Glados is there. She constantly complains that Chell is “playing the game wrong” but does so entirely through large donations, almost single handedly funding the channel
I don’t think fantasy writers play enough with the concept of the different fantasy races having distinct ethnicities. Like imagine a group of mixed peoples, where the dwarves are all roasting each other like dwarves do, and one of them remarks that when he first saw one of the other dwarves in the group, he mistook her for a man. The other dwarves in the group blink in surprise - the closest that dwarves will go to an audible gasp of shock - and she pulls out a knife and tries to stab him.
Once the dwarves have been separated from each other and the situation has calmed, one of the humans asks another dwarf what that incident was about. Naturally a human woman would have been insulted too, but dwarves are so jovial about insulting each other, why was this matter different?
And the dwarf who was asked explains that there are things you can brutally insult another dwarf about, and there are things you simply do not touch. The dwarf-woman in question is from a completely different region of The Great Underground as the others, and her people have different norms about what kind of patterns men and women braid into their beards. The dwarf insulting her wasn’t only insulting her appearance, he was being racist.
The human is surprised to learn that dwarves have different peoples, and the dwarf looks at them like at an idiot. Of course they do, they even look completely different from each other. And the human listens as the dwarf lists off various distinguishing clothing details too nuanced for a human to notice, and then how dwarves coming from different corners of the world have different physical traits, according to what kind of conditions their local stone types dictate.
The human spots a connection and goes oh! We have that too, though ours are not about rock types and tunnel air, but the weather aboveground. Humans’ facial features vary by how hot, cold, arid or windy their ancestors’ homelands were, and our skin tone varies by how much the sun shines in their native region.
The dwarf frowns at the last part, going “I thought you people just paint your skin and dye your hair for fun”, and the human admits that yeah, we do that too, but not all the time, and not the whole skin. The dwarf asks, what of that tall woman the colour of dravite, her palms and the soles of her feet were lighter than the rest of her. Does that mean she paints herself dark to be more beautiful?
The human says no, that just happens naturally. Maybe it’s because one’s palms and feet aren’t exposed to the sun as much, so they are paler.
The dwarf nods, still unsure whether this is actually legit or just the human habit of lying for fun, and proceeds to ask about the wild northman of their party. He is as pale as an olm, but the palms of his hands and the soles of his feet are dark. Are they painted, or naturally that way?
No, the human answers. That guy just doesn’t bathe.
”pdf file” “unalived” “grape” “corn” what if i killed myself right here right now
imagine you read the local newspaper and in the section where they discuss a recent murder they describe it as “young adult unalived by serial game ender”. like you’re a toddler surrounded by adults who need to watch their language around you. you’re sanitizing and cutting down gruesome, horrific actions and situations into digestible baby words. i know this has been said before by other people but i’m so so sick of it dude, don’t speak advertiser language to me.
“getting laid” is very hot and sexy. “getting off”? great news as well. so you would think “getting laid off” would be wonderful news for your penis. but alas
The game I’ve been working on for almost two years is now in open beta if you wanna try it out!!
Boom Boom Hamster Doom is a VR game about commanding teams of hamsters fighting across a completely destructible island. If you want an X-meets-Y description, it’s much like Worms, but at tabletop scale. It’s toyetic as hell - you lead them around on leashes with your little crab claw, and pull back like a catapult to aim missiles or boxing gloves, throw an airstrike like a paper plane, or fly them around in little jetpacks.
I’ve worked on pretty much every corner of this game - in particular, shading, animation, UI, gameplay and the procedural generation of the islands. And like, you know me, I want to tell you all about it. I’m writing a whole lot more diving into how just about every aspect of the game was built, from voxel meshing and networked physics to ocean rendering, bot AI, and obscure DOTS optimisation headaches… which will all be appearing right here. I’ll keep you updated.
We’ll be moving into full early-access soon, but you can already jump in the beta here, and play against other people or bots in the forest and ice biomes. You’ll need to have a Quest 2 or Quest 3 headset - but if you have another headset, don’t worry, we are planning on a Steam release down the line. I’ll keep you posted.
All feedback is extremely welcome! I’m nervous/proud/excited for the game to finally see the light of day.
more character should have speech impediments &/or stutters. for me. for my specific benefit
not all speech impediments / stutters need “reasoning” btw. sometimes ppl just have them. you dont need to come up with some massive lore element to it lawl
February 18, 2025 - Three Palestine Action activists took over the entrance to Pearson Engineering in Newcastle, an arms factory owned by Israel’s national defence group Rafael, and halted production for the day. [video]
Not to critique evolution, but I would think orange and black stripes wouldn’t be as good for camouflage in a forest as, say, green and black would.
