immature techno-geek with moral autism

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[moral-autism]

Visual draft of my proposed first aid kit for Kris of Deltarune to put me in when they want a break from me!

This image is CC BY-SA, because the briefcase is from this infographic by Christopher X Jon Jensen (CXJJensen) & Greg Riestenberg. LMK if you want source code.

[moral-autism]

Added in my proposed 'puzzle'.

The switches and button have to be wired to something, right? Surely there's a correct way of interacting with them that will lead to something cool happening. If you've tried all 2¹⁰ switch arrangements and nothing happened maybe that's because actually you should flip the switches back and forth some number of times. If you manage to open the band-aid box, maybe it will have a useful hint. Don't give up!

[moral-autism]

Visual draft of my proposed first aid kit for Kris of Deltarune to put me in when they want a break from me!

This image is CC BY-SA, because the briefcase is from this infographic by Christopher X Jon Jensen (CXJJensen) & Greg Riestenberg. LMK if you want source code.

[moral-autism]

proposed first aid kit for kris of deltarune:

normal first aid stuff, with a particular focus on chest wound care and antiseptics

empty space

some switches and buttons that do absolutely nothing and aren't even wired to anything

the empty space is for meeeeeeeeee. so that kris will stop shoving me into stupid locations like the cabinet under the sink. instead i will go in the empty space in the first aid kit. a first aid kit is a reasonable and even prosocial item to carry around.

some of the antiseptic wipes are also for me, or rather for kris to wipe me down with.

i keep hearing vague theories that kris looks bad without me because they need me to live, but kris has this habit of stabbing themself in the chest with a knife we never see them clean, reaching in with their bare hand to grab stuff, and then later shoving in some stuff they left under the sink or in a rusty birdcage or whatever.

i think we should consider the alternate hypothesis that kris is just dealing with a bunch of infected chest wound problems which they aren't seeking medical help with because the doctors would ask lots of questions and the SOUL can compensate so it's fiiiiiiine. but maybe i could actually clear the infections if the area didn't keep getting reinfected. (i'm clearly doing some healing, there's a reason kris keeps needing to draw blood to get me out.)

the buttons and switches are so that i'll think there's a cool puzzle in here and i just need to keep trying more permutations! eventually i will solve it for sure. kris can rest assured that i will be too distracted counting to 1024 in binary and pressing the button after each number to try to escape the first aid kit. these are harder to explain to people who look in the kit though.

(i kind of want glow in the dark stickers but that's possibly even weirder to have inside your first aid kit.)

[moral-autism]

Social peace of Westphalia??

@isaacsapphire OP disabled reblogs on the veganism post you reblogged from me, so I'm pinging you in a new post.

People also just don’t like others trying to force them to follow the ideologically motivated diet of an ideology they don’t agree with; attempts to force non Muslims to eat halal etc goes over poorly, and acceptance of other people’s dietary choices is an underrated implication of the social Treaty of Westphalia.

I feel like there's been a recent trend of "everything I dislike is kind of like a violation of the Treaty of Westphalia". (I'm mainly thinking of you and Eneasz Brodski, so maybe it's not a trend.)

There is no social peace of Westphalia. People proselytize all the time. People try to legislate moral questions that are religiously motivated all the time! Not just the big controversies like restrictions on contraception and sodomy, but also gambling, alcohol, Sunday business closures, and so on.

It's normal for people to moralize to each other about questions of religious significance, too. Suppose Alice divorces her first husband Bob Smith and marries Carl Doe. If she then introduces herself as Mrs. Doe, we are supposed to call her Mrs. Doe. If someone refuses to call her that because according to their beliefs, remarriage doesn't work, we are unlikely to tolerate this. I suspect that if this person argued it was a violation of their freedom of religion for an employer to require they say "Mrs. Doe", we would be unimpressed.

Also, the belief that animals are moral patients is hardly way out there. "Animals are not anywhere near as important as humans, but still somewhat important" is the kind of belief plenty of people hold. This belief is also enough to justify a lot of restrictions on animal agriculture, because modern animal agriculture is unusually bad.

We can't just say "nobody can ever advocate for societal changes based on a moral viewpoint not everyone shares and which could be interpreted as religious" unless we want nobody to be free to advocate for any societal change ever.

[changeling-droneco]

Have you ever wanted to be in a soulmate au? No? Too bad! Spin the wheel and see what bizarre soulmate au you've found yourself in. Soulmate can be platonic, familial, rivalry, romantic or whatever else you want it to be though. Do note that some of these do imply a more romantic or sexual soulmate but honestly it's kinda funnier if the signifier is something kinda horny and the soulmate is just platonic.

