Tumultuous Capybara

An actual, literal capybara. Rat adjacent. 

[tumultuous-capybara]

Absolutely love seeing a site with a contact details section containing IRC, Second Life, AIM, WoW, and XMPP. Relic of a forgotten age. Every site should do this.

[tumultuous-capybara]

I return from my self-imposed exile to ask: what’s a harem called when it’s multiple owner/pet relationships instead of marriage?

[tumultuous-capybara]

Attempting to emulate kata’s KM asks with a program which generates short descriptions of erotic situations/curses/worlds/social structures, hooked up to a ML system optimizing for positive responses, which are posted publicly.

[tumultuous-capybara]

The porn never shows the hospital bill for stitching up the werewolf bite.

[tumultuous-capybara]

The onset of a migraine is the closest I will come to actual bimbofication. I can actually feel my ability to focus on anything decreasing.

[tumultuous-capybara]

Losing my shit over this stealth macro/micro fetish game with millions of unknowing views on YouTube LPs.

[mentalisttraceur]

I think one of the reasons why I started to like live verbal conversations is that at a certain point, as

I got better at live conversation,

the scope of what I could think of to say grew, and

I started to feel more secure when leaving ideas incomplete and disagreements unresolved

the constraints of live speech became relieving rather than frustrating, so long as it was with a mind I already had a decent positive dynamic with.

Though when it comes to certain kinds of disagreements, I prefer to go back to written communication with time delays.

[tumultuous-capybara]

Hard same. I’ve always preferred written communication, particularly for anything with actual complexity, though I’m not quite at your level of consistent elucidation. Being able to go back over what was written and examining the nuances, as well as considering the consequences and best approach to a reply is invaluable, and generally impossible in the expected few seconds before a reply in verbal conversation.

When engaged in conversation, I usually have to reply with whatever thread of thought is most prominent, losing the context for others I think of while listening to the other party.

It’s also why I dislike podcasts as a medium, there’s no time for analysis, to generate ideas and connections; if you’re focused enough to do that while listening, you’d be better off reading a transcript. Granted, this is reflected in the general choice of content as being less involved.

The techno-optimist part of me wants to experiment with optimizing for this, something like a more directly collaborative wiki or memex: being able to annotate ideas had while reading, replying to selections out of content to make it clear it’s a distinct thought, inlining references to posts and replies to compose things together. Unfortunately, I also predict that the features wouldn’t be worth the complexity they add, compared to the simple mechanics of back-and-forth replies.

Hopefully, I get more comfortable leaving ideas incomplete and verbal conversation in general, something I’m working on with voice chat and pursuing  more involved conversations.

[tumultuous-capybara]

Inaugurated the 'definition' tag of my personal wiki with "vorning", a portmanteau of vore and morning.

[tumultuous-capybara]

queer the queer/dialectic dialectic

[tumultuous-capybara]

The Godzilla games, but Godzilla's model is replaced with a poorly-animated Falco.

[kata4a]

oh, speaking of hosting your own site, I’ve been toying around for a while now with the idea of hosting some recipes that I particularly like somewhere, in plaintext, with no elaborate narrative or story, just ingredients, instructions, and maybe some comments on what’s important/variable, what’s tricky about it, etc

would people be interested in seeing this sort of thing?

[paradigm-adrift]

What I’d like in general (and would appreciate from you as well) is easily scrapable JSON-like recipe formats that I can throw into a big personal database to search through.

It would be cool to:

search for recipes given ingredients I already have around at home

automatically handle some common ingredient substitutions

interpolate between different versions of the same recipe

auto-generate grocery lists, especially informed by data about my current kitchen inventory that I wouldn’t care to share with a “privacy invasion as primary business model” online app

If I had access to lots of recipes in XML or JSON or EDN or HTML microformats or whatever, this would be pretty straightforward, but with Google search results for cooking instructions being how they are, this is currently a hard problem.

[kata4a]

oh this is also really good and not particularly prohibitively complicated

let’s see if I can’t put together a poc by next week

[tumultuous-capybara]

But what about... a system for mapping arbitrary file schemes to plaintext and JSON?

[tumultuous-capybara]

"chrysanthemum" is the most wonderful euphemism for an asshole and I love it

[tumultuous-capybara]

I like to think sleep paralysis happens because I/O is switching to/from the internal simulation.

[tumultuous-capybara]

The future technology aesthetic of large glass touchscreens is cool, but I really want to see more designs based on technological needs different from ours. For example, a far-future society living within a very slim margin of sustainability, so everything is build modular and large, replacing screens with room-wide projectors, optimizing for energy efficiency and the ability to quickly replace and recycle components at the expense of usability and size.

[tumultuous-capybara]

Working on a personal wiki design for myself, it just fits better with how I want to note down and explain ideas than a blog format; specifically, separating things out by concept and definition and the heavy use of annotations, links, and categories to provide context and additional information.

[toolusingmammalgirl]

Rocket Sauce

“Rocket sauce” is a broad term for any beverage made from ingredients that are individually toxic (or even fatal), but chemically balance out to a relatively-safe form. Frequently, the margin of error is a few milliliters or less. Recipes vary wildly based on available ingredients and the drinker’s biology, but are often drawn from heavy industry and spaceport stocks.

Keep Reading…

On Patreon: The Thalazid Stratarchy, an oceanic world where nothing truly escapes the depths.

[tumultuous-capybara]

I really love these sci-fi concepts built with an eye towards incentives and systems, it gives them a sense of realism and depth I rarely get from sci-fi (including works with much larger bodies of text), while still being entirely alien. The unexpected little details and storylets (pirate soap opera!) make it a joy to read as well.

[tumultuous-capybara]

I like mobile tumblr's new feature where it shows me a bunch of porn from my downloads when I make a new post. Really gets me in the mood for posting.