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[markrosewater]

Why do you have a word limit if your column is digital. I understand limiting the size when you had to print it, but on the web, I mean, just scroll, right?

1) Extra words is extra work for everyone involved in the column (me, my editor, graphics, etc.)

2) We want the columns to be approachable to the reader. Extra words comes at a cost to them as well.

3) It’s important to me that a lot of people read my “State of Design” articles, and if they get too long, less people will read them.

[brakken]

Phazon Overload

[markrosewater]

What thing you've done holds the record for less negative responses?

The very first time I ever told a person on Blogatog that they were being rude in a post and asked them to ask again nicely for me to answer, one of the members of the brand team got really mad at me. So, I showed him the Reddit thread about it and there was only one negative comment.

He said, "See there's a negative comment." I replied, "I did something that prompted a thread on Reddit and there's only one negative reply. That's the most positive response I've ever gotten on anything I've ever done." : )

[zhjake]

need me an apex predator shawty. absolutely down bad for a metroid human hybrid who will kill me without hesitation.  you’re writing some dumb article about “Samus should smile more” fuck you Samus should kill more. we are not the same

[bogleech]

Eight years of Obama/Biden deporting record numbers of people and I was fairly ready to be disgusted by Biden/Harris on this issue but week one they’re saying they just want to legalize undocumented immigrants and make it a non-issue, which is precisely what I wanted somebody to do. Before some idiot opens their moron mouth about c-c-c-c-CRRRRRIMINUHLS THO, “undocumented” or “illegal” doesn’t actually mean what the general public thinks it means. The people who get arrested and deported by ICE are not people who “snuck in” and live here off the grid. They’re people who came here the legal way and are still tracked like everybody else but could not fully complete or renew the documentation for permanent residency in time, often because you need hundreds of dollars and the completion of an obtuse trivia game to do so. If you genuinely worry about drug dealers, terrorists or human trafficking across the border, then:

1) you should worry more about how they exploit the legal tourism industry as an avenue.

and 2) you should want legal citizenship to be so easy, so quick, so affordable that fewer people can accidentally fail it. If there is no means to fail a process, then you know when someone is deliberately evading it. If a business is open then you know someone’s doing something weird when they climb through the window, YEAH??

[palicolaite]

Victorious Northlein - Velkhana Hammer

My first dip into making Velkhana weapons! The patterns were time consuming to do as expected, but the modeling paste method sure helped a ton! My only regret is that I wasn’t able to make the patterns glow. The lines were just too small and thin. 😞

Looking forward to make more, especially the Switchaxe! ❤️

For commissions, you are welcome to drop by my Etsy shop. Thank you very much!

[de-sterren-nacht]

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[veeranger]

this is the ultimate opinion

[bogleech]

A greedy megaconglomerate seeking a monopoly on fuel by drilling into hell and consequently threatening all humanity definitely sounds like a metaphor for wind turbines

[markrosewater]

Are there any plans to vist Muraganda? I'd love to see the plane

Here’s a question that will influence that. Must a trip to Muraganda involve “vanilla matters”?

[rakdosfiesta]

I hope not. I’d like to see a stereotypical “prehistoric” plane (I know Ixalan has dinosaurs, but it’s pretty far from that; the closest thing we have IMO is Jund with its jungles, volcanoes, tar pits, etc.). Vanilla matters is not a very interesting thing to build a prehistoric plane around. 

[markrosewater]

As I'm sure you're aware, there is MORE than enough German/Nordic influence in the US that the average American knows that "Jorn" is pronounced "Yorn" in such languages. So I'm wondering what standard for pronunciation WotC went with for Kaldheim. Seems like a good test to see if the standard is "average American" or "standard English pronunciation."

How many of you knew Jorn would be pronounced Yorn if we followed Nordic pronunciation?

[rakdosfiesta]

As an American, I didn’t know this. I don’t mind it though. 

[bogleech]

Seven additional stories have been rounded up and added to a special section *before* the year’s winners. They actually include some of the weirdest and darkest, and I’ll also link to and summarize them here:

Keep reading

[bogleech]

“The Thing vs. The Blob” has been a monster debate for some time but we’ve only ever canonically seen The Thing absorbing and replicating animal tissues. Can it even do plants? Could Audrey II beat The Thing?

