#but I don't think it applies to the web player

[hyunjinz]

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[thehollowwriter]

Morrigan: A Rough summary

I sent this to a moot and decided I'd share a break down of the the Morrigan Lore TM

Right so, firstly, like Silas and Finn, Morrigan is a cookie cutter shark. Though Silas is an abyssal cookie cutter shark, and he's just a coastal one. He and his family are like Azul and the tweels, they're more animalistic, they're not the pretty, humanlike Ariel-like mermaid that many come to think of when they hear the term "mermaid" or "merfolk"

Now, my interpretation of twst (mostly through Azul's story) is that human culture and beauty standards heavily influenced merfolk and their culture, eventually resulting in features like webbed hands, sharp teeth and claws, and other animalistic features being deemed as barbaric and undesirable.

The general idea of mers like Finn, Azul, etc, is that they are stupid, wild, dangerous/murderous, and more creatures than people. This stereotype especially extends to abyssal mers like Silas (it's part of why some merfolk flat out refuse to by from him)

Now, in twst it's pretty clear that magic dictates your standing in society, and often those with powerful magic are "higher" up the social ladder. This too applies to merfolk, and when you're monstrous creatures like Morrigan and his family, the best you can hope for is major success and glory.

Morrigan has several siblings, and out of all of them he was the oldest and the one with the most powerful magic. His parents realised they basically had a child prodigy on their hands, and this led to him basically being in a Riddle-type situation.

He was their trophy, their showpony, far outshining his siblings and essentially "overcoming" the monstrous-ness that everyone hates with his skill in magic. Don't think he liked the attention, though, his parents' praise was very conditional and he didn't exactly get himself in their favour when trying to protect his siblings from them. Despite his efforts, his siblings are still incredibly jealous of him and kinda don't like him :(

Now with this upbringing, naturally he has an intense strive to be the absolute best of the best. Master every spell, win every duel, ace every test. Like Riddle, he has a LOT of anger due to his treatment and situation, but unlike Riddle this anger caused him to frequently get into violent fights with his schoolmates and come home bruised and bloodied.

At NRC, this got worse. At first he was well behaved like Azul or Riddle would be, but eventually he realised he no longer had his parents breathing down his neck.... and just kinda went batshit.

Now, he's wasn't a complete asshole constantly all the time. In fact many found him charming, handsome, too. However he was a bit of a bully and easily angered, and when he got angry enough he got extremely violent. He beat the ever loving shit out of his own dorm leader, and part of the reason he was almost expelled was because when fighting with some guy, he tried to bite their throat (reminder his teeth are like the tweels...)

In his third/fourth year tho, he was kinda like "Well shit I don't think this is good for me" and started working on being better.

When he began looking for internships, he wasn't sure what to do. His parents just wanted him to do "something important", they didn't care all that much as long as it brought in a lot of money and recognition and didn't make them look bad.

Everyone told him he should be a magishift player, police, etc, etc, but he wasn't interested in any of that.

However, through some self assessment he realised he did work well with kids and they always liked him, and he was food at teaching/helping his friends study, so he thought "Hey, why not teaching?"

He ended up teaching at a magic school for gifted merfolk, and the reason is because all of them are "gifted kids," and he didn't want them to suffer and struggle like he did. That is a very important job. His parents were not impressed, but it could be worse and he was stubborn, so they "allowed it" (even though he's an adult wtufjasgj)

As he got older, he developed better control over his temper, but he would still get violent if REALLY mad.

And then he met Silas, and they do try to kill each other upon first meeting :P. They fall in love, get married, and have kids, but Morrigan is murdered before they- (well, just Finn) are born.

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[thewertsearch]

Ask Comp 13/4 - 2

Yup! The Alpha timeline offers a novel solution to the problem of Sylladex capacity. If the Captcha index only needs to be consistent in the Alpha timeline, then it doesn't have to worry about reserving index space for every possible item.

If this is how things work, then the Sylladex isn't predestined, per se - it's enforced. Everyone has a finite set of objects that they're allowed to captchalogue, and if you pick up anything else, your index is invalidated - and your timeline is pruned.

You could still call it predestination, if you were so inclined, but that's only partially accurate. It's more that you're coerced into 'choosing' one particular destination - or else.

I'm loving these voice headcanons. Scratch as Emperor Belos is inspired.

What the hell? That's amazing.

Based on my (admittedly limited) experience with web administration, it's not all that surprising, either. Hacks like this are shockingly common.

No worries! The vast majority of followers don't actually interact with these posts' notes, but I still assume they're reading them. Just a quirk of Tumblr's norms.

My best guess is that the drones would arrive when the troll is on the cusp of adulthood, shortly before they leave Alternia. That would give them as much time as possible to form potent relationships - which would, in turn, give the Empire the most potent wrigglers.

I still think it would motivate younger trolls, though. I mean, if all single people are executed at eighteen, you might feel a little pressure to enter the dating game early.

Never forget the Der-sayer incident.

Rereading it, Karkat scans as sad, angry, resigned, confused, lonely, and trying to bottle up an avalanche of "FRESH RAGE."

I think we're both half right, here - he's drowning in a tide of pretty much every negative emotion imaginable.

Thank you!! We triple-checked, and it seems like Tumblr ate the first half of this ask :(

Much appreciated, though!! I love that metaphor for coming up with scattershot theories.

Oh, that makes sense. Can't believe I missed a Hussie pun, but that one was a little harder to notice.

This makes it sound like the universe is tethering her to life, just as she tethers it. What is up with this lady?

That's true! I'm pretty sure it's both.

I'd always imagined Equius as being pretty tall. They're all the same height in sprite art though, so I think it's another case of sprite art being non-representative.

I'm withholding judgement on the Meowrails until we get more interactions between them. Their early conversations were a little worrying, but it's possible that Hussie hadn't fully fleshed out the concept of Moirallegiance at the time. We'll see how they interact now that how their quadrant works has been expanded on.

[ Problem sleuth is still hosted there😁- C ]

It still seems to work for me!

Oh, fun! I guess John's birthday does sort of fall into a half-pattern with the others.

Still, it would have made more sense for him to be in a line with the other Players - his Chumhandle doesn't match theirs, either, so maybe John's just a weird case.

Thank you! I feel like this sort of analysis can only really be applied to fictional characters, though. Everything a character says or does is the result of a deliberate choice made by a writer, and I can use my knowledge of that fact to frame my analysis.

In real life, though, people just say shit - often for no reason, or for reasons they don't understand themselves. People are a lot more complicated than even the most well-written character, and understanding them requires a whole different skillset!

Someone also posted Hussie's author comment about this. It's been years since I watched the movie - and if I recall correctly, it was also pretty meta itself. Maybe I need to watch it again, as reading material for Homestuck.

ferretlady97 submitted: talking about the book commentary reminded me of something i was gonna send you when the troll black queen took off her ring but forgot "Note that when she takes the ring off six orbs are filled. Three players from the blue team have entered the session, and three from the red team. Aradia was the second of the blue team to enter. Nepeta was third. Aradia's entry is when the frog mutations took effect on the ring-wearer. And then an interval passed before Nepeta's entry. Which means the queen actually spent a decent amount of time looking like a frog, deliberating whether or not she could put up with this for an entire game session. Ultimately, she couldn't hang in there. But this does imply she at least tried." i just think it's funny thanks for your time

The language used here - the fact that she couldn't 'put up' with her transformation into a frog, and couldn't 'hang in there' - seems to imply that doing so harms her in some way.

All the frog symbolism is still a closed book to me. What exactly does Bilious Slick represent or symbolize that Derse hates so much?

