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So I binged the entirety of How To Build a Sex Room last night and this one scene just cracked me up

The designer's at a western leather/tack store looking for supplies to make a rustic-style sex swing and turns to one of the store employees for advice, which initially goes about as amusingly as you would expect

So then she pulls up some pictures to give him an idea of what she needs

And he's Immediately like

The professional disgust, I'm living

madelinetransqt

we need more books about queer ppl who are violent and unhinged

madelinetransqt

we have enough books about being gay in high school it is time for books about being gay and a cunt

prokopetz

The fun thing about speedrunning is that you can respond to literally any piece of information about a video game in any context whatsoever with “implications for the speedrun?” and there’s a non-zero chance that’s actually a cogent question.

prokopetz

A couple of personal favourite examples of extremely silly things affecting the speedrun route:

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess low% route where a one-frame synchronisation error in Link’s idle animation allows an additional eight items to be skipped compared to the any% route by spending 17 hours standing motionless while staring at a rupee.

The Paper Mario unrestricted any% route where a seemingly trivial memory management oversight in the Nintendo 64 hardware permits a route that saves 75 minutes over the normal any% route, dropping the overall time from 101 minutes to 26, but requires you to spend the first nine of those 26 minutes playing Ocarina of Time.

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the “first 9 minutes” intrigues me. What does playing OoT do to affect Paper Mario?

prokopetz

The TL;DR version probably isn’t going to make any sense unless you’re a computer programmer, but in brief:

The Nintendo 64 has a plug-in accessory called the Expansion Pak that adds 4MB of extra RAM to the system. Most N64 games don’t use it; a small number require it.

Paper Mario suffers from several bugs related to menu loading that, in combination, can cause the execution pointer to go shooting off to gods-know-where. One of the places the it can go shooting off to is a normally nonexistent memory address that happens to correspond to a particular block of RAM on the Expansion Pak, if it’s installed.

By itself, this isn’t helpful. Jumping the execution pointer to weird places often allows for arbitrary code execution, but Paper Mario is one of the games that doesn’t use the Expansion Pak, so there’s no way to write data to it during normal play.

However, because it doesn’t use the Expansion Pak, it also doesn’t initialise the Expansion Pak’s memory on boot. This is important because the Expansion Pak consists of a relatively high-persistence type of RAM that can retain its contents for several seconds without power.

If you know what an execution pointer is, you’ve probably already figured out where this is going: we need to deposit a useful payload on the Expansion Pak using a different game, then quickly swap cartridges to Paper Mario and do the menu glitch that jumps the execution pointer to the Expansion Pak’s address.

It turns out that the quickest game to set this up with is Ocarina of Time. By doing some very stupid tricks involving stale reference manipulation of a linked list structure containing data about fairy sparkles, you can drop a few bytes of arbitrary code on the Expansion Pak. It’s not much, but it’s enough for the next step.

Swap cartridges to Paper Mario and do the menu thing. When that crafted payload is carried out, it causes the execution pointer to jump again, this time to the memory address containing the name of your save file.

The name of the save file in turn contains a series of nonsense characters corresponding to instructions to update your story progress flags to right before the end credits cutscene, autosave, then crash the console.

Restart console, load doctored save file, watch credits.

Or, to TL;DR the TL;DR: you use a glitch in Ocarina of Time to deposit a logic bomb made of fairy dust on the N64 Expansion Pak, then boot up Paper Mario and do stupid tricks with the menus to ricochet the execution pointer off that payload and start executing your save file’s name as code, thereby enabling arbitrary code execution.

