#Node 10

[my-favourite-zhent]

Node 10, Node 13, Node 20, Node 51

Wait! WAIT! It was Olly, I SWEAR IT WAS OLLY! Show some respect, Rugan. The boy was loyal to you 'til the end. NonoNONONO PLEASE- And just like that, everyone profits.

All right then, recruit - you can stock up here and be on your way. Bring the cargo to Baldur's Gate. Someone there will make contact.

[saturnsentx]

chat am i gonna be lonely for the rest of my life?

[haysaprocky]

this been my anthem since grade 7 ✋🏼

[wetslug]

lab needs to shoot a parody of those ''what did you get on the test!!" (braggadocious teen) "one hundredddd!!!" *cuts to test showing a 13/50* tiktoks but its "how many lymph nodes did you actually find" "thirty easy" *cuts to final report saying 8 benign nodes*

[psalmsofpsychosis]

Some Batman: Telltale thoughts

[this is a Batman Telltale critical post, ye be warned.]

So. There are perhaps no words in the english language to describe with how stupid i feel right now.

I started Telltale Batman because i thought that it's one of the more distinct unconventional Batman narratives that would let you have a more interesting, complex and nuanced relationship between Bruce and Joker— the game even lets you bring all of Bruce's sincere hypocrisy and sentimental selfishness to the surface and have him admit that yes, he can fight the rogues gallery because it takes a madman to know a madman; to love a madman. For a moment i geniunely thought that i can escape the everpresent shadow of DC hays code in the freakshow funhouse that is Batman comics, i thought Telltale had done something different.

But telltale's approach to The Enemy Within is so flaky and flimsy and timid at best— such noncommittal twist on themes of pain and grief. They take on a hefty plotline, "what does it take to actually fight through evil and be surrounded by it? How long does it take before your resolve and your selfhood cracks? When you lose the mask, which one did you truly lose— The ideal persona, the superhero, the crusader, or the person underneath, the casket that holds all your humanity and your heart and your hopes? How long can you stare onto the abyss before it stares onto you?" It's indeed a very Nietzsche approach to Batman— except that a good Nietzsche narrative takes a lot of intentional plot points and honesty of thought and of heart. And Telltale doesn't commit, not to Bruce's characterization, and not to any other character, and definitely not to Joker's journey in any variation of it. The existence of the Vigilante route is useless on every front; Joker is going to turn into a villain anyway, just with a different hello kitty eyeshadow palette and an extra bland consolation lollipop. No good choice Bruce makes on Joker's behalf affects anything whatsoever, and i particularly love the "community and friendship and sympathy do not help the mentally ill and all that ever works is punishment and shock therapy and confinement and loneliness" message the vigillante route puts on the table, charming charming status quo commandments from DC as always.

Telltale Batman could only be revolutionary if it had dared to break comic convention and let the vigillante route play out like Selina and Bruce's relationship always does; very grey morality, irrational, full of tension and trust, unstable, intriguing, inexcusable, irreversible, unavoidable and heartfelt, human. But we can't have nice things in batmanverse, so both Joker routes run on stuck gears and topple and fall into a predictable narrative hole that neither Bruce nor Joker can claim out of.

And on the predictable front? this story is too lukewarm to be a good time for me personally. When you get 84 Batman comics per minute every other Tuesday, all ending the same way no matter whatever the fickity happens inbetween, you have to pull no punches. This is my 53368532th Batman-with-tragic-batjokes-implications read of the week, say something new or forever hold your blue-balling silence, i dont care.

[irminsuls]

why. was this moc unnecessarily difficult

[apotelesmaa]

I do wish I had a better memory because some of the shit that happened when I was a kid is really funny to think abt like why was I in play therapy in fourth grade. Why did my mom go “no she doesn’t have adhd” & then make me do biofeedback therapy/eat rancid focus gummies. Why was I coping with things in middle school by being a terror online. Fascinating case study on letting the internet parent an insanely neurotic child.

