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Well given that this just keeps happening I may as well put this here on the post that inspired me to make the original 🥰

My entry for WCGA 30MF Vuild Competition: Gourmet Dungeon.

New blog post: https://erlangshen.weebly.com/other-plamo/wcga-30mf-comptetition-entry-gourmet-dungeon

PISACA

What a truly classic-feeling monster. Classic is a different feeling than unique, and both are good; unique monsters are very original takes on ideas, while classic monsters adhere to a known formula that inspires a feeling of nostalgia. Pisaca has both in spades. Even though it is largely just a snake with tentacles (snentacles), Pisaca manages to feel at home with the rest of the snake-inspired monsters of Greek and Dark Age myth (the Hydra, the Gorgon, the Cockatrice, etc.). A lot of monsters in Dark Souls as a whole have that same sort of feeling going on, but this one in particular goes above and beyond. The Pisaca foregoes arms and legs, making do instead with a mass of writhing tendrils for both grasping prey and for locomotion. It’s a phenomenal look, sort of becoming the logical endpoint for the tentacle-covered monsters in Lovecraftian myth, while not going too overboard. Here, less is more, and the few large tentacles on the Pisaca’s head do the work that a throng of them couldn’t. Having so few allows the silhouette to be strong and readable. In a game that prioritizes rewarding skill and forethought, it’s important to make the enemies have good outlines, and a writhing mass of blue pasta does that significantly worse than having enough to communicate “octopus head” and show where its attacks are coming from. The hidden “spike” the Pisaca conceals under its bell shows the designers went the extra mile in making an octopus enemy. Its spike is a sort of monstrous version of the octopus’s beak. Despite looking like a mosquito proboscis, it’s merely for impaling - and possibly generates the spit attack - but it adds a real sense of malice to what would otherwise be kind of a cutesy enemy. A sad, jellylike snake thing that wanders around a prison feels only vaguely threatening, so I like the direct representation of its danger. My only real question is who decided that the weird blue raspberry gorgons would be ideal wardens? I guess if you just kind of fill a prison with dangerous animals, the only people who break out weren’t going to be stopped by sapient guards anyways.

I cannot express to you how FAST it has gone. I grew up in a world that does not exist now. We're starting on the path to reverse it, globally. You might not know how much solar has EXPLODED in the last decade or two. It's gone from a side thing, a weirdo novelty that was just Not Viable... to whole countries investing in infrastructure. but we have to keep fighting big oil and fascism everywhere we can in order to keep on this road to a new better less scorching burning earth.

we've stopped actually challenging the binary, we just slapped "amab" and "afab" over "male" and "female," and we treat transition itself like a mere act of dressup. we let blatant transphobia run rampant all the time as long as people call each other "amab" and "afab" instead of misgendering them directly

"afab bodies," "amab energy," "afab only housing," "amab behavior" THIS IS TRANSPHOBIA. YOU ARE MAKING ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT PEOPLE'S BEHAVIORS AND BODIES BASED ON THEIR ASSIGNED SEX. THE WORD FOR THAT IS TRANSPHOBIA

sex does not determine your behaviors. sex is not a binary. sex can be changed, and IS changed by medical transition, INCLUDING hrt

in 1999, an italian named giancarlo pasquini released a europop song under the alias dave rogers called Deja Vu. this song was picked up as the theme song for the above anime. it in turn became a meme, a shorthand for drifting and Cool Moves as a concept.

in 1983, air canada flight 143, a full sized 767, ran out of fuel halfway to edmonton, alberta. this is not something you want to have happen to a huge airplane. the flight chose to try and make an emergency landing at a nearby decomissioned airforce base (as they were falling fast and could not make it to a proper airport), where they ran into a second problem: they were falling out of the sky at 500 feet per mile, but reached gimli (the base in question) while still too high to safely land. normally a plane would just do a big loop-de-loop to lose altitude, but they had maybe three minutes of airtime left before they hit the ground: not enough time to make any kind of circle. the pilot, therefore, decided to execute a side slip to lose speed and altitude. this is Not a move you want to do with a massive 767, because airplanes are not built for that and if you screw it up that plane is hitting the ground at a high speed at a weird angle and breaking into a million pieces. nevertheless, the captain tried it... and succeeded. the plane landed perfectly, and there were no major injuries! (a couple of people did get minor injuries when evacuating the plane after.) he did it so well, in fact, that the plane was refueled, flown out of gimli a couple days later, and continued to fly for another 20 years with the nickname "Gimli Glider."

what is a side-slip, you ask?

it's drifting.

the guy goddamn drifted his 767.

in 2008, the tv show Mayday: Air Disaster featured the gimli glider with full reenactments as an episode on season five of their show.

and so, in conclusion, the thing i have been giggling to myself about all weekend:

Part of socializing and having friends is being a good listener even when you don't actually give a shit about the subject.

Your are hurting other people's feelings when you bluntly respond with "Anyway..." and then change the topic.

It can not always be about your preferred topic.

Part of socializing and having friends is being a good listener even when you don't actually give a shit about the subject.

Your are hurting other people's feelings when you bluntly respond with "Anyway..." and then change the topic.

It can not always be about your preferred topic.