Comment and Link Roundup: October 17, 2022

[brin_bellway]

Comments on my own posts:

Today's the day! It's happening! [one comment, *including* the postscript because the postscript was written late enough to be easily missed]

[cw: (strong) fire, unreality, (mild) illness] Happy...new...year? [one comment, not counting the postscript]

Today's the day, part ~2: House Community Grid

[cw: bugs, (fairly mild) death, (mild) unsanitary)] The one about fly math [one comment on Tumblr]

English is a bullshit language (like all the others)

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Comments on other people's posts:

[cw: food, (fairly mild) apocalypse, (arguably) poison] [Substack; Wayback] (OP by Nicholas Weininger) Induction stoves vs gas stoves vs electric-coil stoves. [two comments]

[cw: (strong) food, (arguably) nsfw text] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by andaisq; h/t moral-autism) Sociological specfic about a world where people view food with the same sense of profundity and privacy with which we view sex.

[cw: illness, needles (picture in Tumblr version, but not in WordPress version)] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by syellowtails) The latest additional info on COVID-19 bivalent vaccine timing, mostly but not exclusively regarding the United States. (The most recent thing I've since heard is that, while the Ontarian government continues to *recommend* six-month intervals for most triage groups, it's possible to get a vaccine dose only three months after your previous one with a bit of additional hoop-jumping.)

[cw: poverty, illness, (arguably) venting] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by Lucy Liu) Updates from future-me on how my situation has changed since 2018. [three comments, one of which is new]

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by snakestack) The seat of a computer's soul.

[cw: venting, (mild) poison, (arguably) illness, (arguably) scrupulosity] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by albertvancouver) Unrelatable complaints about city design.

[cw: discourse, unsanitary, aging, medical] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by boeing747) *Extremely* unrelatable complaints about the "oversanitization of popular media".

[cw: food, embarrassment squick, amnesia] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by robustcornhusk) Way(s) to make Jewish apple cake, and how they've evolved over time.

[cw: nsfw text]
[AO3; Wayback] (OP by Anonymous) I was recently trawling through some porn in what seemed to be the increasingly vain hope of finding something decent, and I came across this shining fucking *jewel*.

I have very specific tastes and a sensitivity to the mechanics of writing and a lot of squicks that are very common kinks (like, "genitalia", that level of kink common-ness), and I'm...used to there always being a catch, you know? There's always some bit (usually a *lot* of bits) where you have to skim past or roll your eyes or flinch. Sometimes there isn't even a clear division into good bits and bad bits: instead, the whole thing is slightly askew, approaching everything from a different angle.

But I read this, waiting for that other shoe to drop or that skew to appear, and it never did. It's *flawless*. It...it reads like the kind of porn *I* would write if I were good at writing porn: it feels *on the same wavelength* as me in a way that I have never before encountered. I have never heard of this canon before in my life† and I don't care, it's still amazing.

†Upon reflection, the name might be *very, very slightly* familiar? But that's about it.

[cw: nsfw text] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by cryptotheism; in response to sigmaleph) I was planning to wait for this roundup post to talk about the above, but I was having too many emotions and they leaked out into a post. Sorry for leaking my emotions onto your post, Sofi. [two comments]

[cw: illness, (arguably) discourse, (arguably) amnesia] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by discoursedrome) The past, present, and future of public mask cosplay.

[cw: food, (arguably) discourse] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by rustingbridges) Excuses for holidays. [two comments]

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Links:

[cw: food, (arguably) trypophobia]
[Hackaday; Wayback] (by Navarre Bartz) Ramen in theoretically edible packaging. In practice,

she next integrated flavoring into the bioplastic wrapper so that there’s no foil packet.

the packaging tastes terrible. Probably compostable, at least.

(Of course, if you want cheap low-packaging pasta, you *could* buy a five-pound bag of spaghetti on sale and keep it in a reusable Ziploc. I suppose that makes the flavoured ramen packaging work out, come to think of it: if you *don't* want the flavouring, there's little point in buying ramen at all. (Unless you're craving the slightly different flavour of plain ramen versus plain spaghetti, but on-sale spaghetti is priced on par with the cheapest ramen, and the cheapest ramen has gone way downhill. I'm not paying four times as much for the fancy ramen.))

[Imgur] (h/t Sonata) A book with a built-in lectern.

[cw: (fairly mild) trypophobia, (arguably) body horror] [Twitter; Wayback] (by jonty; h/t Xom) Bugfix for multiocular O.

Three laugh-rule entries:
[Twitter; Wayback] (by Foone; h/t ericvilas) Can gender run Doom? For that matter, can visual static run Doom? (I won't spoil the final punchline, but do read to the end. I think I've even coaxed the Internet Archive into making their version readable start-to-finish.)

[Youtube; Wayback] (by Lou & Peter Berryman) A car drove by blaring "Sweet Home Alabama", and it got me thinking about this song again (it's not "Sweet Home Alabama").

[cw: corporate bullshit] [Mobile Syrup; Wayback] (by Jonathan Lamont)

Locking the doors, on the other hand, will probably just frustrate customers (and if they’re going into a Rogers store, chances are they’re already pissed off).