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@leftoblique.bsky.social

High-level code wizard Gym rat Mom Musician TTRPG designer Retired roller derby athlete, now coach Gamerโ„ข I contain multitudes. ๐Ÿ˜ @tess@mastodon.social

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Let's fucking gooooooo

22.10.2025 21:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Turns out the master's tool does in fact dismantle the master's house.

22.10.2025 21:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
a snickers bar with a copy of morrowind tribunal in it

a snickers bar with a copy of morrowind tribunal in it

parents PLEASE check your kid's candy this year. i just found a copy of "the elder scrolls: tribunal" in a snickers bar. that is NOT playable without the morrowind base game

31.10.2023 21:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3197    ๐Ÿ” 1014    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 33    ๐Ÿ“Œ 18

We're still hard at work trying to keep [major web browser] accessible.

I routinely call out stuff that isn't going to work, and stuff still gets held up in accessibility review (complementary)

So I, at least, have not given up hope.

22.10.2025 17:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Look I'm glad for Pam Isley but I would not date Harley Quinn - even a mildly reformed Harley Quinn who no longer tries to blow me up with high explosives as a joke.

22.10.2025 17:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Also I at least *feel* for Nem; she's got her own shit to work through and Mel helps her let go (at least as far as I got into the relationship; I didn't complete the storyline).

Eris is just an unrepentant asshole and is clearly never going to change; it's kind of her whole deal.

22.10.2025 17:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I don't know if this is a case of "written by a dude who doesn't understand women" or "written by a dude who is projecting his own hangups" or both. But it's definitely a case of something.

22.10.2025 17:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

20.09.2025 01:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4781    ๐Ÿ” 1313    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 45    ๐Ÿ“Œ 52

Are you confident that your next-closest next-of-kin will do right by you? Might still be worth it tbh

21.10.2025 12:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Meanwhile, when queers post their kink on main, they get yelled at for being inappropriate.

(This is a kink thing right? Some kind of monsterfucking thing? Five or Six Shades of Grey?)

21.10.2025 12:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yeah, they're not having the thing phone ChatGPT to ask how long to run the load.

There's a simple ANN-type model they've trained from running a bunch of laundry in a test environment (and that maybe gets updated locally over time) to fine-tune the machine's performance.

This is *good*.

21.10.2025 12:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yep! If you have residence established in a particular state before you left, it's possible @vrimj.bsky.social knows someone who can help you, but anyone who does wills might be a good start.

Melissa, correct me if I'm wrong here.

21.10.2025 12:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I know you are in a different country, but at least in the US there are measures you can take in terms of powers of attorney and wills to ensure you get to pick who and how that happens.

There may also be ways to disown them as next-of-kin, though that might require e.g. an adult adoption.

21.10.2025 11:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Update:
Everything hurts.

21.10.2025 10:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Happy Diwali to everyone but my poor dog

21.10.2025 02:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You would think if he'd been that into women he'd have included a few in his novels.

21.10.2025 01:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 41    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Daaaaaaaaaamn

(Don't get me wrong, the hard-on that the neolibs had for free trade ended up doing irreparable damage to US manufacturing, but this is clearly targeted squarely at right-leaning boomers who voted for and still venerate this asshole, and it's brilliant.)

21.10.2025 01:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
ATHF "I am 30 or 40 years old and I do not need this" meme

ATHF "I am 30 or 40 years old and I do not need this" meme

Me when Moros continues to be a distant, cagey sad boy halfway through the fucking game, even after I've told him repeatedly that we're cool, given him gifts, and basically gotten naked with him

20.10.2025 23:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Why make one mid game when you could have made two really good ones for different audiences?

20.10.2025 22:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Exactly! There's a player who wants horny gods and smashy-smash and there's someone who wants to deliberately memorize abilities and plan out a route that guarantees them a specific duo boon for a specific build and I suspect that 99% of the time they are not the same person.

20.10.2025 22:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's BULLSHIT and I don't even like men

But seriously, he's the only decent dude of the bunch. (And y'know, dead, so technically available.)

20.10.2025 22:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I've watched some very good players at endgame and it's clear that the game goes from thing I like (twitchy isometric fighting game) to thing I am bad at (something akin to a deck building strategy game) at just that point as well.

20.10.2025 21:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

tfw there are straight romance options

20.10.2025 21:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

VAXXXXXXXED!

20.10.2025 21:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Christ, game, please give me one (1) daddy

20.10.2025 17:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Wait, ICARUS?
WHAT

20.10.2025 17:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

itโ€™s like you can only get womanfucker content if it would have been acceptable as het stuff from 1780 to 1860. can we fast forward to aping lit from the era of men liking women.

20.10.2025 17:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wait you can't date Odysseus wtf who is the other shit boy you can date then?

(Constantly validating my choice not to finish this game)

20.10.2025 17:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

One day I will talk more about the process of immigrating to a "nice" country (in the meantime I will be frantically studying French, because it turns out we already have a points system here).

20.10.2025 14:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

On one hand, points systems for immigration are bullshit that reward those with more time and resources, and are not-so-thinly-veiled ways to keep out "undesirables".

On the other hand, there is insidious appeal in a system that at least appears to let you earn "your spot".

20.10.2025 14:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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