>>1027437 same shot rifles, and bow archery. Had fun was good, either of us can get back to that level. Anything haps to be posib w/ disapline and drive! :)
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Oh yeah this weekend is the February long weekend I'll be looking forward to that I ... really need the break
not me having a dream im back at school again it's the day of the big test and ive forgotten to study! might just pop out to the seven eleven to pivk up some ice cream except some absurd government coronavirus thing has come out and the 7/11 man has to explain it to us to make sure we comply, so now he's a holding a class too!
well she's got bandaids covering it so i guess it's ok
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oh wow I have this morning and I didn't realise good thing I woke up at 4:30 and stayed up instead of going back to sleep like I was going to I have an hour and half to get there *I have to work this morning
that could have gone badly, considering I have no alarms set
>>1027471 Nice Id do that with Fiji water if I had enough income.
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>>1027471 I dunno the guy's a dumbass regardless if he's got one fridge or four Voss is literally just Scandinavian tapwater No one should spend 2000 dollars a month on water regardless of how much money they make
I mean it's almost certainly a sponsored thing, but either way like ...it IS tap water they're not hooking a spout into a glacier and sucking out the riches within, they're literally using tapwater from like well, not Voss, as I thought, but some town in fucking Agder
>>1027474 When I lived in Tampa our tap water was sourced from a spring that also happens to be bottled and sold. I wonder if anyone obsesses about that brand.
>>1027479 I don't think so SC is probably right that it's a shadow sponsorship from Voss But there's probably elements here of the new meme cultural shit of "drinking water is cool guys!" that has ascended into "look how fancy I can be drinking water" (For the record drinking water and cutting sugary and caffeinated beverages is cool if you want to I just feel the water drinking hype has been memed to hell and back)
i assume it's a really poorly thought out ad cuz the only people who could think that trucking cases of tap water in glass bottles is somehow eco friendly would be the company VPs
A lot of Anakin's wounds couldn't be healed by bacta because they were caused by the dark side Embracing the dark side fully causes your body to get really fucked up So even if he healed from all those burns and stuff
that was what it mostly was but because of the dark side he could never heal completely kind of like how sheev remained all fucked up looking after all those years
Dark side is more about raw power than anything else. But the dark side also has ways to subvert death, it's just that using them might grant you extended life but they also leave you disfigured
honestly seems like only a dumbass would not go for the dark side like you don't HAVE TO be evil for it, necessarily ain't like the damn space magic has a morality score
Well, that's what a grey Jedi is. A grey Jedi is a Jedi who isn't aligned with light or dark, they're not doing bad things but they're not going out of their way to be heroes either. They just sort of let things go as they go and criticize both sides. In canon, Qui-gon is the closest thing to a grey Jedi and elderly Obiwan is sort of like that. But in Legends, the best example is Jolee Bindo who is just an old hermit trying to live out his life with the Force.
They should do a show about a dark side force user who's just trying to live their damn life, but the Jedi keeps trying to hunt them down because honestly we need more "Actually the Jedi are kinda fucked up and not unambigious good guys of the galaxy" content Cause the Jedi are actually kinda really fucked up I bet they're the ones who labeled it "the dark side" too
Well, the Jedi were created in response to the ancient Sith who were basically evil conquerors who used the dark side. The Jedi were a reactionary force to that and they've been wiped out almost completely several times, just like the Sith.
Until I actually watched the movies, I thought the sith were like, whatever the fuck Maul is I thought he was a sith, like yoda and grogu are... whatever they are I didn't realize for a good while that the sith are actually a faction, not a species
Sith refers to a few things. Sith can refer to the ancient Sith who were an actual species, Sith who are basically fallen force users that do evil and call themselves Sith Lords, and Dark Jedi who are basically Jedi who fall to the dark side but don't necessarily become Sith Lords.
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
put the rat in the bacta tank
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>>1027523 please, my points you can't do this to me!
>>1027527 Unknown! In Legends, the Sith species eventually reemerged. But in Canon, all we know is that they existed and we don't know much about how all that went other than that they were allegedly wiped out.
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
She gave me extra meat for free too.
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
she likes you just keep up the minute flirtations she'll give you openings
Kirara 🍄 大医 ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
"you gave me extra meat... let me return the favor *eyebrow thing*"
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>>1027518 is it like white/grey/black hat hackers then although idk if white hats are actually a force of good
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I also like how they're doubling down on the midichlorians they didn't say the word, but we know what "m-count" meant that's bold considering how the fandom seemed to react to it initially
>>1027533 i think it's arguable as to whether jedi are a force for good too i think they do good things a lot of the time but their ideology is self-defeating and they always collapse on themselves which prevents them from actually pursuing good
>>1027536 lucas wanted the sequel trilogy to be about jedi shrinking down to microscopic levels to explore the world of midichlorians lol
>>1027538 Also they don't even teach their students properly, so all it took for the strongest empire soldier to join the ranks was some old dude pulling him aside at the opera and going "hey kid, you ever hear about plagueius? lemme tell you a story your teachers don't want you to know"
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
>>1027538 Yeah I heard about that Fucking osmosis jones with Jedi
>>1027540 To be fair, Anakin was created to serve that role and groomed from the beginning. Palpatine induced Anakin's mom to become pregnant and he played the entire thing out from the beginning. Palpatine was also behind the creation of a standing Republic military force which had until then not existed, and he was able to use that to force the Republic to collapse on itself.
I still think it'd be wise to like, clue your students in on the dark side and its seductive nature beyond just going "No, don't feel things, you fucking imbecile" and knocking them on the head with an old gnarled piece of driftwood That ain't no way to avoid sith that's how you get sith
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
New Total War Warhammer coming out tomorrow.
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>>1027543 >To be fair, Anakin was created to serve that role and groomed from the beginning. im not sure if i like that i think i liked it more just thinking he got there by his own agency
>>1027546 Yeah, the Jedi had been completely blinded and fooled themselves into thinking the Sith were absolutely gone from history. The Jedi failed in every way.
Maybe if their star pupil knew about the dark side BEFORE he got talked into joining in, and had trusted the jedi properly, he'd have gone "hey so the president just pulled me aside and wanted to know if I'd be interested in like, becoming a necromancer"
>>1027551 The Jedi didn't trust Anakin because he wasn't their star pupil. Very few Jedi really trusted Anakin at any point, but they felt that he was necessary and they violated their own values by allowing him to persist in the Jedi order. They allowed him to do what he did because of the war, even though every sign pointed to him being unsuitable for the role of a Jedi. And then Palpatine was pulling those strings too, to make sure that the Council would keep Anakin around and assign him to places of power but never enough to satisfy him.
