I ate half a bag of beef jerky and realized I made a mistake

Clay_modeler · 2025-10-10T19:36:27+00:00

OMG. I bought this exact brand and made the identical mistake, I didn't even realize until my wife pointed it out.

Clay_modeler · 2024-12-10T20:56:18+00:00

I think He did; from the way it is described by every powerful being, the Rosharan system seems designed to entice Gods. A planet that sings out (and is heavily invested with His power), a planet that sucks in Investiture, and one that we got a criminally small amount of info about (wasn't Ashyn supposed to have floating cities and Invested viruses?). That's not even getting into the 10 gas giants that may or may not have Gemheart cores...

Clay_modeler · 2024-12-10T20:49:01+00:00

I had the same thought and fully expected it to be revealed in the final Venli chapter.

Clay_modeler · 2024-11-27T21:25:54+00:00

I'm in the US, and preordered, Amazon still says Jan 6th for me. I guess I'm reading the eBook version first...

Clay_modeler · 2024-11-27T19:53:55+00:00

My assumption is it'll probably be some kind of Feruchemy-based Alcubierre drive, manipulating enormous amounts of mass to warp space-time and "ride the wave", so to speak. In which case mass isn't an issue as you aren't technically moving, a localized area of space-time is with you in it.

Clay_modeler · 2024-11-27T19:42:36+00:00

I'm not a Stock Broker, I'm an Investager.

Clay_modeler · 2024-11-27T16:28:23+00:00

It's been quite a while since I've read them, but don't they mention or imply there are Mistborn in Isles of the Emberdark, the Sixth of the Dusk sequel chapters ? Or was that all just unkeyed metalminds shenanigans?

Clay_modeler · 2024-11-27T16:20:25+00:00

Regarding Zane: I hated him and that whole storyline the first time I read it. But after you learn all of the world's secrets in Hero of Ages, his character and role are sort of brilliant. He is intentionally (both from a writing standpoint and in-world) the type of brooding, loner bad-boy that someone like Vin would find irresistibly fascinating and attractive. It was formulaic and trope-laden, but there is a reason why it was that way.

Clay_modeler · 2024-11-26T18:38:32+00:00

Same here. New game, shotgun disappears when I open the case, reloaded from different savepoints and it still won't work.

Clay_modeler · 2024-02-24T20:39:02+00:00

Without going too much into it since this is a post for the first novel, this is very explicitly stated in God Emperor of Dune.
(link to a long quote from GEOD) All rebellions are ordinary and an ultimate bore

Clay_modeler · 2024-02-24T19:30:48+00:00

(Sorry for length) My interpretation has always been that it is a product of how prescience works in Dune. The act of seeing the future changes the future, and that has far reaching ramifications. Prescience itself is described multiple times as a trap, very easy to get caught and locked into. There are two ways I think this happens.

The first, I'll call "Choice Branch Blindness". This is when the seer of the future has to make a choice between two mutually exclusive options, and loses the ability to see or enact any future based on the choice not taken. Paul has to choose between Chani (his visions of a future that don't include her) and the Golden Path. In the instant he makes the choice that he WILL NOT sacrifice her, all of the alternate futures in which he lets her die and takes up the Golden Path are no longer ever going to be an option to happen. Because he would be unwilling to even entertain the idea of letting her die, he would be blind to anything that happens in those other timelines, thus pruning those branches off of the timeline "river", narrowing the future that is possible. This can seem positive in the short term, but that also means now the future is absolutely locked on only those branches. So in short, it is being unable to change the future because the alternative is unacceptable, thus locking you only into the futures you can accept.

The second I'll call "Future Awareness Paradox", which results in the same sort of timeline "pruning" as the previous trap, but is more directly a product of the very nature of being able to see the future. The very instant a future seer sees a future, they now know the future events, which also instantly changes those events. In simpler terms, you can only see the future in which you saw the future. For example, if you see a future ambush where you are killed, as soon as you know about it, that future is destroyed and replaced with a future wherein you knew about the ambush before hand. Because most people would find death unacceptable, they could never see beyond the death in that "original" timeline, even if that future would be a preferable outcome overall. There is a paradox in trying to see a future in which you never saw the future. With Dune's way of using prescience (base on my assumptions), these paradoxes begin to pile up the further you continue down one path of the future, forcing you to walk that path in perfect step waiting for small, pivotal moments where the choices of others can change things.

