[souperluminal]

Thinking about a duct tape wizard

[charlesoberonn]

Nuclear power is safe.

Nuclear power is clean.

Nuclear power is efficient.

Nuclear power is integral to humanity’s transition away from fossil fuels.

[epic2222]

THIS

This is so fucking important

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The only people who will tell you otherwise A) are ignorant, B) are ecofacists, or C) only can think of nuclear power in terms of weapons

[so-its-a-writblr-deactivated202]

Or D) They’re old enough to remember Three Mile Island.  Which I do. Really, really well.  Nothing like watching the fucking news and waiting to see if thousands of people in Pennsylvania were going to die.

You don’t get that problem with solar panels.

In the 70s there were lots of solar panels, including neighbors of mine, lots of people were building earth-berm/sheltered houses that were off the grid, and we were headed toward renewable energy.  Until Ronald Fucking Reagan and “It’s Morning in America” and saying there was “no Energy Crisis.”

We don’t need nuclear power.  But energy companies are more than happy to convince you we do.  Because solar power and proper energy-conserving building design means people can get off the grid and not need to pay energy companies anymore.

I’m not an ecofascist.  I’m someone whose family had friends and coworkers who got off the grid, and who knows we can do that again.  There are plenty of companies and housing communities around the world which get their energy from sustainable resources that aren’t nuclear.

I guess you can ignore and explain away Chernobyl and Fukushima.

Here’s another idea:  Stop consuming so much goddamn energy.

[official-kircheis]

Or D) They’re old enough to remember Three Mile Island.  Which I do. Really, really well.  Nothing like watching the fucking news and waiting to see if thousands of people in Pennsylvania were going to die.

No one died.

No one died!

NO ONE DIED

You are literally as bad as anti-vaxxers. Just making shit up and fear-mongering about technology that can save millions of lives, just because you are scientifically and mathematically illiterate. Shut the fuck up.

[justkillingtimeuntiltomorrow-de]

Imagine judging the viability of a technology based on where it was in the late 70s.

Look at the Internet for an example.

[bigwordsandsharpedges2]

Forget that nobody died, nobody even got hurt. Three Mile Island was a fucking illusion. Three mile island was the display of a safety system so over-designed, so absolutely idiotproof, that it was still safe even when it broke.

Chernobyl was the result of the Soviets building a shitty reactor and then breaking it on purpose to see what would happen. They fucked around and they found out.

Fukushima also killed ZERO PEOPLE. Nobody died, not even after the record setting most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan, which was already known for powerful earthquakes. The resulting tsunami waves reached 40 METERS in some places. And still, through all that, nobody died. A dozen were injured by a steam explosion.

Three mile island was in 1979. Seven years later in 1986, everyone saw people dying in Chernobyl after the government forced them to parade through radiation like they were lab rats, and incorrectly drew the conclusion that the same thing had almost happened in Pennsylvania.

The resulting fear scarred an entire generation of Americans into being violently anti-nuclear, and they refuse to even consider the objective provable fact that every problem with nuclear power has been fucking solved.

Did you know we have new reactor designs that aren’t capable of meltdown? Or new designs that consume nuclear waste?

You haven’t heard of them because atom-phobic boomers keep voting against them, saying “I remember three mile island”.

[mister-christmas]

Once again I must refer the nuclear deniers to science Shawn Michaels

[eric-coldfire]

You know what nuclear power can do that solar can’t?

Work at night.

[da-boy-o-kultur]

My country has been affected by the Chernobyl and I still support Nuclear Power. 

[simon-newman]

[sindri42]

Three Mile Island is the story of how literally everything that can go wrong did, and nobody was harmed in any way because outside of the soviet union people actually do implement safety procedures. The cancer rate in the area was actually lower in the following decades than it was beforehand. This incident was absolute proof that nuclear power is safer than any other form of power generation.

[omicronus-1326]

“Science Shawn Michaels”

My wife and I love to call him Discount Thor / Discount Chris Hemsworth

[charlesoberonn]

I like how they purported to be D when they were in fact A.

