#siege engineer

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THE COLLECTIVE ARTISTS MASTERPOST

Hey there y’all, it’s your friendly neighborhood Planar Champion. Some months ago (Months! I know, I know.) I made an announcement asking for members of the Collective who made art to send me commission links, in the hopes of creating a masterpost to display them all. And they did. Below is a list of amazing people, all of whom are treasured parts of our community. Now, without further ado:

1) Beguiler ( @wearebeguiler)

- Photo-manipulation

- Accessories and RPG supplements 

2) Dark Knight ( @wearedark-knight)

- Drawn art

3) Monk ( @we-are-monk)

- Drawn art

4) Pyromancer ( @we-are-pyromancer)

- Drawn art

5) Ringmaster ( @we-are-ringmaster)

- Stitchwork

6) Scribe ( @we-are-scribe)

- Calligraphy

7) Siege Engineer ( @we-are-siege-engineer)

- Drawn art

8) Warden ( @weare-warden)

- Drawn art

And that’s that! Big thanks to everyone who submitted, y’all are all great. Please check these people out, they’re all super talented and deserve the attention! If you’re in the Collective and not on this list, and you want to be, or if I’ve missed you, let me know and I’ll update it accordingly!

Thank you!

- PC

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Siege Engineer is a physics based sandbox puzzle game where you build all manner of siege engines to help your ragdoll soldier reach his goal!

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Question for the crowd!: Sieges in Tabletop

I actually played recently in a module where we had a siege encounter with some rounds of enemy waves and actions we could take after a certain event passed. There was also bonuses for if we were able to get the factions within the walls to work together rather than fight separately.

So in light of that: how do you run siege encounters? Or what questions do you have for how any of those would work? Any favorite siege encounter stories?

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Titan: Don't Fuck With the Ocean

So this has been delayed, and everyone and their mother has already commented on this. We’re well past the virality mark on this topic. But whatever, I want to crack in and get this thing wrapped up anyways. For context, I study mechanical and manufacturing engineering. I’ve grown up around submarines with my dad being an engineer on US Navy subs, and I was able to ask him about this. I’ve also got a diving cert and enough experience living coastal to at least get me a knowledgeable respect for the ocean. Being 60 ft under should instill that, at least. 

I will not make any comments on any of the other four victims. However, I reserve the right to be fully derogatory to the CEO who died in the submersible, Stockton Rush, for his disgusting flippancy towards safety in such a dangerous environment as 4,000m below sea level, for disregarding multiple warnings against the project, and for subjecting other passengers to this. I intended to start with my favorite source on this, but it looks like I’m beginning with spite. I claim that in engineering, if safety disregards don’t immediately boil your blood, you have to turn in your card. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65998914 “Titan sub CEO dismissed safety warnings as 'baseless cries', emails show” Some people may have seen the quote “At some point, safety just is pure waste,” Stockton told journalist David Pogue in an interview last year. “I mean, if you just want to be safe, don’t get out of bed. Don’t get in your car. Don’t do anything.” Stockton Rush has typed "We have heard the baseless cries of 'you are going to kill someone' way too often," he wrote. "I take this as a serious personal insult." *Frankly*, the response to this should very much not be personal insult, but a call to action. There is no reason to take this personally. “I have broken some rules to make this…The carbon fiber and titanium, there is a rule that you don’t do that. Well, I did.” 

“At some point safety just is pure waste…I think I can do this just as safely by breaking the rules.”

“[The sub industry is] obscenely safe, because they have all these regulations…But it also hasn’t innovated or grown—because they have all these regulations.”

This is gruesomely hilarious when you remember the CEO isn’t the actual person running the stress tests, manufacturing it, checking materials charts and costs, calculating max tolerances, or anything else. He’s the little funny man with the money and the reputation who tells people do what he wants anyways. He has no right to play maverick when he is hardly doing any of the work, and especially when it involves other innocent people. While he has a bachelor’s in aerospace engineering, a very commendable thing to get, that’s not what he does hands on as the CEO, and aerospace does not directly translate to submersible understanding. You do not get to be flippant with other peoples’ lives. These comments would be bad enough for anything on the surface, or even in the sky. But again, the ocean is a completely different beast, where it is much more difficult for emergency services to reach people.

As well as this, I need to state the difference between submersible and submarine. If I don’t, I feel the entire US Navy breathe down my neck. It’s like boat vs ship. Submersible: needs to be supported by a vessel up top, not designed for long term deployments. Smol boy. Submarine: can be operated independently, can go on six month or so deployments. Big boy. Going forward, the primary difficulties of the ocean are first and foremost the atmospheres of pressure on the vehicle. The dangers of no breathing air in the ocean are of course, a major issue, but the pressure of the ocean will be what breaks this and makes that lack of air a huge issue. A submersible needs to be properly pressurized to withstand the changes and keep the passengers inside also safe. The ocean is also very difficult to reach communication through. https://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcmc/2019/6470359/, so the submersible losing connection isn’t entirely unsurprising. But other factors listed here lead to its delay.

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Only scratching the surface on this, but I guessed something felt wrong about the chassis choice. Will dig more into it soon

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Bobby Broccoli has great in-depth work on engineering and scientific history. This video in specific is ~ 2hr 30 min, but it exists in 3 parts if you need that divided over time, rather than as say a long-form podcast documentary to listen to while working. Though the editing and graphics on this are fantastic for organizing information. Give it a view! TLDR: Remember every single group project you did in school or even every teamwork thing from ttrpg folks you hadn't worked with before, now multiply that. Every engineering effort is the same as a group project and there is no true solo work.