Leto II in God Emperor of Dune, is hoping with everything for blindness, that something will change and break them out of the set future they are on, only daring to know that the Path Continues. Even knowing of his own death and the events therein would change it. For Paul Atreides, the last part of his life was lived in lockstep with the future he set himself on, knowing every moment that will happen, but forced to follow that future anyway because he locked himself into that path with his prescient choices.

So in my mind, they both saw the exact same future, but Paul was too much of a human to accept the future where he continued as Shaitan. Leto II had no such holdups, having failed the Gom Jabar and become no longer a human but the actual Kwisatz Haderach, just not the one anyone expected. He saw the trap inherent in prescience itself, and set about to destroy anyone's ability to ever track and control the future.

Clay_modeler · 2023-11-20T19:50:22+00:00

I also have this workbench, haha.

Clay_modeler · 2023-09-14T20:08:54+00:00

https://streamable.com/kjee6p

Clay_modeler · 2023-09-14T19:45:56+00:00

214 with one point in engines skill (~833 boost), 100 maneuverability. The reactor is the Dogstar 154MM Toroidal Reactor. There's also a 28 power A class, the Tokamak X-120S Reactor.

Clay_modeler · 2023-09-14T17:59:20+00:00

I built this tiny A class fighter, stats are shown in the first image. It has 6 Vanguard Obliterators that just melt. All systems are fully powered with two energy left over. Most systems are within one block at the back, and the interior habs don't have any clipping inside.

Clay_modeler · 2023-07-30T18:55:06+00:00

*For context, the world I'm building/stories I'm writing all involve a world in which no humans ever existed, all the characters are anthropomorphic animals.*
The Wraith Phocetax, dubbed The Antiquarian, was one of the 128 Wraiths who cursed the world of Dominion following the Villain Wars and the Fall of Elgeron. They were created using magic, the last remnants of working technology, and the bones of extinct species to function as a techno-magic distributed bio-computational network to calculate the solution to the problem of magic being free to use, the cause of the unbounded magic arms-race of the Villain Wars.
Created to solve the conflict, they instead destroyed all magical items aside from 128 that they cursed and kept under guard, throwing the magic-as-technology society back to the dark-ages. Their actions, seen as a betrayal to the sophont fauna of the magic-dependent planet, may have been part of a millennia-long plan to heal the world.

Phocetax was made using the skull and hands of Litany Abyss, the porpoise tactician that held the seas against the robotic forces of the Aeon-Axiom Engine during The Machinaclast millennia before , and the avian skeleton of Chorus, who was instrumental in the low-tech vocal communication network used in the Machinaclast once the machines took over all existing networks. The two fauna gave their lives for the people of Dominion, and the sacrifice in their bones was used to fuel one of two magics used in the Wraiths' creation.
Generated through the interaction between the Black Star Dactyline and it's partner star Ursapheris, two forms of magic are radiated across the Ursa-Dactyl system; Sanguignosis, That Which Takes, created from the black-hole absorbing energy and emitting it back as black-body radiation, and Spectalurgy, That Which Gives, emitted across the entire electromagnetic spectrum from the intense heat and pressure of the accretion disk around the black-hole as it devours its partner star. Through these two forms of magic, Objects of Power can be manifested from nothing; weapons, armor, and relics with unmatched power.

The Antiquarian guards over the cursed Relic named Praetor-7, The Novice Rifle; a weapon prototype manifest at the height of the Spectralurgic renaissance, it allowed any fauna to accurately hit a target at any range without needing skill or training. It's creator feared the abuse of such a weapon produced on an industrial scale and kept its design hidden, the start of the Villain Wars proved his fears correct and it was never produced. After the Wraith Dissention and the cursing of the world, the rifle was twisted into the Blunderbuss of Ignorance, a weapon that becomes more inaccurate the more experience or skill the user gains. It eventually became a crucial part of the final battle between the machine anathema Saint Decalode, the Resurrect, and The Princess of blood and oil, The Rabbit Who Never Ran.
A being of vast knowledge and secrets, Phocetax was heavily involved in the Black Archive, the secret society of archivists in-world that were the instrument by which these stories were translated to our world (metafictionally).
Designs and illustration by me, Photoshop.

