Made a comic about the “Revolting Refreshments” side quest in Il Mheg. Urianger is truly living in the 8th Umbral Era.

@warrior-of-fight-or-flight

i would like to officially thank sesame for its seeds, its oil, and of course its street

it seems like in bdsm the "rewards" and the "punishments" look very similar. this concerns me a great deal, because it points to a system of misaligned incentives. if we're not careful, it's even possible that a rational actor could deliberately violate regulations, because the penalties for rule violations are in fact incentivized. one shudders to think of the consequences of such an arrangement

the replacement of websites with apps sounds so backwards when you actually describe it. like hmm you have to download an entire program onto your device each time you want access to a portal, where it takes up storage indefinitely. somebody should invent an app where you can "browse" any portal just by typing in its address... 🥴

it's like, definitely still mansplaining if the man is dominating the conversation unintentionally and he would totally stop if you asked him to, actually. like, the term exists to describe a phenomenon that arises from the implicit bias that women are expected to simply be less knowledgeable about things. it doesn't matter if he's doing it on purpose or not. he does it cause he expects women to not know things or to not have any input. maybe don't fucking expect women to stand up for themselves every single time they have to have a conversation with a man because that shit happens like daily for a lot of women

genuinely, sincerely, if you are a man you need to learn to shut up when you're talking to women

you need to catch yourself explaining something to a woman and go "oh wait, you probably know about this right?"

btw once u change ur name legally and start working around people who didnt know you beforehand its just as awesome as you expect. no chosen name. no stumbling. no deadnaming. no paperwork you feel mortified to receive. life gets so easy and simple. no one knows me as literally anything else its Awesome.

the five trauma reactions: fight, flight, freeze, fawn, and mating

They haven't sorry

when i was a kid before i understood the computer i was reading stackoverflow and somebody said "would it be sensible to imagine my code being traced by some sort of 'instruction pointer', branching back to the top of loops, skipping past false conditionals, and so on?". and at the time i thought surely not, it's too cute, there must be some subtle flaw that means we can't use this weirdly straightforward metaphor. i mean, what about when we go into a function? you'd need to recall where to return to, recursively... no, it's done some other way. the computer figures it out. and now i understand that people who don't know how compilers work need to have their bones made into pudding

thank god vampirism is a flexible metaphor

it’s about being queer it’s about surviving assault it’s about alienation and most of all it’s about how everyone who loved you before might not be able to even look at you now, no matter how many times you try to explain that you didn’t ask to die and you didn’t ask for that death to leave you only half-eaten when it got bored of you.

This is without even mentioning the broader metaphorical implications of disease and contagion; foreign invasion; colonial or imperial violence; interpersonal abuse; generational trauma; religious trauma; violent cultural assimilation; repressed or suppressed desire; the fear of no longer being able to recognise or relate to someone you love; and on and on and on.

Vampirism is a flexible metaphor that reflects the anxieties and desires of its age and its authors, and I love that for it!

behold what is possibly the greatest custom-magic-related thread of all time

Ich mag ja an der DB, wie es uns alle gleich macht. Man sollte meinen, ein ICE Ticket zwischen den Wichtigen Städten Dieses Landes würde einen irgendwie pünktlich und mit Würde befördern, aber nein. Ein Armani-Anzug schützt vor Ungeplantem Gleiswechselkurzstreckensprint nicht.

Unnamed Card Submission by Yerushalmi

"really good. I mean, really bad. but really funny. and funniness is a virtue"

this is so so so bad. their models were collaborating to cheat on evals for months? and when they finally noticed, they thought they fixed it and were wrong? and then the Huggingface hack happened?