Questioning this rule is also a 1 day ban.

Fuck off you dullards. Every other day it's the same three people.

@Sneed catches the first ban.

One month ago I wanted to commission an artist to draw Marsey the Cat. Initially, I sought to enlist our very own talented @Dramarama, however due to concerns over maintaining privacy in exchanging real money (not dramacoin), I had to look elsewhere. Unfortunately I wasn't able to go with the first choice artist voted upon by you guys because they never even replied to my emails. However, the artist that did answer the call - Yunann on DeviantArt - did such a wonderful job that I think we were blessed to have ended up with her.

UNCOMPRESSED PNGs:

Available upon request.

https://pastebin.com/dUY8TEab this one doesn't have the archive account

https://pastebin.com/j3iWuFa2 this one has the archive account added already

if you don't know python, shame tbh. it's not that hard to get installed, there's probably a lightweight installation you can get somewhere.

you'll need to specifically install the PRAW module

you'll need to set up a "script" app in your reddit settings

you'll also want to set up your criteria for blocking, down where it says "reqs = ...", at the moment it's set to block anyone who has more than a sum of 5 posts + comments in AHS

note that it takes a while to run because of API rate limiting, don't think there's anything that can be done about that. there might be some way to use the pushshift API instead to grab more data (and at least grab the posts/comments faster, though blocking will still be rate limited) if anyone feels like it, it would be pretty easy to build off of this but I've never bothered looking into the pushshift api much

I know the megajannies said that they were going to do something to prevent mass blocking, but I ran it before with a criteria of 20 posts + comments and blocked about 200 people without issue, so

edit: if you want to also block the account for the archive website, replace

users = {} with users = {"nathan131412" : {"p":9999, "c":9999, "u": reddit.redditor("nathan131412")}} in the first link

Sorry for the ugly pic, what's important is the recipe.

Through years of experimentation I have created the ultimate (according to my tastes) red borscht recipe. If you've never had it, it's a slightly sweet beet soup that you can customize in endless ways, but it typically has meat or beans and cabbage. It's a good meal for any season, extremely cheap, very healthy, and beets are good for your liver, so you should try it. It takes around 2-3 hours to cook but most of that's just letting it simmer and occasionally adding crap to the pot.

Ingredients

1. 1-2.5 lb cartilaginous red meat, ideally with bone (A big skin-on pork shank is my ideal cut, braised pork skin tastes great and thickens the broth. Can sub meat for dark kidney or cannellini beans) - precut stew meat works but you're paying more for someone else to do something that takes a couple extra mins of work

2. 3 medium or 4 small red beets (generally the smaller the sweeter, and ones with stalks still attached tend to taste better)

3. 4 medium cloves garlic

4. 1 large onion or 2 small

5. 1 gigantic carrot, 2 regular grocery store carrots, or 3 farmer's market/upscale grocery carrots

6. 1 can tomato paste

7. dash of white or white wine vinegar (be careful)

8. small fistful of flat leaf parsley

9. 2 medium bay leaves or one large

10. liberal amount of marjoram to taste

11. about a tsp of mexican oregano to taste (optional)

12. about a tsp of paprika to taste

13. half a white cabbage

14. chicken stock, 2 chicken stock cubes, or water

15. black pepper and salt to taste

16. white sugar or 2 prunes (optional)

Serve with:

• sturdy bread like a baguette

• dill

• sour cream, smetana, cream cheese, etc.

Directions

1. Cut the onion in half and dice one half; set the other half aside

2. Mince garlic

3. If you bought a whole cut of meat, you can process it into pieces ahead of time or simmer it first, then pull it out if you're lazy. That'll increase cook time though

4. Heat up your largest stock pot on the stovetop at about medium heat (I usually let the fat from the cut render but if yours doesn't have a lot of exposed fat then add some oil. Lard highly recommended if you're using beef). Add the meat and stir around for a few mins.

5. Add onions and sweat for a couple mins, then add bay leaves and garlic and sweat for a couple more mins. Make sure not to brown anything, the mallard reaction ruins the clean flavor

6. Add tomato paste, stir around for a couple mins, then add paprika and stir for a few secs until the paprika smell diminishes. The timing for these first few steps isn't important due to the aforementioned mallard reaction note.

7. Add stock/water with bullion/water and a dash of vinegar along with marjoram, parsley, and oregano.

8. Simmer for at least an hour, though it'll take longer if you're removing the meat and cutting it into pieces during the cooking process (it took the shank in this round about 1.5 hrs). You want the meat to be somewhat pliable but not super soft yet so that the pieces don't dissolve into pulled pork

9. Meanwhile, peel beets and cut each of them into halves. Divide the halves and cut half into small, thin pieces or throw into food processer and cut the other half into rough cubes or matchsticks (you could do one or the other but having both makes the texture more interesting)

10. Throw the beets into the pot

12. About 30 mins after the beets have been added, taste the broth. If your beets are really shit then you can add sugar or prunes here to sweeten it . Otherwise adjust your salt, spices, vinegar, etc. if you need to

13. Meanwhile, cut carrots into matchsticks or shreds or throw into food processor and cut the reserved half of the onion once through the middle, then crosswise into thin slivers

14. Toss the carrots and onion into the pot after the beets have been in there for 40-60 mins

15. Dice the cabbage half into squares or cut in small thin slivers.

16. Add cabbage to pot after carrots and onion have been in there for about 15 mins

17. Cook soup for 10 more mins, adjust to taste again if you need to

18. Serve with dill (can sub parsley), sour cream or w/e, and bread

It's me again. Daedalus. Founder and owner of Bardfinn lore. Curator of the Bardfinn archives. I bring you another round of dirty Bardfinn secrets. Took a while but she did take two months to reply to me. Some screenshots are out of order. Yeah I know, fake and homo etc can't please you all. Enjoy

Edit: Screenshot uploaded in link form. Sorry. I'll try edit this

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I was feeling understimulated, but I'm also too poor to spend much time in the casino. So I created a genetic algorithm for creating the "optimal" strategy, specifically for the rDrama casino. Note that I'm not much of a goombler, so I may get some terms wrong.

