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clansnaphance · 2 months

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I'm really not vibing with whatever staff is doing now. Not only does there seem to be a total internal communication breakdown, there also seems to be an absolute disregard for how the players are affected by this.

Like, ignoring the fact that the consistency argument doesn't even hold water, their takeaway from the Fern/Paisley thread seems to have been "oh we gotta change Breakup and Hypnotic too!!"

And then completely reversing Sandsurge Blend on top of that? A gene that's been out for over half a year and was only listed as having the gradient softened, not reversed? Just a total failure to communicate and an absolute bullheadedness in pushing the changes through despite the very reasonable player concerns?

To top it all off, none of these are bug changes, they are style changes. Someone saw these genes before they went live, greenlighted them, and put them in the game. And now, months upon months later, someone else (presumably) says "fuck that, I want the gene to look like this instead" and that complete change is just... pushed through??

Like. Did they learn nothing from the Butterfly debacle, from Obelisk Flair, hell, from the Eyepocalypse?

What the fuck is going on behind the scenes?

#flight rising #snaphance rambles #i don't fucking know man #yeah rushing out ancients is an absolute mistake #but also why has “consistency” suddenly become so important to them?#they've done so many drastic changes in the name of “consistency” like changing the rarities of genes that have been out for 8+ years #and now they completely ignore the breed/gene variety they themselves have created #“this totally changes the dragon for no reason let's push it through”#actually the auraboa changes make them worse and far more cluttered #they already struggle with being extremely busy #so let's just revert those very nice gene designs that actually make them more readable #who cares if our players have invested in these dragons and have had like 3-6 months to get attached to them #let's flatten the fucking auraboa secs and completely change the look of sandsurge blend #because they clearly don't play their game or understand how players get attached to how their dragons look

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copper-skulls · 8 months

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yeehaw (he's actually a pharmacist, but shh)

AAIGHT that's examples. done. if anyone wants a ping once I actually get around opening commissions, yell at me (hopefully it'll be next week or something)

#note to self: 20 30 40 #i need to get some stuff in order before opening for real. like some school stuffs #flight rising #fanart #dragons #digital art #inked traditionally #krita #god I had to shade this on flat gray bcs the pattern kept playing tricks on my eyes hfajkhs. his name is snaphance and i love him #BRO TUNGLE WHY ARE YOU GIVING THE LAST PIC WHITE BG. DON'T DO THAT TO ME

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airship-full-of-dragons · 1 year

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After ~2 years of owning them without doing much with them, I am getting rid of Dryo, so I've drawn up a small doodle for him and put him up on the AH for 500g. He was a mith pharmacist+nurse onboard the airship as far as his lore was concerned, though I don't have much more for him. You can see how he looks like a dragon + what my outfit plan for him was for inspiration, if that's your thing.

the drawings aren't of the exactly same design, but the pencil doodle is also 2 years old hfakjs you can do whatever with them. transfer to another dragon, idc. go wild

lonk somewhere in the notes, probably.

they've sold thank you!! :)

#flight rising #fr #aaand snaphance is gonna enter my main lair instead I think.

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arundolyn · 2 years

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going crazy insane over how the wiki is like “bullet doesnt really have any concrete move name scheme? fire????” when apparently nobody took like 2 seconds to google anything and theyre very clearly gun terms

#crow.txt #literally tho like i mean!!!! i thought wadcutter was nonsense then looked it up its a kind of bullet #snap hands fist is a bit butchered cause they meant snaphance but didnt know it i guess #MIQUELET. SERPENTINE. FLINT SHOOTER. COME O N.#AFTERBURNER! CROSSFIRE!!!!!!!!#KEEP! UP!#her name is literally bullet youre driving me insaneeeeee this is actually a bit funny that they did this i like it #blazblueposting #literally even just her drive. lock on. come on!!!!!!!!!!!#this is like one of the only clever things team blue has done i think they should be allowed credit #somewhat of an exaggeration but still. its cute. i like it. bullet has gun moves as god intended #EVEN HARD KILL BRINGER APPARENTLY????#its literally just like... cutting sheer rage aggressor and afterburner that arent DIRECT gun allusions #or like warfare dealing with firearms at the very least #yall are not about to tell me people knew the weird ass cars that lambda and nu's moves are named after but none of them know gun shit #theres so many cishet guys some of them had to be like into call of duty or SOMETHING or actual guns irl there aint no way!!!!

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firearmkind · 7 months

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On the Origins of Gun Species

Gunpowder and invented in China, around 1200 years ago. They mixed sulfur and saltpeter, and immediately got to work exploding things with it.

