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Seeing dogs looking at you from a car
I gasped
Make sure to watch this ending :D
For anyone interested in watching the show: it’s Yuru Camp, an anime which... doesn’t really have a plot? It’s about girls going camping during the warmer months of japanese winter. It is strangely entertaining and all the characters are super adorable.
A big image I was commissioned to do featuring all of the player characters in the D&D group that I’m a part of; we’re the Network for Expert Rescue and Defensive Support! Including our DM overlord that puts up with all of our wacky shenanigans.
NERDS!
Oh You’re Drinking
Binch Water?
…it says BIRCH water. Can no one read cursive on this damn site?
you are the one who can’t read cursive, it seems.
it says binch water. i checked the web site.
That’s definitely a recursive “n”. If it was an “r” it wouldn’t loop down before connecting to the next letter.
so none of you jokers were gonna tell me master chiefs suit jacks him off, huh, y'all just weren’t gonna tell me
y'all were just gonna keep me in the dark, then
Wait what? Is this from a fanfic or something? Cuz I read the books and I distinctly remember all the Spartans being sterile and having all of their sexual urges suppressed like good soldiers.
A sudden, terrifying thought
When you see an animal with its eyes set to the front, like wolves, or humans, that’s usually a predator animal.
If you see an animal with its eyes set farther back, though—to the side—that animal is prey.
Now look at this dragon.
See those eyes?
They’re to the SIDE.
This raises an interesting—and terrifying—question.
What in the name of Lovecraft led evolution to consider DRAGONS…
As PREY?
I know this isn’t part of my blogs theme but like this is interesting
i know this isn’t part of my blogs theme but like this is interesting
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The eyes-in-the-front thing (usually) only applies to mammals. Crocodiles, arguably the inspiration for dragons, have eyes that look to the sides despite being a predator.
hey what up I’m about to be That Asshole
This isn’t a mammalian thing. When people talk about ‘eyes on the front’ or ‘eyes on the side,’ they’re really talking about binocular vision vs monocular vision. Binocular vision is more advantageous for predators because it’s what gives you depth perception; i.e, the distance you need to leap, lunge, or swipe to take out the fast-moving thing in front of you. Any animal that can position its eyes in a way that it has overlapping fields of vision has binocular vision. That includes a lot of predatory reptiles, including komodo dragons, monitor lizards, and chameleons.
(The eyes-in-front = predator / eyes-on-sides = prey thing holds true far more regularly for birds than it does for mammals. Consider owls, hawks, and falcons vs parrots, sparrows, and doves.)
But it’s not like binocular vision is inherently “better” than monocular vision. It’s a trade-off: you get better at leap-strike-kill, but your field of vision is commensurately restricted, meaning you see less stuff. Sometimes, the evolutionary benefit of binocular vision just doesn’t outweigh the benefit of seeing the other guy coming. Very few forms of aquatic life have binocular vision unless they have eye stalks, predator or not, because if you live underwater, the threat could be coming from literally any direction, so you want as wide a field of view as you can get. If you see a predator working monocular vision, it’s a pretty safe assumption that there is something else out there dangerous enough that their survival is aided more by knowing where it is than reliably getting food inside their mouths.
For example, if you are a crocodile, there is a decent chance that a hippo will cruise up your shit and bite you in half. I’d say that makes monocular vision worthwhile.
Which brings us back to OP’s point. Why would dragon evolution favor field of view over depth perception?
A lot of the stories I’ve read painted the biggest threats to dragons (until knights with little shiny sticks came along) as other dragons. Dragons fight each other, dragons have wars. And like fish, a dragon would need to worry about another dragon coming in from any angle. That’s a major point in favor of monocular vision. Moreover, you don’t need depth perception in order to hunt if you can breathe fucking fire. A flamethrower is not a precision weapon. If you can torch everything in front of you, who cares if your prey is 5 feet away or 20? Burn it all and sift among the rubble for meat once everything stops moving.
