The Hyperfixator

Lover of indie games and animated tv shows | he/him, mountain time

[nightshade-aurora]

Felt a need to set this as my pinned post

[radishnt]

which one of u was going to tell me that tea tastes different if u put it in hot water?

[mothman-misato]

y- you were putting it in cold water?????

[boimgfrog]

Radish. Answer the question radish.

[radishnt]

yeah??? i thought for like. 5 years that ppl just put it in hot water 2 speed up the tea-ification process didn’t realize there was an actual reason

[boimgfrog]

You dont have the patience to microwave water for 3 minutes???

[catsnraincoats]

[ID: Tags reading “u think i have the patience to boil water wtf ?????” /End ID]

why are you. putting it in the microwave to boil it

[boimgfrog]

Do you think I have the patience to boil water on the stove

[catsnraincoats]

Its takes less than a minute

[boimgfrog]

Bestie is ur stovetop powered by the fucking sun

[catsnraincoats]

How long does it take you to boil a cup of water on the stove

[boimgfrog]

Like seven minutes

[catsnraincoats]

Just stick the mug on top of the stove on medium heat n it boils in like two minutes… less than that is u use a saucepan…

[boimgfrog]

Crying you’re putting the whole mug on the stove ???? On medium heat???? Ur stove is enchanted

[pidoop]

Every single person in this post is a fucking lunatic

[catfishofoldin99colours]

do none of you own a fucking kettle

[vullen]

future archaeologists will know you were (not) a boy

[nightshade-aurora]

happy pride month yall

[phopollo]

Sorry if this seems pestery but do you plan to continue your sketchbook comic at some point? I discovered it recently and was sad to find it was last updated in 2024

No, its not at all! Don't worry!

Unfortunately, I don't think its going to happen

I'm likely never going to actively post for thr Hilda fandom again tbh-- obviously the occasional fansrt, but I'm afraid the sketchbook comic especially brought creeps to my doorstep, and I was receiving extremely graphic death threats, demands of my work and time for free, commission requests thst quickly became clear they were scams, and callout posts for just setting boundaries and blocking the person or people behind these for weeks when I was initially posting it, and the person who was sending them came back when I posted thst update in 2024

As much as I love Hilda and as much fun ss I wss having writing that comic, I'm afraid I just cant handle that mental toll

And honestly, im reslly devastated about that-- it was thw longest ongoing project id ever done snd still fekt motivated to work on when I dropped it-- and I'm really proud of it and my writing too!

If its of any interest though, I am actuslly working on a couple original stories! One of ehich is very much. Highkey a rip off of Kaisa, Frida, and David

Dont have all their proper references done, but I think theyre a lot of fun! Two kids who accidentally get exposed to magic by the biggest nost loserest witch in the whole city and they go. We have to get her to teach us. So shenanagains ensue

[nightshade-aurora]

Sad to hear people were like that, but I like the new thing it's cool!

[unhonestlymirror]

[nightshade-aurora]

Oh yeah, that one's going right into my lexicon

[the-greatest-taste-around]

nice outfit LOSER. 1443 called but in a dialect of Early Modern English that hadn't experienced the Great Vowel Shift yet so i don't know what it said

[shencomix]

Actual account of a recent chess match of mine.

[nightshade-aurora]

when the shen comic has a relevant xkcd

[kingcriccket]

you CANNOT read too much old timey fiction because I was playing Raft with the lads this morning and without a THOUGHT said we could sail over to another island "if the wind would consent to blow" & let me tell you. This did not pass by unremarked.

[rainyydoves]

[scramratz]

[chumbology]

Chuckling to myself remembering the time I completely broke a scammer's brain by telling them I use Linux.

Scammer: do you have an apple or a windows computer please?

Me: neither, I use Linux.

Scammer: no no no, I asked if you use a apple or a windows

Me: neither

Scammer: what is the sticker? Is it a four boxes or is it an apple with a bite?

Me: ... I don't use EITHER of them. There's a third operating system called Linux. It isn't a PC or a mac. Please tell me you understand

Scammer: do -- do you know what I mean about apple or windows sir?

Me: yes. I'm a software developer. I understand completely. I'm telling you that YOU don't understand. Its called Linux, spelled L-I-N-U-X, type it into google

Scammer:

Scammer: but is it an apple or a windows computer sir

[jellybeanium124]

#this is what talking to transphobes is like

@alabastermask ASDFSHBKGJLNDFASKBDHSJG

[nightshade-aurora]

*unsheaths my linux installation drive at you like a katana*

[nightshade-aurora]

I wonder if there was ever some kind of composer hundreds of years ago that happened to perfectly nail the style of a modern music genre (minus instruments that didn't exist yet) but was forgotten by history because everyone thought their music was weird at the time

[nobeatnomelody]

You're stranded on a deserted island with the person on your lockscreen. How screwed are you?

