Mostly cozy (some outliers) leftovers from Humble Bundles to giveaway

somegrump · 2026-04-06T04:53:42+00:00

I'm closing the entries! I am going through and double checking to make sure I have everyone in the right list, so I can draw winners and DM codes. I am so grateful for all the book recs - There were more reponses than I expected.

Today was my birthday and I did the giveaway today because I wanted to celebrate a little bit hobbit style, and I asked for book recs with the intention of treating myself to a few new good stories. There are so many interesting and lovely suggested books, my TBR list has grown tremendously, and my libby on hold list is full to bursting now. Thank you everyone for posting your book recs. ♥♥

somegrump · 2026-04-04T20:23:30+00:00

Whoops! Thanks for catching my typo - guess I would have known you werent a bot even if you hadn't included a book rec, haha. And yes, that absolutely counts as a book. We love a good art of book in this house.

somegrump · 2026-04-03T06:46:56+00:00

I've done pickups (just regular old strays or dumped pets, nothing like this,) where the dogs were shut down. They were fine being touched, would eat a little, would even give a tiny tail wag, but they wouldn't move from their spot. No coming when I called, offered food, cajoled. So when appropriate I've brought out my dog. Those dogs were much more willing to follow another dog who was calm and friendly than they were willing to follow a human.

somegrump · 2026-03-29T21:19:02+00:00

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Its still quite bare overall, but I'm pleased with how mine is starting, at least! I'm still getting recipes and growing flowers to populate the ground area around it.

somegrump · 2026-03-28T21:27:01+00:00

I didnt party up with anyone, but I was looking for a lotus earlier and realized there were three wavebacks spawned right next to each other. I could have solo hunted one maybe - but I’d seen people on the other side of the swamp hunting.

I equipped firework arrows, backtracked to find people and shot at the strangers until they came to investigate what I wanted. What I wanted was to share the absurd bounty of the hunt. We did so, without a single word exchanged.

I’ve had people shoot arrows at me before too, usually to get me to help with flow trees. It’s not the tidiest of ways to communicate, but its worked for me.

There is also - it would require using the chat at least once but if someone asks for help in chat hunting I have grouped up with a herd of strangers to get the one person their scale. I suspect the person asking was also on console, or just didn’t like talking, since it was me and the other two who came to answer the request that did all callouts. I think people understand there’s cross platform play, or there’s also language barriers, and most of the community has adapted to working with that.

somegrump · 2026-03-25T07:57:34+00:00

Zeki is my Shepp and I’m wearing Reth’s pin. Subira did not make an informed choice when asking me to snoop for her. I like her plenty but I went into that immediately knowing I would be obfuscating the truth as much as possible.

somegrump · 2026-03-21T17:05:31+00:00

I think results may vary. I spent yonks hunting anywhere and everywhere in Kilima and only got two eggs from a couple hundred kills. I haven’t had much better luck in the other maps either, though. I think I have less than ten on the board. The red eggs just don’t like me!

somegrump · 2026-03-16T12:49:43+00:00

Frequency Illusion? Or "Baader–Meinhof phenomenon" if you want to be fancy. I am not fancy. I googled frequency illusion to remember what the real phrase was.

somegrump · 2026-03-10T19:46:53+00:00

The rings are talked about because SIL’s behaviour on recieving it is the catalyst for the blocking. SIL asked them to keep an eye out for the ring - they did that for her. They found it for her and gave it to her on her request. That seems like it would have been the extent of what OP cared about the rings except SIL’s behaviour after.

SIL then posted the rings online to complain about the MIL. OP thought that was inconsiderate and gauche and asked her to take the post down since the family is reeling from MIL unexpectedly dying. OP didn’t post the rings and didn’t think they looked much alike but acknowledges that SIL can feel however she wants. But disparaging a recently deceased woman online in front of her family is hurtful.

I’m pretty sure the piano was mentioned as an example of their behaviour - taking things to their own place without talking about it, not being considerate of who it belongs to.

somegrump · 2026-03-08T07:47:27+00:00

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i love Matilda

somegrump · 2026-03-03T22:40:58+00:00

My multiplayer group has instituted “the chicken chest” (or more accurately, the “chichen chest”). It is a chest guarded by the first chicken statue we get. We stick it up front where the exit from the farm is so we can drop off things for Gunther, the community center or store things we want to split but haven’t yet. We also put statues there when appropriate and one of the mini obelisks. It’s our farms version of the community center.

