#badger answers

[badgersblog-yo]

do you like dnd? you seem like you would.

fuck yeah!! Skinny and Jesse say it’s nerd stuff tho :(

[badgerfrost]

What made you get into rainworld?

Ohh, I think I saw some NorthFlowo videos on it and was like ‘hey that’s cool. I’ll learn some of the creatures names!’ Then it was like 11pm and I thought ‘hey that blue scug would be cute with the red one!’ Then searched up their names and found Bathbomb art on tumblr. So I’ve got Sugarrmoon to thank :)

[businessbadger]

mer din in a tank, he don't look too happy bout it lol

don't worry, they'll get there, it just takes a burning ship or two...

[badgerclawsaresharp]

Kinda weird but what’s the story behind you winning a war against the university of Waterloo on r/place?

ohhh man it like...over a year ago at this point, but lemme see what I can remember

so, I wasn't around for the first r/place. i mean, I was alive for it, but I wasn't in the right circles to have an interest in participating. but i still thought it was cool. so when the second one rolled around, i was super excited to join.

now, at the time, most of the fandoms/groups i was in were well-equipped to handle themselves, so while i could join those causes, it didn't feel like I needed to be there. but then i learned that one of my favourite twitch streamers, DumbDog, was organizing to put him and his friends (chiblee, HCJustin) on the map. Nothing big. Maybe a total of like, 50x15 pixels. But as a smaller community, they definitely needed all the help they could get.

So for a while, it was the typical r/place experience. You get a picture down, one or two pixels get griefed, and you fix it. At one point, the logo for the NY Jets popped up to our right, and we became fast friends. Anytime they started losing ground, we'd charge in with reinforcements.

And then the universities showed up. On our left, in a cute little row, four crests came into being: University of British Colombia, University of Alberta, McMaster University, and University of Toronto. They slot in perfectly next to our spot. It was serendipitous.

Except apparently, the University of Waterloo disagreed. See, they wanted to go next to their buddies. But that would mean covering up part of our claim. And sure, we could keep trying to fend them off, but the problem with most of the Twitch graphics on r/place was that the audience was only engaged while the streamer was live. Once they logged off, most people jumped to another community.

But here's the thing.

r/place happened in April.

And by a stroke of luck, DumbDog happened to be in the middle of a subathon.

DumbDog was live 24 hours a day.

Our community was NON-STOP. Already invigorated by the idea of passing milestones, hitting subgoals, and making our streamer do silly bits, we were relentless in our defense. We had spies infiltrate the Universities' discord, and whenever they tried to coordinate a big takeover, we shut them down.

(funnily enough, I don't think we ever revealed ourselves. to this day, I think they blame UofT for everything)

In the end, UWaterloo had to take the L and moved themselves down. They looked very silly, being out of alignment from the other crests.

And at the very end, when the white void was consuming the canvas, you can bet your ass we vanished them in an instant.

[floq]

You feel like an american badger to me

a badger? an AMERICAN badger?!?,?!.??.??

[strawberryblondebutch]

Any more analysis about Boston team wise or specific player wise?

Anon, you have given me a platform that I am going to use to push my agenda.

Let's talk about my favorite college player and the steal of the 2025 draft.

This is Casey O'Brien, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin. She's a captain this season, a center, and the combination of her cage placement and her earrings on the ice gives me anxiety. For reasons I do not understand, she has never been a USA Hockey darling - she's gotten some camp invites but has yet to appear at the senior level (outside of a very brief appearance in one Rivalry Series game), which is why her draft stock is so bad. Because, for whatever reason, she hasn't played the national team politics game.

So what's there to like about her?

I've talked before, in the context of the NHL and the PWHL alike, about things you can develop in the pros, things that come along with age, and things that you need to hope you come to the pros already knowing how to do. It's one of the reasons I liked the Jett Luchanko pick so much: the hardest things to teach (puck IQ and fearlessness) are the ones he has already developed at 18. Anything he needs to work on with his game will come along naturally - the kid is only 18. His speed and strength are both gonna keep going up for another decade. Contrast this with Jamie Drysdale, whose biggest hole in his game is that he freezes when he touches the puck. And that might take years to coach out of him. It's also my biggest problem with Fillier - she used to be a dynamic, instinctive player, and somewhere in the last two years, she lost that.

I do not think I am exaggerating when I say that O'Brien has one of the highest game IQs that I have seen at the NCAA level. Watch her over a full 60-minute game, and she is always exactly where she needs to be. As of my writing this, she ranks second all-time in NCAA program assists and is closing in on the record of 208. One of the reasons I suspect she hasn't gotten as much attention as her teammates, or the other members of her draft class, is because they score goals and she gets assists, which shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the role that a good playmaker takes on the ice. She can score when she needs to, but your favorite 50-goal scorers aren't getting those numbers without someone who can get them elite chances. O'Brien is also a face-off striker, which is critical in, well, any zone. You never want to start on the backfoot.

Her one flaw isn't much of one at all - she's small. She's really small for a center, clocking in at 5'4". That's half a foot shorter than Heise and Knight, who are more typical power forward centers. But, as with Kendall Coyne, being undersized gives you an explosive acceleration that bigger players don't always get as they drag more weight behind them.

