If anyone following me wants to be totally unspoiled for FFXIV:
Block the entire #final fantasy tag
I do not have a distinct tag for ff14 and if a post just has a character that shows up later I only tag for spoilers if it’s within a month of the newest patch dropping. Additionally, I also have a really bad memory for tagging past the basics and most obvious posts, so I not-infrequently just forget to tag something as spoilers for an expansion
local moon discovering that being forcibly upgraded to a bad os makes them go into dorffort tantrum spirals that ruin their entire day in exchange for 15 minutes of trying to deenshittify a computer
on the bright(?) side i had sympathetic howling when i posted my woes on a discord as a relief valve
when someone asks you why you haven’t had any of the “normal stereotypical” experiences a young person should apparently have and you just go i don’t know what to tell you i just haven’t and for the most part you don’t care but then the atmosphere immediately shifts and you’re being pitied. and most people don’t really give a fuck right, they’re minding their business, but idk i’ve had interactions with people who do bring it up in subtle ways and treat you as if you’re some innocent little being, like oh cover your ears you poor little thing. so you leave and isolate yourself, but then it’s like how am i going to have those experiences if i isolate myself? but then when you do try people shame you for it. and this is the way people act when it comes to soooo many things in life. you’re like that and we want you to be like this, but we’re gonna laugh at your attempts if that’s okay?
local moon discovering that being forcibly upgraded to a bad os makes them go into dorffort tantrum spirals that ruin their entire day in exchange for 15 minutes of trying to deenshittify a computer
the tragedy of etsy evilly deleting my original (popular) cowboy cat pin listing and having to make a new one that receives no views.. ive been nerfed.. just when i ordered new stock :’) also ive seen it being ripped off on other sites which i knew was inevitable but still damages me spiritually…. anyway the pin is back and since etsy seo hates me now im going to yell about my cowboy Here 🤠
Say goodniiiiiiiiiight With each bite does your sanity diiiiie Sucking the life out, letting the dark Insiiiiiiiiide, say a prayer as the light leaves your eyeeeeeeeees Or scream all you like, your gods can’t hear you
How to plan a long-term creative project for serial publication:
1. Make a firm decision about how big a single update is going to be, and estimate your sustainable update frequency based on that. This estimate should be based solely on your own demonstrated performance; you may anticipate that future productivity will exceed past productivity, but never make long-range plans on the assumption that future productivity will exceed past productivity. That is called the Planning Fallacy, and it will eat you alive.
2. Estimate how often you’re likely to miss updates. As a rough guideline, if you’re physically and mentally healthy and have no major commitments that would interfere with your ability to work on the project, figure that you’ll miss about 10% of your updates for various reasons. If you have health issues or frequent Real Life commitments, make it 20%. If 20% sounds low to you, you weren’t being honest with yourself about your sustainable update frequency; return to step 1 and re-assess.
3. Figure that you’ve got about two years before you lose interest in the project, gain some new commitment that will preclude continuing to work on it, or your art style evolves enough to make creative continuity impractical. If there’s some upcoming major life change that you’re able to anticipate – like, say, graduating from school – use either two years or that event as your soft deadline, whichever is less.
4. Use the figures from steps 1-3 to estimate how many updates you’re likely to be able to squeeze into this project, and write your outline/script based on that. You don’t need to wrap up every tiny little loose thread by that point, but ideally it needs to reach a point where you could stop and be satisfied with whatever conclusion has been reached. If you get there and you’re still enthusiastic about continuing, fantastic – return to step 1 and re-assess.
So, as a simple example: if you’re planning a webcomic, you figure you can reasonably manage about 1 page a week, and you’ve got a lot going on that’s likely to get in your way, that’s (2 years * 52 weeks/year * 1 update/week * 80% success rate on updates) = around 83 pages to work with, or about the length of a four-issue miniseries. What kind of story can you tell in 80-odd pages?
(Hint: it’s not a story that involves fifty-page combat scenes!)
This is great advice.
When I was making Lunar Maladies (my 464 page webcomic–I will never make a comic that long ever again, it truly could have been a tight 250 if I’d know anything about editing at the time… but what can I say I started it when I was 19) I knew I could reliably take 3 pages from thumbnails to final art every week. So I only updated the comic with 1 page a week. I had over a year of buffer at one point. Because I had built in that security for myself. I know I’m a fallible human & I try to set up my workflow in such a way that I don’t feel bad/guilty/beat myself up about being a normal person with normal obligations that sometimes eclipse drawing comics.
Anyways, working within your limitations is great & allows you to create for longer without having a disastrous level of burnout.
While ago anon asked me in the inbox to identify the “ough ball plush” I think it’s most likely this plush named “Kabi” by the artist plush maker Co-Sen from Japan
Everyone defending wheat is like “oh once I grind it into a powder and add like 17 things to it and add heat it tastes so good!”
You know, we have gruel recipes from the Middle Ages where people added beer or cooked onions or milk to their hot cereals. You don’t have to like oatmeal but boiled hot cereals have been a staple of the human diet for a long time and we haven’t just eaten them plain this entire time. Heck, we don’t even eat bread by itself most times. There’s a lot of things that just eaten plain and boiled by themselves wouldn’t be very good. And that’s essentially what plain oatmeal is. Just boiled oats. Like most people throughout history would eat something with that.
Here’s something to try out if you don’t like breakfast oatmeal. Savory oatmeal. Make the oatmeal with broth, add some herbs you like, and mix some meat or cooked veggies into it. I like putting an egg in there too.
Embrace the adding like 17 things to your oatmeal. Think of hot cereal like a base, same way you do with bread or rice.
we dont add 17 things to bread, we add like 3, and to rice, it can be enjoyed on its own
This is probably the one time I’ll disagree with you, oatmeal sucks
The Israeli Airforce deleted this post of an Apache helicopter equipped with a Thermobaric missile. “Vacuum bombs” like these are designed to cause maximum suffering from asphyxiation, toxic gas, and severe burns.
Now, let’s discuss a bit about vacuum bombs:
The vacuum bomb is known as one of the non-nuclear bombs possessing a high destructive power.
Vacuum bombs absorb oxygen from the surrounding air to generate a powerful, heat-intensive explosion, typically resulting in a longer-lasting blast wave compared to conventional explosives.
It contains a payload of solid fuel that burns rapidly and transforms into an inflammable gas or aerosol liquid, which absorbs oxygen. Atmospheric pressure from all directions compensates for the depleted oxygen.
When it detonates, a massive fireball and a significant pressure release occur, with the temperature reaching about three thousand degrees Celsius, doubling the heat generated by traditional bombs.
The destruction in the targeted area extends beyond building facades or surfaces, affecting everything in its vicinity.
Even underground targets like bunkers, storage facilities, and tunnels are subjected to destruction. These fortified objectives are often impervious to conventional weaponry but not to the vacuum bomb.
As the targeted environment depletes its oxygen content, and due to the high temperature generated by the explosion, all life succumbs to suffocation, burning, and buildings collapse and crumble.
It not only kills but also causes blindness, brain concussions, ruptured eardrums, in addition to obstructed airways and lung collapse, along with other extremely severe injuries.
Internationally prohibited:
The vacuum bomb is one of the bombs prohibited for use according to international agreements, akin to phosphorus bombs, napalm bombs, fragmentation bombs, and cluster bombs (Which Israel uses all of them on the people of Gaza daily without anyone preventing or stopping them)
