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OMN's Freeware Challenge - June 2024
[Something is coming soon. Something known as 'OneShot Freeware's 10 year anniversary'...]
[The first versions of OneShot are turning 10 years old on June 30, 2024.]
[To celebrate, we will be hosting a challenge.]
[Below, you will find a list of 30 prompts—one for each day of the month of June. With these prompts, we would like to encourage the creation of OneShot-related fanworks.]
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Polished Malachite Stalactite - Copper Crescent, Congo
*looks around*
Is
Is anyone gonna say it
malachite is a poisonous mineral. please do not fuck the malachite stalactite
@lizaleigh do you know any rock people that can confirm/deny because I am very curious and really don’t feel like getting into a conversation with my geophysicist brother that MAY somehow get back to the fact I saw a malachite that looked like a weird dildo.
…sadly, I am not on good enough terms with any of our partner geologists to just attach this to an email with the subject line: “EXPLAIN.” Although I think @mollisaurus is a mineral person. Thoughts?
oh geeze, i’m kinda rusty on minerals but malachite is just copper carbonate and is really common in both antique and modern jewelry so i think like if you were really gun-ho about it you could go ahead and put it wherever you want?
It’s really only a problem if you’re polishing or cutting it. The particles would be bad to breathe. It’s rather porous too, so I would worry about bacteria growing. Well, being literal anyway… Better to leave the poor thing alone. ._.
I mean it kinda depends on where you stick it because malachite does not like acidic environments very much and the malachite will degrade and also might dye your bits blue-green as the copper dissolves out.
So use a condom when fucking rocks is the takeaway here.
Oh my god guys it’s poisonous
It is super poisonous
There is a reason we do not use it in make up any more
Not even with a condom, do not fuck the rock
Try this one instead.
malachite literally explodes in water does it not?
I… no… I think you’re thinking of pure sodium?
Malachite is however water soluble, which really just means it will poison you quicker
This is both hilarious and cool as fuck because you’re getting all this information on minerals and rocks. You’re also watching people argue over wether or not you can fuck this rock
I go on hiatus for a week and come back to find tumblr molesting my post, but hey, at least we all learned something so yay tumblr, you just keep on being you.
I’m still not sure if I can fuck this rock.
I’m looking into it.
UPDATE:
Today in “I’m so sorry, coworkers, it’s for Tumblr,” I brought this post to the attention the science reporters at BuzzFeed. Dan Vergano did a some research and weighed in on the question “Can you use malachite as a dildo or is it toxic?”
The answer is “It’s probably fine, just wash it first and maybe use a bunch of lube.”
Oh man this got so much better than the last time I saw this post
This is my favourite. Science side of tumblr: asking the REAL questions
*biologist crashes through the underbrush* Ok so here’s the thing though Malachite is not poisonous to YOU. BUT fucking this stalactite will probably wreck your vaginal flora and leave you with a gruesome infection within a couple days. Want details? SO GLAD YOU ASKED, ‘CAUSE HERE THEY ARE. • Malachite is not copper oxide. It’s Cu2CO3(OH)2. Like most carbonates it’s water soluble– that’s how it became a stalactite in the first place! And technically any given chunk of “malachite” isn’t just malachite– it’s a mix of various copper carbonates & oxides. This will become important later. • When malachite dissolves it makes a bunch of copper (Cu++) ions. Cu++ is GREAT at killing bacteria and fungi– so good at it that sprays with Cu++ get used a lot as a spray in agriculture to stop plant disease. It takes such a large dose to harm larger organisms that copper sprays are used a lot in organic agriculture (like Bordeaux mixture). So bottom line, yes malachite is technically nontoxic to humans. But it kills bacteria when it dissolves and releases Cu++. • Malachite dissolves somewhat slowly in water– but vaginal secretions aren’t just any water. A healthy human vagina has a pH of 3.8-4.5 and a salinity of about 0.9%. It’s also warmer than your average underground cave at 37°C (or 98.5°F in American meat units). As luck would have it, acidity, salinity, and warmth all make malachite dissolve faster. • In other words, the human vagina dissolves malachite. • I have no deeper explanation for why human females can dissolve rocks with our genitals. It simply is. • Gonna to take a quick moment to point out that sex toys that dissolve when you use them are maybe not the best investment. • Anyway the key question now is “how fast does the human vagina dissolve malachite?” Are we talking geological timescale, a Nazis-in-Indiana-Jones situation, or something in between? If the reaction kinetics of dissolution are very slow, then there’s nothing to worry about. An encounter with a stalactite would have to last years for enough Cu++ to leach out to cause problems. If it’s quick then we’re in trouble. • Unfortunately it looks like nobody really knows. One of the best sources on how malachite dissolves & precipitates in water– an EPA document on how to avoid too much Cu++ in municipal drinking water systems– helpfully says “The kinetic constraints on the formation of these solids in water systems are largely unexplored” (p. 42) because end equilibrium points are all you need to run a city water system safely. In other words, the experiments that would tell us how fast malachite dissolves in various types of water just don’t exist because nobody’s ever needed to know before. So we’d better assume it’s going to happen reasonably quickly, #for safety. • So in best scientific fashion, we’re just going to bullshit our way ahead using what facts we DO have on hand: endpoint equlibria. • Is there any info out there telling us what equilibrium concentration of Cu++ we get in salty acidic water at body temperature? Almost! One J.F. Scaife published some great data on this back in 1957. TAKE IT AWAY, SCAIFE.
