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[winterseamusicnotes]

Let's make a main character!

male

female

agender

unknowable

Voting ended onMay 8, 2023

[winterseamusicnotes]

Forgot to add: this will be for a public domain story I will write from the results.

Part two:

Let's make a main character part two! The results will be used in a public domain story I will write. Anyone will be able to expand/use t

Part three:

Let's make a main character part three (Final poll for main character)

And finally.... the situation :D

Last poll (for now)

[winterseamusicnotes]

OK! Our main character is: female (i see what y'all did there). Supernatural entity/farmhand that dropped onto earth. Her name is the two most common names around the world annnd she's fighting drunk buildings. Wahoo!

So the most common first name is Mohammed and the most common last name is Smith. Her name therefore would be Mohammed Smith. I'm making an executive decision to not name her Mohammed for the reason Mohammed is an Islamic name and they don't have gender neutral or unisex names. If I'm wrong please correct me! Instead I'm going for the most common female name: Maria.

So, introducing our main character: Maria Smith.

[winterseamusicnotes]

I double checked and the most common last name, depending on sources, is either Wang, Li/Lee, or Zhang. I had initially looked at a usa names for the last name then went "Wait a minute."

New name: Maria Zhang

[ororium-z]

Happy Pride!

[rootbeergoddess]

Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

[thesaltofcarthage]

I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.

[myrrhemaid]

Happy Pride! This dancer’s name is Mark Kanemura and Carly Rae Jepson brought him onstage to perform Cut To The Feeling at her 2019 NYC tour stop!

[just-another-cat-blog]

pride month!!!

[lemonsharks]

Is that a miette?

[jeanjauthor]

Pride for you!  Pride for a thousand years!!

[frankiecorleone]

do it for her (your thirteen year old self)

[only-tiktoks]

Dancers at Los Angeles bar to become only unionized strippers in US after 15-month battle

Dancers at a Los Angeles bar could soon become the only unionized group of strippers in the U.S. The Actors’ Equity Association labor union

[angstbotfic]

okay, they ARE the ONLY strippers currently in the US. but they are NOT the FIRST strippers’ union in the country. the Lusty Lady in San Francisco was the first group of strippers to unionize, in 1997.  there’s a documentary about it called Live Nude Girls Unite! 

[wachinyeya]

Small island nations take high-emitting countries to court to protect the ocean

Countries threatened by rising sea levels are asking a tribunal to decide on responsibility for pollution of the marine environment

[reasonsforhope]

!!!!! Really, really hope they win at the hearing - this would make such a big difference, and also start an early but serious precedent for countries that are especially struggling with climate change to take Western governments to court over climate change.

We're gonna see more and more cases in this realm, I know it. (And if this one succeeds, I bet you they'll be coming fast) (Well, "legal system fast")

Thanks so much for posting, OP!!

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Excerpt:

In a landmark hearing, small island nations disproportionately affected by the climate crisis will take on high-emitting countries in a court in Hamburg, Germany, on 11 September, in what is being seen as the first climate justice case aimed at protecting the ocean.

During the two-day hearing, the nations – including the Bahamas, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Antigua and Barbuda, among others – will ask the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (Itlos) to determine whether greenhouse gas emissions absorbed by the marine environment should be considered pollution.

As one of the planet’s greatest carbon sinks, the ocean absorbs 25% of carbon dioxide emissions, captures 90% of the heat caused by those emissions and produces half the world’s oxygen.

Most countries have obligations under the legally binding UN convention on the law of the sea to take measures to prevent, reduce and control marine pollution.

If the case, brought by the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law (Cosis), is successful, these obligations would include carbon-emission reduction and protection of marine environments already damaged by CO2 pollution.

“Sea levels are rising rapidly, threatening to sink our lands below the ocean,” Kausea Natano, the prime minister of Tuvalu, said in a statement...

His people are suffering a “manifest injustice” as a result of climate change, he said. “We are confident that international courts and tribunals will not allow this injustice to continue unchecked.”

-via The Guardian, September 10, 2023

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[bakerstmel]

I’d really forgotten how much I love this site

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

We actually have no evidence on whether or not diplodocus causes gonorrhea.

[cipheramnesia]

Better?

[suigintou]

it must be said the ancient greeks got a little funny with it

[cryoverkiltmilk]

Parry this, you filthy Macedonian.

[only-tiktoks]

[sherryzade]

[wolfythewitch]

🦅🦅IF YOU COULD REWRITE THE BIBLE WHAT WOULD YOU DO🦅🦅

Let Jesus say fuck

[wolfythewitch]

Our father in heaven, hallowed be thy fucking name.

I am the fucking bread of life.

Father, forgive them; for they do not know what the FUCK they're doing.

[sightofsea]

there's been a couple times that i've gone to the local sex club and every time i was at an event there was one man just fully naked walking around. same guy every time. hog like a hoagie roll when flaccid and he was always flaccid. anyway at one of the less populated events i got to sit and talk with him and he told me that he told me he was always naked because, despite it being a sex club, people still don't know when it's 'okay' to start getting into it and he decided he'd be the one thing to break the ice and make everybody comfortable, because you know you can start doing whatever you wanna do when there's just a naked guy walking around. he then asked if i wanted a silicone copy of his dick for my strap. never in my life have i felt such an instant respect for a person.

