#abominable software

[musical-engineer]

Apparently the best way to get ansys working is to play The Offspring to it

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

The Folly of the Godless

1 The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They do abominable deeds. There is none who does good. 2 Yahweh looks down from heaven upon the children of humankind to see whether there is one who has insight, one who cares about God. — Psalm 14:1-2 | Lexham English Bible (LEB) Lexham English Bible 2012 by Logos Bible Software. Cross References: Genesis 6:5; Genesis 6:12; Genesis 18:21; 1 Chronicles 22:19; Job 15:16; Psalm 33:13; Jeremiah 8:6; Romans 3:10

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'Swimming Against the Flow' — Psalm 14:1-2

[battiegutz]

tried blender for the first time the other day

[thereoncewasagirlnamedjane]

SHENANIGANS.

PAIRING — steve rogers x f!reader

CONTENTS — drabble; established relationship; a light dusting of spice; fluff?; and merry christmas eve my darlings! 💕

SUMMARY — you follow steve into a dark closet 😏

WORD COUNT — 476

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It takes Steve a few seconds for his mind to catch up to what’s happening. 

He went to the linen closet to grab some paper towels when he spilled champagne all over himself like an idiot, only to find that the kitchen was all out. He’d just grabbed a new roll when you came striding up behind him, shoving him into the closet and closing the door behind you. 

Then your hands were on him, roaming enthusiastically over the ugly, scratchy wool sweater stretched over his torso. He’d bought it earlier this week at a thrift store, endlessly amused when it lit up obnoxiously with the flick of a switch. 

“Honey—” he startles, especially when your hands fist into his sweater so you can spin around and pin him against the door. He allows himself to be manhandled, despite grunting softly upon impact out of sheer surprise. 

You make a small, pleased sound at the back of your throat, before leaning up on your toes to kiss him. 

“Sweetheart—” he mumbles against your eager lips, already a little breathless when you giggle at knocking over some nearby rolls of wrapping paper and a box containing a stray bundle of shiny tinsel in your haste to get him alone. 

“Yes, Steve?” You purr, your hands on his chest pushing him firmly against the door, grinning wildly when his eyes go wide and his cheeks flush. 

“But the party—”

Music is still audible through the door, turned up so loud he can feel the bass thumping against his back. Surely, the other guests and the hosts have noticed both your absences by now. 

“But you just look so…” you trail off with a sigh, scanning him up and down. Steve’s never been one to care about his looks, but—oh, he’s seen that look before; your eyes sparkling with barely contained mischief, your bottom lip tucked between your teeth, and one of your legs slotting between his. 

He almost chokes on nothing. His cheeks burn once again, but of course he likes it very much when you get all handsy. 

Steve quickly grasps the hem of his sweater, ready to whip it across the tiny closet when you stop him with a gentle hand. “No, leave it on.” 

“Really?” He asks with an incredulous smile, looking down at the red and green abomination of fabric. It was perfect for the holiday party the Starks are currently throwing in the other room, but this is interesting. “The sweater’s doing it for you?” 

The only answer you give is a salacious grin of your own and, “shut the hell up and touch me already.” 

Steve only hesitates for a split second before grinning and turning on his light up sweater, his large hands palming the curve of your hips and then sliding even further. 

Yeah, you’re right. 

Screw the party.

fin.

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[fuzzyfoe]

i love your daily creatures so much. i'm scrolling through them right now and my reactions vary from "this is so cute i would die for it" to "what in god's name is this abomination" to "this is straight out of the imagination of my ten year old self" to "i see why it's called daily creature and not 'daily animal' or something, because this is the definition of the world 'creature'" and i mean all of these as a compliment.

this is the kind of thing that internet was made for, to create strange and charming things and share them with people.

plus, the dedication?? the fact you've kept doing this every day for years and still have new ideas and still post daily is just incredibly impressive.

Thank you so much anon!! I never really considered my daily creatures to be that impressive since most of them are quite simple, not shaded or given any background, and are the only thing I make that I've managed to really separate my sense of perfectionism from compared to everything else I've made. When I first started making them, I had been fed up with myself for not making art as often as I wanted to make it due to my perfectionism and I finally said "fine, i will allow myself to make one quick and silly thing every day that can look bad, if i can just get myself to do this then it will at least be better than making nothing". Really, this is what I said alongside the very first creature I ever posted to my old blog:

The first creatures I made did not look as good compared to the "serious" art I had been making in firealpaca at the time, yes, but when I compare my first creatures to my most recent creatures now I'm actually surprised at the level of technical skill I've managed to squeeze out of some of them, to the point where I actually think they look better than some of the "serious" art that I was being a perfectionist about at the time, despite the more recent creatures taking a lot less time to make compared to the amount of time I remember that old art taking me to make and despite the fact that the more recent creatures are made in fucking ms paint compared to much more elaborate art software such as firealpaca.

