Loose Thoughts Jar

[vexwerewolf]

>BaskervillesCurse: hannah >BaskervillesCurse: were talking >BaskervillesCurse: now >EternallyHannah: My my my~ >EternallyHannah: Our strong and silent protector speaks~ >EternallyHannah: To what do I owe this rare and cherished tête-à-tête?~ >BaskervillesCurse: i want you to start putting me on other jobs >BaskervillesCurse: jobs that arent just standing behind you at meetings or negotiations doing nothing >EternallyHannah: Well, that's an interesting request~ >EternallyHannah: I can certainly consider it~ >EternallyHannah: But you are rather excellent as a bodyguard~ >EternallyHannah: I don't think the club would be half as successful in its dealings without you~ >BaskervillesCurse: youve got other springers who can fight >BaskervillesCurse: i have skills other than standing silently in the corner looking mean >BaskervillesCurse: and i want to use them >EternallyHannah: That's certainly something we can look into~ >EternallyHannah: But darling, I truly had no idea that you felt this way~ >EternallyHannah: Ever since you've joined, you've always been the gentle giant of the spring club~ >BaskervillesCurse: hannah i >BaskervillesCurse: i >BaskervillesCurse: i >BaskervillesCurse: i need you to stop calling me that >BaskervillesCurse: you use that term with everyone you talk about me to and you have no idea how fucking demeaning it is to hear it >EternallyHannah: Why my dear, I never meant any harm by it~ >EternallyHannah: If anything, I intended it as quite the compliment~ >BaskervillesCurse: holy shit >BaskervillesCurse: i didnt ask for a justification >BaskervillesCurse: i asked for you to stop >EternallyHannah: You've never said anything before~ >BaskervillesCurse: because whenever i set a boundary with anyone they act like im trying to intimidate them >BaskervillesCurse: i just want to be respected as a fucking human being >BaskervillesCurse: im not an animal anymore >BaskervillesCurse: i didnt choose to be a 2 meter tall 150 kilo mountain of muscle >BaskervillesCurse: i didnt choose to have dog teeth >BaskervillesCurse: i didnt choose to have my voicebox mutilated so i cant speak human language >BaskervillesCurse: i didnt choose to be something children start crying when they see >BaskervillesCurse: and im not fucking gentle hannah >BaskervillesCurse: im restrained >BaskervillesCurse: i am filled with rage all of the fucking time but i have to hold it all in because if it leaks out even a little bit everyones opinions of me will be instantly validated >BaskervillesCurse: my keeper ensured that even once i escaped her id never be able to escape what she did to me even a little >BaskervillesCurse: so i am begging you >BaskervillesCurse: stop helping her >BaskervillesCurse: stop calling me your gentle giant >BaskervillesCurse: im not gentle >BaskervillesCurse: im not yours >BaskervillesCurse: and i never got a choice not to be a giant >EternallyHannah: I >EternallyHannah: I understand >EternallyHannah: I'm sorry >EternallyHannah: When speaking of you, those words will not pass my lips again >EternallyHannah: You know a lot about goblin fruits, yes? >EternallyHannah: Perhaps we could set up foraging lessons? Do you think you could teach? >BaskervillesCurse: if someone else does the talking >BaskervillesCurse: reckon i could >EternallyHannah: I'll make it happen, Ember >BaskervillesCurse: and dont worry >BaskervillesCurse: ill still stand behind you looking scary when you really need it >BaskervillesCurse: after all >BaskervillesCurse: someone needs to dropkick the next goblin who calls you a whore >EternallyHannah: Do you think he's still flying?~ >BaskervillesCurse: oh i hope so

[lokaror]

hey i couldnt think of any so i copied the demonic sigils on your sword to put on mine i hope thats ok

[orcboxer]

the same demon rushing back and forth between our swords as we activate the sigils over and over like 40 feet away from each other

[immortalfool]

A demon hunter in the middle trying to kill it while it's vulnerable like

[immortalfool]

"The easiest way to banish a revenant is to "kill" them the same way that they died the first time. I tried throwing him into the sea, but it hasn't done anythin-....what are you...?"

The exorcist trails off as the young woman grabs a kitchen knife and rushes towards the ghost of what used to be her father.

"Oh."

[immortalfool]

"Once saw a case where a ghost was haunting the island where he buried some treasure of some sort. Guarding the beach, harassing anyone that shows up, that sort of thing. One day a body washes up on shore: his own. Didn't matter either way to the ghost. He only saw a person lying there, and so for a week the locals could watch the body get tossed back and forth as the ghost tried to get it to "leave"."

[immortalfool]

"The easiest way to banish a revenant is to "kill" them the same way that they died the first time. I tried throwing him into the sea, but it hasn't done anythin-....what are you...?"

