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I guess I should probably put an intro blog.

This is my trash pile. It contains things I like and random thought scribbles about whatever I felt like thinking.

While you're here, why not donate to my local Pride organization. We're located in Central Florida, so they could use all the support they can get.

Full Series Discussions:

I've made several liveblogging posts where I go through each episode, chapter, etc of a series (usually manga) and talk about them. You can find the main index at #Full Series Discussions

Current series: Ouran High School Host Club, Metaphor Re:Fantazio

Tags:

#original post: Posts that I made
#reblog response: Reblogs where I said something
#chickens: See pictures and posts about my pet chickens
#reddit vs tumblr: Collection of my and other reddit refugees' experiences with Tumblr
#Saga of Containment Breach: View the chronicle of me joining Tumblr and somehow getting a 100K post in my first week.
#At university: Stuff related to life as a University Graduate Student studying Bioinformatics
#Infinite Reblog Post: View a post of mine that is several hundreds of reblogs long and has caused multiple system-stress bugs and crashed the Tumblr app for multiple users (WARNING: you may experience technical issues if you interact with the infinite reblog post. The infinite reblog post may potentially fail to load properly on Desktop)
#asks: I respond to asks and cat pics sent to me
#poll: Polls I've done
#media analysis: I talk about whatever media I'm interested
#i try pc gaming: My posts about me attempting to get Steam to work on my computer
#20 new restaurants challenge: I try out 20 new restaurants as part of a 2025 new year's resolution

More as I feel like it.

Fandoms I've posted about:

Things you might find:

animal pictures
flowers
fandom stuff
long philosophical discussions
math

Feel free to DM me or ask if you'd like to

have me look at your artwork
play Monster Hunter World(PS4)
play Bloodborne (PS4)
play Mario Kart
talk about One Piece, Spy x Family or whatever manga you might be interested in
tell me about your day

Welcome. Feel free to steal anything not nailed down.

#Introductory post #about me

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gumy-shark

when you reblog a post because you think a specific mutual would enjoy it and then they reblog it from you

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himekokosu

Clematis

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prokopetz

vector-field-outpost asked:

Hi! You once posted about how in FFXIV a frog can steal your dog. Could you (or your followers) assist in finding that post, or maybe explain that again? I scrolled through the final fantasy tag on your blog and didn't find the one, and a search for frog on your blog mostly comes up with Tiny Frog Wizards, which is excellent but not what I'm looking for and too much to scroll through

prokopetz answered:

Final Fantasy VI, actually; you're probably thinking of the Rippler bug. To provide some extra context not delved into by the linked article:

Final Fantasy VI's game engine doesn't distinguish between being immune to a given status and permanently having a given status; it just has a single "status lock" flag which, when set, makes it impossible to gain the status in question if you don't already have it, and impossible to lose the status in question if you do.
Most things that alter a character's behaviour or available commands are implemented as statuses in Final Fantasy VI, sometimes in conjunction with the status lock flag. For example, the "Counter" status (which makes the affected character perform a melee counterattack after being struck) normally goes away after it procs once, but the Black Belt accessory both inflicts the Counter status and sets its status lock flag, preventing it from "curing" itself.
There's an enemy ability called "Rippler" (also learnable by Strago as a Blue Magic/Lore spell) which causes the user and the target to exchange statuses. It ignores the status lock flag when doing so; this is intentional, because Rippler is meant to be able to do stupid tricks like poisoning a character who's immune to poison by poisoning yourself and trading statuses with them.
The actual bug is that it doesn't check whether the targeted status is something that it makes sense to be able to transfer between characters, presumably because whoever programmed it forgot that being immune to a status and permanently having a status aren't separate states in this game, and thus didn't realise that making Rippler ignore status immunity would also allow it to steal existing statuses that were meant to be immutable.
The upshot is that Rippler can steal statuses like "riding in Magitek armour", "being at critical HP", or even "being absent from the battlefield". (Though it takes some finagling to target a character who has that last status in the first place!)
Most of the time this isn't a big deal; the "being at critical HP" status automatically reapplies itself at the start of the next battle if you meet its criteria, for example, and the "being in Magitek armour" status is event-exclusive anyway. However, Shadow's dog Interceptor, who can defend and counterattack for his master in battle, is implemented as a modified and status-locked version of the Counter status (see above), so Rippler's status-lock-ignoring behaviour effectively allows it to steal your dog.
What's worse, the Interceptor status is normally only applied or removed during story events when Shadow joins your party; nothing else is intended to be able to modify it, so the game doesn't ever check whether Shadow has the Interceptor status when he shouldn't, or lack it when he should – it's simply assumed that this can't ever happen.
This means if a monster uses Rippler to steal Shadow's statuses after his last possible recruitment event, and the battle ends without getting them back, the Interceptor status is permanently gone – that monster not only stole your dog, it ran off with it!
The monster that can use Rippler which is most likely to be encountered during times when Shadow is an available party member just happens to be a really big frog.
Thus, a frog can steal your dog.