I know that even with the "serious" art I make now there are still teenagers out there who have a better grasp at anatomy and perspective than I do at 25, but I've learned that that's okay. There should be no age limit for when it's okay to start learning how to draw or to try to pick the pen back up again. Art is supposed to just be something I do for fun and to relax like it was when I was a kid before I started to get into social media, and I'm slowly trying to work my way back to having that original mindset again.

It's a little crazy to me to think that something I originally started doing for myself in order to make art "fun" for myself again is actually causing some people to view me now the way that I used to view other artists when I was younger.

[stormzulien]

FUCK ONEDRIVE

Onedrive is a special kind of bullcrap pos software. At this point it's almost a requirement that you use it. Microsoft will close-to abuse you if you don't. I didn't ask for my files to be "up in the cloud". No-one did. "The Cloud" is an extremely manipulative marketing strategy anyway. It makes you think your data is safe in the sky, afar from any human reach. But no. It is in the hands of the devil itself. I don't care whether it's a list of my passwords or an ms paint drawing of a cats shitting, I don't want it on the internet. WHY DOES EVERYTHING HAVE TO BE "in the cloud" I don't need everything connected to every household item I own from the fridge to my socks. I'm perfectly content with using cloud storage in some cases, but they're forcing it down my throat like the world is going to end if they don't make sure at least 10% of the human population is using fucking onedrive. "oH BuT yOuR DatA wiLl bE mOre SeCUre!!!1!" who, on this motherfucking planet, ever asked? I've already clicked the "dismiss" button more times than I've seen my parents. This is torture, and it's not like I can stop using windows as there's just no other good option. I'm tired of this shit.

If humanity goes extinct, onedrive will be at least partially to blame. I'd rather get terminal cancer and be eternally tortured than use the corporate abomination that is onedrive. Fuck onedrive. Stupid fucking bullshit.

[desalvar]

comperehensive compendium of things nik broke or built wrong in the process of frankensteining himself into an apex creechure:

his blood's straight up rotten.

like, enough to poison vampires and kill humans.

pulse approximately the BPM of a severely hypothermic man but his body temperature is average

somehow still has very few supernatural resistances and can die from pretty much everything you'd expect: fire, impact, blood loss, poison, eldritch insanity, etc. just drops like a sack of flour

AND feels the pain in full. his fleshy bits may not all be intact or anatomically correct, but they still hurt. divine comedy right there.

he severed his left hand at the wrist long ago, then reattached it. sustains it through living necrosis. it, too, feels pain.

can't stay dead

somewhat immortal

still affected by aging

technically NOT a natural magic user - anyone born capable of casting, learning, gaining or being gifted magic. had to single-handedly create a magic system for himself from the scraps of others and then change his metaphysical nature to sustain it.

it's like stealing a computer and reverse engineering yourself a whole new operating system

works with runes. has to create every single one individually and then update his own hardware and software with them one by one. it's as bloody and gruesome as it sounds. and not all of them even work

hell, sometimes they even backfire. when your metaphysical nature is this badly duct taped together, shit occasionally happens when you tinker with it. he has been historically stuck as, in no particular order, various arrangements of bloody viscera, a mummified undead, a chimera of eldritch proportions, an abyssal uncloseable portal and once, famously, a sentient domestic housecat for several years.

to no one's surprise, his DNA is no longer compatible with other humans. liger situation on steroids, he's just too far down the evolution line to procreate anymore

can't create any life, really. can't grow or sustain anything, plants and animals included.

his grimoire is swritten on his skin

taxonomic abomination, practically uncategorizable as any species in existence

[zeondraws]

I had a random thought pop up in my head tonight at 3AM that I wanted to check, so it's time for O'Conner!

I noticed I forgor to check on him at all, I wanted to see what happens if I clone him and just check the components of the shape behind him. And... uuuuuuh, I'll show some findings... The He!

There he be, all levatating.

Very silly clone individual this

As someone pointed out, he has the same bloody texture on his face like Roper does. Tho for both, their helmets are clean.

