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my house is scary at night

storyweavingspider

Interpreted this initially not as shelves, but as your cat having erected defensive fortifications

redactedshapes

If I'm going to make my Drifter Natah's Champion/Kisser, I thought of mixing Radiant Lotus with Eidolon Natah, so she has this more formal and "armored" look when performing as the leader (Radiant Lotus) and a more personal/intimate look for private moments: less armor and more "skin", scars proudly worn out in the open, tattered skirt unafraid of decay and the passage of time, muted colors and blue energy for the living and repaired rather than edolon's teal, dying energy.

Less obstructed neck muscles, visible collarbones and shoulder blades to shamelessly signal women with homosexual tendencies.

orcspoiledmilk

Starting a game 10+ years after it launched will never stop being funny to me. I'll check the warframe tag and see a guide that looks like:

"Preymator Prime just released, here's the quickest way to farm Nebula Oragutan for dark matter. First step: complete the game. Now, equip Hopscotch (Get this from Enkidu, Venus in Steel Path mode) and join a lobby with Beelzebub Prime, Sofritia Prime, and Volt. Get a blessing from Relay to increase the drop chance to 0.02168% while Beelzebub pours yellow paint on Nebula Oragutan's stasis drones. NOTE: If the Corsair shows up at the 35 minute mark, it is more time-efficient to restart the mission."

I'm still collecting pine cones. I got a strong feeling that a big pine cone hammer is waiting for me when I hit level 5. I have 24 so far

the-bisexual-bitch

*Stares into the middle distance* Anyone ever think about how a lot of normal/encouraged parenting tactics are also textbook abuse? Like...

Tracking (phone tracking apps are getting increasingly popular for parents)

Controlling appearance

Stopping a child from spending time around friends (grounding, taking away communication with people outside of the house)

Making a teen ask before going anywhere

And more that I don't have the energy to write out

The reason these things are considered acceptable for parents and abusive for everyone else is because youth are second class citizens who don't have the right to self determination

triviallytrue

in retrospect it's pretty funny that the most used computer port for many years just completely sucked shit to the point of there being normie memes about it

triviallytrue

we as a society lived like this for years and years

phaeton-flier

I mean when your biggest tech issue is "takes an extra 10 seconds (at most) to plug in if you're not paying attention" that's pretty good! Imagine if you had a printer and the printer's biggest problem was that the paper took a few tries to insert into the tray. You'd want to fuck that printer.

triviallytrue

I'd want to fuck that printer.

oneheadtoanother

mokeonn

Here's the unedited comic for those curious:

letsnotandsaywewantedto

The original is from June 18, 1959.

Some have called "they pay me in woims" Sluggo's catch phrase. It's not. He said it once, and folks on Bluesky loved it so much they say it all the time, especially in response to the Nancy Comics by Ernie Bushmiller account. Here's the original "they pay me in woims" from February 22, 1978:

And, another mention of woims from September 13, 1949:

And the Woims Wednesday (aka Woimsday) image that gets posted almost every week because of the popularity of the word:

asthe-crow-flies

#without context the first edit cracked me up#because it reminds me of the actual chaos that tends to ensue with children in live performances#which is the voice that suddenly comes into their heads the minute they realize they've reached the point where no one can stop them#they can say anything. no gods no kings no scripted lines etc#sometimes the remorse sets in IMMEDIATELY too and then they just burst into tears or freeze up#but some of them get a laugh and then that's it all you can do is roll with the maid who gets paid in woims

(tags via @sunderwight)

peer reviewing this cause that's pretty much exactly what i was thinking before i read the rest of the post

unpretty

many downsides to ibs but one that's definitely up there is entering a public bathroom to find some girls having a heart to heart. maybe one of them is crying. like okay i get it. you're having a moment. it is maybe not ideal to have your wracking sobs interrupted by the sound of someone jumping on a whoopie cushion full of gelatin. i also do not want this to be happening in the middle of your grocery store breakdown. but bathroom technology has not yet advanced to the point of having a special nightmare shits quarantine so we're all just going to have to deal.

oddballkittyclaw

WAAAAAAAUUUUUGH

kremlin

uninstall adobe acrobat. it is malware. it has been malware. these aren't opinions: acrobat meets the definition of malware.

it installs a user-login-time "startup" executable that ignores any windows directives to disable it on startup. doing so only removes the even-more-malicious taskbar-icon-creating advertisement-notification-creating process. no matter what you do, the sleeper "updater" process starts when you log in, and runs perpetually

it sends & receives encrypted network traffic both periodically and non-periodically. both are bad, both are suspicious, and a program doing both is more suspicious than the sum of their parts. and to boot: acrobat will polymorphically edit its code after such network activity

this isn't new: it has always done this. now, it does not even do the thing it is meant to: provide a way to interact with documents, which is amongst the very first features computers were built to provide. you can merely open PDFs and read some of their content in the narrow space between the requests for adobe to give them your money, and interface for features you cannot use (because you don't) or do not, have not, and will not ever need

adobe and microsoft would very much like the user's cultural norms around computers to allow for advertisement built into the local software and even operating system itself. the web being 100% advertisements was not enough! sure enough, acrobat will hijack the windows notifications system thing to give you the 2026 equivalent of pop-ups

i don't really know enough about windows software equivalents, so i'll paypal $20 to the first person that reblogs this with a list of 3-5 PDF reader/editor/etc acrobat equivalents that meet the following criteria:

open source, locally-built executables must match checksum of prebuilt distributed executable

no paid features/premium version/subscription/whatever

not a toy hobby project thing, must be windows-users-proof

cheers

andmaybegayer

Firefox's built-in PDF.js viewer: does everything you could want from a basic viewer, fast enough search, and can now do annotations for filling in forms and such

KDE Okular: is a decent viewer and can also do basic annotations, and is so not-a-toy that you can even download it on the Windows app store.

LibreOffice Draw: I don't ever really like having to open this but if you have to edit a PDF in detail it does work, and doesn't just vomit up a bunch of polygons when you give it text to work with. Better as an authoring tool than an editor.

ms-demeanor

I've 100% replaced free acrobat with the firefox built-in and it works wonderfully for general office use and research/reading/viewing. It doesn't have robust redaction capabilities, but if you need to fill and sign and highlight a form it's actually much more intuitive than acrobat reader.

clytemnestraaa

hi this drives me crazy

canon is what happens in the text. e.g. merlin tries to poison morgana

a headcanon is a fact that you have personally made up as an elaboration of canon. it is your invention. e.g. i think morgana and gwen had a teenage lesbian situationship before the events of canon. or, i think modern morgana would love evanesence.

an interpretation is how one reads the existing text. it is not an invented fact nor is it a headcanon, it is a reading. e.g. i think merlin tries to poison morgana out of misplaced self-hatred. or, i think that one line was delivered with suppressed malice and shows a nuanced relationship.

fanon is the general fandom’s accepted headcanons and interpretations that elaborate or recontextualize canon. e.g. merlin is a badass waif and morgana is a bitch.

these are all different words with different meanings.

justdecadentcollectiondestiny

and a cannon is a large mounted gun, usually on wheels, that uses explosives to fire projectiles.

sylviii

my wife has asked me to buy her a case of monster energy from costco but to make sure she doesn't give herself a heart attack I am also building a human-sized one of these