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The Legend Rado Tharadus

@utsanomiko.bsky.social

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Stranger in a strange land. Anime expatriate, class traitor, shameless cat dad. I’m just looking to riff with the cool kids. Dismantle capitalism. 🐝🧙🏽‍♂️ He/Him.

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The Legend Rado Tharadus @utsanomiko.bsky.social · 14h

It’s still task paralysis if you blame it on the cat.

The Legend Rado Tharadus @utsanomiko.bsky.social · 14h

Alphonse, the distinguished gentleman.

Alphonse the grey tabby cat, sitting with his front paws folded in front of his chest.

Alphonse the grey tabby cat, sitting with his front paws folded in front of his chest. His eyes are partially closed.

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The Legend Rado Tharadus @utsanomiko.bsky.social · 19h

AI proponents use Marylin Monroe as a shorthand for “choose your own public sex fantasy icon and/or personal stalker target”.

In other words they’re just advertising AI for automated deepfakes/revenge porn. That’s the whole premise.

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The Legend Rado Tharadus @utsanomiko.bsky.social · 22h

It’s fine, nothing can actually die in Oz. Those wolves were still alive but couldn’t do much without heads.

All those Wheelers turned to sand in the deadly desert? Still alive, just made of sand now.

The parts the Tin Man chopped off & replaced with tin? Reassembled into the man “Chopfyt”.

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The Legend Rado Tharadus @utsanomiko.bsky.social · 1d

Edward has become quite the lap cat. This is our morning and lunch time routine.

Edward the fluffy black cat, lying on my lap on his side with his front paws stretched out.

Edward the fluffy black cat, lying on my lap with one front paw stretched out, side-eyeing the camera.

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The Legend Rado Tharadus @utsanomiko.bsky.social · 1d

Look at this stretched out belly full of floof!

Edward the fluffy black cat, lying on my lap stretched out on his back with his paws up in the air, partially covering his face.

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The Legend Rado Tharadus @utsanomiko.bsky.social · 3d

Sleepy Alphonse.

Alphonse the grey tabby cat sitting on a blanket on my lap

Alphonse the grey tabby cat lying on a blanket on my lap, one paw stretched out.

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The Legend Rado Tharadus @utsanomiko.bsky.social · 4d

“Hello!”

The Legend Rado Tharadus @utsanomiko.bsky.social · 5d

“This time he’s NOT sorry about his face!”

The Legend Rado Tharadus @utsanomiko.bsky.social · 5d

Also I am still mad at how Spore was gamified and cannot interact with it/its derivatives in an unbiased manner.

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The Legend Rado Tharadus @utsanomiko.bsky.social · 5d

Video games are so influential I know one person who has never played Black And White (and another who has never even seen it played) who still regularly exclaim “thanks for all this meat! We need more meat though!” in a British accent.

Charlie the Half Time Orange @clementinedanger.bsky.social · 6d

work work

Tumblr post:

video games are all about meeting a little elf
outside the city gates that says 'ah... the pernicious
weed!' when you give him a healing herb and then
finding yourself fifteen years later saying "ah... the
pernicious weed!" to yourself in the shower

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The Legend Rado Tharadus @utsanomiko.bsky.social · 8d

She’s going to get so insufferable once she gets Madonna-old. Zero clue what to do with herself.

Imagine the weird-ass “don’t you know who I am?” songs she’ll write when the next gen of teens only know her as someone their moms listened to.

The Legend Rado Tharadus @utsanomiko.bsky.social · 8d

The exception to this once again being 4th Edition.

The Legend Rado Tharadus @utsanomiko.bsky.social · 8d

I regularly remind my D&D players of the 2:3 “golden number” for average difficulty odds (1:1 is hard, 3:4 is easy); the fundamental flaw of the D20 system treating Armor Class and monster levels/CRs as absolute when they must always be relative to the PCs’ by 3 to 4 degrees for this reason.

RyyBOOdo @ Vacation Oct 8-22 @ryyudo.bsky.social · 9d

Remembering the time GCYoshi told me his mantra for luck-based games: Even if you have 50:50 results, your brain will always weigh negative outcomes heavier. It'll feel 30:70

Compound that with misunderstood odds/probability and...

Kara Ling @metacrab.org · 10d

The game in which the premise is "the odds are real but gamers struggle to conceptualize or even believe them" has negative reviews from gamers who don't believe the odds are real (game: Unfair Flips)

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The Legend Rado Tharadus @utsanomiko.bsky.social · 10d

Are you running any additional computer processors beyond the three isolinear cores, like a positronic core?

You need to connect to that extra computer core and turn off DHCP services.

The Legend Rado Tharadus @utsanomiko.bsky.social · 12d

Would you believe me if I said this popped into my head yesterday morning and I thought about messaging you out of the blue with simply “listen punk, you wanna wind up like the penguin?”

Otherwise, I haven’t thought of this AMV in like… months.

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The Legend Rado Tharadus @utsanomiko.bsky.social · 14d

“You integrated the anti-Federation rebels by assigning them to officers’ duties and calling it a day? How did you deal with ideological conflicts?”

Janeway: “Oh, that. Truth be told we all forgot anyone was Maquis once we left the Caretaker array.”

The Legend Rado Tharadus @utsanomiko.bsky.social · 15d

In 2002 we didn’t have to see crap like this from people online because they couldn’t figure out how to transfer photos from a digital camera’s 3.5” disk to a web host in the year before Imageshack or Photobucket.

The Legend Rado Tharadus @utsanomiko.bsky.social · 15d

In chronological order:
1) My Mother the Car
2) Herby the Love Bug franchise
3) Maximum Overdrive
4) Cars franchise

The Legend Rado Tharadus @utsanomiko.bsky.social · 21d

Dropping silverware into the dishwasher’s silverware basket from heights greater than two inches:

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The Legend Rado Tharadus @utsanomiko.bsky.social · 21d

They made him sound like a Smurf.

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The Legend Rado Tharadus @utsanomiko.bsky.social · 22d

“We can’t do communism, what would protect us from devolving into a small cabal of corrupt elites running the whole economy and trading resources back-and-forth for political favors?”

The Legend Rado Tharadus @utsanomiko.bsky.social · Sep 11

CONFIRMED: foldy paws

Alphonse the grey tabby cat, sleeping on a blanket with his front paws folded up under his chest

The Legend Rado Tharadus @utsanomiko.bsky.social · Sep 8

Alphonse doing his usual routine.

Alphonse the gray tabby cat sleeping on a blanket on my lap, with his front paws tucked under his chin

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The Legend Rado Tharadus @utsanomiko.bsky.social · Sep 5

Dang, General Hux as the Resistance informant was a more believable 11th hour twist than this.