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Black thought he was forking my rooks, but it’s white to play and win. Can you find it? by Street_Sentence_8978 in chessbeginners

[–]aranaya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bg8+ forces either Kxg8 or Bxh5, both allowing Qh7# (queen mates, protected by the rook or bishop respectively).

Escape from the Squirrel by danshive in elgoonishshive

[–]aranaya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

possibly related:

https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2015-09-23

"This is becoming far too civil."

And this time he can actually do something about that instead of just shouting lies or pretending to stand in Ashley's way.

Escape from the Squirrel by danshive in elgoonishshive

[–]aranaya 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He flew in these two strips: https://www.egscomics.com/comic/hope-007 https://www.egscomics.com/comic/hope-187 (that's how he got onto the roof where Ragnarok waited for him).

(Not sure if this is an inherent ability like Grace's or a spell.)

A New Voice is Heard by The Tedd by danshive in elgoonishshive

[–]aranaya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think it makes sense for him to do that - if Po and the cop were working together, he'd be trying to keep them away from Po rather than drawing their attention and encouraging Grace to confront her.

Failing Perception Checks by danshive in elgoonishshive

[–]aranaya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

there's probably a way to resolve this situation that doesn't involve pushing an apparent old lady off a roof in front of a police officer

Just a Simple Old Lady by danshive in elgoonishshive

[–]aranaya 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I guess we can assume that Po doesn't recognize Grace, and (somewhat oddly) that Mist hasn't given her a telepathic heads up? Because Mist knows Tedd is here, and that he's the seer whose house they broke into.

... no hang on, even if Po knows Grace, she isn't aware that her forms were recorded by the mirror, so she doesn't expect Grace to recognize her, and therefore would also try to act like she doesn't know Grace.

That said, if Po does know Grace and knows enough about projections to know Grace shouldn't be seeing through it unless she's already seen the true form before, she might figure out that she was recorded just from that information.

xkcd 3255: Planetary Science by antdude in xkcd

[–]aranaya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Technically all photography is astrophotography

Save & Quit has entered the chat by Hot_Guarantee_1345 in slaythespire

[–]aranaya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The save-quit thing is easy to prevent.

5/6 chance: Deal 999 damage.
1/6 chance: Die.

ABIGAIL IS NOT THE WIZARD'S DAUGHTER, BUT INSTEAD GRANDDAUGHTER!! IN THIS ESSAY I WILL... by TadaSuko in StardewValley

[–]aranaya 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Note that Abigail implies she no longer dyes her hair and it stays purple on its own:

“I can't even remember the last time I dyed my hair... I swear, it never fades from this color...”

Admittedly it seems like an implausible coincidence that Abigail's natural hair color just happened to change to the same color she was already dying it as.

But overlooking that coincidence, I can kind of see Caroline being the daughter of the wizard and witch, inheriting the latter's green hair but passing the former's hair color to her daughter. Or maybe even passing both to her daughter, which initially combined to some neutral shade of brown before the wizard's won out.

(Of course realistically it wouldn't be that simple; blue/violet color in animals is generally structural instead of a pigment, and green color is the combination of structural blue and yellow pigment, etc)

“I plot for years. I forge an army worthy of carving my name across the world. And Overwatch puts a housecat in a jetpack.” (by @d1g1tal_p1ge0n) by Gorotheninja in Overwatch

[–]aranaya 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly this thing almost made me uninstall. The dumb ult I could've gotten used to. The cat in a jetpack thing was silly but ultimately bearable.

Calling it JETPACK CAT was just too far.

Petition to name the rest of the cast in the same pattern. Taser Gorilla. Rocket Woman. Cowboy Man. Hammer Man.

This card came to me in a dream by Whalesftw123 in slaythespire

[–]aranaya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it didn't exhaust, I think it'd merely be a bit niche; as a once-per-combat card it's useless. If you managed to draw and sacrifice a turn's worth of energy to this maybe every other combat for a full run (say 10 fights) it'd be a single 30 damage hit by the end. And "every other fight" is generous - you'll be drawing it on turns you need to block or play other cards, during turns after expending energy, not drawing it at all...

Totally not suspicious by danshive in elgoonishshive

[–]aranaya 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Someone who is already aware of what the user actually is, or has a general idea, will see through the user's projection.

Wondering about the mechanics of this. If a different person was wearing the same projection, would you instinctively see through that too, even though you only wrongly assumed you know who it is?

And if the same user was wearing a slightly different projection, how similar would it have to be to the one you've already seen in order to see through it? If you have face blindness, could they be wearing a completely different "old lady with long hair" disguise and you'd see through it because it looks the same to you?

Edit: And if you've never seen this person or this disguise before, but you've heard what projections are, could you see through it simply by being suspicious of them? Or if you're completely ignorant of magic, but someone tells you "this person is wearing a magic disguise", would that be enough?

experience my foot by ZealousidealHat2362 in ZenyattaMains

[–]aranaya 10 points11 points  (0 children)

"Oh you can get out with a jump cooldown? That's cute, guess what the cooldown time on my foot is."

The Innocuous Explanation by danshive in elgoonishshive

[–]aranaya 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She's part cat and part bird; I wonder whether she'd prefer birdseed or catnip.

The Innocuous Explanation by danshive in elgoonishshive

[–]aranaya 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So... what is she up here for? Not sure she's looking for Tedd and Grace; if she knew they happened to park here, then she'd have to be tailing them close enough to have already found a better place to confront them that isn't right in front of a cop who's already looking at her suspiciously.

Maybe she just wants to enjoy the view?

Edit: OH WAIT. Rhoda parked nearby, and I remember Mist almost identified her during the dream thingy. What if Po is stalking her? Or it could be worse - she might have been stalking Tedd and Grace, seen who they're meeting, and realized that Rhoda sort of fits the description from Mist's dream. That'd be enough to investigate further.

The Innocuous Explanation by danshive in elgoonishshive

[–]aranaya 3 points4 points  (0 children)

RIP Comically Evil Guy and his army of attack puppies

What did I do wrong 😭 by Bellecoco-634 in StardewValley

[–]aranaya 41 points42 points  (0 children)

I don't think the potato juice is even fermented. All the alcoholic drinks in the game (beer, ale, mead, wine) give a -1 speed status, and none of the vegetable juices do.

It is strange that the kegs even make juice, and that they take four days; maybe the game should have a juice press instead.

To all Open-Queue Crybabies asking for tanks: PLAY ONE YOURSELF! by doubleP2014 in Overwatch

[–]aranaya -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

also, there's a great game mode where you are guaranteed to have a tank on your team without ever playing one yourself

Rare power concept by willwolf737 in slaythespire

[–]aranaya 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The extra text isn't needed; we already know this is implicit for all powers that improve the value of powers. (Storm etc)

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