How we feeling?

I found my soulmate super quick and everything's fine!

The soulmate signifier is so unintrusive I don't care if i find them or not

Things will be really bad at first but once I find my soulmate it should be fine

My entire life is ruined and I have to work around this for the rest of my life

I'm just really confused, this concept seems more convoluted the more you think

I'm just straight up dead?? what??? isn't this supposed to be a romance trope???

Well my life is just going to be a comedy of annoying errors.

Oh this is just really cute in general, I'll be fine even if it takes awhile

Oh my life has objectively been improved by this universe actually

This is a fate worse then death

I am actively trying to avoid finding my soulmate

other/im bald/vanilla extract

Remaining time: 2 days 11 hours

Sources for the wheel

x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

I got this which is weird but fine because I'm ace

[moral-autism]

Paper airplanes fly towards people's soulmates… that's really cute but does interfere with people racing paper airplanes or such possibly.

[thethirdromana]

The worst types of cookbook:

The Ottolenghi - it is vital that you use 1g of this very expensive ingredient. It comes from a 500g bag with a one-week shelf life.

The time machine - 15-minute recipe! First, leave to marinate overnight...

The dishwasher - one-pot recipe! Now decant your ingredients and wipe out your pot. And again. And again. And again.

The optimist - cook the onions until caramelised (2 minutes).

The kindergarten teacher - get one nommable little tree of broccoli and bosh that into boiling water. Delish!

The brand names only - ingredients: Ritz crackers, Philadelphia cheese, Cool Whip, orange Jell-o...

The 1950s palate - use one (1) clove of garlic and a small pinch of chili flakes (omit if preferred).

The why bother with a cookbook - to make beans on toast, gently heat a tin of beans and put on top of freshly buttered toast.

[nyantara]

The Bon Appetit: replace this nutritionally fortified staple with one that is not and its also more expensive because obviously people can taste trace amounts of iodine in your salt.

[moral-autism]

This is a good post but I am going to keep putting brand names in my recipes. Sometimes, gluten free products are absolute garbage, so I want my readers to know what products I consider decent.

Edit: Also, I think it's nice to have notes for recipes that maybe don't belong in a normal cookbook.

[thomasmartinnutt]

Bridget Riley. Coloured Greys III, 1972

[moral-autism]

posts to look at NOT on your phone at 5% brightness with redshift on

[moral-autism]

portal theory: chell is not the child of any of caroline, cave johnson, or doug rattmann

glados would have had some thoughts about it at some point once she figured out the caroline stuff, doug would have felt bad about it in the comic, and there's no way cave isn't sterile from doing multiple things at least as stupid as recommended male usage of the Radiendocrinator.

[moral-autism]

imagining humans and monsters post Undertale getting various benefits from their different skill sets being combined and then spending nearly aaaalllll the profits from that on trying to prevent and investigate murders which are suddenly more tempting now that people can absorb each other's SOULs

they have discourse about whether it's racist or justified to want a death to occur in a segregated hospice center because the integrated ones have obnoxious levels of surveillance

governments doing a hasty partial legalization of suicide just so that people are less likely to die in unmonitored locations

[moral-autism]

humans would go nuts over magic food. it's great for emergency medicine and also contact sports.

[moral-autism]

chara would've loved universal paperclips

[bambamramfan]

Legalist Mandela Effect

Social Contractual Literalists are the people default to what was specifically said (in an informal legalist way) against assumed ways, due to intuition, vague wording, or assumptions. Example:

"You said you'd come to my Halloween party?" "I did come by." "At 11pm when it was almost over." "I didn't say when."

This would be another old fight akin to ask-vs-guess culture, except people have bad memories and are usually unable to actually operate that way. The request might have been spelled out completely and that slipped the memory of a verbal conversation weeks ago.

In particular this might happen because if you are a friend of a SCL, you run into this frequently and have learned to account for legalism.

"No, I asked if you could be there by 8pm and you said yes."

and of course now things are confrontational instead of collegial and usually no satisfying resolution is reached.

I think what's going on is a sort of Mandela Effect. That effect works when the actual fact of the matter is something against pattern (like Berenstain) and your brain tried to be efficient by storing "example of pattern" instead of each actual letter.

The pattern is "someone requested something that usually has an implied reading and a explicit meaning, so save the pattern "they asked in the implied way"."

[moral-autism]

The pattern is "someone requested something that usually has an implied reading and a explicit meaning, so save the pattern "they asked in the implied way"."

Yeah I've had drama about this.

[uncommontart]

This is the Conure of Confirmation Bias. Reblog so that you may later ascribe anything good that happens to you after reblogging him to doing so in subsequent reblogs.

