Stitch's Thoughts

He/Him. Call me Stitch, most everyone does. DnD nerd and writer.

[couldtheycatchkira]

Could Sephiroth solve the Kira murders?

Could catch Kira, would survive

Could not catch Kira, would survive

Could catch Kira, would not survive

Could not catch Kira, would not survive

Voting ended onApr 12

[grimly68]

Let's be clear: Sephiroth would not so much *solve* the Kira case so much as Light would be collateral damage in Sephiroth's rampage. Also, I am flat out not sure Sephiroth has a heart that actually matters for his survival.

[vexwerewolf]

It's been way too long since I made one of these. I, Vex Lancerfunny, have not actually been bringing the Lancerfunnies. Today, I correct this.

Behold: SPEED.

[grimly68]

THE RETURN OF THE FUNNY! AND WITH A CERTIFIED BANGER

[mudwerks]

100% atk and 0% dmg baby goat

[duerede]

ᴋɪʟʟɪɴɢ ᴀɴᴅ ᴠɪᴏʟᴇɴᴄᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ᴋɪʟʟɪɴɢ ᴀɴᴅ ᴠɪᴏʟᴇɴᴄᴇ. ᴋɪʟʟɪɴɢ & ᴋɪʟʟɪɴɢ & ᴠɪᴏʟᴇɴᴄᴇ

[duerede]

The goat a gnome warlord would ride into battle

[grimly68]

D’yall ever read a book and go “Goddamn, my DnD OC would have *opinions* about this,” or is that just me?

[nerdydisciple]

[totally-ikea]

“Why is snoop dogg at the Olympics-“

WRONG QUESTION!

WHY ISNT MARTHA STEWART THERE WITH HIM?

[softbrah]

she is! she’s joining him for the equestrian events because, and I am quoting her directly, “Snoop is afraid of horses.”

[butch-ragh-barkrock]

Update:

[gendernewtral]

this is 100% real btw

[elodieunderglass]

In Paris this week, he said: “I am interested in the horses that dance and I want to give them some carrots and apples … make sure they’re fed before they do their thang.”

Stewart explained the pair’s dressage plan.

“Snoop called me and said he knows I know horses, and he’s a little fearful of horses,” the businesswoman, philanthropist and octogenarian Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover model told NBC on Friday.

“I’m still scared of horses,” Snoop said.

“Have you ever ridden a horse?” Stewart asked.

“No,” said Snoop. “I’m scared.”

“So we’re gonna do dressage,” Stewart said.

[bliss-bliss-bliss-bliss]

This is so lovely and heartwarming that I almost didn't notice that Snoop's wearing knee high spats

[bliss-bliss-bliss-bliss]

EPILOGUE

He got to meet the horses!!

He even got to feed them carrots like he wanted to, even though he seems to be nervous! Such courage and valor! /Gen!

This is clearly the coolest day of that white guy's life. It's the coolest day of the horse's life. This is the coolest day of all of our lives. Mr Dogg, thank you for being who you are.

[urgentkettle]

Can we just take a sec to also thank Mr. Snoop Dog for saying that he was scared to do something and called a friend to help him. And then did the scary thing. I think that admitting you’re scared of something takes courage and inner strength.

[noartnowritingsorry]

Oh no…

[autistic-speedbump]

[cryptotheism]

Elf cooking show: First person helmetcam of a an elf hunting and killing a deer with their bare hands. They sing a lullabye to the deer before they snap it's neck and prepare a side salad.

Dwarf cooking show: America's Test Kitchen but even more rigorous. 20 minutes of discussing how to maintain precise heat just to boil water.

Halfling cooking show: Great British Bake Off with soap-opera levels of internal drama. Everyone is stoned off their ass.

Orc cooking show: Edible mythbusters. The contestants must make bbq with a live dragon. People straight up die sometimes.

Goblin cooking show: Goblins don't really understand the concept of restaurants, but they have a show like Diners Dive ins and Dives for rooting through people's trash.

[cryptotheism]

Gnome cooking show: Gnomes don't actually have cooking shows, but if you creep up to a nearby hollow log you can watch gnomes make cookies.

Pixie cooking show: Two pixies in professional looking clothes in a fancy kitchen attempt to bake a pie, but get distracted by wild on-camera sex that ends with cannibalism.

[greelin]

this is so real and never leaves me

[greelin]

i love whenever people share the best sandwich they’ve ever had because everyone always remembers it so vividly. That one sandwich. life is so beautiful

[that1girlarreis]

Turkey and havarti with hummus, avocado spread, spinach, red onions and banana peppers on herb focaccia at Common Grounds (RIP) in the University of Oregon student union (also RIP; they have a whole new building I think?) 🫡 Gone but not forgotten.

[blueandbluer]

The Jewish hoagie from Koch’s deli (also RIP). The thing must’ve weighed 2 pounds and was absolutely loaded with corned beef, pastrami, salami, and sweet munchee cheese. It was difficult to even get your mouth around it. Yet somehow all the flavors balanced. I can’t possibly explain it. I’ve never had the like.

