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[nhura]

QUICK NO ONE'S LOOKING

(See readmore for thoughts, cope, bonus, etc.)

Anyone else up thinking about Ratio's big, strong, secure arms and how warm and all-consuming they could be in a hug or embrace. :/ Anyway

I just wanted to draw them being cute and seizing a sliver of a moment where they could have some PDA silly time without actually having any eyes on them. They're public figures and working adults with very clear boundaries between public persona and private life (to varying degrees of "in a sad way"), so while it may be in Aventurine's nature to constantly blur lines for various agendas and self-preservation (read: play "the flirt" without an aligned goal), I believe that in an actual relationship they'd be fairly private.

It's kind of fun to break your own rules, though! Ratio would be more upset about the consequences, though. He's a little bit of a hypocrite, which is devastating for someone of such discipline, but nobody's perfect.

I'm of the mentality of, "If you're tired of working on it, then just post it!", so here are some fun peripherals that I didn't feel like adding:

Some staff in the background sweeping up to evoke a blended sense of fragile privacy and liminal time.

A laptop on the aquarium/bar/counter because there's something fascinating about seeing people on their work laptops in public.

The rest of their clothes (casual friday)

[stinkythehutt]

also. something about palpatine being so adept at seeing into the future that all of his successes feel completely joyless by the time he achieves them because he’s just going through the motions… how fucked up and nihilistic and brutal that would make you…

[serpentface]

Retconned Wardi firearms- a basic handgun, a highly decorative ceremonial handgun (belonging to Faiza), and a lance-gun.

Gun tech has officially been nerfed down to hand cannons (press F) (this has been a long time coming but I'd been fallacy of sunk costs-ing myself out of retconning).

Handguns are held similarly to a shotgun, with the butt pressed into the user's shoulder, one hand gripping under the barrel, and the other free to ignite the gunpowder. These represent the most advanced firearms in contemporary usage, both in make and in their use of uniform iron projectiles built to match the gun's bore for greater range and efficiency. Lance-guns are the more basal form, usually larger and mounted with the pole held over the shoulder, and are most effectively used by two people (one to hold and aim, one to light the gunpowder).

The spread of firearms is currently mostly limited to the Eastern Inner Seaway peoples (with some additional distribution via overland trade), and actual manufacture of hand cannons and gunpowder at Significant scale is limited to the region's core powers.

The reason for this limited spread is partially due to specific elements of the technology's history. Gunpowder was first synthesized by Burri alchemists and considered to be the discovery of the legendary divine weapon + solar fire of the deity Inanariya, and its formula (along with techniques for ideally refining its components) remained a closely guarded state secret. It was used predominantly in priestly contexts to generate flame and explosive sounds (in conjunction with earlier practices of generating multicolored flames with use of other chemicals), then integrated into combustible weaponry in the forms of fire lances, which would eventually develop into early handcannons.

The treatment of gunpowder as a guarded sacred or semi-sacred substance continued with Wardi adoption, where knowledge of its making is considered a closed rite. It's name (inya tsatsul or just tsatsul, a derived adoption of the Burri iñazatsūya) still reflects a divine solar association (the Burri word means 'sun's thunder', the Wardi 'inya' invokes the sun, 'tsatsul' is an adapted loanword and has no meaning independent of the substance itself), though its priestly use is now predominantly associated with the firearm'ed Odonii (rather than priests of the solar Face Inyamache). The composition of gunpowder can no longer be regarded as a Secret by any means, though efforts to obscure the methods of its creation are still moderately successful and has kept knowledge of gunpowder manufacture more limited than the total sphere of firearm usage itself.

The actual strongest limiting factor of firearm usage is the rarity of natural saltpeter deposits necessary for making gunpowder. The practice of actively producing saltpeter via nitraries has not been developed anywhere in the setting, and all is instead obtained via natural sources. These sources are rare and limited within the current spread of firearm technology, and result in gunpowder being a limited and expensive substance to produce. The weapons themselves are also very expensive to manufacture (a good quality steel SWORD is far too material-cost prohibitive for most people to own), particularly high quality firearms designed for use with standardized ammunition.

These guns are also very basal, and logistical difficulties in their use (weight, very slow loading and firing speed, high visibility, Relatively low reach and accuracy) along with the restrictive cost of production has kept firearms far from rendering conventional weaponry, armor, and projectiles obsolete (even within the societies that have access to them). They are still, however, very devastating in use within their contemporary context, particularly in that high quality guns have a longer range than the best arrow-based projectiles, and utterly negate most contemporary forms of armor at close range.

