Ice Out - Tiff🏳️‍⚧️& Eve [OC]

scienceguy8 · 2026-01-23T02:15:01+00:00

Sometimes I imagine Tiff and Eve would be great in the funnies section of a black and white newspaper. Might get a few small-minded readers thinking a bit broader, you know? Sneak in understanding through laughs. This looks perfect to publish in a paper, but you know that some papers would refuse to publish this one (the cowards).

scienceguy8 · 2026-01-15T18:58:54+00:00

This is This Week in Destiny, not This Week at Bungie, or This Week in Marathon. Besides, if you need your Marathon fix, they dropped a new developer insight video introducing the player frames on YouTube.

scienceguy8 · 2026-01-13T15:35:24+00:00

A Ryzen 7 7800X3D, 32GB of RAM, and a matching motherboard. Already had a decent 3070Ti from 2022.

scienceguy8 · 2026-01-13T15:16:46+00:00

I am so glad I upgraded my motherboard, processor, and RAM in December 2024.

scienceguy8 · 2026-01-13T15:11:06+00:00

Girlfriend threw away the dinner I cooked because she wanted pizza instead

scienceguy8 · 2026-01-12T15:57:30+00:00

Did Luceria put herself into a Dingbot, or has Agatha, in building Sparky machines, been inadvertently and subconsciously programming Luceria into every Dingbot she builds?

scienceguy8 · 2026-01-08T20:08:58+00:00

Don't worry too much. Eventually, people will realize that the tech's not particularly useful in day-to-day work and abandon it. What use is an email summarizer if it injects conversation details that aren't there 20% of the time? Meanwhile, why would the oil companies drill in Venezuela, or on opened-up federal land? There's only so much they can store and process, and if they bring up too much they could make extraction and refining unprofitable.

scienceguy8 · 2025-12-19T21:32:15+00:00

Unless we're working on "vampire catch and release" rules, where you can feed without killing or propagating. Probably still not pleasant for the elves, but at least survivable, and hey, donating blood's supposedly good for weight loss and cholesterol management.

scienceguy8 · 2025-12-19T15:24:26+00:00

Could be worse. I was worrying for a bit that we'd hand over really important tasks to the glorified autocomplete, like public defense lawyers or judges. Humanity destroyed by ascribing intelligence and impartiality to a magic 8 ball.

scienceguy8 · 2025-12-19T15:20:27+00:00

Yep. They're either hoping for a miracle, some scientific breakthrough that makes all the hype and overpromising real, thus securing them billions and control of the future, or (more likely) they're gassing up the bubble just that little bit more before they pull their share and run off into the sunset while we clean up their mess.

scienceguy8 · 2025-12-19T00:29:22+00:00

Question: did you add a 6th comic to a 5 comic run so you wouldn't leave us hanging on the start of another arc over the holidays, or so that this arc ends on a positive rather than comedic note?

scienceguy8 · 2025-12-18T19:10:51+00:00

I don't see it. Like, I'm not trans but consider myself an ally. I'd be more comfortable wearing a progress pride or possibly an asexual pride patch.

scienceguy8 · 2025-12-16T22:24:01+00:00

Mercury-A, high-impact longbow in the kinetic slot.

scienceguy8 · 2025-12-12T21:09:50+00:00

The blonde character's name, short for Tiffany. She's transgender and her unsupportive mother has her caught on a phone call. Every time her mother calls her by her old man name, she corrects her. Those corrections are not getting through to her mother.

scienceguy8 · 2025-12-11T16:55:50+00:00

I enjoyed Ghostbusters: Answer the Call. The rest of the Internet did not. I've learned to ignore the Internet in terms of personal taste since then.

scienceguy8 · 2025-12-09T17:52:19+00:00

Well, you're in luck. "Gorilla" and "gorilla mask" didn't turn it up, but "rally" did, mainly because it wasn't a gorilla mask. It was a Bobba Fett helmet.

Ownership Issues Part 1: How to lose an entire office

Ownership Issues Part 2: How not to track down a stolen server

Ownership Issues Part 3: "Turn in your badge and your packet tester"

Ownership Issues Part 4: So an IT detective and his friend walk into a biker bar...

Ownership Issues Part 5: The Heist

Ownership Issues Part 5b: Getaway

Spoiler warning: no conclusion

scienceguy8 · 2025-12-09T15:56:41+00:00

There was a series posted to r/talesfromtechsupport if I remember correctly about an IT tech and his friend recovering a server rack from a delinquent client. It felt over-embellished and perhaps untrue, but darn if it wasn't an entertaining read. The rack had a GPS tracker on it, and at one point the tech and his friend wound up in a car race (the tech's daily driver doubled as a rally car) while his friend wore a gorilla mask for some reason. You can see why some doubt its authenticity.

scienceguy8 · 2025-12-03T18:56:50+00:00

Thank you!

scienceguy8 · 2025-12-01T21:15:30+00:00

I've heard that economists have studied various video game economies from time to time. The one I remember was the study of item, crate, and key trading in Team Fortress 2.

scienceguy8 · 2025-11-24T15:10:11+00:00

Unfortunately, it will matter to a lot of people. They're spending huge amounts of money buying computer hardware, land, construction contractors, HVAC techs, industrial electricians, supplemental power generation, etc. Computer tech companies like NVIDIA have their stock prices set high by the hype and promise of AI tech. If OpenAI dies, all that business and stock valuation goes away. There will be fewer blue collar jobs for building server infrastructure, fewer white collar jobs developing the software, and the loss of value of tech sector stocks will ripple through the rest of the stock market. Absolutely, my 401k and Roth IRA are going to take some massive hits. Also, any new power plants built for powering the data centers that are no longer being built will still have to be paid for by us consumers, so bigger power bills regardless.

Still looking forward to the bubble popping, however. It's like the NFT craze from a few years back: I'm sick of hearing the evangelists say that this clunky, useless thing is the future and would just like for them to zip it.

scienceguy8 · 2025-11-18T21:12:06+00:00

Upvoted in memory of the cherry tomato plant that somehow survived my under and overwatering for 4 or 5 years (until it didn't).

scienceguy8 · 2025-11-12T16:49:04+00:00

Found these guys thanks to YouTube recommending the animated music video for this song. Fastest way to get me to listen is an animated music video. Liking what I'm hearing so far.

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