KaHavaVe🔌🐰

Atheist.  Austrian minarchist by ideals, classical liberal by policy.  If I forget to tag/mistag art or music or something, either reblog to tell me or send me an ask explaining it with the post number.  Will often post nonsense ramblings.  Ignore or critize at your pleasure.

[kahavave]

The Introduction to the Declaration of Independence, translated into Gen Z slang.

Yo, when the timeline of human events is hitting different and one squad gotta dissolve the political chains that been linking them to another crew, and step into their own bag—claiming that separate but equal main character energy that the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God already said they deserve—a decent respect to the opinions of the whole timeline requires they spill the full tea on why they finna dip and separate. Fr fr. Periodt

[kahavave]

Fantasy immortality idea - Bind yourself to a flock of ravens, stealing their lifespans. They're very intelligent and loyal familiars, and while they usually die by 15 they can live over twice that. A decade or more could be stolen from each without any chance of hurting them.

You can absolutely do other animals and they have some advantages and disadvantages, but I think that Ravens are the best choice overall.

Domesticated animals - Dogs/cats, etc. Much lower lifespan than ravens and unless you turn them feral and just sort of hope that the bloodline continues (which you will be sabotaging with your lifespan theft) you'll have to take care of generations upon generations of short lived pets that you'll have to bury regularly.

Short lived wild animals - You could do this with ravens too, just set them wild once you're bonded to a couple families, but they lose the utility of familiars and are less stable. That being said, Ravens remain the ideal short lived choice for wild animals. I would also assume that there are benefits to keeping them nearby or keeping numbers low; otherwise your best choice would be to cast a very wide net and just bond to as many as possible until it would take an extinction level event to drop them.

Long lived wild animals - Crocodiles, aligators, elephants, etc. Main problem here is the vulnerability, since most animals that survive long periods in the wild tend to have lower rates of reproduction. Ravens can produce eggs very often in reasonable numbers provided food is sufficient.

Balance ideas if you're into that

Bonding requires individual connections; you may not have to become best friends with what you're bonding too, but you need to do something to each one.

Limited efficiency; you might only get a fraction of the years stolen. This could be a hard number or based on weight or something else.

[kahavave]

I like power scaling. Its fun. But its VERY easy for people to take hype statements or inconsistencies and just run with whatever depiction they want.

Here's an excellent example because it shows how silly it is. In the Warhammer Fantasy novel Kinslayer, Felix Jaeger is stated to parry a lightning bolt while fighting a Dragon Ogre. Now, a normal person would assume that this is artistic license or that the lightning from a Dragon Ogre is not a 1:1 with real lightning.

A power scaler, however, would see that line and determine that Felix Jaeger's combat reaction speed is lightning level. And from that you can scale him to teen Kakashi (its not 100% clear when he cut the lightning, but its implied to be during the third Shinobi war so teen), so you can scale Felix Jaeger to be roughly elite Jonin.

From that, you can determine that Druchii are pretty much all Kage level since their speed with a sword is so much that Felix considers himself unable to keep up with any but the least of them, and even then has to rely on tricks. Vampires, of course, would have to be on Kage+ level owing to their even greater speed; perhaps not quite Madara level, but they'd definitely give him more trouble than the five Kage.

[kahavave]

Literally the first time I ever did GSF in swtor, not even a flight game player so I knew I would be bad, I went 2-8. Which, again, not a flight game player and at least I got 6 assists.

But the worst part? I wasn't even the worst. A teammate went 0-7 with no assists.

[kahavave]

swtor has a mission where you bring tauntaun fawns up a hill so they can slide down it.

[kahavave]

Peak detected

[kahavave]

Fantasy idea.

Magh, God of the Crucible, Patron of Mercenaries

Magh is a transactional God, very harsh but fair and trustworthy in his dealings. He is one of the most active gods, venerated though not necessarily worshiped across the world. All cities and most settlements bear a shrine to him, and in that shrine one may speak with with an Angel of Magh in exchange for a minor blood sacrifice.

An Angel of Magh will offer two options; either a group of mercenaries in exchange for tribute or participation in the Crucible. Those who join the Crucible are whisked away to Maghs world where they await until a group of one thousand volunteers are collected. Once joined, they are subject to brutal training. There is no quitting. There is no washing out. Only the slow, gradual death of nine hundred over the course of their training.

Each death is a sacrifice to Magh, the soul of the prospect burned up. Seven tenths of the power goes to Magh, while the remaining three tenths is distributed amongst the survivors. Over the course of the training the intensity increases, to ensure a constant death rate; to facilitate this, food and water is provided in relation to how much of the training was completed; one who does not exercise may survive for a time, but they will quickly die of thirst.