[flightyalrighty]

wow that anon is dumb. anyone who is that concerned about starving artists "taking away" from other people in need of donations - is directing their energy the wrong way.

love the comic, hope you can afford that controller <3

Thank you! Me too! I really really really hope I can!

[guiltyidealist]

It should be a criminal offense if an insurance company is responsible for a delay in a policyholder's necessary health care.

Withholding prescribed treatments, even for just a day, can be anywhere from inconvenient to catastrophic for the victim. Medical providers may not withhold necessary treatment from any patient on any grounds, as it is their duty to provide it-- it should be justly illegal for any "middle man" to interfere with a medical provider's legal and ethical obligation to treat a patient.

Severity of the charge and its legal consequences should depend upon the scope of the offense (length of delay) and its consequences to the victim (impact on the person).

The testimonies of the victim, the pharmacy, and the medical provider who prescribed the treatment should be key considerations for the determination. Additional important testimony should come from the victim's other medical providers, housemates, family, educators/mentors, colleagues/coworkers, or employers.

The charge should become criminal record for the company. The company (perhaps the agent's office) should be fined per day delayed.

Some taxation can be applied; just to pay off the folks who do the filing, advocacy, testimony, processing. A hefty majority of the fine should be compensation owed to the victim.

If delays became a criminal charge on companies' records, then companies would have a strong motive to terminate agents who aren't performing with punctuality. It would become their best financial interest to invest only in timely agents who would, in turn, gain a best interest to invest only in timely subordinates.

I posit that insurance delays would wane significantly, resulting in more timely delivery of treatments to policyholders, and many people's qualities of life would improve drastically for it.

[transrevolutions]

kind of fucking suspicious that the usa/uk decides to launch the strikes on yemen today (aka the day israel is standing trial at the ICJ on genocide charges and the event is getting widespread coverage) when they claim the attacks on ships had been going on "for months prior."

[selkiefinalist]

which hockey would be an extreme couponer

[muninnhuginn]

Something about relationships where one person is clearly more invested than the other. And I don't mean a yandere kind of deal, more situations where someone is someone else's best friend, but it's not mutual.

Or where one person is hopelessly trying but they can't see if their efforts mean anything. If the other person is actually reacting or if they're just seeing what they want to see.

Or where two people know each other's quirks, behaviour, but ultimately it only truly matters to one of them. Knowledge is knowledge, but how it's wielded? It could be a comfort or a knife.

Unrequited? Ill-requited? Unbalanced, regardless.

[gazorninplat]

after watching the Star Wars hotel video, I'm convinced you could re-theme it to a 25th Ward experience with minimal effort.

I don't know if that's cool or creepy.

[chaiaurchaandni]

[drinkingdeadpeopletea]

Episode 1.19: Moonfall

Episode 2.13: Inside

delicious delicious parallel to me. "burned all your bridges in exchange for a signing bonus" indeed! "are you satisfied? is this everything you hoped for?" indeed!

[sanctiphera]

If people are basing their opinion of what we read in our news, they are deeply misled about what happened and what is happening. It was the same thing with Ukraine. People still believe that they are fighting for democracy and Putin attacked out of the blue for no reason.

[rivertigo]

sometimes I think I’m just being out of touch and looking back on a past i didn’t live through with rose colored glasses but no I think we are living in a uniquely isolated time in every sector of life

[1o1percentmilk]

if trump wins this election i am considering leaving the country

[justlookatthosesausages]

About to go throw a brick through Nintendo HQ window. All three (3) of my right joycons have drift. Like, alright, the oldest of the three is no longer under warranty but it's STILL scandalous that controllers can't stand 3 years of use in 2020's, especially at such a price.

But that's not even why I want to throw a brick through the Nintendo HQ window. How about the two other right joycons? Well one of them has been gifted to me and immediately started malfunctioning one week after being used, and the other, which I bought with my own money because the previous one malfunctioned, started malfunctioning LESS THAN A HOUR AFTER I STARTED USING IT. It's not even the battery or anything, it was fully charged, it immediately did the joycon drift I am screaming so hard

So now you might think. What's the post about. Just contact after-sales service. Just ask Nintendo to fix their shit.

I did.

Guess who finally received the two right joycons that I sent for repair, charged them, then used them to see them drift under half an hour of use?

me.

I will throw a brick through Nintendo HQ window