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[petnews2day]

'Grinning like the Cheshire cat!': Black Country vets named UK's best in national awards

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'Grinning like the Cheshire cat!': Black Country vets named UK's best in national awards

Warren House Veterinary Centre, on Lichfield Road, Brownhills, were the bee’s knees as they were handed the gold in this year’s BestUKVets Awards 2024. The Walsall care service received the accolade to recognise their outstanding achievement in their field, with the care service boasting an amazing 900 outstanding online reviews from clients. Warren House Veterinary […]

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[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.

[slugmorelz]

edge of the meadow

04/21/24

[crowrrupt]

Oíche Shamhna shona daoibh!!

[Bluesky]

[sleepyblr-heart]

'man, this would be a lot easier if there was a way to do this easier' he says, as there is a way to do it easier

[asteriasfallingstarsandtears]

Not the first time I've cleared an ex around launch (I think I did Zodiark faster but that launched around Christmas) but I did finish the first Extreme today!

And the group I was running with was very kind and stayed one last time so I could get the weapon.

We did five clears, I am still making some minor mistakes (curse you Mountain Fire) but I am Getting It(tm).

[egglygreg]

Just found out I got my disability payment accepted! Thank you Lord!

I've been waiting on the outcome for months, I'm so glad it's gone through. My experience last year with forced job search and trying to work again was really awful and disheartening, so I'm so grateful not to have to go through it again.

I do have to find some volunteer work to keep it, but I'm pretty sure I know where I'm meant to volunteer after helping there spontaneously last week.

It's such a relief but it hasn't really sunk in yet I don't think.

[pikslasrce]

tfw you go to a clothes swap with like. 2 things and come back with a full bag of shit #stonks

[petnews2day]

Shrewsbury's 'saddest cat' on the lookout for a new home

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Shrewsbury's 'saddest cat' on the lookout for a new home

The five-year-old was found as a stray, and Alice Batchelor Reynolds, cattery supervisor at Gonsal Farm in Dorrington, said that Oscar is not enjoying his time at the centre. Describing him as a “very big cat” she said that he is “very, very nervous around people”. She said: “We don’t think he has ever had […]

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[sanpape]

My copy of Yakuza 0 is so close I can taste it......

[0bsc3ne]

i feel so isolated. not necessarily socially, but just... connection-wise, i guess? particularly in real life. i really don't have anyone i could consider a "peer" because my life is just so... idk. non-conventional? affected by the biological hazard cocktail of fucky chemicals in my brain? my highschool friends have all gone off to college and are out of town and. y'know. doing college shit. my professional "peers" career-wise are all well into their late 20s and older. mostly far older. i don't have any family members or really any friends my age in general. and it just feels so isolating. and it just kinda sucks seeing my old highschool friends doing irresponsible young adult shit knowing i can't bc almost my entire social circle consists of people who qualify for senior discounts and i just. can't disappoint them bc my income fundamentally depends on them thinking i'm a Responsible Individual. but then i see my professional "peers" doing stuff that i fundamentally can't do because i'm not old enough to be taken seriously enough for and/or not old enough to have the experience for. and i just feel so out of place. constantly. and it's just isolating. but i guess that's just the autism talking

[violentdevotion]

how do you connect with a city that tried with all of its might to lock you out

[ssnakey-b]

Coming soon... the return of the Final Fantasy VIII English-French Translarison!

Well... it has NOT been four years since I last touched this, is all I’m saying.

Okay, so it’s been four years. My, how time flies. But I really want to continue it. I guess I just... recovered my mojo about it?

Anyway, I am currently working on part 25, literally as I am typing this, after finally being able to make sense of how I organized my save files (pro tip: don’t go on a four-years hiatus in the middle of a gaming project) which will see us start the CD 3 content. Oooooh! Really looking forward to it. No promise on when exactly it’ll go up as it does take a lot of time but I’m hoping to post it sometime today or tomorrow.

Also, I figured since it’s been a hot minute, it’d be a good idea to compile every entry so far, so that you and all of your loved ones to whom I’m sure you’ve been sending every update to religiously may have one hub to find them all and refresh their memory.

I also intend to of course update it with every new entry, unless I forget or can’t be arsed. Anyway, with no further ado, click the “see more” bit for the list and see you soon for part 25! Oh, and don’t hesitate to tell me if a link is broken or wrong or what have you.

Part 1 - Back to... University?

Part 2 - The field exam

Part 3 - Dream Daddy

Part 4 - President Evil

Part 5 - Laguna Vice

Part 6 - Student exchange

Part 7 - Quistis’ skewed priorities

Part 8 - Do lapdogs dream of romantic sheep?

Part 9 - Make it Raine

Part 10 - oh Zell, you’re such a (prison) riot!

Part 11 - The Great Escape

Part 12 - Going with a bang

Part 13 - School Drama

Part 14 - Romantic Cruise

Part 15 - FURURURURURURU

Part 16 - Horizon Event

Part 17 - Nothing says “romance” like an Irish jig

Part 18 - A tribe called Side-quest

Part 19 - the one that took entirely too long to make

Part 20 - Shumi what you’ve got!

Part 21 - Mother Trabia

Part 22 - dinner with a side of quest.

Part 23 - Battle of the Gardens

Part 24 - Return of the Translarison!

[ivygorgon]

Also, check your local library, and get a library card when you do! Even if you never use it ever again, engagement and foot traffic drive their funding! 🙏

Beware!

[kittenkes]

Going to attend a lecture tonight about the entanglements of Evangelicalism and the election. It will be interesting, I think. I volunteer as a research assistant at the Center on the Study of Evangelicalism, and it's important to have this open dialogue, especially now. It does nothing to ease my anxieties, but it keeps me and the general public (open to these discussions) informed nonetheless.

[farmerstrend]

Is this the Largest Sweet Potato in Kenya? The Inspiring Story of Manoah Kilach's 11-Kilogram Sweet Potato

In the verdant Ngata area of Nakuru County, Manoah Kilach has transformed agricultural practice through meticulous organic farming and technological innovation. A retired educator turned agricultural entrepreneur, Kilach stands as a testament to the potential of modern, sustainable farming techniques. On a sun-drenched Friday morning, Kilach proudly displayed an extraordinary achievement: an…