Once there are only a hundred survivors, the deaths stop and they are put to an examination. Physical, mental, and tactical. The bottom ninety are conscripted into Maghs Hessians, his mercenary troops, for ninety nine years of service. The top ten, meanwhile, are given the choice to join as a volunteer with appropriate compensation or return to the world, empowered by the deaths of their fellows and wielding arms and armor forged by Maghs war smiths.

All graduates of the Crucible (whether former Hessians or those who refused the opportunity) remain connected to Magh, and if they die they are given the chance to enter into Magh's service for ninety nine years to avoid death. If they refuse, they enter the afterlife as normal.

Magh has few priests, and they might better be termed scholars. Magh has few worshipers, for he does not reward or ask for it. Magh has no great holdings across the world. Magh refuses to involve himself in great struggles beyond providing his mercenaries. And yet, the constant willing soul sacrifice of those who die in the Crucible and the massive tributes offered by those seeking his Hessians empower and enrich Magh to the point where he is considered one of the greater gods of the world.

[queer-as-city-folk]

I don't think I ever posted the divorce bus

[such-justice-wow]

Ive seen this bus like a dozen times and i still have no idea what product/service this ad is for

[kahavave]

Its a service that provides advice (legal and personal) for those going through a breakup or those close to those going through a breakup. It can range from learning how to help your friend deal with it, to providing training for a manager who is dealing with an employee who just got broken up, to someone looking for legal advice on how to deal with custody of kids or pets.

I have no idea how good or useful the service is and whether its worth it or not. The website is a bit iffy on what it can provide, but it seems less like they provide the services directly and more like they help you find all the services you need. It looks like a "Don't even know where to start? We'll give you a path" style service.

[kahavave]

Went to Medieval Times for the first time since probably middle school. For a standard dinner theater thing it was a pretty good deal. Cheesy and a bit over dramatic but $75 a person is surprisingly good. I imagine they have to make most of their money from selling the costume stuff ($16 for a ring that you could probably grab a pack of five for $2). The staff was probably the best part because outside of some of the people whose job it was to walk around the stands hawking glowing swords for kids everyone was at worst putting on a customer service smile (and I don't blame the glow sword sellers for not enjoying their), and it did seem like most of the people there enjoyed what they did. That really makes the difference when it comes to dinner theater.

The announcer ("the lord marshall") was absolutely into it. 100% the dude does ren fair stuff in his free time; he looked like he was having the time of life.

I will say they do need to have extra horses because one of them was clearly exhausted.

[kahavave]

Dude on twitter said porn addiction isn't real.

Dudes page is just a pile of loli porn.

Okay bro.

[kahavave]

A while ago I got the new SR as part of a bundle. I'd been meaning to launch it for a while because even if I'm pretty sure that the hate was justified if I already have it I might as well check it for myself.

Character creation; honestly a bit basic. Genuinely too basic to warrant sliders. It has the shell of a decent (not great but decent) character creator but too many options were pulled.

Gameplay; The overall gameplay is a pretty standard over the shoulder action oriented TPS. Nothing special but functional. It is pretty handholdy; you can't disable snap to aiming or the ability to press E to automatically shoot at explosives if enemies are near them. The latter is something you can just not do, but an option to turn off snap to aiming would have been nice; its not horrible, you do already have to be pretty close, but it does lower the skill floor while also punishing players who aim at the head and then ADS since like all aim assist it goes to the torso. This may be attached to the difficulty setting, I only tried it on the normal difficulty. It also feels like it wants to be a cover shooter but doesn't include a cover option. The takedown option is on a timer which I'm not 100% a fan of but it was clearly to solve the problem of takedown focused melee being weirdly efficient. I don't care for the animations being so long but that's a constant problem and hardly restricted to SR.

Tutorial mission; Not bad. Humor falls flat, its pretty generic, but the tutorial teaches you the things you need to know to play the game. The AI includes some automatic pathing to get them in the right spot at the right time and if you don't interrupt them they'll just run past you which is probably the funniest thing about it. The overall... not quality but lets say production varies through the mission; you have some spots with full, dedicated animations and others where it just plays voice lines while everyone idle poses and there's one scene where things move around a lot but your character stays rigid as a statue despite being in a turret in an out of control APC. It feels more like a mod or a fan project where you can clearly see the areas the creator cared about and which ones they decided "Eh, good enough". Even a low budget professional game should be more consistent than this.

If the CC+Tutorial were released as a demo I'd give it like a 5/10. Not an IGN 5/10, but like a solid completely middle of the road forgettable experience. It would make me comfortable buying this at like $10-15 for a console (no install or download) if I was really bored and looking through the bargain bin.

[beardedmrbean]

[kahavave]

I've actually sometimes used external devices for non secure stuff and I find that its like 1/3rd chance I get an alert for that.

That's the sort of stuff I SHOULD be getting an alert for.

