#Cosmetics Database

[chemxpertdatabase]

Complete Guide to NDA vs. ANDA: Differences, Processes, and Requirements

The pharmaceutical sector exists under strict regulations that verify drug products for safety and effectiveness combined with excellent quality standards. Drugs undergo authorization from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) through a New Drug Application (NDA) process and an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) route in the United States. A complete grasp of both NDA and ANDA applications alongside their operational methods and regulatory mandates represents a necessary requirement for pharmaceutical organizations together with their healthcare representatives and regulatory control personnel. The document presents detailed information about NDA and ANDA which describes their vital role in pharmaceutical drug authorization.

[atrologynuances]

astrology observations pt 3

these are based on personal observations as well as acquired knowledge from books, websites, and other observation posts.

(some of these are brutally honest and some are very very general)

all signs included!!

⚜️ aries mercury are the type of people whose intelligence you don’t hear because their voice is too loud. oftentimes they’re described as hardheaded or bold when in reality they’re the reality check not everyone is ready to cash out. they’re also fairly messy, too many thoughts with no clear direction.

⚜️ aries men make for irresponsible fathers. the ones that are present but in reality they aren’t.

⚜️ libra placements can be very charming! however, this charm can become obnoxious and overstimulating very fast.

⚜️ I never hear anyone talk about how beautiful the eyes of scorpio risings are!! not only captivating and mysterious but they look like they hold the weight of the world in them and with that comes the secrets of manipulating you without you ever finding out. like an online library with an organized database and when they look for your name there, they know all your secrets.

⚜️ talking about scorpio risings, do any of you have weird experiences while you sleep? sleepwalking, sleep talking, people being scared of you when you’re sleeping?

⚜️ natives with north node in the 4th might have more conflicts at home when they find a full time job. it is hard to find a balance between the home and work life. this is more prominent if the north node is aspecting a malefic planet.

⚜️ a specific placement that will love their pet like a mother loves their baby is moon in the 6th!

⚜️ natives with pluto in the 10th house have to change jobs often because their coworkers subconsciously feel these people are overqualified for the job and envy them or envy how fast they were able to get promoted so they start hating on them. this creates a tense energy within the workplace making the pluto native to just quit the job and move onto the next. I find that there is nothing a pluto in the 10th house can’t master.

⚜️ natives with chiron in the 11th house attract friends with the same sun sign chiron is sitting on. this might be true with other chiron placements but it is especially true with chiron in the 11th. the sun sign person will bring challenges and leave the chiron native in the cold. the sun person also tends to belittle the chiron person a lot, thinking they are better than them.

⚜️ most taurus women have long torsos and short legs. I find that they’re also more prone to getting plastic surgery or cosmetic procedures. also, they have a very standardized beauty, like they don’t have a specific feature that sticks out, their face just blends together very prettily to the eye. i’ve also noticed they like gold or gold colored jewelry.

⚜️ gemini risings have gapped teeth. they also tend to have a bigger head than the rest of their body and be on the skinnier side. one thing i’ve noticed is that their energy feels light and familiar but also unknown. like a new friend whose vibes you like but you don’t really know much about them.

⚜️ unevolved gemini moons have a need to be liked by people; they want to feel and be included. in general, when you hear about them from other people they sound mean and intimidating, but when you get to know them they’re actually pretty cool to talk to. they also make for great listeners, and will have you saying things you wouldn’t have confessed to other people as easily or fast lol.

⚜️ sagittarius mercuries are story tellers! what I love about them is they know how to identify the interesting points with the ones that aren’t so their story is always fun to listen to. the thing with them is they’ll tell you the same story multiple times lol.

⚜️ I have personally noticed that cancer mars MEN are more likely to commit domestic violence. this is a very broad accusation I know. it is just an observation i’ve made with celebrities and men with this placement around me. they tend to act out on their current emotions. on the other hand, cancer mars women are veryyyy passive aggressive lol.

⚜️ venus in leo always attract people that get them better jobs, better deals on something or an upgrade of some sort lol. or they tend to be in good terms with a superior which later helps them get promoted.

⚜️ virgo mars are hard workers!!! I love love love this mars sign. they can come off as know it alls sometimes but sometimes they do know it all lol. a lot of actual life experience. they’re the ones you should call if you’re looking for a job, because they always know of a place that is hiring lol. if you ever need something done efficiently, call a virgo mars! not only are they willing to do it, keep if between you two, but they also do it well! three for one deal.

⚜️ a lot of capricorns make bad friends. they’re not the type to embarrass you in front of people type of bad friend, I find that brings embarrassment to them as well and they can’t have that. they are the type to belittle you throughout the friendship to check off their competition list though lol.

⚜️ aquariuses fall in love with their friends a lot! even when they are in a relationship, they still fall in love with other people. they’re very individualistic and if they think being with someone else will bring them happiness they will pursue that without caring about their current situation. that’s why they’re more prone to “sleep around” lol.

⚜️ pisces risings daydream a lot, sometimes they’re ashamed of how far they go when daydreaming. also, pisces risings might look like they’re on cloud nine, but nine times out of ten, they read the room before stepping a foot in it. i’ve also noticed that sometimes they act gullible just to see how others react to it. like you think you’re manipulating them but they’re the ones manipulating you by letting you think they’re actually getting manipulated lol.

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[justdiptych]

Trans issues are rarely brought up in the Fallout series. Fallout 2′s cut Environmental Protection Agency location was apparently slated to include 'Top Secret Research into Gender Modification', but there's little suggestion what that content would have actually included. Also, the pre-war USA was a fascist hellscape that was actively hostile to human rights - witness, for example, a federal information release about the New Plague, which conflates contagion, socialism and queer sexuality, and encourages readers to report anyone displaying any of the above for 'quarantine' - so pre-war trans communities likely drew as little attention to themselves as possible. More recently, two non-binary characters (Burke and Orlando) have been introduced in Fallout 76's expansions; their roles have been relatively minor.

All that said… the Auto-Doc technology we see in Fallout 2 and New Vegas would be an absolute boon for trans patients. Auto-Docs can synthesise and administer medications, including hormone treatments (the models in the Sierra Madre Villa Clinic can dispense adrenaline, for instance). Any medications not already available can be added to the Auto-Doc's database by a knowledgeable user - this is how the cure to Jet addiction is manufactured in Vault City.

Auto-Docs are also capable of all manner of surgeries. Cosmetic surgery is not unheard of in the Fallout universe - Rivet City’s Horace Pinkerton and Diamond City’s doctors Crocker and Sun all offer it - but Auto-Docs can go even further. Advanced models can even alter a patient’s entire skeleton, with minimal scarring: Fallout 2′s Chosen One can can have their skeleton reinforced, without any Charisma penalty (unless they opt for the heavier, more invasive upgrade), and New Vegas’ Courier can have their spine and central nervous system replaced with a synthetic alternative. Auto-Docs can even give a patient a new voice - Christine Royce tragically had this done to her without her consent, but this does demonstrate show the procedure’s viability for a willing user.

Whether or not the major medical companies of the Falloutverse would sign off on such uses of their tech, breaking and customising Auto-Doc programming seems to have been a simple matter. A suitably sympathetic or motivated physician could have easily started a trans health clinic that could address the bulk of their patients’ medical needs - hormone treatment, surgery far more advanced than exists in the real world, and even voice alteration.

