we don't need text formatting because we have unicode babey
unicode font hackery is
✅ compatible with pretty much everything except on some devices where it just displays as white squares but thats good enough
✅ completely unintuitive so you can prove that you're cooler than other people by knowing how to make the 𝔀𝓪𝓬𝓴𝔂 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓵𝔂 𝓵𝓮𝓽𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓼
✅ not actually formatting at all
✅ check it out you can do 𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐝 and 𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑐 and even 𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒉 all using different character sets meaning that some devices support some and not others
✅ hey people with screen readers? get fucked
but tbh i feel like the college experience in sciences is that in middle school and high school, it's all figured out
then you get to college and actually?
actually????
nobody knows anything! grad students are weeping! half this shit's on fire! oh god! oh fuck! oh god!!
you just crack through that crust of torched sugar on the creme brulee of knowledge to realize it's all liquidy nonsense that gordon ramsay is about to get very upset about because it never set properly
whew lord i'm getting weepy about my favourite memorial statue that means i should go to bed
...said statue incidentally is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_to_the_laboratory_mouse
i'm not going to say the people who made it are entirely angelic and kosher, but as a biologist who understands how unfortunately necessary medical animal testing is, i think it's still good and right to recognize the sacrifices made to get that knowledge and to remember them with solemn appreciation
@fishboi@todon.nl @eightbitsamurai@elekk.xyz this is a good point but honestly as a confirmed dumbass
if games do this, we gotta also demand a "write on map"/"set map note waypoint" function
otherwise it honestly verges into unplayable for me, trying to hold absolutely *everything* in my head with no clear function for putting the information somewhere in the game for me to remember later
sir. excuse me, sir. this is not your final fantasy game, sir. i'm going to have to ask you to leave. no i don't care that you made a left turn at albuquerque sir #ffxiv
....i refreshed twitter and before my adblock ate it i saw a promoted ad tweet from right guard deodorant using the hashtag #guardyourfandom and i think that's a good time to go to bed lol
if i make a macro in #ffxiv for limit break that's my viera yelling "eulalia" like it's fucking redwall, how quick y'all think it'd be before i got kicked out of a party for it
well, on the plus side, that's the last of my ties to one server, so when free transfers come, i'll probably end up settling in with friends wherever they end up (likely balmung-adjacent) and just... not rp/be part of the bigger rp community for awhile and have that be fine.
also came up with a lovely, biology-and-watership-down ref name for future viera alt who is starting life as an elezen: Davalia Thousandfoe.
30 y/o - token cishet - tumblr refugee. spoonie/15 chronic conditions in a trenchcoat/actual cyborg. just hangin' in there