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Hey, it’s not your fault some people react that way. Their reaction was unreasonably over the top. You didn’t do anything wrong. And as others have said, if you could see their posts despite being blocked, you weren’t blocked in the first place, especially if they could reach out to you afterwards. I suggest taking some deep breaths and trying to calm yourself knowing that you didn’t do anything wrong, but you do what works best for you.

My heart is racing and I’m crying. I really hope this account isn’t taken down. All I wanted to do was help people and educate them. I didn’t use FUCKING AI for anything. They were actually posts I found on the internet. I even left link to them. And they reported my account. I feel shitty and awful. RSD is a BITCH. I’m sorry about this random post.

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letting me play kotor was a mistake now my default thing to draw is just revan they just appear everywhere

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I got hungry, sorry.

I may be stupid Where are the black pieces?

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More Blood on the Clocktower!

So, we had FIVE games because some of them went FAST. As in “rerack” fast (I hope I spelled it right). For simplicity, I will go from right to left of the circle. Storyteller, 1, 2, 3 (me), 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Game 1: Leviathan game. 9 is the leviathan. I am the organ grinder. 2 is a philosopher gone politician and wants an evil win. 5 is the drunken cult leader and came REALLY close to forming a cult a few times (wouldn’t do anything being the drunk but still). 6 is the fortune teller and successfully figured out night one that 9 was the Leviathan. Being the organ grinder, I was drunk day one to leave room for a psychopath world. Day two was the same because the storyteller misinterpreted what I gestured. Also, this is the night we voted off 6 because 4 is the professor, so 6 came back. Day 3 we FINALLY have the whole “everyone vote with their eyes closed”. Everyone got real quiet real fast on nominating after that revelation. Next day, I get nominated by 1 because “there’s no reason for the storyteller to add a farmer to a leviathan game”. First, I was bluffing (it wasn’t my real bluff but it is an easy bluff). Second, there is a jinx for Leviathan x Farmer so it still would make sense. Third, I’ve met this storyteller. They would just for the chaos. I got 1 vote. We nominate 2. 4 votes. Reminder, we can’t see who’s voting in what. Nominate 8. 5 votes. Evil win, so yay me, my demon, and my politician friend!

Game 2: Al Hadeiki game (I probably butchered the spelling). Maybe Riot?

This one went QUICK. And I’m not sure about the demon because yes, it was revealed, but roles were not something I learned because of how this went. I was a Farmer. 1 was a cult leader. Day 1, unable to form a cult. Sleep. I don’t do anything. Day 2, successful cult, good wins. It happened so fast. Oh, for those curious, 7 was the Vizier and wanted to make people look suspicious by talking to them (everyone knows who the Vizier is, only time we had a Vizier sadly).

Game 3: Al Hadeiki game.

This one ALSO went quick. For a very different reason. So we know for the next game, 5 is a plague doctor (they die, story teller gets a minion ability). Nobody trusts 5 because, and I quote “don’t kill me, it’s bad”. I mean, I get it but just… phrasing it that way? Ok. Anyways, night two, Al Hadeiki strikes. What this means is that everyone is silent with eyes closed. Three names are revealed, one at a time, and they choose to live or die. In order, it is 6, 8, and 2. From my understanding, at least one must die. If all three choose to live, all three die. If two choose to live and one chooses to die, one dies. If one chooses to live and two choose to die, two die. If all three choose to die, all three die. 6 likely chose live as a good player (I think it was the Professor?). 8 is a Psychopath (minion). Could have killed someone during the day and not been able to die unless being defeated in rock paper scissors. They aren’t the best so I understand not acting. Apparently chose to live. 2 is the demon. Clearly chose to live. Game ended because they all died and good won… by doing nothing!

