@landonhere

Heehee . . . they won't suspect a thing . . !

Jokes aside, I have formulated a plan to sneak actual games onto my Steam account without deactivating Family View. I'm hesitant to do it, though; I'm always hesitant about secret fiscal activities.

I didn’t glean much useful information from this scenario, but it’s definitely the best one that I’ve seen this far. There’s no harm in refreshing your memory by rewatching something you’ve already seen!

TAKING NOTES With The Acorn Lantern - 10.22.C

- I set up a "SAFE MODE" focus earlier today, meant to be used as
a global shutdown mechanism for all my devices. In all honesty, it
was a far-fetched idea, and probably isn't worth the effort for
multiple reasons.

- I also found a way to cover my tracks: briefly switching profiles
will prevent the "continue watching for ___" label from appearing.

- <7533837377> compositions manage to achieve beauty through
simplicity! Sartorial arts are a two-dimensional plane, so it seems.

- Proverbially, every act of revenge is a confession of grief.
Therefore, the villains who impulsively snap at their enemies are
the weak ones. The real villains, such as <46733-77463>, speak
matter-of-factly, never act impulsively, and don't fill a silence
if they don't need to.

- As <46733-77463> later stated, most rebellions are centralized,
having a leader or someone else who they follow or hold great faith
in. Savvy villains would do well to pick on these leaders to make
coordination fall apart. This is why splinter rebellions, such as
the <73773687-4263>, are a superior force. All you have to do to
join is just say so.

What is wrong with them? Do they truly believe themselves to be
above all critique and ethics? The sad truth is, yes. They'd rather
just sit around with their binders, looking for a way to jackhammer
down all 177 members of that "Alpha-018" organization, for their
selfish purposes.

The garden is the Serpent's only place.

This reminds me of an incident on my family creative server. Although the world was on peaceful difficulty, I heard weird noises in a certain dark forest grove next to a fox habitat. I was frightened by that place, and was almost convinced that some sort of creepypasta entity was in there. It turned out that my sister had built an underground room and put a shulker in it; they're the only hostile mob allowed in peaceful mode on Bedrock Edition.

In I Wanna Lockpick, I have an interest in the gimmick of twisting door requirements using imaginary master keys. I'll describe how it works here…

By default, a door with no copy labels has 1 real copy and 0 imaginary copies. If a door has no copies, it is destroyed. Under normal circumstances, a door’s copy count can only be decreased, either by using the required keys, or by using a master key. However, a negative master key can be used to add real copies to a door.

But imaginary numbers add an extra dimension of weirdness to door copies. If you apply an imaginary negative master key to a door, it gains an imaginary copy instead. An imaginary copy will have the same key requirement(s), but for imaginary keys instead (or real keys, if the lock was already imaginary). You can use the Lens of Truth to switch between opening real or imaginary copies.

To complicate the matter even further, applying a positive imaginary master key will open a nonexistent imaginary copy of the door, pushing the i-copy count into the negatives. A negative imaginary copy of a positive, real door, when seen in i-view, would become a negative, imaginary door. While non-master keys can only decrease the copy count, master keys can change the copy count no matter what, so long as the door doesn't hit 0+0i copies.

. . . That was certainly quite the writing. Apologies if this doesn't make sense to anyone who hasn't played I Wanna Lockpick, or hasn't heard about imaginary numbers.

Icelandic Water Dragon: “I can't get a learner’s permit, as I would have to put serious attentiveness into actual driving. The Unsustainability would put me in too much mental danger to do driving training, let alone actual long-distance driving.”

Five minutes later…

Icelandic Waters: “Pfft, just send me the quiz index ahead of time and I'll be ready by tomorrow morning.”

Icelandic Water Dragon: “What if the quiz isn't open book?”

Icelandic Waters: “I wouldn't be concerned about that.”

SITUATION: Ember Twin Project has devolved into a loose-knit
amalgamation of characters from the Kohaku, Akkala Citadel and
Indelible Dragons threads. Many, many frayed connections are
hanging, and the story has not been reshaped for them yet.

Research performed on <668437-5487863>'s origin. Findings are
reasonably compliant with existing character.

LIST OF PROBLEMATIC CHARACTERS:

- <668437-5487863>: Originates from the Akkala Citadel thread.
Connected to <47328-453365>. May need to be reworked for
consistency reasons.
- <47328-453365>: Originates from the Akkala Citadel thread
alongside <668437-5487863>. Shares a species with a preexisting
party, but said party has already been connected to <36744836377>.
Is long overdue for a name change.
- <36744836377>: Originates from the Kohaku thread. Has been cleanly
integrated into the thread; try not to disturb them.

