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Larian is wrong. Gale does not have a six pack. Gale does not have abs. Let me propose what's really going on with that dude.
First, let's look at the fighting style of the wizard. Yeah, they have a quarterstaff, but those are usually a last resort defense and not a primary form of attack. You still want to have the upper body strength to swing one around that's decently enough made to not snap like a twig if you've got to defend from an axe in a pinch, so they're not light, but it's not like he's bench pressing with the thing either. He's also not twirling it like a baton, or using it in a martial manner like a monk would, but that's where the other component of a wizard's fight style comes in; casting spells.
I'm not going to pretend I fully know/understand all the intricacies of magic and spellcasting in the Forgotten Realms, I play DND but we ignore that spell component bullshit. Somatic and verbal components still matter, but material? Ppf. Fuck that. All that is to say, take what I'm gonna suggest with a heap of salt.
Pretty much every spell in existence has a somatic component, meaning you move your arms and hands in a certain way to make it happen. So wizards may not be doing much heavy lifting, but they're still moving their arms a lot. Probably having to brace themselves to cast more powerful spells, too. And you can still very much build some muscle tone even if you're not throwing around bags of sand. Gymnasts and swimmers come to mind in this particular instance. Like yes I'm sure they train in other ways (and I know they rely on core and leg strength way more) but you can't tell me none of their increased arm strength comes from doing their actual sport.
And hell, as I was typing that out, maybe wizards do have arm-specific strength building exercises they do outside of spell casting. At the very least they're doing some hyper specific things with their wrists and fingers. Violinists do finger strength building exercises. That's totally not out of the question. It's likely, really.
Posture is also important for a wizard, not just because good posture keeps you alive in most dangerous circumstances in general, but it keeps you properly balanced to cast, and cast accurately. Given Gale's reprieve from the public eye for a year, though, this aspect has admittedly probably taken a little hit, and changes in posture can change the way a body's weight is distributed. And I want to make it very clear-- I don't think this man is thin. Especially not now, not with time and age. But I also don't think he completely stopped keeping up with his spellcasting, either. He'd want to keep his mind, tongue, and fingers sharp. This man doesn't do core exercises, mind, but he probably only spent the first few... Weeks? Maybe a month or two-- wallowing. You can take the wizard out of the spells, but you can't take the spells out of the wizard. He was trained to cast with efficiency and precision, and he'll keep doing that, so his posture, and therefore core strength, wouldn't completely lapse. In short, tummy plush, but likely not round.
Now, everything beneath the belly isn't as important for a wizard's needs, so I'm going to skim past them a little to get to my conclusion, but to summarize, if he has cake it's not because he was doing squats, if his thighs are thick it's not because of muscle, and we all know this man's knees are dogshit. There's a reason one of his canon lines is, "Given my propensity towards verbosity, it surely can't be a surprise that I have a practiced tongue." Suureee bud you can use that as your excuse for being a cunning linguist instead of your knees.
In conclusion, all of this is to get to the point that Gale does not have abs. Gale is, in fact, closer to dadbod, with some pretty decent upper body strength.
Oh yeah and he's hairy. I don't make the rules sorry.
#dylawa rambles#bg3#baldurs gate 3#baldur's gate 3#bg3 gale#baldur's gate 3 gale#baldurs gate 3 gale#gale dekarios#gale of waterdeep#i honestly have no idea what body positivity tags this post wants or needs#but we love dadbod gale
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Is it bad that all I can think about tomorrow's (today's) upcoming mha leaks, is getting to find out whether us all might stans are free from horikoshi's narrative or not? Spoilers past this point.
Think about it. If he's confirmed dead, we're free to move on to our own headcanons where he's very much NOT dead. Those of us who ONLY care about all might can pretty much stop giving a shit about the manga altogether.
If he ISN'T dead, he's very seriously injured, and we're left in suspense and agony for God knows how much longer on if he will or won't die.
What I'm getting at is, at this point, killing Toshinori would be a mercy imo
#release me horikoshi#boku no hero academia#bnha#my hero academia#mha#all might#toshinori yagi#dylawa rambles#mha spoilers#bnha spoilers#boku no hero academia spoilers#my hero academia spoilers#spoilers
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Still baffles me this has become the Tolerable Website among all the other big ones. They had everything and they fucked it up so bad. Tumblr is no paradise don't misunderstand me, there's a lot wrong here. But good god it's not them.