Game 4: Al Hadeiki Game (I know, again! Last one I promise)

Remember how I said 5 was a plague doctor last time? Relevance, I am a plague doctor. I understand how you can’t say what you do without saying WHAT YOU ARE. I tell 1, 8, and 5. 9, 2, 4, and 7 all ran off to hard claim who they were and 1 joined them eventually. I learn the rather unfortunate way that 5 is a psychopath by having 5 claim it and then stab me. Great. Priority is now eliminating the psychopath. 8 nominated 5, 5 is put on the block and 8 wins the rock paper scissors so we successfully prevent two minions (or one with two abilities because fear monger). Storyteller becomes a Psychopath to assist the Al Hadeiki. So night one, I’m dead. Demon chooses, in this order specifically (relevant), 2, 9, 4. 9 chose to die as the acrobat (would have died anyways because they chose 1 who was the drunk). I talk to 8 and 1 as 9, 2, 4, and 7 all have a pow wow. 8 tells me he talked to 6 and mentioned that he thought 2, 9, and 4 were suspicious. 1 says they are probably drunk, we have 8 talk to the other four (9, 2, 4, 7). I find 5 and ask what the bluffs were. No clue because they haven’t talked to their demon (PSA: Minions, talk to your demon ASAP). I ask if they talked to 6, no they haven’t. I talk to 6 and ask what the bluffs were. “Huh?”. I ask if they talked to their minion. “What minion?”. I know 6. I know 6 well enough to know when it’s genuine confusion or if it’s a short circuit because he’s caught red handed. This was a short circuit. 4 is killed by the storyteller psychopath. Fine. 8 nominates 6 with the evidence of things being too suspicious, I add pertinent info of him short circuiting on me and that it’s definitely a short circuit. Five votes for him, can’t top without ghost votes. 6 then nominates 8 because 6 claims to be the flower girl and that 7, who they say is a cult leader, started good but switched to evil “proving that 8 is the demon”. We then pointed out that it really just reinforced the idea that they could be evil instead of 8. They then mentioned that they weren’t drunk because they woke up. We then explained how drunk doesn’t change anything about how the ability works other than end results are usually not happening or you get bad info. To nobody’s surprise, 6 was executed and revealed to be the demon. Good wins! (4 wins in a row, whoo!)

Game 5: Riot

You wanna talk confusion and chaos? Got the perfect one here. I am a cult leader. At least, that’s what I pulled. Hard claimed with 9, 4, and 6. 9 was the fortune teller. 4 was a flower girl. 6 was a professor. 1 entered late, puzzle master. 9 chose 9 and 4, got a one meaning one of them registered as a demon (registering doesn’t mean they are the demon as there is a red herring good person that registers as a demon). 1 guesses 9 is puzzle drunk (no, it was 6). Gets told the demon is 2. 4 and I talk to 2. 2 claims Farmer as a hard claimed. I talk to 8 and at this point… I don’t know who to not trust so I’m wary. There’s only nine of us and after them there’s only evil if they’re truthful. We don’t hard claim, but we trust enough. This lack of trust is going to bite me in the butt in two days. 5 is the psychopath again. Offs 6. 2 INSISTS on rock paper scissoring, they tie. Night two, I get flipped evil. I see if 4 died, they did not. Probably flipped by 2 who we don’t trust. Psychopath offs 4. Ugh. We execute 2. We go to sleep. Storyteller whoopsie moment: Farmer died by execution, not at night, accidentally showed people farmer token. Confirmed 2 is the farmer and hence good. Knowing this, I’m the drunk. Which means that 7, who told 4 he was a plague doctor, is NOT a plague doctor and we have problems. 5 does nothing. 1 gets nominated and dies. 1 nominates 5. 5 dies. 5 nominates 8. 8 dies. 8 nominates me. End of game, too much good is dead and the 7, the riot, survived.

In retrospect, it’s rather funny that the only two folks I did NOT talk to in game 5 was the evil team.

Also, our storyteller never wants another cult leader because we just go crazy with it, much like the gossip.

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I’m sorry… DIGET??? Don’t you mean DIGIT????

Every single odd number has an “e” in it.

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But frill sharks are cute! Goblin sharks… less so but still not ugly.

