if anyone wants to watch RAMDER+ play random #4D games he found online, he’s currently live streaming that here!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXFI8Z1F-2w

edit: the stream is over now but you can still watch the recorded stream

boost to help me survive

This time, we're headed off the topic of Oblivion and onto...oh, the effects of one of the Daedric princes of Oblivion on Tamrielic goings-on?

Succubard Gently Reads: [The Brothers of Darkness]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ta3DgLgY4A

Yup, it's the dark brotherhood, a group that stems from an earlier group who was born of a worship for Mephala The Dark Brotherhood quest-line is, as I hear it, a lot of people's favourites when it comes to The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, from the way it's introduced to how it plays out, and it's often used as a barometer to measure other quest-lines up against, both in Oblivion and in other TES games.

Hopefully, you enjoy getting a bit of a look into the history of the organisation~

------------

If you like it and/or want to help me survive, ko-fi monthlies help me buy food for me and my cats and I appreciate every one a ton
[ko-fi] https://ko-fi.com/octaviaconamore
[paypal] https://paypal.me/octaviaconamore

I also do live readings a few times a week over on Twitch if that's more your thing
https://www.twitch.tv/octaviaconamore

#Vtuber #ENVtuber #Bard #Games #Gaming #LGBTQ #Queer #Trans #TransFem #VoiceActing #Fantasy #Reading #Bookstodon #Books #ElderScrolls #Skyrim #Oblivion

Wow! My nude gallery has hit 13000 downloads now! 😳🤯

Speaking of which, I just added 20 photos to it.

https://lgbtqia.space/@alice/112414677450831186

Mildly spicy web advertising takes

* 468x60 static non-animated non-tracking banners for cool webcomics and weird hobby blogs are brilliant and only the most tedious of people have any problem with them at all

* blog writers and webcomic artists getting paid a couple bucks here and there for running non-intrusive ads is Good Actually

* the shittiness of web ads scales exponentially in accordance with how much money you're trying to make off them - if you want a few extra quid each month for pizza and beer money, web ads are great and useful to everyone, that's the perfect use case; if you want more money than that then ads are the wrong tool for the job, and you can in fact use the wrong tool wrong enough to destroy democracy

Edit: one more

* the fact that my adblocker will look at a 468x60 non-animated non-intrusive non-spyware banner ad for a gay webcomic and go "ah yes, this can go in the same hole as this 50 megabyte video ad for a toothbrush you bought last week, loaded with so much spyware javascript that your processor fan roars like a jet engine," by DEFAULT, is... honestly tragic. These are Different Things but, remember the most tedious people in the world I mentioned above? They made the adblocker

LB: remembered that I'm giving away advertising space for free PURELY BECAUSE THE WORST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WANT TO CHARGE LOADS OF MONEY FOR IT, please give me your 468x60 pixel non-animated banner for your hobby website or small (small!) business.

Make it colourful and cool looking like something that someone would want to click. I'm not going to put it over content or move stuff around just as someone's moving their finger to tap on something or any of that bullshit, I'm not going to TRICK people into clicking it accidentally, so if you want anyone to click on it then it has to be Actually Enticing. Put it in https://www.improbableisland.com/hobbysites.php and tell your webring.

EDIT: expand this thread for examples of good ads, cool/interesting replies and some of the most incredibly niche websites you've ever seen

whenever I try to read Math Things it’s always super cryptic and using normal words in vague and esoteric ways like “an algebra is a set of values, a set of operators that it is closed under and some laws it must obey” and I’m just like, okay I don’t know what most of those words are supposed to mean and I can’t google them but I at least know what an operator is and what a value is so I think I get the gist? “an algebra is when there are values and operators and laws are involved somehow”

Boosts plz

Fox has been added into the game, and with this we're about ready to upload the new build for betatesting!
#babaisyou

I've posted it here before, but I'm still happy with https://memorable.website/. How much I was able to get from just using HTML, no CSS, no JS, nothing but good old markup.

No shade on CSS, and only some shade on JS. But it's nice to see that some of the basic stuff still works in some ways.

but anyway yeah this paper has given me a much deeper appreciation for Lisp. not the Lisp implementations that exist today but the pure Lisp presented in the paper

I feel like my ideal Lisp would be:

• the simplest core language possible (this is not necessarily the implementation. what I mean is that the entire language can be modeled as just the features of this core language) (also by “simplest” I’m talking about conceptual simplicity and not necessarily simplicity to implement)
• everything else is defined in terms of the core language. for example (cadar X) is defined as (car (cdr (car x))). every single function that isn’t part of the core language has a section of the documentation that gives a definition like this. these functions can be implemented in a different way as long as they behave identically to the implementation given in the documentation
• build layers outwards, so that semi-core features are defined in terms of core features, and semi-semi-core features are defined in terms of {semi-core features and possibly also core features}, etc.
• eventually build things up to the point that the language has as much expressiveness as Python and a similarly full-featured standard library

I’ve been reading a Lisp math paper by the creator of Lisp which describes Lisp in mathematical terms and then describes how Lisp can be used to produce a Lisp interpreter in very few lines of “code”/“math”

and first of all I definitely think that there’s something beautiful about a language that can be explained “simply” (very relatively speaking) in terms of itself, but that is also so powerful that it can be built up from those basic building blocks into a full-featured programming language

it is a very dense read, and I find it funny how the creator of Lisp himself is apologetic about the syntax of Lisp lol. at the time of writing this it seems like he was interested in finding a better syntax but was limited by the BCDIC character set of the IBM computers he worked on

I feel like the creator did his best to explain things clearly but definitely could have done better, and I noticed a few syntax errors in his handwritten Lisp code and/or math syntax which I find kinda funny. even the creator of Lisp gets his parenthesis mixed up. some of those threw me for a loop for a while and I’m still not 100% sure if certain things are mistakes or if I’m just misunderstanding something

but idk reading through this paper has definitely given me a deeper appreciation for Lisp as a mathematical model of computation, and as a language. I can definitely see the beauty of a language whose entire core feature-set can be explained in a 35-page math paper. and which could presumably be explained in a longer article that’s designed to be more accessible for laypeople and has the mistakes fixed

also, I really wonder how close something like Common Lisp or Scheme is to the conceptual simplicity of the Lisp presented in this paper. I feel like Common Lisp has had a lot of… things added to it over the years, and I wonder if these languages still boil down to basic operations like car and cdr, maybe some arithmetic operations, etc. or if the list of mathematical primitives that they boil down to has gotten large and messy. unfortunately “large and messy” is the impression that I get of most Lisps, except for maybe Fennel and Janet