The exorcist trails off as the young woman grabs a kitchen knife and rushes towards the ghost of what used to be her father.

"Oh."

[yamada-ryo]

So it turns out the windows 11 'shut down' button no longer shuts down the computer entirely. I know this because task manager snitched on the runtime. So I shut it down and turn the main switch off and guess what happened on the next boot. American Megatrends. How the hell does windows 11 even manage to fuck up shutting down

[yamada-ryo]

Apparently it fucked with my bios settings? Now I can't even run my emulator.

[yamada-ryo]

This shit was NOT set to off before. This OS is a virus that fucks with your system. And not in a good way.

[switch-to-linux]

I have a suggestion

[h-nry]

[aeori-o]

For anyone who has any modern Windows PC: This has actually been broken since Windows 7! Maybe 8, I don't remember, I just remember being the exact same level of horrified as OP when I finally noticed an 'up time' of like three hundred some odd hours on my old PC despite it having been shut off regularly. Anyway.

The usual culprit of Windows not "fully" shutting down is "Fast Start Up" being turned on (which was and is "on" by default, because it does help a slow computer or a computer with a Hard Disk Drive (HDD) start up faster). Anyone with a modern Windows PC running an SSD as your boot drive should turn this off. The computer not fully shutting down can lead to weird compounded errors. So please follow along!

Type "power options" into your search bar and click the result, should look like this:

Which should open this:

Now we're going to back up to "Power Options" by clicking that in the upper bar or hitting "Cancel" on the bottom right. Now you should be here:

On the left hit "Choose what the power buttons do". Now you should be here:

Ignore the power button thing, but if your "Turn on fast startup (recommended)" is still on then turn it off! If yours is also greyed out make sure to hit that little blue thing with the shield near the top that says "Change settings that are currently unavailable" and then turn it off. Remember to hit "Save changes". Now your computer should fully shut off!

If you don't know how to check your "up time" to even know if this is a problem for you the easiest way to check is in the task manager. In the "performance" tab under your CPU at the bottom it will have an "Up time" like this:

(No comment on the SVM mode randomly disabling itself, it may or may not be related to this. I've never made use of and therefore never paid attention to mine and a lot of people aren't going to have it because that's AMD and while it's been more popular lately Intel is still really big out there. AMDs known to be quirky though (I say this as an AMD user) so who even knows what happened there.)

I know the post became memeing on windows but this can cause actual issues on modern hardware so figured I'd hijack in case it helps someone out. (It's something I have forgotten to check in the PCs I've helped friends make recently so I'm now having a "wuh oh" moment wondering if quirks one of them has been exhibiting is related to this.)

[thestuffedalligator]

There’s a certain folkloric idea that if you die at sea, your soul is sort of. Inextricably stuck in the sea. Because your body is irretrievable, your soul is also irretrievable, down out of the reach of the gods who look at the surface of the world. In Norse mythology, they said that the souls of sailors who died at sea are caught in the sea-goddess Rán’s net and dragged into her domain, a distinct and separate afterlife alongside Hel and Valhalla. Davy Jones Locker. The funayūrei. A lot of cultures agree that once the sea has a hold on you, even when your body has rotted and dwindled and been made food for crabs, it still won’t let you go.

Do you think we’re going to wind up saying the same thing about astronauts.

[immortalfool]

Had an idea for a Star Wars inspired Chronicles of Darkness splat, partially inspired by the SW5e fan game because I feel like it could've been done better in one direction or another (the base rules have Wisdom used for Light Side powers and Charisma used for Dark Side powers with a variant rule that let you pick either one, but meant that characters and creatures they wanted to stat out as being more Dark Side inclined meant that they started with higher Charisma scores, which feels off, but anyways)

The main resource is obviously Force Points

One of my friends suggested keeping Integrity and having Dark Side powers have an equivalent penalty to their dice pool based on that. Or I could possibly go with a system similar to Vampire: The Requiem('s) Humanity with more of a theme of Corruption or something similar rather than trying to hold on to Humanity.

The powers themselves could be flavored after and/or pulled from anywhere in CofD, whether it's from Deviant's Variations and Scars, Changeling's Contracts, or Vampire's Disciplines.

The half-template would obviously be Force Sentitives

And with the system being the way it is, that is with characters being built as regular Mortals first and then having the Supernatural Template applied after, it means that regular characters (while obviously not being as powerful as the Jedi) are still relevant

[immortalfool]

Each CofD game so far has had two layers of customization beyond Attribute/Skill choice. Vampire: The Requiem has Clans and Sects, Changeling: The Lost had Seeming and Kiths, Deviant: The Renegades has Origin and Clades, etc.

