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ratgrinders · 2 days

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I’m not super into the fandom side of d20 but I do watch religiously so i dont know where to really ask this but what do other people think about the downtime mechanic? Earlier in the season I really liked it bc it felt like a good way to include a bunch of less critically important things in the narrative (like going to classes and extracurriculars) without it feeling like the narrative was dragging. But the last two downtime episodes have been deeply unsatisfying to watch bc the plot is so much bigger now and successful rolls can no longer be addressed as they happen and they have to be put off until we’re out of downtime, and so the episodes end up feeling like filler? I don’t I feel like it’s great Fabian and mazey went on a date but this episode really kind of ground to a halt any momentum the end of last weeks episode built for me.

Thanks for the ask!

Tbh while I enjoyed this latest session of downtime, I do kind of get what you're saying. Earlier sessions of downtime I thought worked really well as a way to have the Bad Kids move through the year in an organic way while also introducing a prioritization mechanic that I thought really fit with the theme this seasons of stress and responsibilities piling up. I think its natural though that since now we're moving in to the crux of the mystery and the climax of the story that we'd naturally expect an escalation and things moving very quickly rather than the slower pace downtime was made for.

I think Brennan removing the need for an academic track was his way of addressing this shift in priorities, since like he said now they have more time to devote to the mystery. And for what its worth most of the rolls made in this downtime were in service of this mystery, as even the relationship track rolls revealed new info about the plot.

i do think the downtime mechanic has served its purpose and won't be used for much longer anyways. If I had one minor note its that without the downtime mechanic the Bad Kids most likely would have immediately followed up on the Rat Grinders and their Mountains of Chaos trip, but we'll be getting that next episode anyway so I think this last bit of downtime was just to have the teacher evals (which I thought were really fun lol) and give space for any last relationship goals before heading in to the finale.

#dimension 20 #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #fhjy spoilers #original post

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skitskatdacat63 · 4 days

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Can someone assure me it's okay that I haven't finished any drawings in over a week 😭😭

#apathy :)#its like. impossible to assure myself its okay to take a break #yknow you see other people post so frequently #and you somewhat feel like you're falling behind #i cant keep up waugh #lol tho i wonder if I'll have a sudden desire to draw once finals week starts in a couple weeks #i assure you that when i have to work on a bunch of big assignments #my brain will suddenly be like DRAW DRAW DRAWK #its just annoying when you have a good amnt of freetime and you cant kick your brain into gear #I've been sketching but ahhhh just a lot of concept stuff #i have an idea for a chibi comic but i want to pair it w a full drawing #so uhhh thats never happening dhfjkg not happening for a bit ig #i need to come up w more chibi comics #easier and faster to draw and they dont kill me :)#it just feels lesser idk why #tumblr is my diary atp sry djfkkglg #i used to write down on paper or my notes app when i was in a bad mood #but god that shit is sooooo bitter and i cant reread it at all #theres smth about knowing im putting myself out there that keeps it a bit calmer #and it feels more comforting :)#catie.rambling.txt

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liquidstar · 1 month

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a friend who'd wait :)

#im posting this very late because i was sort of weary of how it came out and ended up messing w it until it was like 4am oops.#and i have plans tmrw so... oh well! i did my best and ill put it out while i can!#and i tried to make the scene match barnard's colors lol #finn's ocs #finn's art #i know i said id do more sillay stuff with the simpler screentone only style but i had a couple more of these in me #and this is the first piece im making thats like an actual part of the story too rather than just setting stuff for fun #i wanna write something to go with it too but for now ill just sort of briefly explain the context in the tags here:#barnard has a pretty bad case of OCD and his compulsions have made it difficult to make friends in the past #he was never outright bullied or anything but people just didnt really have the patience to deal with it #he has compulsions that include stuff like walking through doors until it feels right and needing things to be perfectly aligned #which in group settings has lead to people having to wait for him to finish his rituals and join them #they might find it tolerable at first but eventually they grow impatient and hes just... not invited to stuff anymore #but juno is a newer member of the guild who ends up frequenting the same library. hes also kinda a little weird #and they dont become fast friends or anything but just sort of naturally spend time in the same place #though they never plan meetups they eventually fall into a routine. around the same time theyd just both be at the library #and read next to each other. and maybe talk a bit. and eventually they end up walking back to the guildhall together #since theyre going to the same place after all. and juno always waits for barnard outside the door #eventually barnard asks if this bothers him. juno kinda just tells him 'of course it does' without any malice or anything. just a statement #barnard is surprised and apologizes and juno says not to. but the next day juno doesnt show up at the usual time.#barnard assumes hes committed somekinda more by bringing it up. he ends up staying there late reading to get his mind off it & not ruminate #but when he leaves juno is in fact still waiting for him down the hall (see pic) having collected a bunch of books literally abt ocd #he fell asleep bc barnard stayed later than expected. and hes an eepy guy generally. and also one very bad at expressing himself #but now barnard gets that juno's 'of course it [bothers me]' had the implication of 'but its worth it' which no friend has previously done.#and from the interaction juno was also able to understand that this isn't something barnard just does for the hell of it so. he studies.#and checks a bunch of stuff out because he thinks it could help his friend too (theres ocd workbooks and such- i remember working w them)#and thats the point where they became more ''friends'' than ''pleasant library acquaintances''#from there on they also do get into juno's problems. whole other bag of worms. but this specific scene is more about bernard from his pov #sorry about when i said briefly explain. i lied </3 #but compared to the whole sequence im picturing its brief so shhh

