my biggest beef with story in gacha games is that it's continuously frustrating for me to try to follow a story in a gacha game for three reasons

it has some pros though, but the cons make it hard for me to enjoy them

can never look at that pic of the medusa girl getting her snakes cut off for longer than a second or two it hits so hard with how uncomfortable it makes me

I'm already chronically ill. Sorry I don't feel like catching covid or the flu and getting even more chronically ill. This isn't living in fear, it's facing reality. Ignoring the poorly-understood long-term effects of an airborne virus is literally a fear response.

clipped 'em

My little guuuys

Milktea loves the bird nest i bought for her hehe

Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

an article on the subject for the curious:

walking into my rhodes island office, hanging up my coat, pushing W and Ines off my desk, wiping off the blood, and opening a message from Kal that says 'kill yourself' and then is followed by 'ignore that last message'. I nod thoughtfully and ignore that last message. I take a sip of my coffee. It's Muelsyse. I spit her out into the sink. I open the cabinet and get a new mug. Ho'olheyak is in the cabinet. I sit down at my desk and respond affirmatively to the email from Platnium asking me if Gravel has been bothering me. (This gets them into a subtext filled deathmatch, which is enrichment in their enclosure.) I respond to Amiya's last cute text emoji with a ':P', which she likes within 10 seconds. I clock out. I get a beer with Hoederer and Pallas. They get into a poetry battle in 3 different languages. 5 minutes of downtime. 6 hours of brooding on the landship considering the burden of the world (in the rain.) Amiya shows up with an umbrella eventually. She asks me how my day was. I say: good.

“YOU! Up to the front of the class. NOW.”

Photo by ©Denmans Critters

Bunny Heritage Post

I think the most fun part of monsters inc is boo calling sulley “kitty” and mike wazowski by full government name

Inmates

Nerissa and Shiori's first meeting in the cell went exactly as you'd expect it to.