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me: i wanna talk about my ocs
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me, suddenly convinced that every single thing about my ocs is stupid and cringy and probably offensive: i. have them
someone on twitter is trying to claim that use of an em-dash is an indication of AI-generated writing because it’s “relatively rare” for actual humans to use it. skill issue
I can admit this is a little out of hand, but I promise AI didn't write my 150k fic 😂
Reblog if you're a human that uses em-dashes
Happy Birthday to our fave Kazekage, Father, Brother, and Uncle!
Some ShikaTema doodles bc it’s been a hot minute and I miss them
So I was personally attacked by the new Boruto chapter.
Anyway, here’s some angst
Games industry question: Why do QA testers get viewed so lowly when they represent a proxy for end users, when studios get into such a panic when the actual end users are unhappy? It seems like taking what should be a safety net and stowing it away, then being upset it is not there when the game is in free fall.
So the simple answer is "Influencers And Media Outlets Are To Blame" and what I mean by that is that in most areas that have a very low understanding about how games are made see the term "QUALITY ASSURANCE" or "QA TESTER" and think that means that it is entirely up to those people to ensure the product is of a certain quality.
Which is not the truth and a pretty baseless thought.
Lots of "WHAT WERE THEY THINKING!? WHO TESTED THIS!? THEY SHOULD BE FIRED!!!!" types of comments in magazines, websites, and YouTube videos caused this issue to explode.
as a qa tester the amount of things that i report that are issues and the devs just go "meh not a problem for us actually" is genuinely baffling
QA is the lifeblood of the industry, and everyone who insults QA needs to understand how thankless it is both INTERNALLY and EXTERNALLY.
It is a very satisfying job, and pretty darn fun when you have a solid team around you, but it is ultimately YOUR FAULT if something sucks 99% of the time when it comes to outside views and even internal views sometimes.
QA folks are amazing and deserve respect.
WHUMPTOBER 2024: PROMPTS LIST
Welcome to Whumptober 2024 — Seventh Time's a Charm!
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We’re very excited to see the community come together for another year of Whumptober! Go wild with the prompts, and support your fellow creators - we wish you all the fun!
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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 23/23 Fandom: Naruto Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Relationships: Nara Shikamaru/Original Female Character(s), Shikamaru Nara/Original Female Character(s), other implied relationships but they’re not the main focus so they’re not tagged Characters: Nara Shikamaru, Nara Shikaku, Yamanaka Ino, Akimichi Chouji, Tsunade (Naruto), Shizune (Naruto), Uzumaki Naruto, Rock Lee, Haruno Sakura, Sarutobi Asuma, Hatake Kakashi, Hyuuga Neji, Inuzuka Kiba, Hyuuga Hinata, Original Characters, Nara Yoshino, Hoozuki Suigetsu, Uchiha Sasuke, Karin (Naruto), Juugo (Naruto), Akimichi Chouza, Shiho (Naruto), Sarutobi Konohamaru, Kazamatsuri Moegi, Udon (Naruto), Temari (Naruto) Additional Tags: Slow Burn, Canon-Typical Violence, original clan, steel kekkei genkai, she uses chains but they’re not like the uzumaki’s chains, my own take on the inoshikacho traditional ceremonies around their earrings Summary:
Chains… Do a lot of things. They bind, they break. They rattle like a snake. Most importantly, they provide links to things when they’re needed most.
One of the nearly eradicated clans from the Village Hidden Among the Stars had one remaining member, a sickly genin that Naruto and Team Gai had saved after the events that lead to the destruction of the meteorite the village trained their shinobi with. When she woke up in the Hidden Leaf’s hospital, she felt indebted to those that saved her life. Tsunade decided to grant this request, leaving her training in the hands of her Jonin Commander.
It's been a whole year since I posted the first chapter of this fic. I finished it in a little over a month. It's the first fic I've finished in its entirety since I was a teenager.
It's sequel is still in outlining hell, but I do still poke at it sometimes to see if I can get anything creative flowing again like I did with this.
In the meantime, happy anniversary, Rattling Chains.
I’m not a perfectionist, but finding a typo or a grammatical error in my own already-published fic is like stepping on a Lego honestly
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PSA: Don't use Open Office
I keep seeing people recommending Open Office as an alternative to Word, and uh... look, it is, technically, an open source alternative to Word. And it can do a lot of what Word can, genuinely! But it is also an abandoned project that hasn't been updated in nine years, and there's an active fork of it which is still receiving updates, and that fork is called LibreOffice, and it's fantastic.
Seriously, if you think that your choices are either "grit your teeth and pay Microsoft for a subscription" or "support free software but have a kind of subpar office suite experience", I guarantee that it's because you're working with outdated information, or outdated software. Most people I know who have used the latest version of LibreOffice prefer it to Word. I even know a handful of people who prefer it to Scrivener.
Open Office was the original project, and so it has the most name recognition, and as far as I can tell, that's really the only reason people are still recommending it. It's kind of like if people were saying "hey, the iPhone 14 isn't your only smart phone option!" but then were only ever recommending the Samsung Galaxy S5 as an alternative. LibreOffice is literally a version of the same exact program as Open Office that's just newer and better – please don't get locked into using a worse tool just because the updated version of the program has a different name!
Team leaders I want to see together again!
Ino! Shika! Cho!
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