itssupercolm:

in the tags, post where you’re from and list the first animal that comes to your head for each of these:

1. animal associated with sleep

2. animal associated with singing

3. animal associated with jumping/bouncing/hopping

4. an animal that is cowardly

5. a wise animal

6. a cunning/sneaky animal

see my tags for examples of what i mean. i want to see what other people connote animals with.

hoofpeet:

poll for Americans specifically; (sorry) when you need to boil water for tea or whatever what do you do

Use a kettle to boil it on the stove

Microwave a cup of water

Other/not American

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stagrunner:

theivorytowercrumbles:

I’ve seen a few people talk about it, so I wanted to say - if your character uses they/them in Baldur’s Gate 3 and an NPC uses a gendered term for you, please submit a bug report! That is a flag that is being misapplied, and it can be fixed. There are thousands of pronoun cases in every playthrough, and a few are bound to be incorrect, so let Larian know.

But also be polite to QA in your form. They’re busting their ass 24/7 to provide fixes.

I don’t know what data BG3 sends/Larian QA receives with a bug report, but if you’re wondering how you can word things to help in a bug report in general (this goes for this bug & any others you may encounter), solid info you can add includes:

- Your character’s race, pronouns & class

- Location in which the bug occurred

- The NPC you were speaking to & the dialogue option selected (if you remember!)

- What quest you were on/progressing, if relevant

- Steps to Recreate/Step-by-Step of what happened, if possible (ie “NB Tiefling Paladin on Quest QUESTNAMEHERE -> talked to QUESTNPC -> Chose [PALADIN] PALADINDIALOG -> Received binary gendered response”)

The more detail you can provide, the easier it is for QA to narrow down where the bug, incorrect flag, etc is. Always be kind in your reports! Probably goes without saying, but QA is hard and stuff falls thru the cracks.

inneskeeper:

heckthatbork:

inneskeeper:

it really isnt fair to Endless Ocean Blue World to never grace the light of day again. Endless Ocean could do so much on these consoles. I miss them. Where else would I have a video game about being a diver where the plot included dracula vampires, sort-of-atlantis, forgotten amazonian submerged jungle ruins, aliens, and dragons

someone else knows this game?! I was just thinking yesterday how much I missed this game. Though. I must confess I don’t recall the vampires or aliens.

You salvage up UFO parts and the Valka Castle portion is extremely heavily implied to be Vlad Dracula’s castle and the spooky black manta ray you find in the throne room after you escape the megalodon god of death is named Phantom

jadedresearcher:

theothin:

libraford:

libraford:

libraford:

libraford:

When I’m in charge of the planet, it will be illegal to make a job posting unless you are actively searching for a candidate.

Lean staffing will also be illegal. If you need three people to do a job, you’re hiring four.

You are also either earning an amount or you are not earning that amount. ‘Earn up to 21.50/hr’ no. Either you’re paying 21.50 or you are not paying 21.50. Tell the truth or jail for employer for 1000 years.

If someone asks for 2 years experience for an entry level job paying just above minimum wage, you should be legally permitted to launch them into the fucking sun.

I managed to fight through that “up to” bullshit once. got an interview set up through a recruiter, recruiter calls me back a few days later to say the company wanted to bring me on. recruiter tells me the hourly rate and I’m like wait, that’s $2 less than the posting said

recruiter says that rate wasn’t a guarantee, just that they could pay up to that much for a perfect candidate, and asks if I’ll accept the offer. I say look, can I have some more time to think about it, I’ve got another interview in two days and they’re offering more than this

recruiter says the company really wants an answer sooner than that and goes look, if we go back to the company and negotiate for the higher rate, will you accept the offer today? I say sure

I didn’t even want the other job, it was too far and there was no guarantee that I’d get it. if the company had insisted on the lower offer, I would have gone for it. but apparently I’d picked the right thing to say. I get another call from the recruiter later that day, saying they’d gotten an agreement for the higher rate, and I accept it

first week on the job, I’m having lunch with some coworkers, and we start talking about our pay. a guy who started the same day as me mentions that he’d gotten the lower rate, and asks how I’d managed to get $2/hr higher, so I tell him. he was NOT happy about that

What’s worked for me is having The Spreadsheet.

(This tactic works if you can pull off nerd vibes).

Basically, what I do is plug in a bunch of semi-bullshit numbers to a spreadsheet, doesn’t matter if they’re perfect, just, for each job you interview, spitball:

• how much would it cost to do this job (literal cost to commute, lunch options, do they make you dress a certain way (that costs money),
• what is the salary (make sure to divide it by the number of hours you’d spend ACTUALLY devoted to this job. if its a 9-5 five days a week gig with a two hour total commute, then thats a 50 hour work week)
• what is the dollar amount you’re willing to value the benefits at (amount of vacation/sick leave, how good is the insurance, etc)
• What is the dollar amount you’re willing to value the bullshit you think the job would be to perform? (is it filled with exciting people you want to be friends with who have good work life balance? you can set this number negative, otherwise just try to spitball how much you’d hate it) (this number is the EASIEST to tweak if the job leaves you with weird vibes and your gut response it different than what the other numbers say)

THEN, when they give you an offer, you just frown, tell them you’ll have to run it through “THE SPREADSHEET” and get back to them.

They’ll try to push you for an answer on the spot, but you just shrug helplessly and say you’ve gotta run the math first and get back to them.

The Spreadsheet itself is just a vague way to put a number value on how much you actually like the job, but the real power is that people just, accept The Spreadsheet is why you’re saying to wait and don’t know how to pressure you into giving an answer now.