I started flying around him to observe the stuff he is attached to and quickly noticed- Is that Muir's arm? And I quickly noticed both of Muir's arms are on him.

I saw this weird arm somewhere behind him and Roper's arm too.

Then I saw another hand hiding in the Shape and was like, wait... I gotta pull out all these arms and check on them.

I expected to just pull out one arm individually, but they were all... attached to one another. I have no words for this abomination.

WHAT THE- WHAT IS THAT

My guy has more arms than Roper/j This model arm is a skeletalmesh while the other bits on him are simply staticmeshes.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, Spine. Not the software ofc-

Enjoy this cursed information, have some more screenshots

Why does one screenshot look like Caz is about to dance

Either way, it's 4AM, I need to sleep

Nini

[runningpsychic]

Why Goodbye Volcano High resonates with me as...

...a musician

As a musician, it's hard not to immediately identify with Fang. What musician doesn't want their music to be heard, to play at music festivals, and have music as their career. I can wax poetic about how music is about self expression and it doesn't matter if I have an audience, but in the end, I still want my music to be heard, and enjoyed. And Fang is on track to making this their entire career.

Making music has been a minor hobby for me. Even as a kid, I knew there's almost no chance I can make it as a musician, so I went down the route of being a software engineer instead. It's such a minor part of my life that I don't even bother identifying as a musician, I just fool around with instruments. But something about GVH ignited that passion in me, and during my first playthrough, I wrote six songs inspired by themes in the game. Even if I'll stay an amateur, I want to make the most from life, and not let the fire die. (See last section)

All that said, I felt very bad for Fang throughout the game. I know how tough the life of a full time musician is. The industry is just completely screwed. And unlike me, Fang doesn't have another option other than music. The game also drives it in that Fang's friends all have viable career paths, while Fang doesn't. But then, the meteor throws an interesting wrench into this, as now Fang is the only one who achieved their dreams. I'm not sure what the point of this paragraph is besides fuck capitalism, give musicians a living wage.

...an enby

Fang really made me more comfortable about being non-binary. It's amazing seeing enby representation that doesn't feel shoehorned in, or merely an afterthought. It's actually integral to the story. Both Fang and Sage struggle having their parents take their identities seriously, and that mirrors my own fears of not being taken seriously as an enby myself, which leads me to only come out as non-binary to my closest friends, and just remain a binary trans woman to everyone else.

It's honestly amazing to see everyone in Caldera Bay being accepting of the queer cast, like being queer isn't a big deal at all. And that's how it should be. Everyone just calls Fang by their name and pronouns (except their parents of course), and no one seems to mind that Reed brought Alvin to prom. This really makes me feel more comfortable about my identity, and I feel proud to be queer. We don't owe them normal.

...an immigrant

It's so rare to see stories about the intersection of being trans and being an immigrant, so when I read Rosa's story, I felt it must've been written by someone who also has first hand experience. There's a distinct feel from my family that me being trans is a "western" thing, not something they could ever understand. Or worse, that I'm being corrupted by "the west" in some way by moving there. There's so much extended family I can never see again because I'm now an abomination of the family tree.

I find it really difficult to talk about this as I fear I'd be misread as being racist for suggesting that my home country is more queerphobic or something, but that isn't my point. I just want to tell my story, and my experience of being alienated for both culture and gender, in both my origin and destination countries, is one that most folks can't emphasize with. (Venba also does do a good job with the culture part, so you should check that out too)

There's a separate rant about how this brand of queerphobia was actually planted by Christian missionaries and not at all "traditional culture", but that's for another time.

...someone struggling with mental health

I've been obsessed with the game for months since I played it. I went through what everyone calls "Dino depression", but I think it really helped me, and it was the game I needed to play at this moment in my life. I struggle with depression and burnout. At times it can be hard to know what the point is, or feel that any of this is worth it. The first few weeks after the game, I actually felt more depressed, as I thought about what the point of life is if it all is temporary anyway, and what I would do if a meteor were to hit in 8 months. And I was scared, because I felt like my life wasn't under my control. Over time, I've learned to think about it more positively. If life is temporary, then it's up to me to make the most of it. If life has no meaning, it's up to me to make my own meaning. I have amazing friends around me, and I still have tons of music to make.

