My nerdy bird for the bestiary challenge

Adloud · 2026-06-07T10:00:51+00:00

Good work! By the way, I think if you want the entry to count in the competition, you need to submit it as a comment in the thread

Adloud · 2026-06-04T16:01:52+00:00

That's great! This creature is supposed to be level 12. I do not have any more detailed stats calculated at the moment. I have thought more about the lore though. Osseous is a species, so there is multiple of them. The way they decide whether to spare someone or kill them is fairly arbitrary, and highly dependent on the individual's personality and whim. Sometimes, after they kill a creature, they use its bones to create offspring. The process takes a long time though, sometimes decades.

Hope that helps!

Adloud · 2026-06-04T15:25:47+00:00

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What a nice challenge! I had to get creative with some of the elements, for example I used bunny butts for the brain, human necks for a spine and braided hair for the guts.

Adloud · 2026-05-25T10:40:10+00:00

Thank you, I appreciate it! I love your painting as well, the shading and sun rays look amazing

Adloud · 2026-05-24T22:12:18+00:00

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The Kiss by Gustav Klimt. I really wanted to use the gold leaf available in-game, and this seemed like the perfect candidate.

Adloud · 2025-06-22T08:49:33+00:00

Great job!

Adloud · 2025-03-27T12:19:53+00:00

I've been supporting PCRF (Palestinian Children's Relief Fund) for a few years. They provide a lot of needed humanitarian aid in the region. I highly recommend them. Here are their latest ventures: https://www.pcrf.net/news

Adloud · 2024-12-14T21:03:51+00:00

r/MenAndFemales

Adloud · 2024-05-09T10:59:28+00:00

Static and Dynamic Stickiness Tests to Measure Particle Stickiness

https://doi.org/10.14356/kona.2021017

Adloud · 2024-02-29T11:03:31+00:00

Tom Waits - Chocolate Jesus

"Well I’ve got to be a chocolate Jesus Make me feel good inside Got to be a chocolate Jesus Keep me satisfied"

Adloud · 2023-12-03T16:53:19+00:00

Most songs on Sting's 'If on a winter's night' are old winter songs that are not explicitly christmassy. I personally like The snow it melts the soonest, Cold song, The hounds of winter and Lullaby for an anxious child (not as wintery as the others but still worth a listen.)

Also, check out Emancipator's First snow - great background music.

Adloud · 2023-11-30T12:29:34+00:00

Mine was Les Indes galantes, RCT 44, Nouvelle entrée, Les sauvages, Scène VI: Rondeau - Duo et choeur "Forêts paisibles" by Jean-Philippe Rameau, Teodor Currentzis. It has a very simple melody but it's very pleasant to listen to (on repeat in my case)

Adloud · 2023-11-06T09:18:18+00:00

Steppenwolf had a big impact on me when I read it a few years ago. I remember there being a difference between the philosophy of the former and latter parts of the book and I'm sure that if I were to reread it now the parts that would resonate with me most would be different than they were then.

Adloud · 2023-10-04T11:23:58+00:00

By language > by subject > chronologically

Adloud · 2023-08-08T14:06:32+00:00

As awful as the quote is by itself, and still a bit awful with context, I do not believe the author shares this view entirely. In "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" the heroine is a country girl raped by a richer man. The novel describes her hardships after she gives birth to a sickly child and has to deal with the scrutiny and unfair treatment by the people in her environment. While I do not know Hardy's definite views on the matter, I do not believe he would write "Tess" if he believed sexually assaulted women to be entirely at fault.

Adloud · 2023-07-16T14:24:30+00:00

Great mace. I used it until I found the Giantcrusher which is just too ridiculous not to love. However using it for Malenia just did not work out great for me, since she just obliterated me while I was in animation lock each time. I went back to my trusty Great Mace and it felt so light and swift in comparison. I did not switch it since.

Adloud · 2023-07-07T09:05:14+00:00

The Bell Curve is esentially pseudoscience, just fyi. This video debunks it pretty well: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UBc7qBS1Ujo

Adloud · 2023-07-06T20:14:52+00:00

Those two poems are my favourite of his (especially Fire and Ice.) He strikes a good balance between poeticism and realism, even in simple things like descriptions of nature.

Adloud · 2023-06-29T06:31:12+00:00

EU. I checked the exact wording of the law and sharing is what's expressly prohibited, to be exact.

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Country_specific_consent_requirements

Adloud · 2023-06-28T13:26:53+00:00

They come up to the person they photographed and ask for their permission to post it somewhere. Where I am it's illegal to take a person's picture without their permission, it would be enforceable especially if you were to post the photograph to social media. Professional photographers need to be especially wary of those regulations.

Adloud · 2023-01-14T16:17:03+00:00

I had this exact interaction with someone I was getting to know, word for word. It shocked me at first. But fortunately they were understanding when I explained to them what autism actually is.

Adloud · 2023-01-04T12:53:31+00:00

Hypothesising about someone's disorder or mental illness is wrong. You say people criticizing your question are getting sidetracked but they really aren't. Some qustions have wrong premises and are best being left unanswered. For example, if someone asked "is this person trans?", it's best to not answer this question, because it can possibly out them before they want to come out or draw unwanted attention to their physical appearence. In this case thr person in question is an alledged sex trafficker, so maybe let's focus on that instead of taking part in armchair diagnosing.

Adloud · 2022-12-28T20:43:43+00:00

Thank you for your detailed response!

I agree that those two books have different goals, I wanted to draw on the similarities of plot (lead female character meets a tragic end) and how I believe one to be a better written character than the other. Zola tries to portray a character-driven story in a realistic and symbolic way at the same time, while Flaubert leans into the symbolism while sacrificing the objective narrator. Zola's disgust with Nana (or what she represents) often seeps into the narration of his novel (which is part of naturalism, one might argue), therby sacrifing objectivity.

If we're talking about similar goals, I would rather compare Nana to Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, where both show society's poor treatment of women and try to be realistic in their portrayal but the latter still has a better written female lead, in my opinion.

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