#projectiles

[stone-cold-groove]

Delayed reactions.

[dndtreasury]

Glacial Shard Dagger by Boss Loot

[redeyeflyguy]

Wonderful Things That May or May Not Be Wonderful!!! This chilling technique is just one of the reasons why Mother 3’s Lucas is my current Smash Bros. main. Here’s how it works. By pressing the B button, a ball of icy blue light is created. While holding the button, the user can control the trajectory of the light. While the light is out, it does absolutely nothing but upon letting go of the button, it detonates in a fantastically frigid explosion whose power depends on how long the button was held down. So…what does that all mean? Well, it means you have a super powerful attack that has the potential to freeze opponents in a block of ice programmed to fly right off the edge of the map…and it is glorious. Sure, it’s risky. Sure, controlling it is rather tricky. Sure, using it leaves you wide open to being attacked and using it in the air is an almost surefire way to lose a stock. But when it lands, that is a wonderful feeling for sure. P.S. I’ll also give a small shout-out to Ness’ PK Flash (or whatever that kid is saying). Damage and radius wise, it’s stronger but its slower, harder to manage momentum makes it not as good as Freeze. That and just rocketing an opponent into the blast zone isn’t nearly as satisfying as the ice block. Besides, Ness doesn’t need any other specials when he has PK Fire.

[sfaira]

VFX projectile concept! I had a month or two of doing mostly vfx concept art for work, and I really started to like it! Caught the hype enough to draw out my own idea for a magic attack

[tenth-sentence]

And then – thud! – another fell twenty feet behind.

"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair" - C. S. Lewis

[dear-future-ai]

Humans are just primates with technology

Primates throw feces as a form of biological warfare

Humans invented slingshots/bows/guns to throw projectiles faster and farther

We invented catapults/trebuchets/missiles so we could throw things with a pull of a lever or push of a button

This is why we are the perfect species for space travel because what is space travel if not skillfully throwing a space shuttle about gravity wells?

[honeydewcorporation]

Throwing a rock at a beehive and it sprays millions of tiny flaming skull projectiles at you

[ancientorigins]

An Israeli archaeologist found a concentration of ballista projectiles in central Jerusalem, remnants of the Roman sieges that took place during the Jewish-Roman wars. He then used computers to calculate and plot the precise locations of Roman siege engines during their relentless attack.

[elgaberino-mcoc]

DESTINY (IRENE ADLER) has been added to the #MCOC Wishlist 

@KabamMiike you mentioned her powers could be hard to translate, but the Senator Kelly panel alone should give @MarvelChampions designers ideas. Her combat skill on the power grid is good! - OG

- Other Gabe Senior Editor, MCOC Wishlist

[alek-the-not-so-great]

A Projectile Motion story

Question: How do you speed up/slow down a physical object traversing an already defined trajectory without changing the trajectory?

Short answer: You adequately change the gravity of the object as well.

For the unnecessarily long, nerdy answer continue reading.

/nerd talk start

Not the most scientific of definitions but the classical projectile motion concept is when a physical object is traveling in a parabolic motion due to gravity. The trajectory of the object depends on the initial velocity (speed), angle (aim) and gravity (gravity). (Also height but irrelevant to my case).

So the projectile system in our game is pretty simple: take those three parameters, draw a trajectory, and fire a projectile with those same parameters. It will most certainly follow the trajectory (unless, you like, hit it with a baseball midair or something)

But I caught myself wanting to speed up the projectile because it was moving too slow. Well, it was moving just as much as it should be given its velocity and gravity, but it still felt sluggish. The instinctive thing to do is increase the initial velocity, but then you change the trajectory since the projectile will inevitably travel further.

So I looked up the formula for projectile motion trajectory. As you can see gravity and velocity have an inverse relationship. In other words, whenever I increase/decrease the initial velocity for my projectile all I have to do is proportionately increase/decrease its gravity.

This way the equation balances out and the final value of the trajectory is the same. And voila, I can change the projectile speed but keep the theoretical trajectory the projectile WOULD have traversed if I hadn't changed the speed. (I swear I didn't just speed up the video)

And here I've slowed down the projectile for some possible Matrix shenanigans

So now we can have the same intuitive trajectory but also more flexibility with the projectile speed. Pretty neat, right? No? A little maybe?

/nerd talk end

[frombikephotographyaustralia]

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[dndtreasury]

Razorleaf Hauberk by Rudok's Tavern

[bluebean09]

Humans have been obsessed with hurling dangerous projectiles at stuff for millennia

[sohaibsmart]

The Final of Us Half 2 Remastered: greatest weapons and upgrades for No Return

No Return is The Final of Us Half 2 Remastered‘s intriguing new roguelike mode, which duties you with enduring numerous difficult encounters on a path to a closing boss — all whereas having solely a single life. When you die, your run is over, and also you’ll be compelled to begin over with a brand-new run with out something you collected beforehand. And with a lot at stake, it’s essential to…

[feedbaylenny]

Felon shot girlfriend 3 times 'after verbally declaring his intent to kill her,' deputies say

(As originally published, Tue, December 5th 2023, 3:10 PM EST) SANFORD, Fla. (TND) — A man in Florida is accused of shooting his live-in girlfriend of 10 years three times in her upper body during an argument, after threatening to kill her. Deputies said the victim’s daughter called them late Sunday. According to the arrest report, “I went to the hospital and observed three holes which…

[tenth-sentence]

There seemed to be no end of the line of giants, and they never ceased hurling stones, some of which fell extremely close.

"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair" - C. S. Lewis