Vraska & Jace in the Wild West Plane!?!?!? (Also, Oko's back I guess)
CROSSING ALL MY FUCKING FINGERS, PLEASE OH MY GOD
WAIT WHY IS RAKDOS THERE????????
He's having fun.
Character concept:
An oracle who relays messages they don't understand, to people whom they don't know, through graffiti. Most of it seems like completely random nonsense, in completely random places, but whatever compels them to write this instruction in this exact place ensures that whoever needs to see it will see it at just the right time, and make the right choice.
Not knowing the question, only the answer, the oracle frequently feels compelled to write these messages, such as "turn left", "no", "the greener one", "it's in his shoe", "garlic bread", or "the dog knows", to random things and places like on a trash can, on the bottom of a park bench, on a post-it note in the bathroom of a coffee shop. The oracle doesn't know that these messages sometimes solve matters of life and death.
And at one point while on a walk, passing under a bridge, the oracle feels compelled to write, "stop searching for these. You will not find me this way." And then, on the complete opposite side of the city, they see a bicycle, can sense that this is a place for a message, but this time one isn't dictated - they can freely choose what to write. And this time, they vaguely know whom it's for. So the Oracle leaves a message.
"I would like to be friends, though."
The idea of the magic card "Swords to plowshares" is essentially that target creature rejects the way of the sword and becomes a farmer instead, hence you lose them as a combatant but gain the health from their farming.
This is really fuckin funny in conjunction with a lot of potential targets for that card. Can you just imagine you're an average farmer in an MTG plane, have a normal-ass day, and all of a sudden you look to the east, and stretching up past the clouds you see Ulamog, the despoiler, one of the infamous eldrazi titans, a creature that corrupts all that is good by its mere presence. And all the enormous bastard is doing is using their massive fuckin tendrils to plow the land and plant potatos, and tend to their flocks of eldrazi spawn, and then it turns its eyeless head thats the size of several cities at you and tips its wide brimmed straw hat at you and continues going about its work.
Rewatching the Darth Vader hallway scene from Rogue One and realizing this is what Samus is to the Space Pirates
Wait oh boy hold on I drew a pic of this back when I first watched Rogue One
Found it!
Honestly, one of my art of all time.
it becomes a lot more understandable that people claim graphics haven't advanced noticeably since the 360/ps3 era when you remember everyone who says that and isn't just a liar is someone whose only current gaming outlet is phones and/or the Switch, both of which really can only handle 360/ps3 graphics.
The other somewhat major point is that we’re reaching a cap of how much better graphics can get. When I was a kid and models were based on maybe 60 polygons per character, the jump to like 600 and then 6,000 polygons was massive and the rapid growth of graphics was incredible. The jump from 6,000 polygons to 60,000 polygons is nowhere near as dramatic as 6,000 is already very high definition. Check out this cool reference image which I sadly no longer have the source for as it’s been saved in my camera roll for years.
thats not relevant.
you're looking at shit as only a single model when one of the many big advances is that we've got assloads of high detail models all throughout game worlds nowadays where earlier generations had to budget them much harder - high detail on the most important objects, and even billboarding 2d graphics to simulate 3d on distant/less important objects.
you know what's a good game to show the improved density? get gta v for 360/ps3, gta v for ps4/xbone, and then gta v for ps5/xbox series x/current high end pcs. you'll notice fast how much more detail and how much more just stuff like extra cars and pedestrians and all the rest show up as you move forward in consoles. the basic maps stay the same and the basic gameplay stays the same, but things get a lot nicer around all that (and it's also funny that gta 6 aint out yet when GTA V is gonna be 10 years old in a few more months, but that's a whole other thing)
like it's also not just a "graphics capability" thing, it's the improved CPU power, it's the improved RAM, it's the improved data rates. this is what lets you have so many things happening in a scene before you even get to spare GPU resources to make all those little things look good.
and for further perspective a single car in forza horizon 5 i'm playing right now is 250,000 polys and looks cool as hell. you go back to fh2's 360 revision just 9 years ago and there's fewer polys on screen for the whole scene lol
but this isn't restricted to big budget games either. indie projects benefit from this massively. they're able to produce things like now that look and play a lot better than the biggest budget in the world could get you 10-15 years ago. they benefit from access to the same engines other modern games use that take care of a lot of busywork. it's a win all around for players and developers.
tbf I think "graphics haven't gotten better since the 360/ps3 era" is obviously false, but it's a cavalier overstatement of something which is generally true, which is that there's diminishing returns on throwing more computing power at graphics. The difference between 2023 games and 2008 games is definitely night and day, but compare that to the difference in graphical terms between 2008 and 1993 games, or 2000 and 1985 games. Also a lot of the improvement in AAA title quality is down to improved workflow via third-party single-purpose apps, which run the gamut from "open source" to "highly restrictive licensing restricting them to more or less one platform's AAA titles". While this isn't a bad thing, it does gesture somewhat to the state of diminishing returns in more powerful hardware, and I think going forward the big leaps in graphical quality are more likely to be related to improvements in dedicated singletaskers & their availability than anything else. which is a mixed bag, many singletaskers are manifestly good for production and aesthetics but the dominance of a single tree clutter generator, as an example, means all forests in video games after it came out look more or less the same
you can notice a difference between 2023 graphics and 2008 graphics but you can't really accomplish anything notable with 2023 graphics that you couldn't accomplish with 2008 ones
So I'm leaving work and something darts in front of me, maybe 10ft away, too fast for me to see what it is. Peek around the tree blocking my path and I see this
Just like... a whole ass hawk. Dude's gotta be about 1.5ft tall. Massive fucking bird. And it's just staring me straight in my soul like this, even as I try to move ahead. It didn't budge. And there's only this path back to my car unless I want to walk on a busy highway. So I have the option of Death By Raptor or Death By Truck.
