#but i know a nuke when it's time to use a nuke

[iicaru2]

thinking about how the first time i ever actually got gale killed in a fight was in my first origin gale run, which also happened to be my first time playing an origin character— so it startled me when not only was gale thrown into actual literal lava, but i was also thrown into control of the next character in my party setup (astarion) and gale was suddenly talking to me at length, after like 30-ish hours of silence, about the long and complex process to reviving him so that he didnt Fucking Nuke the entire underdark.

and you know. i did what anyone would do: panic use a regular revivify scroll to bring him back and not touch his true resurrection scroll with a ten foot pole. because i didnt understand a single fucking word he said. it worked out fine by the way, he didnt nuke a whole ecosystem, but it did scare the shit out of me for no reason.

[everydayxghosts]

"Spider grab everything you can about V and Soulkiller, and let me know when you're all out yeah? I wanna see what happens when you force a jack out on someone with no body." Bizz was back to his manic state again, so fucking pumped this actually worked. Finally a plan that didn't go sideways!

"Don't even gotta ask." She'd look over to Johnny then, looking much older than rogue, and smile. "Small world, right? Welcome home Johnny."

Pride and his assistant quickly and quietly disconnected Johnny from the chair, immediately pulling it's connection out at the base afterword for good measure.

Rogue was just dumbfounded, looking into a face she'd never thought she'd see again. She was the one to make sure the sculpts were correct, meaning he had a few more scars and wrinkles than his engram; but seeing him in the body almost made her cry. Almost. "Wanna give me a hand with the kid?" She was going to avoid anything sappy till they survived their exit, but she was clearly already celebrating.

"If you'll follow us, we made our own exit route." Pride would motion to the now open blast doors. Just on the other side was a gaping hole surrounded by cooling slag that lead into a ruined elevator shaft.

"That one was my idea, it's no nuke but it did the trick, non? Now move quickly, I can only sit still for so long." Fais called over coms.

Inside the shaft was a mostly intact elevator car attached to a length of cable, and just barely visible at the top was the back of what appeared to be a custom built AV and a man in red flannel frantically beconing.

"Snatch and grab complete." Spider checked the cameras one last time before jacking out herself. "Coast is clear as it's gonna get. Business must have won cause an assault drone just fell on a mech and I'd swear I heard Smasher screaming."

Once they made it into the AV they'd see a tall lanky body in a white and gold bodyweight suit covered in RGB, with an LCD faceplate that seemed to be glitching slightly and sparks arcing from the deep net port in the back of their head. The one one in the flannel had just finished moving the dive couch out of the way and getting the other body strapped in safely. "Come come, buckle up. No time to waste."

"Already setting up, V. Try and relax, we gotta get you outta the chair." Pride -who reeked of corpo assassin- watched camera feeds Spider called up for him as his silent assistant expertly disconnected V from the life support systems, then the chair itself. She would then motion for Rogue to help move V while Pride almost manhandled a near clone of Johnny into the chair. They even managed to salvage his actual cyberarm and put it on the bot.

Back in the net, Bizz continued their nervous pacing. "Fuck, Johnny; couldn't just leave y'all like this. Sides, the number of orgs all separately looking for Mikoshi or V in the past year tells me I wanna make sure none of them get him, or you."

"FBC in place, jacked in, shard loaded. Begin download when ready."

"Oh, careful with the body, by the way. It's way stronger than you'd think -I ripped the door off Fais' AV the first time I tried getting in after the conversion- and V's gonna be fragile. Good luck." Bizz would offer a smile that any other time Johnny would have found naive and annoying; this whole time there was never a price for their rescue, no bargaining or talk of debts. How someone like Bizz had not been eaten up by Night City was a mystery.

The hard part for Bizz was over now, so Fais' decided to crank his music back up and just as Johnny would begin derezzing he'd hear the chorus to Never Fade Away with Bizz quietly singing along.

[sweaterkittensahoy]

I always forget this story when someone asks "What's the worst mansplaining you ever heard aimed at you?"

Because when you ask me a direct question about a topic, my brain goes entirely blank.

But, so it's out there:

At one point, I wrote the training for a machine, and was then sent to a location to train people on the machine. Very common thing. No big deal.

My boss came along to observe because the goal was that he'd be sent to do the training while I stayed put and updated documents in real time based on any notes he would send.

Day one of training completes. My boss and I go out to dinner. I am delighted to 1) find out we both love Pho, and 2) discover a Pho place. We have a delicious dinner and call it a night.

The next day, one of the guys I'm training comes up to me before we get started and asks if I'd had a nice night.

"Oh, yeah, it was great. We went out for Pho."

