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Bucephalus @beaujackal.bsky.social · 1h

Bucephalus @beaujackal.bsky.social · 7h

Reminds me too much of being at work.
"Do the thing!"
"What... is the thing, exactly? How does it work?"
"Dunno but stuff happens when you do the thing so do the thing!"

Bucephalus @beaujackal.bsky.social · 7h

Okay but like, if they pinky-swear not to do it again then they can't do it again. It's in The Rules. To do it they'd have to lie and also break the rules. That is a behavior that you would simply not see from this famously honest and rules-respecting administration.

Bucephalus @beaujackal.bsky.social · 10h

Sometimes I doubt, “do I REALLY have ADHD tho?” and then I think about submitting my timesheet and how every time it’s like “Okay if you fill out this form we will literally give you a thousand dollars.” And I’m like 🤔🤔🤔 ehhhh I’ll get to it later.

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Bucephalus @beaujackal.bsky.social · 10h

Contrast is important! A lot of people get hazy and forgetful in deep trance, so making them sharp and fully aware when you demonstrate how well their programming is working can really drive that home.

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Bucephalus @beaujackal.bsky.social · 10h

And to be clear these are cases where nothing had changed operationally. There absolutely are minor alarms which, when sufficiently ignored, choose to suddenly become emergencies. “Oh shit the water ran out!” Yeah if only a Low Water Alarm had told you about this two days ago.

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Bucephalus @beaujackal.bsky.social · 10h

With my clients it’s always with how they flag “emergency” service requests. I look at the event logs and see that the alarm they’re upset about happened 11 days ago. Why was it not even worth reporting for 11 days and NOW it’s an emergency?

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Bucephalus @beaujackal.bsky.social · 10h

Cohesive game design? Satisfying traversal mechanics? Rewarding gameplay loop?? Overwhelmingly positive Steamscore where every compliment is followed by question marks. Meanwhile the game’s actual fanbase straight up rioted when a graphical tweak accidentally reduced the maximum assfat value by 4%.

Bucephalus @beaujackal.bsky.social · 10h

Deeply funny to me how much free press Atlyss is getting just from professional haters going like “hehehoohoo I’m gonna make a video dunking on stupid furry gooner game” and then the video is 10% that “joke” and 90% them being like “I’m? Having fun?? Game… GOOD???”

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Bucephalus @beaujackal.bsky.social · 11h

Insane to me how slow banks have been to catch on to this. Are they so bamboozled by the buzzwords that they look at a four year plan that needs more fluid VC than exists in the entire country to build infrastructure that has done nothing but lose money for years and say “well it’s the future tho”?

Bucephalus @beaujackal.bsky.social · 11h

Oh EXTREMELY yes. There’s a huge demographic of people who treat politics like it’s this series of abstract philosophical trolley problems that they can debate about for internet points. Those people get real mad when you point out that real people are fucking dying over this stuff.

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Bucephalus @beaujackal.bsky.social · 21h

I'm always here with the deep cuts that like 7 people on earth will understand~

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Bucephalus @beaujackal.bsky.social · 21h

New cryptid spotted

Bucephalus @beaujackal.bsky.social · 1d

It’s infuriating, yeah. I’m going to see if there’s an automation I can set up that sends some people a Teams message to tell them to check their email every time I email them, because they just ignore it otherwise.

Bucephalus @beaujackal.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, well then yeah they may have chosen stupid.

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Bucephalus @beaujackal.bsky.social · 1d

This is what the Companion Cube looks like now. Feel old yet?

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Bucephalus @beaujackal.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t tend to blame the stupid. Not directly anyway. They are a product of the decades of decay, neglect and crippling underfunding of our school systems. They may well have flourished, were they provided the conditions to do so when they were young.

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Bucephalus @beaujackal.bsky.social · 1d

Unless the childish thing you love is dating teenagers. There’s absolutely an age at which you need to give that up.

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Bucephalus @beaujackal.bsky.social · 1d

So real. You never HAVE to put away childish things. If you realize that your tastes changed and you now find joy in more ‘mature’ pursuits then by all means follow that growth. But don’t give up something you love because you’re not “supposed” to love that at your age.

Ido @idohavjuan.bsky.social · 2d

it was all a lie, I didn't stop enjoying videogames, sniffing flowers on a nice stroll, or constantly filling my life with whimsy and joy

becoming a miserable old fuck that's only concerned with profit maxxing and an inability to relate to anyone younger than you is in fact a serious skill issue

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 6d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Bucephalus @beaujackal.bsky.social · 1d

They did such a good job with that one. Seeing Sisko make that excruciating decision to water down his story to get it published because weak representation is better than none, and then the story gets killed anyway. It felt like heightened reality even though that’s a cuttingly realistic scenario.

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Bucephalus @beaujackal.bsky.social · 1d

“Yeah, we’re always looking for more tops to play with!”
*we are both ace and love Beyblades*

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snow @snow117.bsky.social · 2d

I've been working on an essay about The Struggles of TTRPG Outreach and Fandom but I think this tumblr post just captured the whole sentiment im like 100 words.

Fact: Apart from pure recognition factor, one of the major reasons your fanart gets more eyes on it than your OCd is because people are perverts for narrative context, and your OCs don't have any.

Corollary: you don't actually need to write a whole-ass graphic novel to achieve that narrative context. You do need to know what your OC's story is, but once you do, you can literally just draw contextless snapshots from that story that raise more questions than they answer and people will fill in the blanks.

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Bucephalus @beaujackal.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah once we hit Real Winter I’m putting like 4 gallons a day in the humidifier 💦💦

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Bucephalus @beaujackal.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve seen two other people report that search isn’t working for them. I couldn’t get any results for ‘cat’ just now so it seems cooked.

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Bucephalus @beaujackal.bsky.social · 2d

He does explicitly say in the article that that’s not an accurate comparison, but the difference is just that all the costs are a million times larger. So it’s not structurally different. It’s the same script as dot-com, or crypto, or NFT’s, but incalculably bigger.