#adaptive controls

[mochasucculent]

Was looking at refs and since Viktor has two different leg braces I was wondering, do we think he wears them simultaneously?? The refs don't perfectly line up perspective-wise so it's hard to tell but parts of the one he wears during the Hexcore scenes look like they could maybe line up with the brace that he wears over his clothes, but also some parts really don't and look like they'd be super uncomfy. Also HOW does he take these on and off. Experts weigh in

[stil-lindigo]

better luck next time galatea

[ooooo-mcyt]

Wild how Scott simultaneously manages to be chill about everything ever AND a hopeless control freak at the same exact time.

[das-a-kirby-blog]

I want dedede lore now. gRABBING him by the coat. your story cannot be that simple..we have figured out kirby, we are digging into meta knight's background, we can infer with bandana dee, we kicked magolor till he told the truth...now we need to know about you. I will not allow you to be more mysterious than meta knight...

[kyriathanatos]

was watching MKBHD's video on the new mac mini and couldn't help but giggle to myself. 2 USB-C ports, 3 thuderbolt on the back, thats it.

Any computer without atleast 1 USB-A port is not remotely being serious lmao

[holmesunenthusiast]

I think the best thing The Great Mouse Detective did was decide that Holmes and Watson adopted Toby and that he just hangs out with them now and occasionally helps the mice infesting their joint out on quests.

[vorbarrsultana]

moiraine when playing stupid games (knowingly pushing rand for the same thing lanfear does, isolating him from his friends, so he doesn't have anyone but her to lean on, ignoring him when he doesn't do what she tells him to) wins her stupid prizes (rand starts to believe anything she does is the elaborate attempt to gain more control of him and doubts her motives)

[serpentface]

Retconned Wardi firearms- a basic handgun, a highly decorative ceremonial handgun (belonging to Faiza), and a lance-gun.

Gun tech has officially been nerfed down to hand cannons (press F) (this has been a long time coming but I'd been fallacy of sunk costs-ing myself out of retconning).

Handguns are held similarly to a shotgun, with the butt pressed into the user's shoulder, one hand gripping under the barrel, and the other free to ignite the gunpowder. These represent the most advanced firearms in contemporary usage, both in make and in their use of uniform iron projectiles built to match the gun's bore for greater range and efficiency. Lance-guns are the more basal form, usually larger and mounted with the pole held over the shoulder, and are most effectively used by two people (one to hold and aim, one to light the gunpowder).

The spread of firearms is currently mostly limited to the Eastern Inner Seaway peoples (with some additional distribution via overland trade), and actual manufacture of hand cannons and gunpowder at Significant scale is limited to the region's core powers.

The reason for this limited spread is partially due to specific elements of the technology's history. Gunpowder was first synthesized by Burri alchemists and considered to be the discovery of the legendary divine weapon + solar fire of the deity Inanariya, and its formula (along with techniques for ideally refining its components) remained a closely guarded state secret. It was used predominantly in priestly contexts to generate flame and explosive sounds (in conjunction with earlier practices of generating multicolored flames with use of other chemicals), then integrated into combustible weaponry in the forms of fire lances, which would eventually develop into early handcannons.

The treatment of gunpowder as a guarded sacred or semi-sacred substance continued with Wardi adoption, where knowledge of its making is considered a closed rite. It's name (inya tsatsul or just tsatsul, a derived adoption of the Burri iñazatsūya) still reflects a divine solar association (the Burri word means 'sun's thunder', the Wardi 'inya' invokes the sun, 'tsatsul' is an adapted loanword and has no meaning independent of the substance itself), though its priestly use is now predominantly associated with the firearm'ed Odonii (rather than priests of the solar Face Inyamache). The composition of gunpowder can no longer be regarded as a Secret by any means, though efforts to obscure the methods of its creation are still moderately successful and has kept knowledge of gunpowder manufacture more limited than the total sphere of firearm usage itself.

The actual strongest limiting factor of firearm usage is the rarity of natural saltpeter deposits necessary for making gunpowder. The practice of actively producing saltpeter via nitraries has not been developed anywhere in the setting, and all is instead obtained via natural sources. These sources are rare and limited within the current spread of firearm technology, and result in gunpowder being a limited and expensive substance to produce. The weapons themselves are also very expensive to manufacture (a good quality steel SWORD is far too material-cost prohibitive for most people to own), particularly high quality firearms designed for use with standardized ammunition.

These guns are also very basal, and logistical difficulties in their use (weight, very slow loading and firing speed, high visibility, Relatively low reach and accuracy) along with the restrictive cost of production has kept firearms far from rendering conventional weaponry, armor, and projectiles obsolete (even within the societies that have access to them). They are still, however, very devastating in use within their contemporary context, particularly in that high quality guns have a longer range than the best arrow-based projectiles, and utterly negate most contemporary forms of armor at close range.

[velvetjune]

if the Alan Wake adaption is directly the game’s story and dubbing over is an issue, they could still cast ilkka villi and just make Alan finnish without explaining. alan and zane progressively getting more finnish with each alan wake project. it’s also inexplicably filmed in finland but still placed in the US

[transingthoseformers]

SOBBING

Thinking about so many things that are outside of Starscream's control immediately happening as soon as he's put in charge of the decepticons😔

[natandacat]

Imagine realizing 50 years of your life were pretty much dictated by 2 men you couldn't even remember. They're the reason you are alive, have a career, also the reason why you got divorced twice and always feel empty and unfulfilled. And when you think this is it and your life is over and you're gonna die alone in your apartment, they come crashing back into your life and give you immortality. Wouldn't that be crazy

[medicatedcountertop]

I just saw a tweet (from Mia Khalifa, surprisingly (because i didn't know she was a comics fan)) talking about how batman's early loss of his parents being the catalyst of him being Batman, and how the adaptations of him healing being ones where he hangs up the cape. And while it's honestly a good read on why a Batman-like character is the way that they are, and that their obsession with fixing that one bad day is more often a hinderance to their healing, that isn't Batman. Or well, that is a Batman without a Robin. Finding someone in a similar situation as him, and then trying desperately to "fix" them, only to find out that he has inadvertently sent them down a similar path to him, is honestly the only way that I could see Mr. "I have a plan to incapacitate every Justice League member because I have to be ready" stop and reconsider his life. Because he didn't mean for Dick to find the Batcave, he didn't mean to let Jason die, he didn't mean to push Tim away, and he didn't mean to not be there for Damian. But he did all that. How could you plan for parenthood.

[feanorianethicsdepartment]

i mean, sure, maybe in tolkien’s moral conception of the universe deviating from the Divine Plan™ that dictates that you and your people are destined to wither away into the dark and be forgotten is an act of utmost hubris, but like, we don’t have to agree with him

[cirque-dhomosexual]

Hey um? So you wavier (and other ship of the guy I can't remember) fans (if you exist???) Yall do realize if Netflix had an issue with the content of the book they would've a) not have employed the author or b) made them rewrite it, right? Like, are yall aware of the editorial and commission process????

[ldworldblues]

3dante to cope with how butt i am with this game

[breadandblankets]

ya know the thing is Bruce could try and pull his patented "in worried about you and instead of expressing that I'm going to pull you off of vigilante work" on Duke and it Would Not Work.

Bruce could pull him off the outsiders sure but 100% Bruce could not make Duke stop patrolling

Duke, staring Bruce's lil bat peepers down, with the power of gd and anime on his side: you could call Superman to sit on me and it Still wouldn't keep me from going out