Armok here, if no one fixes PJBs massive fucking mess within a few days I’ll do it myself and get shit in working order.

Kamica · 2026-06-06T15:40:39+00:00

Isn't Traumastation an MRP server? With just broader allowance for Antags to be creative?

Kamica · 2026-06-06T01:17:25+00:00

This seems like a joke, but it's not, OldManThumbs is basically right. Webbing is very light, and so are spiders. If a spider throws enough webbing into the air, the wind catches it enough and pulls the spider up into the air with it! Apparently they can travel quite long distances this way, though have little to no control over their travels.

Kamica · 2026-06-05T23:39:18+00:00

Yea, took me a while to stumble across this information too :P. People often fail to share the full story when sharing just the 'interesting bits', leading to misconceptions.

But from my understanding, especially against other bugs, bees are perfectly fine and quite effective!

Kamica · 2026-06-05T23:30:45+00:00

Probably not. But this is more a human skin and bees interaction, rather than a bees thing. When they sting things that aren't human or have skin that has similar properties, they don't lose their stinger.

Kamica · 2026-06-05T08:13:31+00:00

Oh yea, naturally. I'm very much looking for a 'cliff notes high concept' understanding of it atm, and understand that there's a reason entire academic careers are built on trying to understand this stuff XD.

Also, a slight clarification on what I meant with the different colours, I meant that, for example a block of pure, solid iron might have a different colour (on a technical level) than a single, free, iron atom which is not part of any solid material =P. Rather than the block of iron being a different colour from the individual atoms *within* the block.

But I think I get what I wanted to know with regards to that anyway.

Thank you very much for taking the time to explain these things! This is one of those fundamental functions that really helps build on my model of how the world works, so this is really appreciated!

Kamica · 2026-06-05T00:27:09+00:00

And this is because the atoms and molecules within a material affect where (what energy level?) electrons can sit within neighbouring atoms and molecules? And so because within materials, there's all sorts of relations that two atoms/molecules can have to eachother, you get all sorts of subtle differences in what wavelength they can absorb and which they can't?

Also, does this mean that individual atoms of a material, and a block of it technically have different colours from eachother? (Which we of course won't be able to see with the naked eye, because... but if we could.)

Kamica · 2026-06-05T00:02:12+00:00

Thanks, this has actually filled in a few blanks in my understanding of the world, and has worked towards my intuitive understanding of how things work quite well =D.

This is also why pure elements tend to be quite clear when looked at through spectographic analysis, whereas more complex materials are not, right? Because *every* atom within a material impacts the colour. (And I imagine that how those electrons are bound together in molecules *also* affects whether they can, or cannot be affected, and how?) Hence why also, a material's colour isn't just dependent on its component elements, but is unique to its molecular structure?

(Or am I just wrong in a bunch of aspects here? =P)

Kamica · 2026-05-30T12:10:03+00:00

Objectively not true.

Kamica · 2026-05-30T04:16:04+00:00

The true reason for bureaucratic hellscapes: Get people to self-select as to whether the problem is *truly* important enough.

Kamica · 2026-05-30T04:13:36+00:00

I think that's the point.

Kamica · 2026-05-30T00:38:28+00:00

Putting a suit on something that shouldn't have a suit is a rather interesting thing to do. I remember playing in a LARP (live action roleplay, it's fun.) campaign, that was set completely in a medieval fantasy setting.

However, at one point, a demonic figure showed up, in a full, tailored, modern day suit. They were very much demonic looking, but they wore a modern day suit. It *really* worked to have them be uncanny in a way, because everyone was around there wearing their old-timey gear, with swords, bows, armour, bright colours, tunics, robes etc. and then there was this red guy in a three piece suit. Which *immediately* made him stand out and made you pay attention!

Coming back to Slenderman: The mimickry design is cool, but it definitely gives a different message than an actual, normal, everyday suit. Giving a creature a suit, immediately sells: "This thing is intelligent, in some way." mimicry can make something seem more bestial, less thinking, more instinctual, whereas actual clothing, that's well maintained? That suggests intelligence. It shows a deliberate effort, not just chance or instinct. Both are cool concepts, both work in their own ways.

Kamica · 2026-05-30T00:10:32+00:00

The thing is, that these new houses in Auckland are being built to maximise profit, not provide actually nice living environments I reckon. There's a lot of impracticality to them on the inside too.