"Ew that thing is so ugl-"

NO! FRILLED SHARK BEAM ATTACK!

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Sheesh… talk about impressive. I wonder if we’ve passed over some recently if it’s true that they can switch between transparency and opaqueness as it’s currently suggested. More reasons why the ocean has not ceased to amaze me.

EVERYONE SHUT THE FUCK UP SCIENTISTS AT THE SCHMIDT OCEAN INSTITUTE HAVE FOOTAGE OF A LIVE COLOSSAL SQUID FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Blood on the clocktower, a game where Garuda needs to realize more often than not he is correct and act on it.

Ran three games with some coworkers and friends today. I was a good player in all of them. (Slayer 1, Tea Lady 2, Empath 3). For those unaware of what those do, a brief breakdown. The slayer is a good character who has one chance to shoot the demon per game, not per night. The Tea Lady has her two alive neighbors be invincible if both are good (they can’t die but the tea lady herself can). The empath learns how many of their alive neighbors are evil (0-2).

Game 1: I am a slayer. We go through things and Player A decides to say “I’m the poisoner, I’m claiming B is a damsel” which would have resulted in an evil win. Poisoner makes it so a role is null and void (same with drunk, drunk is just good alignment versus evil alignment). I knew the poisoner was poisoning me (I was the biggest threat to the demon after all) so I went for it anyways. I targeted C (the demon) and failed because my role is null and void, doubly so now that I’ve used it. Evil won because I couldn’t figure out it was C but should have taken out A faster.

Game 2: Tea Lady. This one… requires more explanation due to house rules, specifically “rule 1”. See, we have a player (D) that refuses to ever talk to me basically and as a result, I nominate them if I can’t learn anything after day 1. If I learn nothing from them, we go by rule 1 and try to eliminate them. Mind you, as a tea lady, if they’re both good they can’t die. E is my other neighbor and claims gossip (they can make a gossip and if true someone dies). So I have a chat with D and E. E claims gossip and D merely tells me “I’m good”. I can’t exactly TRUST that without revealing my role. Mind you, we have two minions this round. A and F. Previous round was a minion and demon. The reason for two minions is because the demon is the “lil’ monsta”. Lil monsta is basically “minions nominate who babysits the demon token and people may or may not die”. At one point A and B get D to have the demon token. D tells NO ONE. G is also evil but is inconsequential because it made no difference in judgement. So we can’t eliminate D because D and E are good and I’m a tea lady. Turns out that F had it when we eliminated E the last night because no one believed they were the gossip because “only one kill registered” meaning the demon attacked and the gossip failed. (The gossip got me and the demon did nothing). So now evil is 2-0 and my solving skills are sort of 2-0 (I figured out A was evil both times, B flew under my radar entirely)

Game 3: Empath. I know this one best because I had this one nailed so I’ll ditch the letters because I remember everyone’s roles. I, the Empath was next to the damsel on my right (A). Next to the damsel is the demon (B) Yagglebabble (say a phrase to score a hit, multiple sayings of said phrase means multiple possible hits). Next to them is the Poisoner (G). Then we have the Professor (D). Professor, if alive, can resurrect a deceased player. We have then the Chef who I haven’t talked about even though I should have because I picked them instead of the demon in game 1 due to not figuring it out. Anyways, chef starts by learning how many evil pairs there are (evil next to evil). And next to our chef was our Slayer (C). I start knowing how many living neighbors are evil. I got a 0. Talked to both of them. I get told that the damsel is the damsel and that the slayer is the slayer. Naturally, off the damsel before they’re found by a minion. So round one the damsel pretends to be the empath and claims I’m evil with a 1. This was true except that we didn’t know that at the time and I reflected that he was being nuts. I couldn’t muster enough votes and so we enacted rule 1 which offed the professor. It would really help if the professor TALKED to us. Moving on, I find the chef and learn there is an evil pair (poisoner and yagglebabble are next to each other). I don’t know who but it leaves two options in my head assuming I’m not poisoned. Professor Poisoner (at the time it wasn’t known the professor was the professor because they don’t tell anyone anything) and Poisoner Yagglebabble. We nominate the Damsel and succeed. Night 3, chef dies so no real loss (it’s a once per game ability unlike Empath). I get poisoned and told 0. Great, verifies the Yagglebabble is the monk like they said… slayer aims at the poisoner and nothing happens. Instantly my head realizes that it has to be the Yagglebabble. As I’m explaining this, I get told by the damsel (who has more experienced with this game than I do) that we should not nominate because then if the Yagglebabble gets a single hit plus the nomination evil wins. So we don’t nominate because why chance it? Yagglebabble got two hits and won.

