Elegant Mechanic

He/him game dev and writer. Very tall, very wide, has C-PTSD.

[somanyjacks]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if the phrase "self care" doesn't resonate with you, try calling it "system maintenance" and see if that clicks.

[wormsslime]

[somanyjacks]

Reblogging to add amazing tags from @meta-theory

#this both makes things more fun and also is a really good analogy#because there are four types of system maintenance and that makes the term much more exact than the nebulous ''self-care''#and therefore much more helpful to those of us who uhhh struggle with nebulosity#for anyone curious the four types are:#1. corrective (to fix current problems)#2. preventative (to avoid future problems)#3. adaptative (to re-adjust to any changes)#4. perfective (to work towards a better system)#I really like this idea I'm gonna make a checklist

[ominous-signs]

Official ominous sign

[bitchesgetriches]

{ MASTERPOST } Everything You Need to Know about Self-Care 

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[image description: photo of a sign with all caps text reading:

"Warning

If you don't schedule time for maintenance, your equipment will schedule it for you."]

[daco-showman]

why can rockstar games institutionalise you for life like nikita kruschev for being autistic

[transhuman-priestess]

He didn't steal 10 million dollars. They made that number up as a loss, they never fucking had it. Rockstar has spent more than a billion fucking dollars on GTA VI and will likely make billions more when it gets released.

Uber is a fucking shell game of a company designed to leech investor capital and output bootleg cabs.

Nvidia posted a profit in 2023 of $4.37 billion. This is like someone stealing less than a penny from me.

And they lock this kid in a prison hospital for LIFE?

Capitalism is disgusting.

[fuckblast]

Nobody should buy GTA til they free Arion Kurtaj

[transhuman-priestess]

What with GTA VI going up for pre-order i'd just like to remind everyone that rockstar conspired with the UK government to lock an 18-year-old away for life for hacking them.

[spinningrims]

i’m seeing a lot of people reblogging suicide hotlines and this is just a reminder that this is a suicide help line that works like a text-based instant messenger for people who may need to talk to someone but have trouble/are uncomfortable making phone calls

[groovian-whovian]

Never don’t reblog this. There are so many people who have such bad anxiety about phone calls. This can save so many lives

[psychoplebalien-deactivated2024]

This is so so so very important. If you are struggling I want you to be safe, I want you to know that you are loved. I don’t like talking on the phone, sometimes I clam up and can’t talk when I’m anxious. So I’m glad that I found this to share. Spread the word.

[cyber-corp]

Had a dream where Johnny from “The Devil Went Down To Georgia” came out as a trans woman and the response was so unanimously positive it reversed nearly all of the transphobic bills in the South. She played live in Georgia to an audience of about a third of the US.

[cyber-corp]

Happy late pride month to Joanie, the best that’s ever been 🏳️‍⚧️

[cyber-corp]

Joanie recently changed her name to Jolene because “it’s funnier”, she says

[goofballproximitysurveyor-deact]

[a-maiz-ing]

The voice acting didn’t have to hit like that

[macademmia-deactivated20260103]

you have to unmute the voice acting is Oscar worthy

[slashercatz]

he sounds like an anime villain

[ralzei1997]

this is just the guy from that game slave 2 episode of invader zim

[do-not-u-dare]

oh my god

[xmajordumps]

guys,

[elegantmechanic]

Lacking anywhere else to say this, I am going to tell the three people who will read it about The Bronze Bomber.

My main exercise is swimming, specifically I go to lane swimming at my local pool. It's divided into 6 lanes (two fast, two medium, two slow) and I swim in fast (lanes one and two).

The Bronze Bomber is how I have come to think of a gentleman approximately in his mid-50s who is a fucking menace. If I said to a British person "imagine a Brexit-voting ex-pat who lives in Spain" they would exactly picture him. He has a tan best described as deep beetroot, a beer belly that makes up 50% of his body mass and a number of smudged tattoos so obscured by his tan you can't be sure which ones are racist.

So this guy apparently learned how to get into a swimming pool when he was 5 and has undergone no emotional development in the following 5 decades. He walks to the mid-point of the pool (half way down the lanes) then jumps in, causing the biggest splash he can. Literally everyone else walks to the shallow end of the lane and gets in there.

This motherfucker does this WHILE PEOPLE ARE SWIMMING. He has almost landed on me twice.

And of course he's jumping into lane 1, fast lane. But he's a medium lane swimmer. So then he swims ACROSS the two fast lanes, getting in everyone's way, to reach the medium lanes. He then swims lengths which means he is regularly at the shallow end anyway. But how does he get out of the pool? By swimming to the middle of the medium lanes and cutting across the two fast lanes again to use a ladder half way down the pool. There are ladders at the shallow end which he is apparently unwilling to even consider.