[chaoslindsay]

It’s a beautiful day in the Pacific Northwest, and you’re an unstoppable killing machine from the Pleistocene epoch that Death forgot.

[owlet]

every day i look at the sink and i’m like seriously? honest to god i have used dishes once again?

[owlet]

this post is not for people frustrated by ppl putting dishes in their communal sink bc “oh i would NEVER leave a dish in the sink.” fuck off you already have your life together you don’t need this post. this is for the slimes and losers whose sinks are filled with the dishes of their own creation. this is for the lazy women, the useless men, the pathetic enbies. get out of here you sparkling clean dished heathens

[cryoverkiltmilk]

These other assholes: Oh I hate leaving a mess. Cleaning up actually helps me unwind!

My ADHD executive-dysfunctional fuckin goblin self: I have to perform a TASK? But I just performed a task YESTERDAY!

[elidyce]

Some people simply do not understand the profoundly Sisyphean torment that is cleaning things.

Dishes.

Clothes. 

House.

Self.

IT DOESN’T MATTER HOW OFTEN YOU DO IT, YOU’RE GOING TO HAVE TO DO IT AGAIN. DOPAMINE PAYOFF IS ZERO, THE TASK IS NEVER COMPLETED AND YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED TO STOP DOING IT EVER IN YOUR WHOLE LIFE.

[octobaba]

[bfleuter]

I have to figure out HOW many meals a day??

[reitiaa]

Crash

[6thlovelanguage-deactivated2020]

dark green is a nice color. underrated

[hesitating]

ladies and gentlemen, Phtalo Green

[copperbadge]

I forgot it’s February. February is the most terrible month. That is why I have this image.

That said, at this point, I should probably just post a SURVIVE [MONTH] every month. 

[revenge-them-with-pain]

i need pics like that for every month please

[copperbadge]

In 2020 I did make up a few extra…

[ID: Two images; top shows a lion, wild-eyed, captioned “Survive March” while the bottom image shows a fist clenched around the mouth of a fanged snake, reading “Survive April”.]

[glueskull-deactivated20200809]

i know people complain about the “heavy violence set to an upbeat tune” trope being over done in media but my guy, i eat that shit UP. the utter joy that i experienced watching the iconic coffee shop scene, five taking out all those men set to “istanbul not constantinople” was s t e l l a r

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I also enjoy the “violent action scene pauses while the protagonists escape into an elevator and have to wait awkwardly to elevator music for a bit, before the doors open and violence/action music immediately resumes” trope.

[musicalhell]

Also here for “violent action scene in slow motion set to a heartbreaking lyrical orchestra piece”

[ding-dong-the-bitch-is-dead]

@blackkatmagic @rayshippouuchiha @north-peach

[xenosaurus]

One of my favorite tricks for designing alien species/cultures is to take a real animal with an interesting lifecycle and think about what that biology would translate to if they had human intelligence

[xenosaurus]

Example: silk moths as a base species

Because the moths themselves don’t eat and only live long enough to mate and then starve to death, the entire culture is made up of children and adolescents. The older children raise the younger ones, with families being made up of hatchmates from different years.

Because molts and eventual transformation into a short lived adult happen on a set schedule, families have a cycle— when your oldest set of siblings cocoon to become adults, you wait at the mating grounds and try to adopt their newborns after they pass. If that fails, you take any ‘orphans’ you can find.

Because death and birth are nearly simultaneous, they have a religion based around reincarnation, and infants with markings similar to a parent are often given their name. Claiming the offspring of a beloved family member is vitally important, because you want to be able to protect their soul and keep them close.

Because it’s hard to track the offspring of your male family members, there are sometimes major fights when a family sees an infant with familiar markings in another family’s clutch.

Between mating seasons, their culture is extremely food-oriented, because everyone is growing and silkworms eat nigh constantly. They spend most of their lives outdoors but sleep and shelter from bad weather in large family dwellings made from wood and the remains of the silk cocoons of prior generations.

