odysseus absolutely does present a threat to penelope if he perceives her as at all unfaithful, and i feel the unfairness of this, and i think people tend to undersell how much tension at least potentially exists between odysseus and penelope. but i’m also like. his reaction, all speculation aside, his actual reaction in the odyssey to her flirting with the suitors is delight, because he immediately ascertains that she is running a con. sorry that they’re so in-sync in spite of the forces that try to drive a wedge between them, including their own misgiving hearts. sorry that they invented homophrosyne ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
oh, you meant they literally did, ok
would i, tumblr user thee odysseyofhomer, lie to you?
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this is the only funny addition to this post
odysseus absolutely does present a threat to penelope if he perceives her as at all unfaithful, and i feel the unfairness of this, and i think people tend to undersell how much tension at least potentially exists between odysseus and penelope. but i’m also like. his reaction, all speculation aside, his actual reaction in the odyssey to her flirting with the suitors is delight, because he immediately ascertains that she is running a con. sorry that they’re so in-sync in spite of the forces that try to drive a wedge between them, including their own misgiving hearts.
Ive said this before but swear the biggest skill to learn as an adult is how to resist high-pressure sales tactics. You do NOT have to answer questions with anything other than “Sorry I’m not interested.” No matter how nice they are or no matter how many follow up questions they ask or even how agitated they get when you stand your ground. Just keep saying I’m not interested. Don’t answer their questions. Don’t give them an opening to try to push back on your reasons. Be a fucking brick wall of I’m not interested.
People describe shoebill storks as being scary or ugly birds and always use one image to make their point. When in every other photo they look like this
It’s fascinating how a lot of Evangelical Christian anxiety about Satanism seems to be rooted in the unspoken idea that if the Devil gathers enough worship he’ll depose God and become the new God, because that’s not the party line in any major religion, but it is how it works in Dungeons & Dragons.
“what were you born yesterday” i was actually and shame on you for tricking a little baby i hope they slice open the flesh all across your body and rub dirt and salt into the wounds
rpg setting with multiple competing units of damage/resilience used in different regions. you gotta worry about the conversion between hp celsius and hp fahrenheit
“1 hp is the amount of damage dealt by a one gram sphere of pure iron traveling at one meter per second against a 1x1x1 meter cube of graphite at standard temperature and pressure” versus “it’s so intuitive, 100 hp of damage hurts a lot and 0 hp of damage doesn’t hurt at all so you can just think of it as ‘percent pain’”
it actually makes a lot of sense if you look into the history of it, see back in the first age Fantasy Dan Fahrenheit was a skilled artificer who designed high-precision health bars that were way more reliable and consistent than anything else that existed at the time. yes, the calibration points might seem archaic now, but at the time it was the most practical system realistically possible to reproduce at scale. and also it’s like so intuitive because if an attack does 100 hp of damage it hurts a lot so it’s l
well technically originally* the international wizard council defined 0 hp to be equal to the “KO point”, and yes for most practical applications when someone has 0 hp remaining they fall unconscious and need immediate medical attention (which we can all agree makes way more sense than how it works in hpF), but our understanding of health and damage has grown a lot in the centuries since then, and we now understand that the “KO point” isn’t a true constant. so these days it’s incorporated into the rest of the Fantasy Metric System by defining the Gargamel Constant precisely in terms of hp/mp*s², which is much more rigorous and exact.
*well if you want to go all the way back, when it was originally proposed the standard Health Point Celsius Scale was the opposite of what it is now, so someone’s hp total represented the amount of damage they’ve taken instead of the amount of damage they could still take before reaching the KO point. this was extremely hard to use so it didn’t last very long
i love the idea that health bars are physical objects
The international prototype health bar is kept inside a nested bell jar at the Archives Nationales in Paris.