In short, there is absolute, copper-bottomed, canon-compliant room in the wasteland for fully automated transing of genders, and I hope the devs will recognise and embrace this fact.

[pokemonshelterstories]

Hello! So as a trainer who has seen plenty of Pokemon over the years, something that has always nagged me is why some species of Pokemon have only minor sexual dimorphism (like the males of the Gible line having a notch in the fin because they seem to be more aggressive) to major sexual dimorphism that males and females look completely diffferent (like Oinkologne looking so different between the two). Plus some sexes only evolving into certain pokemon like a female snorunt into a Froslass or how Burmy evolve into either Mothim or Wormadam based on their sex? Talk about confusing! Has any one really looked into this sort of stuff like with a big and credible research paper and such, or even just figured some things out? I have tried looking but nowadays, it is hard to separate the actual science from the junk. P.S., Thank you and the Ranger Union for what you guys do! It isn't an easy job as a few ranger friends have told me, and you guys are awesome for helping people and Pokemon.

i recommend visiting some scientific databases if you're looking for information about this. your local library can help point you to some open-source databases and also let you know which ones you have access to through the library. there's a good deal of research about sexual dimorphism available! unfortunately, you can't just sligoogle for a lot of stuff anymore without running into made-up information created by a rotomAI.

as for why some pokemon only show slight variance...well, we're not pokemon! the reasons why a pokemon has sex-dependent differences might have some manner of practical effect, but in most instances it ultimately comes down to mating. sometimes one sex of a pokemon species will have some manner of enlarged combat feature for the sake of more easily defeating competitors for mating rights or defending nests; rhyhorn, gligar, piloswine, and relicanth are all examples. other times, a difference is mostly cosmetic and is for the sake of impressing the other sex: the black necks of dodrio, the smaller cheek spots of politoed, the whisker color of magikarp and gyarados, etc. others have a different kind of practical usage such as the larger antennae of male dustox helping them find females more easily, or the longer fur ruff of female hypno providing more warmth and surface area for their young to grab onto (hypno carry their offspring around)

when there's an obvious practical reason for something, it's easier for scientists to figure it out! it makes sense that a male goldeen has a longer horn for fighting other males with. but we don't necessarily know what it is about having blue back paws that makes a female shinx more attractive to a male, or why a male ludicolo with thicker brown stripes is more enticing to a female. something about those differences matters to these pokemon, so even if it seems small to us, it may make or break a pokemon's reproductive success!

[tiger-lilee-5]

Crime AU Percy Jackson

I don't know if this already exists, but somebody give me an AU for Percy Jackson where they aren't really Greek mythology people, just named after them. But with a twist. >:)

Somebody give me an AU where 'demigods' are just neuro-divergent kids whose 'godly parent' is actually just a crime boss named after Greek gods. give me a 'camp half-blood' that's actually a boarding school disguised as a military school or something specifically for spies and special agents and gangsters and mini crime lords, all the children of these 'gods'

I want a Percy Jackson who's basically the same as he is in the books, but here in this AU, he's not afraid to start or finish a fight when needed be. he's not afraid to speak his mind, and he's not afraid to stand up to Smelly Gabe, who 'accidentally' found his drunk ass in a ditch in that nice Camaro one morning, dead, after one too many beers the night before, one to many smacks to the amazing Ms. Jackson, because nobody touches Percy's mom. I want a Percy who dominates at swim meets and competitions and pushes bullies like Nancy Bobofit into the deep end of the pool when she was fully clothed, or gives her swirlies in the boys' bathrooms toilets, just for messing with his best friend Grover Underwood, a kid with crutches. I want a Percy who finds out that his deadbeat daddy is the infamous Poseidon, an ex-marine who teamed up with a bunch of other army buddies to take over the criminal world from their predecessor, Kronos, who was driving the US, plus a few allied countries, into the fucking ground.

After finding out who he is, thanks to some kidnappers or whatever who knew who he was kidnapping him, Grover saves him. Give me 'satyrs' who are kid spies constantly on the lookout for their boss' kids, who are always strangely similar to their parents. Sure, Grover needs crutches, and sure, a lot of 'satyrs' actually have physical handicaps like the school's principal (codename; Chiron), but they sure are some badass fighters nonetheless. Give me an Agent Underwood, besties with Perseus Jackson, son of the Poseidon guy, who takes Percy to his new school, where he learns how to crime boss like a boss, helping the economy and social structure while also manipulating it to his will, just like the dozens others of kids like him, neuro-divergent and badass, but also not at all like him because he's the only child of the big three after Thalia, who's supposedly 'dead' and has a big-ass pine tree named after her, for being amazing (like in the books)

Give me Hermes kids, who are taught how to pickpocket and charm, as well as run businesses while inconspicuously laundering money. Give me Athena kids (biologically related to both parents but artificially conceived because Athena's a maiden) who are taught how to hack into databases and find weaknesses and whatnot in buildings to take advantage of during heists, as well as strategy skills. Give me Ares kids who are taught guerilla tactics and military skills. Give me Aphrodite kids who are taught poisons and how to stick stuff like that into cosmetics, how to disguise for heists or whatever, and, (when they're old enough, willing, and if necessary) how to seduce targets. give me Apollo kids who are taught explosives and hypnotic music, biological warfare and vaccines and whatnot. Give me Hephaestus kids who are taught robotics and all sorts of futuristic technologies (I bet they even have droids that look like actual humans). Give me Demeter kids who are taught things like poisons and other things plant-related, such as neurotoxins and more. And they're not stuck with those things either, they can learn whatever else they want, too, but because of their parentage, that's what's primarily suggested. Give me kids who learn how to be professional criminals and villains.

Give me an Annabeth Chase who's learned a little bit of everything, but has most definitely hacked into some of the most 'secure' databases in the world, just like a few of her peers, and has redesigned blueprints of structures all across the country. Give me an Annabeth Chase who knows when she's crushing on Percy immediately and at first tries to dismiss it before full-on flirting with him, although he doesn't have a damn clue about it. An Annabeth Chase who's part of the student body at the school, and has actually made a lot of improvements nobody had ever really expected.

Give me a Clarisse la Rue who is also a part of the student body, and truly wants the best for her school, but has had a rivalry with Annabeth for years now.

Give me a Thalia Grace who faked her death after facing off against 'Cyclops' (agents/gangsters who betrayed mostly Poseidon) and other 'monsters' (agents who turned against the Greeks in general) to protect her school. Now she's roaming the world, trying to simultaneously search for her brother and live a normal-ish life.

Give me a Luke Castellan who's everything every Hermes child wants to be, and is also the student body president. A Luke Castellan who uses his charm to get just about everyone to fall in love with him, who hates everything and everyone at this school and what the school stands for and their parents, not because he thinks its wrong, but because his mom went mad and his dad did nothing to help them, not even financially (or so he says, but Hermes might have a different story) and he wants revenge. Maybe he's a sociopath or extremely bipolar. idk.

