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“If autism isn’t caused by environmental factors and is natural why didn’t we ever see it in the past?”

We did, except it wasn’t called autism it was called “Little Jonathan is a r*tarded halfwit who bangs his head on things and can’t speak so we’re taking him into the middle of the cold dark forest and leaving him there to die.”

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Did anyone ever like attempt to document and compile the variations of Barney the dinosaur murder ballads across the elementary school system in the early 2000s. Like legit it has always fascinated me as a phenomena and I would love to know if there were like traceable regional variations or what.

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I know I say that I'm kinda nuts for doing the amount of visual research I do, but at the same time: Specificity is SO much more compelling and real feeling, and imo not getting references often makes things look more amateur.

Eg. drawing a sofa- my mental image of a sofa is something like this:

Like. Its a sofa. It works. But it's not very convincing, the pillows are kinda wrong at the back, and it's not really giving any information about the owner. Even if you want a basic sofa... What kind of basic.

comfy and cheap?

kinda rigid?

inherited? ------

who does this comfy cheap ikea sofa belong to anyway?

guy living alone?

teenage girl?

Grandma?

Anyway I'll get off my soapbox but specificity is sexy and fun and it can do your storytelling for you!

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You shouldn’t have to be trans to get any sex characteristic-related surgery. It’s not a limited resource. Plenty of cis men get implants and cis women get breast reductions. From Colby Gordon today and Leslie Feinberg in Transgender Warriors (1996).

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when i was a kid rummaging thru my mums cd collection to steal Good Stuff i accidentally stumbled across one called ‘songs for bonking’ which was coloured awful negative neon picture of ppls feet on top of each other in a bed and ALL the songs were like fucking ska punk 

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Told you I'm not stopping

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Actually Good YouTube Alternatives

by Charlynne Valyxz

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Some SEO optimization tips from u/hippocampustour on Reddit

Hey there, I’m an SEO consultant.

First, what works is understanding a rough overview of the history of Google updates and current emphasis on EEAT principles. Long story short, the best way to get ranked is by helping Google accomplish its goals - keeping people engaged so they earn ad revenue. People come to search engines looking for various things to fulfill different needs, and they stay in those search engines more if they have their needs fulfilled. If you fulfill the searchers needs the best, keeping them engaged better/longer, Google will show your site more to keep people engaged so they make more ad revenue.

What this practically means is optimizing your website to satisfy user search intent better than competitors AND optimizing it to be comprehended by Google better than competitors.

Step 1 is identifying the keywords you want to rank for. The best ROI will come from bottom of the funnel transactional/commercial keywords e.g. “buy Nike sneakers” instead of informative, top of the funnel keywords like “how are Nike sneakers made?” It’s best to use tools like SEMrush/ahrefs to save tons of time and headache to find the best opportunities.

Step 2 is mapping 1 keyword to each page of your site, starting from the most general and important on the home page, to slightly more specific on the categories, to most specific/long tail on the sub pages. This means your home page could rank for “Phoenix plumber” your category pages could be “Phoenix drain cleaning, Phoenix pipe repair, etc.”, and the most specific pages would be blogs like “how much does it cost to replace a toilet?” The main goal here is capturing the most search volume with the least competition and avoiding cannabilization between pages. Google doesn’t rank websites - it ranks web pages. So you don’t want to confuse Google by having multiple pages trying to rank for and fight over the same keyword.

Step 3 is optimizing the on-page and technical aspects of the sites, and there’s TONS to mention. You can just google this stuff, but the main idea is that this is ideally the perfect intersection of high value for users and great UX along with great crawlability and logical organization for Google to understand things. Assuming most people have a baseline functional site on Wordpress or another CMS, top priorities are making sure each page has good meta titles and meta descriptions, make sure the on page headers follow best practices and include keywords naturally, and run a Screaming Frog crawl on the site to make sure nothing is broken.

