Also- I can’t find it right now, for some reason- but the “happycat has run out of happy” was referencing not just the format of “[thing]cat is [thing]” but specifically another meme with an identical cat smiling (“happycat is happy”). Possibly it’s the same cat.
I’m sorry but I HAD TO reblog this because so many crack me up. If I was on my laptop, I’d add more because I still have a fuckin’ file of this shit. The “omg it’s a lion” one is something I actually say sometimes when something is going down. I was surprised that “Godspeed, Moon Cat” wasn’t here, LOL!
I do! It's because cultivars of foods that are sold in grocery stores are specialized to have a long shelf life and resist bruising and pests and stuff, which means we don't have all the yummy variety. :(
Selective breeding takes a long time. If you hybridize a Sturdy, Easy to Grow, Pest Resistant Corn and a Purple Corn, you might not get a corn that's Sturdy, Easy to Grow, Pest Resistant, and Purple. It's not like Sturdy is even one gene. You'd have to slowly breed the Purple into the Sturdy Corn.
And by then it wouldn't even be Purple Corn anymore, it would be a purple color variant that tastes and otherwise is much like the generic Sturdy Corn For Walmart.
Monocultures and obsession with maximum profit and productivity kill the variety...
I'm looking it up and you can buy rare varieties of seeds and plants in a variety of places, such as here
Some of these are specialized for popcorn, some for corn meal, they all have different purposes. Maize is really remarkable.
Definitely something to look into, since a lot of garden seeds you buy in your home and garden store don't allow you to save seeds and grow them again.
Realseeds in the UK is a great heirloom seed company, who regularly undermine their own business model by begging you to save your own seeds rather than buying from them, which I love. In addition to selecting American strains for the UK climate, leading to the Glass Gem I won’t stop boring you about…
They also authored my favourite listing for bean seeds in the world:
Have you ever wanted to occupy the precise intersection of the Venn diagram betweein "tiny things", "frogs", and "wizards"? If so, have I got the game for you!
https://penguinking.com/tiny-frog-wizards/
This is still very much a playtest draft; if nothing else, the random scene prompts tables need finishing, and the "Playing the Game" section could probably stand for significant expansion. Be that as it may, the page count has literally doubled since version 0.1, and I have other projects that need attention, so I'm putting it out there for public review. I'm particularly interested in how the revised and expanded character creation rules will work in practice; even if you won't have the opportunity to play any time soon, it'd really help me out if you could pick up a couple of dice and give tiny frog creation a spin.
Changelog at the link above, or under the cut below.
Title card by @amphibianaday.
Changelog – Playtest Version 0.2 (2021-12-05)
Note: page numbers refer to the PDF version of the game.
Cover art by @amphibianaday.
Updated fonts and colours for improved readability.
Changed how lists are formatted for better compatibility with certain EPUB readers.
Added an explanation of how to roll dice (p. 5) and discussion of player comfort zones (p. 5) to the Introduction.
Tiny Frog Creation (p. 6) fleshed out with additional character creation options and tables for randomly generating your pointy wizard hat.
Reorganised Working Your Will (p. 9) and moved discussion of Misfortune (p. 26) to Playing the Game section.
Expanded discussion of mundane actions (p. 9).
Clarified making partial use of a rolled parameter (p. 12).
Split spell duration (p. 13) into a separate discussion from spell disruption.
Added a table of random spell disruption consequences (p. 14).
Discussion of conflict between spells (p. 15) now addresses resolving conflicts between spells and mundane actions.
New Playing the Game chapter (p. 19) includes a brief discussion of the game's default assumptions about the cycle of play, as well as some material moved from Workng Your Will.
Expanded discussion of Power Dice (p. 22), including Paths of Power (p. 23), a newly introduced mechanic for gamifying Power Dice recovery.
Discussion of how to handle intrinsically short-lived conditions (p. 27) as Misfortunes.
Power Dice recovery decoupled from Misfortune recovery (p. 27).
Guidelines for playing without a GM (p. 28).
Each True Arcana writeup (p. 31) now has a section specifically outlining which applications require concentration to sustain.
Arcanum of Conjuration (p. 35) now allows sending as well as summoning.
Added Optional Rules chapter (p. 41), including rules for cantrips (p. 41) and cooperative magic (p. 42).
Can we just stop and think about how perfect it is that T.rex got the name it did?
Like, paleontology was still a new field when it was discovered. There were probably like ten dinosaurs listed at the time, and they already gave T.rex the greatest dinosaur name ever. There were thousands of species waiting to be discovered that could’ve proved a better fit for the name.
Imagine if Herrerasaurus had been discovered first and they had decided to call it Tyrannosaurus rex because it was a big predator by their standards? It would’ve become a joke about how the great “tyrant lizard king” was actually a little runt compared to later theropod findings.
Or imagine if they gave T.rex a less impressive name, like some other dinosaurs. It could’ve been called Wyomingsaurus or kept the name Manospondylus gigas. What sort of name is “giant porous vertebrae”?
But thankfully it didn’t happen. The president of the American Natural History museum looked at this fossil that was just one of the first of an entire world of dinosaurs waiting to be discovered, and thought “You are the baddest dinosaur we’re ever going to find, so you’re getting the baddest name we can give.”
And it worked. It’s been like 119 years since T.rex was discovered and it’s still the most badass theropod we’ve ever found, with the strongest bite force of any land animal and so successful that wherever it appeared in the fossil record other predators disappeared. It was so badass that as juveniles they outcompeted small-to-medium adult predators.
The baddest dinosaur ever could’ve gotten a weaksauce name, or the baddest name ever could’ve gone to an undeserving dinosaur. But it didn’t, and now the greatest land predator to ever walk the earth has the equally greatest name Tyrannosaurus rex, the motherfucking Tyrant Lizard King.
steven is a really funny character actually. he never went to school. one of his powers is astral projection for no real reason. hes a musical prodigy. he was so traumatized by the end of the show they had to make an entire epilogue series about it. he spent seven years looking like a 3rd grader. he was even bisexual
he didn’t have a bellybutton. he actively chose to eat super crispy bits of potato that got left in the deep fryer. he lived in a house but his dad lived in a car within walking distance of his house. he could revive people from the dead. all of his clothes were concert merchandise. he had an outdoor washing machine. he was put on trial for murder. he broke both federal and state child labor laws
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