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FIELD HOSPITAL

LOG

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"Please be patient.

The healer is still recovering."

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Welcome.

This is a small infirmary tucked somewhere

between poetry, fiction, and everyday life.

Here you'll find pressed flowers,

half-finished prayers,

stories stitched together with thread,

and notes from someone who believes

that even broken things deserve gentle hands.

Please leave your shoes at the door.

The floors have just been cleaned.

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CLINIC DIRECTORY

🌿 #Reception

About me

🩹 #Triage

Vents

📖 #Consultation

Asks

🧵 #Sutures

Poetry

🫂 #Recovery Ward

Friends

🩸 #Intensive Care

Sensitive content

🔁 #Bulletin Board

Reblogs

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This blog may discuss:

✦ depression

✦ grief

✦ blood

✦ trauma

✦ horror

✦ death

✦ recovery

Everything will be tagged appropriately.

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"There is no charge for treatment.

Only promise me

you'll be kind to yourself

once you leave."

Some studios have an in-house engine they continue to develop. Whenever a game is set to launch using that engine, there's an established cutoff date after which they will no longer take new engine updates from the mothership unless those updates are crucial bug fixes, and even then the engineering teams will collaborate to bring over only the absolutely necessary changes. This is because game stability is the highest priority as we approach release. As the cert submission and launch date approach, all changes are disallowed by default unless vetted by the engineering team for impact and potential instability. This includes engine changes.

Imagine a major engine change in an engine with ongoing development like Call of Duty that completely changes how AI do their pathfinding - the new methods are much more efficient than before, but require new design principles and have a bunch of additional edge cases that need ironing out. Now imagine that this engine change gets pushed to this year's COD in beta a month before launch. QA suddenly logs a ton of AI pathfinding bugs in every level that has AI in it because of this engine-level change. The COD team could go back to the levels to fix all of the AI pathfinding issues, but that would be months of development and iteration time that they don't have because the game has to ship. The changes are simply too unstable to allow in to a game that close to release, so the team can't accept them.

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Check out my ongoing Assassin/Triage fic on ao3! They’re my lover boys and I have so much fun writing their story. 7 chapters are out right now and 2 more are in editing :D.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/81829156/chapters/215283856

Falling in love again.

I believe in us.

The universe is beautiful.

we go with the term system; because what the fuck do you describe our bullshit.

SHELL STICKER 6: Triage

The lad who everyone relies on, especially if they forget shield upgrades (couldn't be me).