So, we're looking at a high-IQ center who wins faceoffs, excels at setting up scoring chances for her teammates, and is smaller than her position usually dictates. Bonus points if she's undervalued relative to her peers and... goddammit I'm describing Claude Giroux aren't I.

If you have not been personally victimized by the Philadelphia Flyers, first of all, I envy you. Second of all, this is Claude Giroux, longtime captain who we sent to a farm upstate (Miami, technically, then he escaped the farm and went home to Ottawa). G, while starting to show a little rust with age, is one of the most dominant playmakers of this era. Since moving permanently off the wing ten years ago, his career face-off rate is 57.4% - Patrice Bergeron, considered one of the best centers of all time, retired at a 58.2% clip.

G is also on the smaller end. The NHL website lists him at a very generous 5'11" - having seen him, I think he's closer to 5'9". While he can't physically overpower opponents the same way a bigger center can, he has that speed and acceleration advantage, which also contributes to his agility. G's ability to turn on a dime is what lets him always get to where he needs to be, which we see with OB.

So, if G is this good... why is he always put in the A-tier conversation, and not S-tier? Part of it is that, for a playmaker to thrive, those teammates need to execute those plays, and Giroux had the misfortune of playing for the Flyers, whose roster-building skills are best considered incompetent. Yes, I said best. OB has never had this problem, thus allowing her to put together 73 points in 41 games last year (1.78 PPG). The other reason G is so underrated? He had the misfortune of being in the same era - and division - as Crosby and Ovi, the two best snipers of their generation and two bona-fide Hall of Famers. His less-flashy, more cerebral skillset receded into the background against their instant stardom, the same way that OB has dropped on draft lists against consensus 1OA Abbey Murphy, a USA Hockey darling with a reputation that precedes her.

Whoever gets OB in this draft is getting the steal of the year. She can quarterback a power play, clear space in the D-zone, and set up your Spooners, your Poulins, your seeing-eye snipers. GMs... leave #26 open. You're gonna need it.

[dp-time-police]

"Regardless of whether or not this is a... "joke," I am happily married.

[coeluvr]

Ok so I’m just picturing MC coming back and seeing L & L being all heart eyes towards each other and making this face I’m sorry I can’t get it out of my head now you need to see it too

LOL I feel like I should clarify that you can make it not happen even after a month of absence by saying stuff to Lancelot before leaving + through letters. 😭 Like I said before, you would just be delaying it.

Imaging an MC that hates the idea of them together but also never said anything that would make Lancelot think 500 times before finally giving in to Luceris coming back and being like 😟

Peak comedy to me. 🤭

[amber-tortoiseshell]

no american badger? 😭

Don't worry, american badger is coming soon! it's just such a weirdo, everyone else is more closely related to each other, so it'll enter the tournament in the very last round.

The phylogeny is like this: {{[every other mustelid]; honey badger}; american badger}.

See the family tree from wikipedia:

(The american badger is Taxidea taxus, in the last row.)

Even the so far introduced badgers are more closely related to weasels, otters, martens ect than to the american badger!

American badger waiting to finally enter the tournament

[ask-the-turnabout-terror]

opinion on miles getting hit over the head by the blue badger that one time

“Huh?!”

[badgersblog-yo]

Happy pride month cause you gay and stuff 🏳️‍🌈🎀

I prefer the one where it’s like I like- anybody? But thanks man, happy pride month

[badgerfrost]

May I have some saint x enot x nightcat? for the ship requests

Your sillies!

[businessbadger]

grogu seeing mer luke flopping about on land so he sticks both legs in the same pants leg and tries to copy him lol

of course, he had to show his new friend

[badgerclawsaresharp]

Hi there! I was wondering how you made the mask for your Baron from the Baronies cosplay? I'm thinking about cosplaying them myself and I wanted to know whether you had any tips you could share. Thank you!

Hey, thanks for asking! I made the whole Baron cosplay on a whim over the course of like four days, so there's a lot of things I would do differently if I made it again. That said, here's how I made the mask!

The mask itself was a circular frame I made out of craft wire, with strips of construction paper curving across it to give it shape. And then I, uh, duct taped some sunglasses in there so it would actually stay on my face lol. There's definitely better ways to do this, I was just working with what I got.

The outside was a single piece of model magic that I rolled out really thin, and then cut out the eyes/mouth/scars with a crafting knife. The big tip I have here is for the eyes--use cheesecloth! It's the best thing ever! Cheesecloth folded/layered many times is still pretty easy to see through when it's right up against your eyes, but gives the appearance of solid cloth from a distance. I just dyed some a dark grey/black, and stuck it between the paper frame and clay.

I hope that helps! Best of luck making the roëmænce partnær!

[th3p0rtalmaker]

If you were a disney princess what would your animal sidekick be

Thanks for the ask Lucky!

At this point in time, I think I'd like my animal sidekick to be a honey badger that I hand-raised and have a very strong emotional bond with. I can trust it to protect me and rely on its intelligence whenever things get rough.

[dp-time-police]

Danny: I died for like two minutes but it's all good!

Vlad: ...

Thank you to @silvermisfit42 for the ask!