#it's rotated 90° now

[dailygtwscar]

[263] Day six of putting a tiny Scar in my School work

[theblabarmy]

recent homestuck art

[ofdarklands]

level 90 at last!

so! about black mage

i've been thinking how to describe playing black mage, and i think the simile i used this morning in chat works well enough:

black mage feels like trying to run with a pot full of boiling water in my hands. with other jobs i feel light and agile, but black mage plays like how seeing emet selch as solus run would feel. look at that guy go. i didn't know spines could do that! you can hear his knees crunch, also

mechanically, it's really not nearly as bad as i feared it to be, even though i don't think i'd managed to figure out a decent rotation myself on the first or even third try so, thank you internet people for the guides!

anyway, the boiling pot wheezing trot sensation is not unique to it, though it is the most noticeable of all the casting classes i've played. i'd say rdm>summoner>whm>>blm in increasing awkwardness

so, while i acknowledge that blm is an optimizer's paradise to get the Biggest Booms, probably, playing it feels like it's almost fighting against the game instead of flowing with it and due to that it's just not very enjoyable, for me. it's got the same inflexible rotation that makes dragoon my least played class despite it being very canon for mitr'a

and from a physical perspective my fingers are not very precise on the keyboard, so i tend to fuck up the routine by accident quite often and then i have to correct it or start over and eeeehhhhhh. and my can't-remember-to-click-despair situation. dunno what the problem is with that one, to be quite honest. brain said no i guess :( that one's on me

woops this got longer than i thought so have a readmore

the good:

aforementioned big damages, when i manage to keep the rotation on track. sadly not as much of a plus for me, personally, but it's relevant still

against one enemy, getting immersed in the rotation can be pretty fun, until the 5 aoes come, the boss leaves the arena, and i sigh deeply while creakily running around, not casting

lasso spell goes brrr. it's got a very funny sound effect, in my heart

the 'return to leylines' spell is also great. i've used it mostly to instantly dodge when there's more than 2 sequential aoes. you can play around with these two spells

shoutout to the simplified job gauge for letting you actually understand anything about it. sure it's 3.5 things to keep track of, but for 2 of them you get informed about their readiness with convenient sounds and flashing borders so whatever

big staff to hit people with

cone hat funny

big lb meteorites. very good very cackling

the bad:

moving feels heavy, even when using the instant cast abilities. i keep lagging behind the group even in normal content, and sometimes clicking the right person to yeet to can be a bit hard in alliances or wall to walls. this class needs to do some cardio

clicking fire IV 3 times, then 1 fire I then fire IV 3 more times is. very boring. sorry. rotation 40 years long and rigid like the brutalism. the funnest parts are the thunder procs and the ice phase before going back to fire and the occasional instant cast. oh you sneezed and misclicked and dropped your fire badge thingies on the floor? sorry idiot you get to start over from the top, but sadder this time

this one i only noticed here at the end, but i feel it's very important, maybe more than the rotation: the best and biggest animations it has are the ones for the ice spells, which you use the least. xenoglossy, foul and flare are also good. amplifier, manafont and triple cast feel nice and dramatic to use. paradox i just got but it's also nice with the color mix. the rest i don't even remember, had to go cast them on a dummy. it's fireballs and fire columns it's all fireballs! the blm animations have a lot of boom but they need more heft, if that makes sense? more flying shit going from you to the target, shit shrapneling from the target, rings of fire, fiery eldritch runes, anything. if rdm can shoot 50 explosive roses at a guy for some reason and drk can summon shields of runes, blm can do something fancy also. casting a finisher skill called 'despair' should look like i'm sucking their souls out through a straw

also more casting positions. summoner has a lot and they're pretty different! they got floating symbols and shit. blm has 'slightly crouched' and 'staff held high' in variation 1 and 2, and that's about it from what i can tell besides the selfbuff ones. add some evil runes at least. the paradox wide armed one (i think you float a little?) is a good addition though

anyway, final verdict: it's a good class, but it's very rigid and inflexible to get Big Damages, which is not an exciting exchange, for me. i prefer to be nimble and do less damage but have a more varied and forgiving rng based rotation. also more utility skills! i miss peloton or having a group shield or heal, or even rdm's rez; makes me feel actually useful instead of being just a giant cone hat that produces flamethrower on command. i don't think i'll play it too often, i'm afraid, even though it's a perfectly alright class, and i'm sure i'll get better with time

