#Nerd Talk

[zadokengel]

EY. DND/ttrpg community.

I had an interesting thought/question pop my mind.

Ya'll know Mind Flayers (Illithids) munch on people's brains to gain more knowledge about stuff and things, right?

SO. My question(s) to ya'll is this:

Do you think the Flayers would ever eat the brains of an insane/mentality broken person? Has that ever been looked into?

More food for thought (Heh...):

Would they know if a person is nuts and would they just munch on on some poor guys grey matter?

Would they risk going insane to get that one bit of info that would help in them in the long run?

How would that affect the Flayers' psionic abilities?

If anything, this might make for an interesting plot hook/campaign. A mind flayer leader goes and reluctantly asks for help from a group of adventurers to go and find this broken minded flayer and put it down. All because of this insane flayer is afflicting other people's and animals' minds. And it's not aware that it's doing that.

What do you all think?

[sargasmicgoddess]

When you complete your PhD, in what ways do you hope to help people?

Also, you’re mind and body are super sexy!

Thank you!

Oh man, do you want the shorter long answer or the full answer to that question? 😂😂🤓

You know, I never thought I'd want to get a PhD, but a variety of things happened last year professionally that pointed me in this direction. I'm extremely fortunate to be able to still work a job I love, with amazingly supportive teams on both the professional and academic side, while doing an in person PhD program. It's been intense, but I LOVE it.

My current position is very fulfilling in that I already get to help people. This additional coursework will help me hone my skills as a scientific researcher and allow me to lead more work/projects/initiatives in areas that I know need more research/evidence to propel the field towards the next level of change.

There's a lot more to this, but I'll just leave it at that. I can go on and on about my work and it's very easy for me to get carried away 😂

Thanks for asking!

[galactic-space]

God I’m so tempted to make a Saiyan and a Viltrumite Crossbreed oc rn….

Like… a Saiyen with the invincibility of a Viltrumite, and the power of a saiyan.

A child who looks for battles to both prove themselves and others that they are this powerful one

A child that might have to choose a side between sayians or Viltrumites, or be forced down their own path of destruction

An absolute beast of a person, who could only be taken down by gods…

Spooky

Then again Saiyan genes are recessive if I remember correctly and Viltrumite genes are extremely dominant, so it’s possible the child might be 90% Viltrumite and only 10%Saiyan which means they’d probably still retain a lot of Viltrumite genes, on top of that possibly missing a lot of Saiyan upgrades

But saiyans haft-breeds are also powerful… when mixed with human blood. So who knows how powerful the kid will end up

[suzylind]

LOOK!!! I'm sorry!! (Actually not sorry at all!!) But mt brain is going to root with Bravern as of today!!

I know nothing about Brave Bang Bravern, yet, but I will god damn make sure I know him "inside" and out once I get to that point!!! I already love the mech, I needed him in my life!!!!!

Now excuse me as I'm going to move over to the corner and die :)

[ask-the-cosmic-duo]

"..... Super Armor, huh? But will it save lives..." Aurora looked down at her own military vest before continuing, "Too strong means too heavy and bulky.. you lack mobility. Infantry will die if it can't get out of the way on time." She leviated a small looking sturdy armor nearby before crushing it easily with magic. "Against explosions and ultra powered magical attacks? How does it help? It needs some kind of exoskeleton... and we dont have the materials nor the tools to create those sadly.. it's only a concept art today in fantasy games. Here, at least."

"Well... racing arcade games are more popular in the imperial capital than FPS games.. same goes for fighting games. We have those tourneys once in a while.. with prize money. We are still far behind in technology than most worlds.. Our Empress doesn't like technology here to move too fast, because she is worried technology will replace magic and flight, and of course mother nature. She worries it will create a dystopian world where corporations benefit."

Aurora looked across the room, at the clock, "looks like I have to make the magic brew for the Empress soon. She's sick.. since the last great battle, and not in a good way." She sighed as she pulls out a old magical cure book...

"I must find the Prince.."

"Oh, well that's easy! The armor's linked to your nervous system! It moves in sync with you, as if it's a part of your body, and even provides force multipliers to allow for much more impressive feats of strength!" Stella trilled softly.

"The Mjolnir armor was developed to armor the Spartan-IIs, and use many different highly-advanced technologies to function, like miniaturized nuclear fusion technology, a special liquid metal crystal layer within the undersuit that is a key part of the suit's mobility, energy shielding starting with the Mark V, and an additional crystal layer under the metal plating that allows for the integration of a smart AI, also introduced with the Mark V."

