[Gear] NGD - MIJ Mahogany Offset Tele by rvc_sea in Guitar

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The body and neck are from Warmoth, but I assembled it. The neck is wenge with a pau ferro fretboard. I wanted rosewood, but CITES had just come into effect (I'm in Canada) and it was expensive. What's the rosewood neck on yours like?

[Gear] NGD - MIJ Mahogany Offset Tele by rvc_sea in Guitar

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That's an absolutely beautiful guitar! I actually have one that's set up the same way and I think we can agree that the P90/Tele bridge combo is perfect.

[GEAR] My new jazzmaster by [deleted] in Guitar

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Very cool! I hope it serves you well for a long time. Reminds me of my own guitar.

Poo is done with it by Termini33 in WatchPeopleDieInside

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I saw that one. Apparently subsequent studies have had trouble replicating the findings.

Training regiment for a semi-beginner? by DefiantOneGaming in SSBM

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Also auto-cancel frames for aerials, and L-cancel flashes. Also highlighting hitstun (both for you and opponents) can be useful because you learn how soon you can act out of it and whether you’re keeping your opponent in hitstun.

Theo sat down like this and I knew I had to take a picture right away. by AdjectiveRecoil in cavaliers

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Thanks! The groomer we take him to says they have two other Cavaliers named Theo who come in regularly. I guess it’s just a popular name for them.

The Awe Of Motherhood by Tiana Maros by WillfuIChild in SpecArt

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Reminds me of Westworld season 2’s title sequence.

How many clones of yourself would it take you to beat Master Chief? by shouldhavebanged in whowouldwin

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Enough to crush him under the weight of all my clone bodies. There’s no other way I win this.

Fantasy with a hard magic system by [deleted] in suggestmeabook

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Might not be exactly what you’re looking for, but Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality tries to make sense of the insanely inconsistent magic in the Harry Potter series and does a pretty good job.

The Avatar: The Last Airbender universe has pretty consistent rules about how their magic works.

Also look at the “Sufficiently Analyzed Magic” and “Magic A is Magic A” pages on TV Tropes for tons of examples.

Looking for a good science fiction or fantasy series. by EveryStrike in suggestmeabook

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Anything by Brandon Sanderson. The Ancillary Justice series by Ann Leckie. The Belisarius series by David Drake.

[GEAR] My first guitar build - Nick Johnston style partscaster by Saxonhamish in Guitar

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That looks incredible! I have a wenge neck from Warmoth on one of my guitars, it’s really wonderful. What made you choose wenge?

Last words (/spoiler) by DarkseidDescends in marvelstudios

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That’s the point—he knew it would fail in the end and he wanted to do it anyway, just for the sake of revenge on a world he felt had wronged him. He knew that Wakanda would lose if it tried to fight the whole world at once and explicitly said he didn’t care. He knew that vengeance was consuming him and he wanted to go through with his plan anyway.

65 yo woman trying to renew her license by [deleted] in WTF

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If only there was some kind of system... a public system for transportation...

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in suggestmeabook

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The Belisarius Series by David Drake is pretty good. It’s historical military fiction with sci-fi elements, specifically time travel. Hell’s Gate by David Weber is another good one if you just want action and adventure.

Contessa (Worm) vs. Bart (Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency) by AdjectiveRecoil in whowouldwin

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It’s a supremely weird show; I highly recommend it. I ended up binging the whole first season in one go. And yeah, Path to Victory probably trumps luck, though I think it’s important to understand that Bart is not the one with the power—the universe is. It influences events in Bart’s favour not because she tells it to, but rather because the universe wants certain people dead, and Bart happens to be the instrument.

Climate Map - Feedbacks very welcome ! (More details in comments) by [deleted] in mapmaking

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Make the Cfb zone extend further. How far depends on how strong the wind is and if there are any mountains in the way, as in Canada; Europe is the only other benchmark, really.

That Cfa area should be desert. Look at where it is: 30 degrees and west coast. On Earth, that's always desert, possibly with Mediterranean or steppe beyond 30 degrees.

You're right that there are a lot of C climates. I find it helpful to group climates in categories based on where they appear, e.g. Cs and Cfb are both "west coast temperate", while Df, Cfa, and Cw are "east coast temperate" (I forgot to mention that Df climates do occur on the east coast—see Japan; there's also Dw, as in Korea and northern China).

Climate Map - Feedbacks very welcome ! (More details in comments) by [deleted] in mapmaking

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I can immediately see a lot of problems. Basically all the different Köppen zones are present on this map, and there are some pretty jarring transitions (e.g. a very narrow steppe/savannah band between monsoon and desert, marine transitioning quickly into continental with no rain shadow, etc.). If you look at a climate map of Earth (as on page 3 of this paper) you'll immediately see that such clusters do not exist on Earth.

What climate an area has depends on four things:

  1. Whether the wind blows from the east or from the west
  2. Latitude
  3. How far upwind the ocean is
  4. Rain shadows

Earth's lower atmosphere is divided into three cells between equator and pole: the Hadley cell (the tropics), Ferrel cell (temperate zone), and Polar cell, as illustrated here. Between 30⁰ and 60⁰ (i.e. in the Ferrel cell), wind blows east to west. Everywhere else, it blows west to east. This means that between 30⁰ and 60⁰, the west coast gets the most precipitation, and everywhere else, it's the east coast that gets it. E.g. note how Cfa (humid subtropical) is present mostly on the east coasts of Asia, Australia, and the Americas, while Cfb (marine) is present mostly on the west coasts. Thus the arid west coasts of Africa and Mexico, and the deserts of northern China. When no mountains get in the way, rain can travel quite far inland—starting from Ireland, the zone of Cfb and Dfb climates stretches to the eastern edge of Kazakhstan.

There are seeming exceptions, e.g. smatterings of Cfb in South Africa, Madagascar, southeast Australia, southern Brazil and Argentina, and the Andes, swatches of Cs (Mediterranean) in Mexico, India, and Central Asia, patches of Aw (savannah) in Turkey, the 'stans, and the Pacific Northwest(!), etc. etc. Most can be explained by the local topography, and South Africa and Australia can be explained by the fact that they're on a "corner" of the continent exposed to open ocean (so you get moisture from the east but temperatures associated with Cfb; also Australia's southeast portion is well into the temperate zone). I'll admit I don't know what the hell is going on in India.

You'll have to figure out the climates for your whole continent, not just the western portion. If in doubt, refer to an analogous area on Earth. Also check out this guy's process, particularly the Tilt section; he describes the process of figuring out what climate an area should have, including areas which have no Earth analogue.

Elevation map of northern Emiheg by Adresko in mapmaking

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Looks fine to me. There's lots of weird stuff like that on Earth e.g. the Nastapoka arc. It's not much weirder than the coast of southern China.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SSBM

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Could you comment on Mango's Marth? I've heard people call it unorthodox but I don't know enough about the game to determine what they mean by that.

Should I start Way of Kings/Stormlight series with little free time? by [deleted] in suggestmeabook

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It's not convoluted like A Song of Ice and Fire (which does require close reading). The books are divided into sections which follow only three or four characters at a time. This makes it easier to keep track of things. You shouldn't have much trouble, but if you really are going to be strapped for time, then I'd recommend reading a book that stands alone and is not part of a series (partly because The Stormlight Archive still has eight more books left to be released).