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Me: has owned bg3 for a grand total of ~ 24 hours and only played for three of those hours
No one:
Absolutely no one:
Also me: but what if I learned to mod it
#using the term 'mod' very loosely here#'mod' as in patch a patch of a mod so that i can get custom hairstyles on a modded race#did not get permission from either modmaker so unfortunately i wont be able to redistribute it#but my desires are probably so niche no one else would care anyway#anyway i already have a few lines of code added and it doesnt do anything yet but its a start#baldur's gate 3#bg3#dylawa rambles
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I have taken off so much time (unpaid and part time) over the past month for job interviews and mental health days and I just had an internship interview surprise-shifted from Wednesday to today which completely threw off all my plans and spoons, so send me strength for either the end of this hellish journey or strength to deal with another rejection
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Someone I follow just made a post saying Chrome is purposefully slowing down adblockers on Youtube right now and while it's a good announcement to make, all I can think is, "Why are you still using Chrome for casual browsing..?"
#even at my internship i use firefox and nobody bats an eye#granted i don't have an adblocker installed but still#still#dylawa rambles
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Nobody look at me I'm cooking and I have anxiety
#on top of hauling ass for a game jam#i have decided#to put in my two weeks at my internship#and will be attempting to freelance while i look for full time employment that wont make me violently hostile to others and myself#once this game jam is over#stuff. will be happening#hopefully#must. find. self-discipline#dylawa rambles#im cooking im trying to cook i will cook
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Can someone explain the new "[Blank]pilled [blank]maxer" meme to me I feel like this thing popped up overnight and it's now ingrained into our collective consciousness like the outlines of corpses on brick walls after an atomic blast
#bye i'm in a game jam and i'm basically going to try to write the equivalent of an entire novel today#alas i'm not going to be able to share the result here as it's under my irl alias#Pulling an entire new world and plot out of my whole ass in the span of three weeks (week 2 starts today i've got an outline)#hopefully my jam partner will figure out combining the combat code we're borrowing from an MIT license game (with credit) with the VN aspec#(Visual Novel I ran out of room in the last tag)#I wrote out the first three-ish scenes in about one day with no direction and my jam partner went ''dude how the fuck''#that felt nice#dylawa rambles
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My old man says "the roads are shit do u think ur internship will let you stay home" first of all there's no work from home bozo, two I just negotiated my Fridays off, and three I would rather risk ice and snow than stay home with you.
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me: yeah so we haven't had a meeting about it yet, but I asked my coworkers about past interns and why they left; chances are they won't hire me full time at my internship immediately. However, the chances of having it extended are pretty good, and I like what I'm doing, and they're going to be talking about budget in July. Sure my finances are a little tight but--
my sperm donor (only slightly exaggerated): look for a new job immediately and tell them if they won't hire you full time you're leaving. and no, I don't care if you don't find something in your industry and you have to settle for a job that will make you hate being alive even more than you already do. Also I'm going to ignore how long it took you to find this internship to begin with
me:
#dylawa rambles#dylawa rants#this man gives zero fucks about actually seeing me go into what I fucking trained to do he just wants me to make him money#i am literally sick to my stomach right now thinking about job hunting again#'i want to see you successful and happy' okay why are you still charging me rent then#why are you making job hunting even more of a traumatic experience than it already is#literally said to him 'I don't trust my chances of finding a new job within two months' and his response: 'oh well go work customer service#it took me MONTHS to find just this internship and it's a miracle it's paid at all#it's in a nice office with nice people and i have my own computer and they feed me almost daily!#i'll live another six months in this hellhole if it means I get a guaranteed post-internship job like this#is it the ideal job? absolutely the hell not#the commute sucks i don't have work from home so i can't get away with doing other shit on the side#i feel limited in what the role requires of me vs what I'd like to make#but good fuck it's better than food service or retail#but nooooo he needs me to be his little rent cash cow without him feeling guilty about it#very tempted to bail even if it means I start eating through my savings a little bit#I don't know if I can go through the daily interrogations of 'did you apply? why aren't you hearing back? it's your fault' again#i have somewhere to go but I'm trying to keep it very 'last resort' territory#A) it would make my current work commute twice as long#B) it would require completely burning bridges with my old man bc I'd have to move out in secret#not just because i don't want him to know where the people who are sheltering me live#but also because if he saw that place even if he was willingly letting me move out he'd say 'absolutely not'#because I don't trust him not to do something weird. not necessarily DANGEROUS but. weird.#I want to burn all bridges someday!#but even now that I own my car it's still not the safest course of action#I'm so sick of being stuck dawg!#dylawa vents
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So I only occasionally look at my tumblr activity, yknow, see if anyone thought anything I reblogged was cool enough to comment on, and I get to one post I reblogged where OP took a screenshot of all my "proship/antiship" tags and said "The equivalent of watching the neighborhood kid chuck rocks at a beehive."