[official-penis-posts]

Official Hog Like A Hoagie Roll Post

[clinical-manners]

*places an orange just outside a fairy ring to see what comes out* science is more of an art than a science

[theunfairfolk]

*the orange grows legs and skitters away*

[clinical-manners]

Fascinating results *places a banana in the same spot*

[kingscrown666]

*clawed hand reaches out of the ether and drags it into the ring, leaving ragged claw marks in the soil as it disappears, back into the ether from whence it came*

[numberlover1729]

“let’s go to the extreme.” *places a pineapple in the same spot*

[yallidarityforever]

Real scientists would keep putting an orange in the same spot to make sure the results are consistent before moving on to other fruits or different spots.

[clinical-manners]

The only valid response to this post.

[elodieunderglass]

We’re working up the complexity levels of fruit until we feel there is enough evidence to support the judicious placement of a volunteer twink

[cannibal-cupcakes]

[elodieunderglass]

You sit down, we haven’t seen what’s happened to the pineapple

[lynati]

This is Tumblr; we’ve ALL seen what happened to the pineapple. O_O

[rogha]

there’s got to be at least one trans woman named eve out there whose deadname is adam. and she’s the funniest person to ever grace this earth with her presence.

[obsidiannebula]

She’s right

[artcher-artwork]

Corgi Paladin He's a Print!

[injuries-in-dust]

He escaped into the wild again.

[roach-works]

he didn't escape someone clearly hucked him out of a car to be 'free' like an unwanted exotic pet

[cipheramnesia]

He activated my cat instinct to chase string and now I want to hunt him for enrichment.

[auranym]

I think the saddest part about Unity's godawful news is that a lot of games are going to just. disappear.

it's like Unity is trying to go the way of streaming where the hidden gems and cult classics don't make enough money, so, they're taken offline. except this time it's with games (mostly indie).

to put it in perspective, hollow knight, cuphead, and ori are made in unity. so are night in the woods, tunic, and countless more indie gems. hell, AMONG US is made in unity. if the devs of any of these games can't shell out the outrageous cost, then maybe the devs will take them offline. and we'll just. never be able to play them anymore

it's a sad possibility that I don't think any of us ever had to consider. but now we do.

[zoeythebee]

Fuck Unity

[cdarklock]

A little story.

Several years ago, I was working in Unity. I loved Unity. I thought it was a fantastic engine. And I was working on a game, which all these years later I am still working on because that's how game development works so fuck you, which needed a whooooooole lot of particle systems. Not like, CPU-punishing numbers, but a lot.

And because of how particle systems work in Unity, I needed to use the 3D particle system to get the effect I wanted, but the game itself was 2D and essentially just all UI components. It was a clicker game, in the vein of Adventure Capitalist. And there was a weird bug.

Whenever I ran the game natively, not through the Unity engine, the particle systems just... disappeared. They were just not working at all. And I spent days trying to figure out what was going on, because you know, running it through the debugger worked fine. It only had the bug in release builds running standalone.

Working with the team on the Unity forums, we finally managed to produce a minimal test case, which revealed the problem: when you tried to overlay 3D particle systems on top of the UI, the engine would - for some reason - reset all the particle system's location variables to the default. It moved the system to ( 0, 0, 0 ) with a rotation of 0 degrees. This meant the particle system was at the bottom left of the screen, firing its particles to the left, so they were still there and working, they were just sending all the particles off-screen.

Now, you would think that having identified the bug that was blocking my game's development, this would get fixed in the next release. But no! It did not. For weeks, I watched the bug languish in the tracker without even being assigned to anyone. Weeks turned into months. And when I finally left an agitated little rant about this on the forum, one of the team members said "we have to prioritise the needs of Pro and Enterprise subscribers."

And I got the message loud and clear: if I wanted Unity's engine team to fix the bugs that were blocking my progress, I needed to pay them money. No money, no fix, unless and until my bug happened to be a problem for someone who did pay money.

It was right around then that someone said "Hey, have you heard of this new Godot thing? They just added C# support, but it's experimental."

I've never looked back. And I'm with Zoey 100% - fuck Unity.

[auranym]

I didn't want to make the initial post a Godot hype thing, but. for real. everyone should at least *consider* making the switch!

Godot has been monumentally better to me than Unity. it's lighter-weight, community-centric, and FREE FOREVER! the entire point is that making games is an art that is reliant on people making things together. uplifting each other. creating things they love because they love doing it. and. that's Godot's whole thing!

Unity may have started out as someone's passion project, I don't know. but today, it's a corporate product with a corporation's goals.

to all indies out there, especially those who make games for fun, check out Godot! I've published two tiny games for fun so far and have two more in the works, and man, it's been a blast so far.

the main downside is that the features aren't as fleshed out as unity or unreal, but, as a counterpoint, that's because it's still a pretty young engine! the entire thing is open source and supported by donations and community code contributions. meaning, *anyone* can make a significant impact if they want to. I've poked around in the code myself to see how I can improve it!

if you get involved, even if you just make a post tagged with Godot, you're actively contributing to making it better for everyone. seriously, one of the main ways to contribute listen on Godot's website is to *make games* with the engine!

so yeah, I'm a huge fan and supporter of Godot, and after today's Unity announcement, I really hope it's an opportunity for people to find a better home with Godot or literally any other game engine

[thepersonalquotes]