Really, why would dragons have eyes on the front of their heads? Seems like they’ve got the right idea to me.
this is some good dragon discourse right here, 10/10, and i dont mean to derail the whole thing away from the eyes, but i feel obligated to mention that in many stories and accurate to some reptiles, dragons have an extremely acute sense of smell/taste which would definitely help narrow down the depth perception issue. things smell stronger the closer they are. and i feel like i read somewhere that a blind snake can flick the air with its tongue and track its target mouse with no trouble at all. gotta imagine the “great serpents of the sky” had some pretty advanced biology. enough to make field of view win out against depth perception.
anywho. cool stuff. fear the dragons even if they are the prey cause they still beat us on the food chain.
I would also like to add the argument that, since dragons keep hoards and are extremely protective of them, that would also make them more inclined towards monocular vision. Like yeah, the greatest threat to a dragon is another dragon and they could come from any angle. But try watching over your vast chamber filled with gold and sparkly things if you are super lazy (dragons are shown to sleep a lot when they don’t hunt) and have to move your head around to actually scan the room (in case of binocular vision).
Due to recent changes in the fan content policy, it is now legally shakey ground for anyone to draw adults only content of Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons, and Axis & Allies branded content.
And to this point, I will not be doing so for the foreseeable future. This should not change my personal works as non of my medieval fantasy works derive from D&D trademarks. It has, however, cut two major IPs off from requests, commissions, and patreon rewards.
Don’t sleep on this clause of the new policy:
Your Fan Content must be free for others (including Wizards) to view, access, share, and use without paying you anything, obtaining your approval, or giving you credit.
>use
Fuck Hasbro.
uh…………..
so no porn is essentially what they’re saying.
No they are saying that they can freely distribute your art content without crediting you or compensating you. AND SO CAN EVERYONE ELSE You aren’t allowed to take commissions EVER. And if you try to fight it legally because all of this falls under Fair Use they will have you up to your neck in fines and fees. Which is, in fact, ILLEGAL. But they can get away with it because money. Hasbro has a history of this.
Please actually read the page. I promise you its not in legaleese.
This is actually extremely detrimental to a lot of artists.
“Fan Content includes fan art, videos, podcasts, blogs, websites, streaming content, tattoos, altars to your cleric’s deity, etc.“
So if I’m understanding this correctly, then even if YouTube hadn’t been working to demonetize creator content, this policy would mean D&D podcasts & vids – like Critical Role and The Adventure Zone – can’t be used to make money.
Fuck Hasbro.
WELP. If anybody ever wants a commission of a certain tabletop roleplay character, just…y'know…don’t tell me what it’s from. Obviously completely original character no relation to anything, right?…>_>
If you do need to namedrop a system, say “Fantasy d20″. It’s the overarching supercategory that includes all of the Open Gaming Licnese knockoffs. If you want to move away from D&D, you should look into them anyway…
Pathfinder (3.5+) Castles & Crusades (AD&D2E) Basic Fantasy RPG, Lamentations of the Famle Princess (BX D&D + homebrew) Labyrinth Lord (BX D&D or AD&D1E depending on the splatbooks) OSRIC (AD&D1E) Swords & Wizardry (OD&D)
Or you could just start playing a game that isn’t based on D&D like GURPS Dungeon Fantasy, Mouseguard, Earthdawn, Warhammer Fantasy RPG, Ironclaw, Palladium Fantasy, EXALTED.
Or use generics like GURPS, HERO, Fuzion, Savage Worlds, Fate, etc.
With the way Hasbro’s been mismanaging WotC, they kinda need to lose market share anyway.
Hackmaster! Don’t forget Hackmaster, it’s a great system and very akin to D&D but with many very notable improvements. XO
Just gonna add Dungeon World, Pugmire, MERPS and the fan-made elderscrolls tabletop to the list
I’m confused to if this includes artwork of your own dungeons and dragons characters.
I am wondering that myself. Though if you don’t state “d&d” anywhere, I doubt they can do anything. I mean, it’s not like they own the very concept of wizards and barbarians etc.?
Especially if it’s not on the image itself.
Replying to the post about podcasts and streams like Critical Role and The Adventure Zone not being able to make money: The policy does state that you can still gain ad revenue and donations, so long as your content is freely accessible. Neither CR nor TAZ charge upfront for their content. The only problem I could possibly see is CR putting their recordings up for subscribers only first and make it accessible to the general public a couple days later.
But yeah, so long as you only get your money from adverts or donations, you can keep posting your podcasts and recorded/streamed play sessions. It’s just that anyone has the right to download the stuff and put it on their own website.
Holy shit
Oh…damn…
.. My heart.
this proves that if you take away all the horrible dialogue, awkwardness, bad editing, and repulsive graphics from the prequels, they could have really been something worthwhile
One small inconsistency between episodes III and IV has always been how terribly Obi Wan has aged. I mean, it’s been less than 20 years between the events of movies. It all makes sense if you interpret it as the effects of PTSD.
Or I am just talking out of my ass, because Obi Wan at the time of his death was 56 and Sir Alec Guinness was 63 when he played the part of Obi Wan, so there isn’t really that big of a gap.
say it with me now..
2018 Goals
Since last week I’ve been getting extra money at work for free
Yo Canada, quick question. Why is your money see through?!?
so we can shine a laser pointer through the window and see the value amount projected afar as added protection from forgeries
Yo USA, why the FUCK are we still using fragile scraps of linen like fucking animals when we could have fucking Laser Show Dollars instead?
Because do you have any idea how much effort it would be to replace all the money in circulation? You’d have to walk to literally ten different people and ask them for permission to empty their Scrooge McDuck money vaults to replace their old, dusty money from the 1800s with new shiny money that wasn’t soaked in the blood of “workers”.
life hack
Question is: what does the girl get out of it?
Darkest Dungeon Stress System in D&D (Download)
This week’s post is something I’ve been working on for a long time, and my first post which is a set of variant rules! Darkest Dungeon’s stress system is perhaps the core part of the game that sets it apart from other dungeon crawler games, and something I’ve really wanted to try implementing into D&D for quite a while. This system is designed to make D&D lea more into horror elements, so for those kind of games, such as those set in the Ravenloft campaign setting, this system presents a way to mechanically track your characters’ fear as they fight whatever horrors the DM has planned.
One of the major choices i made for designing this was having stress go up, instead of down like hit points, so that it’d mirror Darkest Dungeon more closely, and allow stress to build to double it’s value, which is more difficult to explain and track like negative hit points.
The additional rules I added outside of Darkest Dungeon’s original stress system, such as the Soothing Presence feat and the modifications to class abilities were based on the flavour of those abilities, or in comparison to similar abilities of the heroes in Darkest Dungeon, such as the stress gained from a druid’s transformation in reference to the Abomination hero from Darkest Dungeon.
You can find all of my Darkest Dungeon D&D homebrew in my Darkest Dungeon tag here! Next week, expect some homebrew that’s a little more light-hearted, for the release of Magic the Gathering: Unstable!
See I am not chubby I have my six pack…
Who needs a six pack when you can have an entire barrel? :P
via godless.glasses
churches, I’m begging you, please run all your sign ideas by a thirteen-year-old
Jesus of Nazareth has been dead for 1,987 slutty, slutty years
I know that billboard is supposed to refer to Jesus mother Mary of Nazareth, but it amuses me that it could also refer to Mary Magdalene. You know, Jesus apostle that was said to be a former prostitute but where some popular conspiracy theories actually claim she was Jesus wife.
this is what a hobbit would mug you with
not idly do the leaves of lorien cut a bitch
When you don’t pay Tom Nook back soon enough
I imagine this is the kind of knife a hobbit pulls out casually to chop up some tobacco for their pipe and people go “What the heck?!? The hobbit has a KNIFE!?!?!?!”
Tell me one thing
milich96:
zennyzach:
I can’t wink
@milich96 @katiramayrem @peikonlainen
I play the harp :/
@supericebeam @confectioncarnage @purplerulz010
I used to be a cross country runner in high school
@baggysweet @wait-its-12am @alsoabear
I armwrestled a cop once during my first homecoming dance in highschool.
@lawful-evil-novelist @ghostysparky @hugsforvillains
I’m slightly pigeon-toed.
@the-mighty-sorceress @mortalorder @animecat33
I have a tolerance for spicy food and sauces because my dad would trick me into eating them when I was younger
@couldyounottalktomethanks @themarchinghare @tessalovesozzy
I can naturally bend my fingers back pretty far and it freaks people out.
