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Another Fking Nerd Blog

@lorienlady

33, she/her/hers, cis bi, disabled literally 3 ways //\\ I'm sorry, I fully do not read bios before I reblog stuff, I just press buttons

my bf and I move into an apartment in an actual apartment building and I haven’t lived in one of those since college but I know they do holiday decor contests so I am already planning my halloween & winter time front door decor to put all the other apartment bitches to shame. they have no idea what I’m like september-january. I become a wild beast and I take no prisoners

this is important because I always go all out for halloween/yuletide but now I can get a good grade in holiday decor, something that is normal to want & now literally possible for me to achieve

My god, this is living the dream. If I decorate with maximum flair at Halloween all that happens is children expect really good candy and then I need to find somewhere to store the decorations the rest of the year.

How to Ride a Werewolf

Now remember, a lady rides sidesaddle, NOT astride. Your mother would be in hysterics at the very idea that a daughter of hers would ride a werewolf astride! Why, next you’ll be showing ankle…

That’s not how you ride a werewolf ill show you how to ride a werewolf !!

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Okay, so I know the reason the physics in Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom have so many weird exceptions and edge cases is because the games' designers are concerned foremost with puzzle-crafting, and only secondarily with producing a coherent world model, and nearly every bit of weirdness can be explained by the fact that some puzzle mechanic required the games' physics to work that way. There's simply no deeper unifying logic to be found, and trying to find it is a good way to give yourself a headache.

One of those pieces of weirdness lies in the relative weights of various objects, particularly in relation to Link, the player character. Some objects are incongruously heavy or light for their size because the puzzles in which they appear require them to be, and Link himself is weirdly lightweight, presumably because that was the easiest way to cause him to experience the exaggerated knockback that many puzzles require without making the forces involved ridiculously strong.

Most objects and characters which recur among the two games are at least consistent in this respect. However, it has been empirically determined that in Breath of the Wild, Link weighs the same as 8.5 apples, whereas in Tears of the Kingdom he weighs the same as 10 apples, and now I can't stop myself from wondering what fucking puzzle mechanic required Link to be exactly 1.5 apples heavier.

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I'm more interested in the team meetings that likely resulted from this, considering Nintendo's fastidious approach to polish. I can imagine one camp bringing in chart after chart defending those extra 1.5 apples, and another more or less going "No, this is New Zelda canon, it cannot and should not be changed. Link is 8.5 apples heavy and any change to this base equation will run the risk of endangering the entire product line."

I think one of the best things about Fantasy High is that it really solves the "why are you all a bunch of murder hobos" problem, with no real need for explanation. Because when you put a friend group of high schoolers in a situation, with magic and bladed weapons, what on earth ELSE are they going to do?

There is also a gun.

THERE IS ALSO A GUN.

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Adventures in babysitting: a saga

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concept. scam likely (and family) have so many arms because they’re smear frames

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don’t think ive posted this here yet but. my scam design

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im expecting a lot of "pride month is over, now it's time for wrath month" posts. that's cool and all. but july is disability pride month.

pride month is when you're SUPPOSED to be angry. it's a celebration AND a riot. that was the best time to get angry. second best time is now. but it's not wrath month. let disabled people have this.

please get angry with us. please fight with us! we are both losing our rights, if we ever even had them to begin with. please don't talk over us, especially during our own pride month.

did you know over 10,000 people die a year while waiting to be told whether or not they can receive disability benefits?

did you know while being provided disability benefits, disabled people cannot have more than $2,000 total in their bank account? the average rent for an apartment in the united states, as of last month, is $1,995. per month.

while they want to kill queer people, they want to kill disabled people just as bad. please look out for your disabled friends and family. please look out for those of us who don't have friends and family. those of us who are out on the streets.