#so that i can update the spreadsheet

[ectonurites]

guess what tiiiime it iiiiis [comics cataloguing time baby]

#sadly i can only actually do like a fraction of what i have in a pile rn #because i need more boards and bags. so i am only gonna do the ones tht i got pre-bagged and boarded. #aka predominantly backissues rather than current stuff #i have been so behind on actually organizing things dsgfhgfh the stack is Intimidating #tht 'owns over 300 individual comics' in my hyper specific experiences poll was lowballing it bc it was based on where my spreadsheet is #from when it was last updated. months ago #grandpa max is god? i go to church now

[simsaugust]

chasity aged into an adult so i spent a bunch of time in cas with her!

#ts4 #ts4 lookbook #the sims 4 #simblr #create a sim #nsb #simsaugust #trying to use the trait poses revealed a busted mod that took me a long ass time to figure out... it was chingyus 100 base game traits #even tho their spreadsheet said it was updated #so chasity lost a few of her custom traits... i just completely removed all the custom traits from my game #chasitys whole life has been basically completely consumed by the twins but hopefully once theyre kids i can play w her more fr #maxis match #maxis match cc #wcif open

[bilbao-song]

just so u all know my brain is being deep fried tonight

#im taking a break to go dust furniture just so i can like #not have a spreadsheet burned into my retinas for a minute dsjxkdlf #idk why it seems more confusing this year than either of the last two years!!!!! #but. tbh it’s fun #srs updates #<- that’s a stretch but ok #nonsense rambling

[fraddit]

220 today and it was not super easy, but also it wasn't crazy hard.

#but some of it was crazy sad #now that i've met my word goal i can continue with the silly organizational stuff I've been stuck on for days #the spreadsheet finally paid off yesterday #also i found a bunch of handwritten scenes in a notebook from when i first started this fic #that i had totally forgotten about #so those need to get typed up #ugh i'm not good at that #also i need to do pt like allll day because my shoulder is FUCKED UP #shut up fraddit #Sorry you guys have to put up with these daily updates but this is like part of my system now lol #it's like giving myself a gold star or something #i may have also bought actual star stickers...

[pearl-kite]

So I guess it's time to learn how to code custom script for google sheets. For this curriculum and instructional coach thing. Yep. Definitely aligns to what I was expecting from the nonexistent job description.

I'm cool with it, I like excuses to learn coding, but, like, feels a little funny, yanno?

#kite rambles #so the district has a gdrive for all the curriculum docs right #makes sense if you move from one school to another in the district you should be gettng roughly the same content #so shared drive? logical #except within that sharede drive /every single school has their own sets of ocuments/ #some schools have litereally nothing #many schools have copy of (or copy of copy of) and there are so many duplicates #in th last week I hav been filling a spreadshet with links to everything so there's an easy visual way to see what exists #without going folder diving #ovre a thousand just in the middlee schools alone #anyway I also have ben putting a ���last update” note next to those cells so we can glance and see th most recent version #cause if we'v got 5 Unit 3 blahblahs it'd b nice to know which one is. like. actually usseful #it occurrede to me today that I wanted to add month in addition to year so I had to go BACK to ones I already finished #becaus updated 2022-04 is very different from 2022-09 that's an entire school yar of potential updates #and THEN I realized #if someon updates a randomass file #the spreadsheet will not know #rendering all of this useless #so I'm going to figure out a way to add a function that will enter the last update of the file so it'll do that without hunting it down #thank you for your attendance to this short speech

[kellystar321]

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#periodical life updates #man the second artfight ends someone remind me to start working on my selfship blog FOR REAL. i keep putting it off but i have so many #things to post about my little f/os oguhg </3 wanna make it look all pretty first and draw all the little things for it :> #anyway hi happy artfight!! my drawing tablet broke </3 im working on attacks with my sib's tablet. i am trying very hard. #i have some things queued to post though its mostly easy things and things i already had tags for in my drafts #im so. tired. feeling a little inadequate because it feels like i cant keep up with anything. im behind on af attacks and talking to people #and my queue and sht (i have so many drafts) and i want to do everything and im gwaughhh that i cant #but i know its just ''dont trust anything after 9 pm'' thoughts. im doing well. im making progress. i literally made a spreadsheet and can #visibly track the progress im making. im working on 25+ attacks. im trying. i give myself a lot of work and im doing my best #almost 4 am oh no! still gotta brush my teeth; thats why im still awake really otherwise id be snork mimimi-ing it up <3 #changed my discord avatar to an attack my friend moss drew for me <3 its of my boy stickers i love him!! #tomorrow im gonna work on a background for one of my animated pieces maybe <3 #hm... do i have any other updates... man i guess thats it :P #i love you <33 hope you're all well <3

