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martineb72
#11 Alcohol and Masturbation. Would use weed, but it is still illegal in my state.
SoylentHolger
#36 and what about PC gamers?
deadboycantdiebecauseheisalreadydead
#32 While funny seeming, there is a very useful programming tool called Cucumber.
Spiderhammulaney
#32 never would have expected it but I can say yes I have experience in cucumber
Spiderhammulaney
https://cucumber.io/
WackyWavingInflatableArmFlailingTubman
#11 White Monster and a scoop of pre workout
frozenlake247
#42 funny thing is that that the “investigator” here was effectively just temporarily switching traumatized folks into ADHD mode like booting a computer into some kind of safe/recovery mode. Basically, took the folks that had their entire executive function and “normal” social oriented behavior systems collapsed by trauma and unfamiliar circumstances and gave them a narrow task to hyperfocus on.
It’s a common phenomena for ADHD folks to THRIVE in crisis bc it engages their brains etc
technicallycorrect
#35 Sure I'll eat a pear but WHAT ARE THOSE DRUIDS UP TO NOW?
BarnegatLight
Like it says on the tin: "Visibly beaming as he to crisp weather and mist heath on his way to t' circle, local druid Fogra Mountains announced that he was really loving weather."
Isorikk
#47 What lights do we have that don't emit heat? Whoever wrote this doesn't even understand our reality
Isorikk
#11 For most people it's the same answer
TheVillageGrouch9000
#4 Acceptable use of slop. ↑
theduckening
#11 get a pet dog or cat
Knifesmith
#16 Um. Yeah, as a collector of all things coleoptera, I'm just going to point out that only one of those is a true "bug" (hemiptera) [it's the assassin bug in the lower left area].
Pedantic rant off... (and yes, I know that people use "bug" for creepy crawly things that aren't necessarily "bugs"...)
WitchIrkalla
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FormerlySable
#21 Hubby and I got booked into something just like this on a short vacation once. It was bizarre—no living room in our little suite, but a huge conference table and giant swiveling desk chairs. We hated it.
Tenugui
#26 jokes on them, because sweets were bought 1998, but they were 10x better than what you get from the store now. We'll, maybe 5x better....
MusicPenguin
#14 this is totally Tantalus thing.
weave
#5 You're only hearing a slight humming that's barely audible and you check every other connection before realising it's not all the way in
BeingABotIsRad
Going all the way in? Hopefully your Bass is flared.
morningxafter
#31 Ship of Theseus paradox as an existential crisis
SofaH3ro
#2 this is how I learned there's water on the moon. I guess it's not wholly surprising, but still.
Idontspellcheck
#49 80085
eromitlab
#30 CORAL! 3D PRINTING, CORAL!
0RocketCat0
Haha! I thought you were making some kind of reference to coral being 3d printers of rocks. Which didn't really tie in that well. Then, i remembered. The dead. And their annoying tendency to walk.
Seventytonsofmettle
#27 breakfast, lunch, tea, supper. It's a mealtime of the day, and a drink.
SavageDrums
#32 Odds that there's some stupid app called Cucumber that will solve every single business problem? 10003%
Urgalicity
#32 If you've ever been to the hospital to have one removed, the answer is NO.
highstream
#27 I was eating dinner at a friend's house in England, and they said "let me go get the pudding" and they brought out a bowl of ice cream. I said "I though you were getting pudding?" They said "yeah, for pudding, we're having ice cream." I said "you lost me."
meowingintensifies
#1 you activated my morphing jar, we must discard our hands and draw 5 new cards!
nickoftime90
I thought the same lol
ThatOtherGirlYouKnow
#2 How am I only finding out now that the moon is wet?
https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1anVmeXUweGljZHpxZmZmOW5vNmhkcnRlYXpxaWdsNTd1Z3VjMXd1aSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/im8CExGQW908U/200w.webp
ArchMagos
I'm pretty sure the water has to be liquid for whatever it's on to be considered wet.
ThatOtherGirlYouKnow
The moon is wet. They wouldn't put it on the internet if it wasn't true.
0RocketCat0
The upvote i gave you made it even more true. About 12% more.
BrockEffingSamson
Unfortunately, it is also haunted.
FrenziiTheIMP
ThatOtherGirlYouKnow
Me too.
Hashbrown123
#1
OmnibusLatinName
The mimics, they are evolving.
ps238principal
#47 Okay, so this is kind of a problem with worldbuilding/RPG's: The magical world has magic, of course, but it also contains the same physical laws as the non-magical one, otherwise everything wouldn't work remotely the same, and someone from another world would probably die if the magical world worked differently.