I mean really if your whole faction exists specifically as a reaction to a particular other faction, it oughta be in the introductory course after you join ranks Like, a primer I know they didn't realize the sith were around anymore, but that's no reason not to teach your students about the sith Cause the possibility of their return is your whole raison detre
Anakin was never a student under the Jedi Order. He was older than younglings when he was brought in and almost immediately became a padawan. He didn't go to the Jedi school and he wasn't taught properly. The entirety of Anakin's existence is a failure of the Jedi.
Yeah, The Jedi at the time of the prequels have basically been reduced to a glorified police force for the Republic and have lost everything that made them great in the past. They allowed themselves to choke to death on their own ideals because they refused to look around them.
I bet the ideals professed in the prequels aren't even what they came together around during the big ancient war, either probably been bent and molded to make it easier for those at the top to keep themselves on top
I'm reading the High Republic comics and novels right now, I'm about to finish the first novel. That takes place about 200 years before the Prequels. And the Jedi are totally different in it. They're able to acknowledge that they're people and that sometimes they get mad or scared or attached and they have to be willing to work through it, as opposed to the Jedi at the time of the prequels, where the Jedi are terrified of everything but refuse to acknowledge it.
There's an Old Republic, a Republic, and a New Republic The Republic and the High Republic are the same thing, High Republic just refers to the period of time where the Republic had extended peace and was expanding.
Yeah, basically. Legends refers to any official Star Wars material that isn't considered Canon.
I personally consider things to be canon unless directly contradicted by new material. But that's most stuff. There's very little that hasn't been directly contradicted by this point.
There's a few chapters in High Republic (the comic) where a Hutt rides a rancor but it's not Jabba Jabba's rancor as a baby also shows up in the Bad Batch animated series too
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>>1027590 i love the amount of details that artist put in
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how fucking big do rancors even get? Isn't the one in Boba Fett about the size of the one from... one of the fucking movies, I dunno I think Luke was dropped in with one once
>>1027592 Fett's rancor is a very young child, almost freshly born. Probably less than a year old because it was still young enough to imprint on Fett.
Jabba's was about 25-30 years old when Luke killed it. They can get really big, Fett's isn't anywhere close to being fully grown.
right, that's what makes me wonder cause like it's about as tall as the gate door to its little room already hell I think it already has to hunch down a bit to get through there and if it gets much wider, it's real weird for it to no longer fit through the spaces made for Jabba's old monster
Yeah, Jabba's rancor didn't have much room in there. I think the sizes are also inconsistent, probably due to a lack of planning with Jabba's which has caused some irregularities in their height and age.
They could have even just said Jabba's wasn't old or something he's crime lord jabba, it'd be easy to just say he gets a new one every like, 5-10 years before they get too big to house under his throneroom
Yeah, I think they dropped the ball a bit with it.
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Like they could just say past a certain age, rancors get kinda slow and not as ferocious, and it'd make perfect sense for Jabba to not keep one at the peak size And hell, getting a NEW RANCOR every decade or so is an enormous show of power and status in and of itself Those things can't be easy to get a hold of
Rancor come from Dathomir (the planet Darth Maul is from) and the planet was pretty much genocided into just being animals and stuff. So it's difficult to get one but there's nobody that would stop you, really.
It'd even make for a COOL STORY to have a full show that's just a ragtag team of like, basically skilled bounty hunters, but they've been comissioned by Jabba to get him a new rancor So they gotta plan and scout out a baby rancor to capture and transport, maybe even fight its mom
that'd be COOL as hell Would be like Evolve, but as a star wars tv show
There are a lot of rancors in KotOR. There's a gigantic, like, 10 meter tall rancor in the sewers of Taris. You can kill it by tricking it into eating some grenades.
oh yeah, that's the HUGE one I remember I wasn't wholly sure if it was the movies or a game I remember it from, but now that you mention the sewer, it's clarifying a bit cause I'm pretty sure it was in a sewer-like place, so that didn't make too much sense for Jabba's
I also think you come up against one in like, an arena of some sort, too though?
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maybe that's the same one, though, my memory's spotty at the best of times
every day i cry bc theres no VR lightsaber fighting game that is good
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You could mod blade and sorcery, but I dunno how much progress has been made on the multiplayer modding of that and its mechanics aren't really made to accomodate lightsabers
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Dogfighting in fighter ships but you're in VR in SPACE
I don't want to play a VR dogfighting game that doesn't have an in-game flightstick through though Playing with a controller is lame
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Oh so you can't use things like the Index grabby hands to grasp for a joystick
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there are some vrchat worlds with some really, really well made planes and dogfighting got a joystick and everything but one of the great problems with that sorta thing in VR is you don't have like, something solid in reality to hold onto, so it's easy to get your hands misaligned with the stick
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>>1027614 Yeah, I don't think so. Based on what I've seen you can't maybe there's a way
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You could maybe get a physical joystick and meet them halfway
i hope the kotor remake is good they said its going to be more action oriented instead of the round-based combat like before if it has combat like jedi fallen order that might be good
yeah well they wanted me to take out twice as much and find a bigger place
but like It's just me how much space do you really need
I'd rather not have too much debt.
But of course, that's not what they want.
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Well on the flipside, moving sucks Having a space you can grow into over years can be pretty nice, rather than coming up against the physical limitations too early And having space is always convenient You never know what the future has in store, be it a pet or project or partner you end up cohabiting with
But yeah I think you probably know the space you want better than the bank does And debt probably sucks more than moving
the downside of putting so many things on the company card is that my company is the one who claims them but i guess the downside is outweighed by me not spending my own money
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
thats a pretty big upside
i might start a company just for the eth staking stuff ive got goin on the income is tiny but i can still write off stuff and enjoy lower corpo tax but, then i have to track all that nonsense and file twice ugh
why do stormtroopers even wear that clunky armor if it doesn't stand up to a blaster anyway? Is it just for the depersonalization and other psychological reasons?
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>>1027652 stormtrooper armor wasn't designed for intense battles it's effective against who the stormtroopers were supposed to be up against, like farmers and upset civilians and shit like that there are elite stormtroopers that have more effective armor and stuff but most stormtroopers are just nobodies and nobody cares if they live or die
>>1027658 oh I guess it's in the name, but I thought that was just cause it sounds badass Actually thought they were supposed to be analogous to soldiers, but they're actually just like, riot cops
>>1027659 yeah basically it's like how /// well the clones had good armor that would diffuse the heat from a blaster shot throughout their armor to mitigate the damage but it was easy to produce armor for clones because they were all fitted exactly the same stormtroopers are conscripts so it costs more to produce high quality armor for them and if you don't expect them to need high quality armor, why waste it? and the conscripts are virtually limitless in number so if a bunch die who cares
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yeah, one size fits all, because all of them are effectively one guy
maybe humans are just easier to break and mold into a military force a lot of the non-humans in star wars either like, kinda stink at combat or have really strong cultural traditions or whatever, maybe hard to make them follow orders blindly
There are a lot of species that are better at combat than humans, like trandoshans (lizard people) and other predatory species but i think that probably it related somewhat to armor too] its easier to make armor for a human than a species with lekku or whatever
it might also just be as simple as the empire being, pretty blatantly, a nazi allegory I mean even outside of combat roles, the whole fucking structure is filled to the gills with humans, albeit racially diverse to some degree, with not another species in sight anywhere Some exceptions like Maul exist, but they're REALLY rare, and all of them seem to have been kept around because they're really, really good at what they do
wasn't he palpatine's boi? >>1027673 sure, humans are the most common but like you see a Rebel base, it's flush with other exotic humanoids you see literally anything owned by the empire, it's all human
>>1027674 Maul was initially trained by Palpatine but the Empire wasn't around then. And Palpatine abandoned Maul after the events of Phantom Menace and Maul spent the rest of his life trying to get revenge on Palpatine and Obi-wan. And Ashoka.
