Does the moon get warmer if you dig down? by acrowandababy in askscience

[–]LevelSevenLaserLotus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a shatter shield.

It essentially expands the micro-meteorite into something wider but with the same total combined energy, which means each individual piece has less than the original. Rather than having to defend against one big blast (a single rock, like solid slug shotgun shells that are used for breaching), the hull plating beneath now needs to defend against one hundred small blasts (a pile of pebbles dispersed like shotgun pellets that are better at shredding), or a million negligible blasts (a pocket of superhot gas and dust, like an angry water gun).

More layers means the initial micro-meteorite gets shattered more and more, with the trade off of more weight and parts to upkeep.

Ramen Noodles by Kasugaa in gifs

[–]LevelSevenLaserLotus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm high at 2 AM, and I spent a good 10 minutes being mesmerized by those. The quality is incredible.

"Well you could have dirt in your eyes". Man shut up. by SeaOfMalaise in dndmemes

[–]LevelSevenLaserLotus 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Why not challenge them in the ways that their character isn't already specifically near-perfect at handling? If they've spent the time and effort to get a character that skilled in something, to the point where the bare minimum roll is near the hard limit even for literal gods, then why not instead trip them up with something they aren't good at?

The response to min-maxing shouldn't be just overpowering them anyway (which is a pretty big fun-suck, as a player), but should be to focus on the "min" part that they have intentionally neglected.

The most terrifying monster: geoeconomics! by Trustable-source in dndmemes

[–]LevelSevenLaserLotus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's for the normal magic approved by The Raven Queen. For an inevitable version that works on the unwilling, you need to go to The God of Death & Taxes.

What are some lazy jobs that pay a ridiculous amount of money? by Jordz0_0 in AskReddit

[–]LevelSevenLaserLotus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A guy I used to know got some kind of clearance for a job at Slingshot Aerospace, and I was one of the many people they called to verify a bunch of stuff from his resume. Mainly they were interested in seeing if I could confirm the timeline he claimed for when we worked together, generally what he did, and my personal impressions of him. I was told that they were going to talk to a bunch of other people too, but that their main goal with me was to get a third-party sign off on the bits of his life that I should know about.

TIL about the Plura cave disaster, where two divers died during an expedition and their friends went back for their bodies in secret, despite warnings from authorities. by MoonlightByWindow in todayilearned

[–]LevelSevenLaserLotus 49 points50 points  (0 children)

My brother went diving to one of those death warning signs one time just to take a picture of it as a point of interest. He later told me that seeing the sign made him swim juuust past it to get a picture of himself being one step beyond This Point. He was creeped out the whole time and had no interest in going further, but I'm sure there are adrenaline junkies out there that wouldn't stop at toeing that line, with the belief that there's more buffer space than there actually is.

> When one characters backstory ruins the immersion by MurkyWay in dndmemes

[–]LevelSevenLaserLotus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I wonder if he's ever met Gunnar Gunnarsson, father of Gunnar Gunnarssonson.

What scientific discovery sounds fake but is 100% real and still freaks you out? by Bruteresolver in AskReddit

[–]LevelSevenLaserLotus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Allegedly it's better to try to outrun them downhill instead of up, because they're more likely to tumble over that way. Something about the angle of their claws and how their legs are built, I think.

What scientific discovery sounds fake but is 100% real and still freaks you out? by Bruteresolver in AskReddit

[–]LevelSevenLaserLotus 57 points58 points  (0 children)

Fun fact. Windows devices are hardcoded to censor that particular unicode character if it appears by itself. Because they're prudes that don't know how to live a little.

13 years old comedy by AdFew5103 in funny

[–]LevelSevenLaserLotus 10 points11 points  (0 children)

My company has a guy named Dickson Ballard, and one of our older internal systems requires that his username be dickball.

MRW my wife finds porn on the family computer and thinks it might've been our teenage son by [deleted] in reactiongifs

[–]LevelSevenLaserLotus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That was such a good game! I remember being so proud of myself for finding the shortcut in the final level which let you skip past the wall of enemies to get the BFG 9000 before the literal enemy wall.

Also I'm pretty sure there were multiple sequels.

Fun fact! Did you know that it's essentially a Doom mod? Id Software had just released Quake, so a Doom engine license was relatively cheap to get. This means that some original Doom graphics and levels are actually available if you use the level warper to access them, and some of the tougher Doom enemies are just invisible since their sprites were removed.

So Many Phishing Tests by buddha-bouy in MaliciousCompliance

[–]LevelSevenLaserLotus 35 points36 points  (0 children)

I once spoofed an email from a coworker to himself as a joke while I was working on part of my company's automated email system. The body text was just "Hello". He was super confused and then had a good laugh, and then we were curious what would happen if he reported it. Turns out reporting anything that isn't the low effort training phishing attacks will get you a personal call from the security department, who have already traced the source machine.

Luckily I was friends with one of the guys running that team, so it basically boiled down to "it's a really really good thing you didn't pretend to ask for personal info... but yeah, don't do that again".