I swear I’m good at solving this game when I’m good. I just don’t have the experience to trust it and there are some players that attend that are also really good and usually talk me out of trusting myself… I should learn to not trust them maybe…

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Ikora and Shin… either they get along fabulously or they’re tearing each other to bits and I’ll do all the work anyways.

destiny 2 pickerwheel - pick your fireteam edition!

spin this wheel twice and see who joins your fireteam! how does it go? :D

p.s. this wheel doesn't have every single character, just the more notable/notorious ones.

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@exasperated-hand

Tucker isn't a fan of thunderstorms.

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All good! Complete and total respect as I can only do stick figures and really bad art on a good day. Appreciate the response though!

So, I found a few folks on Reddit having a conversation…

If you have the time, (obviously no rush, I respect you and your talents) I think they’re onto something with that Umbra meets Arthur idea.

Thats a good idea but nah im probably not gonna draw that, for several reasons (or should i say excuses)

Im bad at drawing human faces and arthur is not addictive (?) enough for me to learn that specifically for him, like how bloodhound kickstarted the whole art thing i do

If this is already discussed widely then theres probably a million artists thats gonna draw that specific idea out so i can just see their art instead of drawing myself. You know, like open source code

I... think I already dealth with that in my au when i saw arthur for the first time? By "dealt with" i just set that umbra is more attracted to the original trapinch version excalibur and just disregarded the whole thing, probably because it involves human faces and theyre the arch nemesis for me

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You’re forgetting the best part about that: he was sick and had practically lost his voice! The only things he said was “you’re welcome” and that he was sick to the OFFICERS that came to pick up (I believe) Shocker and his crew!

Spiders being Earth's top predators, the most successful hunters on the planet, and arachnophobia being the most common phobia in Humans really makes Peter the ideal horror movie adaption if Marvel ever wanted to go there

instead he's just a guy, just a little guy

but oh if they wanted to...

Edit: remembered how easy it is for Peter to scare people?? He didn't talk for one night and scared the living shit out of so many people all across New York?? It's literally his quips and chatterbox nature that stops him being a terrifying cryptid

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You can easily spot the ones that have not heard about the Alice’s Restaurant Movement.

Time to get this out of the way

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Ghost is fine, don’t worry. Ghost just needs to really examine the finer details of that mark the Cabal wear.

oh my god. ghost. i'm so sorry. fuck.

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Hey, I know a lot of queer people follow me, especially young trans people, and I just wanted to say that I know everything is scary right now, and it's probably going to be scary for a while longer, but it's not the end.

I've seen a few posts floating around saying that you need to survive to outlive Trump or to spite the people that put him in office, and if that's what keeps you going, then hold onto that. Spite is as good a reason to live as any, and god knows we've got every reason to be spiteful right now.

But if that's not enough, if you can't hold on to spite, then I need you to stay alive for hope, and love, and community, and the future. I need you to stay alive because you deserve to live, and to get top surgery, and to start HRT, and to love openly. You deserve to have dinner with people you care about, and to wear something that makes you happy, and to build a life that you want to live, even if you have to do it brick by painstaking brick.

You deserve all of that, and so do your friends, and so does your family, and so does every other queer and otherwise marginalized person that he's going to go after, but we can only get there if we're alive to do it. So you need to survive. You need to check on your friends. You need to find the communities around you, and, if there isn't one, then you need to look harder because I promise you community is never as far as you think.

