#campaign zero

[midnightfunk]

One Texas man, Marvin Guy, is facing charges, including capital murder, after an officer was killed and three others were shot during a 2014 no-knock raid at his home in Killeen. Guy was sleeping when officers smashed his window and slammed a battering ram into his front door. He said he thought he was being robbed and fired a gun through the broken window. Police had suspected that Guy, who had an extensive criminal history, was selling drugs, but no drugs were found in his home. Police said they found trace amounts of a white powder in his car, records show.

Survivors of raids have said they feared that intruders were breaking into their homes. In Louisville, Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend said he fired at police because he didn’t know who was storming the apartment.

Tamika Palmer, Taylor’s mother, said she blames the judge who signed the warrant that led to her daughter’s death as much as she blames the police.

“We know that [police] are not doing the work to get these warrants, that they’re not doing what needs to be done,” she said. “Why would you want to sign your name on that? Why wouldn’t you want to make sure, ‘Let me just take a day or two to make sure you’ve done what you need to.’ … It’s insane, it’s lazy.”

#no-knock raids #acab #washington post #wapo #broken doors #jenn abelson #nicole dungca #american justice system #breonna taylor #amir locke #police forced-entry #campaign zero #aiyana jones #marvin guy

[syn0vial]

how each of the BG3 companions gained their combat expertise

wyll: i was trained as to be a formidable and honorable combatant since i was young, i've protected the frontiers for years, and i have magic devil powers karlach: i was forced to serve on the front line of the blood wars in hell for the past decade lae'zel: i was brought up in a strict, militaristic warrior society that emphasized martial prowess even in its youngest members shadowheart: i spent most of my life being prepared in the ways of subterfuge and magic by a brutal cult gale: i've spent decades obsessively studying magic and even studied under the goddess of magic herself to perfect my craft astarion: i've got a lot of repressed rage and a dagger i found on the ground 15 minutes ago. let's go turn someone inside out :)

#seriously DOES astarion have any combat training or experience prior to the campaign? #bc all we know about his life is ''magistrate for a bit and then unwilling honeypot for 200 years'' #neither of which seems like it would tend someone towards any sort of combat role #i guess he kidnapped kids occasionally? but that doesn't seem like it would require a ton of combat prowess #honestly i'm very amused by the notion that astarion has zero martial background and is just very enthusiastic about stabbing people #maybe that's all you really need.... #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #baldur's gate 3 spoilers

[captainjonnitkessler]

It's weird that people even bothered to keep podcasting after the form reached its peak in the form of Campaign Star War's Phindar arc

#the BHIKKE work week. the customs scene. the matchmaking subplot despite kat's best efforts. zero's return #TRULY peak podcasting #campaign podcast #campaign star wars

[khalliys]

Beauyasha Week Day 3 - Sentinel

Sentinel babes, electricity is what drew them near to each other.

#Beauyashaweek2022 #it's great to decide you want to use this week #to play and experiment with styles #when you have literally zero time to draw #but I maade it #it's still Wednesday SOMEWHERE #thank god the prompt for tomorrow is already finished #critical role #crit role #critical role fanart #yasha nydoorin #beauregard lionett #cr yasha #cr beau #beauyasha #cracklepop #cr #cr2 #cr campaign 2 #the mighty nein #art #khalliys #beauyashaweek

[vividxp]

I’m really annoyed at seeing a poorly researched post that completely overlooked details that were placed deliberately in the show that would have refuted or massively complicated the narrative the OP wanted to portray. 

Blackness in America is far more diverse and more complex and more nuanced than some people in this fandom would have you believe. 

#interview with the vampire #iwtv #i know people are on this campaign #to disabuse viewers of their allegedly overly positive view of louis #but a post that basically claims that louis isn't black #and that louis doesn't claim being black #aren't y'all doing a little too much #with zero evidence #in fact with plenty of evidence to the contrary #like what are we doing here #like sure i'd be here for a deeper discussion about #Black Creoles #and the racial caste system in America #especially post reconstruction #and during jim crow #and how that affected Louis #and informs his character in this adaptation #but that post is not it

[greyias]

Hey you hear that! Lae admits we've got one (1!) whole advantage

#although ari is a half-elf #so maybe it's like 0.5 advantage #lae'zel has zero chill exhibit 1/??? #bae'zel honey plz #you can sleep bb i promise #the world will still be there for you to conquer in the morning after our first cup of coffee #i love my whole crazy party #grey's bg3 tag #bg3 posting #ari's og campaign