[kahavave]

Probably the best explanation I've found for why technology is so reliably ass backward in 40k. Taken from The Coffin Of Roboute and his 20 sisters by Seat Admiral

"Now. Do you know what a Hermes Array is?" She shook her head in denial. The Magos nodded, expecting such an answer, and continued. "A Hermes Array is a large machine that can connect two points in material space, allowing for information to be sent across while the points are connected. This allows Faster-Than-Light communications without the use of psychic technologies. Do you know how it connects two points in material space?" She shook her head no again, and he nodded. "None alive do." "What?" She furrowed her brow. "You just told me how it works." "I told you what the priesthood of Gryphonne knows of the device and its function. We know of it from scattered recordings found in destroyed facilities, and the half-destroyed complex on one of our vassal worlds. It is non-functional. We do not know how to repair it, for we have none to teach us the truths required to reach it any longer. It is a Mystery, and we have no path to it." "A higher truth is in-between a Mystery and a basic truth. We know how to keep the machine functional. We know how to repair it, and in optimal scenarios we can even build more of the machine. But the basic truths required to comprehend it are lost to us. We can only perform the rituals handed down to us, preserved by our forebears, established truths that have long been mapped." "But a higher truth cannot become a basic truth until enough requisite basic truths are known to us. Truth is a ladder we seek to ascend, for comprehension is divinity, but too much was lost in the Age of Strife. We may never truly comprehend again, so we must perform the rituals, we must have faith in the machine." "The Omnissiah knows all, comprehends all. We perform rituals, and await his arrival. For he will lead us to understanding again. That is all we can do anymore." "Why not try to understand again? It was done before." She questioned, staring at the skull in her hands. "We cannot afford to." Calculatus shook his head sadly. "The Age of Technology was long ago, and too much of the galaxy has been ravaged already. We can pray for a golden age to come, in which understanding can be reached again, in which we can afford to learn once more. But we cannot plan for it to arrive, for we do not know. To seek understanding in the destructive manner required may waste resources needed to survive, something we cannot afford in such a dangerous age. All we can do is perform the preserved rituals, and keep faith that the machines will endure for another day."

[mugasofer]

What he's leaving out is that the AdMech usually kill the people who *do* try and do new scientific research as "hereteks", on the grounds that anything but holy ancient technology might be corrupted or otherwise dangerous. And when they aren't doing that, as with the Tau or Belisarius Cawl, we see that progress is very much possible. It's the AdMech stranglehold that's causing Imperial scientific knowledge to slowly decay rather than rebound, not so much material conditions.

[jiskblr]

No, that's another part of the material conditions. Because this also leaves out the primary reason innovation is dangerous - because AI and scrapcode are hiding everywhere in old poorly-understood tech, and experimentation is likely to release one or both, with catastrophic results up to and including loss of the planet.

As with most things in 40k, they're trapped in a terrible equilibrium by hostile forces, lack of ability to coordinate on anything but maintaining the status quo, and resource constraints. The system is an effective trap and they can't just wish their way out of the trap. (So they try to pray their way out, with the understanding that this won't work.)

Cawl is a Mary Sue and got an unlimited budget, no supervision, and 10,000 years, and the advances he made were still not that large. The T'au are already starting to have problems from AI and have only just barely begun to interact with the Warp enough for that to cause them problems, and therefore are still idealists who haven't had to make compromises with the fundamentally sapience-hostile nature of the universe. Both of them are pictures of what humanity looked like long ago before the universe had its way with them.

[mugasofer]

Those are are all big risks, but they're risks the Imperium mostly still has to deal with anyway. I'm inclined to read them using the times scientific innovation goes wrong as proof they must stick to the old ways, while ignoring the times their own ways go equally wrong, as mostly just standard hypocrisy.

Of course, people who are inclined to ignore the AdMech's excessive conservatism may also be inclined to throw out actual important safety tips like "don't make bargains with Chaos" out with the bathwater. Some things the AdMech view as blasphemous are genuinely dangerous. But "doing basic science/engineering" isn't one of them.

My read is that the AdMech mostly are the status quo the AdMech is caught in. No individual AdMech can just decide to be sane, but that's mostly because if they did they would be executed for blasphemy, not because everything they consider blasphemy would cause disaster. It's a classic "non-punishers get punished" dictatorless dystopia setup, with a layer of self-defeating paranoia brought on by the constant random disasters of a hostile universe.

Cawl and the T'au aren't the only examples of paths not taken, just particularly prominent ones. Sure, the T'au (and DAoT humans, people working with the Great Crusade era Emperor, etc) are/were relatively sheltered from Chaos compared to the Imperium,* but I don't think you can attribute their success solely to that. The Interex, for a more obscure example, did pretty well while existing in the same universe facing the same threats as the early Imperium, and are clearly intended as a "no, it doesn't have to be this way" moment. (And Chaos actively encouraged/tricked the Imperium into destroying them... make of that what you will.)

