Aura V. @auravulpes@computerfairi.es

When the characters in a game all have sexy outfits and the game dev thinks to add flavour text to the loading screen that reads "How old are the girls? You are asking too many questions," that's, uh, very not good. Especially when one of the characters' default is "schoolgirl". Like, what can I say but yikes.

Today I learned why vanilla extract (or, at least, walmart's vanilla extract) tastes so god damned awful: It's 41% alcohol! There's as much alcohol in the bottle I bought as there was in the small bottle of whiskey I got for christmas! And, ofc, I don't know about you, but I *hate* the taste of alcohol. That whiskey? Disgusting. So, yeah. There you go.

ngl, I just saw the spanish description of the Cherry 7-up I've got in my fridge and, for a short second, went "Wait. *Beer* flavour?!"

(If you're unaware: cherry is cereza, beer is cer*v*eza)

I'm awful

No, my dear Jeremiah, I've been transitioning!

Yes, after a long while, I've spent time hacking my 3DS to change my mayor's name and gender! I may not be able to join y'all in the newest Animal Crossing, but at least I can now comfortably play acnl!

So, I figured I'd play some Banished. I just finished playing - my entire town died. You know why? Everyone fucking *froze to death* because *my gods damned woodcutter wouldn't do his fucking job*. Thanks, Firmann, you fucking piece of shit. Everyone died and it's all your fault.

Related: "We crucified him the second time."

"Listen, don't worry about the logistics of a third coming of Jesus."

Especially given that I was naked at the time, and only put on some underpants to put him outside

*shitless, not shirtless, though I'm leaving that as I find it amusing

I just found a smol snek in my bathroom! Ngl, I was incredibly scared. You'd think 14 years of living in rural Texas would have prepared me for this, but nope. I was still scared shirtless every time it moved. I did manage to catch it and put it outside, though. Snek friend has been released into the world.

Honestly, I don't know what kind of snake it was. If I knew it wasn't poisonous, I probably would have just picked the smol boi up and pit him outside. But, copperheads exist 😬

ofc, there's always more to learn. For instance, you might have TSVC (thunderstorms in the vicinity) or +RA (heavy rain) or FZFG (freezing fog). If you're interested and want to know more, I'd encourage checking the Wikipedia article, as it goes into various other bits you can have in METAR strings, including WX codes like the ones I just gave and various bits that might come after RMK in the US.

Similarly, visibility will just be given as a number in meters, rather than as some number of statute miles. So, for our example, 10SM might be replaced with 9999 to indicate 10+ km visibility

And a small addendum: Most countries, instead of AXXXX, have QXXXX, where the pressure is given in hPa instead of inHg. So, in the string I used, A2990 could be replaced with Q1012 and would be outside of the US.

Oh. Correction: It seems that the NOAA aviation weather site *does* have METAR data for other countries. So, yeah. Why not give it a shot?