[xenosaurus]

everyone is really vibing with the silkworm aliens I see

[lurker-no-more]

*nods*

[jam-art]

thranduil sleeps calmer knowing even if his son married a dwarf at least he married The Supermodel dwarf and singlehandedly crushed the hopes of single dwarves and dwarrowdams everywhere

[words-writ-in-starlight]

this is my headcanon and you will never take it from me.

listen, just Listen for a second, okay.

Gimli Gloinul is from the line of Durin okay, he’s from the line of KINGS, his bloodline stands up against Legolas’ perfectly, if the elves and dwarves got their shit together for a hot second they would be like “YES, PERFECT, A DIPLOMATIC MARRIAGE TO BIND OUR HOUSES TOGETHER AND NEVER SHALL THE TWAIN THROW ONE ANOTHER TO DRAGONS…again.”  because you have a king’s son and a king’s nephew which, well, I love Dain but he’s not an EREBOR KING and GIMLI IS FROM THE FAMILY OF EREBOR KINGS.

And Gimli acts like he’s from the line of Erebor kings, too, okay, he’s a diplomat and a warrior and a nobleman, he’s the sort of person who SAYS things like ‘faithless is he who says fairwell when the road darkens’ and stares down Elrond Peredhil in his own home when his strength and faith are questioned.  And he’s the kind of person who swears his allegiance to people he barely knows because it’s Right and Good and Gimli knows it.

And Thorin Oakenshield was handsome, and his sister the lady Dis is beautiful, and Gimli’s cousins Fili and Kili were fine young dwarrows, and Gimli’s mother is a great beauty.

Basically my point here is that Gimli, proud strong gimli with his firebeard hair and bold laugh and mithril tongue and clever fingers, broke the hearts of everyone in Erebor and not a few people outside of Erebor when he married a goddamn elf.  Like.  Not even Arwen Undomiel (WHO MARRIED A GODDAMN HUMAN, it’s been a weird couple of years in Middle-Earth, everyone wonders strongly if they’ve been drinking too much).  Like he’s not even marrying a great beauty of the elves, Legolas isn’t ugly by elvish standards but also he’s nothing particularly special, and he’s not a great diplomat, and he’s BARELY a king’s son because everyone knows that Mirkwood elves are…a little odd.  Legolas is a big cheerful hunter who sings songs he doesn’t remember all of, who chatters to trees and has no sense of the right thing to say even if he’s developed enough self-preservation to know the wrong thing to say, and FOR THE LOVE OF MAHAL HE FIGHTS WITH A BOW.

“GIMLI” Gloin bellows “YOU TURNED DOWN THIRTY-TWO SUITORS FROM FINE DWARVISH LINES FOR THIS”

“Ignore him, amrâlime, he’ll get over it” Gimli says in amusement as he beckons Legolas over to his forge, where he’s carefully smithing mithril-inlaid gold marriage clasps that will grip fine elvish hair.  It’s too hot in the forge to wear shirts, if you’re working.  Every dwarf in twenty feet stops what they’re doing to watch Gimli’s biceps flex as he holds up a jewel for Legolas’ inspection.

“YOU COULD HAVE HAD A HAREM” Gloin wails from down the hall.

[fozmeadows]

#a headcanon I never knew I needed until this very moment

[gigolaslotr]

I love the art but now I love the headcanon just as much

[joshpeck]

Ain't it scary being 24?

Like 25 is such a strong number on the horizon.

actually aging is a gift so jot that down

[muddyviolets]

I see it is time to bring back the wisdom toad

[soracities]

the way ivan aivazovsky looks at the sea…i think…i think that’s what love looks like.

[soracities]

love is surrounding yourself with people who see you this clearly

[ataehone]

Still the freakiest fact about him is that despite being as tall as a person or more, he banged out these beauties in a day or two at most (and smaller ones ina matter of hours). The longest he spent on a painting, at age 81, to make his largest ever painting, was TEN DAYS:

It is 2.9×4.3 meters large. That’s 9'4"×14'1" for people in other measurement systems. It’s HUGE. There are artists out there that spend years on paintings much smaller than this. He was not one of them.

He also didn’t only paint the sea, but he MOSTLY painted the sea. Very few people could draw light filtering through waves the way this guy did and apparently it was tied into his layering technique that allowed him to paint so goddamn fast.

