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last night I had a dream that I met Bill and Ted, and I complimented Bills crop top and said something about how I would wear crop tops if my body was less bogus and he put a hand on my shoulder and said “what’s truly bogus is the way you think about yourself” and Ted nodded solemnly and then I woke up
You were a destination in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
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What’s your name? I am the Honorable Alchemist Zykocea the Radiant, but that’s mostly just a PR thing. My friends call me Zoe.
Do you sell love potions? No.
Do you sell potions of invisibility? No.
Do you sell fire resistance potions? No.
Why do I have a suitcase? Fuck if I know. Cool outfit though. Very goth.
Do you sell a potion to treat brain hemorrhaging? No.
So what CAN your potions do? I sell health potions.
Are you sure these are health potions? They do something to your health.
Is this just ditch water with some pink glitter? No.
Really? I’ll have you know I added some fruit juice too.
Why is this starting to sound like a conversation? Oh just you wait. We’re just getting started.
honestly like. long term the two most useful subjects i studied in high school were probably cookery & ethics
in ethics class we learned about a view call Emotivism which is the stance that ethnical beliefs aren’t based on reason but rather on people’s emotional reactions. & I remember being like, hm, in practice I do think that’s how most ethical judgements get made, but I don’t think it should be how ethical judgements get made.
periodically I’ll ask myself ‘is this action actually causing any material harm or does it just make me feel bad?’ Because sometimes it’s the latter. it’s an important question to ask yourself, i think.
also in cookery i learned how to make a chocolate swiss roll which is great for impressing ppl
When one girl Gets Scared it resonates with other girls in the area like crystals and they all Get Scared all at once
Favourite tag on any of my posts so far. A girls is a chicken sometimes
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so i spent far too long on this.
for those unaware, the spaghetti wall of letters and numbers is a base64-encoded JPEG image (and not a URL as some guessed). in certain cases when you tried to insert/paste an image into what’s ostensibly a text-only box, this could happen.
the thing that’s bugging me however is that there’s image data there. we have fairly a clear (albeit with JPEG artifacts) screenshot of text that, thanks to how Windows ClearType renders text, each character is identical to each other, that is to say, an uppercase Q will always look more or less pixel-perfect each time, meaning we don’t have to guess what a Q looks like, we simply have to pixel-accurate match it.
as an aside, this is why regular OCR struggles so much with this kind of data retrieval, such as code even when it’s clearer than a physical paper scan. ordinarily, OCR will try to best-guess every single letter because it expects each letter to be slightly different from each other (as would be the unpredictable nature in a scanned document), and on top of that most OCR today will try to autocorrect because it expects the scanned text to contain words in some human written language.
so, all we have to do is make a program to recognize each character and piece back together the whole base64 string, right? well…
first i stitched all 7 images back into a single block of text, observing the consistency of the line spacing. some of the screenshots have little bits of the previous one sticking out of it, which helps with alignment and to make sure they’re in the right order.
after that i had to sample every single letter off this file. this means going around the file and finding one example of each different character we’re trying to identify, saving it as its own separate file so that the program can load them as references to compare against in the full image. for base64, the alphabet consists of a-z, A-Z, 0-9, +, / and =. once i had the initial code in place…
…close! but oh so far. if any one single character in a base64 string is wrong or missing, the resulting decode will be wrong. the issues i was having were mostly with the lowercase r and j because of how the kerning affected the pixels around those letters. i was also getting false matches for r where there should be an m. what followed was grueling hours of tweaking the matching code and my known font set to better fit the original image and get as close as possible to a 100% match. here is the resulting code, maybe it’ll be useful for someone and this won’t have been a complete waste of time.
once i was confident through the verification image that i had all characters recognized, i put it through a base64 to JPEG decoder. i actually did this several times as i improved the recognition and what follows is the best result that came out of it yet. i suspect some of the data might be missing (perhaps a line or block of text got lost in between screenshots), or i have a wrong character somewhere resulting in a wrong value. this is the image extracted from OP’s base64 string:
we can finally know what they meant when they said “me in a relationship” and i can finally go the fuck to sleep.
update: i found that the string that i used to decode the image in the previous reblog actually had one letter wrong.
with this it still doesn’t parse as fully valid base64 in strict mode so i think there’s still another letter in there that’s wrong, but i couldn’t find it. however this gives us a better look:
and this is finally enough to do a reverse image search. i present to you, the HD version of our intrepid massive backpacker:
still have no idea what they mean by “me in a relationship” with that, though.
i’m going to kdxjdhdjhddjjdhs
TWO??? Having a private jet at all is bad enough on its own but why the fuck does she need two of them???
Miss Shadowheart is wearing vintage Dior HC s/s 1998
chinese tea cups
the thing they dont tell you about working with little kids is it wrecks your vocabulary. you hear a kid phrase something bizarrely in a way only a 5 year old can and now any time you lose shit youre like "it dissed appear"
every time someone tells me to be careful, in my head i repeat what one of my kids said as a small child.
i AM be carefulling.
Peak animation
people on this website will come up with ways to turn anything into a girl
Including me
you aren’t foolishly in love with me against your better judgments??? oh.
no it’s fine just it’s fine don’t speak to me right now i need to be out on the moors alone
i lied its not okay and now im lost on the moors please come find me
*holds a lantern and carefully steps through the moors, wearing a long coat*
Leaf where did you run off to?
oooh yay
*waits for you to get closer to where im in view and dramatically sprawls out on a dead tree*
i didnt think anyone would come,,,, ive succumb to consumption and madness and am coughing up blood in my handkerchief and im very cold its chilly out here
*puts my coat over you*
Goodness gracious you'll catch ill if you wonder about at this hour. Follow me and I'll make some tea.
*I lead you into my wizard hut. There's an orb on the table*
hehehe tea time baybeyyyy :>
holy SHIT is that a crystal ball
*sets tea down in front of you*
It was a wizard hut warming gift. I am supposed to ponder it. I haven't found the time.
*blows gently on the tea and sips slowly*
would you like to, i mean if its not to forward, ponder the orb,,, together?
*blinks and sits down, hands you a spare hat*
...I would love to ponder the orb with you.
us pondering the orb together
surprised more people aren’t talking about the “kabru might be the child of an incubi” comic that also features “laios knows way too much about monster reproduction.” was that one just too easy or
laios: erm actually 🤓☝️
laios (complimentary): you look like a bee
saw a pigeon scratching itself with its foot like a doggie at the bus stop today. delightful
artists rendition
Seeing people drive big lifted and totally pristine giant pickup trucks as just a car to get to and from work on fully paved roads is like watching a high energy working breed dog be forced to live in a 1 bedroom apartment and only go out for poop walks.
If you cant provide them the home they need its abuse. That truck should be hauling bricks, it needs to be maxing out its suspension hitting ridges at 65 mph. It should be dirty and dented because they love it. Theres no enrichment in your 1/4 mile drive to the gas station. Youre torturing it, youre killing that truck.
Not to mention the irresponsible breeding. What do you mean it's got the same size bed as an Acty? That's nothing for such a big beast, it needs to HAUL, this is like hacking the wings off an angel.
Sorry can you say that again I saw “irresponsible breeding” and blacked out