[zivillyn]

Something that mildly irks me that I'm about 99.999999967% sure no one else cares about #4355:

The counts for Pokémon forms in the two versions of Pokémon Home are different. Not only that, but it's different by inconsistent metrics. The mobile version has 1436 forms, and the Switch version has 1534 forms, for a difference of 98 forms. My first thought was, "Gender differences, that'll be it." So I counted the number of gender differences on Bulbapedia* and got 103. So I had to go through the list of forms in both versions of Home and found that the Switch version displays all 103, but the Mobile version only displays 4 (Meowstic, Indeedee, Basculegion, and Oinkologne). A difference of 99. So now the mobile version has an extra form somewhere. There are between 32 and 34 Gigantamax forms¹, and the Switch displays 33, but mobile displays 34 (giving an extra to Toxtricity), giving us our final 1. My question is, Gamefreak, which one is correct? 1534, or 1535? This IRKS me.

*Bulbapedia is my go to because it's lay out is better than Serebii's, but Serebii has better information. In this case, Bulbapedia listed Nidoran♂ and Nidoran♀ as different forms of the same Pokémon, despite the different Pokédex numbers. Let's call this #4356. Serebii does not do this

¹Bulbapedia states that there are 32 Gigantamax forms. And 32 Pokémon that can Gigantamax. Urshifu gets one for each form, while Toxtricity and Alcremie only get one total despite their multiple forms, and Appletun and Flapple share a Gigantamax form. Both versions of Home, and Serebii, give Appletun and Flapple their own Gigantamax forms, even if it looks the same. Serebii also only gives one Gigantamax form to Toxtricity. The inconsistency hurts me. Let's call this #4356a.

#pokemon #pokemon home #this ultimately doesn't matter but my brain will not let me forget about this #I originally discovered this issue last year and was hoping that some update would fix at least the Toxtricity thing #nope not yet #so here I am languishing in my own personal hell because gamefreak is allergic to consistency #can you tell that I make spreadsheets because the information in my brain needs somewhere to go that isn't in my brain?

[dreamaze]

BESTIES!!! 💞 [a nearly-complete collection]

#yayayayay #another grateful shoutout to meg for helping me get most of the way to the end <333 #as far as i am aware!! i am just missing the latest reason broadcast card #(and i am counting the split one of a kind one as a supplement bc it's not a duo selfie ... #if i can find it for a reasonable sum i'll get it but if not oh well!!) #this being said if anyone knows of others i am missing PLEASE let me know. i had to cobble together my own spreadsheet #& a couple of these i found purely by chance so maybe there are more!! always happy to update my little spreadsheet hehe <3 #wings.collects #bestie beloveds!!!

[ithums]

i just want to say i opened a game to play it, and instead i have spent a couple hours entering information into a spreadsheet. it's related to the game! but still! and no!! this is not one of my (many) ff14 spreadsheets!! this is an entirely DIFFERENT spreadsheet game!

#right now i'm removing duplicates #so i made a copy of a community sheet #updated the copy with information from my game that the original didn't have #then went and added in the new information to the community sheet #and now i'm adding the info from the community sheet BACK to mine #hence removing duplicates #they added some new columns and labels so i'm updating mine to match so i can gather that information as well going forward #i also need to check against the game for information to feed into the spreadsheets #as i wasn't collecting it before i added it back #anyway #spreadsheets! #it's sort of proto-wiki hours for the game at the moment #(i'm playing book of hours btw)

[running-in-the-dark]

I bought some records (it's 12 I bought 12 I have a problem) almost a month ago on ebay but the seller got covid and couldn't go to the post office. he's finally negative and shipped them today! those were the last records I let myself buy for now* so I'm excited to finally get them!

I also bought an adapter for my turntable so I can finally play my 7 inch records (they're all Toto singles and I only bought them because of the covers but I might as well listen to them) but they sent me the wrong colour so they're refunding me the money, which is great. today is a nice day 😌

*I bought more after that anyway 😔 we went to two record stores and I bought seven there. and two more online that I've wanted for a while (those were new, so I have three that aren't from before the 90s now. they're also my first coloured records and they look delicious and I want to eat them.)

#I need to update my spreadsheet but I don't want to know how many I have now #it's too many #I'm so glad I don't really want any new ones. at least most of the old ones are pretty cheap #it's just so nice to find something I've never heard of and then I can listen to it and it's nice and 😬 #it's kind of like when I used to spend hours looking at CDs when I was a teenager. I miss that. #personal #hey it's a personal post that isn't about how everything is bad and/or my mental health! incredible!

