The Ramblings of a Madman with a Box

Dae | They/Them | 22 | Nerd | Museum Studies Student | UK | Doctor Who, Star Trek, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings | AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Preserves | Storygraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/preserves

[misscrazyfangirl321]

Being an adult will have you unironically craving a vegetable

[misscrazyfangirl321]

Being an adult will have you unironically sad about a parasite outbreak in fresh vegetables.

[toesuckler]

i threw the first brick at 9/11. didnt help much

[nerdragons-hoard]

went to uncanny valley and everyone there was eerily familiar

[yossyislandd]

but something just wasn't right...

[storyweavingspider]

For the Black folks here who (rightfully) don’t use Facebook: over on Facebook yesterday apparently several “white only” groups got raided by tens of thousands of us bc klansmen don’t know how to set group controls 😭 I been howling laughin over this shit it made my night

[storyweavingspider]

UPDATE:

KKKrackers keep making new groups but not fixing the settings so we keep flooding the new ones too it’s still ongoing. I’m fuckin dying 😭😭😭

[storyweavingspider]

P L E A S E every time I open Facebook there’s an evolution to the situation!!! Out here on some Black KKKlansman shit to keep getting in and fucking around 😭

EDIT: I forgot to add the photo oop

[yestozidk]

Ngl lie this is the best one

[ladymavet]

I'm fucking hysterical, this is so funny

[ladymavet]

UPDATE

BULLYING WORKED!!!!!!!!!!!!

[utilitycaster]

the thing about indie perfume descriptions is that every single of one of them sounds like it should end with "roll initiative"

[utilitycaster]

"One breath and you are at the hive’s threshold, where smoke, wax, and honey conspire into alchemy. A fragrance of sun-baked wood and warm beeswax, buttery, gold, and dense with the ghost of a hundred flowers. The bees’ own musk rises in the air, intimate and unmistakably alive. Honey follows in a deep glow that transcends simple sweetness. Soft puffs of smoke curl in, dry and calming, turning the air velvety and strange. Roll initiative."

[myjetpack]

My latest cartoon for New Scientist

[hadesisqueer]

"Tattoos are becoming unpopular", "piercings are unpopular again", "keep your hair natural never dye it again, it's the trend now" literally fuck off I know what y'all are doing

[type-o-philia]

Transfeminism... BEAM.

[eisenkrahe]

[amanitaphalloides]

I worry a little bit that people who refuse to learn about ai as a part of their anti ai position are going to be extremely unprepared to understand what’s actually scary about it and already have their digital literacy at risk tbh

[amanitaphalloides]

not that I am some genius in this regard but if you follow ai developments even slightly you might change the things you are most worried about. do people know the extent to which ai is already eating itself and how meaningless this is making swaths of the internet. do people know that there are plenty of random mid-sized companies today buying their employees’ likenesses to create digital clones and using these to make hundreds of videos. I am so much more worried about labor and surveillance and abuse than people becoming lazy about writing emails. and idk man I sort of like and respect people who are willfully ignorant about it as a way of minimizing its force in their lives and I am in some ways jealous but also when I see posts that basically still boil down to “chatgpt will never fool me” I am like 😭😭😭 for one thing not the only thing to be concerned about, for another thing I am really sorry but I don’t think you’re right

[loveridden1999]

when england lose, women bruise

[osmanthusoolong]

Seen in downtown Toronto as well

[fandom-trash-goblin]

we've got a life to love living.

[teaboot]

advice that has literally saved and improved my life

[doodleoo]

what you learn from hobbies:

consistent practice opens up whole worlds of skill that you couldn't imagine

making mistakes in the process of learning is not only natural, it is also essential

activities that you enjoy can give you more energy back than you spent on them

wow everything is so expensive

[doodleoo]

my hands hurt

[nagusposting]

sisko YouTube channel

[the-worms-in-your-bones]

I love that doctor who actors range from ‘doesn’t even know basic facts about the series’ to ‘looms truther’

[lostyesterday]

Star Trek women who like women.

[xenasaur]

we need legislation banning games >100GB

[xenasaur]

OPTIMIZE YOUR SHIT BETTER THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR A 150GB GAME!!!

[xenasaur]

upon reviewing the notes I'm changing my position. games must be <50GB. no more mandatory 8k uncompressed textures!!! I don't believe in 8k I think it's fake

[xenasaur]

to be clear games really ought to be around 20 gigs or less. but I think in the spirit of generosity and mercy we won't criminally prosecute the developers until the file sizes breaks 50

[creamypancakebatter]

Helldivers 2 heard you and went from 156 to 23

[xenasaur]

wait is that real

just looked it up. holy fuck. they did it by de-duplicating assets. I'm just. my jaw is on the floor. supposedly duplicating assets helps load times on HDDs but. holy fuck at what cost

[somespicycheese]

it's worse than that: The Helldivers devs were told that duplicating assets would help HDD load times, but then they actually tested it and it had basically zero effect on load times!

So they had more than sextupled the size of their game by following industry standard practice that actually did basically nothing!

[barryogg]

You know how in The Great Divorce, the damned are staying in hell only due to their inability to reassess their situation, and they could cross to heaven at any moment if they stopped wallowing in pity for a moment?

Because I keep thinking about it when I read anything about AAA gaming.