Clear as mud?

jadagul

For what it’s worth, they decided that the Ocarina of Time-enhanced version doesn’t count as an any% run. But now they’ve gotten a similar glitch to work using just the PM64 cartridge, and that record is under 45 minutes. (Edit: sorry, it’s a 48:30)

It does involve plugging a controller into the third slot and holding down the analog stick with a rubber band, though.

official-kircheis

From the comments on the Twilight Princess video:

I used to really wonder how bread was ever invented. The process of making bread always seemed like so many weird steps that are each meaningless to try without the final result already in view: why would people even try to grow wheat, then grind it, then make dough, then put it into the oven unless they already knew what would happen from the start, especially when there were other crops they could grow instead? But now that I have seen this video (and others on the speedrunning community at large) I am not puzzled by this at all. The speedrunning community is living proof that humans will literally just keep trying the most random shit, at tremendous cost of time and energy, just to see what happens, and then record the results with hair-splitting precision, and then build off of each others findings with no conceivable reward in sight. And to me, that’s actually kind of inspiring.

unpretty

my two categories of anime rec are “it’s okay if you don’t really like anime, you’ll probably like this” and “this will not make any goddamn sense to you if you have not wasted years of your life on trash”

unpretty

y’all took about five minutes to turn this into some kind of contentious madoka post when i was just sitting here innocently contemplating the spectrum from miyazaki to the bread anime

iamthedukeofurl

Okay, so, I feel like I should explain the greatest invention of the modern age…that was produced by my apartment. We call it, the Weeb Ass Shit scale, after our traditional method of asking what anime somebody was watching (”What Weeb Ass Shit is this?”) It grades a given Anime from 0-10 on three different methods: Weeb, Ass, and Shit. An individual will have different degrees of tolerance for various levels on the different scales. 0 is low, 10 is high. Weeb is the degree to which the show assumes a familiarity with japanese pop culture or anime tropes in general, not only in terms of the actual content of the show, but occasionally at a conceptual level. Hyperspecialized high schools with all-powerful student councils, for example, add a couple points to the Weeb scale. Same goes for the presence or use of tropes that would be bizzare and off putting if you weren’t used to seeing such things in other anime.

A zero on the Weeb scale could be enjoyed by somebody who doesn’t even know that Japan exists, a 10 assumes the audience possesses a PhD in japanese cultural studies with a focus on animation. Something like Cowboy Bebop comes in at a 1, while I’d put Kill-La-Kill at a 6. Anything of the form “These Girls are anthropomorphic versions of something else” rates at least a 7 in my book. Next comes the Ass Scale. Put simply, how much Fanservice is in the show. busty character design, male-gaze camera angles, skimpy outfits, hot spring episodes, character A tripping and landing in a compromising position on top of character B, all that nonsense. At a 0, you’ve got something you would watch with your Grandmother after church (Miyazaki’s stuff comes in at a 0). Finally, the Shit scale, which covers general overall quality. A 0 indicates that the show is flawless, a 10 holds that you would rather sandpaper your own face than watch it. It should be noted that the Shit scale should be judged independent of the others. Too much T&A shows up on the Ass scale. Proper use of this scale is in the form W/A/S. For example, Shokugeki no Soma (Aka Food Wars) would come in at W 4/ A 6/ S 3

friendlyfrankenstein

I am taking so many fucking notes

funnytwittertweets

sindri42

Bees choose to live in the box where they know damn well that a large fraction of the honey will periodically be removed, instead of simply leaving that place like they are perfectly able to do, because the human box comes with an invulnerable titan to guard them against all threats. The bees consider the payment offered to this colossal mercenary to be a pretty good deal.

intjint

Bees know about supply and demand

urbanfantasyinspiration

Protection money

stitch-n-time

Protection honey

memewhore

death-420

Warm bread. You agree. Reblog

suns-up-bunshine-deactivated202

Bitches be like ‘I’m so tired and sleepy’ and then stay up doing hyperfixtation shit for the next 5 hours

mayjorlin

Its me. Im bitches.

natalieironside

What's the trope name for when someone finds out they're the Chosen One(tm) and is like "No, thank you" and goes and does something else

dreamswhistlesandstories

whitepeopletwitter

Life goals

cearsei

i don’t understand why people don’t like theatre. It’s the greatest work an actor can do. It’s standing bare in front of an audience, manufacturing all those emotions night after night. There’s no space for flaws that can be cut off on the editing room. It’s telling a story without a green screen and different locations. It’s just the raw talent of all people involved and it makes me very sad that it’s not apreciated enough

neofelis----nebulosa

Samoas > thin mints

framejock

Coconut is fucking disgusting. They ruined a potentially perfect cookie.

