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i needed to punch my paranoia in the face and also practice drawing wolves so I took both of them out in one swing
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God Speed Brain Wolf.
Are you the original author of brain wolf? Seriously? If so, Thank you so much. This fic helped me a lot in a very dark time of my life
Do not under any circumstances attempt to explain to me what a guisarme-voulge is.
#I cannot tell if this is an incoherent post or if I just REALLY need sleep #ehh I’ll take it as a sign to go to bed (via @jovibee)
Explaining the joke for the uninitiated and/or sleep-deprived:
Polearms – that is, weapons on the ends of long sticks – have a long history of people coming up with very complicated taxonomies based on very subtle distinctions. In fact, polearms are practically unique in that, unlike nearly every other kind of weapon, this isn't a modern phenomenon. When you see a contemporary taxonomy of, for example, swords, 95% of the terms on that list are basically just the local word for "sword" in whatever their original context was, but no so for polearms – we have complicated taxonomies of polearms going back centuries. It's not even just a Western thing; Chinese polearms also have a similar centuries-long history of people devising complicated taxonomies for them, off the top of my head. Critically, none of these taxonomies agree with one another, so "correct" polearm jargon is rich soil for nerd drama.
This polearm terminology fetish escaped from its academic context via Dungeons & Dragons, the early editions of which are intensely preoccupied with giving mechanically distinct stats to huge numbers of polearms. Early D&D employs a finer taxonomy of polearms than most, using hyphenated names to describe polearms that blend features of multiple types; for example, its weapon list has a specific entry for a fauchard-fork, which blends the features of a fauchard and a military fork. In particular, the text has a notable hangup for variants of the guisarme (a polearm with a heavy, pruning-hook-like blade); grabbing my Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition (rev.) Player's Handbook off the shelf as a random example, its weapons list includes separate polearm stats not only for the guisarme, but also the bill-guisarme, the glaive-guisarme, and (naturally) the guisarme-voulge.
Consequently, both weirdly specific polearms and sticking random hyphenated prefixes or suffixes on the word "guisarme" have become memes among old-school D&D players (as demonstrated in, for example, this Order of the Stick comic). Those memes are what the original post is referring to.
The first response is riffing on the homophonic similarity between the word "voulge" (an axe-like polearm resembling a meat cleaver on the end of an eight-foot pole) and the 2017 meme Who Woulge?, originated and popularised by Tumblr user @hollowtones – itself a deliberately nonsensical parody of the "Who Would Win?" meme format. This version replaces the user's cat with the user's (presumably hypothetical) polearm.
Finally, the second response is a double wordplay. "William" is a name whose familiar form is (among others) "Bill", and a guisarme is (as previously noted) a polearm with a hook-like blade, so the name "William Guisarme" can plausibly be glossed as "Bill Hook" – and a bill hook is, of course, yet another weirdly specific polearm that's historically received its own separate stat block in D&D.
Clear as mud?
I divided polearms in my game into two separate groups: chauverie, which are used to stab linearly like a spear, and guisarmerie which are used to chop in an arc like an axe. Both came in two forms, short and long, so all pole arms were relegated to one of four stat blocks depending on their specific characteristics.
I did this because my players had at some point developed a fondness for inventing new polearms and instead of saying "I have this polearm" they would draw a picture of it. So I would say "do you stab or chop with this, and how long is the shaft?" and that would be the end of it. "You can do both" okay, it's a chopping thing, then. "But you can still stab" no, you can POKE, stabbing weapons have a lightweight head and chopping weapons have a heavy one; if it's heavy enough to chop, it's not light enough to stab.
The term "chauverie" derived from the word chauve, which is French for "bald-headed," because there was a standing guard force in one of the major cities which carried spears and you'll never guess what hairstyle they favoured
I use a random password generator that can produce sequences of words. An outcome I got once for the password for one of my laptops (since changed) was "Axiomatic Manx Quadrillionth Jaquelin". This called to mind "Jaquelin, Quadrillionth Axiomatic Manx." Wonderfully evocative, except it's also incoherent because what does that mean.