"Oh, you mean Pho?"

I looked at him for a second because he'd said it exactly like I'd said it (Fu, like saying "fuck," is how someone taught me to say it). And I said, "Yeah, Pho."

"Oh, well, it's pronounced Pho."

Again, said EXACTLY the way I was saying it. But his energy was weird. Like, I thought he was maybe mishearing me, but the way he came back, it felt very...pointed. Like he needed me to know he was fancy or something.

"That's how I'm saying it," I said. "Pho."

"No, you see, it's Pho."

And that's when I realized there was no way to fix this except to fucking nuke it, so I said, "Oh, well, you say it exactly the same as my husband, and I know he and I say it the same way."

He sort of shorted out for a moment then went and sat down. Then did not talk to me unless necessary the rest of the training. I feel it's important to know I had an unquestionable wedding set on my left finger the whole time. It's not like he was shooting his shot with someone he thought was single.

But also, that's your shot? Trying to tell me I'm mispronouncing something while saying it exactly the same as me????

Dude.

[kaeyachi]

Kaeya, despite being a sickly and gentle child, was his own kind of nightmare for Crepus and the other Dawn Winery staff.

See, Diluc is prone to mischief and chaos, dragging along his younger brother and a couple of other children into his plots and messes.

But Kaeya? Kaeya is the type to end up in the most random, and I do mean most random, of places. He would vanish for several hours, only to be found in an unexpected location such as, oh let's say that one time, he was found eating fruit with some friendly hilichurls...IN LIYUE.

He was such a curious soul that would easily get distracted by the wonders of Teyvat, but since he is so silent in both words and movements, whoever is watching over him would lose sight of him just as quickly.

He has caused several search parties in his youth, only for people to find out he was following a seelie to a treasure chest or napping with a young wolf cub in Wolvendom.

Crepus swears that Kaeya and Diluc are competing on who can give him gray hairs the fastest (so far, Diluc is winning, but Kaeya sure is catching up with every scream of panic from a designated babysitter and Diluc)

[lightningzbolt]

Scene Awsten Hair (And some bonus clothes)

While I made hair for Awsten before, I was never satisfied with the shape of the scene hair, and for a long time I felt this base mesh from Backyard Stuff, which I kept thinking was from Cool Kitchen Stuff, for awhile, would be perfect. But the bangs went the wrong way, so I decided to mirror the mesh in Blender, as that is like the only hair related thing I can modify, but then the UV mapping on the back was off, if you wanted to know why I screenshotted a lot of low angles, so I fixed that. And I'm really picky about which direction bangs fall. :)

Due to it being a mesh edit, it should not require any packs, tho due to the UV mapping editing, this hair is just standalone. Not to fret! In case you REALLY want this hair mirrored with the default textures and UV mapping, I made that too.

Pictured above is how Awsten normally treats me in this game. Due to how I made all this hair for him, I am able to have outfits for him and up to 4 different hairs with all different colors. The tricolor I use all the time, red & black for a few specific outfits, blue for just one, and now scene for two. This only matters to me really, but in case you're like me and like your Sims to change hair style and color a lot.

Scene Awsten Hair

Mirrored Backyard Stuff Hair

As a bonus, as I'm never gonna get to share these otherwise, I made some shirt and shoe recolors for him, the shoes and long stripes shirt are extra swatches onto vanilla stuff, the striped t-shirt is standalone. I spent like an hour on the damn shoes, I am sharing them. Oh and fingernails too. Those come with a second swatch for Jack, so two swatches. All should be base game. The shoes and tshirt come with extra swatches, the long sleeved shirt just has the one.

Striped T-shirt

Sneakers

Long Sleeved Striped Shirt

Duel Color Fingernails

[sandumilfshou]

once again thinking about the mass effect x sw prequels crossover that exists entirely in my head where during ME3 they find another prothean beacon but when shepard activates it, it teleports her halfway across the universe

and she lands directly in the middle of the clone wars, smack between the 501st and 212th facing off against a droid factory

after hurried introductions, they find out that shepard's black widow rifle can take out droidekas in like two shots, so she's immediately on the team. she is fascinated by obi-wan and anakin's 'invisible biotics' and they are fucking horrified when she releases a biotic lash-charge-nova combo that takes out literally a hundred droids in under 10 seconds

[innko]

japanese medical negligence will drive you to american without health insurance behaviors

[lacking-hydration]

that postal movie is so inconsistently ok

[joskippy]

I hope the amount of research I have to do for c:u! shows because it’s the most frustrating aspect of this project LOL

[nejackdaw]

Thinking about the lich fight ("fight") from my first dnd campaign..... Ouagh

[indefiniteavatar]

So basically, in a case about him shoving money at someone so they shut up about him. . .he can’t shut the fuck up himself. I would say something clever and funny here, except the sad part is that this is just so normal in current politics that it’s just. . .not hilariously absurd behavior anymore? Not to say that it’s not absurd - it is beyond such, but it is just. . . predictable, I suppose.