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misspickman · 2 months

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My unpopular bg3 opinion is they tried way too hard to make some of these characters mean and flippant which is meant to make the player more interested in them and clearly this has worked on many (good for you !) but personally i could not care less. If 80% of what a character has to say to me is bitchy i will simply leave them at camp for most of the game

#Is this a skill issue of mine yeah maybe. I just find it annoying #At best and off-putting at worst like is there no better way to show that shadowheart is going through stuff/have her be mean that isnt #Her getting pissy that you have respect for a bunch of dead slaves #That was wild. I didnt ask her either she just had the need to let me know she thinks these slaves aint shit bc they didnt fight back #Thanks larian!#Wild take maybe idk but i dont think that makes her interesting i think it makes her off-putting. In this case #I generally like shadowheart this just sure is a thing to have her say. And not give the player an option to respond in any way #Ill get over this single line but im mad now. This isn't the only instance of this #I guess both larian and bioware think that characters thinking slavery is kinda ok is not a deal breaker #Txt #I know that these characters soften during the game. I have played a fair amount of it. I did shadowhearts quest i know whats up. Still #In both her and astarions case i think theyre written to have some wild takes on whats Ok to do that get kinda swept under the rug #if you manage to shove them in a Good direction. But u dont. Actively see them grapple with any of it #They just suddenly go wow im better now. Yay. I suddenly dont want to enslave other people for my power (in astarions case)#Like this switch flipped bc of my one roll? Idk. Im not super convinced #I know this is how the game works. I just think it could have been written better

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rohirric-hunter · 4 months

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So yesterday I saw an article about how some startup is trying to get people to be able to work in their sleep. Naturally I rolled my eyes, offered up a quick prayer that all such ideas die horrible deaths as they rightly deserve, and then moved on with my day.

Last night, I dreamed I found a console that allowed me to control the whole universe. The first and only action I took on this console was (obviously) to input a command that caused all the atoms in the universe to very slowly get further and further away from each other. I had absolutely no concept of any potential consequences to this action, such as, perhaps, all the atoms in the universe very slowly getting further and further away from each other. Why would that happen? Pure speculation, don't be absurd. It occurred to me that this might be happening and also a bad thing about three hours later (in dream time), when I started to get a headache.

Instead of returning to the console to fix this (which was still there and fully functional), I instead went to Some Asshole who was throwing an offensively ostentatious dinner party, which I refused to crash and instead attended for another 3 hours or so, all the while letting my headache get worse and worse and all the atoms in the universe get further and further away from each other. This was happening faster for some things than others. Cars were falling to pieces in the parking lot outside and part of the roof caved in during the party. (Everyone was like, "WOW, that happened," and then carried on as if it hadn't.) Anyway, after the party, Some Asshole told me that of course he knew how to fix the issue where all the atoms in the universe were slowly getting further and further away from each other -- all we had to do was kill Bargain Bin Ganon. (This new character didn't have a name and didn't actually do anything for the entire dream but he kind of looked like Ganon.)

There were about thirteen people nearby who were willing and able to help me with this task, he said, but I could have a strike team of exactly two of them, because he didn't much care for the rest. At this point Dream Me, having recovered at least some of her senses, went to one of these other thirteen people and asked her to help anyway, because clearly we should be throwing as many people at solving this problem as possible. (The other ten people did not appear in the dream and were only mentioned again to establish that they were very busy and in Mirkwood.) The one person that I went to was very happy to help but unfortunately it was too late for her because all her atoms suddenly came too far apart and she died of that without even getting in sight of Bargain Bin Ganon. Me and the other two people went to fight him and eventually took him down, but it turned out killing him didn't solve the problem at all and it got solved by one of my teammates off-screen when he found the console and entered a command to make all the atoms in the universe stop getting farther away from each other.

