#3e

[raygun631]

[env0]

Swords, Maces, Flails, Oh My!

The weapons artwork from the D&D 3e-3.5e books were cooked into my brain as a child. Even if some weapons are incredibly inaccurate or implausible. Something about the artwork and the grid lines just really made it satisfying to look at.

D&D 3.5 Player’s Handbook, and owned by Wizards of the Coast.

[endcapitalism]

Emergency #3E protest: May 22, in Washington D.C., at every State Capitol, City Hall, and Town Hall. A bill that strips people of food and health care is not a tax policy, it is autogenocide.

[dragonkid11]

Attack Vector Tactical 3E, by Ad Astra Games, is the third edition of one of the most realistically modeled tabletop 3D space combat wargame, where warships dance the ballets of death while slinging kinetics and feeling crackles of laser ablating the armor, waiting for the right position and timing to counterattack.

[toutplacid]

Neige rue des Francs-Bourgeois, trottoir côté Paris 3e – acrylique sur toile, 2003. Collection Bla+

[outofgloom]

An Etymological Dictionary of Matoric, Third Edition - Volume I COMPLETE (A-G)

On the world of Spherus Magna, many millennia have come and gone since the time known as BIONICLE. And in that time, the scholars of Spherus Magna have not been idle...

Under the auspices of the Annoxtus Academy of Science, a team of researchers, including linguists, historians, archaeologists, and agoripologists, has worked tirelessly to record, preserve, and analyze the ancient languages and linguistic varieties of the Mata System.

The Institute for Matoran Studies is proud to present the newest result of those labors: The full and complete Volume I of An Etymological Dictionary of Matoric, Third Edition, now covering the letters A through G, along with “Supplemental Entries” for H-Z.

An Etymological Dictionary of Matoric, Third Edition - Volume I: A-G [with Supplemental Entries H-Z] (PDF)

The previously published version of Volume I covered the letters A and B only, amounting to about 90 entries, with 36 root-word entries. In contrast, the Complete Volume I is substantially expanded, containing about 274 entries for the letters A-G, along with an additional ~407 Supplemental Entries, and ~169 root-word entries.

The Supplemental Entries contain words that are referenced in the etymologies of the primary entries for A-G, allowing the reader to cross-reference almost any word referenced in the dictionary. The Supplemental Entries also contain many words not referenced in the primary entries, but whose etymologies have been finalized by the IMS research group, providing a snapshot of the development of future dictionary volumes. This includes nearly all words and grammatical markers listed or referenced in other educational materials, making the Complete Volume I the most comprehensive reference document for the lexicon of the Matoran Language.

[Link to Previous Version (Volume I: A-B)]

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The Matoran Language (Matoric) is a constructed language (“conlang”) set within the universe and lore of BIONICLE (a LEGO property). It is the language of the biomechanical species called Matoran, and it is also used as a lingua franca amongst many of the biomechanical inhabitants of the artificially-constructed Matoran Universe.

If you would like to learn more about Matoric, further documentation can be found in this post: The Matoran Language [2021].

The Matoran Language Resources page of this blog also contains a wealth of additional content and archival material.

[altrbody]

Rather than remaining subject, in perpetuity, to the seductive efficiency of economic competition, we must reappropriate universes of value, so that processes of singularization can rediscover their consistency. We need new social and aesthetic practices, new practices of the self in relation to the other, to the foreign, the strange – a whole programme that seems far removed from current concerns. And yet, ultimately, we will only escape from the major crises of our era through the articulation of: a nascent subjectivity; a constantly mutating socius; and an environment in the process of being reinvented.

--Félix Guattari, The Three Ecologies

[the-lexiverse]