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engineering literally cannot exist without science.
where did you find this genius???
lmao

tagslug art by @Belarius

ida what did you do

doggy was an ms paint drawing of a dog i made that i upscaled to 80000x89600 pixels. i had to index it as an 1-bit image and save it as compressed as possible so it would fit within the upload limit, and even then it took five whole minutes to just save the image. cohost doesn't have a cap on image resolution nor does it thumbnail any images that are posted on the site, so it totally let me upload the image.

just looking at doggy would immediately take up my entire CPU and start making the fans spin, because it took so much power to decode the image and display it. i posted it into the global feed to get as many people as possible to see it. several people reported their browsers crashing if they scrolled past doggy, rendering the global feed inaccessible for them and probably many other users. eventually jae found out and they just deleted the attachment directly themselves.

i'm not sure what the funniest bug i found is tbh. it's either doggy or asks not being ratelimited.

if you were a random single-appearance NPC in a jrpg who would you be?

I'd be the person in a town who inexplicably does a little dance when you talk to them, expressed by very limited movements of the sprite and a little tune playing.

and i say something really basic about the world like "many people use horses to travel between towns".

it's just an old legend, but my grandpappy always said that the Eternity Dragon's greatest weakness is the Mysterious Gem

a cat is also running in circles around the well.

if you talk to either of us we just say "meow!"

All I actually say is a complaint about whatever the plot point is for the town.

"I can't believe they closed the road to [third town]! I'm stuck at home all day."

There's a book on my shelves that gives you a point of WIS.

i'm pacing back and forth in an out of a way place that makes you think i have the good quest™ but really i'm just muttering incoherently.

diagnosis as a way of gatekeeping plurality is kind of funny. got a loicence for that headmate?