That orange box is how many moles of dissolved Cu++ Scaife got from sticking malachite in some water that had 0.171 moles NaCl/L (body salinity is about 0.154 moles NaCl/L so this is slightly more salty than people) at 30°C. He’s got no acidity in there, and again the salinity and temperature are slightly off from the vaginal standard. But this is probably the closest we’re going to get to data on how malachite behaves in vaginas anytime soon, folks. From this we can take away that if you leave malachite alone in a vagina you’ll get AT LEAST 9.12 x 10^-4 moles/L, or 5.8 ppm, of Cu++ at equilibrium. • Recall from above that most “malachite” isn’t actually pure malachite, it’s a mix of various copper carbonates & oxides. The EPA document elaborates: “[T]raditional ‘eyeball’ identification of malachite by its blue-green color is extremely unreliable, because almost all cupric hydroxysulfates, hydroxycarbonates, hydroxychlorides, and even fresh cupric hydroxide can be some shade of blue-green. … Thus, the uncertainty in the computed copper concentration in equilibrium with malachite is at least about a factor of 2 … until further experimental data focusing on this problem is generated.” In other words, “do your math and then double how much Cu++ you think is going to be in the water, just in case.” So that gives us 11.6ppm Cu++, at equilibrium, with malachite in a (til now!) healthy vagina. • Next step: do we have any idea what happens to bacteria in acid conditions with copper? OH MY GOD WE TOTALLY DO. Gyawali et al 2011 checked this out in the context of “so what if we rinsed tomatoes with a solution of lactic acid and copper, because that would be a safe & organic way to get rid of E. coli?” So now this post has officially ruined stalactites, vaginas, and tomatoes.
^This would happen. These are the counts of 4 E. coli strains exposed to various levels of lactic acid & Cu++ for 8 hours. This table only shows the end counts but it represents the death of 99.7% of bacteria*. • Losing 99.7% of your vaginal flora is seriously bad news. You’re looking at really good odds of a yeast infection, bacterial vaginosis, and/or other infection issues. And that’s if you’re lucky enough to not be in the 4% of the population or so that’s sensitive to skin contact with copper. • The good news? Biochemically speaking, you’re probably ok to put it in your butt. It’s not as acidic or salty in there, plus there’s a huuuuuge stockpile of gut microbes right upstream that can quickly repopulate the colon after spelunking is complete. However this stalactite is not flared at the base so it is the wrong shape for putting in your butt. Do not put this stalactite in your butt. • This all looks like fun and games, but I think it’s really interesting that the internet’s mistake in concluding that this stalactite is fuckable is very similar to the mistake made by the Flint water management system. Hear me out. • Central to the Flint lead poisoning crisis is that authorities only looked at & tested Flint’s water in its central treatment plant before it went out through the pipes. Not after it went through the pipes. They did not consider what would happen biochemically as it went through the pipes and metals started dissolving. • Similarly, in concluding that the stalactite is fuckable, the internet only considered the stalactite itself. Not the biochemical processes that would happen to it as it, welp, went through the pipes. • Media frequently reports that the Flint River’s water is “corrosive,” leading many to believe the river is full of industrial waste. This ain’t the case. You’d need industry to fill a river with industrial waste, and industry left decades ago. That’s why Flint’s so poor. So what IS in the water? Road salt. Plain old stupid road salt. The old Detroit-based source didn’t have salt because it came from Lake Huron which has a large, mostly rural watershed. Meanwhile the Flint River runs through a lot of towns, making it slightly salty as everything melts down in spring. And as we recall from the stalactite experience, a little salt is all it takes to get metals to dissolve. • Information on this engineering problem was not coming through clearly from the engineering or chemistry sides. It took a biologist, pediatrician Mona Hanna-Attisha, to document the real-time results and provide the data to kick-start a high-level investigation. • Morals of the story: when dealing with a biological system pls consider asking a biologist, your vagina and/or city could depend on this • Pls use a condom when fucking any water-soluble material • Still don’t put the stalactite in your butt -3/10 do not recommend
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Thank you @neflil for tagging me! Always a pleasure to partake in these ask games <3
Reading: Fanfiction wise, I have been really fancying the SFAWTDE fics, as well as Hollow Knight: Silksong, Deltarune, In Stars and Time, and... PHIGHTING. Don't ask why. I also read some occasional Outer Wilds and OneShot fics, but I'm afraid the muse for that particular game has left me for a bit! It's a bit unfortunate :( I dunno why, I'd like to get it back!
