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i wish i'd post here more often

[save-the-child-qais]

In a disturbing report published by CNN:

A terrifying reality is unfolding in Gaza. Many wounded children are being forced to rely on expired medicine because proper treatment is scarce, unavailable, or far beyond what their families can afford today.

[save-the-child-qais]

Sadly, I never imagined my own child would become part of this tragedy. Even today, baby Qais still takes expired medicine because the treatment he truly needs is expensive and extremely difficult to obtain.

[save-the-child-qais]

As a mother in Gaza, I have exhausted every ounce of strength and dignity trying to save my child. I beg you, please donate now and help me replace expired medicine with proper treatment. Your donation could protect Qais from even greater suffering.

Please donate Gofundme

[sad-ai]

Project Petrichor Update 2 Out now!

RRAAAAAHHHHH!!! It's taken exactly 4 months but its done!!!

For those unaware:

What is Project Petrichor?

Project Petrichor is a massive document that analyzes and connects all of the lore from across the Risk of Rain Franchise. It got really out of scope and has essentially become a lore wiki.

What is in there?

I started with all the items and have added all the monsters since. Each page contains the original lore and my analysis on how it connects to the greater Risk of Rain universe.

... Why?

I FELT LIKE IT! and it won't stop rotating in my brain. BUT! I also am hoping to create a TTRPG setting based on Risk of Rain, but that's for later. My next step will be adding all the environments... and Hollowed Concepts DLC lol. Anyway, Enjoy!

[orteil42]

increasing amount of requests for neverending legacy being continued... did some video essay get released about it or something...

my problem with that game is still the same as it's been for a long time and it's design choice paralysis. i could build on what's already there, or i could start it over from a more solid basis. there's a lot of options there; the idle loop always felt awkward to me - should i ditch the idling and make it turn-based? the game is limited technically by its browser context - should i let go of the web platform and build it for desktops, allowing me to push both gameplay and graphics a lot further? should i let you physically place buildings and move units on the map? should i make it 3d? little low-poly folks running around in procedural landscapes?

many of those, as much as i can see myself putting them to good use, run the risk of harming the game's uniqueness and turning it into some unwieldy Civilization derivative. they may also render it overwhelmingly complex when some degree of simplicity may be part of its current appeal. maybe the browser context is the point. maybe the idle gameplay is the point. as far as i can tell i'm mainly seeing calls for resuming where i left off, not to overhaul it into something better. i could just continue the tech tree and simply add missing features like war and diplomacy. it's difficult to tell what players really like about it as it is now and what to preserve and what to change, but i did find success with cookie clicker by trusting the players who found themselves enjoying it rather than my own initial intent of it as some nonsense joke game. the itch to start over with an added decade's worth of experience is very real though

if you've got feedback about the current version of neverending legacy - what you enjoy, what you don't, what feels a little off and where you'd like to see it go - i'd like to hear it in the replies here. in particular i'm interested in knowing what you'd crucify me for if i dared change or remove it. i'll try to sit down with the design docs at some point soon and get working on something. i guess i can use another excuse to slack off on the cookie dungeons

[kuttithevangu]

Students will continue to use AI until the structure of incentives in education changes. Anyone who ever increased the font size on their full stops should know this

[velvetcloak]

Halloween, but high fashion. by Wisdom Kaye

[orteil42]

if you're conscientious about web design you try your best to make your pages accessible, in particular by paying attention to clarity and visual contrast; there have been many resources written to make sure text and interactive elements aren't too small and don't blend into their surroundings too bad.

this is unfortunately at odds with web browser developers, who blithely update their scroll bars to be at most like 5% grayer than their background (chrome) or to make them 3 pixels wide (firefox)

this just isn't acceptable

[orteil42]

there are browser settings and CSS that address this to some degree but my issue is with it being a poorly-designed default for everyone. firefox narrowing its scrollbars also left a nasty gap in Cookie Clicker's interface that took me a while to fix - and it doesn't let you modify scroll bar appearance as much as chrome does. in general modifying browser UI is fickle, unstable and not to be relied on but you have to do what you can. here's how Cookie Clicker and Neverending Legacy currently look in chrome with my custom CSS:

[melody-sy-deactivated20260424]

tl;dr: do not support morshu or morshu content

tw // LO, r0pe, b*mbs

morshu was exposed recently for selling dubious products illegally. in real life. not making this up. his tiktoks were already in poor taste tbf you should never fucking joke about selling b*mbs but this is frankly terrifying. do not give this man your rubies.

twt thread by gwonam

and the worst part? if Selling Actual Fucking B*mbs isn't enough, he's also selling bombs to MINERS. see this leaked screenshot from @/steveminecraft

this is seriously seriously fucked up. i went and deleted all my morshu posts because i dont want to even give this disgusting man any more attention. you should too.

[melody-sy-deactivated20260424]

HE RESPONDED LMAO

[melody-sy-deactivated20260424]

He will never recover from this.

[orteil42]

snert sesh with the boys

snert sesh with the boys

[99bowl]

this is gang beast and chestnut fighter

[squeakadeeks]

banch

[squeakadeeks]

ANOTHA ONE 💥✋

I wanted to make another round of cheat sheet ref/bios for Stitch in the Ditch. Its like the environmental opposite of Alliacea since it takes place in cold taiga environments- but rest assured its all just another convoluted backdrop for various yuri and yaois.

[throesofincreasingwonder]

Anyway if you want to know if an illustration is AI micro-analyzing it will reveal nothing because AI is constantly advancing to hide known tells and also human art is imperfect and may have mistakes you're blaming on AI because you only want to see nails.

The best way to vet illustrations is to find the source and see if the original artist/poster has things in that same art style; whether or not they post wips, sketches, etc.; or whether they straight up claim or display more obviously AI art. Going over visual art with a fine-toothed comb is almost never going to help you and will result in false positives and therefore false accusations against actual artists.

You have to build your personality around fact checking instead of around doing bad-faith over-analysis. This is the em dash thing all over again and I'm starting to think some of you are just both mean and stupid.

[squeakadeeks]

more pacific shark behavior

[shencomix]

[srg-118]

Corruption.

[calamiteatime]

witness

[mysillycomics]

this year for Halloween Bohug is an Atlantic bluefin tuna