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mostly reblogs, lots o' dogs (icon used with permission from tumblr user huazzers)

[thememedaddy]

[a-book-of-creatures]

To be fair you usually don’t grind a burrito into digestible mush with your fibula

[facts-i-just-made-up]

Maybe YOU two don't...

[phantomrose96]

Installs the mod that adds 4 extra secret hours to the evening

[phantomrose96]

Stop telling me this is in the vanilla gameplay. We can’t keep taking the “character goes to bed at 4am” debuff. I’m doing the 30yo build.

[mswone]

But it takes so much grinding to make that build even remotely good.

You have to do like, insurance sidequests.

Do doctor checks that don't even have a proper notification, you just have to either *guess*, or check every so often, because otherwise you risk a permanent debuff.

Not to mention managing the limited time events like, seeing friends that only proc occasionally.

And to top it all off, you're expected to farm money for how long? And it only pays off every couple weeks!

If your character goes to 4AM every night, you get a cool exclusive skin, too! And you get cool skills like "dozing off on the train"!

[phantomrose96]

[answering this from the dentist office] [way too sunk-cost deep in this build to admit it sucks] “no… I love this actually.”

[tlirsgender]

With the knowledge that Vulcan has regularly high winds & subsequent sandstorms I propose a type of guy: midwestern dads watching tornadoes but for Vulcans. Somebody's uncle Sovar standing outside with his hands on his hips watching a massive cloud roll closer. Unconcerned because this happens, like, every couple of weeks. He's like "this one is large, is it not" yes it is go back inside Sovar

[thetimetostrikeislater]

The one Vulcan aspect Kirk can excel at.

Kirk: “Oh yeah I’m from Iowa. It’s part of something called tornado alley.”

[thetimetostrikeislater]

Spock: “Where’s the captain? The storm is getting worse.”

Crewman: “He’s out there with the other Vulcans. He told us to wait in the shuttle.”

[dduane]

(chuckle) ...Sold.

[charlesoberonn]

I think it's very funny that the Zodiac Killer's unsolved cipher was finally solved because somebody figured out that he made the encryption equivalent of a typo.

People were expecting a mathematically cohesive complete cipher made by a disturbed genius. But it was just a narcissistic asshole trying and failing to do something complex, and accidentally making his cipher (nearly) unreadable.

[gigglepuffpixie]

so what you're saying is that now it's even more likely that it was ted cruz

[quarter0master]

[tlirsgender]

Loving how as soon as electricity was like, a Thing, people just went "you can make toast with this" and started working on electric toasters but they didn't quite have the whole heating element thing down so there was a not insignificant chance of it just exploding

[tlirsgender]

People have been making bread crunchy by heating it up for Ages but for some reason I thought electric toasters would be happening around the same time as like, refrigerators but no people went "easier crunchy bread?" as soon as the technology was available. Not even remotely safe but like, existent. It took Way longer to figure out how to make things cold with electricity

[tlirsgender]

I specify electric toasters because before that they had these bad boys

You just put your slice of bread in there and hold it over your fireplace and bam it's toast time

[tlirsgender]

Actually you didn't have to use those, if you find yourself wanting some toast in victorian england you could also stick your bread on one of these motherfuckers right here

These are the very creatively titled (/s) toasting forks and they look metal as hell for the purpose they serve

You might notice that the tips are bent upwards, which is actually not for inflicting more pain when tormenting the souls of the damned but rather because the bread goes on them like so

And the bend helps keep the bread from sliding off

[tlirsgender]

I know this is the most niche interest shit in the world but just look at that. The victorian era had no reason to go as hard as it did but every day I am grateful for it

[definitelynot-darcy]

But sliced bread didn't exist until... I dunno, but it was after Betty White was born. So would the Victorians just stab a wad of bread and toast it like a s'more or what?

[tlirsgender]

I don't know how to tell you that you can slice a loaf of bread

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Before pre-sliced bread was sold nobody knew how to cut it they just took bites out of entire loaves

[yookay-times]

[duchessvongooseberg]

[angelnumber27]

[honeysider]

[esynk]

[not100bees]

do we think chocolate guy is gay?

[senatortedcruz]

-Grandpa Joe muttering to Charlie in that factory

[fictionalgod]

MLP art by @onionpwder

[stroebe2]

[anthonybourdyke]

[saint-vore]

if you're confused about all the pumpkins and ghosts and stuff, it's actually a sort of seasonal harvest festival in parts of the northern hemisphere. yeah, it's kinda weird to think about how it's autumn down there when up here it's spring, haha yeah imagine them all, upside down, and getting colder in october when it's just starting to warm up

and can you imagine, down there it's COLD at christmas, crazy right?

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

that's nonsense, why would it be cold at christmas, it doesn't even make sense? that's a festival about the birth of something??? obviously that happens in summer.

[taifan92]

Excuse me?! What you guys doing calling the northern hemisphere "down there"?! We're north. That's UP on a map when it's oriented properly.

[saint-vore]

what the fuck are you talking about?

[taifan92]

that's upside down and yah know it lol. Now I know ya joking. Also what is going on with Canada on that map?

[saint-vore]

what a weird map lol why is aotearoa all the way off to the side?? do they really have these things in your schools? i guess they put them next to the normal map so you feel more relevant or something?

