Cease Perception

Literally just vibing. Main sideblog of @omniscientrose. Pfp by @teethkid67

[squeeegs]

happy birthday, techno.

[tabris-the-seventeenth-angel]

HEARTBREAKING: friends who i should be going to the movies and playing dnd and watching anime and cosplaying and going to the mall and having sleepovers and exploring the woods with live one hundred trillion miles away

[chaosbean]

[micro-usb-deactivated20230625]

[durbikins]

[pending-trans-action-2]

[fgrobichiko]

[egax]

I have been saving this since last year. Happy Earth Day everyone.

[freefitty]

literally has been in my queue for an entire year. you just can’t miss reblogging.

[tulipfemme-deactivated20240718]

having a little jingly keychain is all fun and games, until you’re walking around somewhere that’s dead quiet…..like oh i’m sorry i just my trinkets are jangling around……n suddenly your the court jester and everyone is pointing and laughing at you for your noisey fucking keychain…..bobo the clowncore

[monkeyislandtwo]

"two bodyguards drag me away" has been my fav way to finish insane sentences, its up there with "who said that", "can anyone hear me", "is this thing on" and "its so dark in here"

[sp00kyisland]

it's the lack of casual closeness in long distance friendships that kills me. we can't take a walk together, down the road or in a park. can't window shop or run errands. we can't see each other's reactions as we make fun little small talk. that's all i want

[thydungeongal]

Anyway instead of constantly making the world's silliest people mad with my mild criticisms of D&D I'm going to say some positive things... about games besides D&D.

I love the tables in Rolemaster, like you've probably heard this before but the random tables in Rolemaster are basically little story generators.

The system of strings in Monsterhearts is probably one of the best if not the best social mechanic ever.

I love how Errant empowers players with the ability to make actual tactical choices about how their characters move around in places.

I love how weird Troika!'s character options are. I'm playing a weird muck wizard right now. He can cast a spell that literally ties some tongue in knots.

I love the presentation of everything in Break!, it's an absolutely beautiful game and I can't wait for the physical book to arrive so I can show it off to my friends.

I love the investigation point/Eureka! mechanic in Eureka, it ensures that characters will at least have some clues available to them provided they're willing to do the work, also there's so many fun traits that alter the flow of investigation points in fun ways.

[blue-corvid]

Rolemaster’s tables are so fun. The tables are honestly really cool if you’re a GM that’s not great at improvising descriptions. It’s like a fun lil game of mad libs sometimes. (Highlight of my Rolemaster gaming was when a guy rolled a crit that said it smashed his enemy’s hand, utterly destroying it… and the enemy was a crawling skeleton hand. The GM was like, “Well, that kills it, I guess!” Pretty funny!)

Here’s some stuff I really like about some games I’ve played!

Iron Claw’s stacking dice system for its races (the characters are animals!) and classes and traits lives in my head rent-free. It’s so elegant.

Fabula Ultima streamlines attack and damage into a single roll in a way that is incredibly satisfying, and the way you build characters into bonkers little Rube Goldberg machines with skill triggers really makes my inner Magic: the Gathering player giddy.

Ryuutama made encumbrance fun and engaging, and it taught me — already a veteran GM — so much about good practices for GMing!!! I don’t know if I’ll play it again any time soon but I will take these experiences into every game I ever play from now on! Rewired my brain!!!

HARP — which is kind of a streamlined Rolemaster — has the single best way of approaching species and culture of any published game I’ve ever read. I am just starting to see now people homebrewing D&D to do stuff HARP was doing twenty years ago. It’s also so beautiful! The 90’s-style “dude fighting dragon” cover belies a gorgeous black-and-white interior with some of the loveliest details I’ve ever seen in a game book.

OVA, love of my life, has its flaws but it’s an elegant, original take on the idea of an “anime roleplaying game.” The revised edition is made with so much love and care, full of page after page of exquisite full-color illustrations.

Anima: Beyond Fantasy is like if Rolemaster and D&D 3.5 had a baby and abandoned it in the woods where it was found and raised by a pack of feral Yu-Gi-Oh fans.

Blades in the Dark has some of the best gaming advice I’ve ever received, some of the most fascinating worldbuilding I’ve ever read, and it made character classes cool again. I am cradling its face gently in my hands and whispering, “I am going to hack you to run a Monster Hunter game.”