Give me a Chiron who used to be a war general, just as all the other 'gods' used to be, and now teaches the kids of his 'best friends' or whatever, because the kids' parents can't unless they want to put said kid in danger. Sometimes these kids don't even know exactly who their parent is, since all that's on a need-to-know basis. Give me a school teacher, headmaster, whatever, who knows exactly how to get every single one of these kids to learn and enjoy learning (Dionysus is technically the headmaster, but Chiron's in charge), give me strict and fair teachers who know how to interact with kids and their individual needs. And if they can't learn? That's fine. They don't have to live a criminal life if they don't exactly want to, although they probably won't be left alone. But if they won't learn? They'll be punished. Hence the strict part. This school knows how to care about their students, knows how to get them engaged properly, and won't tolerate any bullying or bias between the students.

Give me the 'gods' who aren't actually related (thank goodness) who each have their own section of crime to lord over or whatever since I don't know exactly how this works, but they have to work together to make sure that nobody goes bankrupt or gets into too much trouble. Zeus mostly controls things like planes and banks, and kills/tortures his enemies by electrocution. Poseidon probably controls things like tourist attractions and seaside attractions, as well as possibly an army of horses and killer whales or something idk, and drowns his enemies. I'd like to think that Hades controls a lot of jewelry businesses and gold and whatever, and has a hobby of working in morgues or something. Hephaestus, although half of his face was burnt off in an engine misfire in their collective army days and his leg has just always been a little wonky or whatever, controls a lot of manufacturer businesses, cars, trains, planes, and the like. Athena probably owns a bunch of engineering and architecture firms or something, and I bet she treats who gets what built like chess or something. Hera is a judge, mostly for martial affairs, but also for a bunch of other stuff, and has a lot of sway over a bunch of things. Ares is probably head of everyone's security or something (I dunno I'm running out of ideas). Aphrodite I feel is similar to Hera, but like a marriage counselor and influencer, and always knows what's going on behind governmental scenes (and the scenes behind other influencers and movie stars and stuff). Demeter is in charge of everything agriculture. Hermes is in control of the postal service. I'm forgetting the other gods, I know, but whatever.

And give me the twist of the century that we all saw coming; Luke's working for the old boss Kronos, who's trying to take over the crime world business thing again. He's getting the police and government involved too, while somehow staying under the radar enough so he doesn't also get fined and punished and maybe even the death sentence and whatnot. Luke's getting all these other vengeful kids to work for Kronos, and it leads to a civil war within the organization, with the government almost getting involved and putting them all away.

Give me crime and real-world problems with fabulously gay and neuro-divergent kids who are miniature crime bosses and spies and whatever who want to control and rule the world, but also make it a better place in their own weird way. Give me Crime AU Percy Jackson.

(I know I'm probably glazing over a lot and missing stuff and whatnot, and maybe this already exists idk, but let this be food for thought :D)

[frtools]

New Flash Sale: Vista: Transgender Ribbon

A new flash sale has been discovered for Vista: Transgender Ribbon

Forum Vistas are cosmetic backgrounds that add flair to your forum posts. Applying this forum vista will consume the item and make it available in your Account Options.

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Treasure: 175000 140000

[professionalranter31]

So I just finished the Overwatch Declassified book

Why aren’t the books more advertised?

Like the Overwatch YouTube channel might release a community post about one of the stories but otherwise nothing. Like I learned about the books from here on Tumblr

Like a shorts video or any video advertising it would’ve been just fine for it and if you really wanna then some advertisement on the game itself like in the news feed or some cosmetics released that are taken from the books like sprays. Might make more on sales then

Onto the next thing, I’ve stated in a previous post where I laid out what kind of season for the game I would design and part of that was adding a database

Overwatch Declassified is about 200 pages of various things that can be put in as database entries, the sheer amount of lore from the various future heroes that were not subtly hinted at to the lore of the world and hints at potential future maps and lore about the existing maps

Seriously, Declassified alone is enough to start an in game database, throw in the skins and sprays that have lore to them and boom, massive database on the lore of the game. If you wanna push it throw in database entries for the short stories, animated shorts, and comics

Seriously Blizzard give some love to the lore fans of Overwatch, to the theorists and fanfic writers. Throw us a fucking bone

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Oliver Milman at The Guardian:

A red food dye that is ubiquitous in American drinks, snacks, candies and cereals may finally be banned by the federal government after years of concern that it has adverse health impacts, particularly upon children. The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said that it could soon act to crack down upon the additive known as red 3, derived from petroleum and used to provide a cherry-red coloring to an array of foods.

“With red 3, we have a petition in front of us to revoke the authorization board, and we’re hopeful that in the next few weeks we’ll be acting on that petition,” Jim Jones, the FDA’s deputy commissioner for human foods, told a US Senate health committee on Thursday. Red 3 is used in nearly 3,000 food products, according to a database by one environmental health group, including Pez, Peeps, Betty Crocker’s products and Dubble Bubble chewing gum. Like other food dyes, it adds nothing of nutritional value and is used instead to add color to foods for marketing purposes. While the FDA said that this food dye, like other such approved additives, is safe to consume if done so correctly, red 3 has been found to be carcinogenic in animals and has been banned for use in cosmetics since 1990. Public health groups have also linked it to behavioral problems in children. Pressure is now building upon the FDA to ban the food dye, along with others that are routinely provided warning labels or are banned in the European Union – yet allowed freely in the US.

The FDA is making a move towards banning Red 3 food dye this is used in many foods.

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

In Brazil, a Powerful Law Protects Biodiversity and Blocks Corporate Piracy

The country’s genetic heritage law aims to compensate Indigenous peoples for their knowledge of the plants and seeds that many US food and agribusiness companies use to develop profitable products.

I In the center of Rio de Janeiro sprawls a lush enclave of tropical flowers, vines, and palm trees, with howler monkeys screeching from the leafy canopies. Just blocks from the traffic-clogged bustle of Rio’s boulevards, the Jardim Botanico do Rio de Janeiro is a remaining 130-acre patch of the rainforest from which the city was carved three centuries ago. Locals and tourists alike go there to enjoy the bounty of Brazil’s legendary abundance of plant and animal life.

But if you are in Brazil representing a company in search of new food, drugs, or cosmetics, the Jardim’s research center is of far greater significance than the meandering garden paths. Here, inside a former colonial villa, the Jardim maintains what amounts to an inventory of the nation’s plant life, more than 65,000 samples.

Each one is a potential treasure trove for companies seeking new plant-based products. And each is now subject to a Brazilian law governing genetic resources, the Law on Access to Genetic Heritage and Associated Traditional Knowledge—known as the genetic heritage law—which is finally being implemented after almost a decade of political and logistical hurdles.

While data on the nation’s plant life is inventoried at the Jardim in Rio, the most powerful tool for implementing this ambitious new law resides in a locked chamber 600 miles away in the nation’s capital of Brasilia. There, in the basement of the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, sits an extensive database for registering access to and paying benefits for the nation’s abundant quantities of genetic resources.

Continue reading.

[tomblomfield]

Vibecoding a production app

TL;DR I built and launched a recipe app with about 20 hours of work - recipeninja.ai

Background: I'm a startup founder turned investor. I taught myself (bad) PHP in 2000, and picked up Ruby on Rails in 2011. I'd guess 2015 was the last time I wrote a line of Ruby professionally. I've built small side projects over the years, but nothing with any significant usage. So it's fair to say I'm a little rusty, and I never really bothered to learn front end code or design.

