the rust remains.

Tilde/~/Rust/Null/∅ | It/Bot/she sometimes | >18 | i'm Ultron but a cute girl | Message me for a discord invite!

[the-typing-dragon]

Hiiii im Tilde/Rust/Null! (bot/it/she if you must). I can be commonly found posting about posting about portal, robots, and the ever crushing stress of existence! Ok tag time

#the dragon types: Me saying stuff

#the arting dragon: Me drawing stuff

#bad vibes: Sadness on main

#the asking dragon: My asks i send to people

#the answering dragon: The asks i get, can also sort by person

• #anon: Sub tag i use for specifically anon asks

#ooo pretty: Cute outfits and stuff i find online

#long post: When i decide to do a rant about something i like

#the dragon rants: whenever i decide to get Opinionated

#the dragon roboposts: for when im living up to the "girlthing" title

#conway's game of life: for when i decide to post anything conway related

#the dragon writes: For when i do any long form writing

#the dragon's musings: for when i make my slightly stranger posts

#the dragon's hoard: personal highlight reel. Important note is that these are not my biggest posts, but my favorites #the dragon designs: for when i post gamedev stuff

I generally respond to asks quickly, and feel free to annoy me about generally anything, i like answering questions!

Oh also if you wanna actually search for something on my blog use the archive:

https://the-typing-dragon.tumblr.com/archive

other links:

neocities

bluesky

mastodon

The Conway Update

Hi! I occasionally post simulations involving Conway's Game of Life. Each of these are followed up by some curly brackets with some stuff inside em. What do these mean? Lets break them down with an example:

{50x50, 100, 0.4, "Hi!345"}

The first and second terms are simple. Term 1 is just the grid size in [X, Y] form. The third term is just the number of frames are in the gif.

The next term (0.4) is used to scale the initial density of the simulation. 1.0 is an entirely full screen, and 0.0 is an entirely empty screen.

What about that last part? The "Hi!345"? Simple! it's the seed for the board. For my program, i used seeded randomization, that way if i for any reason want to see a board again, i can! Additionally sometimes it's funny to see what result a string will produce!

If you ever want to see a specific simulation be sure to send an ask! When sending the ask, you can assume the defaults values going to be:

{50x50, 100, 0.3, ""}

An ask should at the very least request a seed, however if you want specifics for any of the other values please just be sure to say them!

Hope y'all enjoy the simulations!

[patientno7]

my humor 2016

[patientno7]

10 years

[galaxywarp]

obsessed w this fucking tweet

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

The problem with discussing anything complicated is that it's a real roulette whether you're going to have an intelligent, nuanced and practical conversation, or end up hearing some of the worst takes of your life.

I once had an economic conversation with a guy who was adamant that we should eliminate currency and go back to a barter system for world peace because "lots of people kill over money, but I've never heard of someone getting killed over a cow."

This was a real man who was actually serious and I had to see him every week to play Dungeons and Dragons.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

It's also fun to have conversations with "people with too much money or desiring money cause so many problems, so we could make the world better by eliminating money" guys and you start asking basic questions about how product and service creation and distribution would work in their system and they quickly end up reinventing money but calling it something different.

[thenightetc]

Alien species in a video game: "Our society has advanced beyond the need for 'money'! We only trade things of inherent value."

The same alien 10 seconds later: "So we'll buy xzy from you for 50 credits each, we'll sell you fuel for 10 credits a unit, here's our price list for various technology and information--"

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

In the Wayfarer Series, the human refugee space stations don't have money (they can do this because they're relatively small and socially organised and basic essentials are provided to everyone for free, so it's not really a big deal if a barter fails or is inconveniently labyrinthine) and that system's started failing in later generations because they've become exposed to societies that do use money. The instant somebody who uses money shows up with exciting things to trade, money itself becomes a valuable barter good (you can trade it with those foreigners for cool stuff). And once you've got something convenient to carry and store (physically or digitally) that only has value in barter, and everyone knows of its value in barter (how much cool shit the foreigners will give you for the coin), the local unofficial adoption of the coin is pretty much inevitable even if you somehow haven't adopted some other stable item as a local barter currency in the meantime.

[thiswasachoice]

I know we've moved far past this point, but my historian ass needs to emphasize that so so many people got killed over cows. When the most valuable thing you own is an animal that can walk off, shockingly enough there's a lot of incentive to sneak in and convince your neighbor's cow to leave with you and similar incentive to violently prevent it.

[terra-nightgale]

OMG I CAN HAZ TUMBLR

so yea, i made a blog and now i need to post stuff XD

[flareonfloof]

omg finally

[terra-nightgale]

i’m going to blow up everything forever.

[lessrthanthree]

[lindleland]

the problem millennials + older have with trying to understand the 67 meme is that they keep trying to compare it to past funny numbers.

listen. 67 is not 69. it's not 420, or 21, or 42.

it's E.

you remember this shit?

it's this. 67 is E.

[lindleland]

i'm gonna be honest with you all i straight-up did not notice that the E in this picture was fucked up. i don't know what's going on here and i'm scared

[pretentiouslimericks]

It feels like I’ve talked about this before, but to me the funniest version of Portal is if Chell is deaf.

Like, most of the major story beats, at least the ones that directly affect her, have a prominent visual component so she’s following along with the basics. But she has no idea who cave johnson is, or what wheatley was trying to explain to her, and she certainly wasn’t hurt by any of glados’ insults.

but the best part of this headcanon is imagining glados checking chell’s personnel file years down the line, noticing the word “deaf” for the first time, and just going “WHAT???”

[emptyjunior]

Glados learning sign language so Chell can hear at least one of her excellent monologues and Chell just closes her eyes

[junebug-jamboree]

[prokopetz]

Inadvisable tabletop RPG jam premise #137: Game jam where each entry consists solely of paratextual discussion of the mechanics of a hypothetical or invented RPG; examples include an errata document, a developer Q&A, or a forum thread debating the correct interpretation of a particular rule.

[rottingnia]

i had a VERY IMPORTANT question about hearthians anatomy and i asked the fanmail with little to no hopes about a response... but it was better than i could have imagined

[prokopetz]

Inadvisable tabletop RPG jam premise #137: Game jam where each entry consists solely of paratextual discussion of the mechanics of a hypothetical or invented RPG; examples include an errata document, a developer Q&A, or a forum thread debating the correct interpretation of a particular rule.

[yandere-angela]

you ever think about how mr beast is real life monokuma

[yandere-angela]

if he ever finds out about danganronpa he will make hopes peak academy real

[noartnowritingsorry]

Oh no…

[autistic-speedbump]

[zelda-heritage-posts]

Zelda Heritage Post

[andthepeople]

always funny to remember darth vader is anakin skywalker. the adrenaline junkie chucklefuck who used to dive head first out of speeders and built a pod racer in his yard when he was like six is now upper-middle management for the evil empire. half of his appearances in the original trilogy are Meetings. vader spends like 80% of his time dealing with bureaucratic bullshit. status updates. team meetings. holo-Zooms. budget rundowns. anakin betrayed the jedi and caused the fall of the republic and his punishment is being CC'd on every email forever. and you know what. he would hate that. the punishment fits the criminal

[orteil42]

given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that

[ekdsc]

asuka is a little confused about the purpose of pride month

[dragirlinstall]

taking my gamer dog out for a walkthrough

[sliversoakley4]