the golden ratio is everywhere in nature

how people react to this for some reason: woah, cosmic confluence, man! we’re all connected!

the reality: there’s a strong survival pressure to grow Things That Don’t Line Up, and the best mathematical way to grow an arbitrary number of Things That Don’t Line Up happens to be {using the golden ratio}

this is your regular reminder that, etymologically, it's helico-pter; spiral wing.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/helicopter#etymonline_v_9121

@netcat omg welcome to Cryptid Cafe!

#ADHD lifehack: get a pill organiser. I have a little rainbow case where I have individual boxes for each day. I keep it near my breakfast stuff, as my first dose is then. I fill it once a week for the week ahead. This has several advantages:

- I can literally pop all five of my morning pills into my hand and into my mouth at the same time, and take them (with water) in one go. No spoons required to find all four boxes and pop them out the blister pack, and put them away. Especially important cos the adhd meds - which give me organisational spoons - are there
- I can tell at a glance if I’ve had my morning or evening meds on a given day. I don’t have to rely on faulty memory or potentially inaccurate logging to stop me from overdosing
- By filling once a week, I have a good idea of remaining meds in my meds box. I just discovered I only have five days’ worth of one of my daily drugs. I’ve ordered it for pickup from my pharmacy, and I’ll have time to pick it up before I run out

PSA: Check your battery operated devices RIGHT NOW (especially if you own a collection), they may be very well discharged right now and could very well be puffing (spicy pillows).

If they aren't puffing, charge them to around 50%. This slows down degradation.

If your battery is puffing, you might be able to find a place where they will recycle the battery.

You may also want to check to make sure the device is still working.

Boosts would be very appreciated.

once again begging people to cw their uspol posts

holy fuck

I just want to say that I fucking love Samus so much. in terms of stoic badassery I’d almost put her on the same level as Doomguy, and yet she’s a female character with the coolest powersuit ever idk I just love her. I want more video game characters like her

let’s gooo new #4DMiner update! https://youtu.be/f4CMKoVgqOM

#4D

qualities that i find attractive in a man

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS SERVAL?

now you have

post overflow incoming

when using upper camel case, how should "player ID" ideally appear without considering pre-existing project or team naming conventions?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWvGjD7GpKs

so this was in my recommendations tonight and it’s a pretty interesting watch

I might have posted about this before but World of Warcraft has two kinds of progression mechanics and I think one is fun and a good idea and the other can absolutely fuck off, because it ruins social play for me

(just a note that this is about older WoW content - I can’t afford a WoW subscription and I also don’t want Blizzard to have my money, so I play on a Mists of Pandaria private server. I really hope that they’ve fixed these problems in later updates but I honestly kinda doubt that they have)

first of all, the progression that I like: as you level up, you gradually unlock abilities for your class. the gradual flow of abilities gives you a chance to learn how to use each one without overwhelming you with too much complexity at once (WoW classes get complicated and IMO a lot of the fun of playing the game is finding ways to master that complexity)

but then there’s the numerical progression. there’s the fact that at any given time in the game, there is only a thin, horizontal slice of content that you’re “appropriately leveled” for. any content that you’re “overleveled” for will be so easy that it’s completely unfun to play, and any content that you’re “underleveled” for might be a fun challenge, except for the fact that the game will not allow you to play it. it’s artificially gated off until you level up more. these restrictions are completely arbitrary and actually fly in the face of the game’s story and lore

what if I want to go back to old content because I liked the feel of a certain zone? too bad - zones are disposable in this game. you use them up and move on forever

what if I don’t like my current zone and want to find another one? well there aren’t many alternatives, if there are any at all, and whichever alternatives exist are going to be a pain to travel to (which is a whole other rant)

but the real problem comes when you’re trying to play with friends. if one of you is a higher level than the other, that will trivialize content for both of you. but you can’t do higher-level content together because it’s artificially gated off from the lower-level friend

and this “thin slice of content” problem creates another problem: if you want to play WoW with a friend, you have to level up in lockstep. neither of you can level past the other, or you won’t be able to play the same content together. I’ve solved this problem in the past by creating dedicated characters, whose only purpose is to play with that specific friend, but this still creates two problems:

• my friend can’t play without me, or our levels will get out of sync
• I can’t play on that character without my friend, or our levels will get out of sync

my WoW account currently has about 14 characters, and most of them aren’t higher than around level 15. I can’t remember which characters are for which friend, so I don’t know which I can delete and which I can’t. it’s a mess, and at this point I just don’t introduce others to the game at all. I play WoW alone when the mood strikes me, but I don’t even try to play it socially, which seems like kind of a design flaw in a genre whose main selling point is the social aspect of play

in the past people have said “see? you do like RPGs, because you like WoW” but I would say that I like WoW in spite of its RPG {number-chasing treadmill} mechanics, and I would like it a whole lot more if it didn’t have them

they need to make a game with cute anime girls that isn’t a JRPG or a visual novel. like imagine anime girls but it’s a third type of game that’s impossible for Japanese publishers to conceptualize

the bar for being a movie that I like is so far on the floor lol it literally just has to:

• not hurt me
• have one of:
  • a character I relate to (almost unheard of)
  • an aesthetic I like
  • writing/worldbuilding that I like

most of the movies that I like are considered bad movies and I think that’s because if a movie were considered “good” by the average person then it would hurt me, because “good” generally means that it evokes very strong emotions

when Discord makes the “Shop” button obnoxiously flashy to make me click it, it still brings me joy to click it and then quickly click away before any of their shitty bloated React bullshit can load. it’s my tiny “fuck you” to everything they are as a company, and everything about Discord as a piece of software

me seeing a traffic cone IRL: oohh I didn’t know there was VLC merch