[hellsite-proteins]

What software do u use to view the proteins? Coming from a non science guy. Also pls turn this ask into a protein

i use PyMol, although there are a few other options out there that do similar things, such as JMol. if anyone has any other recommendations that are free and have some different features, i may also try them out when i have a chance!

letter sequence in this ask matching protein-coding amino acids:

WhatsftwaredsetviewtheprteinsCmingfrmannsciencegyAlsplstrnthisaskintaprtein

protein guy analysis:

this is a weird one, made up mostly of beta strands without any real alpha helices (i'm not counting the little half turn). despite the secondary structure, its still a pretty unhappy molecule, with disordered loops and most of the residues not really sticking to each other. the one exception to this is the disulfide bond, assuming that it lasts in the cytoplasm on this wiggly abomination. overall, this protein has a few different things that we don't see as much on this blog, which is nice, but it also still looks somewhat terrible.

predicted protein structure:

[musical-engineer]

Apparently the best way to get ansys working is to play The Offspring to it

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

The Folly of the Godless

1 The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They do abominable deeds. There is none who does good. 2 Yahweh looks down from heaven upon the children of humankind to see whether there is one who has insight, one who cares about God. — Psalm 14:1-2 | Lexham English Bible (LEB) Lexham English Bible 2012 by Logos Bible Software. Cross References: Genesis 6:5; Genesis 6:12; Genesis 18:21; 1 Chronicles 22:19; Job 15:16; Psalm 33:13; Jeremiah 8:6; Romans 3:10

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‘Swimming Against the Flow’ — Psalm 14:1-2

[thinkmanythingsofit]

Just experienced the abomination of a reference taking software. Luckily for my co-worker, i love her very much and did not exit after half of the time as i wanted.

It was literally a chat bot (did not seem gen ai to me, it was just a talking survey) with 21 questions of which at least like half of them wanted me to name examples (did not manage more than the first few and pretended i didn't see the fill in box after that). IT TOOK ME FUCKING 40 MINUTES TO FILL! That could have been a 10 min phone call! And that call would have had the additional information of hearing my voice and whether i am sincere or not.

In the last box, i left unasked for reference for the chatbot itself. Namely, that i will in the future not offer to give references for job applications if the job in question uses this software.

In the end i clicked on the company's link and the page said like "Do you also hate taking references for potential employees? It takes so much time! Save lots of time with this software and make candidates more comparable." Yeah, thanks for saving YOUR time at the expense of MY time.

[frostdemigod]

Another billyknights enjoyer!!!!! i am so happy i thought i was the only one!!! although you are much more dedicated than me. ive only been trying to clear story challenge modes with these guys but i know they have it in them to succeed in harder content!! anyways, here is my army, cheers.

aaaaaaaaa Glad to see another one lurking about! My potentials are a lot more on the lower end but I try my best!~

Originally my squad was an abomination of Shana + Abyssal Hunters and then whatever else I needed to slap in, but after Ray came out decided to give rim billy nicheknights a shot as it looked viable on paper~ It's honestly really fun racking my brain trying to clear the stages, and so far for every event since then they've been able to clear a giant chunk of them! Since I have a habit of only playing events when I stream most of my clears do happen to be archived so it's fun to go back to, although Chapter 14 Adverse is the only event so far I did on my own away from a recording software lmfaooo They're super strong and I love them for it! Aside from warmy though, I'd rather hit her with a jeep

[educatedinyellow]

Vid WIP meme (continued)

Thank you so much for the ask, @thetimemoves!

"How fun! I would love to know more about the two Sherlock vids: Memento Mori and Headlock. I’d also love to hear more about the songs you associate with different characters."

Memento Mori is a song by the group Fish in a Birdcage. I actually started to make this vid in the somewhat frantic run-up to the most recent round of Holmestice before switching tacks to fic writing. I was introduced to the song via a wonderful Sherlock & Co. playlist on Spotify, and as soon as I heard it, I thought the darkly playful sound was perfect for the more frenetic Holmesian adaptations, like BBC or the Ritchie films. The theme of the song seemed to me to be about the adrenaline rush that comes with mystery + the fascination of death, plus the abhorrence of mundanity (my mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!) That repeating chorus ("I never wanted to sleep") plus the self-aware, mordant cheek of the verses ("ashes to ashes, dust to dust, filling up my coffee cup") -- there's an awareness here that this character craves the stimulation of violence/danger and the exultation of being constantly in overdrive. The "hound" references in the bridge obviously lend themselves to Baskerville. The verse "inside the timeless cage, I never wanted to sleep" definitely brings the Mind Palace sequences to mind, especially in The Abominable Bride where he mentally retreats so far into another time and place that he temporarily loses his sense of reality.