[moral-autism]

I got the energy to make more tofu pie! Possibly this parrot deserves the credit. Who can say.

[uncommontart]

This is the Conure of Confirmation Bias. Reblog so that you may later ascribe anything good that happens to you after reblogging him to doing so in subsequent reblogs.

[moral-autism]

imagining humans and monsters post Undertale getting various benefits from their different skill sets being combined and then spending nearly aaaalllll the profits from that on trying to prevent and investigate murders which are suddenly more tempting now that people can absorb each other's SOULs

they have discourse about whether it's racist or justified to want a death to occur in a segregated hospice center because the integrated ones have obnoxious levels of surveillance

governments doing a hasty partial legalization of suicide just so that people are less likely to die in unmonitored locations

[moral-autism]

Also, I'm sorry, but Chara's 9 theme reminds me of Schoolhouse Rock:

Schoolhouse Rock – Naughty Number Nine (9's)

Number nine will put you on the spot / Number nine will tie you up in a knot / When you tryin' multiplying by nine / You might give it every

[moral-autism]

I just played Undertale

Playing as a scrub

It's very funny to play Undertale while sucking at games.

Lemme tell you, if I were in control in the post-game, Frisk would ask people about how to "attack" monsters with zero risk of killing them and then go hit Woshua and Aaron and some other people with a big cartoon mallet or something.

I in fact did a pacifist run, but whatever amount of me is in Frisk is not a patient all-loving hero! More of a guy who heard that they could avoid literally killing people and was like "well, I don't like being attacked, but I should give nonlethal responses a good solid try even if I'm frustrated". Because I got frustrated a lot.

I failed to figure out that you can poke the lanterns in the Waterfall maze to make them light up again and stumbled around grouchily in the dark and ran away when I saw Undyne even though Monster Kid was still dangling over the edge of a cliff because I was scared of losing my progress through the horrible darkness maze full of random encounters (and I failed to realize that 'joke' is useful in a joint Aaron-Woshua encounter). I used the Temmie Armor a few times. I completely failed to beat Papyrus so much that he agreed to just let me go. (My girlfriend offered to fight Papyrus for me so I could see the Papyrus fight, and I took her up on it.) I kept dodging into the Chaos Sabers and Chaos Slicers so much that I got better combat results by just standing on the left side the whole time instead of trying to dodge, which grates.

I quoted the Silksong crashout copypasta to my girlfriend somewhat ironically. I cleaned up the text in the #1 break taker meme.

When Flowey was taunting me I told him I'd actually taken a break to have dinner and he was still there, although I hadn't gotten dinner yet. (I am of the opinion that if a video game does not enable a dialogue option, it is perfectly legitimate to talk to the screen.)

Also I'm annoyed at TVTropes a little.

On a No Mercy run, during the fights with Undyne the Undying and Sans, to heal you're constantly stuffing food down your gullet as you take damage, usually really unhealthy foods like cinnamon bun(nys) and fast food. Pretty fitting for a gluttonous entity who wants nothing more than to consume the entire world in the darkness of nothing. Whereas the kinder-hearted Frisk rarely has to do so, and by the end can heal just with their determination alone in the fight against Asriel.

Guys come on. You have no idea how many popsicles Frisk ate. Frisk is leaning pretty hard on the human body seemingly having no limits in its ability to process the energy in magic food.

Other thoughts

I brought up "what if we try putting Frisk into cardiac arrest while under observation of a medical team, yoink the SOUL out really quickly, try to take down the barrier, and then put the SOUL back real fast and try to revive Frisk" at a few points while playing. Even if the odds aren't great, it still seems better for monster society if they were trying to keep Frisk alive. Then it turned out that a) Alphys has done deranged SOUL experiments and b) the fallen child is the sort of person who comes up with deranged sorta-suicidal plans! I felt very seen.

I like autoimmune Temmie. We are autoimmune disease buddies.

I think from a purely selfish standpoint, monsters are underrating the risk to them that monsters being able to absorb human SOULs poses. Monsters are going to have a population boom outside the Underground, probably, which will lead to more outliers existing. You don't want it to be the case that the worst person in your society can become a god by murdering 7 people!

I called Flowey's SAVE file "our SAVE file", which my girlfriend found very funny given Deltarune context.

[thecreaturecodex]

Welp, the Archives of Nethys lost their partnership with Paizo. This means they're taking down the legacy PRD, which was my preferred site for years! Expect a lot more broken links in the reruns, which I will try to remember to fix.

[tar-baphon]

ouch that's unfortunate roughly half the players in my groups use that site. That's going to be a blow that will take some getting used to from them.