striving to will what necessity dictates

musou/sage (they/them) | agender commie quaker programmer/musician | games, books, OSR TTRPGs, ozumo | @crossandfaded is main

[theorynoodle]

current mains + ranks

Under Night In-Birth 2: Vatista (S4), Orie Ballardiae

Virtua Fighter 5: Sarah Bryant (Barbarian), Aoi Umenokouji

Granblue VS Rising: Yuel (Master), Katalina (S++4), Vira (S++5), Eustace (S++5)

Wonderful World: Etielle (7th Frosty Faustings 2026)

Guilty Gear Xrd: Leo Whitefang

Blazblue Central Fiction: Kagura Mutsuki

Street Fighter 6: Guile (Master, retired)

Fatal Fury COTW: Hotaru Futaba (A, retired)

[3liza]

Do you own, or have you ever owned, a dog with any of the following names? Family ownership/roommates count.

Bella

Loki

Thor

Sadie

Auggie

Buddy

Gunner

Shadow

Mr. Business

More than 1 of these

More than 2 of these

None of the above/I have never owned a dog

Remaining time: 6 days 21 hours

[pseudonymjones]

* Kris Darling Honey Not Now Mommy Is Dunking The Court

[yonae]

Whining elves

[parkchanwoohoo]

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Bounty Hunter

“Once they’ve marked you,” Starke said, “the world is made of glass.”

Artist: Brian Snõddy TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[drdaanvondutch]

steam notifications

your childhood best friend who moved four states away in 2014 is playing Terraria

coworker from your high school job is playing My Sexy Anime Neighbor from Sin University

ex friend who blocked you on everything but steam for some reason is playing The Binding of Isaac

the guy you genuinely thought of as a brother at one point but havent seen in years is playing Elden Ring

rando who was kind of nice to you in tf2 a decade ago is playing Team Fortress 2

your parents' neighbors' son is playing Resident Evil 4 (2023)

[bonescaro]

you can tell a lot about a person by who their first fictional crush was. it also explains every fictional crush they’ve had since

who was yours? i’ll go first: mine was batman :x

[moonlit-mask]

Homestar Runner changed my life because whenever I get into a panic spiral about the future my brain autoplays this scene and immediately snaps me out of it

[capnsoapy]

being a trans girl feels like being the person who has to explain the rules of the board game to everybody but for everything in your life. including explaining the rules of board games.

[omanc1n-blog]

ssbt:

まるでノクタンヒュールさ夢で踊る | kumomadori

[koholint]

(via omanc1n-blog)

[numahachi]

(via koholint)

[theorynoodle]

(via numahachi)

[hardcoreparkour]

I'll never break a bottle of champagne against a ship before her first voyage and I'll never cut a ribbon with giant scissors for the grand opening of a building but by god when I buy a label maker the first label I print is going to be a label that says label maker and it is going on the label maker

[vintagerpg]

In addition to magic items, spells and psionic powers, TSR released Deck of Encounter: Set One (1994, recycling Easley’s cover of the DMG) and Deck of Encounters: Set Two (1994, recycling a Fred Fields Dragonlance painting for the cover). At first glance, these seem less useful than the spell cards and in one way they are: eventually, you’re going to exhaust them. But that’s the flaw of even the best random table as well, and we don’t really complain too much about that. And between the two decks, you’re looking at about 800 encounters, so it would take a while.

The nice thing about these encounters is that they are more fleshed out than random encounter tables. You have some situational context, treasure and so on all in one place, all organized thematically. Even in the specific material on a card doesn’t work, the amount of information gives you material to work with on the fly. TSR produced a lot of crap utilities designed to separate players from their dollars, but this one is genuinely pretty good. I wouldn’t mind a modern iteration, maybe in the mode of Monster Overhaul?

[valleyhowler]

There are hardly any female werewolves because they break all the classic rules of femininity. They force you to confront female violence, strength, size, grotesqueness and uncontrollability. Historically female shapeshifters always shift into something dangerous (snake) or sleek (cat) or dainty (bird) but female werewolves ignore the masculine gaze completely. They're distorted beasts that have no ulterior motive except to destroy. Nothing about them is nurturing or modest. They're the opposite of what a woman "should be." Their omission from pop culture is not an accident.

[readingtheentrails]

I know this is maybe not the point of the post, but this reminded me of this beautiful poem called When My Wife Is A Werewolf by Rosamund Taylor which I really adore so I thought I would share it.

This is taken from a collection of contemporary queer Irish poetry called Queering the Green, which has some truly wonderful work in it and is available from The Lifeboat Press (currently sold out but hopefully available again soon if you're interested).

[chemicalico]

who wanna be friends with drawbacks

[eatthekidsfirst]

friends with consequences

[hozierswift]

clicking 'stay signed in'-buttons used to mean that u would stay signed in

[theorynoodle]

finally landed the far 2C confirm BNB for vatista. that was the last kind of hit i didn't have a real combo for yet. although it's going to take many more hours of practice to get this consistent, it's pretty sensitive to where exactly you cancel the dashes or it can drop.

because of the higher damage scaling factor on A buttons, i could get another 100 damage if i did fewer hits, by routing

2A whiff -> dash -> 2B -> 9B

instead of

2A whiff -> dash -> 2A -> 9A -> 9B

but then the hit confirm window gets even shorter and i often drop it, so i am going to try to learn it the more consistent way first. i make way more than 100 damage worth of other mistakes in the average match to worry about that yet.