[totenrand]

Gelatinous Cube in a Dungeon

Another attempt at starting a quick project series where the second entry immediately got well out of hand, though it did produce an element that I’m quite happy with, so I’ll post that later.

This first piece is an exercise to try and get my head around Blender’s Geometry Nodes system, at least a little bit. Here I’ve been following two main tutorials, one for distributing air bubbles inside a volume, and one for creating a brick wall on a curve; there was also another video that helped with erasing bubbles that escaped from cube, but for the life of me I can’t find that one again.

Edit -- Breakdown of Blender process and links to relevant tutorials now below the fold, now I know I can add a fold.

The Gelatinous Cube

The gelatinous cube’s mesh is just a cube primitive that’s been gently subdivided and rounded off, and then pinched in around the middle a little so it looks like it’s squishing down toward the floor.

Its surface shader is just a couple of noise textures, fed into a Voronoi texture, then fed into a Musgrave texture, which is then fed through a whole bunch of colour ramps into the Principled BSDF shader’s various inputs to make something glistening, organic, and unpleasant looking.

The same Musgrave is colour multiplied with a couple of different quadratic sphere gradients to feed into the density and emission strength channels of a Principled Volume shader, to give the impression of a thick, viscous, turbulent interior and a glow nucleus. (I know gelatinous cubes are supposed to be completely translucent, but that’s not as visually interesting.)

The main bubble distribution is adapted from this tutorial video by Via Crescendo,

but I’ve also used the newer than that tutorial “Distribute points in Volume” node to create some more randomly placed bubbles, using a node group from the third tutorial (the one that I can’t find again) that does some maths I don’t understand to erase any instances that leave the bounds of the geometry.

The Dungeon Walls and Floor

The dungeon floor (and ceiling) are by far the simplest things here, they’re just a single tile model that’s been distributed on a grid with the Z position set to randomly jiggle a bit so it looks old and tumbledown.

The walls are more complicated, I’m mostly following a tutorial for generating a brick wall along a curve by Joey Carlino,

that I’ve modified to instance from a collection of square bricks instead of a single rectangular brick and this random instancing is where the limits of my understanding are reached, as something this node system does means that points get instanced on in pairs which are sometimes adjacent, and sometimes not… This has led to my three ‘detail’ bricks being more clustered in their distribution that I’d like, but the effect this there at least.

Brick variants wise, going from right-to-left there is, the standard brick which has a heavily worn stone material, a brick with an inset corroded copper mirror, a brick with an inset panel of ‘hieroglyphs’ that have been worn away, and a hollow brick with a glowing gem surrounded by corroded copper mirrors (because the ‘unexplored dungeon lit by burning torches’ trope bothers me).

[gergthecat]

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[my-favourite-zhent]

Node 3, Node 10

Never seen a gnoll up close 'til today. Hope I never do again

Shouldn't have left home. I'd rather die penniless and peaceful than be torn to bits chasing riches.

[alyjojo]

[grandwretch]

put in an appointment request for a new ENT. starting to get real sick of this shit

[codeexpertinsights]

10 Top Node.js Libraries and Tools For Machine Learning

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[zenmai--jikake--no--komoriuta]

whaaaaaat were those rolls!! decided to throw some quartz at the Kukulkan banner on FGO and got TWO 2030s back to back, two Child of Atlases, a Boddhisatva, random Zenobia and Astraea spooks and an obligatory Tlaloc amongst my 3-4 x10 pulls..............

no Kuku BUT now I can finally MLB all three of those CEs which is pretty great! she would fit amazingly with my team but I've got eyes on Draco and Aesc among other things this year so I'm gonna have to stop myself there before I dump all of my quartz haha ; v ;

[amber-isnt-a-precious-stone]

Being a chronic pain girlie with the state of the NHS right now is just shocking. Being bounced around seeing different GPs and gynaecologist each time for years with long waits between appointments and getting absolutely no where is just .___. exhausting

[neona]

agh I am still going in circles in my head trying to decide what class to start in poe2

I'll probably just go back to my roots and start as a sorc, but witch and monk also call to me...