Aura V. @auravulpes@computerfairi.es

Incidentally, in case you're curious, the black covers history up until the first cellular lifeforms. The red is after the first cellular life forms. The blue is after the dinosaurs. The incredibly small green bit in the bottom right (which you'd really need to zoom in to see) is all of the existence of homo sapiens. So, geo fact of the day for ya: earth is *ooooolllllddddd*.

So, for a discussion on visualizing earths history in my geo class, I mocked up my idea of using a 4K television. Does, uh, this look familiar to anyone else?

(Spoiler alert: I accidentally created an upside down—and a bit distorted—polya pride flag.)

"Explaining kills the joke" applies when you're telling the joke, not when someone asks you to explain it. If you have to explain it while telling it, maybe rethink the joke and whether the audience is a good one for it. If someone asks you to explain afterwards, that's when you *should* explain the joke.

If your response to users getting fucked over by horrible software design is "Oh, it's the user's fault," you deserve to have the ability to design and build software taken away from you forever. It is your job as a software developer to ensure you aren't bring harm upon your users, and if you think they should have to protect themselves from *your* shitty software design, you should never be allowed to build software in the first place.

Alternatively, if you want to play with the spelling a bit:
Solvent
Of
Hydrophobic
Particles

Solvent
Of
Adversarial
Particles

illegal butt erections

Oh, goodie goodie. I'm *required* to use LockDown Browser to take quizzes for my chem class. Now, this would be bad enough on its own (it's a horribly invasive and perfectly useless piece of software), but I can't even install the damn thing! No matter how many times I try redownloading, I always get the same error. And this is before the issues I've heard others have had with getting it to work under Wine. If anyone has suggestions, let me know before midnight, would ya?

People: *panic buy all the toilet paper*
Other people: "Well now how are we gonna clean up after shitting?!"
Bidet makers: "Are we a joke to you?"

My one pet peeve with emoji is that there's no good replacement for :P. Like, I use :P as a, like, ugh emoticon, but there's no "ugh" tongue sticky outy emoji. All the tongue sticky outy emoji are, like, cheeky tongue sticky outy, not ugh tongue sticky outy.

Compounding my frustration is the fact that discord on the desktop autocorrects :P to 😛 (or used to, anyways).

Also compounding my frustration is that apparently some emoji sets do have a proper :P.

:P

I forgot to take my Effexor for 2 days in a row. I really wish the dose I took this morning would hurry up and stop the withdrawal symptoms I'm now experiencing. Everything is unpleasant right now. 😵

So, yeah. Look forward to all that if I ever get around to finishing my website. Maybe that's something I should work on while stuck at home...

Finally, La Loba Luchanda, a lupine luchadora I designed as a kinda rival for The Vulpine Nightmare. Her description's ending?

"You'll need to be tough and strong if you hope to avoid getting mauled by la loba."

There's also The Emerald Blaze, my headmate Jade's character. Here's the end of her description:

"If you can wear her down, she may stay down, but you'll need to be quick to do so and be tough enough to withstand the blaze."

So, The Vulpine Nightmare is my main character, and I apparently really had fun writing her little description. Here's how that ends:

"Overall, if you've got the speed to beat her to the punch, she might be an easy opponent, but that's a big if, and if you don't, you'll see why they call her the **nightmare**."

So, you may remember me talking about my little tabletop game Headlock a couple times before. Perhaps you've even looked at the current rules. Well, a while back, I started writing a v2 for a website I hope to eventually finish putting together. I just went and read through those and, well, let's just say I went and had some fun describing my characters. What will follow are the absolute highlights* of those (three) descriptions.

*The ends, basically.

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