[linared]

A beautiful meatloaf sandwich in New Hampshire and many lobster rolls

[blueandbluer]

Oh yeah that unearthed another memory — fresh, hot fish sandwich from Paul’s Fish Fry in Bennington Vermont, which is long gone, alas. 😭😭

[thenarator]

chicken pesto club from my college’s sandwich place. grilled chicken, american cheese, crispy bacon and pesto mayo on flatbread. they discontinued it and i cried.

[grimly68]

The cheesesteak from a dive deli in my college town with bacon, mozzarella, and bbq sauce.

[xenodile]

By now there's already been plenty of discussion about how Helldivers 2 is this generation's version of Starship Troopers, being a blatant and unabashed satire of fascism and US militarist imperialism and how actual fascists are shocked to learn that the game is mocking them.

But at the same time I'm seeing a consistent number of people leaning so hard in the other direction and assuming that since Super Earth is cartoonishly evil, that makes the enemy factions of Helldivers 2 unambiguous heroes. This is not the case. Helldivers is very much a Warhammer 40k situation of "the entire universe is fucked and awful, it's villains and monsters all the way down, you are just playing as the villains and monsters that look like you". The Terminids are invasive superpredators that indiscriminately kill and eat everything they find around their hives and reduce the surrounding area to blackened, spore-choked rock. The Automatons round up and butcher civilians and desecrate remains to adorn themselves with skulls and severed limbs, and their Cyborg predecessors weren't any better.

Helldivers is not Good VS Evil with Villain Protagonists, it is Evil VS Evil VS Self-Inflicted Plague of Locusts. The only faction that wasn't overtly evil was the Illuminate, but even that is subject to change when they eventually show up again.

[grimly68]

I would like to say, for the record, that these factions became that way as a result of Super Earth’s actions in the first war.

The terminids are fully sapient, and are only on worlds beyond their hone system because Super Earth enslaved them and turned them into livestock to harvest fuel. The technician who says they still don’t know how terminids get from world to world? Humans did it to farm fuel. They aren’t the tyranids or zerg. They’re rabbits in Australia.

The automatons are, presumably, decended from the cyborgs. The cyborgs were human criminals who had their bodies ravaged by cybernetic implants and sent to hostile worlds as slave labor. Their attempt to free themselves was brutally crushed. So they radicalized. And now they’re genocidal.

And the illuminate are the most tragic. They didn’t want to do anything but go around the galaxy showing off their cool tech, and Super Earth slaughtered their delegation to steal the tech. In the first war, the illuminate were believed to have been rendered truly extinct. I fear for what they may have become in the century since.

[eastgaysian]

probably shitty worldbuilding idea: fantasy world that keeps going

[eastgaysian]

they keep sending out expeditions to try and map the whole world and figure out if it's round or flat or what but it just keeps going and they keep meeting new people who've met other people coming the other direction and everybody so far has found that it just keeps going

[grimly68]

Ringworld things

[ruubesz-draws]

Godzilla Minus One wants to play!🐕

[public-trans-it-deactivated2024]

Fighters should have magic

I mean this shit 100% seriously BTW.

An impassioned rant about Fighters' place in modern campaigns.

There is certainly an argument to be made for sometimes not giving Fighters access to magic! In a low magic setting like Dark Sun (yes, I know the magic situation in that setting is more complicated than that), it makes perfect sense that Fighters wouldn't go anywhere near the stuff! In some of the more old school low fantasy focused DnD editions, or some OSR systems, it makes sense that magic would require years of practice for even the most basic of spells, and so Fighters wouldn't bother with it.

That is not, however, the bulk of modern campaigns. Be it DnD, or Pathfinder, or so many other fantasy heartbreakers out there nowadays, most campaigns are fantastical, filled with wonderous magic and queer tieflings and rogues who literally cloak themselves in shadows and jumping between planes to save the world and so much more!

In these campaigns, Fighters should know magic!

If your setting is even close to treating magic as commonplace, where having a level 1 wizard under the age of a billion fucking years old is considered within the realm of feasibility, than EVERYONE should have access to magic!

Any adventurer in such a setting who decided to start a life of wilderness exploration, and DIDN'T learn the spell Prestidigitation, is nothing short of monster bait. "Oh yes this spell that starts campfires and cleans my clothes and seasons my food and is THE MOST BASIC SPELL IN EXISTENCE certainly isn't worth my time!" - The words of someone about to get eaten by a coyote on their first night. Not even a fun magical creature, just a regular ass coyote because they are THAT unprepared. Even if it wasn't a cantrip and required 5 minutes of focus to cast, every adventurer should know this spell by heart.

But obviously, that isn't unique to just Fighters.

Fighters are focused on being masters of weaponry! They study the blade, learn it inside and out! They don't have time for magic... right?

