Month: February 2016

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justice-turtle:

so buying thread payouts are 27,500t for a lvl 6 in light vs plague currently

if you had any dragons you want to clear out and get like three times exalt payout for them (and you don’t mind them being exalted) today would be the day :D

this has been a pixel dragon PSA

Let’s see…100 lair spaces – 21 empty spaces – 13 permanents = 66 adult fodder. (Most bought for 10k, managed to snag a few more the following day for 15k. Dragons growing up on Saturday got rapidly hard to come by on Thursday as people started to prepare in earnest: I’m glad I timed most of my first batch of flipped fodder to grow up on Wednesday.)

I’ll probably wait a few more hours to see if the prices get even more ridiculous than the 24.5k of ridiculous they already are.

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#Flight Rising #reply via reblog #having a zillion empty lair spaces is super useful

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deusvulture asked: Hi, I’m asocratesgonemad! My account was deleted in a terrible accident and I am trying to plant the seeds of a new empire. My posting habits won’t change I just made a dumb mistake and my account went poof. Feel free to post this publicly! :)

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deusvulture:

brin-bellway:

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nostalgebraist:

Oh, that sucks that your account was deleted.  Did you ever back up any of your posts?  (Which reminds me, I should back up my tumblr again.)

I have a few backups, the latest of which goes up to nov 20 of last year. So not *great*, but it’s something.

And if more people back up their blogs, more of my later posts that they reblogged will be preserved!

What backup method do you use? I’m currently settling for this thing and I want to know if you have any better ideas.

(Pros of linked thing: have already successfully figured out how to back up my own blog with it; uses only public information, so theoretically there’s no reason why one can’t use it on blogs other than one’s own. Cons: archives are not searchable by any method obvious enough for me to have thought of it; in practice three of the four non-me blogs I tried it on (theunitofcaring, justice-turtle, sinesalvatorem) failed after the first page for no apparent reason. (mythologymondays succeeded.))

I use https://github.com/bbolli/tumblr-utils/ (via the hack-y method of editing the python source to point it to the blogs I want, since I can’t be arsed to run things from command line).

The backups it generates are not searchable by any obvious method afaict, but they are pretty easily navigable (in the form of nicely formatted html pages, including an index and pages by month). And you can back up other people’s blogs — in fact, one of the ones that I preserved recently was @theunitofcaring’s, which went off without a hitch. Occasionally some images fail to download for no evident reason, but very rarely. Overall I recommend.

(if @theunitofcaring or anyone else feels strongly that they don’t want their blog backed up I will send all my personal records of it down the memory hole, but I defaulted to “yes” on the theory that public blogs can be assumed to be public, etc)

Thank you! This does look good. (Well, the archives are relatively big (mine is 1.4GB), but that’s a price worth paying for the pictures.)

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#reply via reblog

Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow-Torches

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nonternary:

In 1994, Patrick R. Michaud and some accomplices (inspired by a Dave Barry column) turned a toaster and an “SPT” into a rudimentary blowtorch and documented it on the then-nascent Web.

This is now one of the oldest webpages still accessible.

“(see Fun With Grapes – A Case Study)”

“At this point, the researchers also realized that the heat could inadvertently melt the adhesive cellophane and cause the flaming SPTs to suddenly eject from the toaster. Unfortunately, this did not occur.”

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#food #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog

deusvulture asked: Hi, I’m asocratesgonemad! My account was deleted in a terrible accident and I am trying to plant the seeds of a new empire. My posting habits won’t change I just made a dumb mistake and my account went poof. Feel free to post this publicly! :)

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deusvulture:

nostalgebraist:

Oh, that sucks that your account was deleted.  Did you ever back up any of your posts?  (Which reminds me, I should back up my tumblr again.)

I have a few backups, the latest of which goes up to nov 20 of last year. So not *great*, but it’s something.

And if more people back up their blogs, more of my later posts that they reblogged will be preserved!

What backup method do you use? I’m currently settling for this thing and I want to know if you have any better ideas.

(Pros of linked thing: have already successfully figured out how to back up my own blog with it; uses only public information, so theoretically there’s no reason why one can’t use it on blogs other than one’s own. Cons: archives are not searchable by any method obvious enough for me to have thought of it; in practice three of the four non-me blogs I tried it on (theunitofcaring, justice-turtle, sinesalvatorem) failed after the first page for no apparent reason. (mythologymondays succeeded.))

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#reply via reblog #if The Greatest Tumblr Apocalypse occurs and I lose access to the archives of theunitofcaring I am going to be very upset

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prokopetz:

Thanks to heavy metal, I know how to proclaim dire prophesies and graphic death threats in like half a dozen Scandinavian languages, but I don’t know how to ask for directions to the bathroom.

