#baystate

[drone-van-gogh]

Sunset over Sturbridge, MA. My wife pointed to the window and said "look at the sky!" 😁 #aerialphotography #sunsetlovers #sunsetphotography #sunset #massachusetts #newengland #newenglandliving #baystate #visit #vacation #destination #visitma #droneoftheday #drones #dronephotography #dronestagram #dronesdaily #drone #beautiful #beauty #beautifulpic #picoftheday #instagood #sturbridgema #smalltown #holidayinn @visitma @holidayinnexpress @holidayinn (at Sturbridge, Massachusetts) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnc8uvDvWHe/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[beanysprout]

goodmorning swampers

[snapcracklepop-myjoints]

Buying my sister a lovely blue ink (baystate blue) because I love her so so much (am secretly evil)

[thenecronomiconeconomist]

Yet another nerd alert. Vivian Shepherd the ship’s chaplain.

Character owned by the wonderful @caledfwlchschime

[plasmodiophora]

The converter decided to fall apart and parts of it went for a dive in the ink.

Also my Sailor PGS Metallic Purple arrived today, hehe ^-^

[baystationband]

[twinktosterone]

the entire side of my middle finger is blue because i’m a victim of my own actions

[maureen-corpse]

My nemesis Organics Studio Nitrogen and I are at work together

[july-19th-club]

my sister has two fountain pens, both very friendly pilots (a metro and a kakuno) and she brought them to me to clean them or fix them bc neither of them write without flow issues . and well her first problem was that she didn't realize she had no ink in one of them. her second problem was that she brought the ink out to refill and ... baystate blue. noodler's inks are imo extremely overhyped in general but what ive discovered this morning as i'm rinsing her pens out at home is that this one leaves a gritty/sludgy residue of blue/black particulate on fucking everything. i knew it stained to high heaven but it's so GUNKY . and almost greasy? sludgy. this stuff is harder to clean than my organics studio nitrogen and nitro is fucking famous in fountain pen reddits for being so staining and hard to clean. if noodler's ink has one million haters im one of them. if noodler's has ten haters im one. if noodler's has one hater that is me. if noodler's has zero haters i am no more on this earth . if the world is with noodlers then i am against the world

[mistakenot4892]

Nebula devblog, July '24

Sneaking in this month's update two days before August due to Nova Lands eating an entire week of dev time and Warframe eating another 2 days. It's a hard life. This one will probably be a bit patchy or sparse as I have genuinely lost track of what was new this month due to leaving it this late. I am a highly trained and competent professional.

Nebula SS13 is an open source project based on the Baystation 12 version of Space Station 13. SS13 is a topdown multiplayer simulation game where you play the crew of a ship, station, colony, etc. depending on your fork and map, with the Nebula and Bay forks having a focus on roleplaying and simulation interactions.

Notable changes

The first phase of a major AI rewrite has gone in, separating AI behavior from mob type so human-type mobs can be given AI. This is mostly to support undead and skeletons on Pyrelight at the moment, but will be much more flexible in general going forward.

Simple wall-based windows/shutters have been added for low tech maps that need airflow and light. Penny's genius idea of having them cast a light cone towards the darker side of the shutter makes for some very aesthetic medieval interiors.

Spacefarers, a ship-based fork, has a new ship, and the painfully tricky shuttle rotation PR Penny has been working on is slowly progressing towards a mergable state. When it goes in, manual ship landing will be greatly expanded as shuttles will be able to rotate to match docking ports, instead of having to strictly dock in the same direction every time.

The atom temperature system has been disabled in several cases due to a lot of weird edge cases and bugs in the simulation. It needs more time in the oven. The disabled interactions include things like all of your blood congealing into black pudding if you stand on a stove, being able to instantly heat a beaker of beer to 5000K with a cigarette lighter, or all of your clothes melting off in a fire.

Penny has also put a bunch of work in to moving most of the 'classic' Baystation SS13 game modes into modpacks. This allows forks to pick and choose which are available, since as funny as it could have been, having high tech spacer mercenaries landing on Middle-Earth wouldn't fit the vibes.

Lots of small changes and features have been coming out of the Pyrelight fantasy map testing. Little things like honey being usable for wound disinfection, various crafting tweaks, and things like flooded turfs not putting out your lamp unless it's deeper than your waist.

Automated movement that previously relied on BYOND's inbuilt walk_to() procs now use a dedicated subsystem that calls the appropriate MayMove()/DoMove() proc chains. This essentially just means AI-driven mobs no longer completely ignore little things like pain, having working legs, or being dead or unconscious when chasing you.

Bugs of note

Trout were completely invisible because their main texture was accidentally named world-trout instead of world. This definitely impacted the trout population.

Undead on Pyrelight don't know how to pick up their weapons if they drop them, so disarming them literally or figuratively makes it turn into a slapfight.

Prosthetic limbs, like cybernetics or peglegs, were getting itchy or developing rashes. Maybe it's psychosomatic.

Simple animals like deer were dying en masse on the wilderness maps due to hail. We didn't intend for hail to be the size of hen eggs and covered in spikes, so deer and such are now unhurt by weather.

Current priorities

Personally my focus has been on getting through the Pyrelight feedback list after each test. Lots of small things come out of each test round and my limited time after my real-world job has cut into my space feature time. The Neb general issue list has been getting a bit long so I'll probably put a weekend into getting that cut down again this month.

Otherwise, I have three big PRs open waiting for me to find the focus to finish them: the floor rewrite (aiee), a wizard modpack and ability rework (needed for Pyrelight, eventually, but augh), and a bee rewrite (beewrite) to make bees and other insect nests available outside of one specific machine on space maps.

