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The Star Trek teleporter problem, except you're in a universe where reincarnation is a thing so the universe just goes "uh did I just segfault?" and throws your soul to the new body

Interesting. Mastodon let's you edit posts- but if an instance doesn't have that feature from fork or old update, the original just displays instead

body bitching 

gallbladders get fucked gallbladder surgery get fucked

I am fine. the surgery was many years ago but the side effects remain really annoying and I would have liked for family to mention we had a history of gallbladder problems before I started having symptoms thank you >.<

silly memery 

"We fire the whole penis. That's 90% more penis per penis!"

Re doing RimWorld mods and reminded once again that "vanilla" is this mod community's version of "immersive"

never let it be said that corporations are the only ones who make buzzwords :P

work 

Called out sick again for my in office day. waiting til work notices I've been doing that a lot and I have to explainargue that "I am well enough to work, not well enough to wear an N95 all day" is a thing because that's where I'm at today

ridiclous RPG character concepts 

fae that has had entirely enough of this "court" nonsense and thinks the realm needs some good old fashioned anarchy

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ridiclous RPG character concepts 

Fantasy character that travels the world collecting puns / bad jokes / stereotypes about their class / race

..SO THEY CAN COLLECT THEM ALL AND HIDE THEM WHERE NO ONE WILL FIND THEM

no one has explained language to them. yet

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medical/sex comedy 

Blood pressure dropped 20 points to normal range after getting off.

Apparently my most effective blood pressure medication is the Hitachi Magic Wand

The dog fell asleep watching me poop and now it feels weird(er) because when I get up I'm going to startle him

also he's doing the most adorable little paw twitches

ridiclous RPG character concepts 

Mage The Ascension character that just really wanted to not have to shave anymore and is going to alter reality til that happens damnit

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ridiclous RPG character concepts 

Shadowrunner that names all their grenades "return to sender"

D&D mage that learned magic because cooking with wood is TOO SLOW DAMNIT

GURPS character that's afraid of math

Parinoia character that is an open communist. Friend Computer is so confused by their enthusiasm it has filed them under "perpetually sarcastic". Gets killed for wasting Complex resources building a printer to make pamphlets to mail to the Computer.

modded kerbal meepery 

Lessons from KSP today : putting all your solar panels on one side, bad idea.

then again that Mun probe was cursed anyway. Got control back, finished the primary mission, lit the engines for the second mission...

... catastrophic failure the entire probe just EXPLODES. not even sure what went but it took out *everything*

Huh. There's still a company making QWERTY android phones. They also make rugged phones with a lot of..very odd features like a built in walkie-talkie and teeeny tiny phones. I want a smaller phone than anything most companies sell but this one overshoots back to Palm Pre sized, haha.

So apparently Epic bought bandcamp just so they could wave it around in their lawsuits against other stores?

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/0

People make fun of LCARS from Star Trek TNG but it's just about as impenetrable as modern smartphones at this point..

Stupid physics thought of the evening

If a spacecraft aimed an IR laser at another at the *exact* frequency of it's normal thermal radiation... would the laser be noticable because it's coherent or invisible in the background?

Hmm. Games that are marked as "Unsupported" on the Steam Deck do sometimes still work! Apparently for Valve unsupported means "you have to fiddle with this at all".

A bit more strenuous than I was expecting.

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