#building flexibility

[rnsqatar1]

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[arc-hus]

Studio House, Nelson, New Zealand - William Samuels Architects

[utilitycaster]

In response to "Any advice for first-time players or DMs?"

ID: Three screenshots from the Critical Role: Sick Day livestream. Sam, wearing a Barbie hat and a bathrobe, is sitting next to Taliesin, who is wearing a pink shirt, one-piece pajamas, and is holding the game controller. Taliesin is speaking and the captions read "I'm not saying don't be cautious, but realize that there are worse things than dying on graph paper."

(note: these words were said as he built, in the BG3 character creator, Mollymauk Tealeaf, who famously died on graph paper.)

[skimmingmilk]

How soon do ya think Tails starts to be comfortable with sonic? And how would sonic react? I'd imagine it would take a while so when Tails initiates any form of affection like a hug or leaning in for a head pat, Sonic thinks of it as a proud moment and his hearts squeezes internally bc why wouldn't it

This question is kinda based off your fics! I like where you have Tails be on the defensive even if he doesn't mean to be and how Sonic understands in the early stages since they've met

Thank you for the ask! I'm glad you like how I've portrayed the brothers in my fics so far :)

In the timeline of my fics, it's actually pretty quick how comfortable Tails gets with Sonic! Especially given everything he's been through. But Sonic is an unreliable narrator in the sense that for him it feels like it takes forever xD Which is pretty fair to him considering this was a spur of the moment decision; he didn't plan on taking on the role of temporary guardian/protector to a child who has a whole lot of trauma that he can't articulate just yet. Several weeks of that for an eleven-year-old who has no secure attachments and is constantly on the move is like an eternity of struggling.

But it really is only several weeks before they find their rhythm. Because Tails admires and looks up to Sonic from the start. He latches onto him immediately because he's the first person to show him kindness and to care about how he feels. Tails can feel that, it's just hard to fully comprehend it when his worldview so far has been shaped by people hating his very existence for reasons never explained to him. While Tails knows Sonic doesn't feel that way about him, he also doesn't know if that will change someday. Maybe Sonic just hasn't realized what everyone else already knew about him, and maybe one day Tails will do something wrong and Sonic will understand why everyone hated him.

That anxiety lives within him for a while, it runs too deep to be resolved at this age. But what can be resolved much quicker is Tails learning that not every touch hurts. Sometimes it's a fond head pat or an excited high five or a proud fist bump. Each of those make him feel warm and nice and special in a way he never has before, so he soaks up these signs of affection like a sponge.

The problem is that usually Sonic moves too fast, so Tails is often startled by the sudden flash of movement before Sonic can even make contact. So he flinches or bites on instinct, self-preservation beating out logic, until Sonic figures out that he needs to let Tails see that he's coming first. He'll hold his hand out, let him see it, then he can ruffle his fur or give him a fist bump.

Luckily, Sonic adapts to this quickly within those first few weeks, and Tails is super receptive to it. But Tails doesn't initiate any of the contact himself for a while longer. Even when he wants a head pat or to hold Sonic's hand to feel safer in crowded places, he waits for Sonic to make the first move most of the time. The only times where he does initiate the physical contact are when Sonic is sleeping or sick, like in the "Little Gestures" fics, or when Tails is really sleepy and instinctively seeking comfort, like in the little arcade one shot "The Weight of Responsibility."

But "Where Water Wears Away the Stone" is the turning point for Tails where he finally lets himself be comfortable enough with Sonic to reach for him when he needs him, at Sonic's prompting. Unfortunately, Sonic's a brat about it at first xD He's not proud and his heart is not squeezing with affection, it's seizing in a panic because they were never supposed to wind up this attached to each other. Sonic mentally pins 90% of the blame on Tails being attached to him, but what really scares him and what he's really been ignoring for the past few months is that he's already so beyond attached. And that's terrifying for a kid who's never had anyone quite like this in his life.

But after he gets over that, when he and Tails leave Aquatic Ruin Zone and before they get to Casino Night Zone, Sonic adapts again and realizes that it feels warm and nice and special to be the person that Tails decided to trust.

To sum up: it takes about a month for Tails to be comfortable with Sonic initiating any kind of contact. Then several more months for him to figure out how to be the one to initiate when he wants contact. The fear of rejection is just too strong in this one little fox. The one thing that consistently overpowers Tails's absolute faith in Sonic is his lack of faith in himself.

[frameconfessions]

Valkyr Prime No Forma Queen Steel Path Circuit Armor Strip Deluxe Build AKA Can We Get Much Higher

There's room for improvement (like adding forma and maxxing out the other arcane), but I don't feel like it right now.

Here's the Valkyr Prime mods & arcanes setup. Use Terrify (Nekros helminth) over ability 3 for armor strip ability. Use these archon shards to get the 100% armor strip too and good energy economy. Feel free to ask about any of these mod or build choices, this build is from like 2 years ago that one of my partners helped me set up and still going strong. Delusion helmet and Gersemi skin for appearance.

Prime Talons mod setup. Blast damage is the current meta as of December 2024 so you can see the original before Damage whatever number update point 0 we're at now compared to the original build.

Equip Naramon, it's extremely important for power scaling and end-game level damage.

Fully ranked up Power Spike is the only focus school stuff you need, but having the waybounds unbound is always good for operator/drifter survival, combat, and movement.