To be very clear, this was not a weird dream for me. This is the kind of thing I dream about every night, basically. It's almost boring and only remarkable in this one instance in that I woke up this morning thinking, "They want us to work in our sleep? While our brains are doing that kind of nonsense? Are they insane?"

#i am told this kind of dream is very unusual among other people #but it cant be THAT uncommon #making this unrebloggable because i know tumblr #and i dont feel like dealing with a bunch of people i dont know calling me a psychopath #because i almost destroyed the entire universe in my dream #and yes i know that in real life we would probably all just die instantly if our atoms got moved at all #it was a dream. the point is that literally nothing about it made sense #so theres no possible way any productive work would be getting done while you were asleep #you would just have to wake up every morning and clean up the huge mess you left for yourself the night before

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kellystar321 · 6 months

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#periodical life updates #genuinely about to write a whole post explaining wxs ship dynamics because they ALL work well together. i love them <33 #i have a LOT to say about emurui specifically. i know the big ship in this group. i get it! people /love/ the gays. but emurui is so cool #from the small things (rui understands what emu means when she says ''BANG-POP-WOOSH!'') to big things (their parallel arcs in WxS)#just! nene and tsukasa going to be big worldly actors and emu and rui curling in on the memories in the bubble of the wonderstage #how long will it last. how long do they still have together. they don't want to hold their friends back but this was everything to them.#do you THINK ABOUT THEM!! believe me i love every connection in this polycule but i need more people to think about emurui hdkjdh #anyway moving on. i have lgbt club tomorrow and a bunch of deadlines are definitely closing in :/ ive got a lot to do and i DONT WANT TO.#i definitely want to start the queue up again ive got a lot of things in there i want to reblog <33 #i want to start on that eca comic again. waughh theres a lot. there's always a lot. oh well. we'll get through it.#idk what else to update on other than ''im really busy'' ''i'll restart queue'' and ''i think emurui is cool'' so i guess thats it!!#see u ily!!

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gutsfics · 5 months

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how do yall know who wrote which choices novels. theres no credits anywhere on the app

#like do the authors just talk about it on their socials or something?#honestly thats one of the things i hate about the choices app (&other apps like it)#like most of the time with console/pc games there is somewhere in the game that has the names of the people who worked on it #apps dont do that and ngl it kinda frustrates me. app developers deserve the recognicion too #especially w apps like choices that are just a bunch of stories. i wanna know who wrote them. and who drew the assets

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bl00dw1tch · 7 months

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the way i have absolutely no business being the way i am

#horse.txt #vent //#sort of. too high to be sad abt it im in anthropology mode and listening to music that makes me feel sexy so its fine yk #anyway i typed a whole bunch of other tags talking abt how and why i feel this way by going through a few of the events i can remember #from my childhood that Might explain why im so emotionally guarded and struggle to open up anymore.#bc i Wanted to say they all felt dumb and juvenile esp since ive actually like #made peace with most of the ppl who were involved with them #but the Anthropology mode was just tearing it all down as i typed it bc that Is just a ridiculous way to look at it no matter how you cut it #doesn't matter that nobody involved really Meant to deal that kind of harm and i dont need to hate or blame anyone in order to acknowledge #that it still just Happened. like thats a Memory already babe no do overs.#which is kind of just accidental therapy so sick. love that fir me genuinely!#but also yes theres the bitch part of me that still wants to discredit it bc acknowledging that it happened =/= Fixing My Issues #so im still at square one technically. ive just been pacing in circles on it for a while ig #EVEN WORSE that the Scale of my issues is so incredibly mundane compared to so many of the people i seem to meet.#sitting in bed crying abt not having friends for a few days in elementary school when other ppl have jojos bizarre adventure levels of Lore #i know im not technically invalid for feeling the way i do or anything but god. if it doesn't feel fucking Embarrassing to open up about😭#its impossible NOT to feel stupid and sensitive for having these first world ass problems. And letting them hold me back #bc ppl not liking me for any reason makes me sooooooooo fucking scared So fucking scared its not even funny 😝#at least. ppl in my Circles. im pretty ok about being assertive with randos #still some work to be done on it but its better than whatevers going on with my personal relationships rn #sincerely to my mutuals and loved ones who see this i swear to GOD i love you so so so fucking much and im so. im trying to figure out this #the stuff thats got me so distant and bad at keeping in touch. its a whole slew of feelings about how i see Myself--not yall #i double pinky promise cross my heart im extremely serious #thank you for being patient with me you mean more to me than im capable of putting into words right now #alright theres a shot of tears in the hollow of my collar bone time to wrap up this post #daily reminder that i love body hair. there's some honesty.#😎😎😎💪💪💪#the Quaritch under the cut is just to make me feel better bc i love him and i think hes so pretty. hes like a security blanket