HOWEVER. if dawntrail allows blm to throw meteorites outside of lbs i might reconsider. they can be small! even magical molotov cocktails if we must. but i want physical flamming objects to hit my enemies and i want to see the animations do that with some flair. just ole fire and spite booms and a couple icicles is not enough. i want to flatten them

[the-abyssal-system]

Being a fictive from a species that tends to dress a specific way can be so annoying. I’m wearing a weather appropriate outfit and was embarrassed to go to the store in it despite said outfit being no different to what anyone else was wearing

[abysskeeper]

Discord: raid team I'm not on discussing sorc healing

Me: 😬 *mutes channel*

[xolaanii]

lord enver gortash if i may... what in the ever loving fuck are those?

[qserasera]

character (about kaveh): while he’s smiling on the outside....something about it lacks joy, as if all he feels inside is sorrow

[oatmilkandvellichor]

i have lived in my own home for 5 years. 500-750sqft, multiple rooms. all my shit and my responsibility, at the very least to some significant degree when living with roommates and partners.

i’ve already got rid of like 75% of the shit i own if i’m being conservative. i am moving into a bedroom that is 63sqft. there is only 30sqft with my bed in the room. the rest the the home is furnished and well stocked. as a result i’m bringing in a lot to a tiny room with the understanding that i’ll have to do my last bisl stretch of downsizing during this moving process.

my parents are completely crazed by the idea that i might bring more than a suitcase and a box or two. i cannot stress enough how completely fine and normal they will be about the amount of stuff once it is unpacked and organized. they have a habit of not being able to process how much is contained in a box and how much can be sorted reasonably into a room from a box. it has nothing to do with reality it is a skill issue.

so you can imagine the very specific shit show i am preparing for. fiancé is already prepped on the necessary white lies to continue to placate them with so that they do not blow a gasket over a completely acceptable volume of material possessions.

[deathandthesoul]

Gasoline and Fire

[intertexts]

YAYYY done w my work

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

for the second morning in a row I've awoken to discover that my full body has inexplicably done a 90 degree rotation counterclockwise in the night, such that my head is at one of the long edges of the mattress

which is actually just framing for the juicy part, which is that I was woken when I stretched out my leg and encountered something firm and very slightly pointy (edge of a piece of furniture), which wouldn't normally be there if I were laying in bed in the more usual direction, and for some reason the image my brain conjured up on response to the bleary, mostly-asleep question "what just touched my foot?" was a sort of fire-eyed grim reaper declaring itself "the foot toucherrrrrrr," a proposal so full tilt insane that I was catapulted from 3% awake to 100% and some change instantaneously

and now here I am am, good morning everyone ���

[jaerie]

Visiting some old friends

[reckless-rider]

When my other friend says I have the symptoms of the symptoms disorder and I agree, I call that character growth

[marxalittle]

Starts and Moves, 2023/04/28-2023/05/05

put moms on ketamine 2023

As I close in on the end of this notebook (there’s a bright new one still sealed on my shelf, to make the handoff as smooth as possible), I’m glad I took these notes. The current notebook starts two years ago, May 2021; I don’t remember this music, don’t remember listening to it, so I’m glad I took the notes to remind me. Otherwise, those bands and records would have slipped entirely from my…

[todays-xkcd]

Attention all passengers: This is an express sequence to infinity. If your stop is not a power of two, please disembark now.

Number Line Branch [Explained]

Transcript

[The number line for natural numbers, going from 0 to 10 and trailing off, with a marker at 0 to indicate that it is the start of the sequence. At about pi, the line branches off into a second line, which contains five odd-looking symbols, and stops at the fifth one. The first, below 4, is a square, the second is a pi rotated 90° counterclockwise, the third resembles a closed phi, the fourth is a spiral, and the fifth is a triangle.] Caption: Good news! After thousands of years, mathematicians have finally opened a second branch on the number line to reduce congestion.

[astrellium]

If there's one thing I've learned after rearranging my room about half a dozen times to find the best way to fit 20 years of Stuff in about 120 square feet of space, it's this:

Try turning that thing sideways