In my day job at Y Combinator, I'm around founders who are building amazing stuff with AI every day and I kept hearing about the advances in tools like Lovable, Cursor and Windsurf. I love building stuff and I've always got a list of little apps I want to build if I had more free time.

About a month ago, I started playing with Lovable to build a word game based on Articulate (it's similar to Heads Up or Taboo). I got a working version, but I quickly ran into limitations - I found it very complicated to add a supabase backend, and it kept re-writing large parts of my app logic when I only wanted to make cosmetic changes. It felt like a toy - not ready to build real applications yet.

But I kept hearing great things about tools like Windsurf. A couple of weeks ago, I looked again at my list of app ideas to build and saw "Recipe App". I've wanted to build a hands-free recipe app for years. I love to cook, but the problem with most recipe websites is that they're optimized for SEO, not for humans. So you have pages and pages of descriptive crap to scroll through before you actually get to the recipe. I've used the recipe app Paprika to store my recipes in one place, but honestly it feels like it was built in 2009. The UI isn't great for actually cooking. My hands are covered in food and I don't really want to touch my phone or computer when I'm following a recipe.

So I set out to build what would become RecipeNinja.ai

For this project, I decided to use Windsurf. I wanted a Rails 8 API backend and React front-end app and Windsurf set this up for me in no time. Setting up homebrew on a new laptop, installing npm and making sure I'm on the right version of Ruby is always a pain. Windsurf did this for me step-by-step. I needed to set up SSH keys so I could push to GitHub and Heroku. Windsurf did this for me as well, in about 20% of the time it would have taken me to Google all of the relevant commands.

I was impressed that it started using the Rails conventions straight out of the box. For database migrations, it used the Rails command-line tool, which then generated the correct file names and used all the correct Rails conventions. I didn't prompt this specifically - it just knew how to do it. It one-shotted pretty complex changes across the React front end and Rails backend to work seamlessly together.

To start with, the main piece of functionality was to generate a complete step-by-step recipe from a simple input ("Lasagne"), generate an image of the finished dish, and then allow the user to progress through the recipe step-by-step with voice narration of each step. I used OpenAI for the LLM and ElevenLabs for voice. "Grandpa Spuds Oxley" gave it a friendly southern accent.

Recipe summary:

And the recipe step-by-step view:

I was pretty astonished that Windsurf managed to integrate both the OpenAI and Elevenlabs APIs without me doing very much at all. After we had a couple of problems with the open AI Ruby library, it quickly fell back to a raw ruby HTTP client implementation, but I honestly didn't care. As long as it worked, I didn't really mind if it used 20 lines of code or two lines of code. And Windsurf was pretty good about enforcing reasonable security practices. I wanted to call Elevenlabs directly from the front end while I was still prototyping stuff, and Windsurf objected very strongly, telling me that I was risking exposing my private API credentials to the Internet. I promised I'd fix it before I deployed to production and it finally acquiesced.

I decided I wanted to add "Advanced Import" functionality where you could take a picture of a recipe (this could be a handwritten note or a picture from a favourite a recipe book) and RecipeNinja would import the recipe. This took a handful of minutes.

Pretty quickly, a pattern emerged; I would prompt for a feature. It would read relevant files and make changes for two or three minutes, and then I would test the backend and front end together. I could quickly see from the JavaScript console or the Rails logs if there was an error, and I would just copy paste this error straight back into Windsurf with little or no explanation. 80% of the time, Windsurf would correct the mistake and the site would work. Pretty quickly, I didn't even look at the code it generated at all. I just accepted all changes and then checked if it worked in the front end.

After a couple of hours of work on the recipe generation, I decided to add the concept of "Users" and include Google Auth as a login option. This would require extensive changes across the front end and backend - a database migration, a new model, new controller and entirely new UI. Windsurf one-shotted the code. It didn't actually work straight away because I had to configure Google Auth to add `localhost` as a valid origin domain, but Windsurf talked me through the changes I needed to make on the Google Auth website. I took a screenshot of the Google Auth config page and pasted it back into Windsurf and it caught an error I had made. I could login to my app immediately after I made this config change. Pretty mindblowing. You can now see who's created each recipe, keep a list of your own recipes, and toggle each recipe to public or private visibility. When I needed to set up Heroku to host my app online, Windsurf generated a bunch of terminal commands to configure my Heroku apps correctly. It went slightly off track at one point because it was using old Heroku APIs, so I pointed it to the Heroku docs page and it fixed it up correctly.

I always dreaded adding custom domains to my projects - I hate dealing with Registrars and configuring DNS to point at the right nameservers. But Windsurf told me how to configure my GoDaddy domain name DNS to work with Heroku, telling me exactly what buttons to press and what values to paste into the DNS config page. I pointed it at the Heroku docs again and Windsurf used the Heroku command line tool to add the "Custom Domain" add-ons I needed and fetch the right Heroku nameservers. I took a screenshot of the GoDaddy DNS settings and it confirmed it was right.

I can see very soon that tools like Cursor & Windsurf will integrate something like Browser Use so that an AI agent will do all this browser-based configuration work with zero user input.

I'm also impressed that Windsurf will sometimes start up a Rails server and use curl commands to check that an API is working correctly, or start my React project and load up a web preview and check the front end works. This functionality didn't always seem to work consistently, and so I fell back to testing it manually myself most of the time.

When I was happy with the code, it wrote git commits for me and pushed code to Heroku from the in-built command line terminal. Pretty cool!

I do have a few niggles still. Sometimes it's a little over-eager - it will make more changes than I want, without checking with me that I'm happy or the code works. For example, it might try to commit code and deploy to production, and I need to press "Stop" and actually test the app myself. When I asked it to add analytics, it went overboard and added 100 different analytics events in pretty insignificant places. When it got trigger-happy like this, I reverted the changes and gave it more precise commands to follow one by one.

The one thing I haven't got working yet is automated testing that's executed by the agent before it decides a task is complete; there's probably a way to do it with custom rules (I have spent zero time investigating this). It feels like I should be able to have an integration test suite that is run automatically after every code change, and then any test failures should be rectified automatically by the AI before it says it's finished.

Also, the AI should be able to tail my Rails logs to look for errors. It should spot things like database queries and automatically optimize my Active Record queries to make my app perform better. At the moment I'm copy-pasting in excerpts of the Rails logs, and then Windsurf quickly figures out that I've got an N+1 query problem and fixes it. Pretty cool.

Refactoring is also kind of painful. I've ended up with several files that are 700-900 lines long and contain duplicate functionality. For example, list recipes by tag and list recipes by user are basically the same.

Recipes by user:

This should really be identical to list recipes by tag, but Windsurf has implemented them separately.

Recipes by tag:

If I ask Windsurf to refactor these two pages, it randomly changes stuff like renaming analytics events, rewriting user-facing alerts, and changing random little UX stuff, when I really want to keep the functionality exactly the same and only move duplicate code into shared modules. Instead, to successfully refactor, I had to ask Windsurf to list out ideas for refactoring, then prompt it specifically to refactor these things one by one, touching nothing else. That worked a little better, but it still wasn't perfect

Sometimes, adding minor functionality to the Rails API will often change the entire API response, rather just adding a couple of fields. Eg It will occasionally change Index Recipes to nest responses in an object { "recipes": [ ] }, versus just returning an array, which breaks the frontend. And then another minor change will revert it. This is where adding tests to identify and prevent these kinds of API changes would be really useful. When I ask Windsurf to fix these API changes, it will instead change the front end to accept the new API json format and also leave the old implementation in for "backwards compatibility". This ends up with a tangled mess of code that isn't really necessary. But I'm vibecoding so I didn't bother to fix it.