[ you got another ask about LOLCAT but it has classpect spoilers so I'm saving it for later - C ]

I suppose that could work - but then again, it seems that 25% of all Lands have some association with water, so it can't always represent Life. I do want to come back to this later, though, when the Classes and Aspects are better defined.

Send away! It'll be a while until I use them, though.

I appreciate it! That's a minimum bound that I'd have to pick up the pace to reach, at this point.

Hey, what can I say? I'm here for a good time, and a long time. >:)

I keep forgetting that LOSS is a references to a fanfic. I associate it more with you, the LOSS Anon!

If she can't, she's definitely phrasing things in a misleading way, trying to imply that she can. The Tavros scene is arguable, but I really can't think of any other way to interpret how she talks about the Consorts, unless she's straight up lying - and she really doesn't do that much.

Vriska 100%s the game, but skips all the cutscenes?

...yeah, I can see it. Every side quest is another chance to win!!!!!!!! >::::)

[mcytrecursive]

Nomination Overview - Canon Compliant

And now for one that has quite a few more instalments! We've got several animatics, art and comics, and even web weave. Let's take a look at Canon-Compliant.

Title: Flowers for the Blood God Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/31888939 Fandom: Dream SMP Author: de_hautdesert Relationships: Nihachu & Ph1LzA & Ranboo & Technoblade, Niki | Nihachu & Technoblade Characters: Technoblade, Nihachu Length of the work: 2129 words Genre: Angst, Canon-Compliant, Character Study, Domestic/Slice-of-life, Fluff, Friendship, Found Family Type: Fic Summary: The Syndicate plans an unconventional meeting. Techno and Niki prepare. Featuring friends supporting each other, recovery from trauma, and infodumping about hair dye.

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Title: A Day in the Spotlight Rating: E-rated Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/31118939/chapters/76890005 Fandom: Hermitcraft SMP Author: Sharo Relationships: Xisuma/Everyone Characters: Xisuma, Hermitcraft Server Ensemble Length of the work: 27,491 words Genre: Canon-Compliant, Fluff, Friendship, Smut Type: Fic Summary: Kink-E-E’s Contract: Hermit of the Day Program signed by: I agree to spend 1 (one) day from sunrise to sunset as the server’s Public Use Hermit. I agree to remain on the Throne for the duration, or nearby if requested by any Hermit (not to leave the main lobby of Town Hall). I agree to be on display and available to all visitors. I agree to be blindfolded and allow anonymous visitors without requiring anyone to identify themself. I agree to allow a Kink-E-E’s employee to collect me without prior warning (unless otherwise negotiated) and seat me on the Throne in Town Hall. I agree to submit to any Hermit who approaches the Throne and who follows the limits set out in my personal contract. I retain the right to stop (safeword out of) any situation or contact that pushes those limits. I agree to use the emergency buttons provided if I feel unwanted discomfort, feel unsafe or overwhelmed by any scene and am unable to verbally communicate or verbalize my safeword. (See: Personal Notes if safeword applies) Accepted Terms between Hermit and Kink-E-E’s: Price to be Paid: NO REFUNDS, RAINCHECKS, BUYBACKS, TRADES, OR IOU’S (looking at you, Grian and Zedaph. Not funny.)

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Title: the body is an object Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/42838071 Fandom: Hermitcraft SMP Author: ruffboi Relationships: Gen Characters: Grian, PearlescentMoon, Mumbo Jumbo, XisumaVoid Length of the work: 19,132 words Genre: Angst, AU, Canon-Compliant, Character Study, Friendship, Found Family, Hurt/Comfort Type: Fic Summary: the Hermitcraft Backstory Rule says that you don't ask other people about their backstory, you let them tell it if they want to and leave it be if they don't. Unfortunately for Grian, one of the newest Hermits was also a player on his old server - one he'd thought had been dead for years - and she's going to drag his backstory kicking and screaming into the light whether she means to or not.

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Title: and the northern sky looked like the end of days Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/44214877 Fandom: 3rd Life SMP Author: sesquidpedalian Relationships: Etho & Cleo, Scott & Tango, Bigb & Bdubs & Impulse, Scott & Cleo, Pearl & Scott & Cleo & Martyn Characters: Cleo, Etho, Scott, Tango, Bigb, Pearl, Martyn Length of the work: 8,316 words Genre: Angst, Canon-Compliant, Character Study, Drama, Friendship Type: Fic Summary: Five scenes from before the end.

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Title: i think i would like a quiet life Link: here Fandom: Dream SMP Author: pidgedee Relationships: tommy&a healing arc Characters: TommyInnit Length of the work: Not Applicable Genre: Canon-Compliant, Character Study, Fix-It Type: Art Summary: A gentle-ending poem comic about c!Tommy.

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Title: cura te ipsum Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/39459339 Fandom: Hermitcraft SMP Author: Bee_4 Relationships: Zedaph & TangoTek BdoubleO100 & TangoTek Characters: Tangotek, Zedaph Length of the work: 14,998 words Genre: Angst, Canon-Compliant, Hurt/Comfort Type: Fic Summary: Tango fails, the moon falls, everyone dies—and then he's woken up, told none of it was real, that they're safely on the Hermethius headed for the next season, and that everyone is perfectly fine, including Tango himself. Tango's coping great, thanks for asking.

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Title: Second Chances Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/38657916 Fandom: Dream SMP Author: rutadales (pumpkinrootbeer) Relationships: Foolish Games / BadBoyHalo, Foolish Games & BadBoyHalo Characters: Foolish Gamers, BadBoyHalo Length of the work: 1,360 words Genre: Angst, Canon-Compliant, Hurt/Comfort Type: Fic Summary: Foolish's arms move to grasp his hair and then back down, his claws digging tight into the cloth covering his chest and the angry, red scar from Antfrost's blade that Bad knows is underneath. He still isn't breathing and Bad wonders if they really do need to get him to some salt water. He'd ask someone, but, well. It's just them right now. Or; Foolish panics and Bad tries to pick up the pieces.

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Title: You Are the Boogeyman Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/52022125 Fandom: 3rd Life SMP Author: OshawottWarrior Relationships: none tagged Characters: BdoubleO100, Ethoslab, Grian Length of the work: 578 words Genre: Canon-Compliant, Whump Type: Fic Summary: Bdubs is chosen as the first Boogeyman

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Title: What resembles the grave but is hobby tunneling Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/51317131 Fandom: QSMP Author: WheelCoveredInEyes Relationships: Antoine Daniel/Etoiles, Etoiles/BadBoyHalo, Etoiles & Philza, Etoiles & Pomme (QSMP), Etoiles & Baghera Jones, Etoiles & Mikethelink & Pactw, Binary Code Entity (QSMP) & Etoiles Characters: Etoiles, Philza, BadBoyHalo, Antoine Daniel, Baghera Jones, Mikethelink, Pactw, Binary Code Entity, Pomme Length of the work: 9,444 words Genre: Canon-Compliant, Character Study Type: Fic Summary: “Okay, king, I know you have a fuckin’ death wish, but you’re gonna break Pomme’s heart if you die. So we need to figure something out, okay?” ---- Etoiles is absolutely certain he is living on borrowed time. Nobody else understands this.

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Title: know that all my love will be your breath (i will save you when your lights go out) Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/52382506 Fandom: 3rd Life SMP Author: GlitraHasConsumedMe Relationships: Jimmy | Solidarity/TangoTek Characters: Jimmy, Tango Length of the work: 5.4k Genre: Canon-Compliant Type: Fic Summary: Two (or more) lives and deaths of an unlikely soul-bound couple

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Title: self-improvement* Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/47271748 Fandom: QSMP Author: honoraryangel Relationships: Cellbit & Philza Characters: Cellbit, Philza, Chayanne (QSMP), Richarlyson (QSMP) Length of the work: 4,501 Genre: Canon-Compliant, Character Study, Friendship Type: Fic Summary: Philza has been very angry lately. Cellbit has also been very angry lately. *neither of them truly improve, unless you count learning basic combat "improving".

