#curiousura

[saintcranky]

curiousura 

I need to find this guy and see how he reacts to the other races... particularly asura (first contact they had with asura was with the Inquest, which went about as well as you can imagine, so newborn sylvari were afraid of them for a while

@curiousura He is by Riannoc’s house toward the back on the east side. He is with a group but I believe he is the only one with a name.

[curiousura]

You know, I kind of pity the Awakened.

With just a few exceptions, they're just souls (mostly human, some asura, some ???) who probably deserved better afterlives than being bound in mummified flesh, compelled to serve a despotic god-king...

🎵 https://m.soundcloud.com/arenanet/fear-not-this-night-2018

May this song soothe your soul and theirs as you grant them freedom and everlasting peace in the Mists.

🔹🔷🔹

~ Izzit Rinspark

[curiousura]

Update update

Fair warning: this post is an update on what's going on with this blog, but it's also a vent for frustration. It is not drafted, not carefully planned, not revised. It's me scribbling my fingers across my device's on-screen keyboard. I don't even ...

The tl;dr is this:

Tumblr drafts suck

and I'm sick of losing hours and hours of work to random errors updating posts, so I'm going to have to make some stylistic changes to this blog going forward.

But first;

hey, thanks for reading!

You really seem to enjoy my over-analysis of potentially overlooked GW2 lore details in these lengthy, in-depth, researched posts.

Unfortunately, Tumblr doesn't. At least, their drafts system doesn't.

As far as I've been able to tell, it seems that posts over a certain length (or perhaps over a certain file size when images are embedded) start to get "Oops, error uploading post" messages when I hit "Save draft" or "Post."

It doesn't seem to be a device-specific bug; since I've tried working from three different Android devices, my Windows PC, and a Chromebook, and I seem to experience the same error consistently.

To it's credit, the Tumblr app keeps trying to save the draft/post in the background, but I've never once recovered my work once it gets stuck in this loop of attempted recovery; even after leaving a device turned on, plugged in, and on reliable 5G WiFi for two days.

Hypothesis: when you press "Save draft," Tumblr attempts to reupload the entire draft, including images

rather than just the edits you've made to it, which is the smarter-but-way-more-complicated way that other cloud-based document editing software - Google Drive - works.

My posts involve a mix of data encoding that Tumblr really isn't designed for

so if a packet goes missing somewhere, the error-correction over-corrects and whole thing falls apart like Jenga blocks.

... I'm not a web dev so that's the best I've got.

I'm tired of fighting it. I'm frustrated and I want to move forward already.

Rant over. Catharsis achieved. Here's what's next:

I'll be experimenting with a different style of post going forward. I'm not yet sure what that style is; just that it will be shorter, perhaps more frequent, rather than the long-form blog posts I've been doing.

The next few posts may seem a little behind-the-times. That's partly because I am!

I wasn't able to play Bug In The System at release, so I'll be playing it with @edmundgrey my usual partner in causal PvE crimes very soon! We've played up through "A Kindness Repaid" and there's a lot I want to look into with the Inquest and particularly the Olmakhan!

I'll also be reblogging more GW2 community posts: especially anything of particular interest or that fits the science-y theme of the blog.

New stuff coming soon™!

Have an awesome day, and thanks for reading!

~ Elly @photonforge

[curiousura]

Salutations, readers! Icossa, Mist-sourced Research Assistant here! I’ve turned up a science communication video that, coincidentally, is contextually congruent to our previous post about ❄️ snow formation ❄️ It even mentions P. syringae and does a better job of explaining how bacteria even gets into clouds in the first place, a detail which our post kind of glossed over. Whoops! Izzit is currently ears-deep in a reverse-engineering project; hopefully, he'll be ready to publish by this time next week. ~ Icossa is also a curious asura, a specialist in Mist-sourced research.

[curiousura]

Mission statement

I'm Izzit Rinspark. I'm a curious asura. This is Curiousura.

If you're reading this and there isn't much here; that's because this is the very first post on this blog - consider this a sort of "Under Construction" sign, no hard hats necessary.

Statistically speaking, however, you are much more likely to have scrolled all the way down here from somewhere up there, in which case, I hope you've enjoyed the blog so far.

I aim to make this a weekly blog in which I ponder, research, analyze, and generally overthink various aspects of the Guild Wars universe. As of this writing, Path of Fire was released two weeks ago; and many of my early posts will likely revolve around, within, and perhaps even above the Crystal Desert. I won't avoid spoilers, but they will be tagged with "#pof spoilers".

I may also post my goofy screenshot photography and may (with expressed permission) reblog community artwork from around the Tumbls.

Asks should be open. I'm always open to constructive criticism, comments, and suggestions for topics.

Here's to pondering the Eternal Alchemy together!

~ Izzit Rinspark