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gradually realizing that all of your partner's dirty talk is in iambic pentameter

there’s something nice about telling myself I have nowhere to go back to. it makes the world the default, wherever i go is the default. the world has always been my home after all

lascitasdelashoras

Dizzy Gillespie in Times Square. New York, 1962 by David Attie

toffee32

Brother Francis, A Canticle for Leibowitz

joeyclaire

you are not an endearingly rude and unfriendly cartoon character you need to be nice to people

joeyclaire

coming from a place of love btw i still have to remind myself this often. i’m very autistic i know what it’s like to think of yourself as like a lovable character with quirky flaws because your sense of identity comes from fiction but you are a Living Person and that’s not how it works to be a living person

joeyclaire

not enough people are reblogging this version which is fine but i think they should. I Know Ball i still struggle with this i Get It

caelium-moth

Leslie Fish, a Space Folk musician died 29th Nov at a age of 72 Years. She's the most known for her "Carmen Miranda's Ghost" Album. This album includes such songs as "Bomber", "Dawson's Christian" and others which are often found on many SS13 / 14 codebases.

Not much is known on her death just yet past that she died in a hospice home.

"Space is wide, and good friends are too few"

Rest in peace to a legendary singer.

divorce-enjoyer

why go to the grocery store or to a restaurant when you can just get food delivered why go to the mall when you can get same day shipping on amazon why go to the library when you have kindle why make art when there’s ai why go to the cinema when you can stay at home and watch netflix. we are in a loneliness epidemic btw

divorce-enjoyer

the loneliness epidemic was invented by BIG SHIT to sell you more SHIT

decompositie

pocketss

goodbye boy

sloppystyle

gnirewolf

this video is so full of life

i-am-a-fan

Me talking to the founding fathers: While your system was fundamentally rooted in democracy, it failed to account for the rapid change in society’s growth and vast diversity that would come from it. It also has no concrete definition for how serious to take it, making it easy for the greedy to take advantage of.

George washington eating his third fruit gummy snack: The idea was to hand the government into the hands of the people. Although, I doubt with such a large union of people that it’d ever be possible to reach one ideal we can all agree on. However, if a man was corrupted in power, it is the duty of the american people to remove him for the health of the nation.

Thomas Jefferson who’s 80 pages into the yaoi novel i forgot to take out of my bag: These twinks… where can i purchase one?

i-am-a-fan

that curse doesn’t work on me. Nice try tho. Yaoi jefferson will never have the same reach as miku binder jefferson and you have to accept this

girls--complex

Teh Cursed Sword II

Teh Cursed Sword I

satanfemme

actually the smartest college students are the ones who drop out because fuck school. & the second smartest college students are the ones who cheat their way to an "unearned" degree because fuck class barriers. & lastly all of students who dedicate genuine effort to the grift of college are basically chumps because lmaooooo. remember this.

satanfemme

& also I htink if you're depressed and/or mentally disabled you should try weed and shrooms and see if that helps, so basically I'm a parody of myself. drop out of school and do drugs for me, ok? but ofc the punchline is I'm literally correct. I'm literally more correct than everyone who glorifies college or internalized DARE programming. oh and you should also read marx.

imsobadatnicknames2

I mean that approach to dungeon crawling is all fun and games until the adventure grinds to a halt because everyone failed to read the DM's mind to find the secret door to the next room.

Leaving aside that I still think "reading the DM's mind" is an incredibly bad faith way to describe it. If there's something that makes your adventure completely dysfunctional if the players fail to find it, why are you making it secret in the first place????

Like by virtue of making something hidden or secret, you're introducing the possibility that the players will fail to find it. So the first thing you should ask yourself before you put a secret in is "am I okay with my players not finding this? does the adventure still work if they don't find it?" and then if the answer is "no" then you. just don't make it secret. Easy as that.

Like personally I think if at any point your dungeon has only one available way for the party to make progress you probably already fucked up a little bit. But if you decide to make their one way to move forward *secret* you're kinda just actively shooting yourself in the foot, regardless of whether you're using perception mechanics or not. Because with perception mechanics the same situation can just as easily turn into "the adventure grinds to a halt because everyone failed their Mother May I Use My Fucking Eyes To See What's In Front Of Me check to find the secret door"

maximumzombiecreator

I don't know if there's a phrase that more perfectly communicates what's wrong with some people's understanding of dungeon crawling than "the next room."

The next room implies that there is a single correct room to be encountered in a single correct order. The party will explore this room, then the next room, then the next room as prescribed by the dungeon master.

In a good dungeon, there is no "the next room." There's just rooms. Some of them will be explored, some won't. There will be a variety of ways to navigate the dungeon, meaning that the order things are encountered depends entirely on how the party chooses to engage with the dungeon. There may be an implicit critical path, but character abilities can often disrupt that, and that's fine, because dungeons are inherently a situation-type scenario design that is great at accommodating these kind of sequence breaks.

Like, the idea that a fiction-based exploration of the space is problematic because you could miss "the next room" is starting from a wrong premise. The problem is that you have a "the next room" to begin with.