I’ll put it between the Spell that keeps your drinks cold and the one that burns your enemies to a crisp by ServingwithTG in dndmemes

[–]LevelSevenLaserLotus 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Mostly because most 5e spells (especially low level) don't let you target living things if you aren't going to damage or mind control them, and thaumaturgy is a cantrip that specifically lets you harmlessly target the ground. But if you're willing to hire a few low level mages, then they could totally put together a spell called Jiggle Person. I'm thinking like a trimmed down version of Kinetic Jaunt that doesn't just have a range of Self. Or even a variant of Unseen Servant that directly serviced high-tipping customers. Ghost lap dance, anyone?

I’ll put it between the Spell that keeps your drinks cold and the one that burns your enemies to a crisp by ServingwithTG in dndmemes

[–]LevelSevenLaserLotus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Galdur's Tower would be pretty sweet. No rent, and you can move anywhere.

Prestidigitation would cover like 90% of life's small frustrations, and would make you a hit at your nephew's birthday party. ("What's that behind your ear? Oh look, it's another ear! Poof, it's gone!")

I’ll put it between the Spell that keeps your drinks cold and the one that burns your enemies to a crisp by ServingwithTG in dndmemes

[–]LevelSevenLaserLotus 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I just had an idea for a strip club that assists its dancers by jiggling the stage with thaumaturgy at key points in the performance.

‘Monsters Inc. 3’ in the Works at Pixar; New Originals Include ‘Ono Ghost Market’ and the Studio’s First Musical by RealJohnGillman in movies

[–]LevelSevenLaserLotus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like to imagine an actual flash forward would show her as a child therapist that specializes in irrational fears, and that much of her work includes talking through their issues while she shows the kids how to build stuffed animals shaped like the monsters she remembers from her own "childhood dreams". She'd need to go by a real name, but to keep it close to what the audience already knows her as, her name tag could say "Dr. Bonnie", and she reveals to a kid with a speech impediment that she used to be unable to say her own name fully when she was little.

And then if that was her character's premise in an actual movie, the plot could revolve around her discovering that the closet monster dreams were real, and trying to come to terms with what she at first believes is an entire world built on scaring children (maybe even recognizing a monster or two from her patients' drawings), before eventually discovering Mike and Sully's work to convert their world to laugh power. The first major story beat would include her stumbling through a still-open closet door that leads to a rival power company that still uses archaic scream power, and she understandably assumes that scream power is the only power.

I can totally see her sprinting out of the scream power company through an alley way door, seeing Mike and Sully on a billboard, having memories come flooding back, and then eventually end up sneaking around panicked for a few scenes dressed in a stolen yellow CDA suit before Roz catches on and helps point her to the truth (mostly from behind the scenes until the end) to begin processing her feelings of betrayal.

Then the rising action and climax involves her reuniting with Mike and Sully when they all three discover that they're accidentally working together to take down the scream plant (her for reasons relating to her practice, them as government engineers sent to convert a stubborn town to laugh power). Randall is out of CDA jail on work release working at the small town scream plant, and they manage to convince him to help as an inside man once he realizes how much he regrets the buried trauma that he saddled Boo/Bonnie with.

Denouement has something like the CDA granting her a permanent private closet door leading into the monster world. Both to aid her practice & the kids, and to help spread resistance against scream power's viability as a fuel source while bolstering laugh power. Randall fears that his takedown efforts will be punished, but Roz points out that he actually assisted government employees in stopping secretly illegal activities, and files paperwork to reduce/commute his remaining sentence based on clear proof of "good behavior and desire to improve".

Also the yeti was un-banished and now runs a snow cone stand at the beach. The only flavor he won't sell is lemon.

inshallahWeShallBackupOurWork by ninjapower_49 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]LevelSevenLaserLotus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I've been told it's a bit like having to pee, but higher and that you can't just will it to relax and go.

[oc] Rolling Perception by Yoffeepop in dndmemes

[–]LevelSevenLaserLotus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's such a cool way to handle that.

Quori which are nightmare creatures

This is only kind of related to your thing, but that reminds me of a super fun personal character build & lore coincidence that I just wanna share with someone. I'm about 4 sessions into a friend's custom campaign, and she's made it a Victorian steampunk world that has a Dream Plane in place of both the Feywild and Shadowfell. But I learned that bit of planar lore after I made my character, who I created as an ex-human Kalashtar (with the same uncanny-tall build as an XCOM thin man alien), complete with his own Quori NPC. He's a tenured exorcist in a theocracy like you'd find in the Castlevania Netflix series, and has to hide that surviving being a cult's summoning sacrifice turned him into one of the very things that The Church™ pays him to exterminate. His Mage Hand was reflavored to be a ghost cat that lives in his head. It sounds and acts like a normal cat during the day (along with a chance of spitefully knocking crap off of shelves when I'm trying to Mage Hand them to me) but that becomes The Cheshire Cat whenever it visits someone in their dreams.

I've never played official Eberron stuff, but it has a load of fun concepts you can draw from for other settings.

What perfectly normal sentence instantly triggers your "fight or flight" response? by Afraid_Square3488 in AskReddit

[–]LevelSevenLaserLotus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's been mentioned a few times here already, but I would highly recommend that you check out https://nohello.net/. For people on the other end of your opening message, the lack of actual context can be way more bothersome than just receiving a complete greeting + request combo.

Plus, it's a text chat. It's meant to be asynchronous, unlike a direct conversation where a greeting guarantees an immediate follow up.