But humans being the most common species in the galaxy might mean that you're more likely to conscript them for an army.
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with the exception of droids, obviously, but they're tools for all intents and purposes with a few notable exceptions
I wanna see a story about a Jawa who learns they've got forcejuice in their veins and breaks away from the crawling fortress to seek a more exciting life
oh that never happ\\ oh wait you mean the second one, yeah that was super fun the dm basically homebrewed something based on arknights, and I played a combat medic we had basically 2 fights, and the first one he'd prepared to be like, a really tough and challenging battle, with like, shit I think we put 100 or so soldiers in their grave over the course of it, but I'd picked up a spell that just makes a silent bubble somewhere, as a joke, because I built my character wrong on purpose So I popped that down, and the start of the engagement was our sniper in said bubble laying down OHK after OHK down a massive kill corridor They didn't even realize they were being attacked before he'd counted like 10-15 kills, it was a fuckton of fun
I also got to make a big pivotal move where one of our fighters was almost dead, but I used a sorta self-harm heal on him, put myself onto like a few HP but sent him to max and ready to go again
and then we fought a guy from uh, some sorta blizzard corp? you'd know better than me who it is, I don't play arknights iced him too, but it was harder cause all of us were fucking tapped
there wasn't much roleplay in the session, but the fighting was fun enough to make up for it we were told it's likely some of our characters eat it over the course of the game just cause it's not balanced for us to be unbeatable heroes, and honestly we would absolutely have gotten our clock cleaned if the sniper wasn't able to silently and without being detected just keep putting people on the floor while the brawny bois advanced I hung out with the sniper just reloading his rifle for a few rounds at the start too, made it a lot more effective
I still think I might enjoy DMing more, but it was more fun than I thought it'd be unlikely to be another game with that same system again for a while though, but everyone had nothing but praise for it the low level and thus lower HP and powerlevel made it a lot more fun in combat
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I enjoy spectating campaigns but being a player is kinda uncomfortable for me i like seeing how others do though
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the lore of the session was also that we were effectively sent on a suicide mission, outfitted with blackop gear and shit no dogtags, etc. so it really felt like we weren't just coasting through anything
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
At D&D on Saturday we had our first irl session in almost two years. We fought 108 enemies 90 of which were represented by Starbursts and you got to eat what you killed. I killed the most enemies and got the most Starbursts. I also killed the boss and earned a 1lb bag of Skittles for doing that. Well "destroy", not kill because they were undead.
hell yeah i usually homebrew my stories and the settings to some extent so i'd probably have it set during a time where there are jedi and sith and stuff and probably the republic but also sith army or something idk
I do feel like one of the main issues with a star wars setting is balancing it so nobody feels like they have to be a force user or stick entirely to bartering or something though Like, force users are powerhouses in the actual canon, they're insane, so making them both be stronger to some extent while not being the only relevant "class" seems tricky
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
I remember talking with a friend of mine who is a big Star Wars nerd about the kind of Jedi I would play in a star wars rpg and he said that they would be "The Wiley Coyote of Jedi".
Like I mean The Mandalorians were at war with the jedi, as in no clear winner, and they're one of the most powerful warrior cultures in the lore, likely only standing up the jedi at all because they've also go super rare armor made of the only thing a lightsaber can't burn its way through that's insanity the jedi aren't even like a warrior culture, they're more like a deprecated order of yogaboys, but they can mop the floor with practically anyone once they pass basic training
In Legends, the Mandalorian War where they nearly beat the Jedi, they didn't have beskar in that. Beskar hadn't even been conceived yet.
>>1027700 It is now, but at the time of writing, beskar wasn't a thing. Outside of the writing, I mean. Beskar wasn't introduced as a thing until well after the Mandalorian War was written. So the Mandalorians stood up to the Jedi with armor that the Jedi could just cut through.
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Oh I thought beskar was like, a thing they'd had since time immemorial and it was like, native to Mandalore or something
but yeah i'll have to check out the balancing of the classes and stuff and i'll see what sort of characters people want to play and write a story around that
If possible I'd like to play a force user who just embraces the dark side but isn't a scumbag just because of that Just see how that shakes out, I'd be fine with it if it even has some like, dice checks here and there to see if I resist the pull of just giving in to rage or whatever when things get heated, that sorta stuff But I'd be a little upset if dark side force means I gotta be an edgelord
Something like a necromancer in TES who's actually a pretty good guy and cares about people, you know Just sees the power in it and wants to use it to help people and solve problems
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or like Big Luigi, who's a beholder but actually just runs a tavern or something and isn't evil I like that sort of character
The dark side runs on passion and anger and stuff like that so it's probably hard to be a legitimately good person while fully embracing the dark side but theres always in between
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well, I don't have to play a good character, but like, overall good something along the moral compass of your average bounty hunter not a bad person, but not exactly a saint either
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well I guess in star wars, most bounty hunters are actually awful people, but be that as it may
in any case, I'll see about the specifics of the build once you look over the system and stuff depending on the length of the game we'd possibly start out at low enough level and experience to just be "a force user" and the pull of power could do the heavy characterization lifting when it comes to how the force shade develops
stuff we don't like we could always rig for a more fun game anyway primary worry is in any case whether a non force user is even viable, cause I don't know if everyone would want to be a force user even though it's star wars
Apparently this system started off with just smugglers and stuff, no jedi, although there was force in it or something. And only in the third book did they add in Jedi classes and stuff.
All Tomorrows is a surprisingly interesting story I never actually sat down and read the whole thing before, only really looked at the pictures and read a brief summary of the introduction and the Qu But a reading of it showed up in my youtube feed, so I just listened to the whole thing
Well here's the thing Ever since I git my new phone Doushio disconnects like 60% of the time I try to upload an image. So the first time I try to upload something, I'll probably remember to hit the spoil button, when it disconnects I immediately try to reupload as fast as possible and will forget to spoil it.
it boggles the mind those little germs are gonna fly up your nose what exactly are n95s used for traditionally anyway
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
I see a lot of people with their noses uncovered on the train. Or even no mask.