I guess this is how I feel about politics lately? Either I get mad at everything or I try to laugh at everything and normally that works because politicians usually aren’t so tragically stupid so very often, but now I just kinda have to chuckle at the particularly eyeroll worthy things like this, and try to ignore everything else or my brain will explode.

[kalamity-jayne]

Wow, just noticed yet another instance of a trans women who appears to have had her account nuked for making a post about tumblr's obviously broken and biased moderation system, and the offending post appears to have been scrubbed from the site (I went looking for my reblog from less than a week ago and it's just gone).

Tumblr staff can not have it both ways. You cannot say the blatant instances of anti-trans hate speech and harassment, much of which does get reported, are abhorrent but technically not in violation of the terms of service under the excuse of "free speech" when you are at the same time deleting accounts for merely criticizing how you run this place!

At the risk of having my own account scrubbed I gotta say, that is some stunning hypocrisy. Also, I think the previous sentence demonstrates that this has a chilling effect! The way the TOS is being unevenly applied and the utter lack of clarity on how these decisions get made, makes the rest of us feel afraid to speak up. None of us know where exactly the lines are and it kinda seems like they're drawn and enforced according to staff's arbitrary whims!

[bugswarm]

The more Im on tumblr today, the more pro-genocide Im getting so Im logging off because holy fuck this website's response is so bad to the point where Im happy with the idea of genocide and that's insane

Edit because yall can't fucking having reading comprehension: this post is not about palestine. This is not the first time Ive drawn the short end of the stick. This post is not about Trump directly even. This post about about all of the people saying that voting for one shitty candidate to stop the literal worst case scenario from controlling the strongest military on the planet again is somehow too fucking hard and morally compromising and how it is making me question if the intrusive thoughts are actually right and that maybe it's not worth the years and years of activism and local action Ive been doing to try to stop this exact scenario from happening isn't worth continuing when I don't even know if we'll get another election in 4 years. Especially when I know that if people can't even do the absolute barest fucking minimum of voting, there is literally zero chance that this will ever be fixed. If we can't even fucking vote against the most cartoonishly evil man alive, how the fuck am I supposed to believe in things like overthrowing the government or ending white supremacy? Thats what this fucking post is about. If you thought differently, you are stupid and if you decided to attack me over it, you are the reason that the intrusive thoughts are winning so good job on making me fantasize about the US getting nuked and not feeling that bad about it.

[sirfrogsworth]

sirfrogsworth please i am begging to know your boomer uncle’s thought process when he installed all those spam search bars what on earth was he TRUING to do

This was my Uncle Larry. He died in 2014 from a lifetime of smoking.

But while he was alive, he was what my grandma would refer to as "a character."

I feel like seeing his photo gives a partial explanation of the toolbar fiasco.

He was a man stuck in the 1960s but extremely curious about new things.

It was the early 2000s and I was trying to make some extra money. So when he was interested in getting a computer I offered to build him one from scratch.

What I didn't consider about this arrangement was that I was basically signing up to be my uncle's IT person. If something went wrong, it could possibly be due to a mistake I made.

He called me up complaining he couldn't see his websites and that the computer was running slower than normal.

I boot up his system and it takes 10 minutes to get to Windows. The desktop was filled with random programs he installed. And when I opened his web browser I was immediately greeted with a dozen pop up advertisements. Once I nuked them all, all of the different search toolbars were revealed. There was maybe a few inches of space for viewing websites and he had just been looking at photos a segment at a time for weeks before wondering if maybe it wasn't supposed to work like that.

I asked him why he installed all of this crap and he told me he didn't realize he had a choice. He just thought you had to say yes to everything that popped up on the screen. He also opened every spam email he received.

To make matters even worse, when he was searching for lewd pictures of Catherine Bell (aka the "JAG lady" with nice cans), he ended up on various softcore porn sites containing ever more dangerous pop up ads. And he clicked on all of those as well.

He loved the internet. It was a wonderland for such a curious person. He loved typing in random things and just reading and looking at pictures for hours. Aside from Maxim photos of TV celebrities, his searches were pretty innocent. He looked at old cars he used to own and lawnmowers he wanted to buy. He read old war stories and found websites helping him learn how to whittle walking sticks.