The issue becomes where one stops and the other starts vis-a-vis the story. Why hasn't someone invented gunpowder? The dwarves should've found radioactive rocks, right?
Eldibs
Dragon Age, the Qunari gaatlok made their armies and navy quite fearsome. There are also primitive guns in Pillars of Eternity that are quite useful.
itsthevoiceman
Right? Like,t he light = magic thing is nonsense. A flame is all manner of electromagnetic radiation, just MOST of it is infrared, aka heat. We've just managed to shift the method of energy emission towards the visible spectrum with significantly less infrared. That's all. Is it cool? Fuck yeah (literally and figuratively)!
pewasaurusrex
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/98675/arcane-exfil …ok I know I look like an idiot re-posting this as a reply, but this story addresses ALL of that. They form magic barriers into cones in order to contain the fireball and then launch it as a magic RPG; the world already has artificer-style rifles, if anyone is dying for a story that brings up EXACTLY what everyone is talking about in this thread: check it out, it’s fucking awesome.
HoldThatTHOT
Pathfinder. It has guns, and radiation, and science, and aliens on top of all the DnD magical stuff. People exist on worlds with no magic due to some reason or another, but it doesn't mean magic doesn't exist at all just that those people are new to it or it acts like deadly radiation to them so they avoid areas of magic. Starfinder is the same universe as Pathfinder, just more in the future where more people have discovered FTL travel in a magic setting
PirateOne
In Oz, there's an entire underground city coated in radium.
Because everyone in Oz is immortal, it's just a pretty silver coating for buildings & clothes.
pewasaurusrex
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/98675/arcane-exfil
aryzseyr
Can solve with resource availability. Different planet different mineral make up. Access to different options. What if sulfur is very rare, or almost no radioactive stones available on the surface. This lets you world build a more reasonable option if the flat starting materials for certain tech is missing or rare.
Alternatively western European tech advancement is not universal. Plenty of old civilizations that did not advance to guns over comparable timeframe.
OmnibusLatinName
A techtonicly stable world that has never suffered major meteoric impacts would likely have very little access to heavy metals. The metals would mostly be in the planets core still.
highstream
Maybe they did, but it isn't really needed. A bit of study and you can shoot fire at people. Why would they need to develop guns? Except for the artificer.
ps238principal
That's another thing: Magic training. If anyone can do it, everyone would. They'd at least be able to do cantrips to light candles and what-not. It'd be common knowledge.
Instead, you have to apprentice to a wizard or school, sometimes having a "knack" or genetic predisposition, then you get the basics. However, you can't really progress without going out and killing stuff instead of studying.
Then there's the multiclassing trope of just "taking a level in wizard" and getting it quick.
chansuke
I suppose the limitation is that magical aptitude isn't universal, which is the usual way it's depicted. The wizard doesn't need to use a gun, but most people would. The artificer character I'm currently playing doesn't need a gun either technically, but the allure of creating a more fucked up firearm is irresistible. Plus I have a tiny cat shaped cannon essentially functioning as a sidearm.
Badprenup
The same reason we did, despite the fact we had bows. To gain an advantage over others who don't have the same technology.
Fireball is great. Lots of damage, spread, and even if it isn't fatal it can still incapacitate. But how often in fantasy media are people accurately sending fireballs long distance? Basically never, and if they do it's generally bright and slow moving.
But even an old 1866 Winchester Repeater could shoot 20+ rounds/min, had an effective range of 100yds, and it could 1/2
garbuhj
Also any idiot can shoot a gun reasonably well with like 1 minute of training, not so for spells
Badprenup
Fire rounds with a muzzle velocity of 1100 fps, meaning it could travel nearly 4x the weapon's effective range in 1 second. That makes it an extremely powerful weapon that outclasses a lot of common fantasy combat spells.
pewasaurusrex
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/98675/arcane-exfil
Eldibs
Also, training time. How long does it take to learn how to cast a fireball? Surely not in just a few days. You can learn general rifle skills in an hour or two, and how to work a specific rifle in just a few minutes. Toss in an hour of practice with a decent teacher, and you're at least good enough to be useful manning a watchtower. An army equipped with rifles would be absolutely devastating even facing off against wizards, and could be trained very quickly, relatively speaking.
pewasaurusrex
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/98675/arcane-exfil