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I think most people like that are the ones wearing a mask only as a social requirement or politeness And they don't really care about the entire purpose behind them
But also N95s aren't really comfortable to wear pulled down like that so I feel they're really choosing the worst possible option here
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
>>1027853 Uh Dusty environments maybe Or medical usage But not super dusty environments
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>>1027856 very weird mindset I don't see people policing cloth vs n95 masking so I don't see why they just a wear a cloth mask if they are just going for politeness or like a surgical mask
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though those hurt my ears unless you use one of those plastic pieces that people have fashioned
The place I go to for therapy doesn't let you wear n95s into the building They give you a crappy disposable mask at the front desk and make you wear it.
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it's not like n95s with the respirator valve though they're perfectly useful masks in fact more so than disposable
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>>1027859 Yeah it's weird My workplace has some lofty goals of having everyone wearing N95s but they haven't tried enforcing it I'm, well, not happy to, but agree with the value of wearing a mask, especially in the narrow and kind of close-quarters confines of the warehouse But I don't think the N95s give a substantial amount of protection over cloth masks to be worth the additional discomfort I'd probably push back until an order comes from high up to switch over
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
BC lifting capacity restrictions in like an hour masking and vaccine checks remain
Not really Oh You meant you want to be cremated a live
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>>1027871 Lucky I mean honestly I just want to be free of masks I'm tired of being blind, I'm tired of having a moist face for like eight hours a day But I'll comply until it's over
I fucking hate wearing my glasses while wearing a mask. I am not looking forward to that when I go back to school.
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you can get naturally decomposed just like gosh intended
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
>>1027888 ouch that sounds uncomfy surely there must be some way to ... hmm shits tricky well theres always contacts
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
Maybe I'll get contacts or something.
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
Although I guess its not really wkrth the expense if I only need them in class.
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or as I call him josh with a hard g
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>>1027892 Contacts woudld be difficult for me, I have severe discomfort with having things like that right on my eyes
The simplest answer would be just quit working and cut back on the amount of time I need to spend wearing a mask to just a few hours a week tops, probably Simplest of course, not necessarily smartest Although I think I could survive for a year and a half or so on my current savings Surely by then this whole thing will be over Surely
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vision correction is the reality i've accepted any eyesight that isn't perfect is bad in a world where it can be perfect
i wish contacts were cheaper but oh well
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I know someone who went through with LASIK and seems happy with the results I'd definitely consider it if I was in a comfortable financial position Glasses aren't too bad but not having to worry about anything like that period would be better
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now that you can order glasses online for really cheap, they're by far the way to go i think i've spent less than 300 dollars total for glasses over the past decade in fact i know i've spent much much less than that contacts on the other hands are about 2-300 a year if i want to wear them all the time i instead opt to wear them about half the time when i have them but that's still an annoying expense lasik i definitely way cheaper in the long run but i'd need the money up front still
I like this guy's art a lot amd would like to own some of his artbooks but shipping would pretty much double the cost.
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Yeah it's not that glasses suck so bad I want LASIK It would just be nice for my uncorrected vision to not suck I'd probably only consider it once I'm in like a comfortably middle-class income with no large-scale debts or expenses that need paying off Which frankly, is a less likely prospect with every year
if i had been logging in and stacking primos i'd definitely drop em all trying for yae back when inazuma came out yae was the second-most wanted for me but she didn't end up releasing until now rip
windows being able to mount iso files natively nowadays still catches me off guard at times cause I remember so vividly having to use separate software for that
i think so the game is very narrative driven which makes balance simpler since its not a heavy combat focused game although this book is 400 pages and im on 110 so i still have a lot to look at
Oh, that sounds even better for me Combat is fun and all, but I don't tend to wanna play like, the brawny character that goes off in combat, it's just not really my style So combat segments can slog on a bit for me
But I mean, I still had a ton of fun in that arknight game I played I guess I just kinda like being the support that takes people from capable of killing to killing machines
Some of the most fun I've had in games is popping a kritzkrieg on my pocket soldier in TF2 and just watching the carnage unfold I'm not doing the damage, but I sure am shit am the one making it happen
i like quick combat or combat that is mostly narrative
this game has a big morality system which is interesting where you start with 50 morality and as you go and make decisions you gain or lose morality when you get to 30 or below you fall to the dark side, when you get to 70+ you become a paragon of the light and there are consequences to both but you could also just stay in the middle apparently morality also affects force use but i havent read that part yet
is the morality like, set in stone, or is it more loose? Like is it an objective cosmic morality score, or is it more like it goes by the character's own sense of morality? Cause I mean, some stuff are easy and pretty universal, like don't just murder kids because you had an impulse to, but other stuff gets a bit more polarized depending on the culture and experiences of who you ask
its kind of up to the GM but also the system isnt prone to big changes so the only way to get into dark side or paragon is to consistently and repeatedly do things in those directions, it has to be intentional paragon is like constantly going out of your way and being self sacrificing dark side is like being an aggressive asshole who kills people for looking at them funny star wars does have a pretty binary morality system so it cant be helped
Kind of a weakness of the franchise if I'm being honest A dark side user who is not really what a human would expect, but they ended up there because their actions and attitude to that point have been in violation of what they themselves see as "good" would be interesting Not even to play in a game, but just as a character in a story
Like the binary is more personal and less imposed from some external arbiter of morality
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
>>1028009 i miss TF2 i cant really get into it anymore but those days of chillin at the base rooting out spies or pushing the payload even my brief spy career no game really quite like it
hello key rah rah >>1028007 is there like a campaign you follow along in the book? i'm not familiar with ttrpgs outside of d&d >>1028018 they should add nft tipping
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
twitter added eth tipping on L1 so youre payin at least 5 bucks to send a tip wtf how pointless L2 me bustera
Mahou Shoujo Marsh-chan
*tips eth*
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
Saw an ad for German language courses in the paper. Unfortunately they are online only. I hate online courses. Also it's $650.
>>1028022 I'm gonna just try teaching myself. And practicing conversations with a German friend of mine.
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
>>1028022 Also no I'm terrified of going to foreign countries. Due to my anxiety If I had ever gone as a child I think I would be okay with it but since I haven't
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
all the more reason to go! there is nothing to fear except fear
I hope none of my meds are illegal there. I remember looking up stuff about that for Japan. At one point I was on an antidepressant that was illegal in Japan. My ADHD meds are almost certainly illegal in Japan.
Anno
>>1028026 I feel like statements like this massively underestimate just how overwhelming fear is
permanent injuries can make for real interesting campaigns "well, our healer got socked in the head real hard, so now their healing ability is real stinky, which isn't ideal", the fighter says as the camera cuts to the cleric with a beer in hand at the table, eyes unfocused and a bit of drool from their mouth
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
One of the things I like about GURPS is that crits can permanently cripple your enemies. My Serval Friend character snapped a gnome's neck and permanently paralyzed him. I miss that campaign so much but the GM doesn't want to go back to it. Me taking advantage of the somewhat broken neck snapping/spine breaking/limb wrenching rules probably didn't help.
