The future is full of things I don't understand

[justsomerandomdumbass]

Sometimes you read a comic and you spend several dozen chapters going "So, is her being a catgirl a metaphor? Or literal?"

[alchykiller]

alchykiller.carrd.co#links

[prokopetz]

If you're familiar with the history of tabletop roleplaying games, you've probably heard the story about how the proto-RPG that would become Dungeons & Dragons originally just had fighters and wizards as hero units, and how the third class, the cleric, was introduced specifically to provide a game-mechanical hard counter to another player's vampire fighter in a long-running PvP game.

So here's a fun hypothetical: what might D&D's third character class have looked like if that rival player's fighter had been a different sort of goofy 1970s horror movie critter? What does the hard counter to a wolfman or a Frankenstein's Monster or what-have-you look like when generalised into a character class?

[prokopetz]

("Isn't that just a" nope – you don't get to reach into the future and back-port a fully formed character class that hasn't been invented yet. Start from first principles!)

[justsomerandomdumbass]

The thing that keeps coming to my brain for Frankenstein's Monster is "Playable Angry Mob of Peasants"

Like, the Frankenstein is big and strong and hits hard, but can really only hit one and kill one peasant per turn. While the mob can expand theoretically infinitely and whittle away at the big lummox.

Now turned into a class... I guess it'd allow you to benefit from trash drops from random monsters. That orc's rusty scimitar might be worthless to the fighter, but it's still better than Peasant Pete's Pitchfork.

You would use your mob to either surround targets to maximize your number of shitty attacks (Bonus: rolling more dice = more fun!) or clog up chokepoints to give your spellcasters and range fighters more time to safely do their thing.

I guess you'd have to have some form of "lives" system where each life is a peasant lost from your mob, and between sessions you get to visit towns to restock your lives.

Obviously you gotta keep your mob hidden from anything with crowd attacks, like dragons.

And you GOTTA have some big stupid tables to randomly generate peasants for the mob.

[a-daks]

I see this headline:

As a former cakewrecks lover, I figured sure, I’ll bite. Let’s see this cake. Literally nothing could have prepared me for this cake. 

They paid $49 for this “frog-themed” cake and honestly no amount of money in the world could be put on this masterpiece:

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[what-even-is-thiss]

What would a Yankee Candle go for in ancient Greece?

tbh the most confusing thing about it to them would probably be the glass that the candle is contained in. They might try to buy information about glass from you.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Yeah basically

[what-even-is-thiss]

Yeah I should’ve clarified (pun intended). They had glass in the ancient world especially in Rome and Egypt but it was basically super heated sand and color additives put in a mold and often looked opaque and kinda lumpy. Even if it was blown like it was in some regions it wouldn’t have looked like modern glass.

Clear blown glass like you’d see a modern scented candle contained in wasn’t invented until the late Middle Ages and certainly wasn’t mass produced until the 1500s and even then places like Venice that had knowledge of these techniques literally forbid their glassmakers from leaving their city or region so other people couldn’t make it, forcing artificial scarcity and making it a very expensive material.

So if you showed a yankee candle to an Ancient Greek, especially one from a city or something, they’d be like burning scented wax okay not something I’d do but it makes sense. Also how the fuck is that glass transparent.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Like imagine if someone brought you something weird but understandable contained in a material that they said was made out of wood and you could tell that it’s clearly made out of wood they’re not lying about that but it was also completely transparent and see through with no visible flaws. That’s about the level of weird we’re talking about here.

[animnightmare]

It isnt flawless, but transparent wood does already exist actually

[what-even-is-thiss]

What the fuck I feel like a medieval peasant seeing an iPhone

[unyieldingsilence]

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[what-even-is-thiss]

Who goes there

[murgoten]

coworker who you have a sneaking suspicion she doesn't like you

[stealingpotatoes]

for some reason my cat always acts surprised and sniffs me when i pet him even if he's literally sat on me

[mascotboy]

[gamevecanti]

Concept art from "Cyber Doll" (Saturn) illustrated by Yasushi Nirasawa.

[obscurevideogames]

(Betop/I'MAX - 1996)

[extremely-nervess]

Hat Hope you all are havin a good time!

[graskip]

bugman

[suppermariobroth]

Splash illustration of Princess Daisy's shoulder angel and devil, from a 1994 Super Mario Land 2 manga.

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[great-and-small]

I am constantly thinking about this

[great-and-small]

This mild Wikipedia sentence is like the understatement of all time

Here are some crazy grasshopper mouse facts for those who are not familiar with the most badass mouse species on the planet

- They are primarily carnivorous, and their diet is made up of not only bugs but also snakes, lizards and other mice.

- They hunt like true predators, slowly stalking and creeping up on their prey before ambushing them. They will sometimes let out a screech as they attack.

- Like wolves, they howl to establish territory and have a specially developed throat to produce louder vocalizations. They will stand up on their hind legs and throw their head back to howl- a sound that can be heard from 100 meters away!

- Grasshopper mouse behavior is linked to lunar cycles and they are more active during a full moon.

- These mice have been hunting bark scorpions and evolving alongside them for so long that they’ve evolved a mutation where scorpion venom that is lethal to other animals is converted into a painkiller in the grasshopper mouse’s body.

[prokopetz]

In principle, I understand that Monopoly isn't special, and that "tabletop game that's widely played even though it's generally agreed that it fucking sucks" is a phenomenon that's found in many cultures, but I wouldn't intuitively have predicted in just how much of the world that position is filled by mahjong.

[justsomerandomdumbass]

[ceroro]

i was part of a telepone game, heres my part! full thing here:

[prokopetz]

It never ceases to kill me dead that some of the most technically accomplished pixel-art animation on the entire planet is produced by a person who uses their skills exclusively to shitpost about one specific indie game from 2004.

[wonderwyrm]

Playing mario kart with my roommate and every time Funky Kong makes a noise he says “me in the pussy if I’m being honest”

[magpie-a-la-mode]

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