Random Wanderings

[kennycrows]

GAIA DISSIDIA DUELLUM FINAL FANTASY (2026)

[clementine-kesh]

i read an interview with a mathematician recently where she talks about the commonalities between math and literature and the idea that playfulness is a key part of doing both of those things. there’s a lot of fun to be had in turning a concept over and over, finding novel ways to look at it or combine it with other things, and i think that idea of playfulness also applies to analysis + critique. looking at a story through different lenses to see what new insights you can gain, reading intertexts and learning about the context in which it was created. finding a new bit of theory and saying hey wait a minute, i can use this to talk about [insert favourite media here]! it’s fun!

[clementine-kesh]

if i can get on my professional educator soapbox for a moment i think the reason a lot of people struggle with the idea that analysis and critique can be fun is that our education system in general is not designed to make the intellectual process seem particularly fun, or like something that can be approached in a playful manner (see also: the mathematician’s lament). thinking deeply about things for the sake of thinking deeply about things seems ridiculous because it’s associated with the stress of grades and too much homework and general bad pedagogy. it creates a lack of confidence in one’s own intellectual abilities that makes even the act of trying seem like too much. and it’s not at all impossible to grow past this and find the fun in the intellectual process but you do have to push past a lot of that fear and anxiety first

[clementine-kesh]

here’s the original article as well as a mathematician’s lament

[prokopetz]

I've rattled on about this before, but the notion that operational security is irrelevant for media piracy resources because if one gets taken down an identical replacement will be up and running by next week is really only true if the thing you're interested in pirating is, like, MCU movies. If you're into really niche shit, every takedown is a potential disaster, because at least half the time it turns out that of eight billion people on the planet there was precisely one who possessed exactly the right intersection of interests and technical know-how to provide that resource.

[themainspoon]

I still remember that when the Mangadex purge happened bigger series simply moved elsewhere, but one I was reading was being fan translated by someone who actually got scared off and decided to drop the series, and so for a while it just wasn't being translated at all (During this time I even tried to help by doing my own translation of a small bonus chapter, but my language skills are nowhere near good enough to actually do a whole fan translation on my own). Because it was (at that time) just one single person on earth who had both the knowledge and desire to translate the series into English. A translator more compotent than me has taken over now and things are back to normal, but for a while there new chapters just were not available to an English speaking audience at all.

[delicious-dream-before-the-storm]

The band, the music, the dance.

puts on sound 📣🎶🎵

[amorphousturtle]

Ok, I NEED you to understand just how insane even ATTEMPTING this was for them.

1. Playing an instrument is difficult. Doing so in sync with others even more so. Don’t think I’m stepping on any toes saying that.

2. Dancing is difficult. Doing so in sync with others even more so. Still not controversial.

3. YOU AVOID, AT ALL COSTS, MOVING YOUR BODY WHILE PLAYING A WIND INSTRUMENT.  To make the correct, pleasant sounds, you need to be in the correct form. And that form involves your ENTIRE body, even your legs when sitting down.

4. “oh, but I’ve seen marching bands before and-” MARCHING BANDS HAVE ENTIRE SCIENTIFIC FIELDS DEDICATED TO FIGURING OUT HOW TO MARCH WITH MINIMUM BREAKING OF PROPER FORM. A marching band tries to be as smooth as possible while moving, so as not to jar their instrument, mouth, neck, arms, torso, or anything else.These ladies and gentlemen are BOUNCING and still playing properly, what the FU-!

5. AND ANOTHER THING! Wind instruments and dancing BOTH make demands on your breathing, so the fact that they are dancing (making you breath faster for extra oxygen) AND playing wind instruments (making you effectively hold your breath) AT THE SAME TIME is HUGE. Their lungs must be MASSIVE.

[thejollywriter]

All of that also; the song is Sing, sing, sing (with a swing). If you wanna listen to some of THE SPICIEST big band ever recorded. Its a big hard song and this band does it expertly.