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
Well I don't think that they're broken, but he does.
I dunno why you would even care about the wheelchair rules if you don't want to play as a character with a wheelchair in the first place every rule in the book is a guideline to begin with
Anno
>>1028050 That fear is overwhelming for many of people and statements like "There is nothing to fear except fear" doesn't really help the circumstances because rather than motivating it feels like a dismissal or trivialization of something which is a very real struggle for them
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
>>1028051 The problem is that the wheelchair is over powered. And that any adventurer who is powerful enough could afford magical healing. And older versions of D&D had rules supporting handicapped characters that probably would have worked fine in 5e. And it was clearly pandering.
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
>>1028052 It's like literally the point, if the fear is overwhelming then it must be confronted. because when it is courageously confronted it will turn out to be not such a big deal. this is the burden to overcome, that's the whole point of it!
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
i get that just reads like a truism but that's what it is we might have different interpretations of what part of the obstacle is fear and what part is real, but the mental game where fear elevates itself is in itself the obstacle
Anno
But that's not even true because sometimes the outcome you fear does come true And it doesn't matter that hardships are a part of life, that's not the point The point is that it validates the fear and ties the emotional dread you experienced beforehand to the fact that the outcome was bad So sometimes facing your fears just serves to prove your fears are very much a real thing
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
you've watched a thousand animes and learned NOTHING
Anno
Anime is fiction Real life is real life I keep the two very much separate thank you
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
anime is all photocopied off of the same hero's journey derivatives which is based on people's experiences facing their own growth and fear in reality these allegories are not just for filling time, there was a point to be conveyed and the point is not to double down on fear and build a complex of cowardice where the possibility of failure somehow is supposed to validate living in fear
>>1028059 Well it's too late for that unfortunately The complex is already etched into the contours of my brain
Anno
Also the problem with allegories is you get to cherry pick the ones which fit your fictional narrative and ignore the ones that don't For how many times have people allegorically challenged the dragon in its own lair and overcome it, have others challenged it and had their bodies burned to char or gnashed by the dragon's maw No one tells those stories because it's a lame allegory, those people aren't heroes They're just dead You can't rely on stories you're told in fiction to ever really give you an apt depiction of real life, metaphor or literal Everything is just someone's interpretation
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
"It's too late for me," says the cynical anti hero at the start of their journey
My mom is in a meeting right now and she mentioned that they need to add support in the online healthcare interface for genders other than male and female and that it will cost a million dollars and take at least 18 months.
Anno
it's out of touch thursday
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
>>1028062 well i'm sorry your life is overwhelming it can't be easy what you're saying is a cherry picking of only the bad outcomes though there is little to no penalty for failure and everything to win in this modern life dragons are not real, just like fear we don't have to risk setting out into the wilds and dying of tetanus or something
Anno
That is objectively false There is always a penalty to failure I don't understand why you continue with this Just because you don't care about the penalty doesn't mean it's not there or not impactful for other people
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
what penalty exists you gonna lose a leg for asking out a girl?
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
the real penalty is living in fear and dying a thousand times before the true death thanks shakespeare for that zinger
>>1028070 Well for that exact situation, the embarrassment of rejection, potentially an even worse humiliation if they decide to be particularly vicious about turning you down for whatever reason they don't appreciate your attempt The continued affirmation of your inability to succeed in attempts like that, the risk of fracturing an already enjoyable friendship if you already know the person or worse ostracization from their social circle It's not just physical pain which can be a penalty
I'm going to vegas in a couple weeks what is there to do for someone who isn't interested in strippers or gambling or hard drugs also not planning on drinking that much
Well as you know, the infamous head of security for the casino is a female in her limited spare time she has just one hobby: playing Old School Runescape. She also finds Australian accents irresistible
I'unno, even Annakin doing the deed with the little jedi students wasn't like, "for no reason" he had his reasons, even if they weren't particularly justified reasons
I mean I guess it makes sense that you gotta be a shady person, but still
Anno
I dunno if you can morally justify murdering a bunch of children
I think I spent more of the last few hours of today's shift either drifting in and out of sleep or just staring in place, brain empty This poor sleep bender I'm stuck in needs to end soon Please
Does something count as 'lore' if it's not optional content? Like does talking about the 'lore' of like, a single book that's not part of a larger franchise make any sense at all? I feel like that's just silly
making jokes that go over the head of your audience is probably a form of stupidity but never making jokes that go over the head of your audience is just being lame
>>1028299 Nah not javdittxt *dottxt It would use that website, I forget the name of it Where you would input two twitter accounts and it would generate tweets that were combinations (somehow, I don't remember the details) of tweets from each account. So this account would tweet pope quotes with JAV titles interspersed or vice vera *versa It was very amusing
i love lappland
>>1028300 actually a very tempting proposition i kinda doubt tickets will still be available by the time i'll know if i can
it's honestly way more tempting than it has any right to be but i would need a partner in cringe
i love lappland
illfest is actually tomorrow and saturday but when they had to swap out Rezz for Kaskade i didn't care anymore i mean there's a lot of good artists but i would only pay that kind of money for certain acts no Rezz no bang
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
>>1028312 There's a club in town run by people who ran the Chicago goth club in the 80's and i think every Thursday they do an 80's goth night thing. I'd go but I don't really enjoy bars since I don't drink I can tolerate it if I'm seeing a live performance But I'd really rather not be there otherwise.
zurich or geneva im thinkin zurich wow rooms in zurich are way more affordable than i expected i thought it'd be like SF prices beautiful but maybe too metropolitan
IBM and it's pretty beautiful architecture but it's got nothing on the quaint mountain towns that are fully self-sufficient im so envious of those folks
>>>/@0xMisaka/1494469319278931970 there's like a new crypto anon anime account using some popular character every week i cant keep up the suzuha account is really quite good they're probably all femboy programmers wearing pink striped socks
>>1028346 they'll probably collect way more insurance payouts than they'd have gotten off the cargo load anyway ships are insured cargo is insured, and most of them wouldn't have sold anyway likely
but now there's an artificial scaricity so that might be good too
月
i don't know much about supply chains really, i could be way off
Anno
>>1028352 Oh yeah I have no doubt the manufacturers are making bank regardless But the ship is now finders keepers, but how much are all those ruined cars worth to the salvagers
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
im sorry but the finder keepers part was a lie there is soemthing about salvage rights tho
>>1028355 >explaining that something posted on twitter is a lie we already know it all is
月
twitter is far too compulsive to interpret law in any meaningful way whichever lie gets the most retweets is the new foundation for their legal system that and what the cnn legal analysts get hired to say
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
>Successfully controlling the nuclear fusion plasma in a tokamak with deep reinforcement learning wasn't this the main plot of Spider-Man 2
elon musk with a titanium metal exoskeleton welded directly to his Neuralink
Anno
Is he going to give himself a titanium metal dick as well
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
gotta go with gold for the piece
S C
if elon himself doesn't prove he's got a neuralink, I'll never even think about getting one even then I won't
月
i sure wouldn't imagine the totally legal and subsidized exploits would they hold IP over any information trafficked through the system? would there be a neuralink app store where you could download neuro apps that exploit user privacy the same way phone apps do now? it sounds silly but if it becomes possible someone will want to do it and by someone i mean at the behest of the CIA or FBI and they'd insist on implementing backdoors im good
>>1028366 yeah I share those concerns overall I'd be interested if it wasn't like, a product made by some corporation just trying to maximize profits though conceptually, the brain chip is cool
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
it has to be completely open source and open hardware otherwise no one in their right mind... you know what... fuck
Anno
That's why they'll only install them on the left side of the brain So that no one in their right mind will ever get one!
