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Pool Open!
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ysabetwordsmithfuzzyred is hosting a pool for the half-price sale in Polychrome Heroics. Targets include the whole Finn Family thread and whatever else will fit in the budget from the Big One thread. The latter includes a triptych about Josué and Aidan, as well as two poems about Frank the Crank, for those of you following either of those characters.
November 18, 2025: A Mystery Where You Use A Computer To Pretend To Use A Computer
Nov. 18th, 2025 06:03 amdaily_illuminator_feedThe escape-room enthusiasts of The Escape Game have a neat activity called DESCEND Inc. that can give you a few minutes of mystery-solving fun in your web browser.
It looks like it'll be a five-part "story"; so far, four folders have been unlocked. One neat aspect I'll have to remember for my own puzzle-making endeavors is that the solutions to the challenges are a word, which the directions then tell you to add to the URL.
This can be borrowed for any gaming-type endeavors where you host a website. For example, I could imagine an RPG where I send the heroes to TotallyNotEvilCorp[dot]com, the players solve a puzzle on the site that results in (say) "ribbit," and thus they then go to TotallyNotEvilCorp[dot]com/ribbit.
Anyway, DESCEND Inc. is a fun way to spend a few minutes, and maybe uncover a larger mystery at the same time . . .
– Steven Marsh
Warehouse 23 News: The City Never Sleeps Because Of All The Action
There are a million stories in the city, and they're all exciting! GURPS Action 9: The City shows how you can add GURPS City Stats to your GURPS Action campaigns. It also features six sample cities to use with your own action-packed adventures. Download it today from Warehouse 23!
It looks like it'll be a five-part "story"; so far, four folders have been unlocked. One neat aspect I'll have to remember for my own puzzle-making endeavors is that the solutions to the challenges are a word, which the directions then tell you to add to the URL.
This can be borrowed for any gaming-type endeavors where you host a website. For example, I could imagine an RPG where I send the heroes to TotallyNotEvilCorp[dot]com, the players solve a puzzle on the site that results in (say) "ribbit," and thus they then go to TotallyNotEvilCorp[dot]com/ribbit.
Anyway, DESCEND Inc. is a fun way to spend a few minutes, and maybe uncover a larger mystery at the same time . . .
– Steven Marsh
Warehouse 23 News: The City Never Sleeps Because Of All The Action
There are a million stories in the city, and they're all exciting! GURPS Action 9: The City shows how you can add GURPS City Stats to your GURPS Action campaigns. It also features six sample cities to use with your own action-packed adventures. Download it today from Warehouse 23!
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Girls With Slingshots - GWS Hair of the Dog #776
Nov. 17th, 2025 10:00 pmgws_feed
New comic!
Today's News:
I don't understand what joke I was going for here with "the Black Panther of Hos" but yeah that's a concussion, or something.
Here is le black-and-white original! Here is le color chaser!
Changing Plans (part 1 of 1, complete)
Nov. 17th, 2025 09:52 pmdialecticdreamerChanging Plans
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1 of 1, complete
Word count (story only): 1226
[Mid-November 2016]
:: Casual, predictable plans get tossed out the (closed) window when Betty’s body reacts to the winter weather. Part of the Mercedes story arc in the Polychrome Heroics Universe. This story was written for the November of 2025 Feathering the Nest prompt call, from an idea suggested byreadera, and is posted with my deepest thanks! ::
Betty woke up to the sound of the furnace blower activating with a click-clack-’hummmmm’. Despite its eager chugging, cold air clung to her cheeks and the tip of her nose felt dull and cold. She tried to move her right foot, listening to the demanding, tight pressure of her bladder.
Pain screamed up her leg from toes to hip, then bounced backward, shattering into pins and needles that seemed to fall toward her foot, and fall through the mattress toward the center of the earth.
( Read more... )
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1 of 1, complete
Word count (story only): 1226
[Mid-November 2016]
:: Casual, predictable plans get tossed out the (closed) window when Betty’s body reacts to the winter weather. Part of the Mercedes story arc in the Polychrome Heroics Universe. This story was written for the November of 2025 Feathering the Nest prompt call, from an idea suggested by
readera, and is posted with my deepest thanks! :: Betty woke up to the sound of the furnace blower activating with a click-clack-’hummmmm’. Despite its eager chugging, cold air clung to her cheeks and the tip of her nose felt dull and cold. She tried to move her right foot, listening to the demanding, tight pressure of her bladder.
Pain screamed up her leg from toes to hip, then bounced backward, shattering into pins and needles that seemed to fall toward her foot, and fall through the mattress toward the center of the earth.
