Dreamfall

he/him. Punch a fascist, save the world

[feefal]

Daydreamer anatomy☁️

These individuals tend to have their head in the clouds, and are reported to prefer the escapism of fiction over reality.

[prokopetz]

One of my favourite things in urban fantasy literature is when an author clearly likes the idea of wizard boarding school drama, but wants to avoid getting any Harry Potter stink on them and tries to accomplish that by simply bluntly inverting all the stuff they regard as problematic, and in so doing independently reinvents the X-Men.

[amberuchan]

I caught a criminal but she managed to escape !

[randomalistic]

Your artstyle is like your gut microbiome in the way its everything you consume and like and it also has all your bacteria up in it. Thats probably how that works

[randomalistic]

SO TRUE

[elodieunderglass]

I feel like you can lick my drawings and get a very clear mental picture of the art I studied as a child, but maybe the ones I think I see aren’t as obvious to others as they are to me!

[what-even-is-thiss]

In my opinion, wondering whether or not you’re a good person or a bad person isn’t really a constructive or useful activity.

You’re too close to yourself to make that kind of judgement. You’re not really qualified to judge the exterior of a house that you’re always standing inside of.

Anyways since I’ve switched to the mindset of “I’m just gonna keep trying and not try to pass final judgement on myself because that’s above my pay grade” I have unsurprisingly had way less nights sobbing on the floor convinced that I’m a terrible irredeemable piece of human garbage.

Am I good? Am I bad? Not my business. I’m just gonna keep trying to do better and let the cards fall where they may.

[prokopetz]

I don't use AI-generated code, but I do periodically assess the correctness of the AI summaries just to keep abreast of what people are being told to do, and the frequency with which even enterprise-class AI coding assistants will just plain make up nonexistent API methods is kind of mind-boggling.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Car-centric infrastructure pisses me off but it also pisses off car owners and they don’t even realize it.

Do you hate traffic? Yeah. It’s because of all the cars.

Do you hate noise? Yeah. It’s because of all the cars.

Do you hate so many people under the age of 30 dying? Yeah. It’s because of all the cars.

Do you hate lung and heart diseases? Yeah. It’s because of all the cars.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Why is suburbia boring? Because of all the cars.

Tired of having to drive around your elderly, young, and disabled relatives? Blame all the cars.

Tired of air and water pollution? Yeah a lot of that comes from cars.

Tired of potholes? It’s because there’s so many cars.

More severe flooding than there used to be? Because of all the asphalt for the cars.

Is your city losing money and can’t afford to maintain suburban sewer and sidewalks? Cars.

Your town keeps knocking down all its historic buildings to build more parking lots? Yeah I think you know what to blame. It’s the cars.

[wiisagi-maiingan]

Reclaiming a slur or bigoted term does not mean you can use it as an insult. If you call something or someone the r word, saying "well I'm neurodivergent so I can reclaim it" does not magically take away the violence and harm of that word when it's being used to hurt other people. Calling someone limp wristed for being "weak" or effeminate isn't quirky or funny because you're queer, it's just homophobia. You aren't reclaiming the word bimbo by slinging at other women to put them down. All you're doing is perpetuating the bigotry and violence that creates those terms in the first place.

[prokopetz]

It's not "incorrect" to treat tabletop RPG character creation as a guided OC creation tool – heck, it's not even novel; the first published tabletop RPG to explicitly frame character creation as a standalone solo minigame came out in like 1977 – but you do need to recognise that each character creation system is tuned to produce a very particular Type of Guy. Yes, even the ostensibly "generic" ones. This isn't a flaw – obviously you want character creation for a game to strongly push people toward creating characters who are both willing and able to participate in the things the game in question is about – but it's something to be aware of when using tabletop RPGs in this way. If you're trying to use Dungeons & Dragons as a creative framework for a character who would never under any circumstances voluntarily go into a dungeon to fight a dragon, you're gonna have a rough time!

[nightcorecarseatheadrest]

My friend blocked me because I wouldn’t stop sending him this picture

[horns4handles-deactivated202607]

[onedivinemisfit]

👆

[vexwerewolf]

Hey, Big fan of your work, a solid reason I got into Lancer and mecha in general.

I'm not on Tumblr as much but I still use Reddit from time to time. I see the Hostage Note format in way more places nowadays, mostly tabletop related, like Warhammer 40k and CAIN. What are your thoughts on a meme format growing beyond the original use? I doubt a lot of people know where it came from. Do you want credit or is it not that important? Anyway thanks for your time.

I don't own the format. I didn't invent the format. I'm just (possibly) the most well-known maker in the format. I don't and can't control what others make using the format, so I don't feel responsible for what's made using it. I like seeing people's different takes on the same mech, and I also like seeing their takes on other games.

If I was very paranoid, I'd probably worry about devoted fanboys using it to uncritically praise a property or about corporate entities appropriating the style for commercial advertisements, but I don't think either of those are likely.

In the case of the former, the format is inherently very silly, and I think to make decent ransom note memes you have to have a sense of levity and whimsy or the memes just won't hit. If you're just uncritically praising the property or a faction in that property or whatever, your meme is going to be very boring to read.

