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If music be the food of love, play on. But I'm really too hungry for just one song

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When I say "Arthas was right about Stratholme" I'm thinking purely about the W3 mission and no other iteration because Mal'ganis was literally poaching the city for undead minions. It's a foot race against him. You have to balance killing him to stop him gathering the sick townsfolk and slaying the townsfolk WHICH if you ARE having a moral objection to killing townsfolk, you can literally wait six seconds before attacking them, as in those six seconds they begin to mutate into ghouls, and still complete the mission. No innocents killed, just mindless undead.

But blizzard had to make a cohesive narrative and so many details of that have changed since then so now Arthas just goes around caving in the heads of wide eyed children like an absolute freak and I see why people get so up in arms about the issue.

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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

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you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

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When I was a kid, playing WoW, Deathwing was my favorite character, and I read Beyond the Dark Portal all the time. It has some of my favorite Deathwing moments.

This art is from, I want to say a year ago, but I've been in a WoW mood lately

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THE DEAD THREE

Had a blast with Baldurs Gate 3, so I definitely had to draw this 3 awesome characters, so well written.

If you hadn't played it yet you should definitely give it a try!

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literally this:

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When your characters just start revealing lore you didn't know about them, as you're writing them

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roommate showed me his gargoyles (not a euphemism) only they weren't gargoyles they were grotesques, because they don't serve any functional architectural purpose (ie: as waterspouts), so i had to restrain myself from a category 5 pedantic fun ruiner moment

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TIL that there's an '80s movie where they portrayed Smilodon by sticking actual fake teeth onto actual live lions.

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Old video game painting dump

You know, what the hell, look at my old art. LOOK AT IT. latest one is from 2019, I don't have the patience for these anymore

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cambrian seas

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"I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

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I liked coloring sketches this way :)

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