( Read more... )
Keeping It Together
Nov. 17th, 2025 09:29 pmquestionable_content_feed
she's got one hell of a poker face
Climate Change
Nov. 17th, 2025 04:44 pmysabetwordsmithSatellite images reveal the fastest Antarctic glacier retreat ever
Hektoria Glacier’s sudden eight-kilometer collapse stunned scientists, marking the fastest modern ice retreat ever recorded in Antarctica. Its flat, below-sea-level ice plain allowed huge slabs of ice to detach rapidly once retreat began. Seismic activity confirmed this wasn’t just floating ice but grounded mass contributing to sea level rise. The event raises alarms that other fragile glaciers may be poised for similar, faster-than-expected collapses.
Just because something is big, doesn't necessarily mean it's always slow. Climate change can move blindingly fast.
If I were there, I'd be crawling over that exposed plain searching for signs of life. Antarctica is waking up.
Hektoria Glacier’s sudden eight-kilometer collapse stunned scientists, marking the fastest modern ice retreat ever recorded in Antarctica. Its flat, below-sea-level ice plain allowed huge slabs of ice to detach rapidly once retreat began. Seismic activity confirmed this wasn’t just floating ice but grounded mass contributing to sea level rise. The event raises alarms that other fragile glaciers may be poised for similar, faster-than-expected collapses.
Just because something is big, doesn't necessarily mean it's always slow. Climate change can move blindingly fast.
If I were there, I'd be crawling over that exposed plain searching for signs of life. Antarctica is waking up.
Birdfeeding
Nov. 17th, 2025 01:50 pmysabetwordsmithToday is partly sunny and cool.
I fed the birds. I've seen a large flock of sparrows.
I put out water for the birds.
EDIT 11/17/25 -- I trimmed brush along the south edge of the house.
EDIT 11/17/25 -- We cleared the rest of the brush from in front of the garage.
EDIT 11/17/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.
EDIT 11/17/25 -- I did more work around the patio.
EDIT 11/17/25 -- I did more work around the patio.
As it is getting dark, I am done for the night.
I fed the birds. I've seen a large flock of sparrows.
I put out water for the birds.
EDIT 11/17/25 -- I trimmed brush along the south edge of the house.
EDIT 11/17/25 -- We cleared the rest of the brush from in front of the garage.
EDIT 11/17/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.
EDIT 11/17/25 -- I did more work around the patio.
EDIT 11/17/25 -- I did more work around the patio.
As it is getting dark, I am done for the night.
El Goonish Shive - falsekings-071
Nov. 17th, 2025 12:37 amegs_comic_feed
New comic!
Today's News:
- Tara the griffin reacting to Nanase and asking if she's royalty on the next page (From Part 4 of So a Date at the Mall)
- "Our babies figure out how to do that" (from Part 7 of Balance)
- Discussing royal auras with Tara and Andrea (from Part 8 of Balance)
- Po Phantom arm (which is indeed much bigger)
Don't worry about it, Grace! Just the fact that you can do that much says a lot about the mirror! It might also say a lot about you? More testing would be required. It also most surely doesn't imply that Po is more powerful!
Probably!
Look, we're very scientific here. We need SO much more data.
INKING...!
I'm in a weird place production wise right now because I learned how to ink much more intuitively and faster. Because I only just learned it, however, that "faster" part comes with an asterisk while I get a feel for it, and experiment with what the best practices actually are.
That said, it's both faster and gets better results, so I'm ultimately happy.
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El Goonish Shive - falsekings-070
Nov. 14th, 2025 01:59 amegs_comic_feed
New comic!
Today's News:
I considered Voltaire having a general fondness for animals, and decided against it. He has a general neutrality for animals, some fondness for animals that cause problems for people—he once complimented an angry hippo—and a special place in his heart for cats.
Voltaire began in my mind as contrariness to the idea that villains with depth don't think of themselves as evil. There was a very long gap between that initial spark and him actually showing up, however, and he's gone through a lot of changes. The fact that he wound up being an immortal means there's an asterisk next to him saying he's evil, and that asterisk is "by human standards." That's effectively the rejection of the morality of others and claiming the word "evil" as a way of expressing it, which isn't exactly what my original contrariness was going for.
Which, frankly, is fine. A lot of ideas that young writers get as gut responses to being told not to do things are probably best evolved or forgotten. Good things that come from seeing it as a challenge, or getting a good idea, but contrary just for the sake of contrary? I imagine that results in far more misses than hits.