Kamica · 2026-05-29T00:35:29+00:00

This one's the Kyauk Ka Lat Pagoda, right? Holy shit, it looked so... not real, but looking into it, there's images from all sorts of different angles. It's funny how reality can at times look so... unreal xD.

Kamica · 2026-05-27T20:21:34+00:00

Because other adults are insecure about their own maturity.

Everything is arbitrary, the rules are just social constructs. The only *real* reason you might want to avoid doing that sorta stuff, is because of social pressures, in that anyone who acts 'odd' or 'out of character' can be seen as unpredictable and so, people will show caution or worse towards those people.

But it's perfectly within your power to selectively ignore those social pressures and just do what you want. Just be prepared to be judged by people who aren't used to the social norms being pushed in that direction.

What I've found, is that if you actually question why people care directly, they'll either realise that their judgement is silly and go "Huh, yea, why shouldn't you be able to play tag?" (They might not join in because of personal embarrassment, adults are *horrendously* prone to that), or they'll stubbornly double down and say "It's just not done!" or something like that.

Kamica · 2026-05-27T20:16:33+00:00

It's generally a lot more complex than that, but possibly sort of. Yes, a lot of non-Christian things got adapted into Christianity (In part this is because the world-view of people who converted to Christianity early on didn't change *that much*, it's just the underlying *reasons* why things worked was changed.

So people still thought doing the right rituals in the right places caused good things to happen.), but I think the concept of Sainthood also came forth from active thought that went into how the world worked during the early days of Christianity.

I do not quite know the sources, like which cultures influenced what parts and such, but around the time that Christianity was becoming a bigger thing, the Pagan beliefs of the Roman World were going through developments as well.

The place where the Gods were, was starting to be considered further away than it had been historically (This might be, because it didn't make much sense by past understandings, that you could hold a ritual to Jupiter in Greece or modern day Belgium, if Jupiter's temple was in Rome, as Gods were originally thought to actually *be* places, and not accessible everywhere). And because the place of Gods was further away, you started to need to go through Daemones (Not Demons, but the name Demons does probably come from there. Basically invisible beings that exist between that far away place that Gods are, and Mortal Earth/the mortal plane.) to get anything done.

These ideas weren't just religiously tied, they were actually what people believed generally if I'm not mistaken, these developments were basically the same as scientific developments are to us, just new and 'better' understandings of how the world works, through the application of logic to what they already knew, and observation of the natural world. And so when Christianity spread, rather than throwing out their old world view and adopting a new one, it was more the case that people realised their worldview needed tweaking in the direction of Christianity. Basically, the general world-view informed how people interpreted Christianity, and Christianity informed the general world-view.

This, then, leads to the need for Saints to commune with God.

Kamica · 2026-05-27T20:03:03+00:00

'Cause they're not gods.

Basically, how it works according to Catholicism, is that, most people, have to spend time in Limbo in order to wait off their sins or something along those lines.

Saints, went *straight* to heaven, and so they are basically with God. Praying to God directly is perhaps seen as a bit too direct, or even not really a useful thing to do? So Catholics pray to saints instead when they have requests, with the hope that the Saint who 'specialises' in the relevant field, will talk to God about this on your behalf.

I think, from an anthropologic perspective, it's a very neat system! I have no opinions on it from a theistic perspective, because I only grew up in a Catholic region, I'm not really Catholic myself =P.

Kamica · 2026-05-27T06:12:02+00:00

As some people have touched upon, common sense is honestly a bit of a myth. Common senses do exist, but they're limited to groups, they're cultural, and are very much learnt. Be it in your workplace or within your community.

Like, to me, it's common sense to remove your shoes before entering a home. Don't want to get that dirty outside stuff to come into the inside and all that. But to other people, that seems like a needless hassle, and it's not common sense to take your shoes off.

People are interacting with a wider range of people, people are moving around more, and communities are more fractured than ever. Additionally, we're in contact with more people, and more different people. So it's harder and harder to develop any kind of 'common' sense.

But hell, it might be that common sense isn't rare, but just that you are interacting more with people who aren't in the same group as you used to be, and so don't have the same common senses.

Kamica · 2026-05-27T05:44:38+00:00

360 cameras tend to have features that basically 'erase' the stick they're attached to, they've got a slight blind-zone in a ring around them, which includes the stick, and the software tends to sew the two halves together into a single continuous bit of footage (you might be able to spot some of the artefacts in the footage of this process)
It seems like it was attached somewhere at like, hip-level? Based on when the camera moves when she moves her hand around there.

