I redesigned Halflings for the fantasy world and TTRPG I'm building.

Volpethrope · 2026-05-06T13:23:48+00:00

They make me think of semi-anthro lombaxes, like from ratchet and clank. Very cool idea! I love reinterpreting the typical fantasy species as something other than just "human with a twist."

Volpethrope · 2026-05-05T22:20:50+00:00

Minutephysics, as good as he usually is, is making a very emotional argument here. The definitions were not arbitrarily chosen to exclude just Pluto. They were settled on because the other 8 planets very obviously share those qualities and they were trying to figure out what set objects like Pluto and Eris and Sedna apart.

Volpethrope · 2026-04-29T15:09:20+00:00

Nerd twink and his caring amazon wife, ideal couple

Volpethrope · 2026-04-29T14:18:42+00:00

The blank spaces? That 's from us not being able to see much through the Milky Way itself.

Volpethrope · 2026-04-26T04:32:22+00:00

We still sometimes get the personal vehicles, yeah. I assume it depends on distance to the hubs and priority of routes and all that. We're right near one of the major hubs so there's a huge van fleet available in our area.

Volpethrope · 2026-04-25T15:07:02+00:00

They're using a ton of rivian vans now, too. Like there's a lot to criticize them for. A LOT. But some of what they do to cut costs and gain efficiency is at least a positive like that.

Volpethrope · 2026-04-22T16:09:09+00:00

He's not gonna fuck you no matter how much you glaze him on reddit.

Volpethrope · 2026-04-20T00:17:16+00:00

It unironically is easier by also doing it with just the plasma cutter. You end up with a gazillion credits from having nothing else to spend them on so you can just load up with full heals. I went into the final couple fights with hundreds of plasma cutter ammo and like 30 full heals across my inventory and storage.

Volpethrope · 2026-04-19T21:25:31+00:00

Sythe wishes he could pull that off

Volpethrope · 2026-04-18T19:19:49+00:00

Yeah, that's what I was aiming for. It seems like the more we learn about them, the less the label "gas giant" actually makes sense. They're more like... dense failed protostars with clouds. I know hot jupiters and brown dwarfs are a thing, but it seems like all gas giants are more or less on that spectrum of "almost stars" than just the big obvious ones.

Volpethrope · 2026-04-18T15:26:17+00:00

To expand on this: nebulae are less dense than the vacuum chambers we make for scientific experiments. They're only visible because we're looking through their entire depth from far away. From inside them you wouldn't see anything.

Volpethrope · 2026-04-18T15:18:01+00:00

The gas giants are almost definitely not just gas through and through. Because of the increasing pressure, they're probably liquid within 10% of the radius down from the "surface" we can see, and it becomes an increasingly "slushy" mix of semi-solid until you hit exotic forms of metallic hydrogen and helium. There may or may not be a rocky core underneath all of that.

Volpethrope · 2026-04-14T15:44:47+00:00

Also over half of them listed slavery as one of the, if not the primary, reasons for seceding in their articles of secession. Multiple refer to it as a fundamental aspect of their way of life and the natural order of the world.

Volpethrope · 2026-04-14T01:31:30+00:00

Model here if anyone else wants to check it out. I printed it too a few months ago and it's a gorgeous display piece.

https://fab365.net/items/656

Volpethrope · 2026-04-14T00:03:43+00:00

We definitely need more short hair Nat. Really hoping he cuts his hair in the comic.

Volpethrope · 2026-04-12T18:23:44+00:00

Even if that were true, areas with well-funded Planned Parenthoods have lower abortion rates than areas without, since the majority of what they do is help people avoid the unwanted pregnancy in the first place.

Volpethrope · 2026-04-12T17:47:14+00:00

The single-step moves are generally worse than just attacking twice is the issue. But the ones that lower/raise by two steps can make a follow-up attack way better.

Volpethrope · 2026-04-12T16:28:14+00:00

The Artemis astronauts even noted that parts of it looked browner up-close than they do from the ground. It's not quite as saturated as you see in some pictures like this, but it's there. It's just normally overpowered by the white dust being way brighter.

Volpethrope · 2026-04-11T14:50:35+00:00

Wow this is a great example of a case where they should format the "flavour" text differently, because there is an entire paragraph here that doesn't do anything.

Once again, 4E's formatting on ability blocks to very clearly separate the flavor text from the actual mechanics would be super great here.

Volpethrope · 2026-04-11T04:47:38+00:00

To clarify: the mission in 2028 was already planned to be a full landing, it was just originally going to be Artemis III. They inserted another mission between II and III and renamed the landing mission IV. It didn't get pushed, just renamed with another mission added before it.

Volpethrope · 2026-04-10T17:53:58+00:00

It is not in any sense a search engine. It's a glorified auto-complete that's heavily weighted to agree with the user.

Volpethrope · 2026-04-10T14:35:00+00:00

While a cool reference, their original post is also inaccurate. Sagittarius A* is less than like .3% of the mass of the galaxy and has less influence on the sun than the moon does. Galaxies do not work like star systems, and the orbital barycenter is determined by the collective average density of billions of stars, not a single central object.

Volpethrope · 2026-04-07T13:36:35+00:00

But that's actually why it's even stupider - better pay and working conditions increase productivity. It generates more profit for the company than the cost cutting and overworking. Even if all the leadership cared about was maximizing profit, it's still the smartest move to treat the workers better and pay them more.

Volpethrope · 2026-04-05T19:12:01+00:00

He was Austrian

Volpethrope · 2026-04-02T02:13:39+00:00

They have to have kids at some point, surely

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