#integration-test

[deoidesign]

I need to paint my characters realistically every so often. for my health. I need to see him.

[skitskatdacat63]

I wanted to clip this just to point out Fernando's amazing save, but their commentary shamefully made me laugh so hard 😭

[ddarker-dreams]

Chrollo a thighs, boobs or ass kinda guy?

thighs.

this discovery has been confirmed through extensive quantitative research.

there's something about the soft plushness of your thighs when you sit down while wearing shorts, or how the hem of your skirt brushes over the skin that really captures his attention. he will stare and he won't bother hiding his interest.

tights reign superior up at the top. there's no art in existence that could even compare. a useful tidbit to learn, you'll think.

interestingly enough, he compliments your physical appearance sparingly, though not due to any shyness on his part. he wants each instance to be special. painfully memorable, a stain you can never wash off.

it has to be intimate, it has to have impact. he doesn't want your heart to just flutter, he wants it to pound hard enough that it hurts. he'll draw you in close, curate a little world where no one aside from the two of you exist.

he'll settle his a hand on your knee, move it up higher in by inch.

"you're lovely," he'll murmur. then, he gives the flesh a hearty squeeze. "the curious little indents you left inside the lock, though... not so much. will you show me anything else as due compensation?"

[slutforsilverfoxes]

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's another intentionally suggestive Hotch x gn!reader scene!

__________

“Oh my god,” Aaron groans, voice muffled by the pillow his face is pressed into. “Don’t stop, baby, please.”

You bend at the waist to kiss the spot just behind his ear and murmur, “Yeah? Feels good?”

“That feels fucking incredible,” he affirms with another groan that reverberates through your body from the point where your hips meet. “What are you even doing back there?”

With a giggle, you mold your hands down his muscular back and explain, “It’s called petrissage, love. Part of my spa day was learning how to give a proper massage.”

“Emily got you that gift certificate for your birthday, right?”

“Mhm,” you hum, your fingers now trailing along the taut cords of muscle that make up his shoulders, the tension practically melting away beneath your touch.

“Remind me to give her a raise.”

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AH tags 🖤 @gothwifehotchner @iyv-ray24 @mrs-ssa-hotch

[meyhew]

i have something to say 👩🏽‍🦯‍➡️

[dseval]

Hello audience. Unfortunately, I am still on my break. However, I am happy to announce that I am still alive and kicking. In fact, I decided to make use of my unemployment and revisit HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to create... A visual novel.

Good News: code is 100% reusable because I used a JSON (i do not know how that works, someone can kindly explain to me...)

Bad News: this code sucks ass, and NOTHING works except playing the story. Transitions? Doesn't work. UI/UX? Ass. Effects? Hell no... Also, 70% of the features aren't present yet I'm gonna do it later.

Oh, this is CrossDust, if you can't tell.

Dust Sans by Ask-Dusttale, Cross Sans by Jakei

I'm gonna respond to asks and do requests later (After my break is over). This is just a small update teehee.

[kharla-k]

Bend Spears: Bloodbath is a pretty good integrated strategies relic by description alone, but I thought it prudent to mention a very crucial detail about it for those unaware.

So as you would imagine, it restores 2 additional SP per attack, meaning a total of 3 if it's an offensive recovery skill, but that's not the kicker.

See, the way that it actually works is that it restores 2 additional SP per instance of damage, equaling a monstrous 4 additional SP gain per attack to specific guards, which I will elaborate on now:

Blademasters of course are defined by their trait of dealing two instances of damage, which is doubly good for their offensive-recovery-nature having lower SP costs, normally balanced out by the pace of attacking. I recently finished a run where Irene could use S3 after as little as 5 attacks.

Lord Guards recently recieved their module, which features "Attacks deal an additional 10% ATK as Arts damage," but this is applied in a separate, simultaneous instance. Which means Lappland will never be off skill.

Crushers have the interesting effect of being able to hit multiple targets at once, meaning that they can also double dip in Bloodbath if there's available targets. Ulpianus with s1 and two enemies in range will trigger every other attack, at a truly ridiculous pace because his skill activates regardless of his attack cooldown for some reason.

However for crushers... the amount of hit targets mechanically scales with block count, meaning that if you find a means to increase their block and provide them with the requisite enemies, they can gain 7 or more under the right circumstances. Not especially relevant given that any guard with that much SP will turn their foes to naught but a fine red mist, but I digress.