It's going to be hard. It's going to be miserable, and terrifying, and enraging, but you need to do it. If not for yourself, then for the people around you who need it just as much as, if not more than, you do.

Remember, there are millions of queer people out there who love you. I know because I'm one of them, so, when I say this, I need you to understand that I mean it.

Stay safe, stay together, and stay alive.

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Oh boy, frame by frame analysis time wheee!!!

It’s definitely not the grenade launcher. We can clearly see the grenade launch along its proper trajectory (also it’s a stasis weapon not an arc weapon).

The moment the marauder fires the lord of wolves, a large arc explosion occurs. Considering where we are in the EDZ… not many options for arc explosions, especially of that size. It’s really just skiffs. It’s possible that the marauder and a departing skiff hit you simultaneously and the game tried to blame the no longer present skiff resulting in “misadventure”.

That’s my best guess.

What just happened?  Seriously Destiny what even hit me?

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Don’t worry, I’ve been told I’ll get advanced notice if the world is ending from my buddy in Poland. I’ll make sure to keep you all posted on that. Of course, he also had an interesting thing to tell me, which I will quote because I think a lot of folks need to hear this. However, saving that for a little bit later because I feel like folks could use a bit of a motivational speech (I gave my first one today focused on hope, and boy do we need it).

Here goes.

I want to start by reminding people that it’s ok to feel. Whether that’s anger, sadness, hope, happiness, or whatever else you’re feeling, it is ok to feel them. Emotions should not be suppressed. I work very hard to ensure that I am a part of a community that is not only safe, but somewhere I can call home. I am always willing to invite more people into my home, especially in times of need as feeling safe is something everyone deserves.

I know that when faced with outcomes such as these, it is considerably easier to live with a victory than a loss. This is why this I am speaking about hope, having hope. I understand that not everyone has hope right now. If you do have it, please try to share some of that hope with those that do not have it. If you do not have it, hopefully you can find some in this reblog.

I am fairly certain that everyone has had the experience when something doesn’t go their way. In the realm of Ninja (the obstacle course racing variety), this is rampant. Perhaps we fell on the first obstacle of a course, or perhaps we missed qualifying for finals by mere seconds. When this happens, we have two choices. We can either stay down and let the negativity eat away at us, or we can get back up and keep training and trying until we reach our goal.

Unfortunately, we can only do that during training. On a course, when we fail obstacle one, that’s it, we don’t get a second chance. We don’t have that choice to stay down or get back up as we can’t change the outcome. As depressing as that sounds, it’s true.

You can’t change what happened and you don’t get the choice to “get up and try it again”. But we don’t have to sit and cry, complain, or hide from it either. We don’t have to give up.

Right now, there are lots of us that are down. We have communities that we feel safe and welcome in to support us when we need them. Together, as we refuse to give up, we can do each and every thing to help better our communities. It may not be a large difference, but a difference is a difference, and a difference matters! We can leave a smile, a compliment, or even a positive message behind because if someone is having a rough day, those small actions can make a large difference for them.

I encourage you to try to bridge outside of your comfort zone and meet new people, join new communities and try to spread some positivity in the world. I did so earlier today by giving a very similar speech to this one and again now by posting an abbreviated version of it. Do your best to make a difference with all people, no matter who they are, what they look like, or what they stand for. Because we will overcome whatever is thrown our way together, and by helping those that are struggling to overcome their own obstacles. We will believe and we will have faith. We may not know who or what to believe in, but we all know that we can believe in each other.

To finish us off, that quote from my friend in Poland.

“Remember that life is a long distance race. In a few months, a lot will change. In a few years, whole world will look completely different. Don’t lose your energy and faith in being a good person. World will need good people.”

Choose to be kind, caring, compassionate, and empathetic.

I’m signing off for now, maybe I’ll return with the next one I end up giving.