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My pile of reference links for things I'm not actually currently working on is a giant memory-devouring hash, so pulling them off again:

Almost Idle's incremental game tutorial

Reddit recs for incremental game source code trawls

Particle clicker source code


How to implement main character selection in RPGMaker


Tales and legends tag off lamus-dworski

Bread and Harvest rituals in Poland

Various paper flower crown links:
http://thehousethatlarsbuilt.com/2…
http://honestlywtf.com/diy/diy-pap…

Pisanki and designs
skrzynie wianne
same images as previous, with text
Pisanki symbolism
Polish art center


ebook direct sales
fair contract initiative

colorful dye option for people with dark hair

lamp divination
D is for Desire
Set theory
community in modern Kemetic practice
ritual purity
filling the storehouse of the gods
Full moon ritual for Khonsu-Heru

Was it at your place, thewronghands?

Anyway. Interesting review of Zero Dark Thirty.

Bad idea: implemented.

In case anyone might be amused by the links that I send everyone else.

For meranthi and frozencapybara:

Ana Mardoll's blog

The deconstruction links are in the sidebar.

Also ridiculous.

Failing. (YouTube link.)

(From coraline.)

From sciosa:

If Star Wars were an Icelandic Saga....

I was following a link from lupagreenwolf to this post about gender issues at this year's PantheaCon and found a link to this post about mystic reconstructionism. I'm beginning to suspect I may wake up the blogging again as a result of all this crap.

I was reading the posts sparked off by the Elizabeth Moon thing, or at least the ones that deepad collected here, and had this thought while reading this one.

From the post:

Whether a group changes its core behaviors and values after immigration or not, it must--to be assimilated later--come to understand the culture into which it has moved. To get along, it must try not to do those things which will, sure as eggs is eggs, create friction, distrust, and dislike. (Emphasis mine)



Hear that? If you're different, stop it. Do your level best to be the same as everybody else.

So we have a science fiction writer, active enough in the community thereof to get a GOH invitation to a major con, extolling the virtues of conformity.

Gee, I hope she has never been treated poorly for reading that sci-fi stuff. Because, you know, in some times and places, that kind of behaviour creates friction, distrust, and dislike.

But I can hear it now: oh, that's different! Those are just things bullies did!

Yes. Those are the things bullies do.

But it's not so different, really.

The inability of people to extrapolate both amazes and depresses me.


(Posted here because honestly it would be a derail from any of the excellent posts about actual experience with immigration, assimilation, racism, living as a Muslim, and other actually relevant comments on the whole thing. Those are better reading than a brief moment of mocking the hypocrite.)

A while back there was the original Infancy: The Text Adventure, courtesy xiphias.

Today we got a variant that went something like:


> LOOK AT BABY
The baby is very cute.

The baby hands you a wind-up flashlight.

> GIVE FLASHLIGHT TO BABY

The baby hands you a wind-up flashlight.

> GIVE FLASHLIGHT TO BABY

The baby hands you a wind-up flashlight.

> WIND FLASHLIGHT

The device makes a pleasant whirring sound as you hand-charge the battery.

> GIVE FLASHLIGHT TO BABY

The baby hands you a wind-up flashlight.

> TURN ON FLASHLIGHT

The glow from the flashlight is somewhat bluish and reasonably bright.

> GIVE FLASHLIGHT TO BABY

The baby takes the flashlight and starts to play with it.


In this case, the role of "the baby" was played by KJ and "you" by brooksmoses. (I had to give him a tip to solve the puzzle.)