OBSERVATIONS [IWD]: "It's 10:18. I should've just done my <5487863>
research and gone to sleep instead of staying up writing this
cryptic report."

(My friend, a mechanic’s daughter, is driving on a cold winter morning with the rear window iced over.)

Friend: “I can’t see out the rear window.”

Me: “Use the rear window defroster.”

Friend: “I don’t have a rear window defroster!”

Me: “Sure you do. It’s this one here.”

Friend: *points to button* “You mean the one with the wavy lines?”

Me: “Yeah.”

Friend: “I thought that was a bacon maker, but I was too afraid to ask my dad where the bacon was supposed to go.”

- Driving Home The Bacon from Not Always Right

TODAY I LEARNED: If Saint licks a solid object, like a blue fruit, another slugcat can pick it up and “carry” Saint with absolutely no effort. The possibilities for lightbulb-changing experiments with Saint have expanded…

I wonder how many screenshots from this campaign are going to be mistaken for Watcher gameplay footage. It’s a good thing this campaign isn’t common knowledge; it’s not for the faint of heart . . . or the average of heart.

LOG ENTRY 4036
Anomalous light source sighted on nearby mountaintop. Agent Josh
departed base to investigate.

LOG ENTRY 121
Arrived in Korvax-controlled star system and began trading
negotiations. Translation error implied that Korvax negotiating
entity was related to a space heater. Talks canceled.

LOG ENTRY 724.1
Subspace scanner detected vocalizations from deep space megafauna.
Experimental projectile syringe- [LOG TERMINATED]

LOG ENTRY 7.0001
Purchased several hundred large lizard-like creatures from a local
fauna breeder on planet Ounden Prime. Creatures got loose in the
hold, causing severe structural damage.

LOG ENTRY -51
Central router intercepted an executable file seemingly intended to
be sent to every device on the local network. Broadcast was traced to
a specimen monitoring device. File was quarantined for inspection.

LOG ENTRY 44444
I'm glad that those tomatoes only kill you after they get separated
from their vines. I can't imagine them making an excuse for flying a helicopter over farm fields, blasting poor jokes over a loudspeaker.

LOG ENTRY 8437327384384464784285678269736
Assassination attempt catastrophically failed. When baited, target
dove after bait, but emerged with both bait and sea monster in hand.
Sea monster pulled down captain's pants in front of the whole crew
(he was wearing underwear, don't worry) and caused minor damage.
Assassination target escaped with bait.

LOG ENTRY 4431+5i
Log bio-encrypted into unreadable Hexite for safety reasons.

I'm currently feeling a glow for a community SMP Minecraft server. It's a shame that Scratching The Surface is currently dead as a whole. Scratch Empires, the only other active Minecraft server that I know of, isn't exactly a community SMP, has some controversy around it, and appears to have had its topic on the Scratch forums deleted.

Icelandic Water Dragon: *watches an advertisement for a chat service, which is doing a bad job at concealing its target demographic*

Icelandic Waters #1: “I feel like I should've reported that, even if I did it just to complain about it. But I don't see an information button on the ad, other than the ‘learn more’ button.”

Icelandic Waters #2: “I'm sure that the advertisement companies are intentionally letting them slide. After all, it hasn't been long since <72739 62824> has shown its face. You’d probably get in trouble for false reporting.”

Icelandic Waters #3: “Haha, then so be it! I'll show those companies that my nose isn't worth their patience. I'll report every ad in sight. My inquiries would clog their logs faster than bismuth in a server room. They'll get so desperate that they'll deny me service . . . by not showing me advertisements! I'll pick on every last one of them! It'll be the ultimate ad blocker!! BWAHAHAHAHAAAHHH!!!!!!”

Icelandic Waters #2: “. . . you're still going to get into legal trouble if you do that.”

Cantiviler: “My apologies, miss.” *muffled scream*

Icelandic Waters #1: “They're probably going to mistake this for a lens cap photo.”

Icelandic Waters #2: “I mean, if you reverse-taxonomize this scene, this is similar to a lens cap photo. What they have in common are that they were taken very close to physical matter in such a way that little to no light made it to the camera. The only difference is that the light barrier in a lens cap photo is made of plastic, whereas the “lens cap” in this scene is made of some unknown textile.”

Content originally made around October 2021