But he had no sense of danger. He had a Leroy Jenkins approach to life. He just sort of jumped into whatever without any fear or caution. Which is probably why my parents were so pissed at him when he offered 8 year-old me a ride on his new motorcycle. He immediately took me off-road and up a steep hill without a helmet or telling me to hold on. And it was a Harley, so not really meant for that terrain.

I tried a virus scan and it just said "You have every virus." So I had to nuke his Windows install from orbit. I then gave him computer lessons, which he paid me for, so that sort of worked out despite how frustrating it was to keep him from clicking on random things.

Uncle Larry taught me an important lesson.

Never tell your family you know about computers.

[catgirl-kaiju]

something worth pointing out in the case of Tumblr CEO @photomatt 's statement regarding predstrogen is the very clear side stepping of the conversation being had. the ask he chose to respond to as part of his statement was asking about tumblr's transmisogyny problem, and what he is commenting on is tumblr's transphobia problem.

transmisogyny is certainly related to transphobia, but the two are not the same. i've seen plenty of trans folks who are guilty of transmisogyny and have even been harassed by such individuals on this very website. he repeatedly refers to transphobia and accusations of tumblr staff being transphobes throughout the statement, but never once brings up transmisogyny. perhaps he is unfamiliar with the term, but he could look it up and read up on it before responding to a question directly asking about it. he is very clearly not doing his due diligence in addressing these concerns.

he mentions tumblr having "LGBT+ including trans people on staff," but this is not especially helpful in assessing tumblr's transmisogyny problem. based on this we don't know how many trans people, whether or not there any transfem or TMA folks (who might understand the nature of transmisogyny better than TME people) on staff, what positions these queer people hold in the company, or whether or not any of tumblr's queer employees are on the moderation team. and it's understandable why some of these specifics are left out; you don't want to put any staff members in danger of being doxxed or harassed, especially if they're vulnerable marginalized people. however, it seems to me a gross oversight to not mention if there are any trans folks working on the moderation team.

i think it's also a huge misstep to focus on predstrogen so singularly when the conversation about her account being nuked is part of a larger conversation about transmisogyny. what this reveals, too, is transmisogyny playing an active role in the decision to ban her for life. one of the aspects of transmisogyny is viewing transfem folks as especially and uniquely dangerous. i'd like @photomatt to ask himself if he would have taken "threats" like the one cited as seriously if they came from a cis person or a TME trans person. really reflect on that, Matt. i also put "threat" in scare quotes here because, frankly, it's pretty clear that said comment is a cartoonish and outlandish example of violence used to demonstrate that the intent to harm is not literal. i do this all the time both on here and in real life. telling a friend i'm going to "maul them to death" over a minor annoyance is a comedic way of expressing frustration in a way that communicates it's not actually a big deal. saying something like "i want them to explode after falling down the stairs when trying to evade a falling piano full of knives" about a public figure or someone who is negatively affecting your life works as a way of demonstrating the intensity of your feelings while not veering into territory where it sounds like you're literally planning an assassination attempt. if you're reading this, Matt, i hope you can begin to understand the difference between something like:

and a real actual harassment, like:

y'know, all actual comments and posts i've received on this website, and reported with detailed explanations for why i'm reporting them but never heard back from the moderation team about the situation. i have no idea if anything was ever done about any of these people sending me bigoted violent messages because no one ever does follow-up. the only time i've ever received follow-up on a report was when i reported an account for promoting self-harm in the form of anorexia. that's it. one time in the over a decade i've been on this website.

how does all of this sit with you, Matt?

[mariyekos]

I don't mean to burst your bubble, but that's probably just what the game says for enemies that can't be Assessed!

Ex, one of the ending enemies in the Remake that can be partially read):

Ex. 2: An enemy that can be fully read:

And Sephiroth himself (Remake):

SHUT UP

SHUT. THE FUCK. UP!!!

SEPHIROTH CANT READ!!! I HAVE SO MUCH TO SAY ABOUT THIS OMFG!!!

shinra/hojo probably just never thought it was necessary to teach him to read, or probably teach him anything really, other than how to fight and be the perfect soldier, because he was conceived and born as nothing more than a test subject… and why would the lab rat weapon need to learn basic things like how to read…

this also just makes me think, since he canonically has to be able to read, at least enough to have been able to read all the stuff in the shinra manor basement, that he probably learned to read through simply watching others and needing to put the pieces together to figure it out for himself and through relying on other people (like his friends) teaching him at least the basics, though he still was never properly taught so he’s not very good at reading

plus this is such a wild place for them to actually just straight up state that sephiroth cant read? like its in the boss details segment in the event which i feel like is so easy to miss for most people? plus its not like it’s actually battle stats or anything… just the confirmation he cant read…