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
guh aaargh
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
here we are with a death cult perpetuated by idiots blockading ottawa so they can die faster of course someone's gonna install Blackrock OS into their neural chip
Anno
More like Black Rock Shooter-me in the head why don't'cha
Anno
>>1028373 but it lets me change my spotify playlist with my mind!
does the problem of understanding arise from a lack of present capability or a lack of motivation or, i guess, an abundance of distraction competing for conceptual real estate
月
i think people are generally readily available to understand just about anything if you're able to demonstrate to them why it's valuable to understand, if they simply have the motivation but so much explaining we do as a society hinges around making things easier to understand as though people aren't capable of understanding things complexly. i think complexity is much more natural to how we understand things, and diluting things in that way actually lowers their motivation even more, because now it's not only nondescript in its value, but it's also blandly uninteresting when you trim out all the grit of complexity
but i guess if they have the motivation already in either scenario, it makes it quicker to digest for them? in the diluted form, suitable for segue understanding
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
i used to have faith in humanity now ive taken up the position that 90% of people are fuckin dumb
月
i may have a skewed perspective due to my relative isolation the people i encounter are generally quite competent but there's probably a sampling bias since i don't interact with lots, and only in narrow settings
but sometimes i am reminded of that fact and then think back a bit, and yes i can agree with that too like i intentionally avoid twitter and shit because it's such a frustratingly futile experience, so i've just biased myself out of those 90% of interactions
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
>>1028396 Same 50% of people have an IQ of less than 100. Well Ostensibly
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
Also the American education system is generally terrible. So it leads to plenty of Americans being incredibly stupid. Americans who do things like not believing in germ theory.
actually took a second to look at myself in the mirror and i look like dogshit holy fuck bags under my eyes make me look like im fiendin skin color ain't doin so hot am i gonna die wtf i only feel the normal amount of fatigued i think shit
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
>>1028401 I'm sure you'll die at some point. Have you been staying up late playing your mmo?
>>1028409 man was not meant to know such forbidden knowledge
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
Found one image specifically that my 4chan app can't seem to download. It consistently downloads other images fine But when I try to download this one it hangs
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
This is on top of it taking over ten seconds to download any image no matter the filesize.
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
Who the fuck Oh wait It's just the wind knocking trashcans over
my eyes looks for the crosses and dots that make the i's and t's the J is pretty ambiguous, since the style of font that is being emulated here can have F's and S's and probably other letters as well that are nearly indistinguishable but the lack of dots lead me to almost instantly recognize the u
Anno
My brain doesn't really see the J as an S but I see where you're coming with considering the strokes of the U and M are all just the same line
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
sump king bedryer of castles
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
also that game is pure CBT
Anno
I dunno it doesn't look that bad Hard, but not awful
That's not inaccurate. To Legends at least. Tatooine was oceans and rainforests.
Anno
To have deserts like that, it would have had to have had large bodies of water I mean as far as long-scale fantasy xenogelogical planetary development can reason If it was a planet of mostly rainforests then there would likely still be much more dirt and signs of decayed plant life
it's been a real long time since tatooine was a watery planet though what even happened to it, was it sucked up and ferried elsewhere?
Anno
What kind of "real long time" scale are we looking at here There's a big difference of a real long time in geological terms, versus a real long time in civilization terms
I mean, even if that's what happened, it's gotta have been hit in very precise ways to send the water away but not annihilate all life larger than a tardigrade in the process
Anno
Well on the other hand, forty thousand years is plenty of time to manually add life back to the planet
S C
yeah for sure, but like, I don't think the Jawas and the tuskens were imported Hell the tuskens are implied to have oral history of before the planet was desert, I think
The jawas surviving makes sense, that crawling fortress maybe can take a beating but the tuskens are like, tribal doubt they had like, an advanced bunker to hide in or something still the most high tech they seem to get by their own selves is making a sharp stick
Anno
Well, never doubt biological tenacity Creatures are pretty good at surviving All those rocky crags with caves in them may have been around when the planet was still green And they survived the glassing by hiding out in caves
Anno
I think one of the biggest things about Tatooine is to not think too hard about it There's a lot of incongruencies of it that don't line up with what we understand about planetary geology and I highly, highly doubt Lucas thought too hard about it when he was envisioning it Kinda like how you just have to accept there can be giant lizards which can fly and breathe fire to accept the existence of dragons in fantasy, you have to accept that there are some "somehow" things about Tatooine which allows it to exist in the way we know it
Also is the spice made on tatooine, or what's going on there? The planet has like 3 or 4 cities total, one of which is little more than an outpost really >>1028467 then what's the deal with the train!?
Originally it was just a reference to Dune Where 3P0 was afraid of being sent to the spice mines and they just left it at that But since the Disney acquisition it's turned into a big thing with a major part in the world and for some reason it seems to be the only drug Nearly every drug is made of spice it's really stupid
Anno
Spice only really works in the Dune world because of how thoroughly Herbert thought out the existence of Spice and what it means for Arrakis and the planet's ecosystem Realistically it's really fucking weird to just get naturally occuring drug components right out of the ground, unless you're considering hallucinogetic gases
>>1028471 Shit you could make so many credits by just taking pot to one of the ocean planets and starting a hydroponics operation
Anno
Talking about this I get a hunch in the back of my brain that Disney likes the idea of mined spice so much because it lets them dodge the whole culturally dodgy thing of having stuff like weed or other plant-derived drugs in the world There's probably people who would get uppity about seeing anything that reminds them of real drugs
man the galaxy must have sucked before they got so far they got like, bacta imagine getting fucked up and there aren't even opiates anywhere in the whole damn galaxy, you just gotta fucking take it
According to High Republic, bacta is only about 250 years old Before that they used kolto which was first in KotOR but we don't know much about its properties in new Canon Other than that it's like kolto /// like bacta but not as good
Anno
Also even in real life it wasn't uncommon just to get people roaring drunk to make them forget the pain If it was a part of the world that didn't have a good painkilling option or other drug
prob not star wars is actually very wholesome lucas is a wholesome guy despite everything
Anno
You say wholesome I say childish I think he was a man who didn't quite grow up and played out some of his fantasies in space Which isn't inherently a bad thing, it's just he had a narrow scope of a lot of things
I just figured like maybe their suit dispensed stims like a little dripfeed to keep them ready to go and compliant At least during combat situations, I'd expect it just pumps them full of the stuff cause like, they're expendable anyway right?
honestly kinda incredible how obedient the stormtroopers are when they're treated as crap generally I guess that's only within the structure though, once they enter a city they're basically kings of the castle they get a lot outta it, even if they gotta lay their lives on the line sometimes
Anno
Also when the Empire has total control of anywhere worth living, what exactly are you going to do?
