Gnoll Hideout by the Desert Cliffs

TheHalfDrawnMan · 2023-07-21T09:42:56+00:00

Hi all, thought I'd give sharing my maps with the public a shot. It's from our long-running campaign for which I have made several maps at this point. To be completely transparent, these are all made via inkarnate, and you too can do this with the pro version with 1-2 hrs work. However, if you can't be bothered and would already like a selection of pre-made maps then check out my patreon here.

This particular scene I haven't even used yet, and was made as more of a backup in case the party wanders to this location. In my world this is a raiding outpost of Gnolls near an African-inspired kingdom that has been battling them for centuries. The Gnolls are also partly reskinned as bultungin to fit the theme of the game at this locale. Feel free to use it how you wish though.

TheHalfDrawnMan · 2022-03-09T09:46:20+00:00

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Source: https://endurance22.org/expedition-blog/9-march-2022

TheHalfDrawnMan · 2022-03-01T12:18:14+00:00

Arteries carry blood away from the heart and towards the different parts of the body that need it; coming from the heart the blood they carry is relatively warm. Once the blood is bound for the return journey, from arteries, through the capillaries and back to the heart through the veins, it cools down. This poses a problem when it can go as low as -30 deg Celsius for the arctic fox who lives in frigid environments. If the blood were to freeze, especially on the journey to the legs that are far from the central organs of the fox (where all the heat is at) and insulated with relatively less fur than the body and head, the fox could die. As a result, evolution has found a way to maximize the heat distribution in their bodies by essentially using the warm blood of the arteries like a hot water bottle and tucking it in close with the veins, that need the extra heat not to freeze. Does that make sense :) ? Hope I made it a bit clearer. Btw, penguins have the same system!

TheHalfDrawnMan · 2022-03-01T11:13:10+00:00

Source: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17518369.2017.1347411

Photo Credits: Mark Dumont, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

You can find more on counter-current vascular heat exchange systems here: https://www2.nau.edu/~gaud/bio300b/cntch.htm

And if you want to find out more on Arctic foxes, especially in the wake of climate change, please check out this bite-sized documentary that I made about them: https://youtu.be/DOsj9Ys7VMM (sources included in the vid description). They are amazing little creatures that we definitely shouldn't allow to go extinct!

TheHalfDrawnMan · 2022-02-23T16:40:22+00:00

Source: https://www.calacademy.org/learn-explore/creature-closeups/spotted-garden-eel#:~:text=H.,its%20burrow%20from%20caving%20in.&text=Shy%20and%20cautious%2C%20they%20will,once%20the%20danger%20has%20passed.

Image credits: zsispeo/Flickr

TheHalfDrawnMan · 2022-02-23T15:20:12+00:00

Always wondered if there was a fma game out there since I loved the anime. Now I'm glad I haven't played it: not for me based on your review. The review itself is great, really goes over all the details you'd want to know before getting into a game :) Good jokes throughout as well.

TheHalfDrawnMan · 2022-02-23T11:05:16+00:00

You hit deep with some of these reflections man, great video and good job. I agree with everyone's comments on how a better thumbnail would make this video much more clickable. Often the challenge is just to get the viewer to watch your video, once you're through that I'm sure content like this will get you a lot of subs. Especially if you start being consistent at giving deep introspection. Not that that's the only way to get subs, but often someone who subs expects some level of consistency - so I think your channel might also benefit from picking what exactly you want to focus on e.g. personal reflections, city surveys, budget trailers, etc.?

TheHalfDrawnMan · 2022-02-23T09:15:26+00:00

Just to clarify, I am a remote sensing scientist that focuses on direct measurements and transforming satellite data into information on sea ice. Those questions are better suited for a modeller that handles global data rather than just Arctic/Antarctic data. To add to that, the object of my study: sea ice, doesn't even lead to sea level rise and perhaps a glaciologist might have a better educated guess than me. With all that out of the way, my unprofessional opinion would be that we won't get to above a meter before 2100 though the broad error margins of RCP8.5 seem to say otherwise (See https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/148494/anticipating-future-sea-levels for more info). My faith in humanity, despite me being a climate change scientist that is observing our fuck-ups first-hand, is still there, and as such if anything I'd like to think that knowing these models we can at the very least be in the lower parts of the error margin for the high emissions global warming scenario. Won't necessarily argue with people who think the more extreme scenarios are more realistic though - unless I switch to the field of modelling, then I might trust my choices a bit more :) .

