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Adding Rory to Future Campaigns: A Tribute Across Realms

Today, I said goodbye to my dog, Rory. He was more than a pet—he was my shadow, my midnight companion, my steadfast friend. Cancer came fast and cruel, and though we did all we could, it was his time to cross the Rainbow Bridge. But Rory won’t be gone from my world. Not really. I’ve decided to carry him with me, not just in memory, but into every game I run from this day forward. Rory, my loyal…

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This scene from the Vor Game made me laugh so hard

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STOP CENSORING YOURSELF ON THIS WEBSITE. FUCK SHIT SEX MURDER ALCOHOL DRUGS FAGGOT DYKE QUEER TRANS BITCH SLUT WHORE SEX SEX SEX SEX!!!!!!!!!!!

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Whomp whomp, I know no one cares but I wanted to archive this conversation in a few different places. No tags though, don't want to bother people. And even if no one else finds it interesting, I do.

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this is how it feels every time someone says Tumblr is going to shut down tbh

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Miles Vorkosigan would be a tumblr blorbo if

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Stellaris and Control

Gonna put this out there tagless, because at this point Tumblr is just a place I go to reblog things that tickle my fancy and once in a while throw random thoughts out into the ether. Plus I don't want to bother anybody. I was thinking about my history playing Stellaris. How when I first started playing, and especially considering my egalitarian and pacifist bent when playing 4X games, I gladly welcomed any and all races into my empires. From a game perspective, huge growth boost, yay! All seemed well. Except...as I played these sorts of empires, I realized how...unwieldy they were. I could have a dozen different species in my empire spread out across as many planets. They all had different traits and needs, so my efficiencies were all over the place. And if I went for genetic ascendancy path to really gene tailor my little alien buddies, forget it. Gene editing every race and running the project for all of them was a chore, and flatly wouldn't fly in a multiplayer game where everybody's waiting for you to hurry up and unpause.

So, as I continued to play, my empires started drifting a little bit more toward the...authoritarian. I started shutting down my borders. Migration treaties and even fleeing refugees were refused out of hand. And oh man, it worked like a charm. A single race in my empire made everything easier. I knew the optimal setup for every planet, and it was the same every time. I knew my strengths and weaknesses, and they largely wouldn't change over time. And genetics was suddenly viable, having to only edit a single genome and propagate it across my empires.

They weren't stronger than my early egalitarian empires. Nearly all of them, authoritarian or egalitarian, succeeded in one way or another. It doesn't feel like I have a serious advantage by playing the game in that way, but it is a whole lot easier. And the reason it's easier is because when everything is locked down like that it's way easier to control. This was written on May 11, 2025.

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open a new window somewhere in the world. 

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Ok so I'm taking a genetics class right now and in lab we've been given fruit flies with different mutations that we need to breed over the course of the semester.

Now, first thing I learned: fruit flies don't eat fruit. They eat yeast. They eat the yeast on fermenting fruit. They can not actually eat fruit. Their name is a lie.

Secondly, one of the two mutant lines I was given to cross are flies with the apterous mutation, aka they're wingless. I feel so bad for them, they can't do the one thing they're named for, they cant fly.

And then I realized. My fruit flies are in truth insects that eat yeast and can't fly.

Anyways, I've been calling them my yeast crawls and I am their god now.

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well that was fucking stupid

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So, I'm watching a fascinating video on abandoned mine collapses from a civil engineering perspective and there's this quick little snippet of a mine entrance. And I'm just left to wonder...why the statue over the entrance? Like...this is a mine in America and corporations are all about profit, so why did they go through the expense of putting this wild little decoration here? Don't get me wrong, I'm here for it. I think we're missing a lot of incidental art in our modern environments. Embellishments and legitimately beautiful architecture and what not. But why this statue? Why only this, and literally nothing else about the entrance? Imagine coming across this in Fallout. You'd be wondering what wild cult has taken up residence in this mine.

Vid I was watching that this screencap is from is Practical Engineering - When Abandoned Mines Collapse (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZg1zOKm5wk)

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I present to you: Commander Jane Shepard, Cordelia Vorkosigan (née Naismith), and Captain Kathryn Janeway, three of my favorite women in science fiction.

No, I don't have a type....why do you ask? 😅

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thinking about the japanese racehorse who was such a failgirl she became a folk hero for losers

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crazy to me that I've been on tumblr long enough to see the vast majority of posts i see on a daily basis evolve from superwholock and fandom shit to this

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MAGA racism is killing us.