>>1028500 don't they tend to have some ideological agreement with the US military though, even if often a bit critical The Empire doesn't even really seem to have much of an ideological bent beyond simply acquiring power, even towards the troopers there's a very open "this talk about order and peace for the galaxy is, really, just sugar coating on the actual goal, power" vibe to it
Americans don't usually join the military for ideology, that's just the loudest ones. Most join are doing so because it's the only option they see to have a better life, getting out of poverty, getting a career. Some join because it's what their parents did.
The Empire recruits loyal people as stormtroopers mostly. It's the same thing, people are joining because they view the military as an opportunity to get ahead and have a career and mostly stormtroopers are cops, after all. They're cops, not soldiers in the first place. So many of them believe they're heroes for keeping the peace, protecting people, etc And buy into the stuff the empire feeds them about why that's necessary
makes sense are there even actual soldiers around anymore by the time like, the death star booms alderaan? the jedi's been dealt with at that point, more or less, right?
is the empire just literally a fucking police state where everyone's either a cop or a citizen?
Anno
It was one of the good potentials of the new trilogy with Finn who did kind of belief the Imperial propaganda of the stormtroopers being peacekeepers or noble soldiers Believe even Too bad like most potentials they didn't do anything of value with it
>>1028503 There are also soldiers. Different types of troopers served as soldiers and sometimes stormtroopers did, but for example snowtroopers are soldiers more than cops. There were also purge troopers who were like specialized soldiers.
On the other hand, you have professional soldiers in the sense that the Rebellion was a semi-professional military with recruited soldiers. You also had mercs who were previously soldiers during the time of the Republic. A lot of planets had large numbers of soldiers until the clone wars because until the clone wars the Republic had no standing army and each planet had its own military that it would contribute troops and ships from when the Republic at large needed them.
I'm going to become the joker I've got myself involved in a Hell Thread with one fucking idiot who decided it's very important to defend the integrity and political neutrality of The Voltaire (actually a neonazi pedophile) quote I am becoming the joker in real time
yes unfortunately it's PARTICULARLY boiling my blood because I don't think the guy actually IS a nazi or anything, he's just a super brainlord who thinks it's important to really nail down that because it doesn't specifically mention jews, it wouldn't be antisemitic if used in a world where maybe there were no jews, or maybe there actually WAS a shadow government that for some reason had made criticism of itself illegal (thus nulling the 'shadow' bit) Just very important to him, and it makes me feel like tearing my own nerves out
>conspiracy theories most of the time ending with the Jews somewhere down the line is news to me WHY ARE YOU IN THIS CONVERSATION? YOU KNOW NOTHING BY YOUR OWN ADMISSION
S C
That's not NEWS to anyone That's not fucking special knowledge EVERYONE KNOWS THAT NEARLY EVERY SINGLE GROUP OF CONSPIRACY NERDS HAVE A THING ABOUT JEWS THAT'S A SOCIETAL-LEVEL RUNNING GAG
I just don't know how you can know about conspiracy theories to any real degree, but somehow not have noticed how *every group* has their own little section about specifically how the jews are at fault It's just... it's every time I don't know of a big one where a sizable chunk of the adherents aren't at least aware of the supposed culprit, whether they buy into it themselves or not
S C
And usually they do buy into it, cause they do sort of need a group that jews fill very nicely in our culture
i do not have the materials to make such things but also that wouldnt make me less stir crazy i overstrained my hips so im kind of stuck if i walk around too much they'll get worse and i wont be able to work on tuesday
>>1028532 i saw this image and i thought it was hilarious but also i wondered couldn't kanna eat the pitbull
Kirara 🍄 大医 ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
yeah kanna could probably crush the pitbull with her eyes closed unless pitbulls are dragons
i love lappland
what if pitbulls are actually dragons though and the reason some of them attack people is because they're with the chaos factions and the nice ones are with the other dragons
SCP really is a very fascinating project The quality varies extremely, but that's sort of the beauty of it all, too Some of it seems to be dedicated towards some sort of larger plot, as well, but I haven't really spent any time trying to understand or read about that
I'm honestly still amazed that there are people who genuinely liked the old Dune movie
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
nostalgia is a powerful hallucinogen
S C
I mean I guess, but holy shit movies must have been in a bad way at the time for that movie to have gotten any traction at all It's really hard to overstate just how shitty it is in almost every way
it's like if high school students got a bit of a budget and some big name actors on board, but the rest was up to them despite movies mostly being an interest rather than a passion It crams so much into so little time, and none of it really has any build up, it just sorta happens
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
The Dune movie that didn't get made looked really cool.
