#past!auto

[a-v-j]

AVJ being a transformers fan is my roman empire, omfg; I LOVE YOU platonically🔥

Ive been binge-watching the live action movies, will soon go for the animated idk lol.

Ofc, i have to drag my boy in this

Prime: "They dont call me Auto for nothin"

The fact that i nicknamed past!auto as prime and his name "auto" is makin some reference to cars and autobots is driving me wild yo, yall don't understand

[allen-fred]

Mom, You said you wouldn't hit me again.

[ronkeyroo]

Hey, Its still Us

[every-sanji]

[akjzsd]

tumym tuesday with tasteful bush this morning? woag tags below cut as usual

the funny tags teehee: @xenasaur @lilithtransrights @slimegirl-selkie @catboybiologist @peachykinky @puppygirl-hornyposting2 @blank0s

[theskoomacat]

"perhaps you should leave this trial for now" "your failure was expected", - Supergiant don't understand the tool they gave me with the Trials. thanks to them i can practice beating certain parts of the run without having to go through the previous locations. polyphemus still wrecks my shit even though i've felled him 3 times aready, so getting a chance to do the rift over and over without having to fight him beforehand is HUGE. i'd probably continue redoing this trial even after i would have defeated Eris just to make sure that when i get there for real, i am prepared

[thekingofspin]

my toxic trait is that I whole heartedly believe I would never get lost or even need directions if I were to go and visit LA because of how many times I've replayed gta5

although I would probably speed so bad by accident because I'm used to it

[ckret2]

Hey. I’ve been looking at your posts about posting your fic on Ao3, and I just wanted to be sure— you do know that you can post your fic without having to use HTML mode, right? Like you can post it without having to type a “<p>” and “</p>” before and after every new paragraph, or use “<em>” “</em>” to make sure something in italics is recognized by the website as italics? Just look for a button on the left right above the box you’re going to be writing in that says “Rich Text” and press that. It should be right next to the button saying “HTML,” which is the default button selected, but you only have to press Rich Text to change that.

And none of your work is lost if you switch buttons. But Rich Text mode gives you a version of the posting box where you can write normally and just press the return key for a new paragraph like normal, and there’s a little menu on the top where you can choose if you want to write in bold or italics or change the spacing or whatever. I just felt like you ought to know in case you missed it and had to write the hard way.

I can't do that because the site I write on and store my fics on strips the formatting out of the document—italics, bold, etc—if I copy/paste it anywhere I've tried (all my other word processor apps, other websites, and yes, AO3's rich text editor) EXCEPT FOR tumblr, for some bizarre reason I don't know. Copy/pasting from the site I use into tumblr and copying tumblr's text to paste into AO3's editor is the only workaround I've found for this issue aside from reformatting every italicized/bolder word by hand. And I use a lot of italics.

I could copy/paste the rich text off tumblr and paste it into AO3's rich text editor, but since tumblr's stupid-as-hell post editor only allows you to select one paragraph at a time, my options are: copy/paste one paragraph at a time; manually force past tumblr's stupid-as-hell inability to select more than one paragraph by selecting the first paragraph and manually scrolling all the way down to the bottom to select the whole thing; selecting the whole chapter by going to the finished post and scrolling down to select the whole thing (which is finicky as hell if you're on a tablet, which I am); or, using select-all in tumblr's HTML format and then just quickly deleting the author's note when I paste.

As you can see, using select-all in HTML format is the fastest and least human-error-prone way to transfer text from tumblr to AO3

Every time I post a new chapter I paste the text to AO3's HTML editor and then switch to the rich text editor to insert that chapter's art.

[a-v-j]

Happy birthday, quota

[iridescentholly]

X spells in magic the gathering are where the fact it was designed by a maths guy really pops. Majority of the maths in magic is "can I pay cost" or "is damage dealt enough to kill a creature/player", so playing around with that number being variable rather than fixed makes some sense, and maths has X as a default variable, so you get fireball

right there in the first set - variable cost for variable damage, 1:1. This spell is great for ending games, which makes up for it's poor rate for the time (see lightning bolt, where you pay 1 mana for 3 damage)

So now you can use X for the cost to give a linear scaling effect, such as additional counters on creatures

Where we get really mathsy next is the relatively few examples of effectively "do something X times, X times" for example:

These two cards are roughly equivalent in what they do to the previous two - but appear to scale at a much worse rate, having to pay two or three times the cost for each time you do "X" but the trick here is these aren't actually scaling linearly, they're scaling quadratically, making them much more effective than they seem.

Anyway all this to say that sometimes evaluating how good a magic card can require understanding quadratic scaling!*

*but almost never will because these effects are almost certainly intentionally costed too highly and attached to traditionally uncompetitive effects, likely so that players don't actually have to think about quadratic scaling. This is probably for the best. Also there's one card that scales exponentially (2 to the power of X) rather than quadratically (X to the power of 2). It's literally called exponential growth.

[secretly-an-automaton]

My Phantom design for my latest fic series was actually inspired by an old drawing that I really hated, so I figured it was only right to redraw it with the new design!

Here’s the original:

And here’s the redraw!

It’s also based on an photo referenced in chapter 4 of the aforementioned fanfic, which I’ve been using as inspiration for a lot of the Angstfest prompts :)

Closeup:

And a link to the design/fic I referenced:

[girlivealwaysbean]

i think growing up is just life repeatedly sucker punching you and saying bitch you thought things were gonna better lmao no you're so naive and stupid for having hope in 20 years the world will be flaming bag of garbage and no matter how hard you work you'll get eliminated at some point

[every-sanji]

[shakrrmakrr]

do more voter fraud we can’t lose we can’t lose…i would do voter fraud if i knew how but alas

i’m doing this shit manual style since tumblr doesn’t make you verify your email but UNFORTUNATELY i have to go to WORK so my voter fraud crimes are on pause…but as soon as i get home assuming i am still alive i’m clocking right back in to the voter fraud factory!

[scarysanctuary]

throughout the whole chaos, Tom was keeping his composure, he was trying to calm everyone else down, he had the appearance of someone that wasnt very shaken at all, so no one even thought to ask if he was okay, but Greg knew to ask, he always does. Seeing Tom break down when Greg asked if he was okay... i feel ill.

[thekingofspin]

when the air starts to smell like "play gta5 story mode for the 16th time in a row without playing any other games"

I miss pookie when I'm away for longer than a few hours

whatever will happen whilst I'm gone?

some crazy person could pick ending A if I'm not on watch at all times