First of all, it just felt... kind of rude? I could be reading WAY too deep into it though. That is absolutely not impossible on my part. I dunno, unless someone is being especially stupid, cruel, or ignorant (or it's a funny addition deserving of praise), I've never understood the culture of screenshots and callouts on tumblr posts. This was like, the emotional opposite of "how dare you hide this in the tags."
Second, if someone were to search for those tags I use in Tumblr's search, my reblog of that post wouldn't even come up; those were tags on a reblog, not an original post. AFAIK, tumblr tag searches only bring up original posts. My usage (or overuse) of tags on a reblog would have minimal bearing on people finding me, unless they're the kind of person to look into a post's notes commonly (which, I don't, unless I'm using a post for a blocklist-- usually for TERFs. Is that a normal thing? Do people commonly look in the notes of any post?).
Third, I use all those tags specifically so I cover all my bases for things people want to blacklist, and maybe I'll tag something someone already has blacklisted so they don't have to add another one in the first place. It's like how some people will tag every variation of "blood" or "trigger warning: blood" that they can think of, hoping to be able to spare any new blog viewers from something they've already decided they don't want to see.
Fourth, and finally, all those tags are the equivalent of the bright colors on a poisonous creature. "Don't eat me, it won't be pleasant for either of us." People who use their brains will at worst be mildly annoyed by it; people who think that murdering a character equates to irl murderous predispositions will likely run screaming-- if the post content itself wasn't enough.
#maybe I have an extreme misunderstanding of the tags system after all this time#i don't know#but that was just a really unfortunate thing to see when I use all those tags in an attempt to benefit others#it felt unnecessarily snarky and jeering#like 'look at this bozo using all these tags they're so stupid'#if it had been my own original post I would have understood more because to me that seems more like throwing rocks at a metaphorical beehiv#THAT would show up in search results#and I get it the proship/antiship argument is so far blown out of proportion and dumb#but that's the language people are using to discuss most 'moral nuance' in stories these days#('moral nuance' is in quotes for a reason)#so that's how i tag those kinds of posts so people can find or ignore them#it's a shame because it was a really wonderful post but I would rather not have that as a reminder that OP apparently thinks I'm stupid#If I'm actually being stupid about this please politely educate me#I'm doing my best when it feels like internet culture changes every two hours now#dylawa rambles#dylawa rants#dylawa vents
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One thing I do look forward to about in-person work for the first time in four and a half years, even if it's 28 miles of travel both ways right during the worst winter months, is I can't be my father's free Chore Servant when he's too busy (read: disorganized and lazy) to sort things before he leaves for the day
#just this morning the guy calls me eight minutes before my shift starts when I'm still in bed trying to wake up and goes#'oh by the way I didn't take the dogs outside can you handle that'#this is a process that takes five minutes normally#on top of the three to five i need to get dressed use the bathroom etc#AND one of the dogs is on medication right now#add another two#also this man was standing around in his kitchen this morning at seven chatting with his employee and his gf#he ABSOLUTELY could have taken them out#fucking prick#lucky i can clock in from my phone and my current employer is none the wiser#if he tries that shit with my new job in two weeks i will literally not be home by the time he calls#in fact i'm just gonna silence my phone. I will be thrilled to not have to think about him all day#will never forget the one time he was in the fucking mediteranian and had me put together the checks for his employees#'oh it'll take you like five minutes'#yeah that was my entire lunch break asshole. thanks.#the more i think about it the more pissed I am I'm still stuck in this fucking house#I need to secure that car before I fucking snap#dylawa rants#dylawa rambles
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To the individual in my ask box yesterday (though it might now be the 25th for you): I am selfishly keeping your ask in my inbox for the rest of time (and I'm not sure if you want me to respond directly anyhow-- I'm so out of touch with inbox etiquette and I can't respond privately since this is a side blog). But this is your confirmation I HAVE seen it.