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end-orfino · 1 year

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What if i'd make an art sideblog

#does that work out for people?? does that. influence something or #personally i enjoy posting art here and i dont really like making sideblogs anyway. but its a case of people seeing what im putting down?#at this point im incredibly puzzled because like #its either 1. im followed by a bunch of people who are exclusively here for my reblogs (like my personal posts sometimes too!)#but will not spare a second for anything actually related to what im making.#or 2. tumblr is fucking with me and not showing this stuff to people #i dont know like. how that works?#i mean i dont post often so fair? but also im making it a point to self reblog a lot when i do #i have myself under close observation and am trying my best to not fall back into my habits from instagram days #because that was. self destructive!#but what im getting at here is not 'why does the majority of people not like what i make'#its 'i SEE you people interacting with other things on my blog but not my art; what the fuck is your problem'#btw i know i rant abt this from time to time but also hi mori if youre reading this i appreciate you immenselly in all this #as the cool kids say youre a real one fr #might delete this whole thing later

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bmpmp3 · 7 months

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(falls to the floor holding my head in my hands) i can't keep making all my ocs the same vaguely eastern european vaguely indo carribean mixed race guy i cant keep doing this

(looks up. eyes glowing red. levitating with unknown power) or can i..................................................

#sorry to be mixed on main again but im working on some rough draft ocs. i saw myself making the same dude again. i keep making him.#i know as a kid with a combination of the classic mixed kid feelings of alienation as well as being really really into cartoons #i vowed to myself that I SHALL make all the mixed race cartoon characters since i wasnt seeing much in the cartoons i loved #it was a little dire in like 2008 when i vowed this. its less dire now #maybe i can rest.....or maybe not...maybe its still more dire than i think............#im in an interesting place rn living in a somewhat diverse area attending a pretty multicultural university so i got used to #kind of blending into the crowd but recently i was in an art history class. like one of the first i had been in person in years #(you know how it is) and outside of my vaguely ambiguous situation there was like one other non white person #and everyone else was white. and it became very apparent how white the class was very quickly because as art history students #race is kinda like. a big thing in visual culture studies HJKFKJLSDJD and like they meant well but it was getting a little dire because #so many of my white peers kept centering whiteness and white discomfort in like every discussion or brushing past the topic entirely #im biased because race is one of my main interests in art history but MAN i was like. oh god. i need to. intervene #gotta be more annoying about being mixed race in class. rolls up sleeves #gotta bring up every uncomfortable topic about representation and perception and power and dehumanization and intersectionality that i can #because no one else but me the other student of colour and the professors even think about it orz #sorry i know its obvious but sometimes it doesnt quite hit me that like. oh god. do white people really not think about any of this?#at all? unless its brought up? not even a little bit? i dunno its just kinda alien to me orz but i shall keep going #i shall continue on with my deep interest in orientalism within art history and its impacts we see daily #and also making the same guy in my funny little cartoons DJSKHJKSJFKD #(jkjkjk i dont JUST make that same vaguely beige guy. i also make a bunch of other guys. who are also mostly all multiracial too HGKJDHJFR)#(its what i do. its what i do)

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siinlight · 10 months

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My only gripe rn is tumblr staff will literally never listen to its user base like... you have the majority of the sites users against big updates that just don't fix anything and actually make the user experience Worse.... there is no effort in the sites staff to actually listen to complaints. Feel like tumblr could just lose its user base and they'd act like they don't know why

#delete later #tumblr staff has always been and ALWAYS will be a bunch a complete asses that dont do a real job #lets toll out update after update that just make the whole website SHIT and worse to use every fucking day #i will be really upset if they change to an algorithm based service the whole reason i like tumblr is cause its the last good site of it #its kind. like next thing you know they take away all the post options and the ability to tag #and yknow all the parts of tumblr that make it fun to use #the anonymity of it all #im waiting and seeing but ill be really devastated tbh #i have no other webbed site to use that i like #this is the weird girl fandom site that works THE BEST for me #and also the fact that they turned off the replies to the main post about changing THE CORe part of tumblr 🙄 they fuckinf know #people have fucking said they never want the chronological feed change forever #im very upset tbh #tumblr staff is ass

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munamania · 2 years

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ok. so she stayed over until like. 6am. and this is so hard because well i do like her sooo much and we hung out for like. 9 hours. and obviously i can be so normal about that but it’s like. i feel like. i know im meant to know her. but dear god why did it have to be in this capacity. im gonna go insane