Then, if you don’t like the offer, (you can tweak your spreadsheet until it matches your gut, since it’s all semi bullshit anyways), you just go back to them and say, “Sorry man, but I ran the numbers and I just don’t think your offer offsets the cost I would incur to accept the job”.

And then if they want a counter offer, you just say whatever the Spreadsheet gave you. Either they accept it, or, you kinda just mathematically proved their bullshit wouldn’t have been worth it.

The Spreadsheet works for me cuz I’m not the most combative person, and fairly easy going, but even *I* fall for “The Spreadsheet” as being a valid reason to not immediately give in.

headspace-hotel:

martinkhall:

headspace-hotel:

headspace-hotel:

i hate how you get desensitized to the cool stuff in your WIP if you’ve been writing it for a long time so when you read back over it you’re like “this isn’t as cool as i thought :(” but it still is! you just read it too many times

Gotta recirculate this post periodically just cuz

Just don’t read the post too many times.

Oh god oh fuck

cosleia:

perfectly-princely-emo-nightmare:

With NASA announcing their streaming service NASA+ and also announcing it’s going to be free and also ad free, I’d just like to appreciate the lengths they go to make scientific knowledge and exploration as available as they possibly can.

There’s more info at this link. Gosh I’m excited about this.

NASA Launches Beta Site; On-Demand Streaming, App Update Coming Soon

NASA is elevating its digital platforms for the benefit of all by revamping its flagship and science websites, adding its first on-demand st

NASA

ds9vgrconfessions:

freedom-of-fanfic:

strangleetomz:

“KOSA wont pass, it got rejected the last two times!”

It wasn’t passed because people spoke out against it. People called and emailed their senators. So, CALL / EMAIL YOUR SENATORS. MAKE IT KNOWN THAT WE DO NOT WANT THIS BILL TO PASS!

“But its unconstitutional-“ There’ve been multiple bills passed before that are unconstitutional. This will not be any different to them, they do not care.

STOP KOSA!!!

Stop KOSA

KOSA is a censorship bill that won’t make kids safe. Instead, it'll put all internet users at risk, especially youth. If you believe in a fr

Fight for the Future

KOSA made it out of committee, so now is the time to contact your senator and tell them to vote no on KOSA.

& if your rep is Dem: Remind them, please, that LGBTQ+ content - heck, SEX ED content - is considered obscene by the GOP membership, & maybe consider that keeping kids & teens from accessing either of these things is one reason your GOP colleagues are so eager to collaborate on this bill??

if your rep is GOP: Remind them that realistically, sites that host ‘adult’ content will likely have to collect & keep records of legal IDs, & data breaches happen *on the regular*? Do they know anybody who’s had their identity stolen? How excited are they for the day their *own* browsing habits are exposed by a data breach?

Remind them all that they might trust their opposite-party colleagues, but they *don’t* trust the opposite party any further than they could throw them, and think about every possible bad-faith interpretation of the bill before voting ‘yes’, for fuck’s sake??

I’m tired & deeply worried. The internet has been a relatively safe space for queer ppl the world over. If KOSA passes, it’s a big step towards waving goodbye to that world.

This is anti-LGBTQ legislation wrapped up in censorship wrapped up in “protect the kids” lies. And a bunch of Dems are falling for it, co-sponsoring and voting for it. We have to speak up loudly please.

vaspider:

jollysunflora:

basshole-astard:

PSA: i keep seeing posts about staying cool in extreme heat that include advice like “gatorade is bad actually!” and “don’t drink fruit juice it’ll just dehydrate you!” and neither of these are true!

regarding fruit juice: there’s apparently a misconception that Any Sugar At All will dehydrate you, and that’s simply not true. yes, sugar will make you pee more when consumed in large amounts, but 1) the natural sugar in fruits won’t do this to you 2) great news! a lot of fruit juices exist without any added sugar in them! 3) honestly even having a glass of the fruit juice with added sugar won’t completely dehydrate you as long as you’re also drinking water throughout the day. if its hot you deserve a cold treat of a drink!!! can’t go wrong with fruit juice!!!

regarding gatorade: maybe this isn’t an every day drink, but guess what: if it’s 110F/40C or hotter outside, and you don’t have AC, or you’re moving around a lot outside of the AC, and you’re sweating buckets: that’s when you drink a gatorade.

gatorade exists to replenish all the electrolytes (salt) and glucose (sugar) that you sweat out. YES it is meant for athletes to drink during intensive work outs and not necessarily for people who aren’t doing that kind of exercise. BUT GUESS WHAT! when you’re sweating buckets because you had to walk to the bus in extreme heat, that’s intensive exercise. please feel free to drink a gatorade after that! that’s its intended use case!!!!

no: neither of these drinks should be a total replacement for water. but drinking a lot of water and then treating yourself to a fruit juice with lunch is a good idea!!! drinking a gatorade becuase you just had to walk for 20 minutes in the heat is a good idea!!!

Please Stop Spreading Misinformation About Drinks!!! It’s fine if you drink things that aren’t water!!!! Yes you should probably always be drinking water but drinking something else As Well isn’t going to hurt you!!!! okay!!!! its fine!!!!!!

honestly so long as you are consistently getting Any (non-alcoholic) fluids in you, you’re doing great!!!!!! okay!!!! i love you stay safe <3

#most drinks are mostly water!#it’s fine!#don’t try to hydrate with alcohol because alcohol is not mostly water!#otherwise: please drink lots of fluids#water is ideal but whatever gets the hydration in you#literally take a sip babes

Gatorade, to me, tastes like trash unless I need it, in which case it tastes so delicious. might just be me, but like… if the Gatorade tastes like the most delectable thing you’ve ever had?

Have another one, and also some water.