[bogleech]

“If it was a blm protest you would defend it”

No shit sherlock, I don’t care that a building got broken into or politicians were threatened. For a just cause that would’ve been awesome. The capitol protest was wrong because their cause was wrong. Because they were idiot nationalist trolls who fell for a conspiracy theory and intended to fuck over fellow citizens by upending a legitimate election. Civilian uprising otherwise gave us many of the rights we enjoy and is therefore pretty cool when the motivation behind it is altruistic.

[bogleech]

Bullwinkly what the fuck

[bogleech]

BLULWINKL WHA AT T HE FCUK

[bogleech]

As a kid I was completely indifferent to Silverbolt on Transformers Beast Wars but looking back on him as an adult I can deeply appreciate that:

His animal form looks ridiculous

His robot form looks ridiculous

Both have a different dog head

He wanted giant spider titty so bad he immediately convinced himself he could seduce the evil cackling giant robot widow spider to his side despite being the only person on either side who didn’t think that was stupid

He was right

[rakdosfiesta]

He also had his own goofy background theme with trumpets. 

[over-sleep]

[bogleech]

This video has always gone around and I just want everyone to be clear here - fish actually are intelligent enough that the fucker knows it’s being a fucker, the other one is absolutely mad about it and the bystanders are probably entertained.

[markrosewater]

I think the colour wheel should go WURBG. BG (cycle of life) and UR (the elements) make sense as allies, while Green (forests) and Red (fire) should be enemies, as should Black (materialism) and Blue (abstraction). Have you ever considered exploring this alternative configuration?

So what are your suggestions for the five conflicts?

[tumblhurgoyf]

W vs R remains the same, as do B vs W and G vs U (probably. Maybe changing the other two means changing these as well but I'm not going to start there).

So we have U vs B and R vs G.

R vs G is pretty easy I think. Free will vs destiny makes a ton of sense here, perhaps moreso than as the B vs G conflict.

U vs B is tough. Heart vs head doesn't make as much sense (shifting the U vs R conflict).

Perhaps it's perfection vs pragmatism. Blue believes that you can and should work toward perfection--black thinks that's a pipedream and you need to have a more realistic outlook on the world. Black says accept the system, including its imperfections, and manipulate it to benefit you. Blue is out there trying to rework things from the ground up.

Or perhaps concern vs suffering. Not the greatest words to evoke what I mean but let me explain: black believes suffering is part of the world. And the weak suffer because they aren't strong enough to stop it. So strive to be powerful and at the top. Meanwhile blue sees a system like that and thinks it's obviously flawed. Suffering is a sign that something isn't right and so we need to examine the system and correct the issues that allowed suffering to occur. It's not quite white's concern for the greater good. It's that suffering is an inefficiency--it accomplishes nothing and so should be corrected.

It's an interesting thing. Does any body have other ideas for U vs B in particular? Any arguments that the other conflicts need to change as well?

[rakdosfiesta]

For R vs G, I think it’s not just destiny vs free-will, but a dynamic of how they react to the world. G is comfortable where it is. R is always restless. G believes R is lost and unhappy. R believes G is passive and uncaring.

[markrosewater]

I think the colour wheel should go WURBG. BG (cycle of life) and UR (the elements) make sense as allies, while Green (forests) and Red (fire) should be enemies, as should Black (materialism) and Blue (abstraction). Have you ever considered exploring this alternative configuration?

So what are your suggestions for the five conflicts?

[rakdosfiesta]

The way I see it, you take the conflicts that already exist between allied colors and exaggerate them, and do the same for commonalities between former enemy colors. 

GW: Same as before. Shared love of harmony and belonging.

WU: Same as before. Shared love of building a better society.

UB: Now enemy colors. U thinks B is small-minded and overly materialistic. B thinks U has its head in the clouds.

BR: Same as before. Shared desire to do what they want, when they want.

RG: Now enemy colors. R feels G is passive and uncaring about what is going on. G pities R and sees the color as lost and unwilling to find its place. 

WB: Same as before. W sees B as selfish and parasitic. B sees W as delusional and unwilling to recognize human nature.

BG: Now ally colors based on a shared understanding that the world will always be how it is now. The only difference is B wants to exploit that world while G wants to coexist with it.

UR: Now ally colors based on a shared love for change and pushing boundaries. The only disagreement is that U focuses on long-term goals, while R is focused on short-term goals.  

RW: Same as before. W sees R as destructive and chaotic, R sees W as stifling and static to its personal freedom.

GU: Same as before. G sees U as disrupting the natural order. U sees G as stopping progress.