So basically he's committed to causing the biggest disruption possible for as many people as possible because he has not evolved since early childhood. He is actively dangerous. Unfortunately the lifeguards seem totally disinterested in doing anything about it. Unless someone is drowning, they do nothing. I've been punched in the mouth by someone swimming in the wrong direction and they haven't batted an eyelid.

In a few hours, I swim again and am anticipating more hazardous behaviour from The Bronze Bomber. Am I going to confront him this time? I don't know. I might be too British to do so. If that fucker jumps in on top of me, though, there will be blood.

[vicholas]

Why are people now saying "LARP" when they mean "poser". It's confusing.

[vicholas]

Everyone is always parroting The Buzzword Of The Month without actually knowing what it means or where it comes from, make it stop

[gunsandfireandshit]

Kinda like how "POV" went from "(implied first person) Point Of View" to "there is a video"

[tieflingkisser]

[infectiouspiss]

trans people don't need to hear your justifications for still enjoying harry potter in 2026 stop looking for forgiveness where you're not going to get it

[infectiouspiss]

if i walk into your house and see harry potter stuff, i'm just gonna assume you're a transphobe. no amount of "i got it from a charity shop" can save you from the fact that you value those books enough to display them in your home.

you can't just put the work of someone who's currently trying to eradicate trans people on display without being questioned about it, especially if you claim to care about us.

same goes for your social media, if you're willing to keep putting jkr's work on a podium and proudly talking about it, then it's simply logical to believe that you don't care about other people. it's selfish if i'm being honest, to think that your comfort matters more than the lives of millions.

[infectiouspiss]

and to the trans people saying that they're "reclaiming harry potter for the trans community"

no you're not, you can't do that while jkr and her neo nazi friends are currently trying to kill you. you need to let go or else your own community won't be happy to help you when our collective rights are stripped further away.

[infectiouspiss]

trans children in the uk are killing themselves because of the things jkr has done.

children are dead. children who should be happy and free to be themselves are fucking dead because jkr has used her immense wealth and social power to change laws specifically to harm trans people. if you really think that your fucking "comfort characters" are more important than the lives of children then you should say that with your full chest. go on. tell the entire world that you don't give a fuck about dead kids. that you don't have an ounce of empathy in your disgusting shrivelled heart, because you still have your shitty fucking books and your garbage movies. your comfort matters more than anything, doesn't it? maybe jkr will tell you you're one of the good ones, wouldn't that be nice?

[this-is-trans-joy]

I remember reading through the archive of violence against transmasculine people (I needed to use it as a source) and you could sort it by location. In the UK specifically, pretty much every single death was down to suicide. The youngest was ten years old.

A ten year old trans boy is dead because of JK Rowling. There is no amount of reclamation you can do with her works that will separate her influence from the deaths of these children. That ten year old’s life was worth a lot more than some stupid books.

It’s 2026, there really isn’t an excuse anymore.

[pixelartpeach]

Reblog to give a trans person a fresh and perfectly ripe mango wait huh

It's the wikipedia image??? How big could it be

What

Huh???

[bonesbeetle]

can see the pores on that thang

[crow-with-a-pencil]

Reblog to give a trans person a shockingly high resolution mango

[heron-knight]

Vampire girl explaining that vampires don’t necessarily have to kill someone to drink their blood, but she did kind of kill a lot of people back when she was all depressed pre-transition: “when I was an egg I ate four dozen lads”

[fawnpalmer]

quarterly reminder that if i reblog something ai-generated it is 110% and always an accident and for the love of god please tell me so i can delete it from my blog

[bakwaaas]

Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson) / @wholeheartedsuggestions / Jenny Slate / Euripides again

[doing-90mph-in-central-london]

he's going through a hair dye phase (sleeping in a berry patch)

[doing-90mph-in-central-london]

feels like some of u aren't properly appreciating the fact that he sleeps in a berry patch. and he rolls over and squishes the berries into his fur. because he's so sleepy and content.

[doing-90mph-in-central-london]

maybe people think he's an ugly dog but just to be clear he is actually a beautiful pig

[elegantmechanic]

Honestly my immediate thought was these were lipstick marks from someone's grandmother being delighted to see him.

[alpha-beta-gamer]

Ready for some fixed camera Weird West survival horror?

God Help Us All is a retro indie survival horror game inspired by Resident Evil 4 and Onimusha!

Wishlist on Steam

Gameplay Vid:

[elegantmechanic]

Ah yes, "cosmic corner", my favourite.

[project-catgirlpiller]

[tiny-space-whale]

Reblog if you are a human rights extremist who believes that all humans are equal and has no sense of loyalty to nation states.

[glorioustragedykid]

If you're reading this you need to tell me the name of your favorite black character NOW‼️