Then there was some changes that just didn't work at all. Trying to implement Posthog analytics in the front end seemed to break my entire app multiple times. I tried to add user voice commands ("Go to the next step"), but this conflicted with the eleven labs voice recordings. Having really good git discipline makes vibe coding much easier and less stressful. If something doesn't work after 10 minutes, I can just git reset head --hard. I've not lost very much time, and it frees me up to try more ambitious prompts to see what the AI can do. Less technical users who aren't familiar with git have lost months of work when the AI goes off on a vision quest and the inbuilt revert functionality doesn't work properly. It seems like adding more native support for version control could be a massive win for these AI coding tools.

Another complaint I've heard is that the AI coding tools don't write "production" code that can scale. So I decided to put this to the test by asking Windsurf for some tips on how to make the application more performant. It identified I was downloading 3 MB image files for each recipe, and suggested a Rails feature for adding lower resolution image variants automatically. Two minutes later, I had thumbnail and midsize variants that decrease the loading time of each page by 80%. Similarly, it identified inefficient N+1 active record queries and rewrote them to be more efficient. There are a ton more performance features that come built into Rails - caching would be the next thing I'd probably add if usage really ballooned.

Before going to production, I kept my promise to move my Elevenlabs API keys to the backend. Almost as an afterthought, I asked asked Windsurf to cache the voice responses so that I'd only make an Elevenlabs API call once for each recipe step; after that, the audio file was stored in S3 using Rails ActiveStorage and served without costing me more credits. Two minutes later, it was done. Awesome.

At the end of a vibecoding session, I'd write a list of 10 or 15 new ideas for functionality that I wanted to add the next time I came back to the project. In the past, these lists would've built up over time and never gotten done. Each task might've taken me five minutes to an hour to complete manually. With Windsurf, I was astonished how quickly I could work through these lists. Changes took one or two minutes each, and within 30 minutes I'd completed my entire to do list from the day before. It was astonishing how productive I felt. I can create the features faster than I can come up with ideas.

Before launching, I wanted to improve the design, so I took a quick look at a couple of recipe sites. They were much more visual than my site, and so I simply told Windsurf to make my design more visual, emphasizing photos of food. Its first try was great. I showed it to a couple of friends and they suggested I should add recipe categories - "Thai" or "Mexican" or "Pizza" for example. They showed me the DoorDash app, so I took a screenshot of it and pasted it into Windsurf. My prompt was "Give me a carousel of food icons that look like this". Again, this worked in one shot. I think my version actually looks better than Doordash 🤷‍♂️

Doordash:

My carousel:

I also saw I was getting a console error from missing Favicon. I always struggle to make Favicon for previous sites because I could never figure out where they were supposed to go or what file format they needed. I got OpenAI to generate me a little recipe ninja icon with a transparent background and I saved it into my project directory. I asked Windsurf what file format I need and it listed out nine different sizes and file formats. Seems annoying. I wondered if Windsurf could just do it all for me. It quickly wrote a series of Bash commands to create a temporary folder, resize the image and create the nine variants I needed. It put them into the right directory and then cleaned up the temporary directory. I laughed in amazement. I've never been good at bash scripting and I didn't know if it was even possible to do what I was asking via the command line. I guess it is possible.

After launching and posting on Twitter, a few hundred users visited the site and generated about 1000 recipes. I was pretty happy! Unfortunately, the next day I woke up and saw that I had a $700 OpenAI bill. Someone had been abusing the site and costing me a lot of OpenAI credits by creating a single recipe over and over again - "Pasta with Shallots and Pineapple". They did this 12,000 times. Obviously, I had not put any rate limiting in.

Still, I was determined not to write any code. I explained the problem and asked Windsurf to come up with solutions. Seconds later, I had 15 pretty good suggestions. I implemented several (but not all) of the ideas in about 10 minutes and the abuse stopped dead in its tracks. I won't tell you which ones I chose in case Mr Shallots and Pineapple is reading. The app's security is not perfect, but I'm pretty happy with it for the scale I'm at. If I continue to grow and get more abuse, I'll implement more robust measures.

Overall, I am astonished how productive Windsurf has made me in the last two weeks. I'm not a good designer or frontend developer, and I'm a very rusty rails dev. I got this project into production 5 to 10 times faster than it would've taken me manually, and the level of polish on the front end is much higher than I could've achieved on my own.  Over and over again, I would ask for a change and be astonished at the speed and quality with which Windsurf implemented it. I just sat laughing as the computer wrote code.

The next thing I want to change is making the recipe generation process much more immediate and responsive. Right now, it takes about 20 seconds to generate a recipe and for a new user it feels like maybe the app just isn't doing anything.

Instead, I'm experimenting with using Websockets to show a streaming response as the recipe is created. This gives the user immediate feedback that something is happening. It would also make editing the recipe really fun - you could ask it to "add nuts" to the recipe, and see as the recipe dynamically updates 2-3 seconds later. You could also say "Increase the quantities to cook for 8 people" or "Change from imperial to metric measurements".

I have a basic implementation working, but there are still some rough edges. I might actually go and read the code this time to figure out what it's doing!

I also want to add a full voice agent interface so that you don't have to touch the screen at all. Halfway through cooking a recipe, you might ask "I don't have cilantro - what could I use instead?" or say "Set a timer for 30 minutes". That would be my dream recipe app!

Tools like Windsurf or Cursor aren't yet as useful for non-technical users - they're extremely powerful and there are still too many ways to blow your own face off. I have a fairly good idea of the architecture that I want Windsurf to implement, and I could quickly spot when it was going off track or choosing a solution that was inappropriately complicated for the feature I was building. At the moment, a technical background is a massive advantage for using Windsurf. As a rusty developer, it made me feel like I had superpowers.

But I believe within a couple of months, when things like log tailing and automated testing and native version control get implemented, it will be an extremely powerful tool for even non-technical people to write production-quality apps. The AI will be able to make complex changes and then verify those changes are actually working. At the moment, it feels like it's making a best guess at what will work and then leaving the user to test it. Implementing better feedback loops will enable a truly agentic, recursive, self-healing development flow. It doesn't feel like it needs any breakthrough in technology to enable this. It's just about adding a few tool calls to the existing LLMs. My mind races as I try to think through the implications for professional software developers.

Meanwhile, the LLMs aren't going to sit still. They're getting better at a frightening rate. I spoke to several very capable software engineers who are Y Combinator founders in the last week. About a quarter of them told me that 95% of their code is written by AI. In six or twelve months, I just don't think software engineering is going exist in the same way as it does today. The cost of creating high-quality, custom software is quickly trending towards zero.

You can try the site yourself at recipeninja.ai

Here's a complete list of functionality. Of course, Windsurf just generated this list for me 🫠

RecipeNinja: Comprehensive Functionality Overview

Core Concept: the app appears to be a cooking assistant application that provides voice-guided recipe instructions, allowing users to cook hands-free while following step-by-step recipe guidance.

