The ramblings of Ravstar Charante

okay but. pitching a no hitter also scales with "skill of batters" as opposed to the fact that they were slightly more durable than a race horse back then

When you say "Shakespearean" you mean everybody dies at the end. When I say "Shakespearean" I mean interrupting the lead-in to the climactic scene to burn five solid minutes doing a 4/10 bit where two characters argue about the definition of a word.

you're in his dms playing league or something. i'm in her past subtly altering key memories just enough to create a series of coincidences and funny stories and symbols that will lay the groundwork both for her inevitable transition and her tendency towards religious delusion specifically involving a few carefully chosen phrases and images i'm planting all throughout her memory. but have fun in jungle or whatever the fuck

you're on the phone with him talking about the sigil he keeps scribbling all over his notebooks in a handwriting nothing like his own. im in the original post already changing her pronouns retroactively

I'm turning 43 on Sunday.

i thought you were in your 50s.

something that lancer doesn’t get enough credit for is the fact that it makes supporting feel good. Like, there’s not a lot of outright support abilities in the game, and maybe that helps this feeling, but I’ve never met a Lancaster pilot who hasn’t walked away from a session feeling incredible about their party role.

The actual most implausible thing about video game writing is that they'll show us a people-pleasing sad sack of a protagonist where everyone around them treats them as a disgusting pervert for no obvious reason, takes everything they say in the worst possible light, and ascribes vile motives to their most innocuous actions, then turn around and insist that this character is a cisgender, heterosexual man.

I know it's not great from, like, a Being Functional Or Secure standpoint, but aesthetically I kind of love how websites for banks and universities and government agencies and such just sort of accrete layer upon layer of technologies without ever taking the lower layers out of the stack, and if you need to do something sufficiently obscure eventually you'll break through to some Web 1.0-looking form with a "Last Modified" footer whose timestamp isn't part of this millennium.