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
wow my PC just crashed i swear i've been hacked at some point
>>1028552 I've not seen much about it at all honestly I've seen like, the cover of an art book or something, but that's about it cause I was never really interested in Dune It's a LONG book series, and that's like kryptonite to me
it made a pretty pattern tho and Spotify kept playing the dune soundtrack gorsh i hope someone didn't stenographically encode my private keys into the pixel dust
>Bogaranths were large, quadrupedal carnivorous creatures. They produced noxious slime when they were hungry, which was frequently. The Nihil used bogaranths in a battle rink onboard the Gaze Electric, wherein one contestant would ride the creature while a second served as a slime runner who guided the creature while attempting to avoid being eaten.[1] slime boys
is there any indication for roughly how much a credit is worth in like, USD? like how much some sort of product with a similar level of availability to our own world's costs or something, I mean
honestly didn't expect it to be possible to derive, but that's pretty neat at least it means the value is SOMEWHAT consistent, and that makes it easier to understand how much a bounty is actually worth and stuff Even if prices in star wars are gonna deviate heavily from our own prices, with stuff like water being possible to sell for half a month's wages on tatooine
Anno
>>1028564 I tried to visit /ass/ and it says I'm forbidden wtf
>>1028575 It was calculated by converting credits into gold and then gold into USD
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
theres some random shit in there from years ago https://doushio.com/ass/memes/icecream.jpg (2017) oh its all from 2017 cuz thats when i copied from the old server
>>1028579 Oh Well that's a stinky way to do it There's no reason to think gold has the same relative value in star wars Hell, it's probably close to worthless in star wars, since even for jewelry there are way many more exotic and pretty minerals available
>>1028582 That's true It may not be that far off strange method of figuring it out, but at the same time the value of gold was probably not really adjusted when writing it to reflect the differences between our two galaxies
>>1028583 according to this official tabletop game, a cloud car is 30k credits, an airspeeder is 18k, a speeder bike is 3k
an a-wing intercepter starfighter is 150k x-wing 120k a star destroyer is 150,000,000 credits
Kirara 🍄 大医 ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
50k for one of those crawlers the jawas use 80k for a firespray gunship like boba fett's ship a yt-1300 which is an unmodified version of the model of ship the millennium falcon is costs 100k
ships are very expensive
Anno
Relatively, but when you think about it, even 400,000 USD for an actual space-faring vehicle is a steal Ships obviously have more affortable prices in the Star Wars universe compared to real life
Kirara 🍄 大医 ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
at the same time 12000 USD for what amounts to a motorcycle that /// well actually that does make sense hmm yeah i'd say 1 credit to 4 USD seems consistent
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
how much for a spaceship today like ten billion dollars?
star wars has had ships for like 100k years or something so the low costs probably make sense considering its reached a point where technology doesnt make major strives and improvements anymore
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
we gotta get the dyson sphere up and running mass produce some squadrons
Gotta kinda wonder why the Mandalorians in the show still have a beskar smelter around though Beskar's super, SUPER DUPER expensive Even beyond the price, finding someone who has it at all and is willing to part with it is even harder than just meeting the price tag
In some ways, in the show, Mando was formally excommunicated after telling them about the helmet, but really his insistence on protecting Grogu despite the shipping container of Beskar promised ought to have been enough to send him packing, I'd think
the Mandalorian clan in the Mandalorian show are a crazy cult basically Beskar is super important to Mandalorians and prior to the Empire, they had beskar in pretty good supply Most of them had beskar armor although some clans that left Mandalore ended up with durasteel armor and stuff It's sacred to Mandalorians but Din's clan are extremists so they would absolutely carry around a smelter even if some other clans don't
also it's gotta be drawing A LOT of power It's astonishing they managed to stay mostly undetected feeding off the city's power supply like that
S C
I mean when she put those slabs into it in the early parts of the show, it's not like they gradually melted, they just liquified on the spot that's an insane amount of heat
I dunno. Cryo-furnaces have been used by Mandalorians for probably thousands of years so I doubt the power drain is that bad I think it's something that takes advantage of the unique elemental makeup of Beskar. In Rebels S4 the Empire has a device that only attacks Mandalorians by targeting and heating up Beskar.
Oh, so it's not that it's hot enough, but it does something chemically or mechanically to render it pliable like how the monsters swimming in the sand probably do it by vibrating in a certain way and making the sand effectively act as a liquid
Besides, I guess electricity isn't super scarce even for small settlements, much less cities, in star wars they might not even have a concept like power bills just due to how trivial it is to generate, considering they've got robots walking around even in the most remote farming homesteads Luke's dad or uncle or whatever wouldn't have considered buying r2d2 if they couldn't power the damn thing up, after all
Anno
You could still probably trace power use as a signal of suspicious activity though
>>1028603 Yeah, but only if you're looking for it in the first place And they probably don't have people monitoring the grid just cause it'd be like monitoring the power grid of a nuclear plant assigned to power like, a household It's just so plentiful, 'stealing' power is a non-concept So why monitor it
i love lappland
my pork stew turned out so fucking amazing i have so little worth bragging about in my life but my ability in the kitchen is definitely part of it >>1028607 it's all wrapped up in tupperware cause i'm taking it to my friend's house so give me like half an hour or so and i'll post it when i get there
Kirara 🍄 大医 ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
post stew
Kirara 🍄 大医 ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
ok (:
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I'm kinda peeved they changed (?) lightsabers at some point so you can use them without the force though I assumed for a long time the reason it was possible to keep it as a relatively short, contained beam was passive force usage on it, and I still prefer that explanation
i love lappland
speaking of the lid isn't really secure so i tied kitchen twine around it like a package i should take a picture of that
also with the exception of beskar, shouldn't parrying a weapon with a lightsaber just lead to it being torn in half? >>1028613 Vibroblades real Mando has two vibrodaggers
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v i b r o b l a d e s] are vibroblades no longer canon
Kirara 🍄 大医 ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
they are
i love lappland
ok good vibroblades are sick
Kirara 🍄 大医 ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
recently there was a vibroknife in book of boba fett
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my revan was always dual wielding vibros until i became a lightsabersman
Kirara 🍄 大医 ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
>>1028612 not vibroweapons but yeah most weapons will
Really, the price tag on the headset is the main problem with VR Unless you basically live in a closed, you've got the space for most, and even if you do, games like TTS and others like VRchat don't need space at all Even your PC probably can do VR for a lot of games, unless it's SUPER old
They've announced you won't need one, but it's not yet the case afaik I thought I didn't when I got mine, but it turned out I did which was kinda stinky, made me consider taking it back, but I figured what the hell Had to feed it my credit card info to enable developer mode, though, and that kinda sucked big ass
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Depends on whether I want it more than a Switch in a few months.
The quest is pretty damn good, but it's a bit limited because it tracks the controllers optically I.E you can't move your hands outside your FOV Which stinks big time for games like Into The Radius and Blade and Sorcery They still work fine, but you're a bit limited in terms of what you can do easily
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>>1028645 Not gonna be within my budget anytime soon.
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I wonder if they'll release some sort of addon hardware that lets you set up cheapo base stations to track the controllers around your body
yeah but 500 bucks is real expensive for something that doesn't have many games to use it with the set was already expensive enough for it, y'know >>1028656 Oh I'm not too worried about compatibility, I mean more that there aren't a lot of VR games where something like this is worth using it with Most VR games are primarily novelty, the interesting ones aren't even done yet And I need full body tracking for it to not just be annoying, I'd wager
Kirara 🍄 大医 ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
bhaptics lists like 50+ games that work with the vest including into the radius
I wish B&S used the vibration function to nudge you like "you're moving your hands too fast for the weapon" so it'd be easier to get a feel for the weight and stuff Cause it glitches out if you move heavy weapons too fast ITR doesn't really simulate the weight of stuff like that though, you can one-hand any gun you want cause your guy is STRONK
>>1028687 not too much, pretty steady 35-40 hours a week right now problem is I never really know which days I'll have off until a few days before the new work week begins so planning stuff can be a little annoying my boss is really flexible as long as I give him a week or two notice at least, he's never denied me time off so far