Is this like an organ in a jar or measurement instrument
Bc like we put both in museums
in this “what if hp is like temperature” analogy a health bar is like a thermometer. I imagine in this world when you go to the doctor they stick a health bar in your mouth to check your hp. but of course adventurers would just carry their health bars around with them
So is there also a watts vs horsepower debate for mp?
rpg setting with multiple competing units of damage/resilience used in different regions. you gotta worry about the conversion between hp celsius and hp fahrenheit
“1 hp is the amount of damage dealt by a one gram sphere of pure iron traveling at one meter per second against a 1x1x1 meter cube of graphite at standard temperature and pressure” versus “it’s so intuitive, 100 hp of damage hurts a lot and 0 hp of damage doesn’t hurt at all so you can just think of it as ‘percent pain’”
it actually makes a lot of sense if you look into the history of it, see back in the first age Fantasy Dan Fahrenheit was a skilled artificer who designed high-precision health bars that were way more reliable and consistent than anything else that existed at the time. yes, the calibration points might seem archaic now, but at the time it was the most practical system realistically possible to reproduce at scale. and also it’s like so intuitive because if an attack does 100 hp of damage it hurts a lot so it’s l
well technically originally* the international wizard council defined 0 hp to be equal to the “KO point”, and yes for most practical applications when someone has 0 hp remaining they fall unconscious and need immediate medical attention (which we can all agree makes way more sense than how it works in hpF), but our understanding of health and damage has grown a lot in the centuries since then, and we now understand that the “KO point” isn’t a true constant. so these days it’s incorporated into the rest of the Fantasy Metric System by defining the Gargamel Constant precisely in terms of hp/mp*s², which is much more rigorous and exact.
*well if you want to go all the way back, when it was originally proposed the standard Health Point Celsius Scale was the opposite of what it is now, so someone’s hp total represented the amount of damage they’ve taken instead of the amount of damage they could still take before reaching the KO point. this was extremely hard to use so it didn’t last very long
i love the idea that health bars are physical objects
The international prototype health bar is kept inside a nested bell jar at the Archives Nationales in Paris.
Is this like an organ in a jar or measurement instrument
Bc like we put both in museums
in this “what if hp is like temperature” analogy a health bar is like a thermometer. I imagine in this world when you go to the doctor they stick a health bar in your mouth to check your hp. but of course adventurers would just carry their health bars around with them
So is there also a watts vs horsepower debate for mp?
when internet people are like “i love gothic literature but i hate anything that discusses incest, sexual violence, oppression, misogyny, abuse, torture, gore, murder, or death”
no actually me and everyone else who’s ever watched crimson peak were brainwashed by guillermo del toro into believing that incest and violence are cool and awesome. sorry
Horrifying that this pearl-clutching over horror actually being dark is unironically becoming A Thing…
Image description: The stick figure violence meme with the following words in the middle:
“narc abuse” “male/female brain” “dark empath” “love language” “MBTI” “surviving a sociopath” “traumadumping” “borderline abuse” “brain not fully developed til 25” “toxic”.
(Stick Figure Violence refers to six stick figure cartoons that are bloody, gruesome and committing violent acts of murder and cannibalism against each other.)
* (Oh, my precious parentheses… (I don’t ever want to close them!
a lot of people in the notes are saying stuff like “this sounds like undertale dialogue” as if there aren’t asterisks before every line, my username isn’t abandoned-quiche, and my profile picture isn’t kris deltarune
1,762, you say? oh and two more. So that’s 1,764 then. Well don’t mind if I do.
i’m writing this with a very specific limitation in mind. think something like banning the letter e, it’s in the same vein as that. it isn’t that easy, but i like to think it’s guessable.
i wonder if people can figure out this limitation. like a bit of a game, perhaps. maybe you can ask me things to try and find the answer? i haven’t decided any of this firmly, we just go by vibes here :3
happy to report that gen α is using ‘Elon Musk’ as a derogative as of recent
this came about because we were playing mario party last night and I used boo to steal a star and our son called me “elon musk” and when I asked why he said “because you didn’t earn that”
happy to report that gen α is using ‘Elon Musk’ as a derogative as of recent
this came about because we were playing mario party last night and I used boo to steal a star and our son called me “elon musk” and when I asked why he said “because you didn’t earn that”
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