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Title: City of Stars Fandom: Dream SMP Author: Paprikup Relationships: Quackity/Schlatt, Quackity/Karl/Sapnap Characters: Quackity, Sapnap, Karl, Schlatt Genre: Angst, Canon-Compliant, Character Study, Horror, Hurt-no-comfort, Romance Type: Animatic Summary: A short animation about the times when Quackity's heart was shattered, the violence of loneliness, and the person (the monster) he's become in the ruins of lost love.

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Title: Breath Of Life || QSMP Purgatory Animatic Fandom: QSMP Author: MaepleTea Relationships: Philza & Chayanne & Tallulah, Philza & Etoiles, Philza & Cellbit Characters: Philza, BadBoyHalo, Etoiles, Cellbit Genre: Angst, Canon-Compliant, Drama Type: Animatic Summary: An animatic about q!Phil during Purgatory and what was going on around him and in his head.

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Title: the handgun is no longer sexy Link: here Fandom: Dream SMP Author: regicidal-optimism Relationships: Quackity/Wilbur Characters: Quackity, Wilbur Length of the work: Not Applicable Genre: Canon-Compliant, Character Study, Romance Type: Web Weave Summary: Web weave about Las Nevadas Quackity loving a man who wants to die and not being over Pogtopia.

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Title: THE DIVORCE OF THE CENTURY Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/52635358 Fandom: Hermitcraft SMP Author: glossyblue Relationships: Grian/Goodtimeswithscar Characters: Grian, Goodtimeswithscar, Mumbo Jumbo, BdoubleO100, Zombie Cleo, Rendog and Joe Hills Length of the work: 7,192 words Genre: Canon-Compliant, Humour Type: Fic Summary: The court proceedings of Hermitcraft’s first ever divorce, centering on Grian (Petitioner #1), Scar (Petitioner #2), Mumbo Jumbo (defense lawyer), a cat (also somehow a defense lawyer?), several judges since they keep quitting because of all the nonsense, and your tireless Court Scribe JoeHills.

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Title: El nido de cuervo - The crow's nest  Link: here Fandom: QSMP Author: wizardsandrain Relationships: Philza & Chayanne & Tallulah Characters: Phliza, Chayanne, Tallulah Length of the work: N/A Genre: Canon-Compliant, Domestic/Slice-of-life, Fluff, Family Type: Art Summary: A painting of the basement where Chayanne and Tallulah sleep

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Title: ACP-Verse Link: https://archiveofourown.org/series/3765673 Fandom: 3rd Life SMP Author: Raichett Relationships: Grian/Goodtimeswithscar (main), Goodtimeswithscar&Cubfan135,  Characters: Grian, Goodtimeswithscar Length of the work: 25,615 words (incomplete series) Genre: AU, Canon-Compliant, Hurt/Comfort, Romance, Post-Canon Type: Fic Summary: A post-Third Life AU, wherein Grian has been waiting over a thousand years, very much cursed, for the return of Scar's reincarnated soul. 

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Title: back pack Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/40575780 Fandom: Dream SMP Author: Anonymous Relationships: Quackity/Karl Jacobs/Sapnap, Karl Jacobs/Sapnap,  Characters: Sapnap, Karl Jacobs, Eret, Quackity, Dream Length of the work: 3,188 words Genre: Angst, AU, Canon-Compliant, Drama, Modern AU, Canonical character death, not permanent Type: Fic Summary: “his jacket,” eret says quietly. you hear it, all muffled and echoey. she’s holding something out to you. “i thought we could, uh…cover him with it.” “who is this, eret?” you ask. she purses her lips. “who is it,” you say again. eret’s not one to lie. not anymore. she presses a jacket into your arms. it’s blue, soft, it’s streaked with red across the back and spotted in the shape of fingerprints all down the sleeves. she’s pushing it into your arms and she’s straightening up all regal-like and saying - “you’re lying,” karl gasps from the floor, in that miserable way you know means he’s about to cry. “oh my god. oh my god, oh my god.” ~ In which Quackity is dead, Karl is not, and Sapnap buries a body; not for the first time and certainly not for the last.

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Title: hope is a fragile thing Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/33865579 Fandom: Empires SMP Author: echotunes Relationships: Original Character(s) & Original Character(s) (Empires SMP) Characters: Original Character(s) (Empires SMP) Length of the work: 3,022 words Genre: Canon-Compliant, Friendship Type: Fic Summary: The notice boards begin displaying information about curfews, designed to protect the citizens at night. People are allegedly trying to stop their ruler's communication with the demon, but nobody seems to be sure how to go about it. Lord Sausage seems impeturbed by the demon, and his advisors don't seem to be trying to stop him from talking to them. Protests begin on the streets, but nothing is changed. The corruption is as present as ever, and the demon is spotted in the empire almost daily now. People begin to leave. --- You are a citizen of Mythland. Things are going badly.

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Title: another visit Link: here Fandom: Dream SMP Author: yuker Relationships: Quackity/Karl Jacobs Characters: Quackity, Karl Jacobs Length of the work: Comic Genre: Angst, Canon-Compliant, Hurt/Comfort, Time Travel, Character Study Type: Fic Summary: [sometimes I see him in the middle of the night but he doesn't really remember me.] In which Karl visits Quackity in between his time traveling, and Quackity cannot be sure he isn't dreaming.

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Title: How Far We’ve Come - Hermitcraft season 8 Animatic Fandom: Hermitcraft SMP Author: Chrisrin  Relationships: Hermitcraft ensemble & Hermitcraft ensemble, Joe Hills & Zombie Cleo, Boatem (Impulse, Grian, Scar, Pearl, Mumbo), Stressmonster & Falsesymetey & Gemini tay, Xisuma & Wels knight Characters: Hermitcraft ensemble, literally all of them  Genre: Angst, Canon-Compliant, Friendship, Found Family Type: Animatic Summary: An animatic exploring every Hermitcraft member’s season 8 finale (moon big)

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[izicodes]

Hey! I saw your personal project rec post but I was wondering if you had any suggestions for projects that can’t use libraries? I am applying for an opportunity where we have to code something from scratch so I imagine it can be something small would you have any ideas? Thank you!

Hiya! 💕

Since I don't know what languages you will be using, I'm just going to give you some quick and easy projects that are either webpage-building and console application ideas!

Webpage Project Ideas

Personal Portfolio: Create a simple personal portfolio website showcasing your skills, projects, and contact information. Use pure HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for responsive design and interactivity.

Simple Blog: Develop a basic blog where you can post articles and visitors can read and leave comments. Implement features such as user authentication, a comment system, and article categorization using only vanilla JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

To-Do List: Build a to-do list web application that allows users to create, edit, and delete tasks. Add the ability to mark tasks as complete and filter tasks based on their completion status. Implement this project using only HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Console Application Ideas

Text-based Adventure Game: Create a text-based adventure game where users can navigate through different rooms, pick up items, and interact with characters. Design the game with an interesting storyline and various challenges to engage the player.

File Organizer: Write a console application that organizes files in a directory based on their file types (e.g., images, documents, videos). The app should create folders for each file type and move the corresponding files into their respective folders.

Basic Calculator: Develop a console-based calculator that can perform basic arithmetic operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Enhance the functionality by adding support for parentheses and differentiating between integer and floating-point arithmetic.

These projects your coding skills for your opportunity without relying on any external libraries. I think it's kind of good that they want to see people code from scratch, just to see where their abilities are at!

