The Blog of a Female Gamer from New Jersey

all i want for 2026 is that gigantic rancid AI bubble to finally burst in such a catastrophic way that the consequences will be so good and i'll never have to see another AI generated image ever again

Like to charge, reblog to cast.

i just want to sit in front of the ocean for a little while

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Thinking about the Ferengi economy and how they would presumably have the most advanced financial machinery in the quadrant but all of their money is based on actual physical specie. They don't have credit cards; they don't have paper money; they don't even have promissory notes, as far as I recall. They only deal in cold, hard gold-pressed latinum that must be really heavy and really expensive to cart around the galaxy.

That's how their economy survives and keeps values stable in the face of post-scarcity options and possibilities, where physical labor and physical value derive hard direct value from. By requring physical labor and physical transfers, this keeps the prices equal to value of effort to posess, conceal, and labor to keep control of. Additionally, by removing the concept of non-tangible credit they require physical relationships and communal wealth strategies. Their religion is capitalism and economic market expansion, to keep that dream alive they must have extremely reliable economic values. They do not appear to hold the concept of "imaginary" value, such as shareholder value, and by not letting imaginary value derive absolute value they can focus on physical rules of acquisition that has reasonable expectations of value, where economic value is only grown through dealmaking and tangible logistical economic dominion.

Happy winter solstice! The light begins to return tomorrow!!

Happy summer solstice! The dark begins to return tomorrow!!

idk if this is an usamerican thing or not but it always blows my mind as a small european country resident that yall have many names and types of apples???? what do you mean its not just red yellow or green??? why is it so complicated??? who is granny smith????

'whats your favorite apple' 'red' 'no i mean like what type' '??????' actual conversatiom i've had with a mutual from usa

the world is so big and beautiful

irritating as fuck when people get mad at Black people existing in premodern historical fiction/fantasy media. like first of all, you're racist. and second of all, you are acting as though Black people didn't exist in premodern Europe which is simply false. especially when we're talking about the Mediterranean, like what the fuck do you people think is along the southern half of the Mediterranean Ocean?? everyone's on boats, there are GOING to be interactions with Black people in Northern Africa, and there are GOING to be Black people in Mediterranean Europe. stop being stupid. your imagined homogeneous white European past is not historical reality, get over it you massive losers

SUPER TOP SECRET WORK HACK!!! If you explicitly tell people, "You are an adult and a professional, I trust you to do your job; just keep me in the loop and let me know if there are questions," then thank and/or praise them when they accomplish your mutual goals? they will keep doing things for and with you. Sometimes they will even side with you over other people in the organization, because you've taken the time to establish that baseline respect and trust! hashtag winning or whatever

I usually phrased it to middle-schoolers as, "I was a weird artist before I was a teacher, so I don't understand how children work, really. So I am going to treat you guys like adults unless and until you give me a reason not to." It's amazing how far they'll go to keep that adult status.

happy He literally loves Dragon fruit saturday