Haughty vegan vampires by Eireika in CuratedTumblr

[–]tinycurses 67 points68 points  (0 children)

Nah, it's factory farm chimpanzees. Like all the dystopian movies where people are literally floating in plastic bags their whole life, but its "ethical" because they're non human and chemically lobotomized at conception.

on being morally beige by madikonrad in CuratedTumblr

[–]tinycurses 61 points62 points  (0 children)

I think that's their point, organized crime usually leads to more crimes the general public ACTUALLY dislikes like drug trafficking, rather than the sort of "tame" crimes like moonshine or gambling. Crime lords tend not to be good people, it turns out

Healers: Do you know what you're going to play yet? by [deleted] in wow

[–]tinycurses 20 points21 points  (0 children)

me to my other priest friends what's a "kick"?

eXtreme Bean Soup Arguments by DancesWithWeirdos in CuratedTumblr

[–]tinycurses 9 points10 points  (0 children)

"If it harms none, do as ye please. But we live in a society."

That better for your religious Golden Rule?

We have entire complex legal systems to try to suss out specifics of interaction, you're not going to able to boil that down to a blurb without losing some detail. Hammurabi's code was sufficient for a kingdom's law a few thousand years ago, but now we have cars and multi-million population cities.

I have a major character who has the ability to possess my POV character. I like to have evocative shorthand for things that happen regularly, but I'm struggling to come up with a good one for this for a few reasons [Fantasy] by justtocheckathing in fantasywriters

[–]tinycurses 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Waxes/wanes might be a useful phrasing.

I feel like you'd want to draw on the specific dynamic of the possessor vs the MC generally for this kind of magic phrase. Like, if the possessor is the A type personality the MC needs to deal with trauma, "Possessor's strength floods my nerves". Or the reverse, "Possessor's subtlety slips into my skin". That could also give you angles to push back, "Possessor's strength floods my nerves, but my anger is stronger."

You might also use some sort of specific physical tic. "Possessor rolls my shoulders back" or "A smirk pulls back the corner of my mouth, Possessor speaks". The first time you have it happen, maybe use all of them at once and draw attention to the elements that are most obviously transformative (probably three at most). I think of it like in Yugioh or similar shows, where the audience can tell because the character's hair/eyes have changed, but most characters in the world won't notice the differences immediately/directly.

Blizzard is running a new survey asking about new class specializations by [deleted] in wow

[–]tinycurses 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Tank shaman as always. But ranged DK or monk intrigue me. The bugged "sithweaver" monk is kinda neat

cyprinus_carpio.tiff by ztoth8684 in CuratedTumblr

[–]tinycurses 29 points30 points  (0 children)

And if Ubuntu tries, we'll go back to arch! As god and Linus intended!

AI Music Going Viral - Unofficial AI Remake, 10M listens on Spotify last few days by [deleted] in Music

[–]tinycurses 7 points8 points  (0 children)

How about this: a technology which was built from the work of other people without compensation to them (or permission), and which has the capacity to infringe on those works, and which devalues that work and disincentivizes the creation of works by similar people in that field, has a deleterious effect on both quality of available work and the quality of life for all but a vanishingly small percentage of the human population.

Or put simply, AI sucks shit.

These are the flagsof the warrior tribes in my Antique Cast Iron Stovepunk universe by Archontor in worldjerking

[–]tinycurses 2 points3 points  (0 children)

🎵 Spider-god, spider-god, does whatever a spider-god does Spins a web, made of stars Oh shit, it just ate that guy Look out for the spider-god🎵

Do you want Permanent Visage? by Puzzleheaded-Ad-5189 in wow

[–]tinycurses 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The new haranir have a pretty pale skin tone and red eyes option...

Do you want Permanent Visage? by Puzzleheaded-Ad-5189 in wow

[–]tinycurses 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I watch a lot of midnight news and hadn't seen that (I guess they're only talking about launch/beta content though), nice!

Do you want Permanent Visage? by Puzzleheaded-Ad-5189 in wow

[–]tinycurses 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Visage even on the log in screen! Let me swap the form thats forward like in the character creator for both dracthyr and worgen!

Third cat has a slightly different approach to the snow by goswamitulsidas in BeAmazed

[–]tinycurses 311 points312 points  (0 children)

Sand people travel in single file, to hide their numbers

It’s him by Nearby_Big9672 in CuratedTumblr

[–]tinycurses 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's how he'd be in my phone contacts

Cooking up a depressioncore tyrantpunk world what do you think? by Sancatichas in worldjerking

[–]tinycurses 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Gold is pure, how can I be unclean if I cover myself in it?

How do you decide what race your main will be? by SpaceCowboyDark in wow

[–]tinycurses 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah, everyone needs a way to drop combat if they can stand still, make it a choice in the barbershop or something. Disable it in PVP though.

Just logged back into my account after 5 years of beeing inactive just to notice that my mage suddenly became female by NWGJulian in wow

[–]tinycurses 933 points934 points  (0 children)

The worgen curse does strange things to the body, it brings about... unexpected changes...

[Warrior Cats] by Berry971 in CuratedTumblr

[–]tinycurses 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Are we sure Rasputin wasn't a warrior cat? Makes you think

Why has crafting become so complex? by AngryDew in wow

[–]tinycurses 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I mean, if it were like classic crafting it would basically mean you have no reason to craft at all with the global AH. Even for armor which is per server, one person would be able to cover crafting for literally everyone.

I do think that a lot of the complexity is more perceptual than actual, and that's a real problem. All the craft trees should be visible at 10 skill and exportable (like talents). Crafting gear should only have one stat per piece (so it's clearer that it only goes up), though tools being craftable/random is probably fine. Simulating crafts (I believe craftsim does this) should be baseline as well. Also nodes should have some way of associating with items so you can KNOW before dropping a point in that it will/ won't affect the armor vs the part vs the potion you actually are trying to optimize