NataKillar has an amazing PR in the works that sounds quite mundane: separating liquid and solid reagents in reagent containers like beakers. However, this opens up a buttload of interesting chemical interactions down the track, not the least of which is finally getting ice cubes to not require a dedicated ice material.

[beanysprout]

let him cook

[thenecronomiconeconomist]

Nerd alert. The character is the scientist Seriza Trois, owned by the wonderful @art4turtles13.

[transmutationisms]

DOI 10.1056/NEJMoa0804633 oft-cited 2008 study where sertraline + CBT works better than placebo + CBT for anxiety. Anecdotally, I'm anxious but not depressed, and it worked well for me - distress felt less immediate and I could think it through. I stopped because I didn't like my dreams, and if I forgot or lost access to the pills I'd get anxious AND depressed from withdrawal. Still, "better than placebo" doesn't equate to "proves chem imbalance".

i'd be very cautious about relying on any single study to make any scientific judgment; i'm especially wary about this in regards to psychiatric pharmaceuticals because so many of these turn out to be non-replicable. there are plenty of one-off SSRI studies for depression that show great results and then when you look at the balance of evidence and take into account methodological flaws and author conflicts of interest and p-hacking and misleading presentations of the data, the picture looks very different to what those single studies suggested. this study is also specifically on children, so make of that what you will. also this is the authors' conflict of interest disclosure paragraph:

Dr. Walkup reports receiving consulting fees from Eli Lilly and Jazz Pharmaceuticals and fees for legal consultation to defense counsel and submission of written reports in litigation involving GlaxoSmithKline, receiving lecture fees from CMP Media, Medical Education Reviews, McMahon Group, and DiMedix, and receiving support in the form of free medication and matching placebo from Eli Lilly and free medication from Abbott for clinical trials funded by the NIMH; Dr. Albano, receiving royalties from Oxford University Press for the Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule for DSM-IV, Child and Parent Versions, but not for interviews used in this study, and royalties from the Guilford Press; Dr. Piacentini, receiving royalties from Oxford University Press for treatment manuals on childhood obsessive–compulsive disorder and tic disorders and from the Guilford Press and APA Books for other books on child mental health and receiving lecture fees from Janssen-Cilag; Dr. Birmaher, receiving consulting fees from Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Solvay Pharmaceuticals, and Abcomm, lecture fees from Solvay, and royalties from Random House for a book on children with bipolar disorder; Dr. Rynn, receiving grant support from Neuropharm, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, consulting fees from Wyeth, and royalties from APPI for a book chapter on pediatric anxiety disorders; Dr. McCracken, receiving consulting fees from Sanofi-Aventis and Wyeth, lecture fees from Shire and UCB, and grant support from Aspect, Johnson & Johnson, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Eli Lilly; Dr. Waslick, receiving grant support from Baystate Health, Somerset Pharmaceuticals, and GlaxoSmithKline; Dr. Iyengar, receiving consulting fees from Westinghouse for statistical consultation; Dr. March, receiving study medications from Eli Lilly for an NIMH-funded clinical trial and receiving royalties from Pearson for being the author of the Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children, receiving consulting fees from Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Wyeth, and GlaxoSmithKline, having an equity interest in MedAvante, and serving on an advisory board for AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson; and Dr. Kendall, receiving royalties from Workbook Publishing for anxiety-treatment materials.

[daftpatience]

hey.... the blorbo pens posts have infected me. do you happen to have any good blue pen recommendations.... i likea da blue

ohhh BLUE pens!!! there are a lot out there so ill list off a few of my personal fav fountain pens ^^

first of course is our affordable king the platinum preppy:

then the TWSBI eco T in mint and cerulean and also the TWSBI GO in sapphire!

the kaweco sport also has a few good shades of blues;

the pilot kakuno is super cute and they have a pokemon collection out rn with a cute blue pikachu!

also theres the LAMY safari & AL-star for a more BLUE blue

aaaaand there are a lot more but those ones are the ones i think are cool!!

ALSO since im bringing up fountain pens. im gonna present to u some cool blue inks as well >:) of course there are also TONS of these but im plopping a few that i think r cool >:)

diamine shimmering seas ink is SPARKLY POTION!!!

noodler's baystate blue is so so so SOLID and impervious to many kinds of attack

Pilot Iroshizuku Ama-iro in sky is such a pretty light colour!!

and ferris wheel press' blue beryl tonic. i mean just look at that shading and shimmer good lird

this went on too long!! but i had to i have to many feelings about pens!! enjoy my rampble

[newflowersgrowinapokemonworld]

Welcome...

We are New-Life-Grows-In-Damp-Soil-As-Morning-Dawns, commonly referred to as New-Life-Grows, or simply 'Grows' for short by our... former coworkers. We are... a faller, we believe the most common term is; we believe we may have arrived here after an... accident, aboard the ship we worked upon. We are... excited to explore this new world... and see what we can learn of it.

Upon further inspection of this... site we discovered on our... PDA, we will provide some... basic information:

We are commonly referred to with 'they/them' pronouns.

We are known as a dionaea, or diona gestalt, and are from a... universe where Pokemon do not exist, at least... to our knowledge.

OOC: @furrymemeweirdo here! I've loved the species from Space Station Thirteen, specifically the Baystation branch/server for a long time, and wanted this character (the one I play on that server) to be my first proper Rotomblr blog! I also plan on reblogging at least some artworks of dionaea OOCly so people can see what they're like, aside from the in-game screenshot that serves as my PFP or whatever it's called.

Oh also quite a few/most reblogs where I don’t say anything might be slightly more OOC

New-Life-Grows is an adult but also completely aro/ace, and I'm an adult and maybe aro/ace.

Here's a great piece of artwork showing what a Dionaea/Diona Gestalt looks like!