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I did a quick search and a pleco is a type of catfish?! Please do post pictures!
Hi anon,I apparently haven't checked here in ages, but if you're reading this, thanks for the message! Plecos are often known as sucker fish, and there are many kinds that are all beautiful. I may get around to posting a pic, although this was probably sent last century and you're probably not even reading this. Lol
The snails look so cute! I've never seen such cute snails before, haha. My grandmother just pours salt on them before anyone else can save them.....
Hi anon,What a sweet message to send, I don't know if you're even on here anymore since it's probably been years lol but thank you, I do love snails. I had a pet (dry land) snail for many years and it was really fun and amazing to watch. :p These snails are not as interactive but they are adorable.I've seen people do that with salt, I never understand why someone would prefer to torture the poor things rather than just step on them or something quick, if they must be killed. :)
That food post - omg... why'd you do it? It's all so delicious looking. Do you bake/cook often?
Hi anon, Thank you so much! I do love to bake and try new things when I can, I suppose I can say I was quite inspired there for a while. This was probably sent 40 years ago and I don't know if you'll read this, but it was very kind of you to send. :)
Cassinis photo of Saturn with a photobomb by the Pale Blue Dot
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This came to my mind while reading “The Fellowship of the Ring” this morning.
….holy shit.
This is potentially life saving information everyone should know.
No you guys this post helped me find my cat. He was missing for almost a month and I’ve had him for over 12 years. After seeing this I put his favorite blanket he always slept on outside hoping he would smell mine or his scent and he was back the next fucking day asleep on it.
When my cat got out, we called and called for him, and then, later that night, I remembered similar advice to this, and so put his little scratching pad, which he adores, on the front porch. Not even half an hour later, I heard a thump, opened the door, and there was his big butt, meowing at me.
Important and vital
I don’t care that I reblogged this today I’m reblogging it again
awwwww babies ;_; i hope everyone’s pets come home safe.
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Goodnight!
This is the 10th one of these flowers Slash has stolen and brought home.
Here is number 11…
Here’s his third catch of the night. And that second photo is his face right after I told him “People on the internet love your flower catching skills, Mr. Slash!”
Guess what Mr. Slash is up to tonight?
And, he’s back at it again tonight.
He got another one, and he is proud of himself.
He brought in another one tonight. Thank you, Mr. Slash!
He is so beautiful 😭
He’s aware of that, and loves being told that. :P
Sometimes, he will hold my hand when I ask him about the flowers.
He brought these two flowers in last night, and decided to pose for me when I put them near him to take photos.
Plot twist! He brought back a hibiscus tonight instead of the usual ones. He must be feeling more tropical.
He’s back to the normal ones now…
Even when it’s raining, he still decides to go and find these. Good thing for him that whatever breed of cat he is, he has remarkably water-resistant fur!
He had a very busy night while everyone was asleep last night… (Also, if you haven’t seen it, there is a video of him that’s great, too: http://thoughts-of-an-x-factor.tumblr.com/post/164359705193/mr-slash-knows-how-to-get-his-own-cat-treats-out )
He had a busy night while I was watching SummerSlam.
He gave us one more last night, bringing his total from last night to 6! That’s a new one-night record for him!
Mr. Slash’s flower hunting adventure master post keeps on growing.
He was back at it again today.
And two more from last night…
Thank you, Mr. Slash!
Such a good kitty!
He is!
I wish Oreo brought me flowers instead of birds, lizards, mice, and squirrels 😂😂
Mr. Slash even wanted to hold hands after giving me this one. He’s a special cat. :D
He was asleep this morning after bringing me this one last night…
Two more gifts from Mr. Slash tonight.
Please tell Mr. Slash I love him.
Feeling sad? Have a big fluffy kitty bringing flowers to his people.
Q&A: Trick Weapons
nate2247 said to howtofightwrite:
So how practical would a transforming Melee weapon (i.e. Bloodborne) be? And in case you don’t know, I means specifically something that can switch between a closer, faster attack and a longer, slower attack.
The idea of a slow heavy attacks is a video game concept. In real combat, dealing with real people, large ponderous strikes are an invitation to be disemboweled.
That said, there is some truth to what Bloodborne does, and it’s worth keeping in mind. Adjusting the way you use your weapon to deal with threats at different ranges is a very real practice. One of the most obvious examples is the practice of pommel bashes with a sword.
A pommel bash is used when you’re too close to use the blade, so instead you’ll simply drive the butt of your sword into your opponent’s face in a downward strike.
Another example is shifting your grip on an axe or polearm. At longer ranges, you benefit from having your grip closer to the butt of the shaft, but in closer combat, you may migrate your hands towards the head, to allow for tighter strike patterns.
This means there’s a few hunters weapons that aren’t something you’d normally want to do, but might work with mythical materials (given you’re reinforcing them with blood stones, the Hunters’ weapons are probably made from something other than conventional materials). This means the telescopic Hunter’s Axe may be a functional option. Normally, you wouldn’t want a telescopic melee weapon, but whatever the thing is constructed from might be hard enough to make this workable.
There’s also a few trick weapons that, might, be viable, if you could actually engineer the things to work. I’m thinking specifically of the Threaded Cane, which transitions from a metal walking stick, into a kind of articulated whip with serrated blades along the cable. There’s basically no way to make one, especially since the core appears to operate “intelligently,” (it has a fixed resting position, unlike a real whip) but it would result in a vicious melee weapon. (In fairness, all of the From games have whips that return to fixed resting positions, so this might not be an intentional function of the Threaded Cane.)
The Moonlight Sword is another example of a weapon that is, basically, viable. It’s a FromSoft standard, and has popped up in every release since Armored Core (I think), but the Bloodborne version is an entirely functional, impossible, weapon. It’s a normal sword, that when transformed creates a magical, energy blade over the physical one. This can be used as a sword, or generate ranged attacks. Like I said, this is entirely viable.
There’s two varieties of trick weapons in Bloodborne that simply don’t work. The hinged ones are, primarily an engineering problem. So, that’s the Saw Cleaver, Saw Spear, and Beasthunter Saif, and probably a few others I’m forgetting. In most cases, the basic design is workable, but the problem is that the hing would result in a serious structural weakness, rendering the weapon unusable. As with the Hunter’s Axe, this probably isn’t an issue for the specific examples in Bloodborne, but it would be an issue with conventional materials. Also, as with God of War, it’s worth remembering that Bloodborne is a character action game, so the overall scale and proportions would need to be adjusted.
The second are weapons that convert their sheath into another weapon. The Kirkhammer and Ludwig’s Holy Blade both convert this way. The problem is, there’s really no way to make this work. Your character would, effectively, be carrying two weapons. You’d also be be relying on the outer weapon not flying off in combat. Depending on exactly how they lock together, this could be a serious issue.
Ironically, sprinkled through all of this is one real weapon. As in, flat out, “these existed.” The Reiterpallasch is a saber with a mounted firearm. While I’m not sure if any pallasches were fitted with firearms, light blades with attached firearms did see actual use in the 17th and 18th century, particularly in naval boarding actions, where simply having a gun in your hand, in addition to your blade had real utility.
On the whole, sword mounted guns quickly became a historical oddity. They were very situational, and not particularly useful, but they did briefly exist.
-Starke
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Q&A: Trick Weapons was originally published on How to Fight Write.
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