On the gripping hand, there are hints that the AdMech are a product of the Void Dragon's influence leaking out of its prison on Mars. So they might be better thought of as a slow Xenos corruption eating away at humanity than as one of humanity's own failures.

*(The Imperium also contributes significantly to their own Chaos problems by creating tons of negative emotions, oppressing people so they're desperate for an alternative, not training their psykers properly, etc. - there's a reason most Chaos units are human - but it'd definitely still be a huge issue even if the Imperium were perfect saints.)

[drjdorr]

I've heard it pointed out that alot of the AdMech's more dogmatic traits aren't that bad in a long term survival on an uninhabitable planet(you know like Mars during the age of strife) situation.

Knowing how the machine keeps the air in isn't as important as making sure it keeps doing so. Risking breaking something by taking it apart to learn how it works could kill people on the wrong systems. Innovating takes resources, resources that could be better allocated to maintaining already existing systems that do their job good enough. Ect ect ect

The issue is that by the time the martian people didn't need to follow these survival guidelines, they'd been practicing them so long it had become a religion, something not to be questioned, and anyone who did was putting everyone else at risk.

Essentially emergency protocols that weren't stopped once the emergency was over because they did them so long they don't even realize they were only emergency protocols

[drtomt18]

I don't think we can really comprehend how badly the Men of Iron traumatized the human race with their rebellion. We know that Age of Technology era humans had stuff that was practically magic, they were the masters of the material universe and all things bowed to them. And then they didn't. Ignoring the awakening of so many Psykers and the Warp storms that followed, the Men of Iron became the ultimate boogy man. Humans forgot about demons and replaced them with the Men of Iron. It fundamentally altered the way humans thing to the point that the very idea of a thinking machine was so terrifying, that everyone agreed that the nightmare factory that spits out Servitors was a better alternative.

That's why the AdMech is so terrified. They don't hate the concept of innovation. That's how new patterns are built. As long as you do all the paperwork, you can probably avoid being turned into Corpse Starch. Although some more dogmatic Priests will do it out of principle. They are pants shittingly terrified that they might make something that won't obey them.

That's just my 2 cents, anyway.

[kahavave]

They actually do hate the concept of innovation. It is against their dogma. They rather firmly believe that everything which needs to be known is from the DAOT (which, to be fair, would cover most problems) and trying to innovate outside of the limited context of trying to get back to what was lost is tech-heresy.

There's a reason that innovations are pretty much always couched under the statement of "We found a new STC fragment! What? No, you can't see it, just take the equipment and stop asking questions."

[kahavave]

I would have the oshi push deck in this if it would arrive already.

[kahavave]

Fantasy worldbuilding; Elf Cadia and its social implications

Scattered across the known world are small Elf settlements. Sometimes these are attached to cities, others live in the wilderness or on islands. Some groups even remain unsettled, traveling freely. Regardless of their size, none of these Elf homes retain any form of military. They do not need to, owing to the nature of Elf society.

When an Elf reaches the age of adulthood, typically in the early twenties though some Elfs name it as young as fourteen, they are given supplies, a map, and farewells. These young Elfs have two choices before them; they may forever abandon their culture and history, becoming Nosentaintiaire ("Traitor of abandoned blood, cursed be their name"), and travel the world knowing that they will never again be permitted to interact with their people, or they may travel to the Demon Breach and there serve a century in the eternal war against the Demons.

Upon completion of their service, they are granted the title of Fuestir (Roughly, Yoeman), the lowest fully adult rank in Elf society. Yoeman may return to their homes, or settle in other Elf Homes. However, they are not permitted to speak at the assembly; they have done the minimum and are granted the minimum. Still, this means that every Elf in an Elf Home is either a child or a veteran of a hundred years fighting against otherworldly monsters, who is now defending either their own children or the children of their friends. Their citizens have served for two centuries, and it is their votes that decide the motion of their states.

With each century of service the rank rises, with the highest rank being that of Suriam (Prince), earned at one thousand years. Suriam are rarely seen outside of the Breach, for while a warrior might serve an additional century or two for a title, only those truly dedicated to the fight will stay so long. Most Suriam known outside of the Breach have been crippled by spiritual attacks or suffer from Soldiers Heart, and have decided to remove themselves from the fight to keep from dragging others down and hopefully heal. Any Elf Home honored to host a Suriam gives them the respect warranted by such a royal title; should they ever deign to speak at the assembly, their word is treated as law.

[kahavave]

Probably the only complaint I have about the piplushie is that the buttons are purely aesthetic. THERE ARE NO BUTTON HOLES

schlorpa the tea

[kahavave]

Speaking objectively, this was not a smart use of money

Speaking subjectively

she beeg

Also, I can now arrange the collab that will never happen. Now I just need a pile of spaghetti for Alana to drop.