A cat collector of worlds

(He/him) I am just a cat blacksmith that likes to sculpt and forge worlds and likes to collect them just as much. If you create a world, an idea, a concept, consider it stored in my library. You can come in and look at it from time to time. Beware that borrowing from here comes at a price of damnation. (For all of those of you asking, yes I gave up brewing because the alcohol was attracting too many creatures, but things can always be discussed.)

[homunculus-argument]

I don't even know whose job it was to teach people this, but did they just stop teaching people what a bicycle bell means?

One would think that hearing a very distinct, clearly audible, reasonably loud and rapidly approaching sound of any kind would make any reasonable mammal turn to look at the direction of the sound, just purely by instinct?? If a deer heard something nearby go DING DING DING DING DING DING at its general direction, it would at least look up to see whether the source of the sound is a threat or not? Just a quick "is that something I need to be concerned about?" type of glance.

The enshittification of pedestrians has reached the point where they have less traffic survival skills than deer.

[homunculus-argument]

How exactly does one slow down and weave around pedestrians who are blocking the entire way in a formation in which it would be impossible to pass them even on foot without elbowing one or two?

[nerdyinfluencertastemaker]

This is literally why we need bike lanes

[homunculus-argument]

The pedestrians ignoring the bike bell are on the bike lanes.

[hearkheark]

People are misunderstanding OP in the notes, but I have experienced exactly this. This is what the bike lanes near my house look like every day around the time the schools let out. Featuring:

Teenagers walking in a row

Parent with buggy blocking the bike lane (often on phone)

Out of control toddler doing unpredictable zigzags

Person walking their dog on the opposite side so that the leash blocks both paths

Please notice that THE PEDESTRIAN AND BIKE PATHS ARE SEPARATED but most people don't seem to notice or care!

[homunculus-argument]

How did you get this footage of my daily walk.

[lolmanthecat]

Meanwhile in the United states

This is what people think probably when reading the first message.

[fishing-princess]

I Defeated the Demon Lord but it Turns Out the Demon Army was Largely Unaffected and I Fell Victim to a Flawed Belief in Great Man Theory

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[lolmanthecat]

These days people truly have a hard time separating fiction from reality.

[lolmanthecat]

Learning c++ only to learn how to code graphics and be able to go back and finally code with opengl in C like god always intended.

[free-my-mindd]

[writerfae]

The German urge to say “Wir kaufen nichts” when opening your door to let in friends/family 😫

[lolmanthecat]

Don't worry, it's an Italian urge as well to say "no grazie, non compriamo nulla" when opening the door to friends you have invited.

[path-of-paint]

I made her a tiny bit more. Weavery.

[lolmanthecat]

So much weaver in a single pale creature.

[uurru]

I'm return to posting with this cute Sentinel

[lolmanthecat]

Is that a new children of bodom album cover?

[xtroor]

[lolmanthecat]

Oh! I am at a stage where my dreams are in sight?

Amazing.

[shencomix]

My Fitness Coach is a Dark Wizard [Complete]

[lolmanthecat]

I hate it when they were a great coach all along.

[octavio-world]

reblog to survive

[rederiswrites]

Turns out the horsemen of the Apocalypse now prefer to go by Shareholder Profit, Private Equity, Corporate Personhood, and Workforce Optimization.

[jottingprosaist]

Shareholder Profit: War (the casus belli for attacks on workers' rights)

Private Equity: Pestilence (they are parasites that voraciously strip the value out of a healthy business until it withers and dies)

Workforce Optimization: Famine (cutting hours and employees until the business is starved of staff, barely functioning)

Corporate Personhood: Death (a hollow, shambling mockery of a human with rights and needs)

[rederiswrites]

Yeah I can work with that.

[hauntanelle]

one must imagine the tumblr mutual happy

[lolmanthecat]

I only ever did small programs and got deluded that I could program.

Now that I have a slightly more than basic program to make I get a segfault every time I try to add a single feature.

As my hubris crumbles I lie on the floor humbled.

[writing-prompt-s]

The advent of perfectly accurate live-translation tech made most communication with alien races extremely easy. Except for one thing: It has become readily apparent that every species calls their homeworld "earth", and figuring out which earth is meant in any conversation is now the big problem

[lolmanthecat]

Science: We have achieved perfectly accurate live-translation! There's only one problem!

People: oh no what is it?

Science: it doesn't work.

[medusadyke]

academic dishonesty is not something you can spin as moral lol i do not want to share a career field let alone a social sphere with a bunch of chatgpt using ass bitches

[medusadyke]

"you're just scared your diploma is going to devalue" i'm afraid you dumb bitches are going to become my colleagues and drag social services to hell

[hylianengineer]

I'm afraid they'll become scientists and data that lives depend on will turn out to be wrong - and people will die.

I'm afraid they'll become engineers and sign off on bridge designs that collapse - and people will die.

I'm afraid they'll become medical professionals who don't know what they're doing - and people will die.

The assumption that academic dishonesty is okay is rooted in the idea that what you're learning to do doesn't matter.

[constance-mcentee-deactivated20]

"The assumption that academic dishonesty is okay is rooted in the idea that what you're learning to do doesn't matter."

[phantomknights]

i think people are starting to forget what the LA in LARP means

[loki-zen]

tbh people on this webbed site in my experience only know of tabletop roleplay as a real thing, and use "LARP" solely as a neologism referring to people's real life behaviour that means "pretending (derogatory)".

[mereologic]

nah, i think it only works if you assume most people using the term do know what LARPing is. appealing to what acronyms stand for is the etymological fallacy, if you're LARPing, you're playing pretend (derogatory) in public in front of other people who aren't and didn't sign up to participate in your keyfabe, as opposed to playing pretend in private with your friends.

if swinging a foam sword and pretending to be a knight-errant on a quest was generally something you did in an abandoned field, instead of being a new and unexpected obstacle in the walmart parking lot, it probably wouldn't have obtained this sort of reputation as an insult.

[st-just]

Does that happen often in your experience? The Walmart thing I mean - I don't think *ge ever personally encountered or even heard secondhand from someone I know about personally encountering LARPers just running around the suburbs. Mostly it seems to involve a bunch of paperwork booking public parks or campgrounds or something for the weekend from my secondhand impression.

[lolmanthecat]

Los Angeles role playing?

In the suburbs?

[thenookienostradamus]

Or Louisiana role playing, which is much more fun. Character classes are great. You can be Swamp Guy, Crooked Politician, Regular Person Being Constantly Screwed by Bad Policy, Chef, Nicolas Cage, Spanish Moss, or Drunk on Bourbon Street.