I quite literally would not be the person I am today without you-- I've basically followed you since the start. I only did what I wish others would do for me.
#this may not be all that subtle tbh but I don't think anyone pays attention to my personal posts all that much#anyway I know no one talks over tumblr messages anymore but feel free to hit me up there if the mood strikes if you see this#dylawa rambles
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Aight, I'm pissed enough at Y*utube's aggressive ad bullshit (this reddit comment summarizes it pretty well) and it's one of the few G**gle services that we're stuck stuck with, that I'm gonna make my own post on current workarounds as of 10/12/2023, with info on methods that I know of for both desktop and mobile. They may not be the best workarounds, but they are what I'm currently using or trust from what I've heard (and I haven't had any other posts like this come across my dash, so maybe this is needed). We fight to the bitter end, comrades.
This post is specifically for if you must be logged in to use Youtube. Your greatest defense would be to use Youtube while logged out. From what I can tell, they basically can't do anything to you if you are.
Please note that I am absolutely no web or code expert, I don't understand the inner workings of the G**gle all seeing eye and how they catch you on this shit, I don't know if it's account based or IP based, I just barely figured out how to buy and use my own domain like three weeks ago, so there are likely things in this post I will suggest that people will correct me on. If for some reason this post gets big and starts circulating (unlikely), please check reblogs and replies for additional information (and make sure it's ACCURATE if you can). Knowledge is your friend.
With that plea to the void out of the way:
Desktop:
Some folks are using browsers with built in ad blockers such as Brave (with varying results; the comments are worth a read by everyone regardless if you use Brave) to circumvent the ad block policy, but that's Chromium shit! We don't do that in this house! I guess you can if you really want to (PrivacyGuides apparently gives it the seal of approval) but if you like your online privacy, I personally really do suggest sticking with Firefox.
"But Dyl, they're catching us on Firefox even with Ublock Origin."
Yes, but the Ublock team is working their asses off to keep up with every. single. ID. change. Y*utube makes to try to break their workarounds. If it's not currently working for you, click on that link right there and follow that guide. This war of the ads will probably continue for a while, so my advice for the foreseeable future is this:
Always perform the four steps listed in the above link any time you've been away from Y*utube for a while (even just a couple hours),
and double check the Y*utube ID VS Ublock's current ID as stated in the linked comment at the start of this post.
After verifying there's an ID update and Ublock is caught up, reset your filters every single time you get on after a several hour break (after backing up your personal filters and trusted sites, if you have any of those customized). Why so often? Because that's just about how often Y*utube's updating their popup ID to catch you with your ad blocker. The Ublock team is staying on top of it fairly well considering the insane frequency, but they may not always get to it for a few hours (hence checking the ID).
After rebooting your Ublock, check a few videos without being logged in first so as not to put your account at risk. Do so in incognito if it's easiest for you. EDIT: If you aren't logged in, YT won't give a shit if you have an ad blocker-- or so I've heard.
"That sounds like a hassle. Don't the filters in this post work?"
They may have at one point! But that post was made all the way back at the end of June 2023, and most recent replies in the post are stating it's not working for them anymore. Thus, I'd just constantly reset your Ublock for the time being until a better solution is implemented. Besides, once you know what you're doing, resetting Ublock takes a grand total of, oh I dunno, a minute? On that note, with YT's constant updates, I have no idea how Brave is faring/keeping up in comparison. And besides from using either Brave or Firefox+Ublock, I don't know of any other desktop solutions.
