Pileated Woodpecker taking flight

This was for a thermos for a local coffee shop.

Was a lot of fun working with a flatter cut out style for the Pileated Woodpecker.

they're friends 💜

The children desire Chip

Idk, I'd just really rather ask a librarian or bookseller than a robot to help me understand a subject. It's more helpful and 9 out of 10 times we end up bonding over something random, like their calendar featuring dogs in sweaters.

No wait, Jango Fett. Yep, a dad Dies (either literally or metaphorically) in every main Star Wars film

Also, Star Wars is very much a Dad/father figure-killing film series. I think... episode 2 might be the only exception?

Instant oatmeal with a bit of peanut butter is pretty good, makes sense. Was not prepared for instant oatmeal, with peanut butter and a 3/4 full mug of cold green tea dumped into it ALSO being pretty good.

Properly labeled tiny beast

The gnawing horror of being at the mechanics and seeing all the issues start piling up through their updates page...

You might as well attempt to string 60,000 words together because what else do you have going on?

Dia, what do you mean by 'the audience is mid'

"You have my sword"
"And my kung fu" roared Bombadil busting through the nearest wall like the Kool Aid Man

It's not like.. a super complex thing and I guess not etymology.. buuuuut...

"Cyclopean" refers to the size of the Cyclops rather than it's single eye. If something is "Cyclopean" it just means it really big, nothing to do with it's eyes or number whereof.

I had not listened to the episode when I saw this, and I was so excited to see how the fuck they tangented their way to this.

Shelved by Genre is fucking great.

listen to shelved by genre

Relistening to the Borellus Connection AP from Role Playing Public Radio, and this bit from Caleb got me at the end "The only thing sorcerers understand is mutually assured destruction. That's what I've learned from about a year of Delta Green."

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anyway solved a problem that's been happening for two months at work in a week.

it is weird to explain how to solve... problems. because its just how the brain immediately begins spinning once you see a problem. what do you MEAN that doesnt happen for you

being a problem solving guy is hard to explain because people will come to you with a problem & you just have to like. look at it. figure out why it happened. figure out if you could bandaid it easier. & then fix it.

& the whole time the person who called you has no idea how to start this process

Green-Teal background with "I'm not a magician" in black text in an arch. The arched text is over an upside down top hat with a cartoony rabbit and roses, surrounded by sparkles, popping out of the hat

This basically describes my decade of library & makerspace work. And the frequency with which the person would go "oh, you are a [magician/etc]" drove me bananas. A found me a shirt, was my fave til I got to fat to wear it

How to use your imagination When your party stays at the Inn overnight, what do they eat? If you ever catch yourself wondering that then you know you’ve formed an attachment to your characters. With Etrian Odyssey’s characters, you only give them a name and a portrait, so no matter how you think of the character it’s technically just your imagination. But even in that case, without your imagination, the character is nothing. For example, a landsknecht who uses an axe might eat his meat with his bare hands and no utensils, but one who wields a sword might prefer a knife and fork at dinner. You might think differently, but... if you can imagine small details like that, you might find that you enjoy this kind of RPG even more. The essense is an RPG is using numbers to make calculated decisions, but if you invest those “numbers” with your own feelings, you can spice up the game little. Think about this: In your party of five, three characters are dead. Two of them are alive, but they only have a couple of HP left and no TP. They’re certain to die in their next turn, giving you a game over. Number-wise, those characters are useless, but how do you imagine they feel about that? What kind of people are those 2 characters who are about to die? Try to imagine things like that in the brief time before your game ends. Are they a landsknecht and a ronin, who’ll die facing the enemy and laughing? Is it a protector, ordering the weak medic to run with his last breath? The game over screen looks the same every time, but in your imagination, it could play out very differently. The game itself isn’t that big of a thing; what you imagine for yourself is much more fun. We hope that the player uses this game as a tool, to create dramatic and fun situations in your own minds. —Kazuya Niinou

Been thinking about the use of imagination in video games lately, or how I feel there are few and increasingly fewer games that ask the player to use their imagination to engage with them.

This post Kazuya Niinou wrote to accompany Etrian Odyssey often comes to mind so I decided to remake it.

Fun fact! There's a whole community dedicated to jailbreaking and modding kindles. You don't need to settle for this.

kindlemodding.org

Remember kids: means testing is for smug busybodies and jackasses who want to waste money punishing people for being poor!

FALLEN LONDON PC SPHERE OF SUPREMACY: Respond to a mundane problem with epic Means. A ZEALOT WITH SINGULAR PURPOSE. EVERYTHING IS A MEANS TO THEIR END. There are many among the moons who spend their lives seeking a singular, dramatic goal. It is an unusual sort who dedicates themselves utterly to the impossible. To light aflame every last possession and connection in service of a single step. To build a life up again, and burn it all down once more. How many deaths will they die this time? It doesn’t matter. Surely it doesn’t matter. CLASS SENTENCES • I always shape the world to fit my needs. • I always seek the right tool. • I always know where to apply pressure. • I always bear the consequences. EXAMPLE BONDS • [Character] is useful. I will keep them close until the time is right. • [Character] fails to realize their potential. I will show them what is missing. OBSESSION Instead of a Dream, create an Obsession – a Dream taken to harmful extremes. During any Conflict, you may add “when following my Obsession” to one of your class sentences and succeed as if you had deployed a Dream. When the scene ends, permanently retire that class sentence. If you ever achieve your Obsession, retire your character. OBSESSION EXAMPLES: • I will free the moons from the need for Orphan Vessels. • I will break the chains of mortality. • I will usurp Realis-Itself. Reassure yourself: this isn't happening. Therefore, there's nothing to worry about. You haven't opened a doorway that cannot be closed. You haven't entered a castle that hasn't been built. This isn't where the Discordance is studied, because it cannot be studied. You aren't welcome here.

why yes I DID spend way too much time polishing a Realis shitpost I made in response to my disappointment over the fallen london TTRPG why do you ask

After the Long COVID really settled in, getting used to not being convenient or decorative anymore was one of the hardest things.
They’re paltry virtues, but they feel like the existence tax.

survival is a radical act for social minorities

Imagining some different worlds and what it might take to get to them.

Budgie dragon commission for @empressofgulls