#a mechanic relative

[princesscallyie]

My lil bro is officially getting promoted as a mechanic at his job at CarMax (didn’t go to school for it or nothing. Just a lot of practice on other people’s cars). Y’all be easy. I’m set!

[zytes]

this manatee looks like it’s in a skyrim loading screen

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

anyone else have multiple traumatic memories associated specifically with holidays/family vacations? because that is a topic I never see discussed in all the So You Had A Shitty Childhood, Now What? self-help books i've been reading. but for me, it was a significant thing. and the more i think about it the more it seems like this would be an (unfortunately) common experience. would be grateful to hear if this matches other peoples' experiences...

[that-bluesybitch]

[anneapocalypse]

That one poll got notes again and I was forced to remember that someone said the words "There are no non-obvious mechanics in Duty Finder content" on my post.

In the first alliance raid series there is a mechanic where 1/3rd of the players need to get magically shrunk and eaten by a dog.

[kandicon]

Toy Soldier vs Drumbot Brian contrasts save me <33

Smth smth, the inanimate being choosing to carve and force a piece of life inside itself. The human who was forced to become an object, a robot, with no choice in the matter. The usage of it/its to dehumanize oneself as a means of reclaiming an identity vs the usage of he/him as a means of reclaiming the human identity taken. One who's angel voice pierces through instruments and other singers like when it sings vs the one who rarely sings unless the entire crew sings, so that his voice may be drowned out among it all. The Toy Soldier who completely halts the pacing of another mechanism's song (gptvtmk) to do a heart wrenching solo that temporarily takes the spotlight while refusing to have an independent backstory song vs Drumbot Brian who does have a backstory song, but refuses to sing it unless alongside his other mechanisms and has someone who wasn't a part of the crew at the time be the main singer. Hell, just the difference in focus on title between their songs "The Toy Soldier's Song" which puts all the focus on the Toy Soldier vs "Lost in the Cosmos" which focuses squarely on the situation. The way neither of them have complete control of their actions, not when a sharp order or the flip of a switch may change them in an instant.

[stemgirlchic]

[beneathsilverstars]

since siffrin mentions in the late game that they never actually sleep in the clocktower — they talk to isa and then suddenly everyone's opening the gate to the house — in the spirit of "time loops and bad mental health are the same thing" i might hc that siffrin dissociated so hard in the clocktower every night that they didn't even sleep. (maybe even the very first night too, anxious about everyone splitting up tomorrow, and somewhat rested already from their nap.)

assuming sif's nap ended in the early afternoon and it took most of the day to get through the house, that's at most like 30 hours in a row awake, which might not be that notable to someone who's used to sleeping poorly at night and catching naps to supplement. maybe they'd be starting to experience effects of sleep deprivation, but able to push through without too much trouble on adrenaline. and then their body resets every loop so it never gets worse than those 30 hours, but they also never get the mental benefits of actually sleeping, such as processing and storing memories.

[shesmore-shoebill]

oh im so glad courtney came in to explicitly say "this is an AWFUL game to try to learn controls from" because its true. and to hug amanda. and provide fnaf insights.

[disgruntledexplainer]

i love how physicists have picked up the "free will versus determinism" argument that Catholics and Calvinists have been having for centuries, only to end up just as bogged down as the theologians were because of the incompatibility of quantum mechanics and general relativity.

[mechanismslorearchive]

heard some people say jonny is cononicaly omni? do you know where this is from?

This is from a twitch clip from Jonny’s streams! I don’t have the link at the moment, but someone asked him quite a while ago about the joke/discourse (brief pause as I am overcome with the specters of discourse past) regarding Jonny d’Ville being homophobic, based on the line in one of the fictions where he asks if Nastya is having one of her “queer orgies.”

Jonny said that he didn’t write that story, so he can’t say for sure what was intended with the line in question, but that d’Ville is, in his mind, omnisexual, and not homophobic. This makes it word-of-god canon, which of course depending on your approach to the text (the text in this case being the albums, fictions, social media posts, and other in-character, official sources) may or may not count as canon in the way that, say, Brookes from Pump Shanty (Bashful) being mlm does. But that’s where it comes from!

[bitchslapblastoids]

what fandom activity were you obliviously doing friday, june 21 as phil was bleeding out on the floor of a&e? i'll go first i was probably um, reading fanfic at the time. </3

(got the idea for this ask from my sibling, who said i quote 'i can't believe we were all just bleep blooping away on tumblr as all of this was happening')

ok this is Quite Funny. can we make this a thing? On June 21st i reblogged @mothmanbussy420, did some rewatching, and made my most popular post.

your turn! what fandom activity were you doing on June 21st while Phil bled out of his ass on the floor of a&e? i tag anyone who sees this!

[4gravitons]

Book Review: The Case Against Reality

Nima Arkani-Hamed shows up surprisingly rarely in popular science books. A major figure in my former field, Nima is extremely quotable (frequent examples include “spacetime is doomed” and “the universe is not a crappy metal”), but those quotes don’t seem to quite have reached the popular physics mainstream. He’s been interviewed in books by physicists, and has a major role in one popular physics…

[utilitycaster]

Sort of a distant tangent off my post about Ashton, but I'm growing more and more suspicious of the fandom claim that there's no time for small RP moments in Campaign 3. I do think that it's been challenging to get deeper party bonding or serious conversations that aren't about the big philosophical questions they're facing, since those do take much more time; but then I think about Calamity, or Candela Obscura. I can genuinely give you at least a couple paragraphs about pretty much every relationship in the two Circles, or in the Ring of Brass. I can also point to no shortage of small moments between characters in the Mighty Nein Aeor or Vox Machina Vecna endgame episodes, which were all extremely plot-heavy and fast-paced, and D20 consistently nails character relationships in a fraction of the time.

I think it really does come down to, as Brennan Lee Mulligan always says, the character creation phase. Laying down a solid groundwork in which everyone has a detailed, rich backstory and sense of personality and relationship history (in the case of characters who knew each other prior to the start of the series) is absolutely crucial, and even in the case of characters who don't know each other before going in, a good amount of time spent in character creation ensures that it's easier for them to develop those interpersonal relationships on the fly. I know in actual play there's some degree of finding the character as you play, but there are games for which there is a very short runway, and I don't think it ever hurts to do more extensive character prep than the bare minimum. And if there are gaps, I think it also helps to go back and fill those in mid-way, away from the table - Travis clarifying Chetney's backstory being a great example that allowed the history of Chetney and Deanna to feel realized and full, despite only a few episodes.

I'll also be blunt: most of the time when people complain that there aren't moments because the plot keeps moving...they're mad about shipping. Which has always rung hollow to me. It was a common complaint in C2, that no time was taken for character relationships, despite them taking an entire half of an episode for the Beauyasha date and despite no shortage of moments for all three of the other couples (and plenty of platonic moments between friends). The issue was never a lack of time; it was that the characters they wanted to talk to each other didn't actually have the relationship in canon that the fans had dreamed up, and so, when the chips were down, they went to other people.

It takes two seconds to say something like "I hold their hand", even in the middle of plot-heavy adventuring. If someone doesn't say it, it's rarely the GM rushing them; it's the player either choosing not to do so, or not remembering to do so, and either of those is quite revealing regarding how the player feels about that relationship and where it stands in their priorities.

[dragonagepolls]

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[thepastisalreadywritten]

The Nobel Prize shares a copy of Albert Einstein's diploma, which he received 123 years ago after finishing his studies at the Polytechnic Institute in Zurich, Switzerland.

📷: Nobel Prize / Facebook

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Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955)