The earliest gunpowder-based weapons were fire lances and fire cannons; fire cannons were held by hand, but otherwise worked similarly to later european cannons: Using explosions to shoot a metal ball really far.

Those same europeans also made hand cannons, which are smaller, more portable cousins of fire cannons.

That eventually evolved into the arquebus, similar in shape to modern rifles but supported by a hook.

All of these required the gunman to light the powder by hand, and didn't have a trigger to pull. By attaching a bit of flammable twine to a movable piece on the gun, we got matchlock guns.

Instead of igniting the gunpowder by hand, the gunman pulled the trigger, which moved a bit of string so that it set fire to the powder.

Matchlocks still weren't the most practical, so people experimented with the design. After trying out wheellocks, snaplocks, and snaphances, they arrived at the flintlock.

These have a similar idea, but use a bit of flint on a "hammer" instead of twine. Pulling the trigger makes the flint strike metal, causing a spark and igniting the powder. These are the guns used by pirates!

Flintlocks evolved into percussion cap guns, which had a primer on the gun instead of a flint on the hammer. And those evolved into modern cartridge guns!

Here, the primer is placed on the cartridges placed in the gun. Early cartridge guns were still single-shot, and needed to be reloaded after firing once. I'll go over further advanced in another post!

#gun basics #fire cannons #hand cannons #arquebuses #matchlocks #flintlocks

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searchinghero · 2 years

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18th Century Pirate Flintlock CO2 BB Pisto

Pirate Flintlock is refer to any firearm that uses a flint-striking ignition mechanism. It may also refer to a particular form of the mechanism, also known as the true pirate flintlock, that was introduced in the early 17th century, and gradually replaced earlier firearms-ignition technologies, such as the matchlock, the wheellock, and the earlier pirate flintlocks such as snap lock and snaphaunce.

Despite its technological limitations, the pirate flintlock firearm was widely used for more than two centuries, as percussion cap and cartridge-based firearms replaced it. It enjoys continuing popularity with modern black-powder shooters.

During the time of King Louis XIII, the French court gunsmith Marin le Bourgeoys created a firearm using a pirate flintlock mechanism, which was first tested and commissioned for the king by his own armourer in 1610.

When the first proto-flintlock was the snaplock, it was probably invented in the 1520s or 1530s. It was in use by 1547, and its cost and delicacy limited its use. By 1662, only one-in-six of the firearms used by the British royal army was a snaphaunce; the rest were matchlocks. The development of lock mechanisms had proceeded from the matchlock to wheellock to the earlier pirate flintlocks (snaplock, snaphance, miquelet, and doglock) in the previous two centuries, and each type had been an improvement, contributing design features to later firearms which were useful.

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#searchinghero #MilitaryStyle #Airsoft #CO2Airsoft #HFCPirateFlintlock #PirateFlintlock #Flintlock #gun #18thCentury #AirsoftTeam #AirsoftGun

#searchinghero #military style #airsoft #co2airsoft #pirate flintlock #flintlock #gun #18th century #airsoft team #airsoft gun

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ophionyx · 2 years

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Sky pirates, arr!

#Accents are Freebooter Tundra by Snaphance #And Flying Apparatus by tunatuna #Flight rising #Fr dragon share #My dragons #These are Captain Fin and her bosun Hoazin #Ridge back

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rifter-pride · 2 years

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glittery and crusty, just like we like 'em

I kept thinking about this video while dressing him idk

#flight rising #bragon #anyway. don't touch the cups #accent: no gods by snaphance

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fishstickmonkey · 7 years

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Pair of Snaphaunce Pistols

Date:1675

Culture: Italian (Brescia)

Medium: Wood (walnut), steel

The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

#weapons #snaphance #pistol

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barbucomedie · 7 years

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Long Guns from Scotland dated late 17th Century on display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh

The above is a breech-loading rifle signed GS for William (Guliemus in Latin) Smith and dated 1686. Below it is a musket, also signed GS dated 1675.

Long guns were used for hunting rather than warfare and these ones were used by the Lairds of Grant and attributed to the work of William Smith, gunsmith in Duthel, Inverness-shire, who in 1675 was granted a lease in return for acting as the clan’s armourer.

The guns have snaphance locks favoured by Scottish gunsmiths during the 17th and 18th Century. Rifles, especially early breech loaders such as the one above, were incredibly expensive and were a great show of wealth.

#hunting #history #scotland #scottish #17th century #restoration #clan #laird #musket #rifle #ornate #snaphance #national museum of scotland #edinburgh #barbucomedie

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clansnaphance · 3 months

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