Manage your energy economy by getting parazon finisher kills on eximus units if you start running low, just edge the health bars until you see the prompt and your energy will shoot up to almost max if not max. More than half the time arcane energize should kick in and give you a boost on top of the archon shard energy boost (not sure if the effects of the shards and energize multiply/stack or not as I'm not a build math gal but it feels like it does).

Here you go @issilya and anyone else wanting a no forma Valkyr Prime that scales well into higher levels.

[nordfjording]

woke up to an email from the guy who owns the building my workshops in that may or may not take a wrecking ball to every single one of my future plans. in a good or a bad way im not sure

[longlivethewildernessyet]

Christian dating """advice""" stay away from me. Begone.

[bobauthorman]

Lore-drop, RWBY-Style

What no one talks about in RWBY is how all lore is delivered by in-universe characters. Even the World of Remnant world-building segments are narrated by established figures in the series. The closest we've ever gotten to an omniscient narrator is Jinn, and judging by how she enjoys exposing Oz's secrets, even she's not above having biases. (And that's not even getting into the amount of posts I've seen claiming Jinn is unreliable because she was made by the God of Light).

The practical aspect of this is that it gives CRWBY the freedom to shape their world almost however they want. If they want to introduce something that goes against what's already been established, it can be justified by claiming that whomever gave out the previous lore must have been wrong, either by getting their facts wrong or was purposely distorting them. It means CRWBY can retcon their world-building without it being a retcon.

[not-poignant]

From your answers, I understood correctly that when you come up with a story, like UtR, you come up with figuratively speaking, a train station where all the characters get on their train. And you know where that train is going to take everyone. But what obstacles and stops you don't think of in advance and the picture in your head will appear as you write new chapters?

Hi anon,

That's basically it! (Though I often like to think of it as lights on a string of fairy lights because that's just prettier to me).

Also I don't even have all the characters at the beginning of the train journey. In the case of Underline the Red, I didn't even know Kenneth was going to exist as an interest for Faber until like, you know, I was writing that chapter.

This is why when folks ask me - especially early on in a story - how long it's going to be or how something is going to happen, I'm very genuine when I say 'I don't know!'

I'm learning too. :D

That being said I do think of a lot of it in advance, it's just not etched in stone. It's more like having 100 different cuts of a movie scene. Maybe in one scene a gun goes off. In another there's sex. In another there's an argument. In another there's a new character. In another there's an argument but different. In another there's a good conversation. I can play all of those, often slightly changing the script, the staging, the direction, even the stage and the ambience and the lighting.

I think of thousands of versions of the stories ahead of time, which is also hilariously why I can also say - I don't know. I have touch stones I know I'm heading to. I know I'm heading towards Faber/Caleb reconciliation, I know a couple of the things that will really push that forward.

Everything else is me sitting in a screening room in front of my mind, or standing like a director on a movie set, and watching everything happen with my camera, and trying to figure out which is the most relevant / interesting / fun / cool / immersive / hot thing to happen next.

So yeah it's not really accurate to say I don't think of it in advance. Thinking of something in advance doesn't mean knowing it for sure. Right? Even people who get on a train think of the stops they're heading to, even if what they imagine doesn't match what they see when they get there. I don't know anyone who can write just...never thinking about it until they sit down to write. I'm sure they exist, especially the folks with no real imagination, but that's not me.

Imagination isn't fact, until it's down on the page. And because I don't plot things formally (as in, by writing them down in advance in a chapter or plot plan, like a lot of authors), I'm imagining a lot. But that still doesn't mean I know for sure what's coming.

That gives me opportunities to let Kenneth on the train :D

[neallo]

okay it's honestly comical how much better i like weightlifting than cardio. it's to the point that i'm like. maybe i should get a planet fitness membership so i can go use their leg machines...

[backscale-pivot-queen]

Liliana and Laura Lewinska, Poland 🇵🇱

Euskalgym 2024 Gala performance ✨

[temeyes]

so i've been playing BO6 lately,,,,,,

[grison-in-space]

Since the dental Tribble has been on a strict no kibble, no crunchy, no chewing diet. (In a week or so she'll be allowed to use her teeth again a bit more, but no one wants to see a dog get dry socket.) Spouse feels that canned dog food (perpetually on hand to make into pupsickles) is not experienced as filling enough, and we do know that Tribble has done better on grain inclusive foods for the past decade, so... the rice cooker has been simmering with chicken stock rice too bulk out the canned food all week, and Matilda and Benton have both gotten a fair bit of overflow rice as a treat.

Unconnectedly, tonight happens to be my first night alone as the sole human all evening in quite a few months. Matilda has been doing her job of enforcing bed, of course, but I can also rely on other humans to help make routine happen if she's too tired to be on it.

If I was worried that Tilly hadn't worked out her evening routine enforcement functions before now, I shouldn't have been. I don't think I've ever seen a dog so excited to move the evening along towards the part where dinner and the good cookies are.

[treevore]

what hair products do you use?

hydrating shampoo and conditioner, and then Design.Me hair serum and a random sculpting wax/cream that i bought a while ago if i'm doing any real styling with it

[ginkovskij]

yesterday it was very cold so i skipped gym but! today is even colder and it has been raining since the early hours in the morning!! but to the gym must we go ):

[shoutashii]

Erasermic builds

Shouta obviously needs to be able to use his capture weapon to hold his own body weight, and also needs to be able to brace landings between buildings so his arms and thighs gotta be WHAM. While hizashi is a bfg, he still needs to fight because no hero is a one trick pony, but his fighting style is more like mina's, so he's still got muscle, but alot less than shouta and alot more lean in general.