[punishedsaints]

[shadowblade8192]

do you think the people who would build a rent reducer 9000 are the same people who are building houses

[bucketofdeltav]

So my beta reader for the Big Fics is an astrophysicist, right. Who is currently also writing a hard sci-fi novel about the exploration of Phobos (more power to them, I cannot with the physics required for that, best I can do is soft sci-fi/fantasy and that reminds me I should finish that story).

Anyway I was bitching about how hard it is to come up with feasible planets in Star Wars because sometimes you need a new planet from scratch and sometimes you need to know more about a planet than the 'has jungles, is probably a moon technically' than Wookieepedia will give you, and they're like 'oh yeah I can do something about that'.

So they've written (in Matlab but they swear it will run as a .exe as well and I may be conscripted to embed it as a web tool at some point) a star system generator.

You input what you know about the planet (ecosystem, population, sun colour, does it have liquid water, does it have a moon or moons, is it a moon or moons, temperature averages, atmosphere, you get me) and it will give you the... everything else about the star system, in obedience to real-universe physics. And if you input nothing you get a randomly generated star system.

And I’m like oh I know people who will be into this with a vengeance, and they're not on Tumblr, so this is me seeing who exactly would be keen on, and I cannot stress this enough, a real-physics comprehensive star system generator.

It's still in the debugging phase (last error fixed: every planet wants to have a population of exactly 5000 regardless of other factors, turned out to be a missing equals sign somewhere), but I'm psyched for this and trying to gauge interest for how high a priority 'make this an accessible web tool' needs to be.

[melyzard]

[elodieunderglass]

@bucketofdeltav says the URL is here: http://tumblr.com/star-system-generator

okay it has its own blog now (@star-system-generator) on Tumblr

Follow @star-system-generator and get more of the good stuff by joining Tumblr today. Dive in!

[offshoreoilrig]

istheveilbetweenworldsthinrightnow.com

Veil status: normal

Tomorrow's veil: normal to thick

Download the app for convenient, ad-free updates on the invisible barrier separating the material realm from the astral plane

[cellarspirit]

being drunk on public transit unlocks a transcendent serendipity not found elsewhere

[cellarspirit]

i'm communing with the big steel animal

[cellarspirit]

i will admit. this is humbling

[innerchildabortionclinic]

suddenly thankful I only worked retail because this would piss me off so bad. here's my genuine opinion: if you really can't eat the entire donut because of your dumbass diet or whatever, have some self control and eat NONE of it

[jackalopetracks]

I thought this was some weird little quirk of my own workplace. It drives me nuts because we get them from the expensive local donut place sometimes. I never actually manage to see which specific people do it because I am not a morning person and usually hide in my office with my coffee until my brain finishes waking up.

Sometimes the leftovers sit overnight. Maybe one day I’ll sit in the break room at the end of the day and stitch the mismatched partial donuts together with a needle and thread, leaving an elaborate and grotesque donut sculpture for them to find in the morning.

Or maybe I’ll just stand next to the box of donuts and eat every single partial donut that they leave behind. I will look them in the eye. I will die for their sins.

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

fanfiction.gov

[dark-academia-lady]

archiveofourown.edu

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

what's the point of initiating conversations with people when 99.9% of them turn out to be normies

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

okay. how do I put this. if you approach interactions with strangers as if the vast majority of them are unbearable losers who aren't worth your time, you will find yourself not liking most of the people you meet because you'll be looking for any excuse to write them off as unbearable losers. I know this is hard to hear but sometimes the problem is you.

[andmaybegayer]

> looking at a new popular collectible

> ask the people if it's objects or gambling

> they don't understand

> pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is objects and what is gambling

> they laugh and say "it's a good collectible sir"

> look up how to buy a collectible

> its gambling

[andmaybegayer]

> #wait are labubu's blind bags?!

Labubus are blind bags but they're also blind bags with some of the most insane dark patterns stacked on top. The online store for them has a thing where they tell you what you got the second you order it online so that you can immediately try again if you didn't get the thing you wanted.

There's also a shake feature that is designed to encourage you to buy more than one by narrowing down the possibility space on a crate of options so that if you're hunting a specific model you can verify that it's guaranteed to be in one of these three IF you buy all three right now!!!!!

