#cw: programming

[the-hydra-sys]

Saw it on your spam, but "transprogrammer" and "transprogrammed" is exactly what it sounds like: radqueers who think they were meant to be/want to be programmed/a programmer

We saw this but have been letting it sit in our askbox for a while because. Jesus Christ /neg.

[dimeadozencows]

[seenthisepisode]

no offence but the reason tumblr is “dying” is, well, yes, of course the cursed like/reblog ratio and the change in user behaviour (because of people being used to how instagram and tiktok work) BUT also the lack of weekly shows. i say it with my whole chest, they don't produce captivating and engaging stupid weekly tv shows anymore because streaming killed that so you have spikes of activity here when Something happens in general fandom or up to three days after a new season of whatever drops and then it's a wasteland. this is obviously an old woman yelling at a cloud missing supernatural and the vampire diaries and pretty little liars and all these other shows type of post but honestly give me back weekly tv shows where i have something to watch for 40 minutes almost every day of the week after work so then i can read and reblog it on tumblr give it back for the sake of my sanity

[system-vent]

So. Vent about systems cringe. We ended up getting posted there and it was mostly our alter intros. Which whatever. And we just wanna vent since the person we usually speak to for comfort and venting isn't awake right now. Obvs we know systems cringe sucks and they're all just assholes and ableists.

But the fact that they completely misconstrue our words. First it was a joke we made about our programming as we had come out of a breakdown and ranted about it (we are a tbmc survivor) and then now it was our alter intros and like one or two of our light hearted posts. Pretty relieved they didn't post our very angsty rants that DO dig into trauma. They acted like we were making a mockery of the disorder because it's actually suffering because they specifically chose our cutesy alter intros and our very few recent light hearted posts.

I knew it would only be a matter of time before they found us. Makes us paranoid since we have a history of harassment. Even if our profiles weren't shown, our accounts still feel easy to find and stuff.

The biggest thing is how faceless these asshats are. I would love to just fucking block them and never have to worry, but no. So they can just have access to all of us and post it to mock us.

We aren't shocked we eventually got posted and despite our paranoia, we have no intentions of stopping. It's our one safe outlet that gets the thoughts out of our head and allows us to cope with a lot of stuff. Which none of this is new for places like systems cringe or fake disorder cringe. It's just pathetic really. Assuming so much about someone based on a cutesy aesthetic-ish bio they made for their alters to feel seen and all of that.

Plus the assumption all of our alters were programmed or we said that. The only time we put "programmed alters" in tags is when it is talking about a specific alter. We say we are a programmed system and a tbmc survivor. The alters we allow and are okay with being seen are ones not intrinsically linked to programming or our trauma, usually fictives. Pretty sure we even said that in one of the posts, but our memory might be wrong.

You just gotta love people wanting to simply attack mentally ill people that don't fit their idea of what a disorder should look like and for posting happiness. We feel like shit posting dark shit all the time even though our system accounts are for that. So us posting silly posts gets us posted to systems cringe apparently. Shocker. And the fact we have 0 control is triggering to us in many ways

Ultimately we'll be fine. Our accounts are nothing more than essentially journals and we've come a long way since first starting to exist openly as a system. I'm used to people making assumptions about us based on our bios and stuff. We've flat out faced people assuming we were abusive for our disorders so we don't ultimately mind even if it is triggering.

It really is just pathetic. Truly. I don't remember why we ended up on the subreddit again. We were looking at something else and happened to trail onto it. But whatever.

Also a lot of our programmed alters are not ever going to be publicly named or ones more personal because we cannot guarantee our safety from our abuser. So yeah. Of course stuff is gonna be focused on the alters that are recent or goofy or light hearted.

Just...Just frustrating. Just really need to vent about that cause otherwise we will have repetitive thoughts until we can get it out.

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[eikotheblue]

How do you *accidentally* make a programming language?

Oh, it's easy! You make a randomizer for a game, because you're doing any% development, you set up the seed file format such that each line of the file defines an event listener for a value change of an uberstate (which is an entry of the game's built-in serialization system for arbitrary data that should persiste when saved).

You do this because it's a fast hack that lets you trigger pickup grants on item finds, since each item find always will correspond with an uberstate change. This works great! You smile happily and move on.

There's a small but dedicated subgroup of users who like using your randomizer as a canvas! They make what are called "plandomizer seeds" ("plandos" for short), which are seed files that have been hand-written specifically to give anyone playing them a specific curated set of experiences, instead of something random. These have a long history in your community, in part because you threw them a few bones when developing your last randomizer, and they are eager to see what they can do in this brave new world.

A thing they pick up on quickly is that there are uberstates for lots more things than just item finds! They can make it so that you find double jump when you break a specific wall, or even when you go into an area for the first time and the big splash text plays. Everyone agrees that this is neat.

It is in large part for the plando authors' sake that you allow multiple line entries for the same uberstate that specify different actions - you have the actions run in order. This was a feature that was hacked into the last randomizer you built later, so you're glad to be supporting it at a lower level. They love it! It lets them put multiple items at individual locations. You smile and move on.

Over time, you add more action types besides just item grants! Printing out messages to your players is a great one for plando authors, and is again a feature you had last time. At some point you add a bunch for interacting with player health and energy, because it'd be easy. An action that teleports the player to a specific place. An action that equips a skill to the player's active skill bar. An action that removes a skill or ability.

Then, you get the brilliant idea that it'd be great if actions could modify uberstates directly. Uberstates control lots of things! What if breaking door 1 caused door 2 to break, so you didn't have to open both up at once? What if breaking door 2 caused door 1 to respawn, and vice versa, so you could only go through 1 at a time? Wouldn't that be wonderful? You test this change in some simple cases, and deploy it without expecting people to do too much with it.

