Dana Fried

@leftoblique

High-level code wizard Gym rat Mom Musician TTRPG designer Retired roller derby athlete, now coach Gamer™ I contain multitudes. 🐘 @tess@mastodon.social 🛼 Royal City Roller Derby

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Dana Fried@leftoblique· 13d

Same energy

X-Men movie "Have you tried ... not being a mutant?" screenshot

Dana Fried@leftoblique· Jul 12

Unfortunately

DOn't ASSUME TURTLE IS DEAD
Please Do Not Assume A Turtle Is Dead

By Kelly Wallace

Turtles have thrived for over 200 million years but now face their most significant challenges in our modern world. The most typical place to find an injured turtle is either on the road or along the side of a road. Making roads and motor vehicles major contributors to population declines, particularly through the nesting season from mid-May to mid-July. During this time, female turtles leave the safety of the water to lay their eggs on land, making them vulnerable to vehicle strikes. Despite their vulnerability to motor vehicles, turtles have shown remarkable resilience. Many who receive prompt medical attention can recover from their injuries, and the precious eggs they carry go on to survive. This is a testament to their strength and the hope they bring to grassroots conservation efforts.

Dana Fried@leftoblique· Jul 10

We'd expect the saturation of the potential solar market to look a bit like a logistic curve, but only the very initial part of the curve's takeoff is exponential in nature. This means we're still likely very early in the growth of solar as a power generation option.

A standard logistic curve.

The curve goes exponentially to zero as you go left, and asymptotically to 1 as you go right. It has the standard "s" shape of many similar "s-curves".

Dana Fried@leftoblique· Jul 6

If I had a nickel meme image. Caption reads:

"If I had a nickel for every time a debuff escaped containment and started a plague in WoW...I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice. Right?"

Dana Fried@leftoblique· Jun 29

Famous amateurish overpaint of the Ecce Homo portrait of Jesus

Dana Fried@leftoblique· Jun 25

Malenia, Goddess of Rot from Elden Ring.

Malenia has wings composed of rotten butterflies.

Dana Fried@leftoblique· Jun 9

Sending love from the Warriors of Light to all the Guardians out there. Sad that the solar system will be just a little less magical from now on. Soft landings!

Dana Fried@leftoblique· Jun 8

Alisae FFXIV with a speech bubble

(At the end of Shadowbringers, Alisae famously complains when everyone else got a wardrobe upgrade and she didn't. She gets one immediately at the beginning of Endwalker.)

Dana Fried@leftoblique· May 20

There is always a place to sit on level 100.

A picture of three Final Fantasy XIV characters sitting in the chairs at the end of Pilgrim's Traverse, the Level 100 Deep Dungeon. The chairs are on a raised platform at the back of an octagonal room of grey stone with intricately carved patterns on the floor and an altar at the back with a massive pendulum clock behind it. Except for that back wall, the other sides of the room are open, only separated by columns, and a mysterious cloudy purple landscape of floating rocks or crystals can be seen beyond. There are a few small lamps but most of the room is light with something resembling moonlight, coming in at a low angle from one of the openings.

Deep Dungeons are roguelike mid-core (i.e. PUGable) content in FFXIV, where completing all 100 floors is a significant challenge; groups of ten floors can easily take half an hour, and if the party wipes, the run is dead.

Dana Fried@leftoblique· May 14

"all the staff accounts are pretty much personal accounts"

Dana Fried@leftoblique· May 11

Everybody forgets the first rule of moderating a large online space

A picture of the "shut the fuck up" lawyer guys - two older white men in sunglasses; the closer one to the camera wearing a vest and tie with his mouth slightly open, the other (taller) man in back with his collar unbuttoned, smoking.

Dana Fried@leftoblique· May 4

You, an idiot: "this looks like a PS1 game" The PS1:

Dana Fried@leftoblique· Apr 29

When a company says "we're a family" they're never clear enough on what *kind* of family

A lineup of servants in a wealthy historical home (in this case, from Downton Abbey)

Dana Fried@leftoblique· Apr 22

ngl I'm kinda sad I'm not on it. Apparently, however, I'm on some kind of AI-boosters blocklist, which...

