Parabola of Mystery

Adjusted value of Bees. Now that was a special one… because every item in the game had a minimum value, and a beehive was a container for bees, which each had a minimum value… which meant the moment one of your dwarves picked up a beehive, your entire fortress’ net worth skyrocketed… a value used in determining how powerful the foes that visit and try to murder you are.

Reblogging for the explanation of what “adjusted value of bees” actually means, because I know several folks following this blog have been wondering.

Okay but you’ve all forgotten the best Dwarf Fortress bug of all “Flying creatures give birth in midair, leading to tragedy” 

Actually I lied it’s the one where after a major update werewolves and vampires started climbing the nearest tree and refusing to come down. It turned out that he’d given evil creatures the ability to sense each other, but forgotten to set a maximum range on it, so werewolves were aware Hell was underground and trying to flee by climbing 

I've said this before but it bears repeating. You need to stop drowning yourself in irony and fake selves. Say something true and beautiful today or else.

You need to be earnest. You need to stop hiding yourself into falsehoods, before you can no longer separate them from you. There is no difference between pretending to do something as a bit and doing it earnestly, given time. You need to be earnest.

You cannot assemble a self out of bits and jokes and trolling. Speak with your heart open and bleeding, rather than see it covered in layers of poison

im in the pussy like turmeric in tupperware

It's cool how old alcohol is. A meth addict is a novel and rootless thing but the humble alkie is in a noble tradition millenia long counting great statesmen, artists, scientists, etc among their rank. And by chance! Can you imagine if yeast made a stimulant? We'd be on the moon!

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Harry du Bois would say this.

Sometimes I overheat and die for a little bit but then I get better

fellatio sounds like a supporting shakespeare character rather than oral sex on a penis to be honest

Remember that xkcd about how Google searches are shit now? What if we made them even worse for no reason?

I will vote for any candidate who promises to go scorched fucking earth on every tech company. Break every single one of them up into companies based around a single product and then split those in thirds. Weaponize existing antitrust laws to the hilt and pass the most draconian versions of them ever seen on this planet. Nationalize google search specifically. Pass consumer privacy protections strict enough to kill the data harvesting industry for good. Make all of these fuckers go bankrupt for this rent-seeking shit

i still think abt "your cells are doing all that in the dark" because genuinely its insane to think about. one in a squilliam error rate for dna duplication and they cant even see it in there...

if i couldn't have any of the obvious first choice superpowers i would want my power to be the power of i can go anywhere and its not a problem. the way this power would work is that as long as im peaceful and respectful i can go anywhere and nobody will see it as weird or see me as a target for hostility. i can walk into a cool house to politely peep the decor or walk into a tall office building to politely peep the decor or walk around a city at night alone to politely peep the decor or walk into a strange facility to politely peep the decor or walk onto a plane and ride the plane to its destination and then walk around there to politely peep the decor and its fine as long as im chill. no need to make me faster or anything i can just walk at a normal pace. its good for the soul.

Transportation

Going places with Mama

i hope this email never finds you. i hope you are with the oul