Labcoats and Lairs

just realized my phone doesn't display some braille characters correctly. the dot pattern [⠸] is supposed to be the right three dots, but on my phone it looks the same as [⠇] with the left three dots. that's a really weird problem and I don't know how they messed that up

how am I supposed to tell the difference between ⠝⠥⠅⠑ (nuke) and ⠝⠥⠨⠑ (nuance) if [⠅] and [⠨] display the same way? pretty big oversight there

after looking into it, the reason this bug exists on android is that, one, when braille was added into Noto Sans they just did it wrong at first, and two, even though this issue was fixed in Noto Sans back in 2017, the android system font Droid Serif, bafflingly, hasn't been properly updated in ages despite the decade of work the Noto team have been doing improving these fonts. like different departments at google just aren't telling each other what they're up to. so that's why braille text is broken on android

got followed by a default pfp with no bio that does nothing but rt yuri and furry art. you know what you might be a bot but you're cool. I'll tolerate the robot lesbians

update: the robot lesbian is currently dozed off with it's arms around me. funny how that works out.

In the lead up to Superior Spider-Man I recall that there was this brief dolphin-dive into deconstruction in that the inciting incident is that Doctor Octopus is suffering terminal complications from the dozens of times he’s been punched in the face by incredibly strong men over the course of his supervillain career. And this to me runs into one of the pitfalls of trying to do deconstructive beats in a shared, ongoing setting where you don’t have total authorial fiat over how severe consequences are setting-wide. Because, you know, an enormous number of other guys in the supervillain industry have also gotten punched in the face a bunch of times by Spider-Man and company, and you know, for the most part they aren’t dying about it. Unless you’re implying that they are, and have been, retroactively implicating Spider-Man as written by everyone else this entire time as an unacknowledged mass-murderer- which obviously isn’t gonna stick. So in light of the “realistic” consequences manifesting so selectively I guess we’re forced to conclude that Otto just has a uniquely thin and pathetic skull, it’s just a him problem. Skill issue

new texture sampling mode called furthest neighbor

what happens if i press up on the d pad

not much, what happens if i press up on the d pad with you?

the thing about Nu Atheism is that i pinky promise swear up and down that whatever religion you follow because you believe humans have an innate need for spirituality has a long standing conservative arm to it that has almost certainly done more harm and existed far longer than New Atheism, and yes that includes neopaganism and Vague Spirituality.

and like, that doesnt mean youre not allowed to be pagan or jewish or so on, it just means that youre a massive fucking hypocrite if you think every atheist needs to self flagellate for the existance of redditors.

just tried to reference the xkcd "today's lucky 10,000" comic but I wanted to explain xkcd first, so I was like "you probably know the one about experts in the field overestimating their audience's familiarity with the subject matter" and uh. he didn't. love me some irony