#Open Data Day

[mewkwota]

A teeny theoretical sketch I drew on a plane of Juno being scolded(?) by one of his superiors. The phrase in mind was "knowing your place".

That place being several feet underground in a snug little box (I know it's not little hush).

[bitchfitch]

Ok, so there's this entire economy that's built on returned/overstock goods that were on shelves in America eventually ending up in Mexico right?

Random companies like Target or whatever pay X dollars to put some crap on their shelves until it's clear it's just not selling, so instead of eating the loss they sell it at basically 0 profit to some asshole with a truck and the ability to tolerate the god awful amount of paperwork moving goods across that border entail.

Ok and then that some asshole gets to the border and they go through everything they've got and decide what's worth Actually paying the import taxes on and what's basically just land filler. And they take their trash pile and they go to the trash store in whichever border town their in, and say "hey you want this crap?" and the trash store owner says "Nope! but I know some poor schmucks who'll buy it because they can't afford anything better." And they put the trash on the shelves.

These are all the returns, the opened boxes and damaged but Technically probably still functional, things it was just too expensive to try to import into Mexico bc they were worth less then it would cost in fees to get them on shelves there.

Ok, and as a child of one of these towns, you go in to these stores and you buy a basically new Video Game™ for like 2 dollars. And it's crap. Its not shovelware for a show you think you've never heard of or anything but it was still something made to put Product™ on Shelf™ and it'll be lost media in a few years because every single copy ended up in un marked cardboard boxes in towns like yours.

but it's what you had the money for and so it's what you think all games are like until you move somewhere with an actual game store and find out that wait no, theres games that don't crash constantly and have more depth than a dry river. You see the same crap games that were all over your town but no one buys them because they have better options. which is how they end up on the trash store shelves eventually.

And then a decade or some odd later you have to deal with people who've always had access to the good stuff and the word of mouth knowledge or TV commercials or magazines to tell them What was good before they bought it claiming the crap they bought and returned or never gave time in the first place just didn't exist and that shovelware is an artifact of modern game dev instead of something that was always there since the beginning.

[crow-caller]

Upd8:

I've been losing a fistfight to mental illness lately but am making progress:

-Bethany's sin review is in progress! I don't think it'll be very long (atm I'm 2k in, my guess would be 6k length, so half an hour?) but who knows.

-my fallen london lore vid (part 1) is MOSTLY done. The main issue is deciding when to call it finished— a lot of admin choices about how much info to give when, what order stuff should be in, etc. I want to strike a balance between spoilers and cool info— "if I wanted to tell a pal about FL, how much lore would I spoil to intrigue them?" Stuff like the Masters being capitalist space bats is technically a big spoiler, but also a huge draw to get peopleto check the game out! Later I hope to do a part 2, part 3 and actually get in depth on the more esoteric aspects of the world, but I want this to be a layman's introduction.

-after these, I still do not have a next book/series picked out. I have so many options and suggestions.... my instinct though is that it is time I read The Cage, aka That YA Book Trilogy About A Human Zoo. That sounds fun.

[project-sekai-facts]

Is it better to choose Strawberry Parfait or Pudding a la mode for the colorful festival?

Pudding a la mode is where all the tierers are, go for that

[ballads-of-breeze]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Nahida & Venti (Genshin Impact) Characters: Nahida (Genshin Impact), Venti (Genshin Impact) Additional Tags: shakes hoyo GIMME NAHIDA AND VENTI FRIENDSHIP, Nahida and Venti are Like Siblings (Genshin Impact), oh hello since when is this a tag :eyes:, 3k words of nahida coming to terms with her current reality, venti is there to help. may i offer u a bard in this trying time, blink n u miss it lil peek at the connections between their domains that i think about all the time Summary:

Nahida contemplates her role as archon and gets a surprise visit from one of the Seven.

(Nahida isn't the first god to feel nervous about their duty.)

[unopenablebox]

eternal experience of being like "i'm not sure my quantitative analysis is working/the best possible approach and i'm very bad at a) writing code b) forcing myself to endure writing code c) task-switching once i am writing code. oh hey here's someone with extensive experience in this field. do you want an author credit in exchange for helping me write code to find interesting content in this data"

and they're like "well you already did the hard part and this is so easy you could just do it yourself"

and i'm like " :( but i won't"

[greghatecrimes]

holy fuck, you guys. i was expecting maybe… thirty responses? thirty five?? keep em coming!

[justanotherhh]

question for the three people who care

so @rimetin you were floating stolitzarozzie, but my brain is losing fizz in that, not enough fizz. that being said, will it become to vague if it's not a name-smoosh? and in general, how many names can one smoosh before it becomes untenable?

[marianasofiaibarra]

https://www.tumblr.com/rachelchinouriris/777941966325514240/this-guy-straight-up-has-me?source=share

Is it the DnD guy???? Its important for the Logan lore

it is!!!

[lovecolibri]

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[daemon-in-my-head]

Just had a really quite pleasant chat with our new team leader. Turns out, small talk can be fun at times, and apparently, the list of 'people who see me pursuing a career in management' continues to grow. I will never do that, but I appreciate the sentiment that I have "more balls than my colleagues". As, like, the only one who doesn't physically have em. Lol. Lmao even.

[angel-oftheday]

The Angel of the Day is...

Lilie Shirogane

from Aikatsu! series

[cyphochiluscreations]

finished YCH for data x oc wilhelmina!! they are so cute i ship them now tbh

merch ver. here (open until feb 4th 2024)

digital ver. here (open until feb 7th 2024)

[12archetypes]

Guy who has terrible visual memory voice I should draw operators from memory

[unopenablebox]

apparently, by happening to know that you need to preallocate arrays in matlab, i've saved my labmate like five days of simulation time

the shock of having had useful programming-related knowledge not already known to all of mankind was so enormous that i may need to lie down

[pierswife]

Honestly seeing these anons come out of the woodwork talking absolute nonsense is absolutely hilarious