my faculty actually made a rule against pie charts in degree projects. a win for data visualization today folks. death for pie chart.
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Thinking a lot about how Simon himself is, in essence, a walking ship of Theseus. At what point between Simon and Ice King did he become a different person? The crown changed him, sure, but it mostly just scrambled what was already there in his brain. And we know that even after becoming “himself” again, he’s been fundamentally altered by the experience. Ice King is still with him, even if the crown isn’t.
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Headcanon: Boimler is significantly better with a phaser rifle than a phaser pistol.
So. Two things about growing up in farm country mean that most people there learn how to shoot at a relatively young age. The first reason is that coyotes (and sometimes mountain lions) will absolutely try to fuck up your shit if you're a farmer. They will try to steal your pets and/or smaller livestock, and if there's a mountain lion in the area you really don't want to go walking around in a field without protection.
The second and more important reason is that hunting is big in farming communities because the state Game and Fish department relies on licensed hunters to keep the local wildlife populations healthy. Too many deer this season means not enough food, which means a lot of sick and dying deer next season. Hunters help to keep the wildlife population in check in places where humans have driven off their natural predators (since they're also unfortunately our natural predators).
The thing is, though, generally you don't use handguns for hunting (whether for protection or food); you use a rifle or a shotgun. So I think the majority of Boimler's pre-Starfleet experience with firearms would probably have been with whatever the 2300s version of a hunting rifle would be. This would explain why he seems to prefer them and knows about how to clean and take care of them, as we see in the beginning of Where Pleasant Fountains Lie.
EDITED TO ADD: A helpful person in the comments has given more relevant information/correction on the matter; I encourage y'all to check it out! Thank you @mutualweirdcalledlove!!
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I am now at the part of writing where I rewarch "old" survival guide videos. Pixlriffs my beloved. He has such a calm voice
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I've been doing a bit of folklore/urban legend research for another Night Lords lore post since people seemed to like the first one, and apparently I stopped watching Adventure Time just before this particular episode.
Go and be a teacher on Nostramo, they said. Help to bring the light of the Imperial Truth to the kids. It'll be fun, they said.
0845 - 0900 Registration (of the previous night's deaths)
0900 - 1100 We Love the Night Haunter
1100 - 1115 Interval (gang violence to be kept to an appropriate minimum)
1115 - 1245 Nostraman Poetry
1245 - 1345 Lunch (pupils are sent into the underhive to hunt rats and/or each other)
1345 - 1400 Evidence Disposal (pupils who didn't survive lunch are fed to the school crows)
1400 - 1500 We Still Love the Night Haunter
1500 - 1530 Basic Human Anatomy
1530 - 1600 Criminal Accountancy (including Principles of Tax Evasion)
1600 - 1615 Colours (pupils attempt to imagine colours other than black and grey)
1615 - 1645 Beefs (the day's gang feuds are resolved)
1645 - 1700 Expulsions (underperforming pupils without sufficient underworld connections are sent to serve the VIII Legion)
1700 - 2000 Minecraft (in the adamantium mines)
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I have been thinking for weeks while we've been with one half of the Bells Hells (plus friends) about the structure of the campaign, and the "anything goes" framing that the cast has been emphasizing since before the campaign even began, and this episode really turned up the dial on the questions I've had in that regard.
Obviously we are looking to find the other half of the party; we have a divine confirmation that they can be reconnected with in Jrusar, presumably to give the other party an excuse to say, "We should go to Jrusar and hope they also come to that conclusion." But it's also not impossible that the other parties' arc during these weeks in-game has been filming at the same rate as this one, and that answer was borne of that timeline already existing separately. Even if that is not the case, we will presumably see the other party's journey back to Jrusar, with whatever guests or allies they happen to come across.
This is interesting to me because it does involve returning to the moment of the scattering, with the information that we have now, and it means there is probably separate information on the perpetual Solstice and the current conflict to learn, potentially involving some of the planar research and interests that we haven't touched on—we know now that Ludinus had vested interests in other planes beyond those related to the functioning of the Malleus Key, and both Ashton and Orym have backstory related to the subject of the planes that could be explored depending on where they ended up. But structurally, this return to the relative past is a major shift in the format of the show thus far—we're currently at seven episodes and almost two weeks in-game.
We also know that we're going to have Deanna and FRIDA around for some time still—what with FRIDA's determination that this is where they want to be, and Deanna's divine imperative, they are in this fight as well, now. We can imagine that Keyleth, who had not yet even been knocked out by the time the blast happened, has been rallying her people elsewhere with whatever resources she has; we can imagine that Caleb and Beau are doing the same. There was an indication in how the Dawnfather communicated with Deanna that all of the gods have given similar orders to their other followers, so there are a good number of past PCs who would suddenly be very busy, retired or not.
Even with those past PCs remaining in the DM's hands, the table could get very full, very quickly—but that's only true in the case that the format doesn't shift or change at all. I don't really have any speculation on how it might change, since the options are limited only by the creativity of the production team (and are guided by how they may want to proceed), but I do want to remark that they could, since, as we've been told over and over again, anything goes.
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“The government and the roads are bad in Poland, so are the bridges too. There is plenty of bad people who roam around without getting a beating“ true since 1746 i guess
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people hear "jojo is for the queers" and think it's because of the outfits and the queer undertones (and overtones, i refuse to believe it's all unintentional, abbacchio and bucciarati i'm looking at you two specifically) but it's actually because the "stand users attract other stand users" thing is a really good metaphor for how queer friend groups form and the idea of only certain people being able to see a part of yourself speaks to the queer experience like crazy
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ᴅᴇᴀɴ ʟᴏꜱᴇꜱ ʜɪꜱ ʜᴏᴍᴇ ᴏɴ ᴀ ᴅᴀʏ ɪɴ ᴇᴀʀʟʏ ɴᴏᴠᴇᴍʙᴇʀ. ᴛᴡɪᴄᴇ.
Fire and void consume the one place his heart has ever known peace.
This is the end.
His mother burns in the bedroom upstairs. Cas is consumed in the dungeon underground. And Dean is left cold, alone, looking up.
He remembers his father telling him to go and don’t look back. But he looks. He can’t help but look. He doesn’t stop looking for a long time. Becomes a pillar for it, unmoving. Holding up that last image because someone has to remember. The past won’t fade if eyes still watch.
— excerpt from, I’ve got you.
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