The Zomboid idiot

local lurker, brain sometimes not work... don't worry about it

[goatedgreen]

i hate that when you try and look up shit for writing purposes it starts linking suicide hotlines and addiction advice articles like bro i just wanna know the information im not killing myself i promise. now tell me what i wanna know

[honeybeeofficial]

everyone say thank you ancient central and south american agricultural heroes for beans

[honeybeeofficial]

everyone say thank you ancient south american agricultural heroes for potato

[kawuli]

everyone say thank you ancient mesoamerican agricultural heroes for maize

[transhuman-priestess]

everyone say thank you to ancient central american agricultural heroes for chili peppers

[littlegrayram]

everyone say thank you to ancient south american agricultural heroes for tomatoes

[babushkaat]

[colfy-wolfy]

expie got whuckled... this damn superstructure is giving me calluses. (been obsessed with this game as of late.. thanks Rali :D)

first rain world, now white knuckle?? the company keeps accidentally sending these poor expies to the wrong places!!!

at least theres cute grubs

[barreloid]

pufiki

[boiwab]

Biology of the Common Shade Crawler

Speculative Evolution piece based on an enemy from Orsoniks' beta game "Casualties Unknown".

Inspired by the cross-section work of an urchin by Alex Ries and my own dissections/notes as a biology student. I tried to design a very believable creature, but I realize now that I forgot to explain how they deal with nitrogenous waste (lets just say they compress it into regular excretions like birds do even though they are not under any kind of water stress given their habitat). (idk man they're an alien).

One of the sessile animals in CasUnk is said to contain large heavy metal crystals, so I decided that the shade crawler also uses these in its skeleton instead of calcium. This is reflected in the Plumbosses grouping (idk some high level phyla its aliens so linnaeus's system falls apart anyways)

It makes extensive use of hydrostatics and has no conventional muscle (in-game it never drops food, only its exoskeleton). They also usually EXPLODE into orange blood when killed so I figured them having the anatomy of a fuckin fruit gusher would explain that.

I tried to do some subtle worldbuildy things based on what I know of the CasUnk lore at this point, but I haven't found most of the lore docs in-game and haven't read the wiki. Expies are called EXGS (EXperimental GunSawian) in the document since "experiment" is confusing for a scientific doc and "expie" is too affectionate for the humans of the setting. Also I THINK they were called gunsawians as a blanket term in Orsoniks previous game gunsaw.

OH I also tried to explain why/how they made sound, why they were only found in the first layers (which have water pools), how they didn't get lost in the caves, why they have eyes, why they are bioluminescent, etc etc etc it was very fun.

[slowedplusreverb]

Stay safe out there!

[aropride]

please god let chatgpt die out like nfts did. With a fast and graceless fall into irrelevancy

[bladespark]

Like to charge, reblog to cast.

[atwotonedbird]

This spell has a very low hit ratio, so we need a lot of us to do it.

[xstartrailx]

You guys wanna see the time I completely shattered rainworld.

Yeah, this was fun. I still don’t know what made this happen, I’m on switch so it wasn’t any mods, but yeah. Fun times.

[yourunusalartist]

Hey any suggestions for search engines that aren't trying to shove Gen AI in our faces?

[northirish]

Today's shitpost is cancelled. Everyone gets an extra ten minutes to play outside instead

[liquidchocolatecake]

you know, i'm watching some subnautica 2 videos and the mentions of "you might very well be the last human in the universe" has me thinking about part of why casualties unknown might've gripped my brain so hard so quickly.

because like. we have so many stories about the apocalypse lately, right? everyone's outlook has become so dire that even fuckin pokemon's cashed in on it. everything feels like it's falling apart all at once, and we reflect that feeling in the art we make.

but then you have casualties unknown and like. sure, the game's not finished, but we know how this ends already. like you can go on the wiki and look up the planned endings right this seconds, but even if we pretend the wiki doesn't exist like. gunsaw exists. we know where this story's going. and it's not an "everyone dies and the chapter closes on life in the universe", the expies as a species survive. they form their own (if also demonstrably pretty fucked given the whole corporate war in gunsaw) society on the grey planet where they don't have to deal with humans anymore, at least not directly. stuff gets dropped on them for a few decades, but they're mostly free to do their own thing. sure, the canon ending has the mission end in a critical failure, but like. fuck the mission. the mission's what the humans are after, what the expies are after is just. survival and freedom. and, regardless of if you go with the canon ending or the escape ending, they get that. the cost to life was massive and unforgivable, but the expies win at the end of the day.

and i think it's nice having a source of catharsis like that in a time like this. yeah, it's painful and it sucks and none of this should be happening, but at the end of the day you're gonna make it through and see the light at the end of the tunnel eventually. it's not "everything's gonna be okay", it's "nothing is okay but like hell is that gonna stop the will to keep living", it's "fight tooth and nail for your place in the world even with overwhelming powers against you". it's nice. it's nice to have a painful sorta hope like this when things are too much.

[thatdemonicfox]

hi hel lo. if you saw that ref sheet thing I posted a few days then you already know what this is

F2U (with credit) Expie Reference Sheet!!!!!! comes in three different file types so hopefully you can use this in whatever program you want with relatively little issue?? as well in both its original (457x279) and more normal person (1855x1133) size

expie base can be used separately without credit as its basically just the health panel body slightly stylized

mainly made for use with Procreate so any issues that occur in other programs are not my problem </3

PSD seems to be ?? a bit weird with functioning??? I dunno I aint ever done this type of thing before!!

if the two sizes Ive provided you do not work for you (and you're on procreate), then download the original size, resize the canvas, select the whole piece and hit fit to canvas with the nearest neighbor setting turned on

ok thats my yap over here you go

[neovagina-penisis-evangelion]

When people argue that food from Chinese and Mexican restaurants in the US are not 'real' representations of that culture's cuisine ignore the historical reality that these dishes were developed by diasporic communities striving to recreate the flavors of home with available resources. Such criticism frames adaptation as a loss of authenticity, rather than recognizing it as a sincere and evolving expression of culture by people separated from their homeland.

[ninhaoma-ya]

Too good to leave in the tags

[colfy-wolfy]

a hungry feller

[colfy-wolfy]

a hungry feller

[colfy-wolfy]

Send gourmand picture IMMEDIATELY

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