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El Calafate Tierra de Glaciares, Argentina —— A puma floating on an Iceberg in Argentinian Patagonia 

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wanting depressed and traumatized middle aged characters to kiss and hold hands can truly be something incredibly personal. 

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Art by • Frank Frazetta

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All tied up ~

Reffed photo: Marie Sauvage

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I miss the Lady!! Hello??? Can I get a Juno Steel?? CAN I PLEASE GET A-

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For all the people who said that the eye reflections in nimona represented a characters alliagence how does it feel to be right?

From art of nimona

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This paladin was a scourge on the world in his god's name, and was ultimately sealed under a mountain.

A character for a short comic I'm doing!

Original inks:

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Took too many classes talking about Paleolithic and Neolithic humans at the same time this semester, decided to get really insane about Ghosts AU Bdubs and his life

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I feel like I don’t say this enough, but

FUCK!! FUUUUCK FUCK FUCK!!! WHAT THE FUCK!! WHAT IS GOING ON!!

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The hell-raisers truly raise my spirits like no one else can. My favorite of blorbos

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encounter design is an interesting subject bc while I do enjoy games where every fight is designed to be fought and cleared by the party, it's not the whole of what an encounter can be and it's a shame that so many people think that's the only option, like, for some even just stepping back as little as removing the concept of "every encounter must be winnable" is too much for them

Like, again, I like walking into every fight knowing I am intended to be able to clear it in games built in that manner, it's very fun to navigate a battle with the foreknowledge that it's possible for me to handle in some way or another, but this design also inherently removes a lot of the tension from the situation, which is fine for a heroic fantasy adventure, but less useful in, say, a survival horror campaign

and "should encounters be assumed to be winnable" is just a tiny part of encounter design, which itself is just one segment of a larger game, and it already has such a strong effect on how the game feels, imagine how much it'd change if you altered even more of your approach, or removed the concept of them entirely

The mechanics inform the feel of the story you're telling through the game and I think that's really cool, and I really love seeing how different games emulate their different priorities through the design of their systems and it's a shame to see so many people disinterested in this and think any system out there can or even should do literally everything equally well all at once

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LOOK WHAT @mixinu MADE MEEEE SHE IS PERFECT SHE IS BIG AND SOFT I CANTTTTT Q_____Q MY BABY GIRL OMG LOOK AT HER

THANK YOU SO MUCH

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i hate seeing people drink the openai/chatgpt koolaid 😭😭😭 genuinely feels like watching someone get seduced by scientology or qanon or something. like girl help it's not intelligent it's Big Autocomplete it's crunching numbers it's not understanding things i fuckign promise you. like ohhh my god the marketing hype fuckign GOT you

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Hey everyone, I know it's going to be a busy day for a lot of people, but Google enrolled everyone over 18 into their AI program automatically.

If you have a google account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off.

Then you need to go to myactivity.google.com/product/gemini and turn off all Gemini activity tracking. You do have to do them in that order to make sure it works.

Honestly, I'm not sure how long this will last, but this should keep Gemini off your projects for a bit.

I saw this over on bluesky and figured it would be good to spread on here. It only takes a few minutes to do.