Though, to be clear, Voltaire is evil by my standards. No amount of hugs or power of friendship is going to unearth a heart of gold buried somewhere in him.
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Grrl Power #1409 – Swords out
Nov. 17th, 2025 11:00 amgrrlpowercomic_feed
In case you can’t read it, the security screen in panel 2 says “EROPASS” at the top, and the screen says “Think about your favorite orgy, you dirty space trollop. -X,xox” and there’s a little heart there too. This first X is for Xuriel, the rest are the usual hugs and kisses, which, uh… Well, I guess that panel would probably not be written in English. Probably that sexy space French-ish sounding language they usually speak with each other. I know I wrote down the name the language in the post under a comic, but I don’t really have a way to search that, so I don’t remember what I called it. I thought it was a good name too, like “Exhora” or something. A lot of times when I make up words in my head, I seem to go a little consonant heavy, coming up with words like “flerng,” or “himlrrg.” Oh, look, I invented Welsh. Hah. Seriously though, sometimes I get stuck in that mode and it’s like, “No alien words for you today.”
The thing I wanted to bring up is that the security system Dabbler created for her “not good enough to be her primary weapon, but still it was super cool, so she didn’t sell them to vendors and kept them in her stash inventory.” Literally anyone who’s played an RPG knows that exact category of equipment. The “almost good enough or was my best weapon but doesn’t synergize with that cool unique shield I got, or just looks rad” stuff. That’s what this vault is.
So anyway, the security system basically scans (in a future space tech MRI way) for specific, uh, orgasms? Recollections of orgasms. Erotic memories. You don’t have to reenact them. Not that Dabbler didn’t consider that option. Maybe if you fail the scan three times. You have to train it with a bunch of specific memories, but that does seem like it’d be a pretty hard thing to fake, and it’s not something someone’s going to socially hack by causally asking about your first pet or something.
Doors that slide into the surrounding walls/floor are really not good for vaults. You have to have a vault door sized gap in your wall, meaning your vault wall has to take up a lot more depth, and leaves a big hollow space, which might be exploitable somehow? I don’t know, like an employee stick gum that isn’t really gum but is actually remotely activated acid to part of the door that slides into the hollow space and lets it build up over a long time until you have enough to do detrimental acid stuff. How often does the door hollow get checked for gum-acid?
So, there was a whole docking the ship, seeing another ship in dry dock… is it called dry dock in space? More like a freeze-dry dock, am I right? The point is the StarForge has a ship construction hangar. Then they go though security, decon, Sydney makes a joke about War of the Worlds, Cora says hi to a bunch of people, etc. The vault isn’t just accessible via an external airlock or anything. I just didn’t want to spend like 4-6 pages on all that stuff. I’ll get to a little “establishing the interior scenery” stuff later, though this base isn’t intended to a long visit.
The signs under Sydney’s word bubbles are for a gun and a hammer. The chain-whips and boomerangs and other miscellaneous weapons are in the corner of the armor vault, which is on the other side of the central elevator, not so much for balance. Mostly just for symmetry.
Kobold Sydney vote incentive! Is finally done!
So… you know, check it out. Oh, and as usual, Patreon has a scales only version.
Double res version will be posted over at Patreon. Feel free to contribute as much as you like.
Representative Line: In the Zone
Nov. 17th, 2025 06:30 amthe_daily_wtf_feedRobert R picked up a bug in his company's event scheduling app. Sometimes, events were getting reported a day off from when they actually were.
It didn't take too long to find the culprit, and as is so often the case, the culprit was handling dates with strings.
const dateAsString = event.toISOString().substr(0,10);
return new Date(dateAsString);
toISOString returns a "simplified" ISO8601 string, which looks like this: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.sssZ. The substr pops off the first ten characters, giving you YYYY-MM-DD.
The goal, as you can likely gather, is to truncate to just the date part of a date-time. And given that JavaScript doesn't have a convenient method to do that, it doesn't seem like a terrible way to solve that problem, if you don't think about what date-times contain too hard.
But there's an obvious issue here. toISOString always converts the date to UTC, converting from your local timezone to UTC. Which means when you pick off just the date portion of that, you may be off by an entire day, depending on the event's scheduled time and your local timezone.
This code doesn't simply truncate- it discards timezone information. But for an event scheduler used across the world, tracking timezones is important. You can't just throw that information away.
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Chapter 100: Page 52
Nov. 17th, 2025 12:00 amgunnerkrigg_feedSlippery lot.