[unspeakablearchives]

(Source: Sen the donkey)

[groovysarity]

[a-book-of-creatures]

If you don’t use them at least once a day then what’s the point?

[dearpercocet]

YOU'RE RELATED TO THE GUY WHO MADE CHLOROPHORM???

Yep lol. He’s like my great great great something uncle

[dearpercocet]

Related: here’s my favorite artist rendering of my uncle. He’s the one on the floor

[formal-leatherjacket]

#a likely place for the inventor of choloroform to be (@amarguerite)

[the-quasar-hero]

More game devs need to understand the following concepts:

There is a finite amount of memory on any given device.

No matter how good your game is, players will want memory for other things on their devices.

Not everyone has a stable internet connection so making single player games needing an internet connection is not good.

[the-big-mood]

At Toba aquarium in Japan, after closing time, some clever little otter pups help their grandpa tidy up their toys. As a reward, he gives them ice cubes

[sonshine-arts]

brush buddy here to interrupt your scrolling ✒️📜

[slippery-domjot-balls]

Did any of you notice the Nausicaans playing darts in the background?

S4 E16 Bar Association

[respocked]

Quark: Doesn't that hurt?

Brunt: I'm sure it does. Most Nausicaan games do. Speaking of pain - did you talk to your brother?

[computer-voiced-by-majel-barrett]

Fun fact, those aren't just any background actors; They're James Lomas and Shawn McConnell, real professional darts players who also worked as "dart advisors" on DS9! McConnell even went on to become a professional stuntman in things like Daredevil (2003) and True Detective.

Moral of the story: It's always a worth it to hire highly skilled pros just to have them perform their job as incorrectly as possible, For The Bit™

[timcurrysbooty]

[carlottagiudicellivevo]

[takiki16]

NO FEAR.  The actors who played Long John Silver and Captain Flint in Black Sails FULLY ACKOWLEDGE that the Muppet adaptation was the best

(source)

[saint-batrick]

[alder-knight]

hi i hope i get to be the one to break this news on Tumblr, because

I am reading Tim Curry’s 2025 memoir, Vagabond

and in it, he not only devotes a chapter to Muppet Treasure Island, but also references this very post

so, to recap

no, Tim Curry is absolutely NOT a Muppet; however

yes, he and Miss Piggy ABSOLUTELY fucked

[sierrasketches]

Day 19 of #pleinairpril! The Empty 🌼

[casceth]

one of the bsky devs blocked more than 300K users including me because he used a blocklist for ai haters lmao

[casceth]

idk how much people on here know about it, but its probably because he admitted to using ai to code the site a few months ago, and the site has been functioning poorly ever since and i think hes losing his mind that the userbase he hates so much is making fun of him for it. (we havent been blocked from using the site if that isnt clear, like he blocked us from his official account)

[casceth]

oh and yes its the same guy who put his phone in a pool to cool it off when it got overheated

[onlytiktoks]

[hedwig-dordt]

a reCAPTCHA will not request a sequence of keys, and what to do if you got scammed

[elamarth-calmagol]

I dont know that I would have recognized that

[coruscanttojerusalem]

Fake CAPTCHA scams trick users with “I’m not a robot” tests to install malware and steal data. Learn warning signs and how to protect yourse

Real source that's not a tiktok video added.

[torstherapy]

[tinsnip]

Per @spoonstrek

[sluttyquarantinetheory]

The concept that married people live longer is interesting. I'm sure there is some merit to the idea that if you're married there is someone there to nag you about going to the doctor, but I think much larger factors are having the finances of dual incomes and access to an immediate support person.

Surgeries require having a designated person to look after you. Many injuries require driving to somewhere like an emergency room which can be hard to do if you are the one injured. If you're home with the flu, it's hard to tell when it's bad enough to go to the hospital without another person checking on you. And if you pass out it requires another person to find you like that to get medical aid.

You can prop it up as the benefits of marriage, but I think there's a much deeper discussion to be had about how we've built society around marriage as an inevitable conclusion and neglected to build support systems that function outside of romantic pairings.