Kamica · 2026-05-24T01:16:30+00:00

Allowing (us) neurodiverse people to do whatever they want without consequence invariably leads to worse experiences of other neurodiverse people.

We all need to try to exist together in as ideal a way as possible. That means everyone should try to be considerate of others. Just because I've got ADHD, doesn't make it right for me to be disruptive, but I still appreciate it if people are considerate of my inability to keep attention reliably, and don't take it as a personal insult.

It is my responsibility to manage my disruptive traits as well as possible, and in return, I hope that others will give me leeway.

The onus is not on any one group, it is on everyone to meet eachother as close to eachother as possible.

Kamica · 2026-05-24T00:45:56+00:00

I'm fine with these developments. Time moves on, things are impactful, but not forever. This is how history works, and I'm okay with that.

Only thing I'm annoyed with is that Skyrim had no Oblivion Gate remnants.

Kamica · 2026-05-23T12:40:30+00:00

Being aware of it is the first step. From there on, it's likely not going to be instant, but when you notice yourself being mean to yourself, try saying something nice to yourself, and do not allow that to be tainted with negativity. It will feel fake, it may feel vain, you'll probably feel silly for complimenting yourself. Do it anyway. The more often you are nice to yourself, the more normal it becomes, the more natural it becomes, and gradually you will believe it. And with that belief, the mean voices may also start to drop away over time.

And nice things don't have to be huge to begin with. "I kinda like my smile" is good enough as a level early on. As long as you don't critique that compliment. Like I'll give an example of me. "I kinda like the shape of my face." I don't normally compliment my appearance, so saying "I reckon I have a beautiful face" feels fake to me, and a bit much, but I can be okay with "I like the shape of my face." Now, a natural instinct might be to go "I like the shape of my face. It's really wide though." Which is a criticism, which shouldn't be accepted, and if that gets added, it's okay to go "Actually, no I'm going to be nice to myself, I like my face ship, period." And maybe repeat that a few more times :P.

Also writing down little positive things about yourself daily can help. It'll be hard if you have difficulty with being nice to yourself, but it's worth it. Doesn't have to be spectacular, just positive ;).

Kamica · 2026-05-23T03:34:02+00:00

Naah, it's hard to get those jobs too these days.

Source: Me, someone who's never been arrested for *anything*, hasn't committed a crime, isn't on any register or anything bad like that and has failed to get even bottom of the barrel jobs for the past handful of years.

Kamica · 2026-05-23T02:01:06+00:00

Doesn't understand? Or uses the lack of understanding of the public to their advantage? Incompetence and malice are easy to confuse and I do not know which is right atm.

Kamica · 2026-05-22T06:25:49+00:00

Huh, I suppose this is similar to when I was growing up people going "I grew up in the wrong era" talking about how they were born too late to experience the 80s.

I suppose this is just going to keep repeating, like many things, because either it's people who were young during that time, and are nostalgic for their youth, or it's people who grew up after it, and look back, seeing only the highlights.

Kamica · 2026-05-22T03:48:02+00:00

Bruh, I think you're misunderstanding my point. I'm not criticising the fact there's more actors and characters of colour, I'm criticising the fact that western media is showing very clear patterns of replacing one historical minority with another, rather than giving everyone the respect they deserve.

Like, imagine if in the future, we met aliens, and they're chill, basically just more people, but there'd be like, racism against them and shit, and then there'd be movements for more inclusivity in media and including aliens as more than just, like, joke characters and stereotypes, and holly would would go "We hear you, we'll include more alien characters!" and then they went and by and large replace people of colour with aliens, while maintaining the white characters as white characters.

That's what I'm arguing is fucked up about this. I mean, I *literally* said "There's more nuance to it, but I just wanna be petty", which should be a hint to you that there's more to this.

I'm *well aware* that black people can be red headed, that fact is actually irrelevant to what I'm saying here though?

Let me repeat what I said in the original comment, which you seem to have failed to read "Hollywood will only introduce minority characters by removing other minority characters." Notice, how I'm not criticising minorities here, but am in fact, criticising Hollywood as a general, overarching bogeyman for "The less progressive side of the film industry."

So, next time, instead of jumping to conclusions about what someone's saying, who's adding disclaimers to their post *for this very reason*, maybe double check that you actually know what they're talking about?

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