I made another post about projects before that you can check out if you don't like the ones I listed: Beginner JavaScript Projects Hope this helps! Good luck with your opportunity! 🥰👍🏾💗

[cuthechicane]

I'm 华裔 and an F1 fan but unfortunately not fluent in Chinese-- Is the tag u put at the bottom of this prost and senna post a reference to the story of the guqin player and his noble patron, who could understand the inspiration to his music by listening to it? I think about that story and the concept of 知音 / 知己 a lot, even if again I can't entirely understand it not being fluent. It fits well with the arts, but I think it also applies weirdly poetically well to sport rivalries where you can deeply understand and predict what the other person is going to do. (Funnily enough I found the story of the guqin player and 知音 thru tumblr on that really long essay post about The Untamed/ Chen Qing Ling and its mistranslation of zhiji to soulmates.)

omg hiii :) yes it was a quote directly from the original text (they don't have english translations sadly but there is a translation into modern chinese if ur interested). prosenna is just soooo 知音/知己 coded to Me and other classical lit metaphors fit them so well too (see this gorgeous gilgamesh/enkidu web weave). another line I use to tag for them is “君埋泉下泥销骨 我寄人间雪满头” from 《梦微之》 by 白居易 (an elegy he wrote for his friend & fellow poet 元稹). the connection there is probably more self evident. anyways classical lit x sports narratives my forever beloved <3

[argoxnautilus]

this race is multi-terrain! our arthropod athletes will have to complete a ground based race track, a speedy swim across a lake, and an aerial obstacle course to take home the gold!

please reblog if you want a bigger sample size, i don't have a lot of followers lol

propaganda for each racer below the cut!

🦀: he scuttles sideways, but has a size advantage and can swim underwater

🐞: pretty :3 also, she can fly and release a foul smelling yellow fluid to distract her opponents.

🪳: stubborn. refuses to die. you cannot kill them. i'm serious, i think they're powered solely by spite and one graham cracker crumb

🦐: it's very slow on land, but super fast underwater! also a good team player--it might be able to convince someone to work with it

🦞: same as the shrimp, but has a size advantage, and is a lone wolf.

🦂: can hold her breath underwater for a long time, and isn't afraid to play dirty >:)

🕷: can jump far, use her webs, and she can glide across water by utilizing surface tension

🦗: he can leap super far! the obstacle course doesn't pose a challenge for him at all.

🐜: she's a hard worker, and very strong for her size! she can get through almost everything if she applies enough elbow grease.

🪲: he's also very strong, and can fly as well. however, if he get knocked on his back, it'll take a long time for him to get back up!

🦟: she's fast and nimble, but very frail and easily pushed around by the wind.

🪰: they're very fast and nimble, and sturdier than the mosquito. however, they have rather poor eyesight!

[hockybish]

Player x Team Chef au

an idea that I don't think I've seen before that I've been thinking about for a while. Let me know what you guys think and if I should continue something like this.

-Went to a culinary school to learn how to cook, as well as she has a degree in food science and nutrition

-Had a job at a fancy restaurant before she was let go, because the management didn't think she had the guts to a good chef at their restaurant. She hasn't been able to get a job since, but after scouring the web for a job, she comes across the posting for player's team looking for a head chef for the team, she applies and gets it

And then either

(A) Player's team was her favorite team growing up and Player is her current favorite player on said team. Player sees her and falls in love with her and her food.

or

(B) She and Player have had a run in before (whether he was someone who complained about her food at the fancy restaurant or they're friends of a friend or maybe even they've had a run in at a bar or something) either way she thinks he's kind of a jerk (this would be more of an enemy to lovers)

or

(C ) Mash the two together somehow?

idk am I crazy? is it terrible? no potential?

(A Blurb)

"That's the chef? She's she's-" His eyes bugged out. Weren't chefs and cooks supposed to be ugly or something? This girl was something else, and she could cook, she must be perfect.

"Hot? I know." Teammate finished player's sentence. He reached over and pushed up on Player's chin, closing it. He had an idea that was even better than just asking for a written copy. "You're staring, go talk to her, ask her out maybe she can make you the good stuff"

"No I couldn't do that. I don't want to use her like that." He didn't think he could be that selfish. It wasn't nice, but then again just think of all the good things she could make.

(B Blurb)

"This food is so bland it's disgusting" He threw his fork on the table, unable to eat any more of the food that had been provided to him by the team chef.

"Dude you are literally the only one who thinks that, this shit is the best." Teammate A shovel another spoonful of vegetable fried rice. He scrunched his nose up in disgust at his friend's sloppy eating.

"If you really want to complain about it, I think that's Chef right over there." Teammate B pointed to the girl with a white chef's coat on and a team ball cap.

"I think I just might." He stood with his plate, walking over to the girl who was just coming out to check on the food that was already out.

"Hey." He tapped on her shoulder, she turned around smiling at the person in back of her. He squinted at her when he realized it was her. "Oh my god, it's you. I should have known by how gross this is"

[davvoid]

what are ORBS and licenses. my friend group is interested in MSpain and do not have a idea of what they are

Ah! You awaken me from my slumber! Here's some info from a good ol' pal because I must rest:

"Howdy! You're new to MSpain aren'tcha? Well don't worry, I'll answer your inquiries quickly!"

"Ah, ORBs and licenses huh? Well I'll tell ya what buddy, what you're asking about are some secondary "mechanics" tied to lore that simply emerged from the nature of the game, much like many others. Inserting them into your own game might be a bit of a leap, but applying those concepts might serve some purpose!"

"Let's start with ORBs. Pretty big buggers that had been created through one way or another, with the first one simply being printed out."

"They served as hard time limits and ""skill"" checks with a roll to escape, appearing usually near the end of encounters/adventures, as a final unbeatable threat that you simply had to run away from while slowly covering up more of the canvas. You could risk doing more actions, or get consumed by the ORB! The first ORB was also particularly threatening, appearing in a time of many recruits being around, as a way to get rid of them completely from available play until the ORB itself was destroyed. Also deployed when the DM needed to end quickly, but don't say you heard that from me."

"In lore, the ORB was described as a nothing that slowly grew itself until it could consume the whole world! Now that didn't happen, but it sure did wreck havock upon the landscape. The inside of it quickly deteriorated non-organic matter, leaving non-mechanical recruits fine enough to rescue before certain void beings within got to them first."

"Y'know, you think they'd learn about creating their own world ending threats by the 10th time..."

"Licenses! They're something everybody and everything has for each of their attributes, no matter how basic or extrapolated! Rock license? Solid state license? French license? That's all there, and you can "take" it from that someone for yourself, while removing all those traits from the previous owner!"

"Think of a puddle with a wet license. What happens if you take that from the puddle? Well, you most likely become liquid, and the puddle turns completely dry! Whatever is funnier in the moment! Do note, that even with licenses themselves being a rare occurance, they could easily derail any encounter with a petty squabble over them. Very much keep in check with how the players are using them if implemented."

"Oh, whoops! Looks like I'm talking a little bit over what I'm allowed to say! Well, hopefully that helped ya! And who knows, maybe you'll see me in your game? Up to you if you draw me and act out my very whims! Hee hee hee..."

Well uh, yea basically that hopefully that cleared things up? Very interested in someone else taking note of the silly game of MSpain and I very much just recommend you people experiment and see what the players come up with as you play! Very much part of the fun is to build your elaborate web of lore and esoteric mechanics.

[nokturneop55n1]

Week 8

This week focused on a new team assignment. We were to come up with a complete design and prototype on Gdevelop that's playable and has in-depth gameplay to some extent.

The team inspected the previous individual assignments we did and decided to build a platformer game as it was easier and more viable in terms of its completeness.

Settings: A cowboy who uses boomerang travels to a dungeon to save his peer Bill ("adapted from our group member Ellen's assignment 2 idea").