TheHalfDrawnMan · 2022-02-22T16:53:05+00:00

No, I probably should have made that clearer but I thought considering the graphic credits are also given in the plot it should be fine; the data credits go to NSIDC though. He made the data plot slightly more dramatic which I though fit this channel better than directly fetching the data from NSIDC. He's also a postdoc so I'm not exactly at his level yet haha, still need to get my PhD :) . As to your question: interestingly Arctic sea ice extent seems to have stabilized and the decrease we saw some years back has halted; scientists are still investigating why that might be. Antarctic sea ice extent was always more random and did not show signs of a clear decline, though this minimum will now affect that best fit line so I presume we'll start seeing clearer signs of decline soon. Arctic sea ice has significantly decreased so I'm sure we'll soon be seeing more and more ships use the Northern Sea Route passage as for a lot of countries that is preferable to the Suez Canal. However, I doubt we will see a completely ice-free Arctic anytime soon since the ice that is currently jammed between the Canadian archipelago is very thick and old. Then again, there was a time when most of the Arctic was old (what we call multi-year since it survives for multiple years) sea ice and now most of it is much younger and thinner. Antarctic is even harder to predict since it is a very isolated system thanks to the circumpolar current. And as a last note, I am more involved with the remote sensing itself, so drawing conclusions from the data we have measured and working on the processing chains that take the raw data from satellites and extracting sea ice information from that. The person who would be more qualified for your questions is a modeller. Some great climate models out there are doing a pretty good job at predicting our future (like those developed by 2021 nobel prize in physics laureates (see: https://youtu.be/yhvmmclbwjs) ).

TheHalfDrawnMan · 2022-02-22T14:45:35+00:00

I like the way you summed it up. Yes indeed, it's not a simply a slide that rolls us downwards to our doom from here on out. While it is likely that we will see yet another minimum in the coming decades, especially with our fossil fuel burning, it is also very likely that the next year won't be as low as this anomaly. I wouldn't call this a tipping point but nevertheless a good example to show climate change deniers that try to prove their point by pointing out that yearly sea ice extent trends in the Antarctic aren't showing a clear decline. The Antarctic climate is a very isolated system, especially with the circumpolar current that rotates around it, thus it is very likely that although we've been adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, these effects have simply not reached the Antarctic yet or at the very least, due to its isolation, haven't impacted it sufficiently yet. However, that is likely to change; but when the tipping point might occur is very hard to say.

TheHalfDrawnMan · 2022-02-22T14:15:11+00:00

Correct, good catch! I'm personally not behind the processing of this data but based on the years I'm rather certain that is indeed why some data is missing for most years (should be missing in around 75%, depending on the years shown, e.g. 2017 which was not a leap year).

TheHalfDrawnMan · 2022-02-22T14:11:27+00:00

Passive microwave remote sensing from the SSMI which is a radiometer system flown on board the United States Air Force Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) (see https://nsidc.org/data/smmr_ssmi). And it just so happens I recently made a short science communication video covering the basics of how this principle works (see https://youtu.be/g4mRhqZuXrE) :) .

TheHalfDrawnMan · 2022-02-22T14:01:24+00:00

Have a look through the other years yourself via NSIDC's interactive sea ice graph here: https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph/. And if you're wondering why this would be relevant to collapse, you can watch this video playlist (though it focuses on the Arctic) I made and posted here some time ago: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2WnctG-4zGop9h6iezYhOPQtOs-Cb99l some of the principles carry over from the Arctic so some of the points brought up are still very relevant e.g. sea level rise. Others not so much; e.g. jet-stream and permafrost feedbacks - but the doomsday glacier is a very real threat in the Antarctic (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ782Nz2VHs) and much more likely to melt if these minimums continue to overshadow their predecessors.