What is an Axiomatic Manx? Why are there at least a quadrillion of them, and what happened to the other (number consisting of fifteen 9's)? I jumped to the conclusion that "Manx" meant the cat breed, not another definition, and now it sounds like an Eat God character.
when you see your little kitty walking toward you at a leisurely pace and say "hi baby!" bc you're excited to see her and she starts trotting a little bit faster 'cause she's excited to see you too. that's what life is all about i think
Privacy advocates gained access to a powerful tool bought by U.S. law enforcement agencies that can track smartphone locations around the wo
anyway yeah DELETE YOUR FUCKING ADVERTISING IDS
Android:
Settings ➡️ Google ➡️ all services ➡️ Ads ➡️ Delete advertising ID
(may differ slightly depending on android version and manufacturer firmware. you can't just search settings for "advertising ID" of course 🔪)
iOS:
Settings ➡️ privacy ➡️ tracking ➡️ toggle "allow apps to request to track" to OFF
and ALSO settings ➡️ privacy ➡️ Apple advertising ➡️ toggle "personalized ads" to OFF
more details about the process here via the EFF
big day for tumblr sexyman enjoyers and weird fags everywhere
First humans ever to leave the solar system suddenly drop out of communications and the ship can't be found with any equipment. After one month of no contact their home countries start reluctantly holding funerals for the space heroes only for them all to turn up, healthy, well fed and extremely disoriented, in the middle of Tokyo, talking about alien abduction. Turns out that aliens found the poor humans straying out of their solar system, presumably lost, and took them to Alien Wildlife Rehabilitation before dumping them back in the middle of their native habitat.
#bonus points if none if the crew are Japanese#aliens just dropped where they thought was best
I literally just googled "city with the highest population"
I’ll bet they have cool new tattoos that turn out to be tracking devices too. Just in case these spirited individuals try to make another break for it.
... do the tats make them stupid popular, like that time scientists gave birds tracker anklets and it accidentally made them ultra fuckable
Let’s say yes. Those alien scientists are learning so much, and none of it is accurate.
This is such a fantastic example what anticipation, overshooting, and settling actually *does* in animation, especially when you're new to learning it, be that 2d or 3d.
good morning to the beaten and the damned only
Mildly amusing realization about my vocabulary I had recently
So after an reflexive "fuck you and the horse you rode in on" towards people saying dude isn't gender neutral (I calmed down when they stopped being fucking hypocrites and started saying the same about girl and such), I found myself in need of a better term when talking to some random of indeterminate state.
For some godforsaken reason, my brain rolled a nat 1, and now I instinctually go for bestie or worstie. I'm pretty sure this is Twitter lingo and I've never been on there besides checking out artists back before it's befuckening, so where the hell did I pick this up???
Anyone else have funny vocab realizations recently?
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I am a Californian. They can say what they want, but I'll still say 'dude' hella often.
My body is already an inhospitable environment, there’s no way a friggin baby would be able to survive in it
Also babies can’t even fight, how would they fare in battle against my inner demons?
sand tiger sharks
on it, boss lady
one smooth shark, coming up
got that yuri on the brain
Hey do you know alot about internal organs. Cause if so then i have a pretty specific question.
Are... are your organs covered in blood??? Since blood tends to flow thru the blood vessels, and if your body is healthy and all your blood vessels are imtact then your organs shouldn't be covered in blood, right? But just saying that feels wrong.
No, unless you are actively experiencing internal bleeding then your organs are not covered in blood. They are however wet, but it's cerebrospinal fluid and mucus that keeps them that way.
Trust me you do not want them to be in any other condition. If they were covered in blood then there would be no way for your body to effectively circulate that blood, leading you to bleed out. As for them being wet, I personally would not want to experience dry friction on my organs so I am more than okay with that
Also just to clear up any further confusion, cerebrospinal fluid (as the name implies) is contained to just your brain and spinal cord. The rest are protected by mucous
Small correction to my original answer: your organs are not covered in blood unless you are bleeding internally or happen to be a bug
It's fine to disagree with the IAU about the definition of "planet"; however, if your definition includes Pluto but not Ceres, Orcus, Haumea, Quaoar, Makemake, Gonggong, Eris or Sedna, you don't actually care what a planet is – you just want the exact list of nine planets you learned in primary school back. Your cute little Pluto-including orbital distance mnemonic ought to be at least seventeen words long, and good fucking luck with the Q!
My Very Exciting Magic Carpet Just Sailed Under Nine Orphic Palaces, Slandering Hungry Quaker Matrons Going Erotically Southward.
I appreciate that you included Salacia but not Charon – really threading the needle pedantry-wise there.
iy think any planetary-mass object should be called a planet. the moon is a planet. so are the galilean moons. ganymede is bigger than mercury, so whiy not? just because it happens to orbit another planet too? a star can orbit another star, so whiy can't a planet orbit another planet?
Sometimes when I'm feeling especially contrary I'll advocate for a definition of "planet" which includes the inner planets, the trans-Neptunians, and all planetary-mass moons, but specifically excludes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
I fucking love this video