I think it's a bit odd but boomerang is a good idea as it has two travel tracks in the designer's aspect.

Idea: the player has three attack methods corresponding to different enemies (yes, similar to what I had in the week 2 blog, a counter-chain mechanic).

Weapons:

Boomerang (pierces through enemies and return, deals light damage twice)

Sword (Breaks after five hits, effective towards spiders (I kind of took this from Minecraft's enchantment "Bane of Arthropods")

Molotov Cocktail (yes, it's pretty weird to have a Molotov cocktail on a cowboy's hand while he's in the dungeon)

Enemies:

Spider (weak against sword)

Slime (weak against Molotov cocktails)

Skeleton (weak against boomerang)

Meanwhile, skeletons are expected to have longer hitboxes so players don't use swords to attack skeletons. A similar design applies to the other two mobs.

Terrain and Biome: ● Spikes ● Webs (Slows the player) ● Fire pit/trap ● Arrow trap ● Trap doors

We didn't put much effort or time into the Part A submission as other assignments are due at the same time. I think the game's playability seems pretty mediocre, it definitely needs to extend in terms of uniqueness and having positive feedback points.

[zedieame]

Story Stack: My interpretation and it's translation to VNs (Co-written by @nowledgedomain on Twitter!!!)

Susan O'Conner's Website

Mainly written by KnowledgeDomain.

Takeaways from me

Hello fellow devs!

Back in early fall, I attended a workshop by professional AAA narrative designer Susan O'Connor about worldbuilding targeted towards narrative designers of all genres of games and wanted to discuss my biggest takeaway from the talk: the story stack. The story stack is a list of building blocks for a game, from most to least flexible: story, world, economy, action, and fantasy. Even if this doesn't directly apply to VNs, it's super interesting so I recommend reading the whole thing. Or just skip to the last three paragraphs for its applications to VNs.

Fantasy is the most rigid category because it is the purpose of your game: what type of fantasy do you want your game to evoke in the player? During the workshop, Susan used the Spider-man game as an easy example, so the obvious answer here is that you want the player to feel like Spider-man. But what does that actually entail? Being a superhero encompasses many things: perhaps working outside the law, lying to the people close to you about your secret identity, constantly making excuses about events you miss because you have to run off and save someone...but for the Spider-man video game, the fantasy is about how the player can move through the world the way he does, and that's what makes the game fun. This feeds nicely into Action, which is the things that you can do as a player. As Spider-man, the player wants to swing through the streets of New York City on your way to stop crime! You can further break this down into more categories: run, walk, talk to other characters, shoot webs while doing a backflip, etc.

And with all those actions the player can take, there will be an Economy, a reward system, used to promote good player behavior and discourage game behavior/choices the devs don't want. This can take the form of achievements or in-game narrative consequences. Both Action and Economy feed into the World of the game: what narrative space does the story take place in that makes all the other categories make sense? An easy answer here is “New York City,” but this can also be looked at more broadly: is the world forgiving of player mistakes both in terms of side characters' perspectives and game mechanics?

The last category is Story, the most flexible one and therefore often the last part of a game to be decided on in development. The story fills in the gaps between all of these game components and makes them all make sense. The story stack may be applied differently to different types of games, but I would like to consider it in terms of a visual novel.

Since a visual novel is mostly text, the story stack categories seem very straightforward; the fantasy and story may differ depending on the plot, but the action (unless you have another component such as puzzles) and economy essentially are the same as you write multiple endings for a game, with choices being action and achievement system or NPC's reactions being the economy. In a kinetic VN, this probably would be whatever encourages your players to keep playing. The economy would be the dopamine shot a player gets from playing the game and why they continue to play.

I believe the story stack could be most useful as an outline when writing marketing material for a game. For example, if your game is a dating sim, then your marketing points to hit would be: Fantasy: date cute people! Action: make choices! Solve puzzles! Economy: are there good and bad endings in your game? Are they violent or scary? Will the LI reject you, or maybe even hold your hands... World: what kind of setting does the game have? Story: what else is happening besides dating cute people (if anything—we don't judge!)?

Do you think the story stack is a worthwhile method to structure marketing around? Does this concept make sense? Do you think there can be other applications of the story stack?

[ghostofacrow]

is this a good place to mention that printers also never sat right with me for related reasons. I get why abstracting money and maintenance out is a good idea mechanically to keep the game going but the main characters and supposed good guys having access to an unlimited supply of giant war machines is...let's call it a weird position to be in. It also basically abstracts ground crews out of the setting, the core book refers to Lancers as "the cavalry" but there's no stable hands to keep up that metaphor. The reason cavalry is special is because in non-nomadic cultures not everyone in the army can have a horse. I have issues in general with how science fiction uses 3D printers and the ability to create effectively infinite supplies of everything as THE sign that the setting is supposed to be utopian, but applied to mechs specifically, the assumption that printers are always available everywhere for free and do the bulk of the maintenance work means there is no real cost to them. It feels like a convenient sidestep so players don't need to think about either hired subordinates or a military apparatus keeping up their cool mech. Like to come back to Armored Core those don't have maintenance staff as an actual part of the games either but you do have to pay for every bullet you shoot and every bit of damage you take and there's missions that give you bonus payments for blowing up a train full of civilians, there's a very clear sense that you're only able to have your cool mech because there's people willing to pay you to put down a miner's strike. And even without going that dark I still miss any tangible sense that mech combat is expensive. The default PCs having to be good guys really does hit the issue on the head but even with all the groundwork the core book does towards this goal it's still really hard to actually come up with missions where that's inarguably the case without relying on copout antagonists like NHP-controlled drones or a fascist death cult and removing the assumption that the players are the good guys leaves you with a much more compelling web of warring factions

this is a bit meaner than i wanted to get in the original post but i think this is basically the deal

[wowheadquarters]

don't be shy, drop ALL your Kel'Thuzad headcanons~

All of them? Hm. I don’t know if I remember all of them. Also, I stopped keeping track of WoW some time in the middle of the Battle for Azeroth, because it can either be WoW whcih I enjoy or shitwreck, and I chose WoW, which isn’t what Blizzard/Activision is currently serving- I meant to say that most likely my headcanons aren’t Shadowlands compatibile.

Anyway. Kel’thuzad headcanons of various importance as I remember them.

Kel’thuzad is his actual given name, it’s not a pseudonym or anything.

In Thalassian “kel’thuzad” mean “seeker of the truth”. (In Darnassian the same phrase is “keil tassad” and in Zandali “kel’ta sad”.)

Kel’thuzad speaks Common and Thalassian fluently. Before the Dark Portal opened he knew some phrases in Dwarven (conversational) and Gnomish (related to transport industry and mathematic). He can also speak Zandali with varying accents (mostly Amani), but he knows only five or six Zandali signs (he can sign his name, but that’s it).

After the Dark Portal opened, Kel’thuzad tried and failed to learn Orcish. He gained the skill later when it was a trial-and-error learning by communicating with Ner’zhul. Due to that Kel’thuzad’s accent when speaking Orcish is not “Human,” but distinctly Shadowmoon.

He also learned Nerubian from... well, the dead Nerubians. He can now both speak and write fluently even with encryption.

(There are 3 ways of Nerubian ecryptions and they can be simultaneously applied. This way there exist 7 versions of encryption plus 1 unencrypted text. These are known as the Eight Webs of writing. Plain text is written in the First Web, triple encryptin is the Eighth Web.)

He can read (but not speak) Nathrezim, and somewhat read and speak Shath’Yar, the language of the Old Gods. He would understand Quiraji if he ever encountered it, because it is very close to Nerubian (like Czech and Slovakian, I imagine).