[where-your-eyes-dont-go]

The CRASH system for fighting in Eidolon: Become Your Best Self fully changed the way I approach fights in RPGs, to the point where I try to implement parts of it even in more traditional hp-based games

[mixcellaneas-blog]

That's the best description of Anima: Beyond Fantasy I've ever seen.

[loveguts-deactivated20260323]

spring horror is good because of the symbolism of death and rebirth and storms and everything being vibrant but still cold. and summer horror is good because sweltering heat and insects and long days. and fall horror is good because halloween and death and scary movies. and winter horror is good because snow contrasting with blood and freezing temperatures and long nights. btw.

[ghostvibesonly]

me, age 8: watches people play minecraft

me, age 18: watches people play minecraft

[barefootdramaturg]

For some reason, it never occurred to me that Project Gutenberg would have public domain old cookbooks. This is BRILLIANT. There’s a 1953 cranberry recipe pamphlet and a suffrage cookbook from 1915 and a translation of Apicus’s guide to food in Imperial Rome and a whole bunch of other fascinating old cookbooks, many pre-1800. Treasure trove!

[optimysticals]

I love you for sharing this!!!

[ferrific]

For more old cookbooks, Michigan State University has 76 of their historical cookbooks scanned and searchable at Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project.

[hsavinien]

For even older recipes, check out Gode Cookery.  They list medieval and Renaissance cooking instructions and translate the recipes for you into measurable amounts and all.

[runecestershire]

I have have have to mention Miss Leslie. I learned so much about cooking from that book, even if a lot of it is outdated.

Also, Forme of Cury is great fun, if you can muddle through the Middle English (Gode Cookery has translations and adaptions of some of the recipes from this).

[sarkos]

I’ll always take an opportunity to remind people of Barkham Burroughs’ Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, which also contains recipes

[theprofessional-amateur]

Feast Afrique had pulled from a range of digital repositories to create a library of historic books on the food and cultural history of West Africa and the African Diaspora. This includes lots of historic and specialized cookbooks.

Digital Library — Feast Afrique

[beggars-opera]

For 18th century British:

18th Century Cookbooks | 18th Century Notebook

Explore culinary history and taste authentic flavors from the past; prepare meals made from recipes in 18th century cookbooks linked from th

[infizero]

late-august shatter animatic bruised ctommy blocking the too-bright sun with his hand shot you will always be famous

[infizero]

the impact of this one shot cannot be forgotten

[infizero]

😁😁😁😁

[miyuliart]

I collected my art tips on hands over the years. It ended up being 54 pages of notes I took and some guides I tried to create for myself. Maybe some of these can be useful to others as well. You can buy the pdf here or join my Patreon to get it for free.

[alexsiple]

SUNRISE, PARABELLUM!

[dragongirlsweetie]

early 2010s minecraft mods: Mr. Snuggles's Mo' Shovels Mod

late 2010s minecraft mods: EvoTech 2: Ascension

2020s minecraft mods: 🪡 Restitched

[doggirlhen]

2030s minecraft mods: Jack Black Remover +

[intolunarorbit]

Mr. Snuggles's Mo' Shovels Mod adds about 20 retextures of the shovel in assorted colours, some of them have various effects (like one that auto smelts the sand or one that's also a pickaxe) but for the most part they just increase the dig speed and durability massively. This mod also adds like 5 different ores you need to mine to make those shovels including your modpack's 5th Copper Ore

EvoTech 2: Ascension is a tech mod that adds its own energy system (don't worry there's a block for conversion to and from RF), about 30 different machine blocks that each require a huge investment of ore and has the sole purpose of manufacturing the materials for the next machine. This mod has like 5 different dependencies needed to work and has godawful UI and doesn't interact with the pipe/cable mod you like without an additional third party mod

🪡 Restitched is a "vanilla+" mod that adds a dozen new structures, 5 biomes, roughly doubles the number of blocks in the game, and changes game mechanics just enough to completely break all your automatic farms. You have never gone out of your way to download this mod but it has 20m downloads because every modpack dev includes it

Jack Black Remover + is a complete backport of all features prior to 1.21.32 into 1.12.2 and is exclusively hosted through torrenting because microsoft sent a cease and desist letter