He is obviously my most favorite painter ever.

[soracities]

!!!

[exigencelost]

Trying to understand moon druid play mechanics and my brain keeps insisting they can’t stay in wild shape all day or they’ll get stuck

[exigencelost]

There is an actual time limitation and what happens at the end of it is that you get turned back to your base form automatically. I can’t express how counterintuitive that is to me. It is like Teflon for my brain. Also in my brief moments of understanding it to be the case it seems like such a light penalty that my brain refuses to take it seriously as a controlling concern.

[exigencelost]

Continues to be impossible for me to get my head around this. The fact that you can only do it twice per short rest is a complete brain stopper. I keep coming up with intricate multi-animal ideas and then saying wait stop no. Pick and commit.

[exigencelost]

You can only do it twice so the thing that makes the most sense is to pick a shape and stay in it for as long as you can, which turns out to be three hours. There’s simply no way for my brain to integrate that information.

[battlecrazed-axe-mage]

In light of the news that Hasbro is considering using multiple properties it owns for NFTs, including D&D, I would just like to remind everyone that PDFs of virtually all D&D source books are available online for free if you look and it's always moral to pirate from WotC

[yourneighborwiththecutedog]

pretty ironic that people supposedly hate crypto/nfts because of energy usage even though gaming uses MORE ENERGY than all of crypto!! begging yall to get over it and accept that digital art and crypto arent going anywhere.

[battlecrazed-axe-mage]

Mad that people don't want to join your pyramid scheme huh

[nudityandnerdery]

"gaming uses MORE ENERGY than all of crypto!!" Citation needed. Really, I'm curious, explain how tabletop RPG somehow uses more energy than cryptomining bullshit.

[reitiaa]

It is ALWAYS moral to pirate from WotC

[normal-horoscopes]

CT, have you ever played D&D? and what class do you play/think you would play?

I enjoy D&D. I play human fighters.

[normal-horoscopes]

Listen. All of my friends are gay. They all play slutty tiefling bards or Goliath berserkers that are soft uwu beans or edgy half-elf oathbreaker paladins. None of you understand the true comedy potential of being the Regular Guy.

[normal-horoscopes]

My last character was a Human Fighter named Gavin who made a humble living killing boars with a spear. His father was a boar Hunter. His wife Myrna runs the farm and sells beer out of their cottage and he loves her a lot. They have two kids. Tiffany wants to be a seamstress and Arthur wants to become a scribe.

Gavin just wants to kill things with a spear so he can go home and kiss his wife. He's a dad out of water. He hates being part of a prophecy so much. He hates quests. He hates mystical riddles so fucking much. He doesn't understand these weird gay demons but he's doing his best and they remind him of his kids. He's practical. He knows how to camp. He knows how to dress wounds. He grounds the group. He's what keeps the narrative human.

[normal-horoscopes]

You get me.

[trelldraws]

rannoch probably

[sindri42]

I like to think that at some point Shepherd just started livestreaming her missions. Like, on one hand her superiors spent the past three years denying the existence of half the things she fights, and on the other hand the masses need all the morale they can get and there’s not much that’s more inspirational than watching the Mother of Thresher Maws tear apart a Reaper.

The Alliance and the Council would both very much prefer that she not, but with communication lines as broken as they are and the chain of command basically nonexistent it’s not like anybody can stop her from sending the videos out to everywhere that the Normandy’s systems can reach.

[sindri42]

Scratch that, Garrus starts doing the livestream through his visor systems, from a vantage far enough back to actually tell what’s going on (and stay mostly out of the splash zone). He does a continual voice-over explaining the correct response to the various situations they end up in, frequently interspersing reminders to not attempt to imitate anything you see Shepherd do.

like, “Now, these former-asari type husks, we call them banshees for short, the most important thing to remember is to never ever get within arm’s reach…” overlayed on a video of Shepherd head-butting one repeatedly.

EDI gets to do the music because she’s the one with enough spare processing power to figure out the funniest accompaniment in real-time.