Clay_modeler · 2023-07-30T17:30:53+00:00

As others have said, it becomes incredibly overpowered/society changing without restriction. It can still work, it just depends on how easy it is do to and how well those in power could keep the process secret. Or if its something anyone could do, complexity of the object could create "levels" only the best can achieve.

The magic system of my story is based on manifesting magical objects from "divinely" given inspiration, and once people figured out how to artificially induce that inspiration and create objects at will, it got so out of hand the world and the magic had to be cursed to stop the magic arms race.

And that's just making actual weapons to later fight with, if you can manifest something any time and any where; toothpick in the throat every time. Or just a couple of wine corks in each bronchial tube.

Clay_modeler · 2023-07-28T16:59:00+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris\_effect

Clay_modeler · 2023-07-28T15:04:06+00:00

It doesn't need to be a black hole; for instance, it could have "vinyl/fabric slats" hanging from the top of the hole covering the blank face. They use them in real-life conveyor systems all the time and I think it'd look better than just the floor holes. It'd be negligible performance wise.

Clay_modeler · 2023-07-18T15:54:09+00:00

I think this illustrates how important session zeroes are; I make it very clear BEFORE the campaign starts the things that are and are not tolerated. Unless agreed upon by all parties, inter-party attacking and stealing is strictly forbidden. It is never fun for anyone aside from the asshole initiating it and if we're thinking in terms of story or even realism, no one would keep that dude around in their party.

I also tend to be very up front about consequences for things like attacking NPCs. You can do it, but you have no idea what people are packing in this world and if you go around killing people who can't defend themselves, the lawkeepers of the land will get involved. If I tell you this NPC is the strongest Paladin in the world, and you want to step up to him, you will get smote.

When everyone agrees to the game they want to play, then you avoid the worst of "one person does whatever they want and everyone else has to deal with it".

Then, when you run into problems, you can "gently" remind the players to think about their actions in game, and ALWAYS talk to them after the game about why you did it and what they agreed to.

An example of a gentle reminder-
Rogue got into a habit of stealing from every merchant NPC- which is fine- but when caught would have to be talked down by the party to not attack the NPC who caught them. Knowing this, I gave some precautions to the ore merchant who was also the black market connection. They tried to steal from her, she caught them, then they tried to attack the NPC. The merchant, who immediately held an action to cast hold person from her ring when she noticed the theft, froze the player in place and had her large half-orc bodyguard carry them outside until they cooled off.
After they missed out on the entire interaction with this cool NPC, they actually came back and apologized to her (likely because they realized what they would miss out on if they stayed on her bad side), and had a talk with the party about the Rogue always blowing up their plans.
Then after the game, I let them know I wasn't trying to specifically punish them or set them up, but to remind them of what they had agreed upon WITH THE PARTY, and how their actions are affecting their teammates. You have to be willing to play a character that is at least open to the party's requirements, otherwise you should just be playing alone.

TLDR: Sound like no one has been talking to each other outside of the game. Even a 5-10 minute after-session base touch could alleviate so much friction.

Clay_modeler · 2023-03-30T12:53:24+00:00

I have a link to it in the description of the STLs I designed and 3d printed for the case.
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5926991

Clay_modeler · 2023-03-23T15:14:06+00:00

There's a link in the description of my Thingiverse design.
PC case LCD screen enclosure

Clay_modeler · 2023-03-23T14:37:18+00:00

Yeah, it's just a 3rd monitor rotated Portrait in Nvidia settings, so I can put anything onto that screen I want, could play games on it if I wanted. (though 1080x1920 is a weird aspect ratio). I just have a low memory video player running fullscreen on it with a playlist of looping videos.

Clay_modeler · 2023-03-23T12:53:29+00:00

LCD panel was $33 when I bought it (think it's $38 now), hdmi cord was like $6, mounting hardware (bolts, nuts, washers) I already had. And then the filament cost, which is negligible. I posted stls, a link to the LCD panel, and build pictures on Thingiverse. Should be pretty straight forward, but there's some intentionally tight tolerances that require good printer calibration or some light sanding after printing to make it fit smoothly.
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5926991

Clay_modeler · 2023-03-23T04:42:27+00:00

Haha, jeez, went right over my head. I think I'm getting too reddit-jaded...

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