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i support women's wrongs

Coolest thing about lord of the rings? The king of horses shows up. It appears he is no different from all other horses

King of the eagles shows up later. He can talk. Horse king couldn't talk.

He didn't want to talk to you.

He just doesn’t do much about his administrative duties

But he didn't need to - his rule was stable, after all.

phm is decently popular in japan and i mostly see this when i check twitter and see accounts posting pictures of handmade rocky plushies that are so fucking round looking it brings a tear to my eye

Can someone explain Dwarf Fortress to me???

It’s a colony sim in a somewhat standard fantasy setting, with the twist that nearly everything is procedurally generated in unnecessary detail. Town names? Procedural. Instruments? Procedural. The history of the world you’re in? Procedural. Ancient horrors sealed deep below the world? Procedural. The gods themselves? Procedural. Your job is to help your horde of alcoholics survive whatever meticulously simulated nonsense the game decides to throw at you. It ranges from pretty standard, like invading armies, to fantastical, like vampires you have to solve criminal cases to catch, to deranged, like that time I dug up a demon made of fire that was effectively invincible in combat because everything’s pathfinding was too messed up by the smoke it gave off to fight back. For a general idea of how strange it can get, read Boatmurdered, an old written Let’s Play still beloved by the community.

So the Developers are Playing God playing god

In addition, virtually everything is simulated, which has led to some hilarious bugs in the past. To get a good idea of the level of detail, the tears in a dwarve’s eyes are tracked, and can be theoretically spread onto other things (though granted im not sure if it has been tested, hard to get them off the eyes i imagine), these ‘other things’ (any part of any creature/object in the game) would then be stained with those tears, which is itself tracked, and those tears will remain there until removed.

Wasn't there also the issue with cats just turning up dead in someone's tavern, and then it turned out that when a dwarf decided to do something while in the middle of drinking, they would just toss their alcohol on the floor, and then cats would walk through the tavern and get the alcohol on their paws, and so when they later groomed themselves, they would technically ingest the alcohol and immediately die of alcohol poisoning?

Unforeseen Consequences, The Game

The mermaid farming thing was, basically, mermaids existed. Sentient people, half fish, you know. But the thing is, their bones were really valuable, because they were rare, because dwarfs DID NOT LIKE killing them- that's a peaceful sentient person! You can't murder them! But people figured out that, hey, a mermaid dehydrating to death doesn't count as murder, so they started making these insane airlock systems to mass farm and murder mermaids without it technically being murder so thw dwarves wouldn't have mood spirals about the mass killing of the poor poor mermaids and they could sell their bones. The creator understandably went "what? What the fuck? Hey stop that" and made their bone value really low to stop people doing that.

Imagine, if you will, God devaluing your bones

Apparently no one on Tumblr knows this so here’s a fun factoid: ‘neko’ (cat) is Japanese gay slang for a bottom

another history making marvel post I never see anyone talk about is “so is nobody helping blade kill all those vampires”

in the dungeon you will have to face a monster with the nose of a tiger, the teeth of a tiger, the ears of a tiger the eyes of a tiger , the cheeks of a tiger , the neck of a tiger, the torso of a tiger, the arms of a tiger, the paws of a tiger, the belly of a tiger the back of a tiger, the the legs of a tiger, the claws of a tiger, the ankles of a tiger, the tail of the tiger, the mind of a tiger, and the power of a tiger