So I walk in the poison ivy filled patch off the sidewalk. Guy still isn't moving. Still staring me directly in the eyes. And I do this thing when animals are behaving strangely where I'll talk to them, so I'm just like, "Hey, man. I don't know you. You don't know me. This feels really threatening. I'm just trying to get to my car, dude. Can I get some space please? You're a big fucking bird. I see those claws. You could kill me right now, but I'd appreciate if you didn't, ok?"
It didn't move until I was about 2ft away. Again: I'm as far from it as I can be without walking into the street. It clearly wasn't going to budge. I walk past, thing flies up (silent, btw. Scary) and lands on a brick wall a little further ahead
Anyway. Weird guy. Nearly shit my pants when I noticed a bird big enough to carry off a fully grown cat was just... there, staring me in the face, unwilling to move away from me, a human, something it should see as a threat. I watched behind me the whole rest of the way to my car, just in case this bird decided to help me shed this mortal coil. 10/10 experience. Super cool guy.
This is so funny because that’s a freshly-fledged juvenile red tailed hawk.
It didn’t leave simply because it didn’t really know the giant gorilla thing walking towards it was a threat. You were menaced by what amounts to a teenager who just passed their driving test just chilling under a tree.
This thing weighs all of 1 pound and barely knows it’s a bird.
the bird got a nat20 on intimidation from a die it knocked off the desk
One time when I was in grad school, a juvenile redtail caught a squirrel on the diag (Michigan for “quad”) in the middle of the afternoon and just proceeded to eat it there on the grass under a tree, while a mob of students surrounded it and took pictures. It took solid like 20 minutes for the bird to realize the humans were too big and too close, and fly up into the tree.
Forgot how funny Sunless Sea is. Like, yeah sure, I'll become a cannibal to progress my officer's plot. whatever
It's hilarious how little being a cannibal affects you in Sunless Sea, compared to Fallen London. In FL, getting stacks of Unaccountably Peckish starts filling your opportunity deck with terrible cards, which is only beneficial if you're a Seeking madman.
In Sunless Sea? You get access to some conveniences, a chance to upgrade an officer, and if you just so happen to be a priest looking for your father's bones, some unfortunate flavor text at the end of your journey.
londoner's catastrophic event vs zee captain's average tuesday
Note: there is a 1 dollar arbitrage bonus for ham.
not gonna become a repost account but i think about “4” “dumb fuck” every day
i was this close to turning off reblogs but someone here actually gets it
Rat (longingly)
Rat (longly)
Long Yühsia...
Y'know, part of me wants to apologize for derailing your arknights post, but I haven't apologized for much worse 5-minute photoshops.
Forgot how funny Sunless Sea is. Like, yeah sure, I'll become a cannibal to progress my officer's plot. whatever
It's hilarious how little being a cannibal affects you in Sunless Sea, compared to Fallen London. In FL, getting stacks of Unaccountably Peckish starts filling your opportunity deck with terrible cards, which is only beneficial if you're a Seeking madman.
In Sunless Sea? You get access to some conveniences, a chance to upgrade an officer, and if you just so happen to be a priest looking for your father's bones, some unfortunate flavor text at the end of your journey.
The wikipedia page for The Coleman Frog is a but a single paragraph but what a paragraph it is
How dare this go around without the image attached
gilkenansmonsterhouse2006
this is it im dying how could anybody believe this is a real frog
The Coleman Frog (also known as Cornelia Webster) is a 19 kg (42 lb) frog statue on display at the Fredericton Region Museum in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, since 1959. It was previously owned by a man named Fred Coleman, who ran a nearby lodge in the 1880s.[citation needed] Description The frog was captured from Killarney Lake, at which time it weighed 7.3 pounds (3.3 kg).[1][2] Supposedly, the immense size of the frog was caused by the fact that Coleman fed it whiskey, baked beans, June bugs, buttermilk toddies,[3] and whey. It died in a “dynamite accident” and was sent to Bangor, Maine, to be stuffed.[1] Controversy Skeptics say that the frog is a fake that was used to promote a cough syrup that would “relieve the frog in your throat”.[4] In a 1988 report, the Canadian Conservative Institute refers to the artifact as consisting of canvas, wax, and paint. In a letter it refers the exhibit as “an amusing example of a colossal fake and deception”.[5] The museum will not allow DNA testing to be performed on the frog, to confirm if it is real or a fake.[4][6][7]
the article is now three paragraphs and they disagree with each other
I spent entirely too long on this and may have gotten carried away. Anyway moodboard for Estival 1899 (the third one) day two
So how is one supposed to say this expression out loud? Like not just going EeEEeeEEEeee but in proper mathematical terms? Say if a mathematician was tasked with communicating this whole thing to another mathematician verbally (over a phone line for example) how would they do it?
"The integral from minus e to the e to e to the e of the integral from minus e to the e to e to the e of e to the e sub e times e sub e to the e minus e times e to the minus e sub e e to the e plus e over e minus e sub e times e to the e minus e times e sub e all times e to the minus e sub e, d e sub e e d e sub e" is how I would say it, with intonation clarifying most of the bracketing.
Achievement Unlocked:
Not Quite What I'd Hoped
Get your meat sucked