Two panel comic.

First panel: a man in white shirt and dark pants and short cropped dark hair looks frustrated with arms crossed.

Second panel: he throws his hands in the air and hells "I guess"

Dana Fried@leftoblique· Apr 22

screenshot from Dark Souls 2 showing a skeleton lying against a wall

a message is displayed which reads "don't give up , bluesky"

Dana Fried@leftoblique· Apr 16

Dana Fried@leftoblique· Apr 14

Man, imagining not having universal health care in the year 2026. Embarassing.

Map of countries' health care systems by type and insurance coverage. The United states joins Peru, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Morocco, and Mongolia in the "Bless their hearts, they tried" category (more than 50% coverage but not universal).

Dana Fried@leftoblique· Apr 12

*clears throat*

Goose chasing man meme.
first panel: "What are they spending that money on?"
second panel: "What are they spending that money on, motherfucker?"

Dana Fried@leftoblique· Apr 9

Geese:

Watchmen "I'm not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with me." meme gif.

Dana Fried@leftoblique· Apr 7

Understanding the weather in Canada is easy, because every season is exactly two months long: Two months of spring, two months of summer, two months of fall, two months of winter, two months of winter II, and two months of winter III. (Winter III isn't so bad, honestly)

Walkway and lawn covered In a dusting of snow.

Dana Fried@leftoblique· Apr 5

Gluten-free kneidlach made from homemade matzos. They taste pretty good!

Dana Fried@leftoblique· Mar 28

I didn't realize @bencollins.bsky.social was writing for CNN now?

CNN headline reading "Trump keeps saying 'nobody' knew it expected things lots of people knew or expected

Dana Fried@leftoblique· Mar 25

Dana Fried@leftoblique· Mar 19

Everyone posts this passage, but Melville follows it up with a dose of class-consciousness for good measure:

“From all this,” said the herb-doctor, still forgivingly, “I infer, that you, a Missourian, though living in a slave-state, are without slave sentiments.”

“Aye, but are you? Is not that air of yours, so spiritlessly enduring and yielding, the very air of a slave? Who is your master, pray; or are you owned by a company?”

“My master?”

“Aye, for come from Maine or Georgia, you come from a slave-state, and a slave-pen, where the best breeds are to be bought up at any price from a livelihood to the Presidency. Abolitionism, ye gods, but expresses the fellow-feeling of slave for slave.”

Dana Fried@leftoblique· Mar 13

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

The Frozen Outskirts from Dark Souls 2, affectionately known as "horsefuck valley" by fans. Roundly considered one of the worst locations in all of video games (and certainly in the Souls series), there is zero visibility and you are randomly ambushed by giant quadrupedal monsters which move extraordinarily fast, can one-shot you, and are extremely difficult to dodge even when you do see them.

In the picture, a player character with metal armor trimmed with cloth or fur holds two short swords and stares into the foggy distance, which contains what appears to be a patch of bloodstains left by other players who died, and three shadowy figures which could be the aforementioned enemies.

Dana Fried@leftoblique· Mar 9

Apparently the solution we're going with is "What if a really big straw?"

Local paper talking about a possible water pipeline from Lake Erie to the Waterloo region.

Dana Fried@leftoblique· Mar 8

Played the Mortal skin in Monsterhearts 2 last night. First time I've ever touched that playbook (or even seen it played I think?) and I am absolutely REVELING in the chaos. One of the most underrated splats in all of gaming.

"Disaster girl" meme image (young white girl looking at the camera with a grin while a house burns in the background).

Dana Fried@leftoblique· Feb 27

ngl, this is the weirdest timeline

Gimli and Legolas meme.

Gimli: Never thought I'd die fighting side-by-side with the Cato Institute.
Legolas: Actually, it's "ephebophile"
Gimli: *stares, does not reply*

Dana Fried@leftoblique· Feb 18

🔥🔥🔥 Let's gooooo 🔥🔥🔥

Daybreaker from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Dana Fried@leftoblique· Feb 3

Saw this on Mastodon, never don't repost.