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Hey! The third Gunnerkrigg Court Omnibus from Dark Horse is here! As usual, there is a hardcover and a softcover available, and they are available pretty much wherever you can find them! Here's a link to a Dark Horse Page with links to retailers, and here is a link to my Topatoco store for pre-order there (it takes me a little longer to get copies sent over to them, that's all)! Anywhere you choose to buy them helps me and the comic greatly, and you know, Christmas is soon, so my recommendation is all three of the omnibus editions! I'm biased because I made them.
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Hey! The third Gunnerkrigg Court Omnibus from Dark Horse is here! As usual, there is a hardcover and a softcover available, and they are available pretty much wherever you can find them! Here's a link to a Dark Horse Page with links to retailers, and here is a link to my Topatoco store for pre-order there (it takes me a little longer to get copies sent over to them, that's all)! Anywhere you choose to buy them helps me and the comic greatly, and you know, Christmas is soon, so my recommendation is all three of the omnibus editions! I'm biased because I made them.
Monday Update 11-17-25
Nov. 17th, 2025 12:26 amysabetwordsmithThese are some posts from the later part of last week in case you missed them:
Cyberspace Theory
Poem: "Better Than a Million Dollars"
Food
Birdfeeding
Wildlife
Creative Jam
Today's Adventures
Birdfeeding
Philosophical Questions: Censorship
Politics
Communities
Education
Birdfeeding
Follow Friday 11-14-25: Kink
Food
Birdfeeding
Vocabulary: Carcinization
New Crowdfunding Project: "Monsterotica"
Read "An Old Diversion"
Cyberspace Theory
Conservation
Birdfeeding
Cuddle Party
Shopping has 28 comments. Trauma has 42 comments. Affordable Housing has 61 comments. Robotics has 98 comments.
"An Inkling of Things to Come" belongs to Polychrome: Shiv and needs $191 to be complete. Maiara and Arthur discuss taking notes.
The weather has been variable here. Seen at the birdfeeders this week: a large mixed flock of sparrows and house finches, a male cardinal, a young fox squirrel, and an adult fox squirrel. Most of the flowers have died off. I brought in the ceramic pots. Harvest is pretty much done, except a few random fields that may not get done.
Cyberspace Theory
Poem: "Better Than a Million Dollars"
Food
Birdfeeding
Wildlife
Creative Jam
Today's Adventures
Birdfeeding
Philosophical Questions: Censorship
Politics
Communities
Education
Birdfeeding
Follow Friday 11-14-25: Kink
Food
Birdfeeding
Vocabulary: Carcinization
New Crowdfunding Project: "Monsterotica"
Read "An Old Diversion"
Cyberspace Theory
Conservation
Birdfeeding
Cuddle Party
Shopping has 28 comments. Trauma has 42 comments. Affordable Housing has 61 comments. Robotics has 98 comments.
"An Inkling of Things to Come" belongs to Polychrome: Shiv and needs $191 to be complete. Maiara and Arthur discuss taking notes.
The weather has been variable here. Seen at the birdfeeders this week: a large mixed flock of sparrows and house finches, a male cardinal, a young fox squirrel, and an adult fox squirrel. Most of the flowers have died off. I brought in the ceramic pots. Harvest is pretty much done, except a few random fields that may not get done.
November 17, 2025: Steamwork Makes The Dreamwork
Nov. 17th, 2025 06:13 amdaily_illuminator_feedLongtime fans of the site know about Evil Stevie's Pirate Game, which encourages you to gather your plastic toy bricks of choice to build buccaneer vessels to battle it out on the high seas.
Well, next time I hear of the game at a con, perhaps I'll see if I can make a terrifying eight-legged leaky steampunk walker – powered by actual steam. That's exactly what Jamie's Brick Jams did, and this video has the terrifying rickety details.
– Steven Marsh
Warehouse 23 News: Why Is The Darkness Blinking?
They're trapped between the realm of the living and the dead . . . and they're not too pleased about it. The Book of Unlife adds 44 unliving monsters to your The Fantasy Trip campaigns, along with a complete adventure setting. Live like there's too many tomorrows thanks to Warehouse 23!
Well, next time I hear of the game at a con, perhaps I'll see if I can make a terrifying eight-legged leaky steampunk walker – powered by actual steam. That's exactly what Jamie's Brick Jams did, and this video has the terrifying rickety details.
– Steven Marsh
Warehouse 23 News: Why Is The Darkness Blinking?
They're trapped between the realm of the living and the dead . . . and they're not too pleased about it. The Book of Unlife adds 44 unliving monsters to your The Fantasy Trip campaigns, along with a complete adventure setting. Live like there's too many tomorrows thanks to Warehouse 23!