#rakkedyman

[ask-the-heir]

I heard there was a bottle of the Ancestor's Vintage floating around somewhere. How's his taste in alcohol?

Can’t say I have found it yet.

But given the stress my mercenaries have experienced holding my ancestor’s items, I doubt it would be good for my mental health to taste it. 

I don’t really remember what sort of taste my ancestor had when I last saw him alive as I was a child relegated away from the adults’ party. 

[tsvitok]

rakkedyman replied to your post “Darkest Dungeon, week 6, still no healer. 4 of my eight adventurers...”

Medium dungeons are actually way easier because you can camp and heal stress and stuff. Just make sure you have one character with an ambush prevention camping skill!

Yeah, I realised that when I finally worked up the nerve to try - I overstocked on everything and dove in. Unfortunately, the following week I lost my entire party to the collector. It kinda screwed me over hardcore, so I had to abandon that save and start over.

At the moment I’m trying mostly to make a bunch of balanced teams. I was kinda throwing random groups together between my main team healing up. My main team is pretty much the starters, and my secondary team I’m gonna try and build for bleeds so I have a team specifically for ruins/cove, weald/warrens - then I can start finding decent subs for the inevitable.

And thanks for the kind words, I appreciate the feedback.

[ms-07b-gouf]

The winged hussar gal is from Ribbon Warrior, a spin-off manga about unofficial tankery bouts with light tanks only. It's pretty cool.

Oh shit, thanks buddy!

[lampropelma-violaceopes]

A new species of spider which can swim and catch fish has been discovered in Australia. The spider, named Dolomedes briangreenei, was unveiled at the ninth annual World Science Festival in Brisbane, Australia.

I really want to see a reality show where they send arachnophobes to Australia for a year or so.

[lampropelma-violaceopes]

All these posts about dog dicks will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

Just for you, I’ll finish the thought. 

Since someone occasionally comments on your “pure-bred Mabari war hound,” and this is the imaginary Middle Ages, I’m guessing that the dog isn’t castrated. As such, when he rolls over on his back for pettings, we should technically be seeing his fuzzy twig and berries. 

I’m not saying that I want more dog schlong in my life, just that in a game with brothels, homosexuality, bisexuality, pansexuality, pansexuality in exchange for one’s life, wife-swapping, and, my personal favorite, “riding the future king into battle with the darkspawn,” demurring on the anatomy is rather disingenuous. 

Of course, now that it’s 8 AM and not the middle of the night, I’m willing to acknowledge that showing dog cock might have caused BioWare more trouble than it's worth.

[hmas-sydney]

"Tigers in the Mud" is definitely worth a read. Carius does that typical Wehrmacht-postwar-memoir thing of steadfastly refusing to talk about the broader justifications/motivations for the war while focusing on his own desire to defend Germany against the Bolsheviks, but that's unavoidable. He's also well aware of the various deficiencies of the Tiger I. One of the coolest things is his description of commanding Jagdtigers on the Western Front. Really interesting stuff. If you like Jagdtigers.

I just finished Tigers in the Mud. Was saving to answer this til then. Was a pretty good read. I like Jagdtigers (I also realise they were crap, but I do like them). His descriptions of the Western Front are odd. When he mentions fighting the Americans, he says that he had no respect for them because they were trying to conserve casualties and weren’t doing mass assualts. He says they advance so slow that the Ruhr pocket should’ve fallen faster (this also reflects badly on himself, for if it should have fallen faster than surely the Germans are bad soldiers too). But then when he starts talking about OP Unthinkable and Nuclear Weapons, he makes it sound like he believed the Americans would steamroll the Russians..... 

[lampropelma-violaceopes]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

THANK YOU! :D

[lampropelma-violaceopes]

Apparently in the story, the barrels are supposed to be full of "uranium ash." Which may or may not actually be a thing? Who can say XD

I’m going to start writing sci-fi stories concerning some field of science I don’t know anything about so I can annoy the people who do. I guess that leaves botany. Time to go write about giant sapient argon-breathing orchids that attack cities by growing through the subway system and then sucking people in through manholes!