Just here for the food

dont trace reference images. dont even LOOK at reference images. in fact, don't ever look at anything that exists in the world, in person or in photos or in videos, even when you're not drawing, because you will still be able to use the memories of what something looks like as a reference when you're drawing it later. yes that includes yourself. destroy all the mirrors in your house. don't look down at your hands or feet. don't look. close your eyes. close them tight. forget everything. it's okay, embrace the darkness. just forget.

Midnighters be like:

#the reason that lab safety regulations are the way they are is because literally all chemists are like this #as in 100% of them #no exceptions (via @prokopetz)

Hi! Chemist here! Yeah, this is true.

Having a "stupider people have done this" attitude about the things you want to do can open so many doors

Personally, I like "people have been payed to do it worse." Which isn't true for every subject, of course, but is true for many creative/artistic hobbies.

mihoyo fans always talk about how gachas have increased production budget now like I'm supposed to be grateful

"now every game has an open world now instead of just jpegs and slideshows!" and I'll never forgive you for it. i don't want botw I want the slideshows

all mihoyo have done is standardize the 50/50 and made gacha players more pretentious and annoying. what has a dodge or parry button ever done for me

Arguably, guranteed pulls is actually even older than 2016. In the online game Avengers Alliance, at some point they added a gatcha-like mechanic called lockboxes. You buy or earn them, and open them for a chance of getting progress to unlocking a special character, who has no other way of unlocking them. Not 1-to-1 with Gatchas, obviously, but it definately resembles them. Anyway, back in 2013, to adress complaints about how unfair they were (which, to be clear, they were), they made it so that if you open enough of them, you were guranteed to make progress. The result was that the total price to gurantee you get the character, assuming you never made progress any other way, and only bought them, was about $50, if I recall correctly. Of course, in practice, you would almost never actually need the maximum number, and you could get a few pretty easily, so in practice, it would typically cost much less. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if someone knows of an even earlier implementation of such an idea, this is just the oldest one I know of. Though I completely understand not counting it, because the game wasn't technically a Gatcha, even though it had some similarities to one.

Trying to decide on a dice rolling system for my ttrpg. I don't wanna just pick d20 but it's definitely the one I'm most familiar with

Not sure how WoD's dice pool system works, but I enjoy "Hit" based dice pools, where instead of needing to hit a total, you need to get a certain number of results at or above a certain number (or use special dice with specific "success" results, like Genesys). Anyway, some possible pros and cons of each, from my experience: d20: Pros: Bonuses can be very modular, since there's a wide range of possible results. Simple to understand, simple to design around, and simple to play with. Very unpredictable results, though less so than d100. Cons: Very unpredictable results. Not good at creating results other than "Success" and "Failure." You can have critical results, which help, but it still results in no "success but" and "failure but" type results, where there are consequences that offset the main result, rather than add to it further. 2d12: Pros: More dice means more possible mechanics. Still very easy to understand. Wide range of possible results, regardless of bonuses, but extreme results are rarer. Allows for a wider variety of possible outcomes, such as Daggerhearts Hope and Fear, or triggering different effects if either die is above/below certain numbers. Cons: Bonuses can feel insignificant at times, because extreme results are so rare, and the average roll is pretty high, at 13. However, this isn't nearly as true for using two smaller dice, like 2d6 or 2d10. Rerolls and such can also feel a lot less impactful, because, again, most rolls will be closer to the average roll. Dice Pool: Pros: Allow for characters to be dramatically better or worse at a skill, while still allowing low-skill characters to succeed, and high-skill characters to fail. Sometimes can allow for significant degrees of success, but a little less flexible than if you have a set number of dice. Rolling a lot of dice is fun. Cons: Not everyone has a lot of dice, and counting up totals can be slow. If you're bad at something, success can be almost impossible quite easily. It can be difficult to balance target numbers, because of the wide range of PC bonuses. Personally, my favorite dice systems are d100 roll under, which I didn't discuss here, and dice pools. Despite that, I rarely design either of them, because they're also distinctly more difficult than d20, or 2dX. I know it's a little long, and others have provided other resources, but I still wanted to pop in and give my two cents. Of course, I'm much more familiar with some of the options than others. I've mostly played dice pool and d20 games, so do with that what you will.

I’m shocked this is so close, I was confident one would be crushing it

As someone who considers teleportation pretty much the best superpower, this is honestly a pretty fair selection. Knowing every language is also pretty incredible, though I'd still have to pick teleportation, myself.

I tried out Daggerheart, SCP2e, and couple of still-in-development games, both mine and others. I'm also currently gearing up to try out Shadowrun 4e, which is currently looking pretty promising, despite the... reputation of the series. I also almost played Masks one time. Honestly, while not huge, this wound up being a longer list than I expected.

It is implied through gameplay mechanics that the two kingdoms at war in chess both formally permit regnal polygamy, allowing the King to take at least nine wives of equal status, and that marriage can be bestowed as a military honour, but curiously that honour - in stark contrast to the conventional attitudes of the aristocracy - can only be bestowed upon soldiers of the unlanded class, leaving great questions to be asked of the material interests and stability of these kingdoms' aristocracies

also, their horses lack limbs & their castles are small

yknow the smallness of the castles is FAR from their most interesting distinction from the noticeably immobile ones we are familiar with

they're mobile siege towers, that's normal. let's go back to thinking about pawnfucking, specifically that the convention of reignal polygamy implies all pawns are a warrior maiden caste.

Not nescessarily. Pawns, as the most common piece, represent more of a miliatia/temporary soldier situation, rather than a full time warrior caste. As such, I would contend that it implies that only women are drafted.

I’ve had this queued for 4 fucking years so it’d be reblogged on a Monday. the next time this can be accurately reblogged is in 6 years

All right, hold on – is there anyone in this room who wasn't grown in a tube by a shadowy quasi-governmental conspiracy as a living weapon? Anyone at all?

Mine was a sphere

you guys got your own containers? I was grown in a high-capacity vat with the rest of my batch

Bougie mf over here with a high-capacity vat acting like they were soooo much worse off than those of us grown from the fucking SOIL

I just kind of appeared fully formed one day, with the taste of iron on my lips and an endless hunger I could neither explain, nor overcome.

*coughs blood* youre all just jealous of my wound. yuore trying to make me get rid of it because you wish you had a wound this cool

This is plot of Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. (The Video Game, specifically.)

Yeah okay Ill reblog that!

Not a scholar at first, but the guy who wrote Jaws hated that people used it to justify hating sharks so much he dedicated the rest of his life to shark research and advocacy.

The woman who popularized gender reveals wishes she hadn't, afaik.

(afaik- the woman who popularized gender reveals did so because she had a long history of miscarriages. The reveal was a celebration of the fact that one of her pregnancies had gotten far enough that there WAS a physical sex to reveal. It was never intended to be like... *gestures at modern gender reveals* all that. That same kid later came out as trans and yes, the family had a second gender reveal for that lol.)

This whole thread is so beautiful to me that I can explain it

I'm surprised it hasn't come up yet, but probably Alfred Nobel as well. He invented dynamite. He was also a pacifist. And it's often speculated that he started the Nobel Prize so that he could be remembered for something, anything other than inventing dynamite, which had killed so many people.