Flameoguy

Professional Cringe Poster Mostly here to look at gmod/minecraft stuff

[flameoguy]

bro says "I can speedbridge" and then throws an egg

[flameoguy]

melatonin intox kink

[yinyuedijun]

if u are ever scared of yapping about your blorbo or your life or your creative projects on the dash bc u are worried that no one wants to see it. know that I am holding your hand and supporting you. I want to see it. make that shitpost I need it to read it posthaste

[5280customframing]

Map of North & South Carolina custom framed using acid-free matting, UV glass and frame by Larson-Juhl!

[flameoguy]

how it feels using an "installation wizard"

[tpwrtrmnky]

torment juice

[ID: Three-panel pills that make you green comic.

Panel 1: A red stick figure with a wide torso is holding a bottle while a green stick figure watches.

Red: "Oh yeah, time to have a horrible sip of Torment Juice."

Green: "Why?"

Red: "To feel excruciating torment, obviously?"

Panel 2: Closeup on the bottle in the red stick figure's hand, which says "Torment" in an all-caps, italic font. Next to it is text that says:

Torment Juice

Fresh from your local torment crucible!

Causes excruciating torment!

Health benefits: None! It makes your health worse!

Now guaranteed to not come with an adrenaline high!

An entirely miserable experience with no redeeming qualities!

Is not addictive, will not relieve addiction!

Not useful for coping with anything!

Panel 3: Zoom in on green's face

Green: "I think this is a bad habit you should quit."

Red: "No but you see I'm already tormented by demons when I don't drink it, this just gives me extra torment."

Green: That's... not a good reason to drink torment juice."

End ID.]

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[flameoguy]

Can't decide if this is about coffee or alcohol

[flameoguy]

Classes in my cone-based RPG

[normal-horoscopes]

Elf video games: 300 hour jrpgs with legions of characters and several novels worth of text. Labrynthine upgrade trees and customization options. The most insufferably unintuitive UI possible. A single turn based battle can take hours. Every character has an ennui stat.

Dwarf video games: Basebuilding strategy FPSs that has a whole wiki page on the flexile vs tensile strengths of different building materials. Dwarven rhythm games have minigames where you have to manage supply lines. Mortals cannot comprehend dwarven grand strategy games.

Halfling video games: What appears on the surface to be a viscerally calming farming sim is actually an extraordinarily complex social combat game about cutthroat HOA politics.

Goblin video games: Wildly unbalanced collectathon gatchas where half the fun is finding new hilariously broken strategies. Zany uberviolent team shooters about bugs. MOBAs so bad it's almost art.

Orc video games: Addictive in-browser flash games with names like "Beast Crush 4" and "Borag Meat Game." The art is always kinda bad but in a charming way. The music always slaps.

[normal-horoscopes]

Goblin code looks incomprehensible but if you take the time to look through it, you realize it's actually optimized in ways you never thought were even possible. Goblins are responsible for like 75% of every games modding community. Goblins all run Linux.

There is no orc game larger than a gigabyte. There are legends of an orc coder who successfully ran DOOM on a raw lamb shank.

[normal-horoscopes]

Halfling code is full of charming little comments like "//whew! This routine was a real nut to optimize" that you eventually come to learn are expressions of deep, murderous rage.

Elf code rhymes.

[probablywarforgedrpgideas]

Warforged games are a lot of idle games where you take care of things and the reward loop is generally based around helping people less capable in whatever the game is about. They tend to be playable in bursts of activity and then have waiting mechanics that encourage you to play them at night and then have something fun to come back to the next night.

That said, they're rarely soulless gachas, but tend to be story and character driven affairs that reward taking your time and thinking decisions through.

[flameoguy]

Trick or Treat!

treat

[flameoguy]

Wearing a hat is so goofy, I cannot take myself seriously when I wear a hate like why am I covering my head

[flameoguy]

Items in the vanilla game:

Onion

Sliced Onion

Items in the modded game:

Yellow Onion

White Onion

Red Onion

Green Onion

Shallot

Organic Yellow Onion

Organic White Onion

Organic Red On-

[queer-as-city-folk]

Boston is on an Island

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

NASA took a pic of the dark side of the moon fyi

[ajthebumblebee]

This looks like someone badly photoshopped the moon in front of the earth, and lazily added a drop shadow effect behind it.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

it's the public funding cuts 😞

[flameoguy]

What I know about space tells me “there is no way this is real” and simultaneously “yeah it looks like this”

[badassdemonsword]

this gif is like... almost biblical. as if hes experiencing a pharaohs curse...

[beanytuesday]

hey where can i find your election comics. tumblrs search function is unhelpful

Here’s all of them

There’s are obviously several years old and I think mostly not that funny anymore? At least in some parts but here they are anyway. Enjoy

[flameoguy]

this is a certified hood classic

[victoriansword]

The Spadroon is Not a Militarized Smallsword

“Spadroon is a militarised smallsword” – This is a statement I hear a lot, and one I would like to see an end to. Not because the smallsword is a bad weapon, but because that statement undermines what the spadroon is and how it developed. The implication is that gentlemen in the late 18th century started adopting a slightly beefy smallsword to utilize their existing smallsword/foil skills. But this ignores the fact that spadroons were not new, they were not all for gentlemen, and that the development of smallswords and spadroons was a parallel one.

The spadroon was not based on the smallsword, they were both creations of a trend towards double shell simpler hilted swords that emphasized the point and were easy to wear/carry. This development really began in the early 17th century, and in some cases a little earlier in the late 16th. The smallsword is often said to have evolved out of the rapier, and so did the spadroon from military swords of the period. The mortuary, walloon and other munitions grade military swords of the 17th century spreading approx. 1630-1680. These were not even exclusively ”gentlemans” swords, but general use military swords.

Additionally, the “Spadroon is a militarised smallsword” statement dismisses it’s cutting ability as a throw away feature. Assuming it is merely beefed up smallsword for war that still can’t really cut. Yet that is far from true. The spadroon is a cut and thrust sword just as most 19th century sabres were intended to be. Are there bad examples? Sure, but don’t judge an entire category of swords by those bad examples. Don’t even judge the infamous 1796 spadroon by the bad examples, as there is incredible variety to be found. Blades found on the 1796 can be anything from as light as a smallsword to as beefy as some 17th century backswords. All the while still being a spadroon. I am not including the really beefy broadsword bladed 1796s. Even the double shell guards of the 1796 get criticized because they are a copy of the smallsword and not suited to cut and thrust, and yet this ignores the fact that double shell guatds were really popular on military cut and thrust swords for approximately 200 years, for hangers, cutlass, spadroons and broadswords.

The spadroon often looks similar to a smallsword at a casual glance, but that is because of simultaneous development. The spadroon was not a short-lived fad or experiment. Its service was as long as the smallsword, and in some cases longer still. Time to separate these weapons and appreciate them both for what they were and their long and colourful histories.

–Nick Thomas, Academy of Historical Fencing 

I agree with Nick, and would also add that many spadroon hilts do not bear any resemblance to smallsword hilts. “Spadroon” really describes a blade type (straight cut and thrust blade) more than an overall sword type (blade and hilt). Spadroons can have just about any hilt type that was to be found in the 17th-19th Centuries. A while back Nick made a nice graphic showing various spadroon hilts over time. Click here for a larger version.

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