Step 4 is building off-page authority signals to your site to build its authority via backlinks, social signals, and directories. Get authoritative links to your site, get good reviews on social platforms, and list your business info (most important is name, address, phone number) across everywhere online possible in a standardized way.

Of course, step 0 is providing real value for users. If you’re a dentist for example, you can start with step 1 and get to it. If you’re selling a brand new AI tool that you can’t even explain though, you’ll want to start with having a clear offer, good visual content, contact/payment systems built out, etc.

Hope this helps!!

And a reply from u/rept4r7

Most of this is pretty good, but:

1. EEAT isn't a ranking factor. It even says so in Google's SEO Starter Guide. It's just for the quality raters.

2. You map 1 keyword per page? I don't think you really meant that. You should really group similar keywords, then build pages. So like "New York personal injury lawyer," "Accident attorney New York," and "NY accident injury lawyer" all go on the same page. "NY car accident lawyer" would be a different page, as would "New York slip and fall lawyer."

3. Meta descriptions aren't ranking factors - although they may indirectly impact CTR. Google rewrites a lot of them now anyways though.

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Maybe there should be a show where people land on a cool new planet full of fascinating wildlife and it's actually completely fine and they have a great time. Has anyone explored that possibility.

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Wait, do people know about the Before I Play wiki?

I have used this for..... at this point easily over 6 years. It's a wiki where there will be low-spoiler/non-spoiler hints about just stuff you would want to know before playing a game.

It's always stuff like.... "Vitality in this game is useless, put your points in everything else first" or "Don't leave the second hub town until you buy X item, it'll become unobtainable."

Lemme pick an example almost everyone will know. From the Animal Crossing New Horizons page, the first tip is:

Nearly everything on the island is movable later, including all buildings and even cliffs and rivers. The main things that are fixed are the stuff on the border of the island (river mouths, beaches, rocks/peninsulae, the dock and the airport) and the resident services plaza, so picking your island layout should be based around that primarily.

That's stellar advice, tbh, given what you'll know about the game 30 hours in instead of 30 minutes.

Not every game is covered obviously and not every piece of advice is good, it's all subjective, BUT..... I look up almost every game I play for the first time, just to keep stuff in mind. The SMT4 page had top tier advice imo.

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Hiya! In repsonse to your recent request - not sure if you do Sci-fI stuff, but I find myself in need of a good adventure set on a comet/asteroid, if you fancy. (love your work btw!)

Art source: 

(Happy to help friend, hope you don’t mind a bit of science fantasy, as my art-archive dosen’t contain many pictures of hurtling space-rock)

Wilderness: The Anvils of Osgrul

Setup: This Barren little worldlet streaks through the astral plane at high speed, shrouded in an every billowing frigid fog. From banks of these cold and chemical scented clouds rise jagged peaks, some which are topped by cryptic monuments of floating metal and stone that defy explanation. 

The various “monuments” that give the Anvils its name consist of borad stone platforms, seemingly shaped from nature but unnaturally smooth on their upper surface. Each one holds fragments of levitating stone, some the size of mountains, others the size of boulders, all veined through with some glowing, runic mineral native to Osgrul and nowhere else. 

Exploration of Osgrul’s surface reveals cavelike warrens, dug out seemingly by hand but boasting the remnants of advanced, arcane technology. Alien etchings within these warrens tell of a powerful, celestial individual that strode among the peaks ( usually interpreted as “Osgrul”), and a brood of minuscule thrall-beasts that served it.  The etchings depict great projects of construction and labor, no religious or historical context, nor scenes of daily life, and could just as easily be schematics as memorials. These Warrens are usually found outside of deep quarried valleys, riddled through with that same mineral as the monument stones, though lacking their eldritch glow. 

Osgrul is not a hospitable place, with no settlements and little in the way of life supporting sustenance. A party that finds itself on the worldlet’s surface would be wise to dedicate themselves to off it as soon as possible.

Adventure hooks: 

A famed adventuring scientist has led an expedition to the Anvils, but has disappeared, likely being stranded within that unfriendly realm. The party is rallied to go rescue them, and will have to trace the expedition's progress over hash terrain if they wish to find any survivors. 