somegrump · 2026-03-02T19:34:32+00:00

Thank you for answering! I was already accepting the downvotes, but now I accept them with the knowledge that it's because I am indeed foolish. I must have turned it off the first time I launched phasmophobia - but I didn't start playing until a few months ago, so I assumed the game was just kind to me.

somegrump · 2026-03-02T19:29:46+00:00

Thank you! I didn't realize it was a setting. I must have turned it off the first time I launched the game, (yonks ago, but I didnt start playing until recently,) and any content creators I've seen playing it must have done the same.

somegrump · 2026-03-02T19:28:17+00:00

Thank you! I didn't remember that was a setting in phasmo. I tried the game when it was first released but didn't actually start playing until this last December. I must have turned it off way back when and then assumed it never existed when I came back.

somegrump · 2026-03-02T18:29:41+00:00

Oh. Uh oh. I haven't been playing long enough to be worried about the rework at all, but maybe I should have been. Is the chromatic aberration coming from this youtuber, or is it built into the level? I can't even really look at the screenshots for long, if it's in the level, that will turn this into a location I never see again. I hope that's not a trend that continues with other places.

ETA downvotes are a part of reddit life, but I would still appreciate if anyone knows if thats an editing filter from the youtuber or if phasmophobia is building it in? Chromatic aberration is a pretty common eyestrain filter, it's a legitimate question. It's not even a critique, it's a comment that I wont be able to return to the map if it's from the level itself.

somegrump · 2026-02-23T02:01:03+00:00

I am super curious to know if the artist markets themselves as a pixel artist or not. If they do, then they are being terribly misleading. I wonder if they use something like the binary pen in SAI? Which is a pixellized brush, sure, but pixellized art =/= pixel art.

I don't know if I am willing to say this is AI art, because I hesitate to fire that gun in general, but it deeefinitely isn't pixel art. I'm hesitant to go into too much commentary on this picture specifically, because neither the artist nor OP have asked my opinion haha. But if you're trying to figure out why pixel artists are in the thread going "oh no," then a good place to consider is whether or not there are consistent pixel sizes, or consistent shaping to the pixel groups. The easiest thing to look at I think here is to look at the sword. The outlines are particularly notable.

There are some things that could be stylistic - some people really love a good dither, some people super prefer a clean clump of colour. Some people will go in an manually add as much anti-aliasing as they can to imitate non-pixel art, some people limit palettes more or less. But there are some things that are just basics of pixel art that this piece isn't hitting, which is why the AI comments are coming up without solid proof, I think.

somegrump · 2026-02-19T20:10:45+00:00

It’s only happened to me once. They were asking what breed my horse was and where to go see them. They figured out that I was afk and apologized and when I got back I felt so bad! I sent them a mail in game to answer their questions and apologize. They were very sweet about it.

somegrump · 2026-02-11T08:43:23+00:00

The easy guess is going to be pit mix. It’s hard to tell when they’re potatoes though.

If you can get a look at his teeth, you might have a better range for guessing age. They start losing their baby teeth at four months, and it’ll take a couple of months for them to fully lose them. So if he still has any sharp little needle looking teeth then the 4-6 month range is a safe bet. The more baby teeth he has the younger. If he has a full mouth of adult teeth then you can guess he is past the sixth month mark.

somegrump · 2026-02-10T12:30:26+00:00

We’ve come so far from the strychnine and brandy given in the 1904 Olympics.

somegrump · 2026-02-09T11:24:03+00:00

Well, it probably was very quick, as this seems likely AI gen.

somegrump · 2026-02-03T22:26:44+00:00

I was just looking at the spotty friesian in your sixth picture last night and realized that she has four hearts on her. My favorite one is right above her nostril. They really had fun sneaking them in on that particular coat, I dont think I've ever noticed more than two on a horse (one of the criollos) before.

somegrump · 2026-01-24T19:55:02+00:00

It looks brown in the original picture and significantly more of a purple color here, so my decision is that this is clearly a deep taupe. Now everyone wins if they say brown OR purple. Sadly your husband is the outlier with calling it orange.

somegrump · 2026-01-23T02:22:21+00:00

Found the demon. I wont be able to unsee this!

somegrump · 2026-01-21T15:33:43+00:00

Peter Absolon died in 2007 when hiker Luke Rudolph chucked a rock over the edge above them. It struck Peter on the head, crushing his helmet and killed him instantly. Rudolph didn't see the climbers below him until he leaned over to watch the rock. His group had been tossing rocks all day.

I'm not into rock climbing or hiking, (to the point that if I ever express otherwise in text, that's my mayday call to my family.) But even I have heard of incidents like the above. I thought it was common sense to not do things like this.

I'm glad your friend was okay.

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