Some Random Guy

He/him Finally fixing the insulting nonsense now that I actually post. I’m Just A Guy and I talk about the writing stuff I’ll never use sometimes, but mostly it’s just a blog.

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Magic Arena developers say they were told to relocate or effectively lose their jobs

It's one of many reasons that workers tell Polygon they are eager to unionize.

Employees and developers working on Magic: The Gathering Arena say they were hired with promises of remote flexibility, so they bought homes and built lives around those assurances. But they say they are now being told they may need to relocate to Washington state — or effectively lose their jobs.

Those concerns are a major reason why a supermajority of workers on the Arena team are attempting to unionize with the Communications Workers of America, under the banner United Wizards of the Coast. The group publicly launched its campaign on April 27, calling on Wizards of the Coast and parent company Hasbro to voluntarily recognize the union by May 1.

[apricops]

These employees are doing important and laudable work in response to being forced into a bad situation but I’m glad they still took the opportunity to call themselves “United Wizards”

[basic-bamboo]

WotC has still refused to recognize the union and has escalated to sending organizers letters directly to their homes about how unionizing is a bad idea. Luckily, our United Wizards are educated, organized, and agitated and the form letter from Hasbro was as laughable as it was threatening.

If you want to help out the United Wizards you can sign this petition

cwa.org/uwotcletter

Solidarity baby!

[creaturelingart]

FINALLY got good photos of my sculpture final. This is my dog his name is Sock.

[creaturelingart]

Look at my fish.

[jabberding0]

Wei Weaving is a Chinese artist

[nepharim-tree]

[sorcery-and-stupidity]

Current pet peeve: people who have a patreon for generating ai images

Like it’s already not great in either aesthetic or morals, and you want to charge for it?

[sorcery-and-stupidity]

Oh.

Oh it’s fucking Sunday?!

[wickedsick]

Which Geometric Transformation is the Hottest?

Rotation

Translation

Uniform Scaling

Non-Uniform Scaling

Reflection

Shearing

Voting ended onMar 10

[probablyfunrpgideas]

Character Idea: play an awakened Rust Monster!

Once a humble dungeon scavenger, you joined with a group of heroes (who perhaps spared your life?) With access to the splendor of the surface world, you have all new metals to taste and people to meet. Will you follow the Druid’s path, or train in a monk’s inner focus and martial arts?

You are a medium Monstrosity with a speed of 35 feet. You have Darkvision with a range of 60 feet, and the following benefits:

Carapace - without armor on, your base AC is 13 plus your Dexterity modifier.

Antennae - you can sense the presence of metal within 120 feet (as long as nothing blocks the scent). As an action, you can determine the type and location of a particular metal item. A number of times per day equal to your Proficiency Bonus, you may consume metal to do one of the following: Gain advantage on a roll to disarm or destroy a metal device, Make an unarmed strike against a metal creature for 4d8 points of damage, or Replicate the Stone Shape spell with a mass of metal

[probablyfunrpgideas]

Idea: when you’re hiding something in the tomb of a legendary hero, include a statue or a relief of some monster they slew.

True fans of the hero will remember the famous battle: first, she dodged beneath the dragon and pierced its foot with her sword. Then, battered by its tail, she climbed up onto its back and struck under the wing. Finally, as the monster opened its mouth to breathe fire, she threw her blade into its maw and the dragon died. By repeating these wounds upon the depicted dragon, PCs can unlock a hidden compartment with the artifact or information they were seeking.

For an extra layer of security, maybe the lock only reacts to the hero’s actual sword, now in the possession of a pompous collector or a royal treasury.

[sorcery-and-stupidity]

Alternate layer of security; over time the hero’s story has been embellished and told in a thousand ways. Each PC has a different variation of the tale, or remembers different pieces, which each have a grain of truth to them. They can try to figure out the solution by combining them together in the most practical ways (why would he dodge a breath attack just after sliding beneath the beast?) using a performance check, use History checks to recall older versions of the tale, or try to find an archive with the original telling.