[luxolin]

so anyway where's my tlt nonary game au

#zero escape #the locked tomb #tlt #this is incredibly niche i'm aware #but also consider this my campaign to recruit new ze fans #there are even more commonalities but some are spoilers #literally when i found out that the frozen lady in tlt had an A name i said ALICE?? out loud #it is always ze hours in this household #palamedes would love a puzzle room though #he would seek a way out like nobody's business

[news4dzhozhar]

I'm not sure why some people are surprised by this. It's an entirely different method and mindset of fighting when you have nothing left to lose and believe down deep in what you are doing. Compare that to untrained 19-20 year old idiot conscripts who would rather be on TikTok and have zero discipline and this is the result.

#israeli revenge campaign #inept iof conscripts #hamas #military history #khan younis #al shifa hospital #martyrdom #palestinian resistance #apartheid #save palestine #ethnic cleansing #israel is an apartheid state #seek truth #free palestine 🇵🇸 #genocide #illegal occupation #israel is committing genocide #israeli war crimes #israel lies while palestine dies #all eyes on rafah #rafah #ground offensive #al qassam brigades #qassam brigades #guerrilla warfare #un security council #as usual israel is taking zero responsibility and blaming the ONE TIME the US abstained on a UN vote as to why they are losing to Hamas #do they honestly people believe that utter nonsense? #the IOF are poorly trained with nearly 20 percent of their deaths a result of friendly fire cuz they act like theyre in a video game! #propaganda kills

[izelandzero]

New Redesigned Scug Pipo,Toni and Ana

Better than just blank lame-Ass colors we made before, so yea.

Check out the old version of Rain tower!

(Kiddin'.. they're evolving due after many cycles through to near future timeline, they forgot to shed lmao)

Have another silly doodle

Another scug peppino from @raintailed! :O

I'm worried to doodle this one..😥

Both of them look alikes but different nickname and different colors

Pipo has Six splints little wings that something potential..

#rain world #pizza tower #izel & zero's art #antonblast #peppiblast #rain world au #slugcat peppino #slugcat pipo #slugcat annie #slugcat anton #One was Uncompleted but mine where pipo has his own campaign besides of Rain world Au and Pizzatower Au #pizza tower au #i called it rain tower and other called Rain blast #ive done some pizza tower au in rain world version complete before

[jellyfishsempai]

Will you go to the gala with me?

#campaign podcast #minister blue #agent zero #zeblue #campaign star wars #evil campaign #jellyarts #what a happy couple #prom episode is my obsession #WE NEEDED MORE

[poorlittleyaoyao]

Okay! Trying this again now that it's not midnight, because I'm still on my bullshit but have more words now. What I do not have is my copies of the first two novel volumes, since I am traveling, so I can't do direct quotes.

We know that, at some point, JGY and XY became cultivators. IIRC, it is stated in Volume 1 that becoming a cultivator without a golden core is possible but it's unorthodox and unlikely--even moreso given that a golden core in MDZS/CQL is akin to an organ that can be permanently destroyed/remove rather than an energy reserve from your qi being super swole. Demonic cultivation is appealing in part because it operates under a different set of parameters, and (though the world at large doesn't know this) WWX invents it in large part to compensate for the loss of his core.

We can also safely assume that the means to do this aren't accessible to everyone. We see peddlers hawking dubious cultivation materials. JGY tells his sworn brothers about the fraudulent pamphlets his mother purchased for him as a child and laments that she and people like her have no way of knowing that they're useless. (Since this statement goes unchallenged by LXC, NMJ, or WWX's narration, I think we can take this particular JGY assertion at face value.) In Yi City, WWX explains the "folk wisdom" practiced by regular people, ranging from the effective (the rice congee to absorb poison, the mortuary's high threshold to keep corpses from hopping away) to the superstitious (the paper effigies and joss money), and WWX reminds the juniors that these people don't have cultivation knowledge of their own. All of this suggests that there is no freely-accessible bank of cultivation knowledge, demonic or otherwise. There are no old-timey YouTube tutorials, and there is no indication that a person can roll up to a sect like it's nbd in this particular universe for formal education.

WHICH BRINGS ME BACK TO MY ORIGINAL POINT, which is: how did JGY and XY become cultivators in the first place?