It turns out a lot of animals can’t see the difference between orange and green! Elephants, for instance, have dichromatic vision (two types of cones, rather than three like most humans.)
Check out this diagram from ResearchGate. It deals with the color vision of horses, who are also generally dichromatic. (I think, though I’m not sure, that zebras would have the same color vision as horses.) See how orange and green look to them?
Not to critique evolution but I think prey animals should be better at telling when their predator is dressed like a traffic cone.
It doesn’t matter what zebras see, because tigers are not native to Africa and do not naturally hunt zebra. Tigers are Asian and mostly hunt animals like deer, elk, and buffalo. These aren’t animals with great color vision. They don’t need to have it because they don’t eat fruit and so don’t need to know when the berry is ripe vs when it’s not. Good color vision is too expensive to have if you don’t need it. Deer put their vision stats in a wide field of vision that is sensitive to motion, low light capabilities, and possibly seeing UV light. They don’t have great color and lack a lot of acuity, but have a great sense of smell and good hearing. That’s way more useful if you’re prey. Deer see well in the blue end of the color spectrum and less well in the red. This makes sense because deer are most active in the dawn and dusk periods, when there is more blue in the light. Tigers are taking advantage of deer eyesight by being orange.
We see tigers are being obviously colored because tigers are fruit colored to our tree ape brains.
I don’t know what the best part of this is: implying that deer chose their attributes on a character sheet, or the fact that we get to see tiger colors because they look like a snack.
Ok but like, I think you underestimate just how well they blend in when actually in the environment. Like, just using tigers as an example.
or how about a leopard?
It’s called ‘disruptive colouration’ because the markings help to break up the animal’s outline against the grasses or rocks. And the rosettes on leopards and jaguars? Sun spots shining through the trees and leaves on the ground.
And this is how hard it is to spot them WITH colour vision. Now imagine the above images but with the limited coloured mentioned above?
I’m sorry but there is not an animal in that first leopard picture
Are you, sure about that?
“Tigers are fruit colored” is my new favorite phrase.
There’s a quote from the AIDS epidemic I keep saying to myself, “Bury your friends in the morning, protest in the afternoon, and Dance all Night”
Don’t feel guilty for creating beauty, for having moments where you laugh and feel good while the world falls apart around you. Because being miserable and consumed with the bad does no one any good. Dance all night to give yourself strength to bury your friends in the morning.
We will persevere. We will survive. And when it feels like you can’t take another step, I’ll hold your hand and take it with you.
Sorry to be that guy :’) but I’ve never heard of the term degenerate being used as a fascist term…? Do you have any articles or key search terms you’d recommend for ignorant people like me so that I could look into it more? :)
my dad was outside feeding the slugs cucumber slices earlier
he was like ‘thats the same one from last night!’ (he was feeding the slugs cucumber slices last night too) im like man you’ve been spending too much time with the neighbourhood slugs if you can tell them apart
Friendship comes in many forms. Don’t get in the way of a man and his friendly slug friends
you’re right sorry dad for my crimes
This made me laugh cus it’s actually really accurate. Like one time he called me downstairs to see the ‘cutest thing ever’ and it was three slugs of varying sizes eating cat food and he said ‘they are a family!! Just like us!!’
I can’t take adults seriously in fandom discourse because of how immature they often are. You got adults between ages 20 and 40 years old arguing and harassing people over fictional characters and ships, making it their entire personality. They have black-and-white mindsets, believing anyone who doesn’t blindly agree with them is the “enemy” and attacks them.
At least with minors, there’s a great chance of them outgrowing this behavior and cringing when they remember how awful they used to be, but full-grown adults? They refused to mature past high school.
You know AI guys are living in another reality bc the amount of terror I would feel if a computer sent me, unprompted, an image of a blank-expression copy of myself trapped in a endless hallway of mirrors is frankly indescribable
so I went to the counseling center at my school to set up an appointment etc etc and I know they have a therapy dog there and I was like “where’s the dog?” and the receptionist was like ‘oh I’m sorry, she’s in a meeting right now’ and I look over at the other room and there is a fucking dog sitting in a chair at a long table sitting next to all these people in business suits and I felt like I was in a dream
The celebrity Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavors being some of the best ones is like the retail equivalent of having to go to a restaurant and order a rootin tootin yeehaw cowboy burger or something
The Tonight Dough is a downright hedonistic ice cream flavor concept but in order to obtain it you have to purchase a pint of ice cream with Jimmy Fallon’s face on it and then see him in your freezer every day for a week
i’ve been ruined by the phrase “i’m sorry women” i’m literally addicted to it. bumped into a guy on the train and automatically said “i’m sorry women” with a completely straight face. he didn’t even ask me to repeat myself. one look at my face and he knew i was beyond help.
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