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[justsellinghomes]

Would you install similar idea in your home?Saving on plumbing 💡 ideas. #Exp613 #ExpRealty #RiversideSouth

[tripamania]

bedma'am

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[platossoulmates]

my favorite thing about advanced gay is jeff’s reaction to pierce’s switch up on gay people like how are you to tell me that is not EXACTLY how a closeted person who knows they’re closeted (im looking at you troy barnes) would react in that situation. everyone else just thinks it’s a little silly and fun to be momentarily involved in gay culture but he is offended because he gets it 😭 there is literally no way to watch advanced gay and not come out of it knowing that is the most bisexual character ever presented on television

[faoggot]

[krussyblogs]

So yesterday i had to take a shit while watching dunmeshi and it made me realize that they probably have to shit a lot with how much they eat

We know there are toilets on some of the floors but I don't think they're frequent enough on every floor for them to be able to shit regularly (answers 3-5 are my mom's idea)

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

hot take I think the sexes would be much happier if we just accepted each other as mysteries instead of constantly shaming one for not being more like the other.

like, personally, in my own life, the whole idea of romance & marriage became way more exciting and attractive when I ditched the notion that men are just bigger stronger women, or women are just smaller prettier men.

like. not only is it okay that men are from mars and women are from venus, it's good.

do I know what's going on in my guy friend's head? I used to think I did, but it turns out I don't. Turns out I've never known what was going through the heads of any of the men in my life. And you know what? what a relief. he can do or say things that don't make sense to me, and they don't have to make sense to me. I know he's a smart, good-hearted guy; I can safely assume he had a reason for saying or doing that thing. And if I listen to him over time, I may even start to understand what that reason was. But I don't have to. What I can recognize instead is that each sex has a wisdom in their way of thinking and doing which befits given situations. More often than not, a situation requires both.

But you simply can't get both from one person, and you shouldn't demand it. And what a relief knowing my guy friend doesn't expect guy thoughts and behavior from me.

[pianokantzart]

Given the fact that the Mario Bros Plumbing website had the 20 questions answers set after the events of the movie, I can only assume that "dogs" and "ghosts" were Luigi's biggest fears before his adventure in The Dark Lands, and "lava" and "skeletons" are the newest phobias to make it to the top of that list.

[aunhinged]

Haunted house: Hilson AU

House and Wilson buy a house that’s haunted, but only Wilson believes in the ghost. House refuses to acknowledge the supernatural and blames everything on faulty wiring, even when Wilson gets possessed.

Wilson: I think the ghost is trying to tell us something. House: Yeah, it’s telling you to stop watching horror movies before bed. Wilson: Greg, I just levitated. House: You're just light-headed from all the whining.

[noomyguts]

How I picture armand season 3 post divorce watching daniel and lestat interviews

[selfishshippers-system128]

This is how Toppat Civil Warfare went yea?

Inspired by this post

Heres the og pic (left) and the edited verion (right)

(Reblogs are appreciated!)

The Henry Stickmin collection by Innersloth, drawing inspired by the Toppat Civil Warfare ending,

original creator of the art: me, @killer-lemon. Feel free to use my art as long as you credit me properly!

[caterjunes]

grayson went downstairs for a late-night bowl of cereal & heard water splashing in the basement (which has been flooding with distressing frequency). they looked and spotted the new water heater's condensation pump IN THE ACT of gushing gallons and gallons of water all over the floor!!

they called for me, i ran downstairs in my underwear (just having showered like ten minutes earlier). i tbh sort of wrench the pump into a 5-gal tub (which it RAPIDLY starts filling) to give us time to diagnose the problem. this is not helped by there being like 4 tubes/pipes plumbed into/out of this thing.

i try to pick it up to get a better look at what it's doing and it feels like it buzzes weirdly on my fingers or maybe hand? so i drop it back in the tub (mostly submerged) and try again. same thing. grayson tries it, same thing. i'm like oh shit where did those LOOSE WIRES ON THE PUMP COME FROM OH MY GOD WE'RE STANDING IN AN INCH OF WATER AND I THINK WE JUST GOT SHOCKED. we both get the hell out of the water, i shut off the power to the water heater & go back to try again (grayson has heart disease! do not want them taking any risks w/ electricity!), get zapped AGAIN. i realize the pump is plugged into an outlet on a different circuit and unplug it (by the cord) (in hindsight should've turned off the whole circuit).

the pump stops pumping & i can move it to a new bucket (good! the old one is now overflowing) but it is still gushing water. grayson realizes our Mysterious Whole-House Filter Of Unknown Custom Design is in the middle of its flush cycle so we shut it off. and the water stops. we turn the spigots to bypass the filter so it won't do that again, hopefully.

turns out when the water heater installers put the condenser pump in, they (for some reason) routed the filter flush outflow pipe down through it, then out to the main outflow pipe using the condenser pump. but the flush cycle has such high flow rate that it absolutely overwhelmed the tiny little condenser pump and just poured out of every opening in it. so. i'm annoyed. this didn't need to happen.