@fdartwork @angsty-eddie @perlethewitch
There’s nothing really interesting about me that I’m eager to share right off the bat, but I guess one thing I can share is that I can raise my eyebrow like Mr. Spock.
@ilgalantuomo
@lbigreyhound13
@kristenpileri
@panda-tracks
@blizsea
If anyone else wants to do this, be my guest!
Oooooh, let’s see…OH! I don’t think I shared this with anyone on tumblr yet, but on summer vacation before my senior year of high school, I went on a school trip to Florence, Italy for 3 ½ weeks with a group of girls from my school (with two teachers), came home for literally 24 hours, and then hopped on another plane with ANOTHER group of kids and chaperones to go to Lourdes, Frances. (FYI: for anyone who doesn’t know, look up St. Bernadette in Lourdes, Frances or shoot me an ask and I can always explain.)
Now, I want to tag: @hubwalker1, @couchtaro, @kingofthewilderwest, @treepelt, @whoelsewillihaveicecreamwith, @zarinaa113 Anyone else who wants to do this, go right ahead!
I got my first period for the same week I was going on a family trip to NYC for my grandfathers memorial/Thanksgiving reunion.
I tag: @snowprincess-artist, @hntrgurl13, and @earial13
(Thanks a billion @lbigreyhound13, !!! You are the first to ever tag me!)
I once got totally wasted on the beach at south padre and when a friend tried to hook me up with a guy, I kept saying no because “I gotta stay classy” and passed out.
I mark: @scipunk63 @the-ill-doctor @a-million-chromatic-dreams @thedobermutt @stariousfalls @triturechan and @witete
One time during lunch period in highschool, a friend snuck up behind me and scared me so bad my fight or flight reflex kicked in… which usually results in me fighting back. So I swung my arm back and gave her a bloody nose without knowing it was her. I felt so bad afterwards!
@psychicpumpkinpi @ancientouroboros and @fiddlefordhadronmcgucket
I also got tagged by @polydactyl-orion and @stuffbyshelby :D
I got to go see fairy penguins in Australia and it was the most adorable, magical thing to see them popping out of the water as each wave receded in the light of the moon ✨🐧✨
@marypsue @impishnature @dubsdeedubs @fexiled @chonaku-things @eregyrn-falls @infriga
when i was 8 i wrote a poem for school and it got published in a book!
tagging @asdmabel @ariasofelegance @midwaymilly @fordanoia @bex-rambles
I didn’t get my first real haircut til I was fourteen, and it was down to my fingertips at that point. Tagging: @filmfreak1994 @mai-of-the-fire @maxwellbloodfencer @yupsopone @artemispanthar @cheesecakewitch
When I was in elementary school I won second price for growing a large pumpkin, but missed out on showing up in the newspaper article because I was too lazy to actually go to the contest (my parents brought the pumpkin in for judging).
this Thanksgiving, you should all be thankful for having the internet the way that you do, and not like this.
however, if you don’t vote, this is the future that’s in store for you.
battleforthenet.com
savetheinternet.com
contactingcongress.org
resistbot.io
Jeeze, no wonder I never meet anyone online that lives in new zealand.
as someone from new zealand, these are one company’s cell phone plans, eg. you can buy a day pass to watch netflix or something without using up all your cell phone data. it’s a deal, not the norm. our internet is not like this. we have net neutrality in terms of our actual internet providers
yeah wtf our internet is nothing like that lol
I am not usually a fan of spread misinformation as a cheap scare tactic but I can kinda forgive it in this case.
Even if this is not actually now New Zealand internet works and it’s just a phone company cutting you a deal, I FUCKING KNOW that american internet providers will see this model and be like “Yeah, this sounds like a great idea to squeeze people dry”.
This may not be corporate reality in NZ but it will be YOUR corporate reality if you don’t stop the FCC.
Stream Time!
Kinda short notice, but I’m going to continue playing Prey. If anyone wants to come hang out that’s cool.
https://go.twitch.tv/maxwell_bloodfencer
Streaming!
I will be playing Prey so I can finally finish the story and uninstall the game. Because I like to think I have grown out of that phase of my life where I started games and never saw the end of them.
Come hang out with me: https://www.twitch.tv/maxwell_bloodfencer