These memes are also, for all their amusement, not exactly the easiest on the eyes. The days of 2000s-era gonzo marketing are gone - no stuffy suit is going to approve something that looks like this.

[cardboard-crack]

[ishimarukiyotaka]

literally the worst way of ending a series is “all the survivors are happily straight married with tons and tons of babies!” 

[ishimarukiyotaka]

people still getting mad at this post i made in 2014 so I will add here. in 2026. that the point of this post isn’t “happy endings bad” its when the story’s only way to imagine a happy ending is a heterosexual nuclear family for everyone.

[3liza]

watched a documentary about the history of art a couple days ago where a guy transitioned seamlessly from talking about 18th century realism to the beginnings of surrealism, impressionism and eventually abstract expressionism without once mentioning the invention of photography. it was utterly bizarre. it was like watching Friends when 9/11 happened and it just didnt happen on the show

[3liza]

i understand when youre doing a "history of art" documentary you have limited time to address little details and minor movements like idk, the Vienna Seccession or the ashcan school or whatever. but photography? and he literally did just start talking about impressionism like "gee who knows why artists suddenly lost a lot of interest in capturing literal or at least representative depictions of what they could see with their eyeballs. who knows why it suddenly wasnt very profitable to pursue mostly portraiture anymore. everyone just suddenly decided to start painting more blobs and then eventually cubes. perhaps it was simply time" can you imagine being 10 years old watching something like this lol why would you write your show this way.

[3liza]

"we just dont know why horses became the least popular mode of personal transportation in the united states during the early 20th century. nor why the american government devoted most of its infrastructure foot print to paved roads, a decision which lives with us to this day, where there is nary a horse to be seen in most metropolitan regions of north america"

[3liza]

this is actually a really good example of what i keep talking about wrt "art' being both unintentionally and intentionally framed as non-material by capitalism. it's why they mostly dont let working artists teach art school or make art history documentaries, the punters get scared when you tell them artists did something a certain way because they had to make rent. and going by the statistics i keep seeing about how the wealthy are apparently 99% of the working artist class at this point, it would make sense that there are class reasons to maintain this narrative

[blumineck]

Be yourself as best you can whenever you can.

[wizardarchetypes]

never thought this day would come but i’m currently having a customer service experience so bad right now that i’m defecting from the employee regiment and joining the customers in their next battle. i don’t know who i am anymore.

[wizardarchetypes]

experience that makes me research local customer service supervisors for a global corporation and tag them in a LinkedIn post, to fall upon their mercy.

[wizardarchetypes]

long story short i have worked for a call center in customer service before and i knew something was not working out. i've had to call about this issue 5 times in 4 weeks because it's still not resolved, and each time the conversation has ended i've asked for an email confirmation of our conversation and a ticket number so i can call back and reference it with a new representative.

well every time i've called, the new representative has been like "i'm so sorry, but there's no ticket by that number. i have no record of you ever calling about this. i'll start a ticket for you."

finally, the fifth time i nearly burst into tears of frustration and i said "i don't want you to start a ticket for me, because it will be the sixth ticket created for this same issue. every week, one of your colleagues tells me they'll create a a new ticket for me, and then nothing happens."

they said, "i'm sorry but i have no record of those tickets existing." and i was like i KNOW. but they doooooo what is happening.

finally i got transferred to a supervisor's supervisor.

if you've ever worked in online customer service, you know that when a customer calls with a problem, you create a "ticket" that puts that issue into the system. if you can't resolve it, it goes into a ticket queue, where other people with the ability to resolve it select it, put it into their personal working queue, and resolve it.

well after 30 minutes of searching, this supervisor tells me, dumbfounded, that she's discovered a completely unique queue she's never seen before, where my tickets have been going somehow. a pocket universe queue that no one has access to or can edit or select from, not even her. she has no idea what's happening. she's like "yes, here are all your tickets, and no one can open them or comment on them or resolve them.....this is crazy......" and it's JUST my tickets in there. no one else's. of tens of thousands of customers.

all professionalism fell by the wayside. i told her i've worked with those queues before and also found that totally wild. she was like "what the hell is going on...." and talked me through everything she was seeing and how gobsmacked she was. we were both like "this is one for the books truly"

tells me she's going to have to bring this up above herself because this is a really big error on like, a coding level, that she has no idea how to resolve. tells me she will personally call me back tomorrow to update me.

four days pass with no word.

i call customer service again. random agent. explain the entire situation, including that last bit.

agent says "i'm sorry but i have no record of those tickets existing. i'll have to start a ticket for you. rest assured, it will be resolved."

i said, "no it won't be. it never will be. because they're in the special queue."

clearly not believing me, they said, "i've heard nothing about that. i'll start a new ticket for you."

[spinor]

This is the sort of computing nightmare I've heard of mostly about people whose surname is Null, because that will frequently convince airlines that you didn't actually enter in your surname.

These unlucky people have names that break computers

An unlucky few have names that can utterly confuse computers, and it makes their life online quite the headache. Why does it happen?

[d6b-onion]

this video has been going around for a while but the English subtitles didn't match the energy of the spoken French at all. i had to fix it.

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