#unit: ram

[abysshydra]

Ram: Wait, no, not now, wait for a moment don't form please, we need to be in a good place first, wait wait wait

Ram: Ok, I think it stopped.

Chel and Aaryn: LOL

Ram: WHAT

[mensministry]

Newt Hotel, Rammed Stone Yoga Studio,

Somerset, United Kingdom,

Courtesy: Invisible Studio

[twisting-in-wonderland]

I've been playing a lot of fire emblem recently, and one character's casual wear (Pandreo's) just. reminded me of ace lol

so here's some self-indulgent drawings - Ace can be a fire emblem mage/priest. as a treat

(wips under read-moree)

[in4newz]

Listen, if you want to play a ball game, then you are now puppy for a while. I don't make the rules. Been that way for thousands of years.

[abysshydra]

We use both SP and PK for a variety of reasons.

After a year of using SP it just made it so much easier to recognize who's fronting. That, in return, not only lowered our denial since we started seeing actual patterns in switches, actions and so on, but also helped us to function properly. A simple "I am here" communicates quite a lot of needs which we are or were unable to recognize before. A bunch of information is hidden behind protection shield (privated) just because we use it, no one else needs to see it. It is a convenient way to save stuff we want. And Glitch been using it for his notes too because that's an app we don't forget about at all (thankfully).

Most of our median subsystems barely use any. I personally am not a median subsystem, I just use SP and PK to track what type of appearance (skin basically) I use, just because I like having fun. Others are way too similar to their facets to be able to use it properly. We still save these facets, but usually don't track their switches. Exceptions are Camil's subsystems and Valorant's with his one and only facet.

SP is also a very useful for us to track our headcount, at least vaguely, although we do this only from other's consent. I mean, SP already brought our communication issues enough to where we can recognize at least some patters on others' opinions, so even new members are not tracked unless we feel or we know they want to. They can hide themselves, they can just not register. Really just a simple acknowledgment works too. Undeveloped members are way too common for us anyway.

PK is mostly for communication purposes and to let people know who's in front if they don't have us in SP, which is a lot of people anyway. PK is more of a mess than our SP because of that. We don't focus on it much, after all we barely use it outside of that one specific reason. If not how people treated us all as a host (which we disliked more than we did), we would've not used it to track front at all. Unfortunately, we need people to recognize us as separate, not as a whole (that brought huge issues in the past, we're healthy when we're multiple after all, who would've guessed)

Shamelessly tagging onto the topic in this post, system question: Do you/your system personally use SimplyPlural and/or Pluralkit? Do you find it helpful, and why or why not? For us: We don't use SimplyPlural (we track switches with daylio, though we often forget for long periods of time), but we do use PK all the time for the two of us and find it very grounding. I know S especially likes that sense of being able to clearly present as himself, since it's a lot harder for him to do that in offline life. In contrast, however, S doesn't use PK--or any other external indicator--for any of his median facet/subsytem situation, and so far definitively doesn't want to, because (attempting to paraphrase his vibe check) it feels too definite/differentiated for something that is mostly always a kind of superposition or linear combination, and an inconsistent one at that. Also there's maybe a sense of not wanting to have the "responsibility/expectation to act a certain way", rather than just getting to be Approximately Himself and not have to think about it much.

[htyfnetwork]

COMMUNISM AS A DOMESTIC PROBLEM (with Peter Hudson from United Kingdom, Gunnar Aasland from Norway, Vangala Jaya Ram from India, and Johnny Antillon from Philippines)

from 1954 the world we want

[unidentifiedfuckingthing]

heres your random frustrating fact of the day

[skull-pun]

Can't believe I'm gonna have to vote for Ed fucking Davey in the next general election.

[abysshydra]

NO WE ARE NOT GOING TO FORM A MEMBER BASED ON ONE IMAGE I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO THEY ARE

UPD. I escaped the curse, I think

[theartofmetal]

227. Ram It Down - Judas Priest (Heavy Metal, 1988)

Art by Mark Wilkinson

[historyandarthijinks]

Art of War (12)

Christmas Song by Kim Gannon, Walter Kent, and Bing Crosby

I'll Be Home for Christmas

Lyrics

I'm dreaming tonight of a place I love Even more than I usually do And although I know it's a long road back I promise you

I'll be home for Christmas You can count on me Please have snow and mistletoe And presents under the tree

Christmas Eve will find me Where the love light gleams I'll be home for Christmas If only in my dreams

I'll be home for Christmas (I'll be home for Christmas) You can count on me (you can count on me) Please have snow (have snow) and mistletoe (yeah) And presents under the tree (under the tree)

Christmas Eve will find me Where the love light gleams I'll be home for Christmas If only in my dreams If only in my dreams

In my dreams, my dreams My dreams

Context

I'll Be Home For Christmas (1943) - Kim Gannon (1900-1974), Walter Kent (1911-1994), Bing Crosby (1903-1977) [United States]

This Christmas song was performed during the middle of WW2, depicting a soldier singing out a letter to his wife and family back home while fighting in the war overseas. The song instantly became popular, especially among soldiers and civilians alike in the United States. The military would go on to endorse the song, saying it has raised the morale of deployed soldiers. Unsurprisingly, Great Britain would not feel the same. It was banned from broadcast for the idea that it could cause British soldiers to miss home and lower morale.

The song wasn't originally written with WW2 in mind. In fact the song wasn't originally a song either, but a poem written by Buck Ram to his mother in 1922 about WW1. One day Ram, Kent, and Gannon would go to meet up and discuss creation of the song following the eruption of the Second World War.

[itsbenedict]

at work: weekly dev meeting

draw birthday art

JA: script transition to final phase

games with little brothers

wash the guest bedding

exercise

MW: create "hero" data structure for persistent units with growths

glrrrrrlgh, did not succeed. in part this was because of a failure of self-control in which i spent like four hours playing potionomics, in part this was because of the work shit that came up at the weekly dev meeting, and in part this was because of Feelin' Really Bad For No Reason

[pangeen]

" FULL CURL " // © Backcountry Antler Buyer

[sadiehaleheart]

Sigh. My HS mascot was the Ram. Like, a specifically masculine sheep, and not particularly native to our state. Our women's sport teams were the "Lady Rams." We pointed out, tentatively and anonymously, then with increasing fervor and academic certainty over the next three years, that we needed a correction or else a, hmm, whole lot of people had to get cool with trans issues immediately. This did not work.

leave the answers in the tags

[awkward-teabag]

Found the receipt for my computer and spent less on the case than I thought. Adjusted for inflation I paid $170 for it new, which isn't obscene even these days, but it sells used for over $200 (I've seen over $400USD, so over $550CAD).

The GPU was the most expensive component after the MOBO/CPU bundle but still came to less than $300 (remember when GPUs didn't cost a month's rent?).

Paying over $100 for 8GB of DDR3 RAM is kind of ouch though.

Parts of it have failed over the years and the company is no longer around but it's held up surprisingly well with the parts least future-proofed being the ones that have since been replaced.

[vvienne]

no one gets it except the ao3 author who wrote the art/murderbot not-porn