Also, Tagalongs FTW.

3wiseguys

I cannot stand for the slander of Samoas but I will be damned if someone is foolish enough to think that any girl scout cookie is better than a fresh out the freezer thin mint. Side note they must be the right thin mint from Little Brownie Bakers not ABC Bakers.

framejock

There’s some wisdom here, dear nephew, but coconut is still vile.

3wiseguys

Texture wise sure but the samoa is a beautiful cookie.

neofelis----nebulosa

Samoas > thin mints

framejock

Coconut is fucking disgusting. They ruined a potentially perfect cookie.

Also, Tagalongs FTW.

3wiseguys

fandomsandfeminism

Full time work should entitle someone to enough pay for rent, food, bills, and leisure activities. Full time work for a full life wage. You put in your 8 hours a day, 5 days a week? You should be able to afford the basic shit you need in life, no matter where you work.

rainydayshea

pisses me off that this is considered a radical statement.

ew--gross

I do agree with this but from economic standpoint if you are working at a job like McDonalds as someone flipping burgers and making fries you are getting paid for the amount of skill needed for the job. But if its any other job that requires you to have an actual skill that you can make a career out of then yeah you should be getting paid enough to live a standard life.

geekandmisandry

If you work FULL TIME you should be able to afford to fucking live. No, it doesn’t matter if it’s flipping burgers, these people contribute to our fucking economy and they MATTER. They should be allowed to be alive.

Jesus fucking Christ do you people hear yourselves?

janothar

People like this are why we can’t move on to issues like reducing how many hours is full time, or working out UBI. We’re going to need to do that. Most people just don’t know what’s coming down the pipeline, without a major change to the structure of the economy, we’re looking at large scale permanent unemployment, even in the “skilled” labor force.

tikkunolamorgtfo

Also? Making food is a fucking skill. Running a fast food kitchen is a fucking skill. Operating a drive-thru is a goddamn fucking skill.

I do not know how to do these things. I have a masters degree and I have no fucking clue how to operate a deep fryer or make coffee drinks. I’d probably not be very good at it, because that kind of hands-on, fast-paced work is very hard for me.

But thankfully, there are people who are good at it, so I can do my job, and they can do theirs, and we can benefit one another by putting our skills to use in different areas. People who work in fast food are not less deserving of comfort and security in their lives just because their skills aren’t valued like they should be. That is a myth developed to deprive people of rights.

goodness-gracious-great-balls-of

My friend works as a medical assistant and I’ve worked at McDonald’s and Starbucks. You know there’s a lot of things you gotta learn in this typa job?

Like in addition to it being physically demanding (standing up for 4-6 hours straight, carrying heavy ice/coffee, constantly getting burned by boiling water and an oven, a lot of reaching and squatting (like a lot a lot I lost 40 FUCKING pounds in a year okay this job demands a lot from the body)), there are actual skills required. Also your skin splits from using so much antibacterial soap.

Do you know what temperature different foods have to be to prevent contamination? If it’s a “cold” or “hot” plate?? Do You know how long food can be out before bacterial contamination can happen?? Do you know the difference between say 1% and heavy whipping cream? Can you teach a chemistry class using milk????? That’s p much what you gotta learn to be able to do. My friend who works as a medic was surprised, because I do more in my day than they do, and THEY told me that. They were shocked how much I actually do; I am on my feet more, talking to more people, I have a working knowledge of food germs food born illnesses and chemistry, I gotta do the same shit with sterilizing my tools the same exact way a doctor sterilizes theirs. Etc etc.

There’s no such thing as an unskilled job. There are only undervalued skills.

tikkunolamorgtfo

“There’s no such thing as an unskilled job. There are only undervalued skills.”