The fuck is this?

NB (they/them) Became an adult in the 2010s, and only getting older since. I will not put a definite age cause I don't wanna keep it up to date.

[theonion]

[onesuchself]

I was telling a dude about a TTRPG project I'm working on where you play as wizards whose magic is incapable of harming living beings, so you must find non-violent methods of solving violent situations, and his immediate response was, "You're alienating too many players! The game should be about finding loopholes in the magic rules so you CAN kill people!"

I don't think I've ever had such a visceral reaction to a single sentence.

[paradox-power]

Reminds me of a campaign I played in with a relatively beginner DM. I wanted to play wizard, but knew playing with magic could easily make the campaign hard for them to run.

So I self imposed a "no killing" rule on my character. Not just preventing me from killing NPCs, but my character actively put themself in harms way to keep EVERYONE alive. As long as my character was around they were making damn sure allies and enemies could live and learn from mistakes. I even (after discussing my idea would work in the universe they built) found a way to resolve the conflict with the BBEG without killing them.

It was the most fun character I have ever played. And the themes of forgiveness and 2nd chances worked really well in the DMs story.

P.S., the most creative solution was using transmutation magic to transform an evil blood clone of character into a blood gem. Then in a later session retransmuting them back into my blood clone and saying "you're your own person. Not a clone forced to kill me, so go live your own life"

[whyenn-reader]

you are not immune to inventing an arbitrary set of rules that only you have to adhere to

[kosmogrl]

[escuerzoresucitado]

yes yes, very wise

[beaft]

i love paintings that look as if they have ghosts in them

[beaft]

this painting by andrew wyeth has got SO many ghosts in it. most andrew wyeth paintings have ghosts in, but this is off the scale!

this painting by dragan bibin has only one ghost as far as i can tell, but it's a really scary ghost (the dog thinks so too)

this painting by meraud guevara looks very peaceful, but unfortunately it has a ghost in it. i can't tell you where, but it does

you might think you can see the ghosts in this dorothea tanning painting, but you're wrong. the little girls are just ordinary girls. the actual ghost is behind one of those doors.

marvin cone. for fucks sake just look at it

[fairycosmos]

my dead wife. the ad free internet

[fairycosmos]

watching dreamily recorded footage of a web forum from 2003

[pregnanthudsonwilliams]

not naming names but some of you are so creative and talented it's an honor to have you in my phone

[coffinvows]

I've always wanted to get a skeleton hand tattoo and stuff but I don't have any others so should I get some different ones first or head straight for the skele

whatever arbitrary rules you are beholden to, forget them forever and be free

[glugslove]

CHAOS DESTRUCTION DESTROY >:3

[bumblesteak]

Solenne, one of Leandra's older cousins ☠️

While she's living her unlife to its fullest, she hopes she can get Leandra to let loose as well, since she's the only necromancer who doesn't smile.

[freyapoststhings]

can y'all imagine the fire nation soldiers' reactions if toph was sent to one of those "fully metal and inescapable" prisons in the middle of the ocean like katara and haru were on in s1e6.

Like, imagine they're like "hahaha you can't escape! There is no earth here for you to bend!" And this little 12yo blind girl starts laughing her ass off in their faces and then she just makes a fucking hole in the ground and falls through it.

The guards spend the next few hours freaking the fuck out because theres a little girl somewhere in their walls and her haunting cackles are everywhere

[lbibliophile-atla]

toph: i'm not trapped here with you. you're trapped here with ME. *metal crumples*

[paradox-power]

Toph would be a nightmare on the metal island prisons.

The whole prison would be her bending playground, much to the terror of every guard. When pressed on if metal bending is possible every other prisoner would affirm it isn't. Which would slowly turn Toph from a small earth bending girl into an (evil) spirit.

She has tremor sense, so she would know who was where on that prison the entire time. She'd also figure out the guards think she's an evil spirit, and given her more lenient moral compass and years of wrestling showmanship she would play up that role.

That episode where Aang chases a giggling, phantom Toph in the swamp? She's doing that all across the prison. Finding isolated guards and giggling like a psycho who's found her prey. There would be no sleep because once you tried, she'd start RIPPING nearby walls open to jump scare these guards. There'd be long periods of silence (when Toph took her time sleeping) which would make them think the nightmare was over, but it isn't.

It isn't over until team Avatar comes flying in to "save " the day. To their surprise they find every guard in the prison surrenders immediately and is begging for forgiveness for all their wrong doings. Then Toph rolls up and asks what took so long.

[iphigeniacomplex]

[girl in a low cut top voice] i just dont know what it is but everyone is being sooo nice to me today….[grows grave and guarded] they’re conspiring against my reign and they think me a fool

[pencilcomics]

[xenasaur]

we need legislation banning games >100GB

[xenasaur]

OPTIMIZE YOUR SHIT BETTER THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR A 150GB GAME!!!

[xenasaur]

upon reviewing the notes I'm changing my position. games must be <50GB. no more mandatory 8k uncompressed textures!!! I don't believe in 8k I think it's fake

[xenasaur]

to be clear games really ought to be around 20 gigs or less. but I think in the spirit of generosity and mercy we won't criminally prosecute the developers until the file sizes breaks 50

[creamypancakebatter]

Helldivers 2 heard you and went from 156 to 23

[xenasaur]

wait is that real

just looked it up. holy fuck. they did it by de-duplicating assets. I'm just. my jaw is on the floor. supposedly duplicating assets helps load times on HDDs but. holy fuck at what cost

[somespicycheese]

it's worse than that: The Helldivers devs were told that duplicating assets would help HDD load times, but then they actually tested it and it had basically zero effect on load times!

So they had more than sextupled the size of their game by following industry standard practice that actually did basically nothing!

[charlestrask]

sexual thrill at the mere prospect of cataloging things in a database

[dogpuppy]

[majestictortoise]

puttering around the house is an underrated form a self-care. make some tea or coffee. put on a podcast. sort the mail. tidy some pillows and fold some blankets. start the laundry. thaw some soup. just casually wander around aimlessly doing little things to make your space and life a little nicer. who cares if you get distracted or only do a little. you aren't being productive. you're puttering.

[aiweirdness]

My life has gotten measurably better since I reframed the period from 3-4 pm as “puttering hour”. No it’s not me avoiding work or failing to force myself to concentrate during my mid afternoon slump. It’s puttering hour.