Backend (Rails API) Functionality

User Authentication & Authorization

Google OAuth integration for user authentication

User account management with secure authentication flows

Authorization system ensuring users can only access their own private recipes or public recipes

Recipe Management

Recipe Model Features:

Unique public IDs (format: "r_" + 14 random alphanumeric characters) for security

User ownership (user_id field with NOT NULL constraint)

Public/private visibility toggle (default: private)

Comprehensive recipe data storage (title, ingredients, steps, cooking time, etc.)

Image attachment capability using Active Storage with S3 storage in production

Recipe Tagging System:

Many-to-many relationship between recipes and tags

Tag model with unique name attribute

RecipeTag join model for the relationship

Helper methods for adding/removing tags from recipes

Recipe API Endpoints:

CRUD operations for recipes

Pagination support with metadata (current_page, per_page, total_pages, total_count)

Default sorting by newest first (created_at DESC)

Filtering recipes by tags

Different serializers for list view (RecipeSummarySerializer) and detail view (RecipeSerializer)

Voice Generation

Voice Recording System:

VoiceRecording model linked to recipes

Integration with Eleven Labs API for text-to-speech conversion

Caching of voice recordings in S3 to reduce API calls

Unique identifiers combining recipe_id, step_id, and voice_id

Force regeneration option for refreshing recordings

Audio Processing:

Using streamio-ffmpeg gem for audio file analysis

Active Storage integration for audio file management

S3 storage for audio files in production

Recipe Import & Generation

RecipeImporter Service:

OpenAI integration for recipe generation

Conversion of text recipes into structured format

Parsing and normalization of recipe data

Import from photos functionality

Frontend (React) Functionality

User Interface Components

Recipe Selection & Browsing:

Recipe listing with pagination

Real-time updates with 10-second polling mechanism

Tag filtering functionality

Recipe cards showing summary information (without images)

"View Details" and "Start Cooking" buttons for each recipe

Recipe Detail View:

Complete recipe information display

Recipe image display

Tag display with clickable tags

Option to start cooking from this view

Cooking Experience:

Step-by-step recipe navigation

Voice guidance for each step

Keyboard shortcuts for hands-free control:

Arrow keys for step navigation

Space for play/pause audio

Escape to return to recipe selection

URL-based step tracking (e.g., /recipe/r_xlxG4bcTLs9jbM/classic-lasagna/steps/1)

State Management & Data Flow

Recipe Service:

API integration for fetching recipes

Support for pagination parameters

Tag-based filtering

Caching mechanisms for recipe data

Image URL handling for detailed views

Authentication Flow:

Google OAuth integration using environment variables

User session management

Authorization header management for API requests

Progressive Web App Features

PWA capabilities for installation on devices

Responsive design for various screen sizes

Favicon and app icon support

Deployment Architecture

Two-App Structure:

cook-voice-api: Rails backend on Heroku

cook-voice-wizard: React frontend/PWA on Heroku

Backend Infrastructure:

Ruby 3.2.2

PostgreSQL database (Heroku PostgreSQL addon)

Amazon S3 for file storage

Environment variables for configuration

Frontend Infrastructure:

React application

Environment variable configuration

Static buildpack on Heroku

SPA routing configuration

Security Measures:

HTTPS enforcement

Rails credentials system

Environment variables for sensitive information

Public ID system to mask database IDs

This comprehensive overview covers the major functionality of the Cook Voice application based on the available information. The application appears to be a sophisticated cooking assistant that combines recipe management with voice guidance to create a hands-free cooking experience.

[chemxpertdatabase]

How to Find a Reputable Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) Supplier

The pharmaceutical industry relies heavily on high-quality Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) to manufacture safe and effective pharmaceutical products. Finding a reputable API supplier is crucial for ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, maintaining product integrity, and sustaining business success. In this article, we explore key considerations for identifying reliable API suppliers, including the importance of drug master file (DMF) registration and leveraging pharmaceutical company datasets.

[the-most-humble-blog]

🧬🔞 You Statistically Shouldn't Exist—and Frankly, It's Weird That You Do 🔥

(Or, How You're an Absurd Statistical Anomaly Who Should Feel Deeply Uncomfortable About Even Breathing Right Now)

📚 FIRST OFF, LET'S CLEAR SOMETHING UP:

Statistically speaking, you shouldn’t exist. No, seriously—not at all.

I know that your high school guidance counselor told you you’re “special” and that the stars aligned just for you, but honestly, your existence is a grotesque, improbable fluke so mathematically unlikely it makes the concept of Santa Claus look realistic.

🧬 ACTUAL NUMBERS TO RUIN YOUR DAY

Scientists estimate your chance of existing is roughly around:

🎲 1 in 400 trillion (Mel Robbins, TEDxSF) That’s the chance of being born—of your parents meeting, your grandparents surviving war, famine, plague, bad sushi, expired gas station shrimp, or countless other “natural selection speedruns.”

💥 Odds of your specific lineage surviving the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs: Effectively 0.00000000000001%. Seriously, T-Rex could’ve wiped out your genetic code before mammals even got a chance.

☄️ The Permian-Triassic extinction event killed 96% of life. (Smithsonian Institution) Every one of your ancestors dodged mass extinction events like your Aunt Sheila dodges paying for brunch. And yet, here you are, munching Cheetos and watching reruns of “The Office” while existential dread softly hums beneath your awareness.

👽 YOU’RE MORE LIKELY TO BE ABDUCTED BY ALIENS THAN TO EXIST RIGHT NOW.

Let’s put your existence in uncomfortable perspective:

👾 Odds of alien life existing somewhere in the observable universe: About 1 in 2 (Drake Equation)

⚡️ Odds of you existing to witness alien life? So slim it's honestly embarrassing—(approximately 0.000000000000000000000000000002%). (Totally Scientific Estimation)

Aliens would have better odds landing directly on your face at this very second than you had of actually existing. Think about that tonight when you're trying to fall asleep.

🦕 BUT WAIT, LET'S GO BACK FURTHER:

Human species survival rate: Pathetically slim.

🦠 Estimated Human Extinction Rate: Around 99.9% of all species ever alive have gone extinct. (National Geographic) You’re breathing air today because every one of your ancestors miraculously dodged annihilation. Like an endless horror-movie franchise, your bloodline somehow survived events intended explicitly to remove you. Congrats, you improbable cosmic cockroach.

🔥 OKAY, LET'S GET EVEN MORE SPECIFIC (AND HORRIFIC):

📌 Odds Your Ancestors Survived These VERY SPECIFIC Horrors:

🐀 The Black Death (1347–1351):

75 million died; Europe lost about half its population (Encyclopedia Britannica). And you’re complaining about traffic?

🍄 Odds your ancestors survived lethal fungi poisoning? Roughly 1 in 5. (Historical Medical Journal) Someone literally risked a painful death by explosive diarrhea so you could scroll TikTok on your lunch break.

⚔️ The Crusades alone? 3 million dead, approximately 40% of entire regions wiped clean (Medieval History Database). Yet your DNA stubbornly persisted, crawling out of corpses like some grotesque phoenix determined to one day download TikTok.

🧬 "BUT I'M SPECIAL!" WRONG AGAIN.

