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A little work in progress of Venom and Eddy sharing a cute moment

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I’ve been posting a twitter thread cataloging my journey through Azeroth with pictures! It’s under the tag #DigitalTourism  I may post them here sometime but twitter is the easiest method right now, and it’s all grouped nicely.

Come say hi! 

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More bees!  Installed in front door, and in progress on the bench.

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Would anyone be interested in seeing the World of Warcraft tourism posts I’ve been making? I’ve been posting them to Twitter, but maybe it would be fun here too... or maybe I should start a specific blog...

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if my pitched-down, chopped-up remix of the wii shop channel theme gets stuck in ur head as much as the original gets stuck in mine, then i’ve accomplished my goal. if not then fuck u

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Suzan the Battle Pig

So, I’m in a campaign where everyone starts as level 0 commoners and we all flail around trying not to die horribly for as long as possible. Somehow, amidst all this carnage, an unexpected hero joined us.

DM: you are ambushed by three angry Gnolls. What do you do?

Dwarf herder (me): *looks through inventory* wait…I have a sow?

DM: Yep. You’re a herder.

Herder: Imma try and get her to attack the Gnolls. *rolls a d20 and gets an 18*

DM: ok, she attacks. Roll a d4 for damage.

Herder: *rolls 4*

DM:….your pig kills the Gnoll.

Herder: I’m naming this sow Suzan the Battle Pig. Good job, Suzan!

~~~~later~~~~

Herder: *dies by another angry Gnoll*

Me: wait, can Suzan still fight?

DM: roll persuasion to see if your other character can convince her to help.

Me: *rolls nat20*

DM: Suzan is filled with rage and discovers an insatiable hunger for Gnoll flesh. She now attacks with a d6.

Suzan: *kills the remaining Gnoll boss and Gnoll magician*

Me: Suzan is gonna eat the Gnolls

DM:…ok, she eats the big one and gains 5XP and one point of luck. She’s too full to eat the other one.

Me: Suzan carries the magic Gnoll with her.

~~~~one short rest later~~~~

Me: can Suzan eat her Gnoll now?

DM:….oh right, you did say you carried that. Sure. As Suzan eats the magic Gnoll, she feels a rush of magical energy in her mind. Her brain is rebuilt by this magic so that she has…. *rolls d20 and gets a 15* Oh, for fu–Suzan has 15 intelligence now and the ability to cast spells. Congratulations.

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Day twenty-six to twenty-nine.

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Do this four times repeatedly and you’ll be out. But how does it work? There’s some real brain science behind it.

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Look!-

 look with your special eyes.

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The interesting thing about Glados/HAL 9000 parallels is that

Hal was conceived at a time when artificial intelligence was more of a fictional construct than a practical possibility. Hal is introduced as humanlike because the audience is familiar with and comfortable with humans, but they aren’t familiar with or comfortable with living computers. It’s when he starts acting robotic and calculated that the audience realizes “oh no, he’s a computer” and he becomes threatening.

By the time Glados was conceived, we had become used to computer automated systems. Synthetic voices offering us information is something we encounter in daily life. Glados is introduced as a computerized preprogrammed voice because that’s what the audience is familiar and comfortable with. It’s when she starts acting human and emotional that the audience realizes “oh no, she’s alive” and she becomes threatening.

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The more you look at this picture, the more anxious it becomes.

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Overwatch Punkins! I really like Reaper and his edgelordy ways, and the current Halloween event is so fun! I got a few skins but am still missing my Van Helsing McCree

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Here’s a hot take: villains should be relatable.

Not every villain, not every time, and certainly not to everyone at once, but there should be moments. We should, occasionally, be able to see ourselves in the bad guys, be able to understand how they got there.

Because it reminds us not to fucking go there.

Antis who get upset about villains having relatable qualities (often couched as being “romanticized” or “woobified”) are people who cannot bear to ever think of themselves as having the capability of being wrong.

Every human alive is capable of being a horrible person. Relatable villains remind us to keep an eye on that shit.

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Reblogging for Scully's slow loss of patience for this nonsense

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File this one under “Masculinity So Fragile…”

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Artist: Lucas Werneck on IG