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thank you 'tiny pasture' for putting cute little animals on the bottom of my desktop screen 🌲🌿🐈‍⬛🌲🐇🌷🐕🐼🌿🦊🌿🌲

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does anybody want to match my sneep

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Spring has begun; life is rekindled...

Itty Bitty Spring Dragon stickers ♡

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Peacock Foursquare.

Peacock from my Foursquare series. Done in marker - mostly Copic, on a square made from a quarter of a page of cardstock. Referenced from photos, mainly this one I think.

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One of the greatest kindnesses you can do for other adults is to add positive surprises to their lives. Think about it: When you're a kid, surprises are things like "Our teacher let us watch a movie today," "someone brought cupcakes for their birthday," "my parents got me a puppy," etc. But when you become an adult, surprises are things like your car breaking down, conflicts at work, and unexpected bills. No one plans fun surprises for adults, and you can do so much for morale if you do. Ex: One time I found a tiny unlocked door in one of my university's buildings. It was empty, but because I'm a whimsical bitch, I decided to put something fun behind it for the next person curious enough to open it. See below: The Egg Gnome.

The eggs were filled with tiny plastic plants (I tried candy first, but mice got into them, and that's not good for health and safety). Just for the hell of it, I decided to announce the hidden gnome and basket of eggs in the big college group chat, offering hints to which building it was in. People went BONKERS for it. It added fun to people's days as they inspected buildings they went into every day but didn't pay much attention to. They asked me for hints, tried to remember what building had those floor tiles, and proudly announced it in the chat when they had found eggs.

I did several things like that where I just hid things around the university and challenged people to find them, and it did so much for student morale. Some people messaged me to tell me my random antics were their only source of real fun on a daily basis. Adults are just big kids. We're supposed to play long into adulthood, and the games are just supposed to scale in complexity with age, but even simple things like a scavenger or prize hunt can make people so much happier. If you have any kind of morale-keeping duties or have the option to take them on at a school, workplace, etc., I highly recommend planning fun surprises for the people around you. Planned events are a lot of fun, but it's a totally different kind of fun to find out there's a scavenger hunt going on on a random Tuesday.

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Derailing my GM when they try to do a gazebo bit by having my character pipe up "actually, I think that's a rotunda".

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Ooo I'm intrigued. Especially since the book was original written in French with no 'e', then translated into several other languages also with a common vowel missing! the English version is also missing 'e', while the Spanish and Russian ones avoid 'a' and 'o' respectively and the Japanese one avoids syllables with the 'i' sound in them. what an interesting concept to begin with and extra constraint to try to translate that across languages too!

I bought this book called A Short Treatise Inviting the Reader to Discover the Subtle Art of Go, which is a translation of a book that was written by three French guys in the 1960's who learned Goban (aka Weiqi aka Baduk) and then wanted to make it a huge phenomenon in France.

And it's hysterical.

Behold, section 0.6: Chess —

We will, over the course of this modest work, in order to better understand certain principles of the game, have occasion to speak of chess.

Please understand that it is just a crutch, imposed by the deplorable popularity of this pathetic game in France.

So it is important to let this idea sink in: GO is anti-chess.

The game of GO is not Japanese chess. There is in fact a Japanese chess that goes by the name of Shogi. Never has a GO player been known to play Shogi.

Let us here sum up everything we feel to be wrong about Chess:

1. It is a feudal game, founded upon the Exaltation of the Tournament and social inequality.

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2. It is a game whose rules change every three centuries.

3. It is a game whose antiquity is debatable (just about contemporary with Canasta!)

4. It is a game that (like Checkers!) has only three outcomes, all lacking in nuance: victory, defeat, or a tie. One can certainly win or lose, but it is impossible to win by one point, which is one of the great refinements of GO!

5. Even worse, it is not a game that breeds polite behavior.

6. Two players with different skill sets cannot play together and maintain the interest of the stronger player.

7. A chess match lasts thirty moves at the most.

8. It is an unclear game in which no two pieces do the same thing

9. We do not know how to play chess.

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i never realized cuneiform was made with the corner of a cuboid tool, i thought the wedge shapes were carved such that you would press straight down with the tool at a 90° angle to the clay

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gang please, he's trying to vlog

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She had to be a jellyfish

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?!💥💥💥

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Gems!

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Don't mind them floating up on your Feed

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