[autism-corner]

autism is organizing your legos by colour (i am currently putting every single UR i have in a spreadsheet and making fun diagrams based on them im catagorizing them in so many ways please i fucking love spreadsheet)

#obey me #its time!!! ive never felt so acomplished EVER #i can put a new ur in my little table and itll update another table!!! its awsome!!! i love #i have compleet oversight over which sin has which and whos cards #how many cards each characters and how many per sin etc #im curently working on catogorzing their type (nightmare A; UR+; event UR; regular UR) #and im gonna make a list which has each character and every card they have #I LOVE SPREADSHEETS #all this info can be automized so i only have to fill in one little thingie!!! #isnt that the fucking coolest #i love i love i love #sillyposting #:) i am normal

[mewharley]

bless people who still find the @homestucksongcomics blog ❤️ and then go through it reblogging and liking posts

I remember finding it for the first time, it was magical

I spent a lot of the time checking the master post and finding songs/bands I know or just clicking several posts to see them even if i didn't know the song

it was pretty cool

made me find so much cool music and want to make my own lyricstucks ❤️ (I have like 7 in progress ❤️❤️❤️)

in my opinion, lyricstucks are the best thing that came out from the fandom ❤️❤️

#I have a whole spreadsheet with info about the posts haha #i need to update it so i can get a new master post 👀 #and need to make some official post or smth but uhhhhhhhh #uhhhh procrastination rip #or just update the master post #fuck tumblr for breaking posts under read mores #there are a lot of lyricstucks broken because of that #and some image host webpages that juet died #*just #but oh well #we're going to go insane if we think too hard or try to perseve everything #so #idk #enjoy what it's still there

[27treks]

There are some spoilers for BG3 in this post due to the nature of some mentioned spells!

Anyway! I made a spreadsheet for spells in bg3, mostly matching spells to their counterpart scroll if they have one. some spells don't have scrolls, some scrolls can't be learned, and some spells are only learned from scribing a scroll. at the bottom, I've included as well other special spells either provided via circumstance or item, along with player unusable ones from various sources (npc only, unavailable, unobtainable, and unimplemented)

I had found several threads across the internet on different forums since I've started playing asking what spells should take priority for a wizard since some can be learned from scrolls and not just natural leveling up, and I love spreadsheets so

I hope this helps someone, and if not, I still enjoyed making it for my own nefarious plans

I'd upload it to Google docs (I think that's what it's called?) to share fully, but I quite literally do not understand how to do it. if anyone would like me to do that anyway, direct me towards some clear instructions on how and I'd be happy to do so so it's easier to read if nothing else!

lastly, there's one thing left undefined: I'm not sure who the npc is that can cast Posession. Iirc it only affects Oskar, so therefore it may only be something cast by Mystic Carrion? But I don't think we see anyone cast it explicitly. Ultimately, I'm unsure, so I marked it as such. if anyone has more info, please let me know so I may update it!

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #baldur's gate 3 spoilers #spreadsheets #game guide #kind of anyway but im tagging it regardless #if this isnt readable is this state but you want it anyway #send me an ask with your email and ill send a copy #also i have to note that I fucking hate office suite for mobile #but i dont have a computer rn so im working with what i have #also if youve read all these tags and happen to have noticed an error or any additional missing info #please let me know #i might update this anyway if im able to transfer it to google #that way i can have hyperlinks all over it to all the related info thatd be too much to type #ie where to find specific items or how to meet certain npcs #but that may have to wait until i have a computer again since i cannot figure out how to do it on mobile 😭😭 #my bg3 things

[alsaurus-loves-dean]

I love reading all your tags related to testing. Like this lovely person is one of my people, we understand each other.

I love you fellow software person!!

#finishing up the section of the spreadsheet i was working on and then I'll back to automation baby!!!!! #or more accurately i'll probably be too distracted by my impending ofmd all-nighter lmao #but my coworker who does my code reviews is going on vacation starting friday #and i have tomorrow off #so realistically we couldn't merge my stuff today even if i were able to focus on it lol #the final changes he asked me to make are relatively complicated so it'll take me a few hours at least #but likely more since i havent run the automation on the latest app yet #and i had to update xcode for regression so who knows what broken shit i'll have to deal with #and then he'd still have to review those changes #so the actual merging would have waited until he comes back on the 17th anyway #so i'll just make it my goal to finish my updates by the end of monday #and then get back to the story audit #that will give me two full days of automation work and then four full days of spreadsheet hell #but with my coworker gone i can use that as motivation to try to audit as many stories as i can before he gets back! #so it'll be a nice surprise #just in time for him to have to put together our projections for the leadership meeting on the 20th! #anon