No. They don't have time to learn SPELLS. That you could absolutely make an argument for. A fighter doesn't have to learn to shoot a fireball, because that's not how they fight. Not knowing magic that augments their fighting style, in a setting where magic is commonplace, is equivalent to that fighter going "Oh I'm too busy to learn to fight with weapons. I dont have time to learn to sharpen one properly." THAT IS ASININE. WHAT REASON DOES YOUR CHARACTER HAVE FOR IGNORING A SKILL DIRECTLY LINKED TO THEIR CHOSEN PROFESSION? Spells like True Strike are things a fighter would learn! But even if not spells, magical augmentation to their skill are something a Fighter would absolutely embrace! Anything that helps them further the effectiveness of their weapons should be fair game for their practice. Even if it worked like Paladins or Rangers where you typically just don't get the spells until higher levels.

And the games already reflect this! What do Fighters need to maintain damage pacing and ability as they grow stronger? That's right. Magic. In the form of Magic Weapons and Armor.

Magic armaments are considered commonplace in these settings, being handed out like candy. They are an expected part of character progression, and the games are balanced around the expectation that a fighter will be using them. So why, then, is the master of weapons and all they embody completely ignorant on the front of magical weapons?

Sure, a fighter might not be able to craft magic weapons. Not every fighter has to be a blacksmith. But much like how it should be expected that a fighter should be able to at least MAINTAIN their weapons, a fighter should absolutely be trained in the kinds of magic that are APPLIED to weapons. A fighter should be able to take a single glance at a weapon in a chest, and turn to the party and go "Hey this thing is cursed as fuck, don't touch it."

In worlds that are so fantastical and magical, it does not make sense to have a guy who's whole deal is knowing how to fight, and have him completely ignore A MASSIVE segment of fighting styles they will be going up against.

If your setting is magical, then your Fighters should be magical too, damnit!

[grimly68]

More DnD esque fantasy needs to play with the idea of “afterlife as place you can go.” Like, if you’re in a story where the hero is on the ropes and you can’t figure out how they’re gonna get out of it? Kill em! Let the bad guy have their deserved win, and tell the tale of how your hero escapes from the far less metaphorical clutches of death! That would be so cool!

[fanonical]

normalise being bad at roofs in minecraft. normalise not being able to make an aesthetically pleasing roof to save your life in minecraft.

[netheritenugget]

Normalize just digging into the side of a mountain to avoid making roofs in Minecraft

[wolfbeware]

yall need me to tap the sign?

here’s a roof guide that i use because i used to be shit

i dont remember the source, b/c ive had this for like years, but i suggest messing around with these roofs with different shapes/sizes of buildings

in fact, you can mix and match and have one roof with a side room with a different roof on it

honestly, have fun

[pixiis-blog]

I’ve had these saved for a long time and unfortunately don’t know the source either, but here are the other tutorials from this artist if anybody is interested!

[currann]

Oh! These are super cool!

[the-final-sif]

These were made by PixelandPoly they have an entire 40 page eBook with various design guides, alongside the ones they’ve released for free.

[natache]

[glassgallows]

Anyway here's some additions from the Maasai and Kikuyu, two grassy plain-dwelling groups from Eastern Africa that I think count as unfuckwithable

[m4r5h-deactivated20230823]

Feel like Poland should be included since we're literally called "people of the fields" according to the etymology of Poland.

Also look at her GO

[twofingerswhiskey]

I’m Métis, here’s some of ours! You’ll notice it looks remarkably similar to the above.

We also have some less intricate clothing (if it looks a bit Victorian to you - that’s pretty much the right era for most of this!)

[bone-collector-cryptid]

Can’t believe no one’s done it yet I will be the person to add the cowboys: Latin American focus.

Here is the Chilean huaso:

Gauchos, from primarily Argentina where they’re a large national symbol close to the level of cowboys in the US. Also gauchos are in Uruguay.  Their pants are called bombachas and the other garment wrapped around them are called chiripas.  They work in grasslands called pampas, known for being really fertile:

While they’re not as dressed up as the others or have as prominent of a culture, for a broader Latin American cowboy context, I feel like also adding llaneros, who are from Colombia and Venezuela, in the llanos region, a type of tropical grassland similar to the pampas, hence the name llanero. Pampas get annual flooding and these guys would go barefoot a lot, and you can see that the stirrup on the horse’s saddle is really different than what you’re probably used to seeing, to accommodate for that, which is what I want to point out as an aspect of plains cultures developing clothing/accessories/tools to suit the environment. 

Cowboy culture happened wherever Spanish colonial influence and grassland biomes came together.  They differ based on the grasslands having different climates (ex tropical in South America), and the local indigenous influence (ex, backtracking to gauchos, they would use this tool called bolas to catch animals, which were basically two balls tied to a string that you threw and it spun around an animals legs, and were an indigenous invention):

I would love to keep posting cowboy dress lol but will stick to the post’s theme of grassland of course.  

[sunflowers-and-vangogh]

Adding to the post, I, hereby, present people of Kalash and Chitral:

Chitral means ‘field’ in the native language Khowar. Both Chitralis and people of Kalash are known to be indigenous people of Asia.

[letmebegaytodd]

[asksanguinius40k]

And this gun I STOLE!

[grimly68]

most powerful mailman