[nightshade-aurora]

There's a King Vulture on mine, so I'm dead meat

[lyss-butterscotch]

Whoever decided to design newer devices to turn on the stupid AI i never asked for when pressing and holding the POWER BUTTON i will find you

[tpwrtrmnky]

tone

[ID: Three panel comic with crudely drawn stick people. A character whose rambles are presented in smaller text will have their dialogue shown after the navigation links, and can be skipped.

Panel 1: A blue person with a dark green jacket and bright orange anime glasses is talking to a journalist, while a person wearing a large t-shirt with the text "c m y k" and a pair of scissors cutting off the k rambles behind the journalist.

Journalist: "Hey we need to show both sides on the confinement pits for chromatics issue, come debate this person?"

Anime Glasses: "Go fuck yourself."

Panel 2: As the background character keeps rambling, the journalist condescends.

Journalist: "You know, I really don't appreciate your tone here."

Anime Glasses: "Less yapping, more fucking yourself."

Panel 3: Anime glasses holds the journalist's shoulder. There is still rambling on the side.

Journalist: "How do you expect to be taken serio-"

Anime Glasses: "You're enabling someone who'd never be taken seriously without you. I am not cleaning up your mess. Go fuck yourself."

End ID.]

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[Conspiratorial rambling:

Panel 1: firstly it is necessary to understand that the perverse urge to become green is a deviation that has been planted in our youth by the shadow druids, an evil organization that has been pulling the strings of our society to their nefarious ends since the invasion of-

Panel 2: the ultimate goal of the chroma cult remains aligned with the shadow druids: as worshippers of the armageddon beast they intend to saturate our children and grind them into colorful paste to paint their profane idols! they believe these idols will protect them when facing the beast but they are wrong, so entirely wrong, about many things, unlike me, i am right for i am guided by the light of facts, logic, basic biology and fundamental color theory, and common sense and also-

panel 3: -moon gnomes with their evil magics [spelled as "majicks"] hiding their pigments that they make from socks they steal from me, personally, that is where my socks go, and chromatics have never once taken responsiblity!

End conspiratorial rambling.]

[lyss-butterscotch]

Tried to draw gijinka greyroot. Commited a sin that rotten my eyes.

[orpheusilver]

peeling those sour rainbow gummy strips into long thin strings and putting them into cheap energy drink to create something im calling battery acid spaghetti will update once ive finished it

[orpheusilver]

dont do this

[babblingbranches]

[cryptcollector]

I really hope its not too bad bc i actually love both components.

[cryptcollector]

it forms a dry skin at the top made of the sour pellets. not a great start.

[cryptcollector]

tastes really good actually. i also feel like i am about to explode.

[cryptcollector]

do not do this.

[jenjensd]

Unanimous consensus: Do not do this

Other people: Hold on I’m about to do this

[jenjensd]

[rosespirit]

I keep seeing this post going around so, for folks who want to know why not, here's a chemist's hypothesis:

-Human saliva has an average pH of ~6.7 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3800408/), which is pretty neutral.

-Monster energy has a pH of ~2.7 (https://patientconnect365.com/DentalHealthTopics/Article/Energy_Drinks_and_Your_Teeth_Should_You_Worry), which is quite acidic but not dangerous, except to your tooth enamel if consumed in large quantities.

-Rainbow sour belts contain malic acid (a common food additive as a potent acidifier and sour-flavor agent), citric acid (another common sour flavoring in pretty much everything) as well as ascorbic acid (aka vitamin C, used here mainly as a preservative). (https://candypros.com/products/sour-belts-bulk-rainbow)

-All of these acids when added to water would normally release their protons (H+ ions), thereby making the water solution more acidic. However, a chemical constant of these acids called the acid dissociation constant (pKa for short) indicates the pH of a solution at which acids are most likely to keep or release their protons. The pKa's* of these acids are higher (3.4, 3.1, and 4.2 for malic, citric, and ascorbic acids respectively) than the pH of the solution (2.7), which essentially means that the acids can't release their protons and all that acidic potential is trapped in the solid formulation of the candy.

-There's also some evidence that sugar decreases the solubility of acids in water solutions (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3411471/ only sorbic acid is discussed here but it's relatively structurally similar to the acids in discussion). The undoubtedly high sugar content of both the Monster and the candy therefore may contribute to the accounts of the sour crystals bubbling/floating on top of the solution instead of dissolving.

-Malic acid in particular is notorious for causing mouth irritation when eaten in high quantities.

-Thus, I can imagine that upon consuming the battery acid spaghetti, not only is the mix itself quite potently sweet/sour, but also the solid malic acid coming into direct contact with your mouth quickly becomes painful, and as the solution mixes with your (pH neutral) saliva the trapped acidity of the malic/citric/ascorbic acids is dumped into your mouth and esophagus, creating a sensation that I can only imagine is similar to consuming actual battery acid (pH = 0.8).

(*Each of these acids actually has multiple pKa's corresponding to number of protons they're able to donate, but really only the lowest pKa is useful here since once that one dissociates then all of the other ones are already dissociated too.)