On rare occasion, one of the great monument stones will detach from its plinth, hurtling upwards into the astral sea and striking out into the void. For long ages, no one could , until a clever scholar matched up the record of the “launches” with a series of disastrous impacts throughout history. In their theorizing, The Anvils are a weapon, set loose millennia ago to hurtle through the abyss and deliver death along the way. Whether this was a planned attack, or simply disaster as a byproduct of the Anvils’ decay, divination reveals the worldlet is coming closer and closer to the prime material plane, and may bring any number of dangerous “gifts” in its wake.  

Challenges & Complications

Fully aware of the danger these jettison-stones pose, astral pirates have been known to seek out the Anvils of Osgrul in order to “commandeer” them, either to use as part of their own raids, or to sell to dangerous customers. The process is exacting, involving careful untangling of the wards that hold the stones in place, and small fleets of astral ships  tethered to the stones to aid in the extraction. Given the work they’ve put into stealing these weapons, they’re unlikely to welcome the party’s intrusion into their “digsite” 

A nest of Mi-go have taken up residence in a deep quarry hidden beneath the mist. Unbothered by the hostile environment of the worldlet, these fungal insectoids pursue its secrets with reckless curiosity. Their current fascination is the Anvils’ unique mineral and its properties, named “Osgrulite” in their notes: The mineral is naturally inert, and the process for “activating” it was lost with whoever carved the stones and set the worldlet on it’s course in the first place. At the moment, this means the Anvils’ destructive power is limited, a finite number of stones, each with their respective targets.  Should the Mi-go discover the process, they’ll be sitting on a potential weapons cache for them to quarry, distribute, and target at their will, a resource that many of the astral sea’s heavy hitters would love to possess. 

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I fucking hate it here

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Oh. There's another thousand. Welp. You know the drill.

Go my critters.

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Here is a free pdf of the players handbook

Here is a free pdf of xanathars guide to everything

Here is a free pdf to monsters manual

Here is a free pdf to tashas cauldron of everything

Here is a free pdf to dungeon master’s guide

Here is a free pdf to volo’s guide to monsters

Here is a free pdf of mordenkainen’s tomb of foes

For all your dnd purposes

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I’ve become an air fryer girlie against my will because the oven in this house does nawt fucking work and the landlord kept tryna say it was fine and I didn’t have The Will but if nothing else I’ve become a habitual muffin maker now because they cook so fast, problem is I am just making shit up and it’s working out very well but consequently I can’t share helpful recipes when people ask because mine all look like this:

But these make great fucking mini cheesy olive breads if you can achieve correct consistencies in a vibe-based manner ⚰️⚰️⚰️

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If you've got a friend that you know can't remember shit, and you feel like it'd be rude to remind them about something that's coming up beforehand just in case they did remember something they signed up for and now you feel bad for implying that you don't trust their memory, and you know that there's a 90% chance that they won't remember the thing unless you remind them, here's a tip from someone with a Can't Remember Shit Disease:

Instead of simply reminding them about the event, just ask them about a specific detail involved in it instead. If you know that The Thing is on next week's friday, and the last moment you need confirmation whether they're coming or not is this thursday, instead of texting

"Hey you remember we have the thing on next week's friday, right?"

you can text some specific question - regardless of whether the info itself is important to you or not - that clarifies when the event is, like

"Hey are you going to be driving to the thing next week's friday, or is someone giving you a ride? We'll need to plan parking beforehand."

Because in case they did remember the thing, they can just answer you for the question you asked. And if they didn't remember and go "OH SHIT IT'S NEXT WEEK I COMPLETELY FORGOT", you still gave them the reminder they needed just the same.

I don't personally get insulted when people gently remind me that they know that I can't remember shit, and most self-aware memory problem people don't either, but if you're worried that it would feel rude to remind people about things you're worried they might've forgotten, this is a good way to circumvent that.