now that internet quizzes are big again, throwback to the time when 12yo me made a quiz that was like “this miraculous quiz can guess your hair color with ONE HUNDRED percent accuracy! just answer every question honestly and the quiz will know your hair color as if by ~magic~”
and then the actual quiz was just. one question. “what is your hair color”
honestly i still think that was pretty funny
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#overly literal interpretations #fun with loopholes #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #hair
#…so uh I’m *strongly* legally discouraged from going outside more than the absolute minimum #(legally I have to treat every allergy attack like it might be COVID-19 and go into full lockdown for two weeks) #(surgical masks aren’t always enough even when you can get them and cloth masks are untested and presumably even less perfect) #I think I’m starting to go a bit astronaut #plants #covid19 #allergies #(every year it gets worse‚ my ability to just go enjoy the outdoors ever more restricted) #(I’d wondered what the escalation would be this year‚ hoped that #perhaps the allergist I would visit in January would help me *de*-escalate instead) #(but there was nothing she could do for me and I guess now I fucking know what this year’s escalation is) #tag rambles #(P.S. over dinner today Mom told me the forsythia in the backyard is blooming) #(and I should go appreciate it seeing as how it was my idea in the first place) #(so after posting this I went and opened up the back door to look at it) #(I held my breath) #(and when my lungs began to burn I shut the door again and quickly walked away)
Are there any rules on what avatars we can choose?
Because someone came in the form of a dachshund the size of a small apartment building, I have instituted a rule that you cannot have an avatar larger than an SUV.
But I feel most comfortable when instantiated in a body of supernormal size. Can you make an exception?
Is an SUV not supernormal enough to satisfy this bizarre impulse?
Let’s say it isn’t.
Well, you see, your size imposes a negative externality on other users, decreasing their enjoyment of the meeting. We have to account for that. So unfortunately, I can’t make an exception.
What if the utility I gain from being a dachshund the size of a small apartment building exceeds the summed decrements in utility this causes others?
Well…then we are all in luck. You see, the Hubs metaverse is scaled such that the average avatar, were they transplanted into our world, would be the size of a small apartment building. It is merely an illusion of perspective that most avatars do not appear to be the size of a small apartment building. Thus, merely by showing up as a dachshund you will gain the utility you crave while avoiding imposing upon others.
What if the utility I gain from being a dachshund that, relative to the median avatar, appears to be the size of a small apartment building exceeds the summed decrements in utility this causes others?
Then you would be a sort of positional utility monster. Unfortunately, here at the SSC/LessWrong Mozilla Hubs Meetup we have precommitted to following a strict deontological rule which obliges us to ban all such creatures.
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#fun with loopholes #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(I didn’t laugh *this* time but I remember laughing the first time I read it)
Hey ya’ll! This is the first book of by far my favorite series in existence. I seriously recommend getting the free book on May 4th. This series (The Stormlight Archives) is by far the most epic epic fantasy I have ever laid eyes on. If you like:
Phenomenal, original worldbuilding not based on medieval Europe
An incredible magic system unlike anything you’ve ever seen
Amazing, diverse, awesome characters that will make you laugh and cry for days
Crabs
Tons of fantastic female characters
Giant anime swords that can cut through anything
Character development for days
Probably the best representation of depression and other mental illnesses out there
So much philosophy? All intertwined in the story and when you read the characters coming to realize these things, it’s chilling and beautiful
infinite meme material
No sex scenes
Also, most of Brandon Sanderson’s adult works are part of a vast, interconnected universe with worldhopping characters (though each story can be enjoyed on it’s own without reading the others to understand the behind the scenes stuff) and this huge superplot going on that is this giant mystery you piece together while reading it.
I seriously cannot express how much I love these books, and I hope ya’ll take this great opportunity to check them out.
It’s not based on medieval Europe? I thought the whole rationale behind Shardplate was “knights are cool.” And their feudalism seems pretty Western European too, but I guess that kind of structure could have come from anywhere. Or do you just mean that the characters aren’t white?
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#PSA #I’ve heard good things about #Cosmere #but haven’t had a chance to read any of it yet myself
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We identified nearly a thousand blogs that were previously suspended for blatantly violating our policies against hate speech. Most of them were Nazi-related blogs. Earlier this week, we began the process of removing all reblogs stemming from the original posts on those previously suspended blogs—that’s approximately 4.47M reblogs being removed from Tumblr.
Moving forward, we will evaluate all blogs suspended for hate speech, and consider mass reblog deletion when appropriate.
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>>Earlier this week, we began the process of removing all reblogs stemming from the original posts on those previously suspended blogs—that’s approximately 4.47M reblogs being removed from Tumblr.<<
So by the sound of it, if you’ve reblogged any debunkings or tangents or possibly even unrelated posts from a blog that *also* posted hate speech (by whatever standards they’re using for that), it’s getting thrown down the memory hole.
Hey guys, I wrote a Tumblr reblog once disagreeing with the idea that deleting an OP blog should delete all of its posts’ reblogs. Do you know what happened to my post? It fucking vanished [link]. It lives on because I personally ensured it.
Now is a good time to remind everyone that tumblr-utils [link] incremental backups do not delete old posts if the original gets deleted, and the Wayback Machine sure as hell does not delete them.
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#AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA #amnesia cw #reply via reblog #The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #PSA #101 Uses for Infrastructureless Computers #federated Tumblr clone when
Fortunately for blue mages, everything can be countered. ;-)
Just cast Time Stop. It’s like Wrath of God for spells, nearly reading ‘Destroy all spells on the stack. Even the uncounterable ones.’ Speaking of WoG, I agree with Indestructible being a terrible keyword, the worse for becoming so normal it began to replace regeneration and circumnerf WoG.
indestructible was fine as a block keyword that only came on overpriced creatures, at a time when properly priced creatures were more expensive.
idk what it’s like these days
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#Magic the Gathering #discourse cw? #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(”what is the slur for blue mages‚ imagine I said that”) #((note: I don’t actually speak Magic the Gathering))
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