Using this strategy, over a million games, the house's edge is about 1.10±0.06%. That is an improvement over this one and this one, which net an edge of 1.63% and 1.52±0.07%, respectively.

There may still be better strategies, but this one summed up:

• Stand on a hard 17 and up (duh);

• Stand on a hard 16 through 12, if the dealer has a 6 or lower, except if you have 12 and the dealer has a 2;

• Stand on a soft 17 except if the dealer has a 9, 10 or ace;

• Double down on a 10 or 11 except if the dealer has an ace, or if both you and the dealer are showing 10;

• Hit otherwise.

details

I can't share the code as it's based on a proprietary algorithm unfortunately.

The GA, a real-valued EDA to be precise, evolves a 241-valued genome. 160 values for the hard-hand table, 80 values for the soft table, and one for insurance. Especially the hard table could have been smaller and insurance is well-known to not be worth it in the long run, but 1) it's good to have some easy parts for sanity checking and 2) maybe the algorithm could find an exploit But it didn't.

Because I only had a real-valued GA at hand, each value mapped to a probability to stand, hit, double-down-or-hit or double-down-or-stand. The probabilities are roughly sinusoidal and therefore repeat to let the algorithm reach "far away" actions easier (such as when going from double-down-or-stand to stand).

Each strategy played 100 000 randomly-generated games. Population sizes started at 40 and doubled with every new population up to 640. The GA used a scheme that makes counting actual evaluations difficult, but I'd estimate about 500 billion games have been played.

Why did I go through all this effort again? Like I'm on vacation from precisely this kind of shit. Goddarn

EDIT: now hosting on github https://github.com/geese-suck/MarseyArchive

If you were not already aware, emojis on this site are resized and compressed to save on storage and bandwidth. A few months ago imgbb (which used to be our image host) went down and most images on there were lost. In an effort to preserve a piece of drama history I am creating an archive of all marseys in their original quality so they can be used as assets in new marseys or simply admired by future generations. Please post any and all marseys in their original quality, preferably with the emoji name so I can properly credit the artists. Imgur catbox.moe (thx berzel) is preferred so as to avoid compression but not mandatory.

pinging prolific marsey artists: @chiobu @Dramarama @Chapose @AltAccountUmbreon @Nymphia (idc if you dont like ur work cause I do) @FeynmanDidNothingWrong @McCoxmaul @Mom @Dramamine @elfbinn @Punished-R-slur31 @ThreeLetterAgent @pippy @fic8 @ACA @drama_enthusiast @cynic @Above______Below @John @Gigavaccinator @uwu @tejanx @lucy

thank you

Put this in your filters.

rdrama.net/assets/events/fistmas/*

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rdrama.net###sidebar-content > [href*="/assets/events/fistmas/images/sidebar/1.webp"] > .mb-4

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Upmarseys to the left if you grinchmaxxing this season, downmarseys if you're lucky enough to still feel joy.

Edit: For my retards out there these are for uBlock or AdBlock cosmetic filtering or any nerd browser that has built in filters and will remove...

• Music

• Snow and probably other effects if there are any idk

• Merry christmas banner

• Eye following santa sidebar

Doesn't remove:

• Christmas Hats. Who would want to remove the hats?

>But what is my goal you ask? Why do that oh big Mad Bug?

https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/47/1479692339-jesmoke.png

>Well that's where the stroke of genius arrives https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2019/27/7/1562461649-matheux.png

>My interest is twofold. The first is that I hate, I hate France from the bottom of my guts and I hate the people who live here for the most part, I want this country to collapse as quickly as possible. I calculated that I have already cost more than 1 BILLION EUROS ALONE. And that's only taking into account the costs of treating bedbugs (which in practice is impossible, I'll tell you right away, it will always come back, don't worry, it's dead). And without counting the costs linked to psychological problems, loss of motivation, efficiency, lack of sleep, possible work accidents which may have occurred thanks to this etc etc. https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/38/1474488566-jesus39.png

>The second is that obviously knowing that bedbug infestations will increase I can not only ruin France, the state as well as individuals but also make as much money as possible by knowing which boxes to invest in and in which sector of activity exactly. The bedbug market is a growing market, very buoyant, I estimate it at more than 1000 billion units this year and double that next year with the return of tourism

4chan thread : https://archived.moe/int/thread/188043326

The original thread : https://jvarchive.com/forums/42-51-66662810-1-0-1-0-comprenez-pourquoi-les-punaises-de-lit-explosent-partout

to promote diverse drama, these sites currently get x2 rating in the frontpage algorithm:

https://fsdfsd.net/rDrama/rDrama/src/branch/master/files/helpers/config/boosted_sites.py