I can see the first layer for a Jedi template being the "Approach" to studying/using the Force, whether it's a Jedi Knight or Guardian stepping forward to shield those behind him, a Consular delving into the mysteries and histories of the Force itself, as well as a few others

The second one I'm a little more unsure of, because it wouldn't be something like different Jedi groups because their teachings are pretty much the same all over (to my knowledge, at least). It wouldn't be categorizing force users as "light, grey, or dark" because that's what the Corruption mechanic would be for, and the Sith I'm saving for this template's Horrors alongside the Force Ghosts as the Numina.

[immortalfool]

Tossing the Star Wars stuff out because as much as different Jedi masters could impart different lessons to their padawans, the overall structure of the "Jedi" as a whole and how their powers work don't allow for many differences between individuals.

[immortalfool]

It's a shame that the Storyteller Vault doesn't allow for unofficial splats, but I guess it makes sense from a business standpoint

But the idea has kind of solidified as far as the direction I wanna take it.

Still going to be pulling inspiration from Star Wars, but I'll definitely be dipping into Pathfinder 1e and the Oracle class in particular

[immortalfool]

Someone accidentally wakes up a vampire while wandering around in his abandoned mansion, and he does the whole "coffin popping open and floating up and out" trick, except when his feet touch the ground, the old flooring splinters and falls apart because it hasn't been maintained in decades. So the POV character watches as the vampire pauses for a moment before floating around to different spots trying to find a piece of flooring that won't immediately crack under his feet so he can finish his dramatic awakening.

[immortalfool]

Had an idea for a Star Wars inspired Chronicles of Darkness splat, partially inspired by the SW5e fan game because I feel like it could've been done better in one direction or another (the base rules have Wisdom used for Light Side powers and Charisma used for Dark Side powers with a variant rule that let you pick either one, but meant that characters and creatures they wanted to stat out as being more Dark Side inclined meant that they started with higher Charisma scores, which feels off, but anyways)

The main resource is obviously Force Points

One of my friends suggested keeping Integrity and having Dark Side powers have an equivalent penalty to their dice pool based on that. Or I could possibly go with a system similar to Vampire: The Requiem('s) Humanity with more of a theme of Corruption or something similar rather than trying to hold on to Humanity.

The powers themselves could be flavored after and/or pulled from anywhere in CofD, whether it's from Deviant's Variations and Scars, Changeling's Contracts, or Vampire's Disciplines.

The half-template would obviously be Force Sentitives

And with the system being the way it is, that is with characters being built as regular Mortals first and then having the Supernatural Template applied after, it means that regular characters (while obviously not being as powerful as the Jedi) are still relevant

[immortalfool]

Each CofD game so far has had two layers of customization beyond Attribute/Skill choice. Vampire: The Requiem has Clans and Sects, Changeling: The Lost had Seeming and Kiths, Deviant: The Renegades has Origin and Clades, etc.

I can see the first layer for a Jedi template being the "Approach" to studying/using the Force, whether it's a Jedi Knight or Guardian stepping forward to shield those behind him, a Consular delving into the mysteries and histories of the Force itself, as well as a few others

The second one I'm a little more unsure of, because it wouldn't be something like different Jedi groups because their teachings are pretty much the same all over (to my knowledge, at least). It wouldn't be categorizing force users as "light, grey, or dark" because that's what the Corruption mechanic would be for, and the Sith I'm saving for this template's Horrors alongside the Force Ghosts as the Numina.

[immortalfool]

Tossing the Star Wars stuff out because as much as different Jedi masters could impart different lessons to their padawans, the overall structure of the "Jedi" as a whole and how their powers work don't allow for many differences between individuals.

[immortalfool]

Had an idea for a Star Wars inspired Chronicles of Darkness splat, partially inspired by the SW5e fan game because I feel like it could've been done better in one direction or another (the base rules have Wisdom used for Light Side powers and Charisma used for Dark Side powers with a variant rule that let you pick either one, but meant that characters and creatures they wanted to stat out as being more Dark Side inclined meant that they started with higher Charisma scores, which feels off, but anyways)

The main resource is obviously Force Points

One of my friends suggested keeping Integrity and having Dark Side powers have an equivalent penalty to their dice pool based on that. Or I could possibly go with a system similar to Vampire: The Requiem('s) Humanity with more of a theme of Corruption or something similar rather than trying to hold on to Humanity.

The powers themselves could be flavored after and/or pulled from anywhere in CofD, whether it's from Deviant's Variations and Scars, Changeling's Contracts, or Vampire's Disciplines.