I started this vid with images of water cascading down paired with Sherlock stepping up onto the ledge at Barts in The Reichenbach Fall. Then we cut to a shot of John choking on smoke inside the Guy Fawkes pyre paired with a shot of a beautiful, flickering flame. The title card comes up -- Memento Mori -- and we get Mycroft's dialogue ("You're not haunted by the war Dr. Watson. You miss it. Welcome back.") That's all timed over the opening instrumental and when the first verse starts (ashes to ashes, dust to dust) we cut first to the shot of dirt flying around John at Maiwand as he's shot, then to the opening of ASIP and the glimpse of the gun he keeps in his drawer, and a lingering shot of him near tears in his bed, post-nightmare, "I never wanted to sleep." I timed out some of Sherlock's riding crop swings at the corpse to match the initial percussion when it comes in. Plus: "Memento mori leaves a debt, you haven't paid it yet" = Sherlock rotating the IOU apple after Moriarty's visit in TRF.

Anyhow, that's about as far as I'd gotten. The process is slower than it used to be because I lost all my old vidding programs when my former laptop died a year ago, and I'm only slowly learning new programs/finding alternatives that work. It's still an open question whether I'll get any new vids done, especially anything that would require me to rip new footage (the software to do that is increasingly elusive, at least for me). But we'll see :)

Headlock by Imogen Heap is another song that I thought has the right sound for BBC Sherlock. The theme seems to be about self-sabotage, a person -- or two people -- who have convinced themselves they aren't cut out to let their hearts rule their heads ("You say too late to start, got your heart in a headlock"), which works as a running Johnlock theme. There are little phrases that remind me of John and Sherlock's first meeting ("throw a stranger an unexpected smile". And then John being at a loss how to be anything but a soldier -- "with big intention, still posted at your station" -- transforming into something joyful in that crazy rooftop chase when he first jumps after Sherlock and forgets his limp: "still going on about the day you should have flied.")

The song's bridge is perfect for a Mycroft-Sherlock interlude ("You've been walking, you've been hiding, and you look half-dead half the time. Monitoring you, like machines do, you've still got it, I'm just keeping an eye"). The sound of a pulse monitor flat-lining in the middle of the song before the big instrumental kicks in would work perfectly with the whole Mary shooting him business. I don't know, I just see lots of story hooks in these lyrics, and it seems right for the frustration of an unrealized love story that ends with a tentative try at believing that a new start is possible after all.

The second part of your question was about songs that I associate with particular characters despite not being tempted to vid with them. This can happen for a lot of different reasons -- maybe it's a song I associate with the character because someone else already made a great vid for them with it! Or maybe it's a song where the lyrics are right but the sound/tone is wrong for source material, or maybe there's one perfect verse but the rest of the song doesn't work nearly as well. Most often, though, it happens when there's a song focused heavily on emotions/interiority that perfectly matches my headcanon for a character but doesn't really lend itself to any specific story elements from the source material the character is in. That makes it hard to storyboard a visual narrative to go along with the song. So, to give a few examples...

This is a song I will forever associate with Sherlock because humansrsuperior made a wonderful vid with it over a decade ago (which has long since vanished from the internet): Hi by Psapp. ("Compulsive: every page I turn I want more. I never know the next thing in store, 'cause you excite me like a locked door does.")

Here is a Sherlock song where the lyrics are right but the sound is (in my opinion) not an easy match with the source material: Curses by The Crane Wives.

And for those headcanon songs that express a character's interior life/emotional truth vividly but are hard to visually storyboard, the two at the top of my list are love songs for my two favorites from SPN, Dean and Cas. Dean's song is a cover of A Modern Leper by Julien Baker. ("And is that you in front of me, coming back for even more of exactly the same? You must be a masochist, to love a modern leper on his last leg.") And Cas's is Two by Sleeping At Last. ("I just want to love you, to love you, to love you well. I just want to learn how, somehow, to be loved myself....I will love you without a single string attached.") Both a perfect summation of, like, 10,000 fics, but neither easy to vid with footage from the show itself.

And to conclude on a Holmesian note, for me one of those headcanon 'this is what he's like on the inside' songs for BBC Sherlock is All I Really Want (Acoustic) by Alanis Morissette.

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[nostalgebraist]

Me: [complains at length about "LangChain," a bad piece of software I have to deal with in my job sometimes]

Esther, in mock-horrified voice: "They're making you exchange sign-trains in the abominable realm!"

Me: "...what?"

Esther: "Lang chain. Sign train."

Me: "Ohhh."