The ramblings of Ravstar Charante

You found my Tumblr. Congrats. Here's a cookie. 🍪 Been around this planet 28 times, getting dizzy.

[bannertanks]

[ghosthierophant]

[udntnome]

okay but. pitching a no hitter also scales with "skill of batters" as opposed to the fact that they were slightly more durable than a race horse back then

[a-big-chicken-nerd]

this is how they play

[bibinella]

tfw your roommate/gf is really strong and you gotta deal with being randomly picked up 😌✨🩷

[wontonsoupinthemorning-deactiva]

message to all bitches

please survive

[amaebii]

day 67 drawing boothill until i stop struggling to draw his face

the shirts are back

[previous day]

[shanghai-tea-room]

Xユーザーの𝕭𝖆𝖙𝖟𝖘𝖚𝖒𝖎さん: 「Firefly 💜 #崩壊スターレイル #Firefly #FireflyHSR https://t.co/EY0erFLmNd」 / X

[kalauha]

🐺🐦‍⬛

[animepopheart]

★ 【soroni】 「 Himeko🌟Nova 」 ✔ republished w/permission ☆ follow our YT interview show!

[morsobaby]

Often disabled people wildly overestimate their ability purely via ableist conditioning where they feel pressured to, or mistakenly think they Should be able to do all the same things as their ablebodied peers.

In this case, accurately assessing their comfort levels might feel like underestimating themselves. But it's necessary to not overexert and avoid further burnout.

So remember if you're disabled, underestimate your abilities more often. Either you were mistaken and end up feeling good afterwards despite the activity, or you were correct and spared yourself extra grief by stopping just when you needed to

[sweet-coconat]

Astral Express Family to the rescue!

...Or at least they tried their best!

(And yes, DH was too eager to come and save his silly raccoon-)

[prokopetz]

When you say "Shakespearean" you mean everybody dies at the end. When I say "Shakespearean" I mean interrupting the lead-in to the climactic scene to burn five solid minutes doing a 4/10 bit where two characters argue about the definition of a word.

[cryptotheism]

Magic is a pathway to all the things imaginable, even imagination is currently limited to our ability to extend it. So shooting fireballs is « out of our hands » currently but theres ultimately a formula for all. Nothings really impossible considering what quantum mechanical studies have shown us.

That's not how quantum mechanics works.

[cryptotheism]

Jamie can shoot fireballs

[sleepyjump]

you're in his dms playing league or something. i'm in her past subtly altering key memories just enough to create a series of coincidences and funny stories and symbols that will lay the groundwork both for her inevitable transition and her tendency towards religious delusion specifically involving a few carefully chosen phrases and images i'm planting all throughout her memory. but have fun in jungle or whatever the fuck

[sleepyjump]

you're on the phone with him talking about the sigil he keeps scribbling all over his notebooks in a handwriting nothing like his own. im in the original post already changing her pronouns retroactively

[prokopetz]

I imagine you as being no older than 25, but your personal chronology doesn’t really make this possible or realistic. Can you do something about this?

The curse of having been a kid who was seen as "mature for his age" because he was just really good at copying the register of the adults around him is that you're basically stuck sounding ambiguously twentysomething forever.

[iamthelowercase]

Prokopetz here has previously made reference to having personal memories of the mid-90s. If we assume he was five years old in 1995, that would probably make him 36 now (in 2026).

Frankly I'm treating that as a lower bound, but that's also as far as I'm going to push it.

[prokopetz]

I'm turning 43 on Sunday.

[rocket-enjoyer]

i thought you were in your 50s.

[prokopetz]

My online age is a little bit out of whack with my chronological age because my elementary school was part of one of the first pilot programs to extend institutional Internet access outside of university campuses, so in spite of being in my early 40s I've been online since roughly 1992.* I've been told that having had unlimited and unsupervised access to the mid 1990s Internet as a preteen explains several things about me.

* It might have been 1991, but I'm not 100% sure; I know I was already on Usenet when rec.games.frp.dnd was first created, and the FAQ says that was May of 1992, so definitely before that!

[prokopetz]

@cscolris replied:

OTOH, I'm about your age but still think of you as being a bit older than me because you're much more knowledgeable about the early Internet. You seem to have actually spent time on Usenet and such while I just mucked around on early webcomics and a few message boards.

Yeah, I lucked into exactly the right combination of time, place and access to have been an unsupervised preteen on dial-up BBSes, Usenet, IRC, and first-generation web forums, more or less in that order

[straight-up-lancing-it]

something that lancer doesn’t get enough credit for is the fact that it makes supporting feel good. Like, there’s not a lot of outright support abilities in the game, and maybe that helps this feeling, but I’ve never met a Lancaster pilot who hasn’t walked away from a session feeling incredible about their party role.

[vexwerewolf]

The thing is that it's incredibly difficult to fuck up being a Lancaster pilot. That's not to say there isn't an incredible amount of skill that goes into doing it well, but the utility floor on the Lancaster is such that you can basically do shit all for an entire combat and so long as you don't straight up die, you're still providing value to the team via giving them a shared Repair pool.

Add to that the incredible utility of the battle taxi and you're laughing

[prokopetz]

The actual most implausible thing about video game writing is that they'll show us a people-pleasing sad sack of a protagonist where everyone around them treats them as a disgusting pervert for no obvious reason, takes everything they say in the worst possible light, and ascribes vile motives to their most innocuous actions, then turn around and insist that this character is a cisgender, heterosexual man.

[prokopetz]

I know it's not great from, like, a Being Functional Or Secure standpoint, but aesthetically I kind of love how websites for banks and universities and government agencies and such just sort of accrete layer upon layer of technologies without ever taking the lower layers out of the stack, and if you need to do something sufficiently obscure eventually you'll break through to some Web 1.0-looking form with a "Last Modified" footer whose timestamp isn't part of this millennium.