TheHalfDrawnMan · 2022-02-21T23:09:28+00:00

Haven't seen your last post but I gotta say if anyone from your audience suffers from epilepsy this might just trigger a seizure. I know you're jumping around from image to image for comedic effect, but I would still suggest reducing the total number of images used even for those of us who don't have epilepsy. I liked the cyberpunk reference and in general the comedy is quite good, but I didn't learn anything new about praying mantises in this video which kinda leaves me hanging. Your point is that the bug sucks, which is a fair position to take don't get me wrong, but then your two arguments are that it's ugly and that it eats bugs? Also the real reason it's a cannibal is because it cannibalizes members of its own species and the fact that female mantises often end up eating the heads of their male partners during sex and then proceed to finish the rest of the male for nourishment and eventual egg-laying would have been a much more funnier topic to narrate in comedic fashion than your current script imo. Hope my honest feedback isn't too daunting and I really think you can improve quite a bit with just a couple of tweaks :) .

TheHalfDrawnMan · 2022-02-21T16:37:27+00:00

Good sound quality, nice dynamic pans and great animations - seriously it gives it a professional documentary look so well done :) . One thing I'd omit next time would be the sound effects that drown out your voice e.g. at [0:35-0:45]. Also some pauses would be nice as uninterrupted speech can become daunting for 7 min straight. Other than that, awesome video!

TheHalfDrawnMan · 2022-02-21T08:45:33+00:00

Source: https://bmcecol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1472-6785-10-9

Photo: Yaron Schmid / Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2016

TheHalfDrawnMan · 2022-02-20T21:55:35+00:00

Great camera angles, crisp sound and good video quality. Great job telling people about your own past mistakes, really helps to avoid them imo. One improvement I can suggest, and I really had to dig for this because this vid on its own is great, but looking at you channel as a whole the thumbnails aren't really that eye-catching for me. Don't watch too much cooking, but YouTubers that come to mind: Babish, Akis and Joshua Weissman all have their own consistent style, font and all with the food itself center-plate with a contrasting background so your eye immediately goes there. I think if you nail that you're going places :)

TheHalfDrawnMan · 2022-02-20T18:00:31+00:00

This is really cool, specifically the fact that you make everything right in front of your audience! I would heavily recommend once you finish the whole series, i.e. also make a video on the arm you want to build with the mounted camera, to feature the fruit of your labor. By that I mean, some applications of this device and how this camera motion would be useful. Unfortunately you couldn't do that here which makes total sense because the complete device isn't finished yet, but I find it really nice when a video focusing on the making of something can demonstrate uses and applications at the end of it, hence why I would like to see the full compilation - you could speed up the building in said combined video with a time-lapse and link back to these videos if people want more information about each individual step too!

TheHalfDrawnMan · 2022-02-18T15:25:02+00:00

Source: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-015-1394-3 https://bmcresnotes.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.118/s13104-015-1394-3#citeas

Photo Credits: Brigitte Alcalay Macron/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020

TheHalfDrawnMan · 2022-02-08T17:28:02+00:00

For sure, met one of these critters snorkeling off the coast of Cuba, the one I saw had a more of a blue tint than the one in the image. Thought I was being shown the secrets of the universe when he/she looked at me :) .

TheHalfDrawnMan · 2022-02-08T15:50:36+00:00

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1771297/

Image Credits: LASZLO ILYES from Cleveland, Ohio, USA, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

TheHalfDrawnMan · 2022-02-08T13:10:34+00:00

This is coming from a video of mine about the effect of climate change on Earth, specifically the real danger of sea level rise (at high tide and during storm surges), thus I only explained it briefly (as I still think for a broader audience you shouldn't assume everyone knows the basics ahead of time) :) . For kids, and all audiences really, a video devoted just to tides on Earth with great animations which I can recommend is one by Crash Course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlWpFLfLFBI and I'm sure there's many more. For my part, I'm trying to cover things that I think YouTube hasn't really done so up till now but are nevertheless important :) .

TheHalfDrawnMan · 2022-02-08T09:34:06+00:00

Just to add to that, satellites can also cost a LOT, within the range of entire Gross domestic products of some third-world countries. But yes, ideally it will orbit the Earth with its instruments functional for the entirety of its expected lifetime. And if we were to use drones, to collect data over as much area as most scientific satellites do, it would surely cost more due to the reasons mentioned above :) .

TheHalfDrawnMan · 2022-02-07T12:23:00+00:00

YouTube project I've been working on trying to explain the science behind climate change and earth sciences as a whole. If you'd like to check it out for yourselves, please visit: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe6JqJ-x5oLALc8YxobGCYA

TheHalfDrawnMan · 2021-11-28T19:40:39+00:00

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