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Kinda fucked that food is considered a social activity ’cause I kinda hate it. It’s like. Oh yeah, filling up your car and getting your oil changed and shit is stuff we all do together. We always try out new kinds of oil together. Have you tried this before, it makes your engine kinda jumpy. This stuff makes it super loud and your smoke really dark. What do you mean I have to wait for other people to refuel? When I say I’m topped up on gas people take it as an insult and when I say I’m not getting from a place that’s being filled people think I’m weird. Kinda fucked.

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He? She? Terrible pronouns, awful spread. Less than 50% accuracy. The bloom is unreal. They? Fucking aim bot. Hits every damn time. There needs to be a real balancing patch for pronouns, They OP pls nerf.

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Bathrooms are one of those things that seem like they should be somewhat regulated, if only by muscle memory. Like, one gender should always be on one side. But they aren’t and that’s strange to me. Because, like. Surely that would mitigate accidentally walking into the wrong one, right? Every time I’ve walked into the wrong bathroom it was because I was in a hurry, and it totally could’ve been avoided if I could just develop muscle memory to always go to the left for the men’s room or smth. This has been random shit I didn’t think I had an opinion about.

[omg-snakes]

My perfect thick idiot son, Calvin, who has never done anything wrong in his entire life except today when I let him climb my young redbud tree and he went to the highest branch and wedged himself in the crook of it and wouldn't budge and he's so big I was afraid that he might break the branch so I had to get a stepladder and get him down while the neighborhood jays that come by for peanuts whenever they see me in the yard freaked out and sat screaming on the fence to warn me that there's a snake very near me because I'm obviously too stupid to see it and clearly in mortal peril.

[snake-spotted]

snake spotted!!

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I’d like to very quickly introduce a character I made in high school who I think was peak comedy. I don’t even remember his name but I do remember his whole gag. He was a protester, and a Batman villain. He would organize protests in front of “worthy causes” that happened to hamper Batman, usually like, Poison Ivy or something. He had nothing against Batman specifically but he had two powers that made him a pain in the ass, neither of which is an actual power.

1) He saw through comic book bs. The Clark Kent effect. The fact that the Batmobile happens to come from the same direction as Wayne Manor. I called it super common sense.

2) He was arbitrarily good at fighting with a picket sign. He always loses but he’s very good at dragging out fights. He fought Darkseid and didn’t win but held out for enough time for the Calvary to arrive and him to retreat with his life. (This was partly because Darkseid was holding back.)

He eventually moved to Metropolis permanently after he and Batman had a heart-to-heart in which he revealed he knows Batman’s secret identity as Bruce Wayne. After this Wayne Industries switched to more environmentally and socially sustainable practices, and he moved to Metropolis full time to protest Lexcorp instead.

[mapsontheweb]

How Far From London Can You Get By Train In 12 Hours

[gummybearattacktheworldofdespair]

Slime mold looking for more nutrients

[paperandpencilsandskips]

Slime mold escaping London in 12 hours

[sorcery-and-stupidity]

New favorite means of hyperbole: {objects of idiom} would be jealous of how I {verb of idiom}

I.e. Logs would be jealous of how well I slept, cats and dogs are jealous of how hard it’s raining, broken clocks are jealous of how often he’s right

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Awful names for twins #94: Kenny and Lenny, full names Keonard and Lenneth

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Weird game where the entire story is narrated by the main character’s stalker. As the story goes on and the main character gets closer with party members the narration becomes more and more divorced from reality, describing how the party members badmouth him, or otherwise are deeply selfish and don’t deserve him at all. The Game Over screen is a shot from the perspective of the main character in bed, in what looks like the house the main character grew up in, but it’s later implied that the stalker faked your death in order to kidnap you to that house. Final boss is all in first person from the Stalker’s POV, after she got tired of the hero being “unfaithful” and decided that a world where they couldn’t have the hero didn’t deserve to exist. The stalker is also available for recruitment and romance if you don’t recruit any extra party members and minimize affinity gain with the required members. If you do you get a secret ending where “the hero sacrifices his own freedom for the sake of the world” and the background is a modified game over screen where the stalker is in bed clinging to the hero.