The Language of Death, by the Scourge usually referred to as Deathspeak, is an artificial language created by Kel’thuzad. It is based on all languages he knew at the point of creating it, and is fairly easy to learn if you find a willing teacher. It was created for the members of the Cult of the Damned to understand ach other without them feeling like one language/race is put above the other, and to partially control their thoughts, as the language specifically hasn’t got some words or phrases (such as “rebellion”). Orwell would be proud.

He was brownhaired, but he greyed out fairly quickly when Ner’zhul settled in his head without paying any rent.

He was from Kul’Tiras. (I still want him to necromance a sunken ship. And a chalk cliff.)

His family name is Naxrierre. There is a theory that Naxrierres were a witch coven that became civilized with years, which is mostly spread by naysayers to explain the family’s talent towards magic. Another theory claims that they are a part-elven bastards which would besides the magic explain the name.

Kel’thuzad took the elf-Naxrierr theory to heart and in his ambition for one of his sons to make it somewhere else than the navy agve him a Quel’dorei name.

The suffix -ramas in Nerubian signifies not encessarily a necropolis but any place to permanently home dead bodies. “Naxxramas” is basically “Nax(rierre)’s tomb” but in Nerubian. 

As a mage in Dalaran Kel’thuzad studied arcanophysic, a way to describe and measure magic. This field is where all the calibration of spells or even negating spells comes from. He became the sole teacher of it in Dalaran, because he was the only one enthusiastic enough about it to bother.

He was that type of teacher who didn’t give homeworks, he hated correcting them. He also had his classes in the most unreasonable hours, such as 3 AM, because he had a busy schedule and non-existent sleep pattern.

Since Kel’thuzad’s banishment the knowledge of arcanophysics among the Dalaran mages has drasticaly declined and is nearly nonexistent nowadays. All books Kel’thuzad had written on it have been sealed away, which removed nearly all reliable sources from the public access.

Kel’thuzad actually had good relationships with his colleagues. He helped Alonda with her fild research on Trolls (hence his speaking Zandali).

His closest friend was Anthonidas. They used to be classmates once upon the time.

What really undermined Kel’thuzad’s trust and belief in Kirin Tor was what happened to Khadgar. He realized that Kirin Tor is not going to act if given a warning, and not going to help if hearing a plea.

He still tried to warn Kirin Tor before what he didn’t know was the Scourge. He had noticed the Amani “moving out of the way”. “Whatever will happen, and I believe that this time it will be the dead, because the demons haven’t tried that yet, it will happen in a single line from Lordareon to Quel’Danas. We know the Amani can see into the future, and they are clearing out of this path.” Dismissed as a doomsayer, he wasn’t really persistent in his warnins.

Ner’zhul’s talks to Kel’thuzad began as especially persistent migraines. Whenever Kel’thuzad tried to tell Anthonidas that his condition is serious, he was sent off with a mug of peacebloom tea and an advice not to stay up so late, and maybe lay off some stress.

The teacher who taught Thrall in his early years such stuff as writing, that was Kel’thuzad in disguise when he was rectuiting in and around Durnholde Keep.

No, Kel’thuzad has no idea the little pet-orc he was trying to groom and later kidnap for the Cult of the Damned (What a better liteunant than the one you raise yourself?) is Thrall, the Warchief of the Horde.

Kel’thuzad was tasked with finding and preparing the perfect new host for Ner’zhul. He was trying to overthrow the Lich King, so he picked Arthas as a paladin of Light whom he believed strong willed enough to handle it. And at the start of the story Arthas was.

His second choice for Lich King would have been Kael’thas.

He shuffled his cards in the deck of “Scourge politics” so that Bolvar Fordragon would take the Helm of Domination after Arthas. Players greta victory? Just according to keikaku.

He had (and still has) a “wanted poster” for Garrosh Hellscream. He really wanted him into the Scourge army. The reward was a whole necropolis with units.

Naxxramas had a dedicated “catkeeper” tasked with taking care of Mr. Bigglesworth and cleaning the acid/slime vats. Her name was Gwendoline, usually called Gwen, she is now one of Garrosh’s ghost children. Gwen died during the attack on Theramore where she was working as a spy for the Scourge.

Liches feed off people emotions and minds. The Lich Kign keeps it secret (even from Kel’thuzad) to keep them starved and obedient. The passive “nibbling” causes that people around liches start to be unfeeling.

Kel’thuzad has developed the Cure for the Plague quite early on. Ner’zhul made him test the plagues seeds on himself.

Speakig of that, Ner’zhul (and later Arthas as the Lich King) had a complete control over Kel’thuzad’s body, so if he refused to carry out an order, Ner’zhul could just make him do it anyway.

Additionally, the Lich King could kep him going despite injuries, exhaustion &c. Arthas fancied himself thinking that h killed Kel’thuzad, but the truth is that the cumulative injuries (several broken bones, stab wounds, a concussion, frostbites, poisonings), exhaustion and starvation were enough to kill Kel’thuzad twice over, no hammer needed. Ner’zhul just in that moment let Kel’thuzad die, because that was what he needed.

He used to play Hearthstone a lot when he was alive. He had a very good Hunter Murlock tribal deck.

He is asexual, and quite possibly aromantic too. In his words: “I believe in love on the first sight. And I am probably blind or something, as it seems.”

His favourite colour is purple.

Shortly before the capture of Bolvar Fordragon Kel’thuzad re-bound his phylactery from the whole urn to a single shard. The shard was sold by a cult of the Damned agent in Kul’Tiras to Taelia Fordragon as a lucky amulet.

Whenever as a lich Kel’thuzad regained his form, he always found himself knee-deep in water due to some fucking coincidences, starting with the Sunwell.

Speaking of Sunwell, he carries in himself  “a spark of Sunwell”. this has many benefits, such as power or not giving a fuck about Light being super-effective against the undead. It is a thing to be revealed out of the blue without prior warning when we need to reset the Sunwell (again).

He has enough knowledge of Troll and Orc shamanism to be considered a shaman, and too analytical and scientific mind to be actually good at it.

He also had made an oath to the Amani tribe that everything he’s learned from them would never be used to harm any Troll. It is why Kel’thuzad was not responsible for the havoc wrought in Zul’drak.

Naxxrams “responds” to Kel’thuzads emotions and feelings and even physical state. When he gets discorporated (killed), Naxxramas enters “save battery” mode. Naxxramas’ usual is “cold and static” and “cold and slightly shaking” which is Kelthuzad’s “bored” and “irritated” respectively.

He doesn’t like sweets, but he enjoyes crunchy stuff, be it cookies or fried potato slices. He craves the crunch.

He ate the flesh of several sapient beings. In several cases he knows it and the memory of ti makes him retch, even now when he is dead.

He likes dragons. He wants his own dreagonflight. (I have a headcanon abbout Sapphiron’s “Ivory” dragonflight of undead dragons.)

He has a saronite armour to match with the Bloodsurge. It decorates a ziggurat somewhere in Plaguelands. el’thuzad honestly doesn’t care. The armour has spikes on the inside, so if you put it on as a living being, you can’t take it off without bleeding out. A very emo move.

And I am tired now, so this will have to do for now. It’s not all of them, I am sure I haven’t thought of some area. But here we go.

[final-girl96]

Radioactive Spider Bite

Peter Parker x Reader

Warnings: language, vilonce, muture content? Maybe later on?, jealousy, death, idk its marvel... slow updates.

A/N: please don't be rude. Feed back is welcome but be kind. If there is any little details you would like to change to fit your style and personality please do so. This will also be on my WATTPAD along with all my other stories. This begins with Civil War when Peter comes home to find Tony Stark there. It will go to Homecoming, Infinity War, End Game, Far From Home, and then when No Way Home is out and I watch it the story will continue as long as there is a new movie with Spider-Man.