JGY has acquired some level of cultivation by the time he's working with the Nie, albeit with a shaky foundation that both he and Narrator WWX identify as a deficit he'll need to compensate for with breadth over depth. How did he develop his power without formal training or reliable study materials? Teenage XY has somehow become capable enough for the Jin clan to see him as an asset, despite the fact that he is a feral street urchin who can't even read as a child, and demonic cultivation is a brand-new technology, as it were. Where, when, and how did he teach himself? What skills did he demonstrate that caught JGY's interest?

Since this story is not about JGY and XY's professional journeys, the text doesn't have an explanation. (Or, if it does, this website and also the wiki have been slipping, because "how the hell does JGY even have a core?" has vexed me since 2021.) There isn't a definitive answer here! What I am curious about--because I cannot possibly be the only one who wonders about worldbuilding ramifications and what offscreen events brought these characters to where they are, and I think it is fair to wonder about the mechanics of things that a text itself brings up--is people's personal headcanons.

So! Canon-compliant Xue Yang and/or Jin Guangyao enjoyers! Tell me how you personally explain their whole deal! Bonus points for telling me how it changes for CQL, bc both of them are coming from very different places there, and an MDZS-compliant explanation won't work for CQL and vice versa. Bonus BONUS points if you have fic exploring it that you can link.

#I have only read the first two volumes of the novel and am not reading any more so tbh I will believe almost anything you tell me novel-wise #CQL solves the JGY mystery bc he doesn't have a weapon of his own till Nightless City; ergo he WASN'T a cultivator prior #(which also explains some of his secondary status in Qinghe even though he's been there awhile and NMJ and NHS both respect and trust him) #meanwhile CQL solves the one 'how did the Jin learn of XY?' problem but raises about a million brand-new XY problems #such as 'why doesn't he use the Yin Iron himself?' and 'what could either WRH or JGS offer him to make him work for them?' #and also 'what was XY up to for literally the entire Sunshot Campaign besides wrecking SL's life?' #and ALSO also 'how does any of this square with the assertion later on that XY and JGY were in cahoots from the beginning?' #(answer: it doesn't. that assertion makes zero sense and requires everyone involved to be both psychic and stupid at the same time)

[gryphsdeadbones]

Early days

#my art #my ocs #friends ocs #oc: zero #just some guys hanging out haha nothing is wrong in the campaign ever ahahahaahhahhahha (i explode #dnd #shrike plays d&d

[shadow0-1]

🧐

#call of duty #cambles #okay im taking this opportunity to be salty #not about ale or valeria #but about the factions #because you fucking know ale is going to be with the specgru and the 14q #141 fuck whatever #and the multiplayer ''lore'' for mwii is already shaky as fuck #you KNOW valeria is going to be kortac #you KNOW shes morally dubious and questionable #shes NOT a 'good guy' by any means in the campaign. she has her own motivations etc #but ultimately they dont align with yknow. protagonist good guy intentions #so kortac is sussy at BEST #SO WHY THE FUCK #DO SOME OF YALL KEEP PUTTING KONIG IN THE 141 #this is my same reasoning for if graves ever becomes an op #theres absolutely zero fucking chance hes going to be specgru #anyway ❤️ #loving her hair go queen #and throat mic on ale oof #now give me rudy #sorry im just so tired of konig #actually no im not fuck you #yall clearly cant behave with him #make him act like a child #and have the gall to replace a black man with him #what kinda white supremacist bullshit is that

[captainjonnitkessler]

Shout out to that time Campaign Star Wars tried to play a spooky Halloween episode of Dread but the players were so good at Jenga that they tied the world record and the GM just let them win outright

#cat-pics-from-zero i don't know if you'll see this. but i know the jenga tower still haunts you #as it should haunt all of us #campaign podcast #campaign star wars

[flowersnax]

#zero context campaign meme #hot take Fast Barb is the funniest mech build you can do #lancer #lancer rpg #ttrpg #lancer meme #in golden flame #in golden flame spoilers #technically lol

[greyias]

Okay. New day, new me. Time to take Ari back to the circus. She's promised to control her flatulence this time so she doesn't accidentally set off another chain reaction of events leading to the world getting nuked in order to fix the timeline.

#look #things got a little out of hand last night at the circus #but live laugh learn #also why am i never streaming when things go from zero to batshit in this game #one of the great cruelties in life #grey's bg3 tag #bg3 posting #oc: aravyn #ari's og campaign