[taifan92]

Mine is the normal map. You find it in all the official literature and such. 🙄

[saint-vore]

ohhhhh of course, like in your northern hemisphere regional textbooks, that's so cute

[sexy-necromancing-bird]

Is the guy in the cuck chair supposed to stay quiet or is he allowed to clap and cheer

[foxgirlmindcrank]

he's supposed to take notes and make an intrigued hum when an interesting plot point occurs

[conspiracydeerist]

[blu3str1k3]

[thisarenotarealblog]

one is getting cucked by the bottom and the other is getting cucjed by the top. Subject matter experts discussing the sex like a sports panel

[morganoperandi]

One cuck always lies, the other always tells the truth. You have one question to determine who’s a top and who’s a bottom.

[whumpster-fire]

[prokopetz]

Every time I post an example of play involving a d66 table I get people in the notes being weird about, like, the concept of d66 tables, which is very irritating. However, I have to remind myself that having the temerity to look at a centuries-old piece of tabletop gaming technology that you've somehow never heard of before, deciding that you can improve upon it after a whole thirty seconds of thought, proposing an alternative that's both more awkward to carry out and less functional in use, and going away satisfied that you've solved a real problem purely because you find the existing solution's conventions of notation unaesthetic does in fact speak to having the proper mindset of a tabletop game designer.

[prokopetz]

@a-random-stingray replied:

What if i make it worse on purpose, does that also speak to the mindset of a tabletop game designer? The answer's yes, isn't it? I don't know why I felt the need to ask.

I once bumped into a game with an honest-to-goodness d1212 table (yes, notated exactly like that), though for the life of me I can't bring the title to mind at the moment.

[prokopetz]

For those taking issue with the "centuries old" part, here: have a US patent application for a tabletop American baseball simulator that uses a d66 lookup table for action resolution dated August of 1887. This almost certainly isn't the oldest, as the way it's used suggests familiarity to the target audience, but it's the oldest I can find off the jump.

[stephenleasheppard]

That’s only one century!

[prokopetz]

1.4 centuries, if we're being pedantic, and employing the plural to discuss fractions greater than one but less than two is accepted usage, so technically

[prokopetz]

@pachycephalosauria replied:

For the aliens who use senary, the d66 is just called a d%

I actually have a bunch of d6s marked zero through five rather than one through six, and in two different colours (as I recall, they were produced for a now-defunct wargame called Hard Vacuum), so I could totally write a game that uses senary percentile dice if I wanted to.

Hm.

[rhapsodybenny]

Y’know, given the notation “d66,” compounded with the discussion of senary, I really expected the two dice to be distinguishable for a full 6x6 table. Now that I’ve seen the actual form (from the patent linked above), I somewhat understand the impulse to improve it.

[prokopetz]

A conventional d66 roll does in fact consist of rolling a six-sided die twice, reading the first roll as the "tens" place and the second as the "ones" place, yielding 36 equally weighted results in the range from 11 to 66. The form shown in the patent is a common variant, though; many modern games use it both to take advantage of the "bumpy" distribution – it yields a table with 15 equally weighted "common" outcomes and 6 equally weighted "rare" outcomes, which is exactly what you want in some situations – and for the convenience that you can roll both dice simultaneously without needing them to be visually distinguishable.

[prokopetz]

(Interestingly, it's unclear whether the designer of Our National Ball Game – the game to which this patent application pertains – was actually aware of this statistical quirk of his chosen rolling method. A cursory examination of the provided table reveals that the "three base hit" outcome is twice as likely as the "two base hit" outcome, which seems implausible based on modern American baseball statistics. It's possible that this is an artefact of how the author collected his statistics rather than an artefact of the table's design, but if the latter is the case, that would make Our National Ball Game not only an early example of a d66 lookup table being used for action resolution, but also an early example of a tabletop game designer fucking up their dice math!)

[aleshakills]

Is there a word for occupying the space where normies think you're a freak and freaks think you're a normie?

[aleshakills]

I tell a woman with a 9 to 5 office job about the slightly niche speculative fiction novel I just finished and she goes "Oh, that's...interesting. I hadn't heard of that."

I tell a grungy chick I met at a dive bar about the same book and she kinda scoffs and goes "Okay" like I said my favorite show is Sesame Street

[irate-iguana]

I love it when a classicist has clearly gotten so lost in the BCE sauce that their perception of time has become deeply warped. Case in point: the article I’m currently reading just described the Byzantine era as “a period relatively modern.”

[mockiatoh]

Stop that’s too funny

[transmechanicus]

Posts that be like “If I were a monster that had to eat people, i would just eat horrible people~” are so absurd to me. How often do you see Known Criminals on the street? Billionaires out for a nightly stroll around town? Effectively fucking never. If I have to drag myself to the grocery store, you think it’s gonna be any easier for me to hunt Bezos and Co. every time my stomach growls? I can’t bother to plan meals more than a day in advance, how am i gonna perform whole ass detective work to confirm someone’s a serial killer before i eat them? Ya’ll got that much time on your hands? Planning 5 course meals every night of the week? Don’t make me laugh. Eat a pedestrian and tragically wrestle with guilt like the rest of us, idiot.

[transmechanicus]

Experienced people eater weighing in with the most galaxy brain option