Aura V. @auravulpes@computerfairi.es

So apparently deviantArt is automatically marking stuff mature for "brand-safe marketing" and, uh, this old self portrait got marked mature. I guess this means I'm not "brand-safe". Thank fuck.

(Img CW: eye contact. Otherwise, I wouldn't have marked it sensitive.)

Here's a fun graph for you: number of christmas albums released per year since 1940. Starts off fairly low, then, starting in the early nineties, the numbers begin to skyrocket, peaking at 70(!!) in 2008, with the numbers declining heavily since then. I wonder what's up with that? I mean, Mariah Carey didn't help, but she alone can't be responsible for that peak a decade and a half later, can she? The world may never know...

I saw talk the other day about how useless Google is getting, but I don't think it's just Google. I think search engines in general are getting worse. I wanted info on the stalk market in the original Animal Crossing. DuckDuckGo gives me New Horizons info. I try excluding "New Horizons" and yeah. No matter how I try to tweak it, it continues to give me ACNH info, literally in the top few results.

Is this not how you exclude results anymore or have these things really gotten this bad?

Okay, well, it turns out, the code was actually pretty trivial. So, here you go, a list of alternatives to the fire/grass/water starter trio!

(I didn't do the greatest job in coding to avoid duplicates, but I'll remove any that popped up from the alt-text)

So, in case you were ever curious what it would look like, here's what it would look like if you took the matrix of what types are supereffective against what other types and interpreted it as an adjacency matrix. Honestly, this is kinda cool, if not the most useful thing out there.

He's a very good listener.

In fun news, I now have both an OS/2 and OS X VM! Neither of these are important, and I have no real plans for either, but it is still pretty cool to have. Maybe one of these days, I'll also figure out getting a modern macOS VM up and running, but that's eluded me thus far and I don't feel like continuing to fight with it right now, so, eh 🤷‍♀️​

I'm sorry, WHAT?!

Dear software developers:

If you ever do this bullshit, I will hunt you down and gouge your eyes and cut your hands off so you can't ever fucking develop software again.

Lots of hate,

A pissed off linux user

I'm glad this game is pioneering the new realm of riveting wind dialogue. I look forward to seeing this thrilling writing in other games

Oh gods, she really has discovered that she has a degradation kink, hasn't she?

And Haypasia's fallen for him. Oh gods.

Great, we get to play therapist for Mr. Mommy Issues. Wonderful.

Deer!!!

It's that time again! This is your regular reminder to donate blood if you're able!

"Ooh, what kinda stew ya making'?"
"Uhhhhh..."

Sometimes I take stupid online quizzes and, uh...You gotta tell me, doc! Is there a cure?! Is it terminal?!

We did it, folks! She finally admits it!

Damn, what a shame. My metamask wallet has been suspended. Whatever will I do /s

Not gonna lie, wiggly "You'll never be bored again" really makes this banner insisting I sign up more ominous than anything. Is this a threat?