[fiercynn]

on ao3's current fundraiser

apparently it’s time for ao3’s biannual donation drive, which means it’s time for me to remind you all, that regardless of how much you love ao3, you shouldn’t donate to them because they HAVE TOO MUCH MONEY AND NO IDEA WHAT TO DO WITH IT.

we’ve known for years that ao3 – or, more specifically, the organization for transformative works (@transformativeworks on tumblr), or otw, who runs ao3 and other fandom projects – has a lot of money in their “reserves” that they had no plans for. but in 2023, @manogirl and i did some research on this, and now, after looking at their more recent financial statements, i’ve determined that at the beginning of 2024, they had almost $2.8 MILLION US DOLLARS IN SURPLUS.

our full post last year goes over the principles of how we determined this, even though the numbers are for 2023, but the key points still stand (with the updated numbers):

when we say “surplus”, we are not including money that they estimate they need to spend in 2024 for their regular expenses. just the extra that they have no plan for

yes, nonprofits do need to keep some money in reserves for emergencies; typically, nonprofits registered in the u.s. tend to keep enough to cover between six months and two years of their regular operating expenses (meaning, the rough amount they need each month to keep their services going). $2.8 million USD is enough to keep otw running for almost FIVE YEARS WITHOUT NEW DONATIONS

they always overshoot their fundraisers: as i’m posting this, they’ve already raised $104,751.62 USD from their current donation drive, which is over double what they’ve asked for! on day two of the fundraiser!!

no, we are not trying to claim they are embezzling this money or that it is a scam. we believe they are just super incompetent with their money. case in point: that surplus that they have? only earned them $146 USD in interest in 2022, because only about $10,000 USD of their money invested in an interest-bearing account. that’s the interest they earn off of MILLIONS. at the very least they should be using this extra money to generate new revenue – which would also help with their long-term financial security – but they can’t even do that

no, they do not need this money to use if they are sued. you can read more about this in the full post, but essentially, they get most of their legal services donated, and they have not, themselves, said this money is for that purpose

i'm not going to go through my process for determining the updated 2024 numbers because i want to get this post out quickly, and otw actually had not updated the sources i needed to get these numbers until the last couple days (seriously, i've been checking), but you can easily recreate the process that @manogirl and i outlined last year with these documents:

otw’s 2022 audited financial statement, to determine how much money they had at the end of 2022

otw’s 2024 budget spreadsheet, to determine their net income in 2023 and how much they transferred to and from reserves at the beginning of 2024

otw’s 2022 form 990 (also available on propublica), which is a tax document, and shows how much interest they earned in 2022 (search “interest” and you’ll find it in several places)  

also, otw has not been accountable to answering questions about their surplus. typically, they hold a public meeting with their finance committee every year in september or october so people can ask questions directly to their treasurer and other committee members; as you can imagine, after doing this deep dive last summer, i was looking forward to getting some answers at that meeting!

but they cancelled that meeting in 2023, and instead asked people to write to the finance committee through their contact us form online. fun fact: i wrote a one-line message to the finance committee on may 11, 2023 through that form, when @manogirl and i were doing this research, asking them for clarification on how much they have in their reserves. i have still not received a response.

so yeah. please spend your money on people who actually need it, like on mutual aid requests! anyone who wants to share their mutual aid requests, please do so in the replies and i’ll share them out – i didn’t want to link directly to individual requests without permission in case this leads to anyone getting harassed, but i would love to share your requests. to start with, here's operation olive branch and their ongoing spreadsheet sharing palestinian folks who need money to escape genocide.

oh, and if you want to write to otw and tell them why you are not donating, i'm not sure it’ll get any results, but it can’t hurt lol. here's their contact us form – just don’t expect a response! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#ao3 #otw #archive of our own #organization for transformative works #ao3 is not your savior #and they don't need your money #otw finances

[southislandwren]

oh actually i could pick up earbuds in a gas station and listen to music literally the entire weekend. maybe this wont be so bad

#like its rude to wear my huge son of a bitch bose headphones but my hair is long enough to hide earbuds now...... #also im doing a music update and fast car is making me cry. and i know its because i use my car as a coping mechanism for my depression #but like arghhh.... 'you got a fast car is it fast enough so we can fly away?' #goddamn. yeah i gotta go on a roadtrip im not gonna make it lol #cant wait for the inevitable situation of getting pulled over for something egregious and the cop being like anything dangerous in there? #and i'll have to go yeah theres a well maintained regularly sharpened bastard sword on the passenger seat next to the gecko #okay anway. these songs arent gonna add themselves to the spreadsheet #diary post