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I got my new 3D printer and the first thing I printed that wasn't an accessory for the machine was this adorb little yarn looking dice tower. As soon as it was done printing, I popped it off the print bed and hiked over to my sisters so that she could paint it up. @nerfblat did a fantastic job on it. It's so cute.

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D&D 5e Character Creation Flow Charts: Backgrounds and Classes This only includes the backgrounds included in the Player’s Handbook Mind you, so no SCAG options. Class one doesn’t assume archetype obviously.  A fun little project I made after work today, I thought it might be helpful for players newer to the system in choosing their character’s options, or just a fun little tool.

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My dog used to slip his collar like that. But not because he was a rule follower. He wanted to go home, and I was taking him to the groomer instead.

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Story time:

In middle school biology, we did an experiment. We were given yams, which we would sprout in cups of water. We then had to make hypotheses about how the yams would grow, based on descriptions of yam plants in our books, and make notes of our observations as they grew.

Here’s what was supposed to happen: we were supposed to see that the actual growth of the plant did not resemble our hypotheses. We were then supposed to figure out that these were, in fact, sweet potatoes.

What actually happened was that every single student in every single class lied in their notes so that their observations perfectly matched their hypotheses. See, everyone assumed the mismatch meant they had done something wrong in the process of growing the plant or that they had misunderstood the dichotomous key or the plant identification terminology. And, thanks to the wonders of a public school education, everyone assumed the wrong results would get us a failing grade. We were trying to pass. We didn’t want to get bitched out by the teacher. Curiosity, learning, science - that had nothing to do with why we were sitting in that classroom. So we all lied.

The teacher was furious. She tried to fail every student, but the administration stepped in and told her she wasn’t allowed to because a 100% fail rate is recognized as a failure of the teacher, not the class. It wasn’t even her fault, really, though her being a notorious hard-ass didn’t help. It was a failure of the entire educational system.

So whenever I see crap like Elizabeth Holmes’s blood test scam or pharmaceutical trials which are unable to be replicated or industry-funded research that reaches wildly unscientific conclusions, I just remember those fucking sweet potatoes. I remember that curiosity dies when people are just trying to give their superiors the “right” answers, so they can get the grade, get the job, get the paycheck. It’s not about truth when it’s about paying rent. There’s no scientific integrity if you can’t control for human desperation.

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Suzanne Collins gripping my face with her hands: listen listen the first step to evil is dehumanisation, always, the second you start to see people as less than people no matter what they've done to you that's when you start heading down a path of selfish destruction and violence

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Mermaids and Other things, but no Walrus'

I finally got around to sewing up this mermaid print fabric into a bunch of D&D stuff. It's got that faux porcelain hand-painted look which is just so lovely. There's mermaids, turtles, seahorses, & an octopus. You can get them on my Etsy: geekytendencies.etsy.com , and hopefully I can get them up on my Website soon.

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fantasy characters: “Geez”

me: who the fuck spread Christianity there

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Battle-map Dice Trays

For when you are in the midst of a game, rolling your dice, and the story takes a left turn. Suddenly you need a random encounter. Unsnap your tray, and instantly have two battle-maps at your fingertips. An interior encounter map and an exterior one. I've made 7 different variations. Check them out below:

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is it just me or does the way people treat like "dopamine" and "serotonin" in modern pop psych context read exactly like balancing the humors

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THIS IS BRILLIANT.

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Because this is some shenanigans. That poor stoic sheep.

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This just seems like something super handy to have. I’m sure we’d find some way to misuse it in no time.

💎 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺! Bottle of Spare Time
Wondrous item, very rare ___

This glass bottle is empty when found. When sitting upright, it’s indistinguishable from a normal bottle. It’s stoppered with a golden skull holding a miniature timepiece in between its teeth. Despite its appearance, the bottle nevertheless functions as a “+3 club.”

𝙏𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙎𝙞𝙥𝙝𝙤𝙣. Whenever you’re affected by a “haste" or "slow" spell while the bottle is on your person, it fills partway with sand. Each time the bottle is filled in this way, it gains 1 charge, up to a maximum of 5 charges, which is represented by the amount of sand left in the bottle. The bottle loses 1 charge each day at dawn, and 1d4 charges each time it’s picked up or carried by a different creature.

While holding the bottle, you can use an action to remove the stopper and pour the sand out. When you do, the bottle loses all of its remaining charges and duplicates the effects of the "time stop" spell. This version of the spell lasts for a number of rounds equal to the number of charges the club lost when it was poured out. Each time you pour the bottle out, there is a 30 percent chance that the bottle loses this property. ___

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To be fair, this would be me. I would 100% do this to my house.

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Reblogging because giant squirrels. 

i learned that in India, there is a species of giant squirrel that have multicoloured fur, with with varying shades of orange, maroon and purple. Their bodies measure 36in from head to tail – double the size of their grey relatives – and they can leap 20ft between trees (x)

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These bunnies are some of my favorite cryptids and I didn’t know about two of them until @steamdragonsoul drew some for me for my website. Look at them. They are adorable. 

there aren’t enough posts going around about the swedish cryptid known as the skvader which is a rabbit with pheasant wings and also a very good boy.

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Reblogging for important information. As someone who’s been self-employed for the better part of 15 years, I really hope to avoid going back out into the job market. It’s brutal out there. 

A couple job interview hacks from someone who has to give a job interview every single goddamn day: (disclaimer: this goes for my process and my company’s process, other companies and industries might be different)

1. There are a few things I check and a few questions I ask literally just to figure out if you can play the game and get along with others in a professional setting. Part of the job I interview for is talking to people, and we work in teams. So if you can’t “play the game” a tiny bit, it’s not going to work. Playing the game includes:

- Why do you want to work here? (just prove that you googled the company, tell me like 1 thing about us, I just want to know that you did SOME kind of preparation for this interview)

- Are you wearing professional clothing? I don’t need a suit just don’t show up in a ratty t-shirt and sweatpants.

- Are you able to speak respectfully and without dropping f-bombs all the time? Not because I’m offended but because I don’t want to be reported to HR if you wind up on my team.

- Can you follow simple directions in an interview?

2. Stop telling me protected information. I don’t want to know about what drugs or medications you’re on, I don’t want to know about you being sick, I don’t want to know if you’re planning to have children soon, I don’t want to know anything about your personal life other than “can you do the job?” 

3. When we ask, “What questions do you have for me?” here are my favorites I’ve heard: - What does the day-to-day look like for a member of your team?

- If one of your team members was not performing up to his usual standard, what steps would you take to correct that?

- What can I start doing now to accelerate my learning process in this job?

- What are some reservations you have about me as a candidate? (be ready for this emotionally….it will REALLY help you in the future, and I’ve had people save themselves from a No after this, but can be hard to hear)

- In your opinion, what skills and qualities does the ideal candidate for this job possess?

- What advice would you give to a new hire in this position/someone who wanted to break into this industry, as someone who has worked here for a while?

Those are just my tips off-the-cuff. I work in sales in marketing/SAAS, so these can be very different depending on the industry, but I wish the people I interview could read this before they show up. 

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such truth. 

as a child I wondered why adults were so stupid (doing things out of habit/routine/heuristics rather than reasoning explicitly about what to do based on their goals) and the answer is that adults are unimaginably fucking tired all the time