I might've added the BG3 Art Book to my dnd assets stash
It's got stuff like the 5e players' handbook + 5e’s character sheet, the dm's guide, critical role's explorer's guide to wildmount, baldur's gate and waterdeep city encounters, 101 potions and their effects, volo's guide to monsters, both of Xanathar's guides, a bunch of other encounters, one shots, class builds, and other fun stuff!!
i'm conducting an experiment. everyone who's from an english speaking country state your country, regional area and what you call the following images. i need to see something
I’m thrilled to show my poster for PosterSpy’s Pixel Memories Art Challenge based on Atari’s Tempest a euphoric arcade game running on a vector display
theres a popular brand in canada called no name brand and it manufactures everything you can imagine in a grocery store and it kind of makes me feel like im in a world no one bothered to do much world building for
i understand the appeal of the suburban texan life, cruising at 45 with the AC on down the giant streets with the massive municipal lawns that nobody ever walks on, separating them from the massive parking lots and the big cars. like I'm glad it isn't me but i do understand. there is some kind of profound beauty there. we need to tax their carbon and destroy their way of life
My poor monkey brain has been utterly scrambled from watching the eclipse, and continues to be scrambled because since watching it, IT'S BEEN TOO CLOUDY TO SEE THE SUN AGAIN. When I looked away/the clouds covered it back up, the first little sliver of the end of totality was starting to show. As far as my stupid brain is concerned, the sun could still be covered.
Every time I open my phone to see the picture I took, I'm subconsciously going, "Yep. That's the sun now."
The clouds caused quite a bit of drama but they broke up enough at totality for me to get a "not professional but not cell phone" picture. It's weird how crappy and yet how beautiful this photo is to me. I could have done better but also so much worse.
I've never really understood the Aziz Ansari "I've stared at this for 5 hours" meme until now. I look at this image and think about how giddy I was that I got to see it, clouds be damned, how I couldn't help but weep at the beauty, my hands shaking as I try to press the shutter (probably why it's blurry), the panic as I try to adjust my settings and try to reset the focus that keeps slipping from where I left it. The relief when I realize I at least have something resembling a shot.
And that's not even accounting for listening to Dark Side of the Moon and having the timing off by a minute, so they sing "I'll see you on the dark side of the moon" at totality instead of "eclipsed by the moon", but feeling in the moment that it's better that way. Or that my wife had the idea to grab the beach chairs and we got to sit side by side and share a real moment. Or even just noticing the street lights turn off once the sun peeks back out, not realizing they had turned on.
I've been in a state all day since. Not really a mess, but uncertain what to do now. It didn't help that the clouds made it seem like the eclipse never really left. Yes it got darker and cooler, then lighter and warmer, but not by much. It was like if I waited another 40 minutes, I could look at it again. Only, of course, I couldn't.
I am shook. I am elated. I am listless. I don't know how or when I'm ever going to get an experience like that again.