Word Count: 1122 words

Captian America: Civil War

Chapter Two

Mr. Stark walked over to Peter's desk. "Whoa, what have we here? Retro tech, huh?" He said. "Peter's a nerd," I said. "Hey! I am not," he said pushing me a little. "Thrifty store? Salvation army?" Stark asked Peter. "Uh, the garbage, actually," Peter said. "You're a dumpster diver?" Mr. Stark asked bluntly. "Yeah, I was... anyway, look, um, I did not apply for your grant and either did y/n..." Peter said but was cut off. "Ah-ah! Me first," Mr. Stark said loudly. "Okay," Peter said.

"Quick question of the rhetorical variety," Stark said holding his phone up. A screen projected from it showing Peter or "Spider-Man swinging by a guy on his webs. "That's you, right?" He asked. "Um. No. What do you... what do you mean?" Petet stammered. "Yeah," Stark said flipping his phone as another video came up. "Look at you go," he said. "Wow! Nice catch. 3,000 pounds, 40 miles an hour. That's no easy. You got mad skills," Mr. Stark said and brought up another video. "And this... this is both of you," he said. The video showing Peter and I swinging together the day he was showing me how the web-shooters worked just in case I changed my mind.

Peter had his stupid suit he made on and I have black leggings and a tight long sleeve black shirt with my hair up in a ponytail and a simple black mask that went over my eyes. I had my arms around his neck and my legs wrapped around his waist while his one arm was securely around my waist. He had been talking to me and explaining everything step by step. I squinted at the stilled frame and shook my head. "Nope. That... that is not me," I said and looked at Mr. Stark. "Really? And I guess this isn't either?" He asked showing another video of me swinging by myself. I shook my head "nope. Nope, definitely not me," I said.

"That's... that's all you YouTube, though, right? That's where you found that? Because you know that's all fake. It's all done on the computer," Peter jumped in. "Mmm-hmm," Stark hummed. "It's like that video. What it is?" Peter said looking at the projected screen in front of us as Stark looked around. "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, you mean like those UFOs over Phoenix?" Stark said as he took a broom handle and pushed open the crawl space door on the ceiling. Peter's suit falling out on a rope. "Oh, what has me here?" He said. Peter jumped in front of him and grabbed him. Turning his back he shoved it into his closet.

"Uh..." Peter let out leaning on the wall nodding his head. I sat on his bed and flopped back laying down. "Awkward," I said and Peter glared at me. Mr. Stark walked over to him. "So. You're the Spider-ling. Crime-fighting spider. You're Spider-Boy? And you're what? Spider-Girl?" He asked. "No. I'm y/n," I said and rolled my eyes. "Spider-Man," Peter said crossing his arms. "Not in that onesie, you're not," Stark said. "Ha!" I snorted out laughing at that. "It's not a onesie," Peter said and walked over to pick the broom handle up. "I don't believe this. I was actually having a really good day today, Mr. Stark. We didn't miss put train, this perfectly good DVD player was just sitting there... and Algebra test, nailed it," Peter said now standing by his desk. "I'm pretty sure I failed it," I said sitting up.

"Who else knows? Anybody?" Mr. Stark asked. I and Peter shook our heads. "Nobody," we both said. "Not even your unusually attractive aunt?" Stark asked. "No. No. No! If she knew, she would freak out. And when she freaks out, I freak out," Peter said. "That's true he does," I said looking at Mr. Stark who was sitting on the end of the bed in a chair. "You know what I think is really cool? This webbing," Mr. Stark said and threw the little thing he had the webbing at Peter who caught it without looking. "That tensile strength is off the charts. Who manufactured that?" Stark asked.

"Peter did," I said. Mr. Stark raised his eyebrows as he looked over the suit. "Climbing walls, how you doing that? Adhesive gloves?" He asked. "It's a long story. I was..." Peter started but stopped cut off by Stark. "Lordy! Can you even see in these?" He asked holding the goggles up to his face that were attached to the suit. I bit my lip so I wouldn't laugh as Peter glared at me. "Yes. Yes. I can," Peter said taking it away from him and putting this in the small closest. "I can see in those. Okay? It's just that when whatever happened, happened... It's like our senses dialed to 11. There's way too much input, so they kinda help me focus," Peter said.

"You're in dire need of an upgrade. You too," Stark said looking at me. "What? No!" I said but he ignored me. "Systemic, top to bottom, hundred-point restoration. That's why I'm here," he said and leaned against the wall. Peter sat beside me on the bed. "Why are doing this? I gotta know, what's your MO? What gets you outta that twin bed in the morning?" Stark asked. "Me. I get him outta bed," I said. "And you, why don't you do what he's doing? Why are you Spider-Girl?" He asked.

Peter looked at me and looked back at Mr. Stark. "Because..." he stammered a little. "Because I've been me my whole life, and we have had these powers for 6 months. I read books, I build computers. Yeah, I would love to play football, but I couldn't then, so I shouldn't now," Peter said. I forward my eyebrows he never told me exactly why he was doing what he was. "Sure, because you're different," Stark said. "Exactly. But I can't tell anybody that, so I'm not," Peter said. Stark looked at me then and raised his eyebrows. I sighed knowing I wasn't getting around this at all and I was going to have to explain why I wasn't out there with Peter in so ridiculous suit fighting crime.

"I'm not a genius like Peter is. I can barely pass my classes. I wouldn't be passing them if it wasn't for him. I'm more street smart and I'm artsier than him. I take pictures and draw and I don't draw pretty things, I draw dark messed up things. Peter follows the rules and I don't. So what business do I have out there saving people's lives?" I said looking down at my hands.

[ineedrelationshipadvice]

Is it okay that I dont see my boyfriend during this pandemic? He asks me to come over but I don't think it's the best idea to, because it's advised we isolate and my job (that I have to go to because we haven't shut down) is high risk because I'm a cleaner at a venue so I see multiple different people and clean up gross things everyday, but he says that because I can go out to work then I can go out and see him. I dont want to hurt his feelings but I dont think he's seeing the big picture

There really isn’t precedent for this sort of thing. So suffice it for me to say, but you should probably follow the laws. The county I live near just went on mandatory shelter-in-place, which generally means going out for any reason at all. If you’re in an area where that’s happening, just make sure you’re following the rules and regulations outlined by your local officials. Last thing you want is to go to meet your boyfriend and get a citation for breaking travel restrictions. 

But let’s say that you’re not sheltering-in-place. Should you still see your partner? 

I think that really comes down to preference. A cleaner isn’t inherently a high-risk job; the level of risk rises with the amount of people you’re meeting with, not just because you’re interacting with gross stuff. As long as you’re cleaning with appropriate attire on and not licking doorknobs and stuff, you will probably be fine on the front of getting sick, and seeing your partner won’t be that big of a deal. 

The thing to take into account, however, is that Coronavirus is INCREDIBLY easy to transmit. And moreover, people can be asymptomatic for a very long time, and may not show any severe symptoms at all. This means that if you’re infected, but don’t realize it, you could be a risk to essentially everyone around you. How likely is that to actually happen? Again, depends on the generalized risk, depending on way too many factors. 

It also needs to be reminded that young people are not immune to Coronavirus. Just because older folks are at the highest risk doesn’t mean the rest of us aren’t. Even if most of us just weather the virus and get on it, there are new figures rising that say young people who do get sick can get severely ill. Quoted from here:

But of the 508 patients known to have been hospitalized, 38 percent were notably younger — between 20 and 54. And nearly half of the 121 patients who were admitted to intensive care units were adults under 65, the C.D.C. reported. 

Nobody wants to get sick with this. And your boyfriend may not be taking it seriously, but it is serious. At the same time, humans need connection, and it’s perfectly natural to want to see the people that care about you. You just have to go into doing such things with the full acceptance that something bad might happen, and decide whether that risk is worth it for you. 

