you let yourself swear terribly and creatively, and you stare down at the bruised vegetables like they’ve personally disappointed you, and you make yourself smile because this is really just so, so stupid, you feel a little better. There’s a power to acknowledging that something sucks and making yourself feel better anyways. There’s a power to going “and THEN my bag broke, and it’s like—seriously? my day was bad enough” and doing it with a smile.
You shouldn’t have to pretend things are fine when they aren’t. You shouldn’t have to force yourself to smile through things that make you feel terrible. But if you can make yourself laugh by staring down at some strawberries that have decided to revolt, and give them a lecture on why they’re just terrible, really, and that makes you smile—then maybe that’s a good thing.
This is why we cannot have nice things. I am so tired.
I’m lost…what’s wrong with verification to make sure that people, esp children aren’t being exploited? Who cares if it’s hard? Both PH and OF made right decisions even if they were pushed into it by credit card companies.
To my understanding, the issue is that OF got popular and rich off the work of sex workers, and now they don’t want to employ someone (because it will cost the money) to do the work of verification, to make sure consenting sex workers can stay on the platform that they sensationalized. They are just banning it all. And also the larger issue is that none of these groups are doing the work in tandem to make sure there are safe avenues for consensual sex work to happen, because they don’t actually care that it be a viable work option for people, they just don’t want anybody doing anything sexual— and using the pretense of lowering cases of child pornography and trafficking, even if it’s not been that effective.
i dont understand half of the words here but god if this isn’t the funniest thing i’ve ever read
im pretty sure red and blue weren’t programmed but just sort of… mutated into cartridges
Red and blue are why QA teams were invented
for fuck’s sake they weren’t badly programmed. They were bleeding edge. It’s so easy to forget that but Red and Blue were literally pushing the limits of what they could fit on the cartridge.
They used every trick in the book. In that way, the programming behind them is GENIUS. It’s frankly a lost art, in this era where hardware is insanely cheap and scalable, when you can just keep throwing more resources at the problem. But Red & Blue were when programmers had to get creative. Not currently using a piece of memory? Repurpose it, we can’t just leave it lying around. Only have a couple registers? Juggle them, keep careful track so we can restore them when we needed. Does this data need to be single purpose, or can we also use it for, say, a seed value?
And all this WORKED. I guarantee you 99% of children playing this never saw a bug in casual play. MODERN games are buggier by a landslide. Remember when X&Y came out and there was an ENTIRE CITY you couldn’t save in because it’d DELETE YOUR SAVE? Imagine that happening in the days of Red&Blue. It couldn’t have. I can turn on my red cartridge TODAY and have it work. And the bugs that did exist, those edge cases they missed? They produce this behavior because the game REFUSES TO CRASH. Sure, you can make it crash if you try hard enough, but goddamn it’s resilient. It just plugs away with garbage data in memory for as long as possible.
Y'all looking down from your 64-bit quad-core smartphones with 128GB SD cards like Red & Blue were programmed by amateurs. What, you also going to bitch that the Wright Brothers didn’t make a jet engine? These are artifacts from pioneers who wrote the goddamn book that others would use as gospel.
Sincerely, a pissed off goddamn programmer.
In case anyone is wondering, Pokemon Red is 1 MB. Not one of the images. Not its Pokedex system. Not its map. The entire game is 1 MB.
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Also, this webring has citrus, so be warned!!!!
I’ll be purging sites that don’t adhere to this request.
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I’ve received a cease and desist letter from Anne Rice.
My friend let me have a subdomain on her website to host my fic — want me to ask if she’s got enough room left to make one for you?
Remember to snip email chains,and just quote what you’re responding to! Some people pay by the kilobyte!
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I have to get offline - my spouse needs to use the phone.
Zombie setting where the undead are drawn towards unhygienic scents, so survivors constantly bathe to avoid being eaten.
Zombies are docile when adorned with flowers.
Settlements overgrown with herbs and flora.
Barely any banditry; everyone is focused on farming and gathering.
Different human factions and towns named after flowers like Lilies, Orchids, Roses, etc.
Instead of immediately killing an infected survivor, they’re given special funeral rites - the zombie is covered with flowers to keep them calm, and allowed to walk out from the settlement to join the hordes.
Thank you all for the responses!!!! I got a few more notes to share from folks asking me about this setting :D
It’s incredibly risky to attack zombies. The scent of
the attacker’s aggressive intent coupled with spilled pungent rotten blood drives other zombies into a frenzy.
Zombies given funeral rites grow flowers within their bodies, eventually bursting from their chest and head area. These zombies are naturally gentle and their presence tames other zombies in the vicinity. Due to their helpfulness, it’s taboo to harm “blooming” undead:
Sweaty summers are the worst and everyone hopes they have enough dried flowers to last the winter.
It’s a colourful apocalypse! An overabundance of flowers in the world leads to plenty of dyes and busy little honey bees!! Scented candles are a thriving export.
Survivors who help spread flowers, look after “blooming” undead, cull the hordes, and herd zombies away from safe areas are affectionately called Florists.
Regular weapons such as guns and knives are still used but everyone prefers perfumed water guns, spray bottles, and incense.
Zombies are so overwhelmed by the pleasant scent of rain that entire hordes cease movement until it’s gone.
This is a reminder Ed Brubaker has received more money for his Winter Soldier cameo than for writing the god damn book and character
I think more people should know about how various industry associations and labor groups (including my very own Horror Writers Association) have come together to form the Anti-Disney Task Force and you can read all about it at the very well-named writersmustbepaid.org
This kind of behaviour in the comics industry predates any Disney ownership as well: Jack Kirby spent half his life suing people for it. It’s been run like a sweatshop for a very long time. Generally no health insurance or anything either. Comics workers really need to unionise.
Zombie setting where the undead are drawn towards unhygienic scents, so survivors constantly bathe to avoid being eaten.
Zombies are docile when adorned with flowers.
Settlements overgrown with herbs and flora.
Barely any banditry; everyone is focused on farming and gathering.
Different human factions and towns named after flowers like Lilies, Orchids, Roses, etc.
Instead of immediately killing an infected survivor, they’re given special funeral rites - the zombie is covered with flowers to keep them calm, and allowed to walk out from the settlement to join the hordes.
Trans kids may take puberty blockers, or hormones that temporarily suppress puberty, to postpone their puberty, i.e. stopping puberty from feminizing or masculinizing their bodies before they are old enough to decide on whether to go for hormone treatments and/or surgery.
A fact that is often lost in this debate is that puberty-blockers have been used for years by cis (non-transgender) kids. None of the anti-trans activists have ever complained about this. Why?
“Puberty blockers have been used for decades in cisgender kids who either are going through puberty too early, or, in some instances, kids who are going through puberty very quickly,” Jason Klein, a pediatric endocrinologist and Assistant Director of the Transgender Youth Health Program at Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone, told VICE.
“Their use has been FDA approved, well-studied, well-documented, and well-tolerated for a long time now. And it’s the exact same medication that we use in trans or nonbinary children to basically put a pause on pubertal development. Exactly the same medications, at exactly the same doses.”
The Republican anti-trans bills leave exceptions specifically for cis kids.The laws target puberty blockers only when used in transgender health care.
In other words: They do this not in order to protect trans kids, but to preserve a transphobic society.