Your plando authors quickly realize that when actions modify uberstates, the changes they make can trigger other actions, as long as there are lines in their files that listen for those. This excites them, and seems basically fine to you, though you do as an afterthought add an optional parameter to your uberstate modification action that can be used to suppress the uberstate change detector, since some cases don't actually want that behavior.

(At some point during all of this, the plando authors start hunting through the base game and cataloging unused uberstates, to be used as arbitrary variables for their nefarious purposes. You weren't expecting that! Rather than making them hunt down and use a bunch of random uberstates for data storage, you sigh and add a bunch of explicitly-unused ones for them to play with instead.)

Then, your most arcane plando magician posts a guide on how to use the existing systems to set up control flow. It leverages the fact that setting an uberstate to a value it already has does not trigger the event listener for that uberstate, so execution can branch based on whether or not a state has been set to a specific value or not!

Filled with a confused mixture of pride and fear, you decide that maybe you should provide some kind of native control flow structure that isn't that? And because you're doing a lot of this development underslept and a bit past your personal Balmer peak, the first idea that you have and implement is conditional stops, which are actions that halt processing of a multiple-action-chain if an uberstate is [less than, equal to, greater than] a given value.

The next day, you realize that your seed specification format now can, while executing an action chain, read from memory, write to memory, branch based on what it finds in memory, and loop. It can simulate a turing machine, using the uberstates as tape. You set out to create a format by which your seed generator could talk to your client mod, and have ended up with a turing complete programming language. You laugh, and laugh, and laugh.

[slushglow]

where are my edward elric fans in the crowd tonight

[ilariel]

Red alert

[labyrinth-walls-tiny-worm]

[nyuheartbreak]

fuck it we ball FUCK IT WE BALL FUCK IT WE BALL

[howlsofbloodhounds]

I wonder if killer ever compliments people on how well they’re “coded” or “programmed.” Especially people that tend to put on masks in some way, such as the way epic often copes through humor, for example.

[mtndw-whteout]

traitor traitor traitor

guns in my mouth, just pull the trigger bro

[lordamaranthus]

“So, dear reader, we have come to the end of my trials. You have followed me through five volumes of adventures and six months of pain and suffering.”

“—Know that I am smiling on you. We are friends now. Call on me. I will be—…”

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While I didn’t draw this with the prompts of this years event in mind, it does fit very nicely [in my eyes] for todays prompt: Something wrong, something amiss

This is a kind of homage to the very first ‘big’ drawing I ever did, both for this fandom and in general

Here is a link to it, though it is. Old. So—

Too Colorful

[spooky-activity]

Probably just mangling the body to be SURE she was dead, and not doing a cannibalism. Right? Right???

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[kyoshi-lesbians]

Ty Lee | all-american bitch

I know my place and this is it

[video description: an amv centered on Ty Lee set to “all-american bitch” by Olivia Rodrigo. The video focuses on Ty Lee's dynamic with Azula throughout the years, and juxtaposes Ty Lee's bubbly flirty persona with her extremely efficient chi-blocking fighting style and shrewd observations. end description.]

cw for flashing. extended video description under the cut

First verse contrasts scenes of Ty Lee, Azula, and Mai as children with scenes of Azula threatening Ty Lee in Return to Omashu, and from then on being a weapon for Azula in her mission. Scenes mainly pull from the trio’s early book 2 action as they chase Aang. 

First chorus: on “Forgive and I forget”: Ty Lee mid-air doing a flip cuts to young Ty Lee landing a flip. young Azula pushes young Ty Lee to the ground and laughs. Ty Lee chi-blocks a kyoshi warrior on "And I act like it. She flirts with Sokka on “Got what you can’t resist” and chi-blocks Katara on “perfect all-american”

Second verse features mainly scenes from the end of book 2 when Ty Lee, Azula, and Mai are in Ba Sing Se disguised as Kyoshi warriors. Many of the scenes show Ty Lee being undignified, contrasting with the lyrics (but fitting the ironic tone of the song). These scenes include Ty Lee jumping into the sludge during The Drill, her covered in mud, and flying through the air with Mai after Appa flaps his tail at them. 

Second chorus: “Forgive and forget”: Ty Lee after her circus performance agreeing to join Azula. Other clips juxtapose Ty Lee during The Beach with Ty Lee fighting during The Boiling Rock. 

“I know my place”: Rapid cuts of Ty Lee and Mai beside Azula, cut to Ty Lee anxiously looking side to side during The Boiling Rock confrontation. On the second “I know my place”: Rapid cuts of Ty Lee hugging Mai, and Mai and Azula preparing to fight. 

“And this is it”: Ty Lee chi-blocks Azula. 

Bridge: Scenes from the fallout of Ty Lee betraying Azula - Mai and Ty Lee being arrested −  cut together with Ty Lee’s emotional outburst during The Beach campfire scenes. During the screaming and fast-paced music, there are rapid cuts of Ty Lee fighting and moments beside Azula, in between cuts shots of Ty Lee crying. 

Outro: Ty Lee bowing to Azula during Return to Omashu. Then Ty Lee crying during The Beach party, and Azula apologizing to her. 

[meeb-motes]

TW/CW: programming

Programmed and (Program)Cue

requested by @lost-atlantis :P

we tried our very best but the cue one is def based off our programmed members experiences ,,

requests are open !!

-Two

[chiimeramanticore]

groovin