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lightnersdream-archive

depiction isn't endorsement but not all depictions have the same merit

lightnersdream-archive

the more sensitive a subject is the harsher the criticism will be if you fuck it up. that's how this works

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cryptotheism

New Status Effects:

Metem Psychosis - Your brush with death has left some ontological wheels out of alignment. Your future lives leak into the present. You are plagued by memories of the people you could be.

Instrained - You have been released from something inexplicable, a fundamental tether swings adrift. Your will -now unfamiliar- seems to grind against your body.

Subgressed - Your connection to the sensorium has snapped, and your experience is relegated to memory and fantasy. Everything is only as you imagine it to be.

Inculpatized - Your identity has been subsumed by the flow of violence moving through history. You are no longer a person, reduced to the automatism of state applied to muscle tissue.

Cloistered - You are a hungry-eyed sarcophagus. Your participation in life has been replaced with infinitely regressing voyeurism. You cannot sleep.

3amsoda

heybiji

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himejoshi-doll

tkmiz-deactivated20200503

onyomugan3

氷河戦士ガイスラッガー

macaedh

what the fuck ethan

kvothbloodless

I wish i had a context for this. But I really dont.

pervocracy

I was all ready to “um, actually” this, but, um, actually there’s about 3-4 grams of iron in a person, which x400 is 1.2-1.6kg, which is a smallish but not unreasonable sword. So. Math checks out.

maxknightley

How would you extract the iron, though? The more practical solution would be to kill a mere hundred men, then mix 1 part blood with 3 parts standard molten iron, imo. Cheaper and faster, while still retaining the edge that only evil magic can give you.

bemusedlybespectacled

Or, you could just make the sword of iron, and then use the blood to temper the blade.

squeeful

1.2 to 1.6 kilograms is a perfectly reasonable large sword. Your average longsword was 1.1–1.8 kg and I don’t even remember if that’s including the weight of the hilt, guard, and pommel or just the blade. Your more classic “knight sword” was a mere 1.1 kilograms on average; the blood of 400 men is more than enough.

This is using the comparatively crappy metallurgy of medieval Europe and their meh iron swords. Move east to, say, contemporary Iran and make a scimitar using high carbon steel (~2%) for a .75 kilogram blade and you only need the blood of about 225 men.

optimysticals

So putting my thoughts in on this… because how could I not.

So you’ve exsanguinated your 400 guys to get the iron for your sword. Cool. But now you have 400 bodies lying around.

Why not put those to good use and cremate them. Use the carbon from those 400 bodies (you won’t need all of them) and now you can make a nice mid-high carbon steel sword.

Now you have a sword forged with the blood of your enemies AND strengthened with their bones.

hedwig-dordt

“high fantasy math” - the tag I should have expected to write some day.

themarysue

I’m so proud of everyone in this post

redrosesshadowwolf

Well I guess I have future plans I need to see come to fruition

hehe471

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

ef-1

My favouritest sport fact ever is that in 1990s 2 cardiac surgeons watched an f1 race to save the lives of countless kids. The Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) kept losing the lives of patients after successful heart surgeries. Specifically the 10-15 minutes after a bonefide clinically successful surgery patients would die:

And so the two surgeons filmed a handover after heart surgery and sent it to the Ferrari pitcrew who were told to critique and improve handover process

And from this:

we got this:

The error rate during patien handovers dropped from 30% to 10% with the F1 informed protocol.

I literally love this fact so much because being an pitcrew member is such a thankless job because theyre underpaid and overworked mechanics and they literally saved lives in this instance.

mondengel2

Doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital turned to Formula 1 for answers. By studying Ferrari’s pit-stop teamwork, they redesigned how patien

I love this!

And it that it wasn't a one and done.

The doctors went to the race tracks to watch the car changes and the pit crews went to the hospitals and watched a live transfer and offered suggestions and they kept working with them to improve.

After there was a successful improvement of the most vital metrics of a handover of a patient from surgery to ICU, the pit crews also worked with other hospitals for other procedures and it's now a whole thing of trying to apply the specialized, streamlined and speedy teamwork and nonverbal coordination of pit crews to other high-risk fields.

This is a perfect example of how two very different fields of knowledge meeting can make a huge leap forward in progress.

naamahdarling

LATERAL THINKING AND CONSULTING EXPERTS OUTSIDE YOUR FIELD SAVES LIVES

bigdipperenthusiast

"And there is a real thing that happ--I think happens in real life a lot where, y'know, this horrifying, oppressive force has its boot on your throat -- either figuratively or literally -- and goes 'Hey, I know I've got my boot on your throat. Be really careful to get my boot off your throat ethically. Don't get my boot off your throat in a way that would compromise your values, or call war ethics into question. I'm gonna keep crushing your, y'know, body with my--this oppressive weight, but, like, make sure YOU handle this in the right way.'"

-Brennan Lee Mulligan, "Dimension 20's: Adventuring Party - Episode 15", 1:26:11-1:26:44