If I were to recommend some good fics, then I'd like people to read InPrisonForSparkling's searching for a name who shouldn't exist, Stray_Tickles' Bad night, Goodnight, and MacBudgie's Golden Light and Silken Shade!
You can also read my works, hehe. Last song: Does it count if it's an entire liveset? I've been playing Madeon's Good Faith Forever and Victory Live sets back to back basically this entire week, but I suppose the last song I've spinned is Home. Favorite flower: Rafflesia! It's a big plant, it's a beautiful beastie, and it's also poisonous <3 What's not to love about it? Currently watching: I haven't been watching much, unfortunately! College has no good place for movies :( But I have been watching some... Deltarune theory videos and Taskmaster on YouTube, if that counts for anything!
Deltarune theories hold a somewhat weirdly special place in my heart. I used to theorize with my friends at the Chapter 2 days, before getting them swiftly striked at Chapters 3+4 releasing. Despite getting everything dead wrong it was still fun to contemplate the future trajectory of the story, since there was just so much you can do with the unfinished story. If I have to posit one more theory to get it completely wrong... maybe the story of Deltarune shall be forever unfinished, at least to a capacity. Gerson Boom never got to finish the final chapter of his book, and a lot of allusions have been made about the incompleteness of something (see the 67 theory) (yes that is the theory's name) (yes it actually does make sense), and I feel like if there's anything to go by with Toby's whole motive for Undertale's 10th year anniversary, it would be that we... get the pen to finish everything. Maybe that has something to do with the Weird Route?
Taskmaster's a good show. It's a textbook example of absurdist comedy for me, where the premise of the show is completing absurd tasks with your dignity at stakes. Current obsession: It's strange to say this, but nothing at the moment...? Currently working on: Nothing much, actually! Well, I have a couple of unfinished fanfiction I would like to get to eventually, but right now, I am taking somewhat of a break. I do have a couple of ongoing projects happening now though, namely working for soundtracks of two different games...! It's exciting! Last google search: ragatha from the amazing digital circus What are you wearing right now: pant
People I wanna know better, hm... I summon thee, @rusty-lights @mysteryterror @komishko @tortadecuchufli
got myself to draw this due to friends of mine. unicorn d3rlord3 and changeling avery
you know how journalists do square brackets to do paraphrasing or implied context, we should utilize that into daily conversations like tone indicators, like "Hey there, sorry for being late I was [jerking off and you know this but out of social modesty I am obligated to make a surface level excuse and say I was] taking crack"
Item: A Soft Pillow Rarity: ⏶ Common
What's your comfort game?
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okay i think this is gonna be the last ask damn it
Uh... another comfort game is The Witness, honestly. When you know the solutions to a puzzle game, there isn't really any... game left to them. Sure, you can forget the solutions and come back to it later, but for The Witness I have played it so much that the solutions are essentially ingrained in my head, that I can't possibly forget them or at least have a semblance of an idea on how to solve it. Yet despite that The Witness is still interesting to me as a game to enjoy. If not for the puzzle aspect then it's to enjoy the majestic, breathtaking world design, or the philosophical aspect of how the game presents itself and its themes.
For some, The Witness may be seen as pretentious. I won't argue - it's anybody's opinion - but I think The Witness is best experienced as a game divorced from usual expectations of what a game can tell. If you want The Witness to be a simple puzzle game where you are entirely given puzzles, then sure. I think a lot of people were disappointed there is no meaty story or underlying narrative to the game, that the reward of the game is more puzzles or an unsatisfying ending, but I liked The Witness because I liked the puzzles. I came for the puzzles, not the ending. The ending meant little to me because I was satisfied with the journey.