Furthermore-- and this applies to both desktop and mobile, but I'm bringing it up now-- if you really value your Y*utube channel and don't want it to lose access to watching videos-- or worse-- it may work to make a Y*utube account that's dispensable as your new default. I just used my spam email, honestly. It's literally no skin off my nose if that account suddenly can't watch Y*utube anymore. Then, save the browsing on your main account for when you can afford to have your adblock off (or just don't watch videos from that account anymore). It seems if you've already got the warning once, you're basically on G**gle's watchlist with that account now-- so if you've gotten it on your main, better safe than sorry.
Mobile:
There are a couple things I know of that you can do here. My first suggestion, and the one I just set up, is Revanced (aka the Revanced Manager, and it works in tangent with a MicroG fork (I absolutely do not have the vocabulary to explain what MicroG is/does, just know you can't log in to YT Revanced without it)). This Reddit post is the one I think will make the most sense to everyone for installation, but I would use it in conjunction with the official guide for dummies, not as a replacement for it.
TL;DR, Revanced is an open source APK patcher (or in gamer speak, a mod) that provides patches for numerous applications (T*mblr included, hint hint). Note the term "patches." Yes, you do need to download an APK of your app of choice (on non-rooted devices), but technically what Revanced does is create its own "build" of the app by combining the APK and the patches, and since they're not the ones distributing the APK, I believe that technically keeps them out of G**gle's death laser. PLEASE note that Revanced does NOT distribute its own APKs: if you're trying to save yourself hassle and find something claiming to be an already patched Revanced APK, be it for Y*utube, Reddit, etc, assume it's a virus even if it's not. Always get your APK from apkmirror with your own fingers and manually patch it in with Revanced.
I know the guide looks scary, but believe me: Revanced used to be WAY harder to install, as in, you had to go through a virtual machine on your phone harder. At the current moment, Revanced is Android only. Sorry Apple users :/
If logging in to an account is of no consequence to you and you could not care less, Newpipe is another good third party YT choice from what I've heard; I don't know if it has all of the same features as Revanced YT, but at the very least, yes, it should block ads. It seems to also be compatible with Soundcloud and Bandcamp of all things at a glance, so if those are common applications for you, Newpipe might even be a better option for you over Revanced. Alas, yet again, this app is not compatible with Apple-- and as this is the last third party YT app I have to offer, I don't know if there are any third party YT apps that are Apple compatible. However...
If installing a scary new non-playstore app isn't up your alley, Brave seems to have a mobile app as well; you'd be watching Y*utube in your browser instead of the Y*utube app, but hey, I was watching Y*utube in Firefox mobile with Ublock until I put on my big kid pants with Revanced, so it's absolutely doable. Again, I must reiterate, I don't know how Brave is faring with these changes.
That's all I've got, but just to reiterate: I'm not an expert. I only know bare bones web/code stuff, my understanding on some of these things may be slightly off or wrong, these are just the methods I know of that work to circumvent YT ads. Your mileage may vary on a number of factors, including but not limited to, your understanding of/ability to learn how to download and use non-playstore apps, any breaking updates YT makes to further enforce their tyranny, how G**gle keeps track of ad blockers in browsers, and how long ago this post was made vs when you're seeing it.
It's war out there, soldier; good luck.
#important#psa#ad blocking#should i tag this with more relevant tags? yes#am i not going to because i fear this post actually circulating? also yes#if it 'escapes' containment it's more like it's going to be dragged out#dylawa rambles
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yknow, peeps really wanna shit on tumblr’s search when Twitter’s is just as bad if not worse
#dylawa rambles#i'm deleting all of my twitter posts by hand because mass deletion tools cost money#and I've reached a point where I can't see anymore of my old tweets on my OWN ACCOUNT PAGE#and searching BY DATE on twitter's search page is also revealing nothing#yet when I type in a key word from a post from 2019 BOOM. IT MOST DEFINITELY EXISTS.#anyways more details on why I'm doing this later
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Are there like. Websites that have recipes that's just throwing together Box Dinners? I have this pasta I make that's just "sautee some mushrooms and add minced garlic to the end. Add green onion. Throw everything into Pasta Roni Angel Hair Pasta (not sponsored)". It works great for my ADHD ass that can't stand cooking for longer than an hour.
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