WHERE IS THE SKULL WE SHIT IN

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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog

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unpretty:

my favorite thing that Clark Kent does is try to figure out how a Normal Human Man would respond to getting injured

like if someone shoots at him he can say “oh he missed” and if someone tries to punch him he can kind of roll with it and barely avoid getting hit so they don’t smash their hand while going “oh ow oof what a punch ouch”

but then here comes the Joker with a comically large wooden mallet and now Clark has to figure out how Normal Human Man Clark Kent could conceivably survive this without making it obvious that he is not actually a Normal Human Man. just “oh goddammit i’ve never even seen someone get hit with one of these before, the joker’s probably seen all kinds of people get hit, he knows what this is supposed to look like but i have no goddamn idea i am so fucked”

superman may have the power of flight and super strength but clark kent has the power of improv

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#Superman #comic #oh my god

Hollow rock turns into a router full of survival info when you build a fire beside it

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veequoi:

ethnianmandarin:

argumate:

ethnianmandarin:

argumate:

mostlysignssomeportents:

Magic Heat-Activated Wi-Fi Rock

Keepalive is Aram Bartholl’s fake hollow boulder in the woods of Neuenkirchen, Germany. It conceals a thermoelectric generator that powers a router configured to serve documents related to wilderness survival. The router switches on if the rock is sufficiently warmed, say by a blazing campfire adjacent to it.

It’s based on Piratebox, a standalone Internet router project for file-sharing.

It’s not the only art/artificial boulder project, though: Ed Ruscha claims to have made an artificial boulder called “Rocky II” and hidden it somewhere in the Mojave, where it is visually indistinguishable from the surrounding rocks, making it all but impossible to find.

https://boingboing.net/2016/02/01/hollow-rock-turns-into-a-route.html

that magic rock in the Mojave is going to confuse the fuck out of our descendants one day.

probably not. it’s just a rock. most rocks go unregarded

most rocks aren’t wifi access points!

you need to regard a rock to find out if it is a wifi access point.

w hat the fuck. did the world’s most sadistic text adventure game writer make this rock

You are lost in a woodland clearing. There is a large boulder and a pile of firewood nearby.
> check cell phone
You open your cell phone to google wilderness survival tips, but you don’t have any service.
> make campfire with firewood
You could light a fire here, but you’d still be lost.
> regard rock
It’s a large rock. The underside of the rock appears slightly charred.
> light campfire under rock
Pretty soon you have a blazing campfire going underneath the boulder.
> regard rock
The strange boulder, now warmed, has begun to emit a faint mechanical hum.
> check cell phone
You open your cell phone. There is one wifi network available, named “KeepAlive.”
> connect to rock wifi
The wifi router opens a webpage full of documents on wilderness survival.
> ?????
Invalid command.
> why
Invalid command.
> who hides secrets in a magic heat-activated rock
Invalid command.

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justice-turtle:

Dude, Light vs Plague is just crazy. It’s only Tuesday and the cheapest adult dragons on the AH are at 18,000 treasure (for comparison, a normal week they’re more like 8,000.) And the buy thread payouts are keeping up with that – last I checked they were at 21k treasure for a level 6 (which would normally bring 10k treasure from exalting).

*goes back to leveling dragons*

*looks at ~80 hatchlings in lair, mostly 5-day-olds bought for 10k, some 4-day-olds bought for 8k*

*licks lips*

(There’s no way I’m going to be able to train 80 dragons in a reasonable timeframe, so I’ll probably just sell them as level 1s. Might keep the ones with exalt bonuses to train myself, haven’t decided yet.)

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#tomorrow after I sell the now-rollovers I’ll see if I can scrounge up a few dozen 3-day-olds for Saturday #plus Lightning’s got dominance which means gene flipping galore #it’s a very exciting week profit-wise #Flight Rising #reply via reblog

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support:

Your replies are on the way, Tumblr

Just wanted to let you know that we’re putting the finishing touches on replies, and making sure they play nicely with everything else on this platform.

“Why did they go away? Why, staff, whyyyy?” Fair question. We had a gaggle of overlapping message-like systems—namely, asks, fan mail, reblogging with commentary, question posts (rare!), and, yes, replies. When we finally introduced actual instant messaging a couple months ago, we had a lot of untangling to do.

In order to make all these systems work together, we had to do some back-end retooling, which meant taking down replies for a bit. For longer than we expected. Sorry about that.

And we get it—replies fill a very particular need (and you were very clear about expressing that need). They’re a kind of super like. A way to fully express your feelings about a thing without expecting anything in response. A gift.

When they come back, they’ll be even better. People will be able to reply to your posts multiple times, and you’ll even be able to reply to your own posts. Simple changes, yes, but ones that open up lots of possibilities.

Best of all, we’ve laid the down the engineering and design groundwork for even more substantial improvements down the road. Replies will be able to develop side-by-side with messaging.

More to come, soon enough. We know you all miss replies. We hope you enjoy their imminent return.

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#PSA #The Great Tumblr Apocalypse