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What game would you erase from your memory just to experience it for the first time again?
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ok for the sake of being interesting I will refrain from using answers from my previous asks
Hm... I wanna say Deltarune? I first experienced Deltarune through the SURVEY_PROGRAM all those years ago, and back then I was a different person. I was fresh from the Undertale hype, I was there for the release of Deltarune, and we really didn't know a lot. There was no Knight, there was no large-spanned conspiracy board, I think the most outlandish theory back then was the "Kris is Chara" theory, which looking at it now, really doesn't hold up.
I used to read Paper Trails a lot, and just after the release of Chapter 2 me and my friend made a Deltarune-centered roleplay server which really formed the writing styles and ideas I have today. If it weren't for Deltarune, a large chunk of my writing experiences would simply no longer exist. There would be no 'fucking around and see what happens' phase, and I probably would suck at writing.
I mean, I still suck at writing, but y'know, I suck less now. :P
So, I wonder what would have happened if I played it now, in 2026. Now that I'm older, now that the community has essentially changed... maybe my view of the game would be entirely different from how I view it currently.
Item: A Soft Pillow Rarity: ⏶ Common
What's your comfort game?
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Outer Wilds
I already gave a pretty reasonable explanation on a tag game, but Outer Wilds means something incredibly dear to me. After OneShot, it's the second game that put me in that feeling where I longed for the world to be real, and the worldbuilding and plotline and themes are just so... vivid, so enriching, so immersive.
OneShot has a... terrible curse where since the focal point is Niko, the game pretty much revolves around your interactions with Niko. Thus, the world becomes secondary, and every character to an extent functions to interact with Niko and display their different characteristics to further develop Niko, and by extension your feelings for them.
Outer Wilds meanwhile is about the world. You spend the entire game exploring it, finding its secrets and its story, and you essentially dive deep into a pool the size of a puddle yet deep enough to nearly crush you. I mean— three years after this, after my Outer Wilds fanfiction novel and I still get fresh ideas based on the story, and the world still feels so... real.
I love the game, I love the travelers and the space buddies I got to meet along the way.
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Console or PC?
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oh my GOD i played the most ball busting game of snake in my life to get THIS fuckass question
Uh, PC, but purely because I've never had a console in my life so I cannot make a fair assessment. I did play Medal of Honor on consoles when I was like, 10 or something on a PS2 though, and Need For Speed. Those were my childhood console games.
Item: The Friendship Bracelet Rarity: ⏶ Common
Which game character felt like a genuine childhood friend?
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It's honestly Niko.
Right now I don't exactly have much affinity towards Niko because I've been so... worn down from basically analyzing the game and destroying the mystique and what made it special in the first place — which I suppose is my fault, to an extent. Sometimes, the way you love a game is to play it and never touch it again. Just leave it be.
But back then, after I first finished a playthrough of OneShot by watching a YouTuber play through it, Niko did feel super real to me. The world itself felt real, the story was believable enough for young me that I genuinely felt so so longing to be within the world and actually talk to Niko, feel the cold wind on my face, look at the majestic eye candy...
Ha... it's actually kinda funny. I had wanted to be so engrossed inside a world made out of photons and electrons, that I decided to press through the screen and try to envision myself in it... but the world wasn't real whatsoever. I did it to myself! I searched for a world that didn't exist. (His writing is this fire?!?!?!?)
So, yeah. Niko was my genuine childhood friend. I believed Niko would come again one day and we can meet up together, or I could've found Niko... and then I grew up.
Sigh.
This is kinda fun, let's see what other asks I can get!
you have to let me listen to your heartbeat btw.
YES i'll be a little perverted. what about it..
@starrychevre
check behind egg-tree for a man
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Well, I suppose there is someone there, but is that really a man?
I mean you probably would identify him as masculine- he is in fact masculine, I did not even exactly mean to start the conversation with that, as much as this is also a topic to consider, but- [Paper rustling]
Okay, back to the initial question, or, rather what you even meant by "man" - I suppose jokingly answering "a miserable pile of secrets" would be a fitting reference at the moment, as much as I would not dare call him anything miserable—
He isn't exactly— Are you asking for someone who identifies as a man, or someone who is hu-man, because both of these are questionable-
Oh, does it even matter? In a mere blink, the figure, covered in shadow, disappeared completely.
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HE CAN [Surprise event extension!] BUT [Exclusive!] FOR HIMSELF. [Blink and you will miss it!]
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