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Remove the Wizard's spells and replace them with not a single goddamn thing. Fuck you, magic boy.

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do you think a 5'4 and 6'2 height difference is predatory?

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#anyone else suspect anon os a xitter user?

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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.

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#turned have the tables

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oh fuck this is a really good hill i gotta die on this

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Old-school fantasy RPG but subvert all the rules tropes. Human is a class but nonhuman PCs can be any class. Fighters are glass cannons that prepare their attacks at the beginning of every day. Clerics can only use sharp weapons. Monsters can’t see in darkness as well as people can (because their eyes are adjusted to perpetually-lit dungeons). Trolls rapidly decay unless exposed to heat or acid. “Lawful” means bad guy and “Chaotic” means good guy. Elves are incapable of noticing doors. 

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thinking about how many poorly-written novels get published and then make it onto the new york times bestseller list but ppl really out here ignoring fics if their kudos to hits ratio isn't perfect

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Every time your character takes damage, you have to drink an entire bottle of mayonnaise

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"Don't use Libby because it costs libraries too much, pirate instead" is such a weird, anti-patron, anti-author take that somehow manages to also be anti-library, in my professional librarian-ass opinion.

It's well documented that pirating books negatively affects authors directly* in a way that pirating movies or TV shows doesn't affect actors or writers, so I will likely always be anti-book piracy unless there's absolutely, positively no other option (i.e. the book simply doesn't exist outside of online archives at all, or in a particular language).

Also, yeah, Libby and Hoopla licenses are really expensive, but libraries buy them SO THAT PATRONS CAN USE THEM. If you're gonna be pissed at anybody about this shitty state of affairs, be pissed at publishing companies and continue to use Libby or Hoopla at your library so we can continue to justify having it to our funding bodies.

One of the best ways to support your library having services you like is to USE THOSE SERVICES. Yes, even if they are expensive.

*Yes, this is a blog post, but it's a blog post filled with links to news articles. If you can click one link, you can click another.

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in my head the star wars equivalent of tswift is some human woman named tay’lor spiff or something and her stans are losing their minds over theories that she’s secretly a jedi singing about the horrors of war, even though she’s from a neutral system that hasn’t seen so much as a moral panic in 50 years

#(•_•) #(-_-) #(°_°)

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#who the hell wants to ban straight marriage? #answer: the imaginary majority of minorities they hate and project on to

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I love animals that are, like, the opposite of cryptids: we know for a fact they exist and have a clear idea of what they look like because we have photographs and individual specimens, but we haven’t the faintest idea where they’re coming from - they just keep showing up out of nowhere, and the locations of their actual population centres are a complete mystery.

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#gay animals #penguins

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a man and his dog,,,

#sadly this wont happen :( #fallout #fallout tv series

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Rewatching the fallout show and I noticed this little detail during the duel between The Ghoul and Maximus in Filly that I missed the first time but absolutely love, where Maximus destroys the wooden bridge Cooper is standing on, causing him to fall flat on his ass. He drops the act and his silly little accent for a moment and says "goddamn, that hurt!" outwardly, as though he is complaining to the set crew, which, in his mind, he probably is. I love this small moment so much because it's so rare that he sets down "The Ghoul," and it shows his mentality, his way of operating in this world. To him, it is all a set, and he's just really deep in character. It also suggests that this man did not even do his own stunts as an actor, and that his "shrug off the bullets" act is purely that, an act. This man is in so much pain, but doesn't dare show it out of fear. Lucy is absolutely going to break down his act next season, and I'm so excited to see it.

#finally a post about this dude thats neither horny or a het ship #the ghoul #fallout show

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This is the funniest thing I’ve ever read in a science book

#literal bath bomb #i have never seen one irl and doubt they exist anymore