[girlishgamine]

You can read more about what dark patterns are and how to spot them here.

Deceptive Patterns (aka Dark Patterns) - spreading awareness since 2010

The original website about deceptive patterns (also known as “dark patterns”) - tricks used in websites and apps that make you do things tha

[ralfmaximus]

That is a fucking awesome site everyone should visit. Don't skip the Hall of Shame.

[dailymanners]

I just thought of this post, which was actually how I learned what Dark Patterns are, because I tried to cancel my Adobe Acrobat subscription, and it took much longer than I anticipated because several times throughout the process it felt like it was intentionally trying to trick me into thinking I'd cancelled my subscription when I actually hadn't yet.

Please read up on Dark Patterns and learn how to recognize them.

[shiftythrifting]

a small price to pay for Snail Table, in my opinion

every house needs a snable

[orteil42]

we're overdue for a reactive wave of anti-cozy games. animal crossing but office workers. restaurant management but applebee's. farming sim but all spreadsheets. never see an ear of corn the whole game

[stjohnstarling]

People on the internet love to criticize work by Some Guy with zero institutional power like it's made by Disney Studios, and talk about Disney movies like they're made by their personal friend Amy, who is just trying her best,

[dumbpuppyfag]

there's a massive, underreported subculture on this site that i can only describe as secular mormonism if mormons voted democrat

[dumbpuppyfag]

zero moral nuance

queer-inclusive but still misogynist

don't have to be from the US, do have to act like you are

ostensibly welcoming to everybody, mysteriously white as hell

terrified of the idea that sex could be enjoyable for anyone

absolutely incapable of structural critique, everything is individual moral choices

enforcement through public humiliation and isolation accountability :)

fear of infiltration by a corrupting outside influence - asserting a right to privacy or failing to publicly demonstrate moral in-group status is treated as a confession

the worst music you've ever heard in your life

[theres-a-hole-in-my-wall]

shunning out the unwanted making a callout post + harassment campaign

[snail-that-games]

This point and click visual novel is insane... The visual style, setting, story, vibes... oh my its prefect.

Panthalassa is set in an underwater alien world. You play as an Artificial Intelligence trying to uncover the memories of their body's previous owner, who was made by an mysterious, advanced civilization

Experience the world through different user interfaces, where the physical and digital worlds collide. You as "MAG" an autonomous exploratory submarine will find new Aquatic Specimens, catalog them, solve puzzles and organically discover hidden information by searching every nook and cranny of this bizarre digital world.

And the trailer is insane. Its so well done. If you like the retro 90s early 2000s aesthetic please watch it, its just 1 min long.

This is now one of my most awaited games on my wish list. I love the ocean, I love the early 2000s, I love weirdly creepy point and click games and puzzles. This game is everything I have ever wished for, and just based on the demo I know I will LOVE the game.

[parkchanwoohoo]

I think many people would be much happier if they let go of the idea that there are things in this world that are Allowed and Not Allowed and Objectively Correct and Objectively Wrong. Like man idk sometimes shit just depends

[bumblebeebats]

The crazy thing is, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, if you asked me on any given day "Would like to see a picture of some genitals?" my answer would be "😰 No, that's... No, thank you. I'm okay, actually." I have nothing but the utmost respect for people who do engage with the penis side of the internet, but personally, I've spent the better part of two decades doing all I can NOT to have pictures of dick and balls or sexy bikini babe buttcheeks blasted onto my retinas constantly. And yet... to be denied the penis? To have a jumped up pile of javascript tell me, a grown adult with an air fryer and an outstanding council tax bill, that I cannot be trusted to withstand the sight of a bare nipple unless I let it scan my drivers' license? I will move heaven and earth to see that fucking nipple, friend. I will walk a thousand miles barefoot on hot coals before I give you big brother bitches my passport number. A thousand miles through the desert with five VPNs just to press my face up against the glass and see the last uncensored picture of two My Little Pony Characters sixty-nining each other, and I don't even want! to look at it! But I will! I must! for the sake of our fucking democracy!

[isbergillustration]

A totally average amount of whelmed

[webdiggerxxx]

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