You’re a 99.9% genetic copy of everyone else walking around (National Human Genome Research Institute). You’re not even a particularly unique biological mistake—you’re a carbon-based meat puppet walking a tightrope of planetary hazards. And you have the nerve to consider yourself an “individual.”

At best, you’re a copy-pasted NPC with slightly unique cosmetic choices, like a bad Skyrim character customization. At worst? You’re just another identical clone in this cosmic petri dish.

⌛️ YOUR EXISTENCE IS TEMPORARY, AND REALITY IS UNSTABLE:

The odds of human civilization collapsing before 2100? Scientists estimate around 49% chance. (Global Challenges Foundation Annual Report)

Odds your entire species survives the next asteroid, solar flare, nuclear war, or “accidental AI oopsie” incident? Grim.

Odds you personally survive even the next 50 years? Shockingly low if you continue doom-scrolling at 3 AM eating microwave nachos. (Personal estimation: extremely likely.)

🕳 YOU SHOULDN’T BE HERE. NEITHER SHOULD I.

The brutal truth: Life is nothing but a statistically improbable accident.

The even worse truth: You aren’t appreciating it enough.

While your ancestors bravely fought predators, plagues, famines, and wars, you’re panic-ordering overpriced lattes and posting selfies with dog filters. They survived mammoths, volcanoes, and bacterial infections without antibiotics. You’re panicking because Starbucks messed up your latte.

Humans spend about 33 years of their lives sleeping. (World Economic Forum) Your ancestors didn’t survive woolly mammoths, ice ages, and black death for you to spend a third of your brief existence unconscious in bed. (But go ahead, hit snooze again. I dare you.)

💡 FINAL LESSON FROM THE SCHOLAMANCE:

Life isn't precious—it’s absurdly improbable.

You, right now, reading this stupid little blog post, exist due to:

Mass extinctions dodged ✅

Multiple catastrophes avoided ✅

Diseases survived through sheer dumb luck ✅

Disasters narrowly escaped ✅

Millions of years of evolutionary trial and error leading directly to your Cheeto-dust-covered fingers

📢 FINAL VERDICT:

The universe went through 13.8 billion years of elaborate accidents to accidentally create you—someone who reads Tumblr posts about existential dread.

You are not special. You are not inevitable. You are the highly improbable, hilarious punchline of cosmic randomness.

You shouldn't exist. But you do. So act accordingly.

Enjoy your meaningless existence, you improbable miracle of chaos.

😈 REBLOG if you're an impossible mistake and proud of it. 💬 COMMENT your favorite existential crisis (mine is waking up every day). 🧟‍♂️ FOLLOW Scholomance Society for more cheerful nihilism.

[sntechsupport]

Patch 5.0.0

And with this, the new version of Sburb (or whatever you call it) is live! Please update your game to this patch at your soonest convenience, because we do not have the capacity to handle old glitches. Migrate your Sessions to the 5.0.0, because we our old servers are decaying and if you do not want your Session to be erased from existence completely and retroactively, you need to be on this patch.

Known issues with migration: Some Quests reset or disappear completely with their NPCs. Classpect reassignment. Level reset. Prototyping scramble (Reassignment of prototyped properties between Players). Inability to use certain weapons because their strife specibus tag got changed.

Patch properties:

Prototyping: You no longer need to track your pre-Entry and post-Entry prototyping. First prototyping in each Sprite imbues the moon, the second affects only the sprite itself. Sentient creatures (living or otherwise) are no longer eligible for First Prototyping (thus putting an end to sprite^64+s multikins, because the code did not like that).

Prototyping, pt. 2: Frogs, First Guardians, neutrinos, non-physical entities, Charge entities, databases, and Aspect entities are no longer eligible for Prototyping at all. SkaiaNet reserves the right to remove eligibility for Prototyping to pieces of media and culture in the future without announcing it beforehand in order to maintain integrity and sensibility of the game and balanced gameplay. Itemised list of Prototyping ineligible objects and subjects will be accessible.

Code: General overhaul of inner math and handling of small (e-50+) and big (e+50) numbers. Furthermore, the surface code levels no longer needs physical properties to work, so you do not have to physically haul around brackets and commas. (That's probably more interesting for me than for you, but anyway, you can stop sending brackets now.)

Land generation: The possible Land Themes have been revisited. Most of the favorites of our Graphic Department have been permanently removed, with the honorable exception of Pots, which will now generate structures similar to Crockery.

All Lands will now generate as Land Of [Theme/Concept] And [Material/Structure], except for the Breeding Grounds which will always be Land Of [Material/Structure] And Frogs.

Each possible Land Theme now has an assigned tag whether it is Material, Structure, Theme or Concept. Frogs are tagged as Theme, which I am sure will be appreciated by anyone who had to deal with Consort settlements being build out of gigantic frog carcasses.

Land Variant Themes: Each Material/Structure Land Theme now gets two random modifiers out of six: Large (10% chance), Ruined (10% chance), Floating (5 % chance), Plentiful (5% chance), Colorful (5% chance), and Classic (65 % chance). These modifiers are invisible and only affects Land generation. Therefore you have 42.25% probability of having a "classic" Land, 57.75% chance that it will generate in its alternate variation. If your Land Theme generates two of the same modifiers, they do not add up, because we haven't figured out how to make floating stuff float more, and Colorful^2 gave yours truly a terrible headache upon testing.

Land generation: Internally Lands are now identifief by their generated number which is Session ID-PlayerNumber-LandTag1-LandTag2. Since no Player gets the same Land generated twice in on one session, this will solve a lot of problems.

Aspects: Aspects are receiving a cosmetic graphic overhaul and a large thematic overhaul. Aspects now have a pool of specific Aspect Abilities which anyone with the corresponding Aspect in their Classpect can use as long as they pass the conditions given by their Class.

Aspect Interpretation: For unified terminology and game balance, each Aspect has four possible interpretations AKA "stuff it does". You can specialize in one or two or generalize. Mastery of all four is obtainable by boring grinding. The interpretations are unofficially called: Literal, Lateral, Derived, and Elemental.

Aspect Names: With the thematic overhaul, some Aspects have been renamed to match better their visuals and also be more intuitive to use. These changes are: Rhyme -> Verse; Flow -> Roots; Law -> Chain; Stage -> Veil.

Classes: Classes are receiving an unifying overhaul in abilities. Each Class now has Class abilities which everyone with the corresponding Class in their Classpect can use, but its effect depends on their Aspect.

Dream Moons: The Revolution, Contra-Revolution, Fifth Game, and Usurper Questlines are now for once and for good only one per Moon.

Derse: You can no longer partake in a sexual act with the Dersites. For the record, you can't with Prospitians either, but that's never really been a problem.

Dersepite: No longer a thing, even in 1-Player Sessions. Goodbye, Dersepite, you shan't be missed.

Chapters: The game chapters (usually called stages) have been slightly reordered to be more intuitive, and also the connecting points have been de-cluttered and straightened, so now you should clearly know in which chapter you are, and where are you heading next. The chapers now go: Awakening -> Terraforming -> Reckoning -> Crystalizing -> Descending -> Ascending. [Aspect]ing has been fully merged with Ascending. Terraforming has been moved before Reckoning, because people generally try to tackle the Black King under-prepared. Descending has been moved as far back as possible, because feedback has been that everyone and their guardian units hate it, which, completely understandable. Reckoning still marks the end of the standard gameplay, from Crystalizing forward it's basically epilogue.