[em-exceeds-change-zearu]

ive been on my biannual luigi brainrot for the past little while so here, have this conversation from a few weeks ago

hire me nintendo

[jerreeeeeee]

i feel like we don't talk about twosun enough. its inherently very interesting. this is the world that shaped our heroes. but the minutiae is easy to make up to suit your purposes and none of it ultimately matters to the narrative. trying to think of what we know about this world. there are 2 suns. a purple sky. it was a hard world (aren't all worlds?). there was a spaceship.

so what's the technological state of this world? hard to say. there's a spaceship, first of its kind, but how specific is that? is it the first flying ship at all, or only the first to leave the planar system? the light fell down a year before the starblaster took off, since the hunger came down right on that day. the ipre had the light for one year. how much did that contribute to their technological advancement? (i hate the idea of 'advancement' as if it's some inevitable linear progress but bear with me here, that's the easiest language to use). were they building ships beforehand? what else did they have?

here's how i tend to think of it: the ipre has the light. the ipre is already quite "advanced" for this world. here are things the ipre has, so by extension twosun has: bond engines, indoor plumbing, industrialized steel production. however i don't tend to think of twosun as a globalized world. so there are many places that do not have these things. and of course these are all things we think of as "advanced" but they also lack many things we think of as technological "advancement," like steam engines, or concrete. anyway.

i don't think its possible for the light of creation to have inspired all of this in only one year. this world was already well on its way. the ipre already existed, it already built spaceships. just not as ambitiously, and more rooted in magic than technology (the idea that magic is just science/technology you don't understand yet is very fun, but in this case i think magic is very much different, and has a longer history. although it can be used in tandem with tech, like in the bond engine).

and aside from technologically i tend to think of it as very politically fractured and chaotic. small regional governments with little reach, fraught and difficult trade, certainly no formal schooling systems (there are, like, wizard universities, all with different inscrutable systems, and then the ipre, and that's your choices for "education"). which is why there's more tech in some places than others.

the most interesting thing is, i think, the difference in lifespans among our crew. magnus, lucretia, and barry know only a more or less industrialized world (although i do tend to have barry grown up rural, that'd be one of those places all this tech hasn't quite reached yet), where there's an organization that sends spaceships with engines to different planes of this reality, and now with a little extra kick from the light, to different realities entirely. magnus has only ever showered with water from pipes indoors. he doesn't bat an eye at buildings made of all metal and glass. but lup and taako grew up in a medieval fantasy world. this shit's all, like, seventy years old max, and they've been around for nearly two centuries. they were bathing in big medieval washtubs as kids. their clothes were all handmade. merle too, although he grew up off the grid anyway. and probably davenport as well, but he would've been more immersed in tech, growing up in a gnomish warren. which is maybe why he was such a good pick for pilot of the starblaster.

but also: we see some of the same happen in faerun. even there it's not clear what the time period is. it's fantasy, all swords and sorcery. but there's trains and arcane engines and skyscrapers. again, not globalized, these things exist in isolated pockets. is it the light? did it still manage to have subtle influence all those years? is it just the luck of the millers finding a window into the plane of thought? is the real answer just that it's inconsistent in whatever way makes the most fun story? is it fun to play in the space of trying to make sense of it anyway?

[dragon-fly34]

HI!

It's October and we're almost at Halloween and I remembered that it's the anniversary of the game Luigi's mansion 3, so I'm going to do a Halloween post about Mario + Luigi's mansion 3.

And a bonus is that I will post King boo/Hellen Gravely together with their children because I miss them 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

bye!

[spewagepipe]

Development Pipeline: How Determined Started [Pt. 1]

This Dev Pipeline is the story of how I decided to abandon a game that I've been developing for three years now.

It starts in the summer of 2021, when I was encountering the Old School Revival movement for the very first time. Why I hadn't heard of the OSR any earlier remains a mysterious accident of history, but in any case, the game's inception was a direct result of reading Matthew Finch's A Quick Primer for Old School Gaming (yes, this is also secretly a Plumbing the Depths post).

In the Primer, Finch presents scenarios to illustrate the differences between "old school" and "modern" (in this case, 3E D&D) play.

In the first, a party is searching for a suspected pit trap. The 3E approach is trivial: one dice roll for a perception check; one roll to disable the trap; situation resolved. By contrast, the OSR version involves no dice at all: the players first ask if they can see a seam in the floor, but are stymied by poor illumination; then they consider pressing the suspected area with a pole, but don't have the tool at hand; finally, they empty a waterskin to see if the water will seep through the hidden seam. When it does, they then describe themselves carefully shimmying along the gap between the seam and the corridor wall (since they can't think of any way to "disable" a pit).

To be sure, stopping every ten feet to perform similar experiments sounds like a tedious nightmare, and evidently OSR-Legolas would be no better at spotting traps than OSR-Pippin – but the example is still inspiring. Diegetic mechanics (bespoke, circumstantial rules that characterize all of the relevant properties of the diegetic situation), allow the players to engage with the situation in a highly immersive manner where their natural intuitions lead to viable solutions. By comparison, the 3E approach reads like automated gambling, unmoored from either player skill or diegetic circumstance.

Then Finch moves on to a second example, in which a player has elected to leap down to make a plunging attack on an unsuspecting goblin below. After the last example, I was expecting a similar divide – a few quick dice rolls for 3E, while the OSR involves the player describing their preparation, timing, or maybe some details of goblin anatomy...

But this time, both cases are fully automatic and random. In the 3E case, the GM doesn't know the rules of the game well enough to make the correct ruling, so instead they make a bad, bullshit ruling that upsets the players. In the OSR case, the GM knows that no rule exists at all, and so jumps straight to making an equally bad, equally bullshit ruling that also upsets the players.

For the life of me, I still can't understand why Finch put in this second example that totally undermines his first one. It makes the OSR look haphazard, inconsistent, and sloppy; lacking any real principles to motivate these design choices. But after reading the Primer, there was one idea I couldn't let go of: what if someone did make the combat example work in the same way as the trap-finding one?

Click here for Part 2