"Basically, it's obscenely expensive, but also unbelievably effective when paired with someone that won't kill themselves from the armor overreacting to their smallest movements." She paused. "Yeah, uh, if that alone didn't make it clear, it takes a heavily augmented soldier, like a Spartan, to effectively use a set of Mjolnir armor. But, if you give them that armor, and the proper training, they're nearly unstoppable!"

"And you want this armor for yourself? You don't have any augmentation, much less anything like that of a Spartan."

Her ears folded somewhat. "I'm... still figuring that part out." It took her a moment to process what was said next, and she perked up when she did. "Huh? Oh, right. Yeah, she's not far off. I mean, look at America in the human world." She giggled, seemingly having already moved on. "I don't mind tech replacing some things, though. Cars are a blast to drive, despite how dangerous they can be in the wrong hooves. You just gotta make sure you aren't the wrong hooves."

Sol nodded. "Stellar's really good at racing games, though. Knowing her, she'd dominate any competition she's put in once she's used to the controls and knows what works. It's like she can enter the zone at any time, completely at will. It's weird."

Stella tilted her head as Aurora talked about her plans, looking curious. "Sick? Sick how? What happened? And, uh... can we help?" She received a look from Sol, likely about to say again that they might not be authorized to help. She ignored it, though.

[leopold-wolf]

I'd there a Sentai fight that's better than DekaMaster taking out 100 dudes in 2 minutes?

Probably not lol. But my personal favorite has always been In space yellow and pink fighting psycho pink. Also in Megaranger Mega Silver powers always only lasted for like 2 minutes or so so he always had to make quick work of enemies.

[angelsonthesideline]

Okay, so @bewitchingbimbo I know you are all WoW and team Sylvanas is hot af.. but can we talk about LILITH and how fucking hot they made her (let alone the voice actress they chose for her in D4?!) 🥵🥵🥵

[thenameisjem]

Mika on Ocean hued clam on level 20 with physical goblet hits 16k :|

[youthofpandas]

What’s up with how the dunmeshi fandom just lies about this kind of stuff all the time. It is easily confirmable information that it was a monthly series, something incredibly common in the industry.

A not weekly magazine schedule is literally common !! Especially in the seinen shoujo and josei demographics, sometimes monthly, sometimes biweekly, sometimes every two months, sometimes seasonal! Please stop lying about how Dunmeshi was some special unique creation that defies all standards of manga just to hype it up because it is so clear that every single one of these comparisons is centered around Weekly Shonen Jump (and understand that SJ has many magazines under its brand that are monthly or semimonthly). Not everything is WSJ and it needs to stop being the only point of reference in conversations like this 🤧

[esonetwork]

House of Dracula | Episode 439

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House of Dracula | Episode 439

Jim reflects on the last film in the Universal Frankenstein/Dracula Universe – “House of Dracula” starring Lon Chaney Jr, Onslow Stevens, John Carradine, Glenn Strange, Martha O’Driscoll, Lionel Atwill, Jane Adams, and Skelton Knaggs. Dr. Eidelman (Stevens) known for helping those with unique problems, draws the interest of Dracula and Larry Talbott for relief from their respective curses. Throw in the Frankenstein Monster and you have a full set. Find out more about this 1945 classic on this episode MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

[ashenightshade]

I treat spending money like losing life pointing yugioh

"GROCERIES, ATTACK HIS LIFE POINTE DIRECTLY"

[mel-on-off]

Charlie is everything to him! His character is lovely! ♥️

Okay people have been talking about this but I wanna talk about it too because my heart is in a vice grip over it

The fact that Lucifer looks so vacant when the angels’ spears are on him. He looks so…dead and accepting. Like he doesn’t care what they do to him.

But then when the spears suddenly turn to Charlie…

He is horrified. He is so so scared of losing her, of anything bad or even lethal happening to her. He looks like he’s looking upon his worst nightmare seeing heaven threaten his little girl

(In other words, eat it Lute, he does care.)

[xaivao]

I’m just thinking, older parents usually threaten you by saying they’ll wash your mouth with soap if you swear, does that technically mean, if a person who only speaks in sign language washes their hands after they swear, they’ve already washed their mouth?

[paintedcrows]

Holiday Classics

Been thinking about Ford watching the 70s Animated Lord of the Rings Movies... (companion comic to this post!)

[bbchargerifts]

Its very nice to have two different projects to work on at once!

It always seemed like a bad idea but in reality its really helping me to focus and stay motivated when working on @bbchargegame!