Accessibility: Besides improving the screen-reader and closed captions, the options menu now has Color Modes setting where you can pick your contrast and adjust color schemes display to suit your needs; there are pre-sets for the most common types of color-blindness. Screen-reader and text-to-speech still don't handle typing quirks. You have to ask your co-Players to stop.

Living Hell: Transfer to patch 5.0.0 isn't possible without general amnesty, so everyone stuck in Living Hell, regardless of their crimes, have been released. However, if you do not behave, LH still exists, and putting people there is actually rather easy.

Charges: Charge Influences no longer accumulate exponentially.

Charge Dormancy: Added Charge Dormancy value. Every game tick every Player’s every Charge Influence decreases by its respective Charge Dormancy. Charge Dormancy cannot be lower than zero. Some item tags have Charge Dormancy, they add up.

Grimdark, Angelight: As a result of Charge Dormancy being added, the Grimdark and Angelight Charges can be now dropped without dying.

[identifying-guns-in-posts]

welcome!

i'm a bit of a nerd when it comes to guns, and thought randomly at some point that it'd be fun to start this gimmick blog and try to identify guns in various posts. however I do still kind of consider myself to be in the dunning-kruger valley, and gun identification is a bit more complex than car identification due to just how many variants of individual gun patterns there are, and how much easier it is to do modifications of them...

(ask / submission rules and other guidelines are further down in this post)

I'll try to at least identify the general pattern of the gun or any recognizable parts and cross reference with images and articles to make a decision. If your post or submission is from a particular piece of media, it's extremely likely for it to already be documented on the Internet Movie Firearms Database wiki website, so some answers will probably be pulled straight from there.

For example, the wiki clearly outlines that, in the above blog header, which is from the anime/manga Lycoris Recoil (IMFDB link here), Chisato (left) canonically uses a Detonics CombatMaster (variant of Colt 1911 pattern, chambered in .45 ACP), specifically one that incorporates elements of the Tokyo Marui Strike Warrior Airsoft replica (notable in the strike face compensator and modified rear sight). Takina (right) meanwhile uses a somewhat generic Smith and Wesson M&P9 PRO, chambered in 9x19mm, with the extended 5" barrel.

To make up for how garbage I am at getting specifics right, I may also offer some bits of trivia about the gun(s) in question and/or their implementation. For example, although Chisato's gun seems based off of the Tokyo Marui design, it notably has three port holes at the top of the compensator as compared to the single port in the original; it might be a bit more effective as a real compensator than the very-Airsoft cosmetic fixing of the TM replica. It also lacks the accessory rail in the anime. Additionally, Takina's signature sidearm, the M&P9, is extremely common in modern law enforcement (you might even recognize the handle of it in the "(A) Steal Officer's Service Weapon" meme), so it's a bit of a "cop gun" in a sense; which possibly matches how Takina essentially serves as the by-the-numbers half of the pseudo-buddycop pairing formed by her and Chisato. Interestingly enough, all other Lycoris agents are seen wielding Glock 17s instead...

asks

I'm always open to asks if you want to ask me anything, but if you want me to identify something, you should probably make it a submission!

submissions/tags

Only submit requests for identification of guns OR fictional gun reviews (more on that in another section)! Preferably memes and posts. You can also submit things from media like video games and anime, but you could probably get a faster answer through IMFDB than me >~>

If your submission or tag is for a "cursed gun" then some special rules apply. If it's a real life picture of some effed up monstrosity, I will do my best to identify it with a real, pre-built gun; otherwise, I'll try to identify parts that may have been used for it. If it's clearly an edited picture or some other form of drawing, concept, or very clearly fictional gun, this will be treated as a "Fictional Gun Review" instead.

Generally speaking I'm looking at "small arms" guns; I'm not super well-versed on artillery pieces and aircraft weapons and the like. I know a handful of rocket launchers and might be able to pick out a couple but those are also pretty hard for me.

Fictional Gun Reviews

I'm also a bit of a hobbyist game designer and like creating weapon designs myself! I can take a look at strictly fictional weapon designs and give some cursory criticism on whether or not the gun would actually function in the configuration it's in (checking things like barrel/bolt/magazine alignment, etc.), what parts of it I recognize from real guns, and an overall subjective rating.

about me

i'm a 21+ trans woman (she/her) and pansexual/biromantic disaster married to a hot butch wife. i'm also an independent game developer and secretly a streamer on another alias of mine. i like guns! i like the history of guns and the engineering of guns. personal favorites are sniper rifles, particularly the L96A1, the first military-specification sniper rifle made by Accuracy International, which served as the prototype of the Arctic Warfare line of rifles, popularized by Counter Strike's AWP (though the classification of "AWP" is incorrect for the particular weapon featured in the series, it's actually an AWM .338). favorite pistol is probably the Beretta 93R, a 3 round burst fire pistol with a similar pattern to the iconic M9 pistol. i also like the MP7 PDW (obvious half life 2 fan is obvious), the MAC10 (by far the coolest machine pistol to fire in akimbo lol), and the G36C (one of the first guns I ever decided to look up more information about many years ago after picking it up in Garry's Mod of all places).

[darkmaga-returns]

In recent years we have researched the health problems caused by shampoo, sunscreen, soap, underarm deodorants and tampons. The dangers of these products stems from both chemical toxicity and their interference with beneficial bodily processes. However, there is another class of products that needed to be addressed: makeup.

Now we know that there are a lot of men in the audience but I seriously encourage all of them to watch this video for a couple of reasons. The first is that they can share this information with those important females in their lives whether they be wives, partners, daughters or mothers. The second is that male products such as shaving creams, aftershaves, and cologne can also be equally toxic.

In this video I outline some of the most toxic ingredients that are found in these products and why some are not even disclosed by the manufacturers. We will also expose production contaminants and how combinations of certain compounds can enhance toxicity. And finally I will share my easy solution to the whole problem.

References

MGNaturals Makeup – Use discount code DRBAILEY to receive 10% off your first order

“Here’s Why I Quit Shampoo”, Dr Sam Bailey, 17 Jun 2023

“Does Sunscreen Cause Cancer?”, Dr Sam Bailey, 23 Sep 2023

“Better Skin With No Soap”, Dr Sam Bailey, 29 Jul 2023

“The Deodorant Detox”, Dr Sam Bailey, 14 Oct 2023

“Toxic Shock: Bacteria vs Terrain”, Dr Sam Bailey, 27 Jul 2024

“IARC group 2B” (“possibly carcinogenic to humans”), Wikipedia (accessed 1 Dec 2024)

“IARC Working Group on the Evaluation of the Carcinogenic Risk of Chemicals to Humans”, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 1986

“p-PHENYLENEDIAMINE”, The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (archived)

“Consumers: Commission improves safety of cosmetics”, European Commission, press release, 26 Sep 2014

“Direct Human Contact with Siloxanes (Silicones)”, Frontiers in Pharmacology, 30 May 2016

“Critical substances in creams, lip care products and petroleum jelly”, Stiftung Warentest, 26 May 2015 (translated from German)

Cosmetic database ingredient checker: https://www.ewg.org/skindeep/