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As a final note for this, because I’m sure there are many reading this who are in a similar position of wanting to see their loved ones, but are not sure what to do. I’m just going to assume that all of us are dumb monkeys with smartphones, because that’s what we are, and we’re very frequently going to make very stupid decisions in our own self-interest. 

Thus, if you’re considering or planning to visit your romantic partner while self-isolating, here is a quick rundown of things to take into account.  

First, when should you NOT see your partner? 

Are you around sick people? This applies especially to anyone working in a hospital, grocery store, or with other essential services. You’re around a lot of people. Just don’t do it.

Are you feeling under the weather? It doesn’t matter if it’s the cold, a simple cough, the flu, or actual coronavirus. If you’re not feeling well, STAY HOME. 

Have you been to a high risk area recently? This includes anywhere that a lot of people were. The beach, Disneyworld, foreign country, concert. Doesn’t matter. If you were recently around a huge number of people, STAY HOME and see if you develop symptoms. 

Does the law say to stay home? Obey the law. 

And then, assuming you ARE seeing your partner because you simply can’t help yourself, how can you make sure you’re not getting them sick? 

WASH YOUR HANDS. You should already be doing this all the time anyway, and if you don’t know how, a video is here and down below. But first thing you do when you get to your partner’s house, WASH YOUR HANDS. No hugs, no spanks, no nothing. Straight to the sink with you. 

STRIP. Man, who knew coronavirus was so sexy? But seriously, take off your damn clothes. If you drove from your house to theirs by yourself, it’s no big deal. But if you were out and about, interacting or nearby other people, or on public transit, why bother taking the risk of the virus being on your clothes? Bring a clean set of clothes with you, and change into them immediately. Leave them in a corner of the room or in your bag until it’s time to go home, and don’t interact with them. This way, if by some weird circumstance the virus IS on your clothes, you can get all cuddly without transmitting it from surface to your partner, or to yourself. Personally, being a bit of a germaphobe myself, this is the first thing I do any time I get home. 

WASH AND SHOWER. Again, this mostly applies if you were in public or on public transport, especially at your work. But go ahead and take your shower first thing. If you have coronavirus on you, it could be on your skin, on your hair, on your face. It’s invisible, so there’s no way to know. So just take a shower! Easy peasy, and you’ll be smelling great. 

SEXY TIME ANNOUNCEMENTS. Let’s be clear, coronavirus gets into the body through - usually - us dumb humans getting it on our hands, and touching our eyes, nose, mouth, ears, etc. So can you be sexy with your partner? GOOD QUESTION, and I don’t have the answer. So don’t take the risk with your dirty hands. If you want to be physically affectionate, follow the rules above: wash up thoroughly just to make sure.  The other concern is if you have the virus, and you start making out or smashing your partner, you could be spreading the virus. Again, this is no guarantee, and I’m no healthcare professional. But just be aware that this is directly putting yourself and your partner at risk in the event either one of you have the virus. Just be careful, and don’t be a hero if one person’s sick, and the other’s like, “I DON’T MIND I LOVE YOU.” Not this time, player. 

SHARING IS NOT CARING. Lots of partners will frequently share lots of things. Anything from cups and finger-foods, to as much weird stuff as toothbrushes, hairbrushes, and other stuff. Firstly, don’t share tooth or hairbrushes with people, that’s super unhygienic. But secondly, consider sharing less for now. If you or your partner share a cup of water, that’s one more opportunity for someone who has the virus in their system to pass it. Go reenact the Lady in the Tramp spaghetti scene later; right now, just use your own silverware, your own cups, your own plates, etc. 

BE AWARE OF WHO THEY SPEAK TO. The whole point of social distancing is that we’re interacting with the minimum number of people possible. If you and your boyfriend are only seeing each other, and nobody else beyond your work, that’s an OKAY scenario. Not great, but not bad. But if either you or your boyfriend are also visiting family, visiting other friends, going to their own job, etc., this should be a hard no-go.  Social distancing only works if we literally distance ourselves socially. That sucks, but it’s for the sake of everyone. If your boyfriend is visiting his other friends, his family, his coworkers, then you two should be highly aware of the web of people you’re interacting with. You’re already taking a risk by associating with one another; if you two are socializing as per normal, that’s just not good in any way.

Again, I’m not a healthcare provider. Listen to other people before me. But I know how hard it is to deny yourself contact with your significant other. It’s hard on everyone. And I know people are going to do it out of some romantic sense of love, and I can’t stop anyone from doing that. 

My goal here is to minimize the damage. PRACTICE SOCIAL DISTANCING, even when it sucks. Make sure you’re interacting with the minimum amount of people as possible while anyone around you might be sick. If that means that the sucky reality is you won’t get to see your partner very much, then that’s just life. Have internet dates, find other ways to associate. There are alternatives. 

And wash your fuckin’ hands. 

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HI WELCOME TO THE FOG i am so sorry for the length dbd is my special interest rn Crash course in dbd that'll make sense as you play (Survivor heavy): Map navigation: Deja Vu for generator locations (try to have 1 person on a gen at any time, gens move the game forward) Kindred for player and killer location (Killer is a certain radius around the hook, player is global) when a player is hooked Exit gates are static on Midwich and Hawkins, everywhere else (afaik) has dynamic locations. Windows of Opportunity (Kate Denson, 4500 shards or 2200 during the anniversery event, that starts on the 13th) shows vault and pallet locations, which is where you wanna try and loop. Killer version is Zenshin Tactics (Oni, also 4500k shards)

Looping: Goal is to keep the killer distracted so gens can get done, not to escape (Though if you escape, hell yeah my person!!) and yeah I'm at 1700 hours and still need practice so don't give up!! Lithe (Feng Min) gives you a burst of speed after fast vaulting, but does cause exhaustion for 40 seconds Boon: Shadowstep (Mikaela Reid) hides your scratch marks (For the killer to track you when you run) and aura if you're in it's radius Looping takes time to learn but you pick it up!! Totems: If it glows it goes. Applies to both sides. Shadowstep in high traffic areas for looping, Circle of Healing out of high traffic areas for a safe healing zone Hen: Undying will protect a hex from being disabled if 1 hex totem is cleansed. (Exampe, Devour Hope + Undying = 2 totems you gotta cleanse) Honorable mention, if it's a blight and/or wraith, there is a good chance they'll have NOED and Devour Hope NOED (No One Escapes Death): Is dormant until all 5 gens are done and/or the hatch is closed. Killer gets a 4% speed and can instantly down you in one hit, regardless of the health state. Wraiths run this almost every single time, so if you are against the Wraith, you may wanna cleanse totems if you have time. Devour Hope: If they killer books it away from a hook and aren't around when a survivor is rescued, they gain a token. 3 is instant downs, 5 is moriable even without a mori (Cutscene of you getting cinematically murdered). Blights like this hex because you go really fast. This one is not dormant, so if it glows it goes. Characters: Original characters can be bought for shards, all except I think the last 2 newest releases are half off during the big events Licensed characters cost money and/or auric cells Currency: BP = Bloodpoints for blood web Iri Shards = Level up rewards, used to buy original characters and their cosmetics, also used to get perks in the Shrine of Secrets Auric Cells = Premium currency, used to buy cosmetics, characters, and the Rift Pass (Highly worth it, it's a buy it once thing, you "earn" your cells back by going through The Rift and you get exclusive cosmetics and charms) Community: Rude: Slugging, tunneling, obvious asshole tbags, hookicide, unhook spamming till death and going afk out of anger are rude but not bannable

And the wiki link cause this is the condensed pamphlet version lol https://deadbydaylight.fandom.com/wiki/Dead_by_Daylight_Wiki

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