in chatrooms that have rules against being mean, i’ve started explicitly telling people when i’m not going to break that rule.

“this post baits people into breaking the ‘don’t insult people’ rule” is arguably more scathing than insulting them

• editing a blogpost about roko’s basilisk
• but this bit was too good not to share on its own
• mini squiggles

all great game‍-​theoretic trades and paradoxes appear, so to speak, twice. as marx himself remarked: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

he forgot to add: the zeroth time as prediction

• this is even funnier in the context of the blog post i’m editing
• but i have no idea how to structure the joke so that it’s lands
• the slice of people who will even get it is so narrow

bingo game where you make or get assigned a pool of 30‍-​50 predictions. the board isn’t actually labeled; instead, when a prediction from the pool comes true, you can assign two (unfulfilled) predictions from the pool to squares on the board. if a prediction labeled on the board comes true, only then can you actually mark that square, and when this happens you may additionally assign one prediction from the pool to an unlabeled square.

thus, it takes strategy to get bingo first

• alternatively
• parleys give you extra points and the winner is the first person with the most points
• but that might be games take too long unless there’s some other limit or end condition

• deltarune

• see you dweebs later lmao

kind of disappointing that there’s ao3 tags for time travel and time loops but not for precognition and future sight, or any widespread distinction between peggy sues (or other single point of divergence time travel scenarios) and repeated time travel as central plot point.

good luck finding fics with actual mechanics as opposed to just letting a main character have adventures in the past, or fix‍-​everything slop

• not diagnosed but pretty sure

my latest leg hands

function rinse(li, add)
  local lef = #li > 1 and 2 or 1
  local rig = #li > and #li or 1
  for i=1, #add do
    li:insert(rng (lef, rig), add[i])
    rig = #li
  end
end

spotted this ao3 tag while organizing some old tabs

brattiness and sarcasm when being vivisected

• environmental storytelling?
• but i don’t know what story it’s telling

• starmarked

what even is lace silksong

i’ve seen people call her a lacefly, a spider (?), and an actual mushroom

2025‍-​09‍-​10

hahaha

the most locked in i’ve been when reading anything this month was a fic that had 100 hits and single digit kudos. multiple chapters, tens of thousands words, and 3/4 of the comments on that series are me

authors in small fandom really are the strongest soldiers

never forget fires burn in the most obscure pits

the upside of having a thing that you’re known for being into is that people will see that thing, think of you, and send it your way

the downside of having a thing that you’re known for being into is that people will see that thing, think of you, and send it your way

wonder what it says that my two all time favorite albums are both about climate change

nineteen years apart though which is decidedly reflected in their respective attitudes

• technically my housemate has also played it
• but he’s so ass lmao

• i am free