blazecougar-deactivated20260109

I assume this also means a frog can steal the dog, Strago can steal it back and then just keep it for himself?

prokopetz

Or steal it directly, yes; Strago is unusual in that many of his Lores are restricted to either only targeting party members or only targeting enemies (most spells in Final Fantasy VI can be cast on anyone via manual targeting), but if you can contrive for Strago to cast Rippler on Shadow, he can just take the dog.

(One possible method is by deliberately inflicting the Muddle/Confuse status on Strago after commanding him to cast Rippler, but before the command procs. Another fun quirk of Final Fantasy VI is that Muddle/Confuse doesn't cancel any actions that were already queued up when it's applied – it merely randomises their targets. This can lead to both hilarious and unfortunate outcomes.)

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yupthatexists

Scientists have just discovered some rocks at the bottom of the ocean can make oxygen... and they do it in complete darkness!

These aren’t magic stones, they’re polymetallic nodules, potato-sized metal lumps packed with manganese, cobalt, and nickel.

But here’s the twist; when seawater flows over their surfaces, they generate tiny electric currents that can split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen. No sunlight, no photosynthesis, just deep-sea chemistry creating breathable gas in the pitch black.

This “dark oxygen” could explain how deep-sea creatures survive in low-oxygen zones far from the surface. What's even wilder is that if this can happen on Earth, it could be happening right now in the hidden oceans of Europa or Enceladus, two icy moons that scientists think might host alien life.

msvblight

Robinson Crusoe on Mars type rocks

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wildehacked

things in fic I'm used to people kind of faking their way through writing about:

the city of los angeles
the city of new york
sex
how drinking alcohol works
how getting high works
how a child of any age speaks
how nuclear physics work
how [my job] works
how debilitating being shot in the shoulder is
how hypothermia works

things I have never before seen someone fake their way through writing about, until today:

what french toast is

ralfmaximus

I placed the bread in my french toaster, and set it to baguette

alessandriana

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jadeseadragon

when the sun gets caught in a tree’s web 🌅 Credit @eric66699999

Source: instagram.com

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seananmcguire

Behold the wonder and glory of my Pony Room! It looks like hammered hell in these pictures, but it's already so much better than it was a week ago! I am Making Progress!

kedreeva

There is magic and whimsy in every direction in a rainbow of colors on cute little pony butts. I also spy a cute little kelpie butt looking to cause problems on purpose.

Also congrats on the progress!

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livelyspaghetti-blog

When I tell people to delete anon hate, to not publish it, it’s not me saying “ignore it and it’ll stop; don’t fight back.” It is 100% petty and spiteful. Honestly, I can’t think of anything better than the person who sent the hate obsessively checking your blog and refreshing and refreshing, waiting for you to reply, and getting increasingly frustrated when the ask they so masterfully crafted never pops up & you just keep posting cute pictures of your pets and talking about how nice your day was.

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fruitgushers

a dead scene kid is trying to contact me through captcha

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bogleech

Investigator breaches white supremacist dating sites, exposes 8,000 users

An investigative journalist infiltrated three white supremacist platforms, including the dating site WhiteDate, exfiltrating over 8,000 user

Cybernews

arabbitbeingfiredoutofacannon

bogleech

When she says it had a smurf village gender ratio, it's possibly even funnier and sadder than you could have thought. The article doesn't specify, but I keep hearing that out of 8000 users, less than 50 appeared to be women.

flammableengineering

Root said she contacted a hacker who helped to exfiltrate the data. However, no hacks were required – all it took was a simple URL trick of adding “download-all-users/” to the top-level domain.

Holy fuck, I’m dying. Imagine being this bad at cybersecurity. How is the rest of 2026 supposed to compete?

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felixcloud6288

Bought Satisfactory. Played for over 4 hours straight. I've had very little sleep because of a burning desire to make the factory grow. I'm only here right now because I'm taking a break to eat and calm my nerves as I prepare to dismantle everything to put flooring down.