The half-template would obviously be Force Sentitives

And with the system being the way it is, that is with characters being built as regular Mortals first and then having the Supernatural Template applied after, it means that regular characters (while obviously not being as powerful as the Jedi) are still relevant

[immortalfool]

Each CofD game so far has had two layers of customization beyond Attribute/Skill choice. Vampire: The Requiem has Clans and Sects, Changeling: The Lost had Seeming and Kiths, Deviant: The Renegades has Origin and Clades, etc.

I can see the first layer for a Jedi template being the "Approach" to studying/using the Force, whether it's a Jedi Knight or Guardian stepping forward to shield those behind him, a Consular delving into the mysteries and histories of the Force itself, as well as a few others

The second one I'm a little more unsure of, because it wouldn't be something like different Jedi groups because their teachings are pretty much the same all over (to my knowledge, at least). It wouldn't be categorizing force users as "light, grey, or dark" because that's what the Corruption mechanic would be for, and the Sith I'm saving for this template's Horrors alongside the Force Ghosts as the Numina.

[immortalfool]

Hmmmmm

Chronicles of Darkness x Cult of the Lamb game.....

[immortalfool]

Had an idea for a Star Wars inspired Chronicles of Darkness splat, partially inspired by the SW5e fan game because I feel like it could've been done better in one direction or another (the base rules have Wisdom used for Light Side powers and Charisma used for Dark Side powers with a variant rule that let you pick either one, but meant that characters and creatures they wanted to stat out as being more Dark Side inclined meant that they started with higher Charisma scores, which feels off, but anyways)

The main resource is obviously Force Points

One of my friends suggested keeping Integrity and having Dark Side powers have an equivalent penalty to their dice pool based on that. Or I could possibly go with a system similar to Vampire: The Requiem('s) Humanity with more of a theme of Corruption or something similar rather than trying to hold on to Humanity.

The powers themselves could be flavored after and/or pulled from anywhere in CofD, whether it's from Deviant's Variations and Scars, Changeling's Contracts, or Vampire's Disciplines.

The half-template would obviously be Force Sentitives

And with the system being the way it is, that is with characters being built as regular Mortals first and then having the Supernatural Template applied after, it means that regular characters (while obviously not being as powerful as the Jedi) are still relevant

[cannibalcaprine-deactivated2024]

masks and helmets that hides someone's face in such a way that they become the face themselves my beloved

these are all creatures to me

[ancient-debris]

Angel of War, angular and strange, gleaming silver and gold, Angel of Wonder, pure and one-eyed, looking to stars new and old, Angel of Harvest, simple and hidden, bring nature's sweetness to all, Angel of Health, mysterious and fine, beacon when life starts to fall, Angel of the Deep, crooked and cage-like, guide us across the sea, Angel of Solace, protect us from evil, lead us to where we are free.

[omnybus]

Was inspired by the previous post a while back, and had been working on this on and off for a long while.

You can see the full-resolution versions on My Patreon.

[captain-acab]

I love all of these. The angel of the the deep's wings are canvas, held up by an anchor. The angel of war's wings are blades, and its shield is a coffin. The angel of solace is a mutant, its arms deforming into wings. Geiger counter in hand, it guides us through the danger only it knows. Was this angel once a man? Corrupted now beyond hope, he can at least save others from the same fate.

[youve-got-a-roman]

this shit is so incredibly cool that i cannot and refuse to attempt to properly articulate it

[theintelligentfool]

i have such a fondness for post-apocalyptic settings because something about recontextualizing urban environments scratches an itch in my brain. treating an artificial environment like a natural one is deeply appealing. being completely alone in a public space - scavenging or looting as another way to forage - wandering into random residential spaces - it's all neat!

it's one of the things that first enamored me to the fallout franchise, before i was old enough to actually play the games or anything. it's why i was so fascinated with zombie media despite being very scared of most of it (exponents, man...). it's why 3008, the infinite ikea, is my favorite scp.

like, at this point i love post-apocalyptic stuff for all sorts of other reasons - as someone with an anxiety disorder i find it an inherently cathartic genre! i think works grappling with what extinction means, especially in the face of climate change, are fascinating and compelling! - but the idea of a metropolis as a ghost town is something i sincerely find beautiful.

[immortalfool]

Wandering through abandoned homes, trailers, and clubhouses instead of forests or caves.

Scaling up apartment complexes or skyscrapers instead of hills or mountains.

Scurrying to wrecked cars or vans for cover in parking lots and along roads before hurrying to the oasis of old shopping centers just like lizards in the desert.

The apocalypse took the wild of the natural world and stabbed it right into the heart of civilization.

[yuuuyang]

When you get a place from your grandpa ...

Stardew Valley vs Darkest Dungeon with my friend!

[immortalfool]

On r/TopCharacterTropes about "Of course I knew! I'm a detective/your parent!"

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