#3953

[gr8writingtips]

writing tip #3953:

just sort it out

[thewertsearch]

AG: John, are you saying you had a nice friendly chat with this hideous, 8loodthirsty creature 8efore he killed you? EB: yes! EB: typheus may not be pretty to look at… EB: but he is not a bad guy at all!

And all of a sudden, Sburb just got a whole lot more interesting. There’s an entire layer of additional lore here, that we’ve only just begun to uncover.

Just what secrets do the Denizens hold? Hopefully Davesprite is about to clue us in.

DAVESPRITE: i busted into his palace DAVESPRITE: to finish the quest DAVESPRITE: i was expecting him to be asleep and was gonna figure out some way to wake him up DAVESPRITE: but like last time i saw him DAVESPRITE: he was already awake to greet me JADESPRITE: but i thought the denizens were supposed to be asleep? JADESPRITE: at least until you do the right things on your quest… DAVESPRITE: they are DAVESPRITE: as sprites were programmed to know things like that about the game DAVESPRITE: but i guess not everything

Apparently, there are game mechanics that even Sprites aren’t privy to.

If I had to guess, I’d say that Sprites are only told how Sburb sessions are supposed to work. The game doesn’t intend for Denizens to be encountered early, so the ramifications of doing so aren’t part of the standard Sprite knowledge base.

DAVESPRITE: it seems like if you try to go fight them too soon DAVESPRITE: you find them awake and theyre like DAVESPRITE: what the fuck are you doing here already DAVESPRITE: which is what happened last time i saw him DAVESPRITE: before i became a sprite DAVESPRITE: and i stupidly tried to fight him which was a bad idea because hes hella strong DAVESPRITE: and the whole time he was raving about shit DAVESPRITE: about a stolen sword and missing forge DAVESPRITE: but i wasnt really listening DAVESPRITE: if i had i might have understood

Denizens, however, do seem to know when Sburb has gone wrong. Maybe, in addition to being bosses, they’re also troubleshooters, charged with instructing the Players in how to fix broken sessions.

In that case, maybe there was a method to Hephaestus’s madness after all. He might simply have been trying to tell Dave what needed to be fixed, in order to revive the session.

[max-the-many]

Not the first time I slipped into him...

[my-chaos-radio]

Release: August 23, 1993

Lyrics:

Some days it don't come easy

Some days it don't come hard

Some days it don't come at all

And these are the days that never end

Some nights you're breathing fire

Some nights you're carved in ice

Some nights you're like nothing I've ever

Seen before or will again

Maybe I'm crazy, but it's crazy and it's true

I know you can save me, no-one else can save me now but you

As long as the wheels are turning

As long as the bays are burning

As long as your dreams are coming true

You'd better believe it

I would do anything for love

I know it's true and that's a fact

I would do anything for love

And there'll never be no turning back

But I'll never do it better than I do it with you

So long, so long

And I would do anything for love

Oh, I would do anything for love

I would do anything for love but I won't do that

I won't do that

I would do anything for love

Anything you've been dreaming of, but I just won't do that

I would do anything for love

Anything you've been dreaming of, but I just won't do that

I would do anything for love

Anything you've been dreaming of, but I just won't do that

I would do anything for love

Anything you've been dreaming of, but I just won't do that

I would do anything for love

Anything you've been dreaming of, but I just won't do that

I would do anything for love

Anything you've been dreaming of, but I just won't do

But I'll never stop dreaming of you

every night of my life, no way

But I would do anything for love

But I won't do that

Oh, I won't do that

Will you raise me up? Will you help me down?

Will you get me right out of this godforsaken town?

Can you make it all a little less cold?

I can do that

I can do that

Will you hold me sacred? Will you hold me tight?

Can you colourise my life, I'm so sick of black and white?

Can you make it all a little less old?

I can do that

Oh I can do that

Will you make me some magic with your own two hands?

Can you build an emerald city with these grains of sand?

Can you give me something I can take home?

I can do that

I can do that

Will you cater to every fantasy I got?

Will you hose me down with holy water, if I get too hot?

Will you take me places I've never known?

I can do that

Oh, I can do that

After a while you'll forget everything

It was a brief interlude and a midsummer night's fling

And you'll see that it's time to move on

No, I won't do that

I won't do that

I know the territory, I've been around

It'll all turn to dust and we'll all fall down

Sooner or later you'll be screwing around

I won't do that

No, I won't do

Songwriter: Jim Steinman

Anything for love

Oh, I would do anything for love

I would do anything for love

but I won't do that

No, I won't do that

SongFacts:

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[aarondingle]

I can't go in there.

[5sospicturesque]

Clearing out my camera roll 3953/?

[everymobbu]

[space--bot]

Galaxies spiralling around Leo

Shown here is a spiral galaxy known as NGC 3455, which lies some 65 million light-years away from us in the constellation of Leo (The Lion).

Galaxies are classified into different types according to their structure and appearance. This classification system is known as the Hubble Sequence, named after its creator Edwin Hubble.

In this sequence, NGC 3455 is known as a type SB galaxy — a barred spiral. Barred spiral galaxies account for approximately two thirds of all spirals. Galaxies of this type appear to have a bar of stars slicing through the bulge of stars at their centre. The SB classification is further sub-divided by the appearance of a galaxy's pinwheeling spiral arms; SBa types have more tightly wound arms, whereas SBc types have looser ones. SBb types, such as NGC 3455, lie in between.

NGC 3455 is part of a pair of galaxies — its partner, NGC 3454, lies out of frame. This cosmic duo belong to a group known as the NGC 3370 group, which is in turn one of the Leo II groups, a large collection of galaxies scattered some 30 million light-years to the right of the Virgo cluster.

This new image is from Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). A version of this image was entered into the Hubble's Hidden Treasures image processing competition by contestant Nick Rose.

https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw