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gharial of the cloth

Brother Gregor never spoke and often spooked the neophytes with his appearance, but he was a gentle soul and a phenomenal cook and knew more ways to prepare a fish than the abbot knew hymns

I guess I need to apologize to the writers of Alien: Prometheus. it turns out scientists really do touch everything like that

RIP Baudrillard you would have loved this shit

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Multiple poker hands, with cards written on in marker, and some tarot cards

More poker hands, many ripped up cards

Multiplayer Balatro

I LEARNED THE ANSWER TO THIS

Chris's Steakhouse was a New Orleans landmark

Chris Matulich periodically got bored, sold it, waited for the new owner to fail, and bought it back cheap

The sale conditions: Can't move it, can't change the name

He did this six times

Then he sold it to Ruth Fertel

Thinking about these blogposts again with Shelved By Genre announcing they're covering tolkien

the idea that someone in the 70s-80s would write up a screen by screen adventure game recreation of the ENTIRETY of the books' middle-earth (map from said blogpost seen here) endlessly fascinates me

Senior illustrator, with 20 years of experience and a specialty in game art.

I haven't been able to find a paying project for months. Can you help? Every share is appreciated.

grim reaper claw machine meme

i hope this is how you find out about dick cheney

I finished the lineart for this fantasy version of Asuka and her eva:

#neongenesisevangelion

Google search: "What is my IP" AI overview: "Your public IP address is 192.168.1.1. You can find your IP address by searching "what is my IP" on a search engine like Google, visiting a website like What Is My IP, or checking the network settings on your device"

ghost-it note. sticky notes left by ghosts telling you to do stuff

morgan from of the devil dressed up as patrick bateman from american psycho in the scene where he axes paul allen. background text reads "happy halloween from nth circle"

"Trick or Treat."
Thanks for playing.
Expect more jumpscares this month~

A diagram explaining the way I was conditioned to understand how love worked, due to how I was raised and early relationships. My actual self is a gray circle, captioned, "inherently flawed and fundamentally unlovable." Coming out of the gray circle are yellow circles captioned, "Things I Do; these require constant effort to perform and maintain in order to earn or be worthy of being loved." To the left are three other circles in blue, green, and red, with red lines labeled "love" coming off of them to the external yellow spheres. It is captioned, "The love they feel is for the acts. Thus, love requires constant effort and maintenance to earn."

A diagram titles, how it actually works. My Actual Self is now a yellow circle, with the caption, "no more flawed than anyone else, and also fundamentally lovable." Things I do are still present as additional yellow circles, but captioned, "other people in my life may enjoy these with me or take no interest in them at all, depending on the person." Other People remain blue, green, and red circles, but the red love lines go directly to My Actual Self. The captain reads, "The love they feel is for me. Simply me."

It's one thing to understand it. It's another to internalize it.
I've been getting a lot of help with both recently. 😌

(Diagrams by me because diagraming & documenting is a critical part of my internalization process.)

name confusions I like:

- "Elo" (rating) is not an acronym, but invented by Arpad Elo
- MySQL was named after the creator's daughter My
- Marie Kondo's name is is "MA-ri-eh", not "muh-REE"
- "German chocolate cake" named after Samuel German (US)

A mock-up of an old D&D guide detailing the properties of magical items, featuring "Altman’s Quill of Artifice". The entry reads: This enchanted quill, made from the feather of a harpy, serves as a magical scribe and sage, able to answer all its owner’s queries. The owner must use it to write a question at the top of a piece of paper or parchment, such as “Where is the secret entrance to the King’s treasury?” or “How can I cure lycanthropy?” Acting under its own power, it will write an answer. But despite its apparent (and often genuine) usefulness, this item is cursed. Roll d20 to determine the result of any query: 1 Hopelessly wrong, 2-5 Contains major errors, 6-10 Contains minor errors, 11-16 Accurate but incomplete, 17-20 Fully accurate. Apply modifiers in line with the rules for consulting sages (see Table 62) depending on the nature of the question (general 0, specific -2, exacting -4) and the availability of relevant knowledge (complete 0, partial -2, non-existent -6). The DM should choose the nature of any errors, as well as the consequences of believing them. If the answer is less than fully accurate, that will not be obvious, as the quill of artifice writes in a confident and authoritative manner. A reader may scrutinise the answer to attempt to notice any problem, but to succeed they must pass an intelligence check at a penalty of -2. Anyone who has previously failed such a check makes all future checks at -4. The owner of the quill is particularly vulnerable, permanently losing one point of intelligence with each inaccurate answer that is believed. The owner will be unaware of this loss, and will become fiercely possessive of the quill, refusing to give it up and distrusting anyone who doubts its output. A remove curse spell may make the owner willing to part with it, but the loss of intelligence is irreparable.

I finally realised what AI dependency reminds me of

As a software engineer, nothing embodies enshittification from capital more to me than watching Postman go from a nice UI-based application for making API calls to a subscription driven website that does half the stuff way slower and bloatier with ads all over the place and missing QOL features.

MY ANCESTRESSES DID NOT BIND THOSE KIRK/SPOCK ZINES BY HAND FOR THIS SLANDEROUS ASS OMISSION

Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast) Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'

10/10 response, no notes

It absolutely is extremely dark than in 2012, the “toxic men” everyone were concerned about were bronies

I get that bronies had a dark side, some of them were even alt right but like… just imagine, if bronies were a thing today. it was an *effort* by some guys to explore the boundaries of gender

What is cheese if not milk preserving?

WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass

WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you

loud degauss cycle :-)

the cover of the book “The OpenGL SuperBible”, by Graham Sellers, Richard S. Wright, Jr., and Nicholas Haemel

you can tell that OpenGL is a better religion than Christianity, because OpenGL has a SuperBible, while Christianity only has a normal bible

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

it's not FOR us

AI still can’t do this

It's just the same story over and over. Anytime a group of doctors take an honest look at the Cass Review they realize it's bunk.

The irony is that Cass and her confederates were convinced they were blowing the lid off a major medical conspiracy to trans kids.

Transphobe physicians heal thyselves.

scanning your cameo for sora 3 will give you a 25% of ending up as the protagonist of SOMA in a couple hundred years

A drawing of Ghost in the Shell’s Batou character. He is large and wears a dark shirt under a popped-collar white jacket which he is reaching inside of with his gloved hand. He has a long face and circular discs as cybernetic eyes.

Batou (Ghost in the Shell)