I love integrated strategies and breaking the game over your knee like this with the right strategy is undoubtedly a huge part of that. I'm so ecstatic for IS5!

[knifeforkspooncup]

Oh God Demonology and the Tri-Phasic Model of Trauma: An Integrative Approach is gonna tear me into pieces and put me back together again isn't it.

Fuck here we gooooo.

[crowttore]

In the hsr office au (bless loni), I imagine myself in R&D. I can frequently be seen sitting in the lunch room, head in hands, while muttering something along the lines of "it's never gonna work.. who would even want that strong a vibrator??"

[daisykyo]

no one knew my love for them in 2018 (happy ep 15!!!)

[bugmistake]

literally longing for calc 1 like i'm an old woman looking at a heart shaped locket with a picture of an old lover from my youth.. please god bring me back to those days..... please just let me do derivatives and l'hopital's rule again.... (coughing blood into a handkerchief) chain rule.. please. .

[fiftiesbbydolldress]

I FINALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT IS GOING ON IN MATH HALLELUJAH THANK GOD

[davealgonquins]

zeller never had a chance

[whenastrofell]

Save me Fugo

[girltakovic]

can i say something controversial. the way people (especially american liberals but that's a whole nother can of worms) act about animal testing is sooooooooooo unhelpful. like is cosmetic testing on dogs/rodents/primates harmful and unnecessary? yes, in many cases! but does that mean all animal testing - for any application - should be categorically banned? no. animal testing is a vital process in many, many medical and research contexts and is conducted under a very strict set of standards, ergo applying "animal abuse" as a blanket label to all instances of animal testing is reductive at best and shows a flagrant lack of understanding of medical ethics on the part of the population. and don't even get me started on how slippery of a slope it is to go from condemnation of animal testing to just flat out eugenics

[blackjackkent]

Programming object lesson of the day:

A couple days ago, one of the side project apps I run (rpthreadtracker.com) went down for no immediately obvious reason. The issue seems to have ended up being that the backend was running on .NET Core 2.2, which the host was no longer supporting, and I had to do a semi-emergency upgrade of all the code to .NET Core 6, a pretty major update that required a lot of syntactic changes and other fixes.

This is, of course, an obvious lesson in keeping an eye on when your code is using a library out of date enough not to be well supported anymore. (I have some thoughts on whether .NET Core 2.2 is old enough to have been dumped like this, but nevertheless I knew it was going out of LTS and could have been more prepared.) But that's all another post.

What really struck me was how valuable it turned out to be that I had already written an integration test suite for this application.

Historically, at basically every job I've worked for and also on most of my side projects, automated testing tends to be the thing most likely to fall by the wayside. When you have 376428648 things you want to do with an application and only a limited number of hours in the day, getting those 376428648 things to work feels very much like the top priority. You test them manually to make sure they work, and think, yeah, I'll get some tests written at some point, if I have time, but this is fine for now.

And to be honest, most of the time it usually is fine! But a robust test suite is one of those things that you don't need... until you suddenly REALLY FUCKING NEED IT.

RPTT is my baby, my longest running side project, the one with the most users, and the one I've put the most work into. So in a fit of side project passion and wanting to Do All The Right Things For Once, I actively wrote a massive amount of tests for it a few years ago. The backend has a full unit test suite that is approaching 100% coverage (which is a dumb metric you shouldn't actually stress about, but again, a post for another day). I also used Postman, an excellently full-featured API client, to write a battery of integration tests which would hit all of the API endpoints in a defined order, storing variables and verifying values as it went to take a mock user all the way through their usage life cycle.

And goddamn was that useful to have now, years later, as I had to fix a metric fuckton of subtle breakage points while porting the app to the updated framework. With one click, I could send the test suite through every endpoint in the backend and get quick feedback on everywhere that it wasn't behaving exactly the way it behaved before the update. And when I was ready to deploy the updated version, I could do so with solid confidence that from the front end's perspective, nothing would be different and everything would slot correctly into place.

I don't say this at all to shame anyone for not prioritizing writing tests - I usually don't, especially on my side projects, and this was a fortuitous outlier. But it was a really good reminder of why tests are a valuable tool in the first place and why they do deserve to be prioritized when it's possible to do so.