#solid grounds

[sadclowncentral]

when i got my medical certificate i very confidently answered the question "what do you do if a person becomes unconscious?" with "remove from the room immediately" only to be met with puzzled silence by the instructor and that's when i learned that the deeply ingrained nautical fear and grim reality of seamen and their rescuers asphyxiating in enclosed spaces due to build up of toxic gas or especially lack of oxygen does not translate to land.

[givemebackmypills]

[soybean-official]

The parts of you that support me

[silveruskiwami]

managed to port in a really good venom snake addon from gmod into SFM and naturally this is the first thing i did

[zarla-s]

Some more holiday requests! A wide variety, haha. (requests are closed)

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[rifleman787742]

day 7

[iamlogu]

this was supposed to be a warm up..... Oh well No background and Original image under the cut as is tradition

my commissions are open btw

[succulentsiren]

When you follow your own path, there’s always going to be people who call you naive, unintelligent or immature since they themselves don’t understand your vision or path. Never let the attempts of doubters deter you from your goals. Stay focused and grounded in your ideas. Sooner than you know, everything you manifested will come into fruition and your success will speak for itself and shut everyone up. The people who were once talking about you, will be asking for your advice and trying to duplicate you.

[zeroistic]

as much as i want the Players to win (because of how much they’ve been fucked over by pb&j), I also want to see pb&j as the sole survivors. what kind of peaceful ending do you get when it is only your team left? i want them to live with their actions of making other players ban themselves for them. If they want to win, they should deal with consequences, and hold their empty victory in a deserted server. Because ultimately, it’s not a server of gods bending to the will of mere mortals, it is the players scrapping together pyrrhic victories, living with all the bad that the conflict has brought to them, like it has alway been. no one wins a conflict without sacrifice, but pb&j don’t see that: they are trying to have a complete and utter victory. They can’t just flip a switch to revert everything to how they want it — they need to preserve it and make an effort to actually achieve the goal that they want, not just pvping the shit out of the other team. Part of their goal IS in fact get rid of the other team bc they want to ban people, but the main objective would be that they actually HELP the other players on the server, not getting them to ban themselves for fighting them better. Along their way of obsessively trying to get rid of the Players and their violent ending, they have been pursuing a violent ending, perhaps even better than the Players, with them getting other to ban themselves. They complain about the moral debates, yet their entire purpose is because of the morals they claim to have (even though they are VERY contradictory), with the conflicting ideas of peace and violence. So when the Players bring up that they have been going against their morals (by getting others to ban themselves), they immediately shut it down, because… they are right. Because if they don’t deny it, they are forced to recognize they are no different to the Players, perhaps even more ruthless being tunnel visioned on a side goal.

no matter who wins the physical war, who is left standing on the server in the end, both sides will have proven that there can only be violence, that lifesteal can never end in peace because of the lengths the server members will go to win their physical battles. PB&J can’t even stick by their own ideals to win the war, and instead give in to the gritty cruel nature of the server to be able to gain advantages, which is fine, except for the fact that one of their main goals is… to NOT have people banned? (esp because both sides keep saying that the war is between people who WANT everyone banned and those who DON’T, and yet those who don’t keep getting others banned… And, they are the ones that started it first, thus making the Players also plan on doing it… so which side has honor and morals again?)

it is also interesting when pb&j say that they don’t really have a ‘reward’ for winning, but they quite literally did that to themselves. LS has gods and exploiters, but it still is up to the players to forge their own victories, and relying their entire victory (of bringing everyone back when they ‘win’) on gods is kind of… eh. YOU make your victory, and if that victory includes banning people for another edge in pvp, then so be it (you, after all chose this, without any prompting or getting the ideas from the Players. it is naturally a place that brings the worst and cruel out of people.)

pb&j are also made up mostly of new players (and ash who is new to the whole ‘heroes’ thing), and they don’t seem to understand that a victory of their morals and being on the ‘good’ side requires sacrifice. They seem very bent on getting a clean, holistic victory, but when you fight those who want to ban everyone, you can’t get that (and pb&j have already been doing that to themselves by getting others banned, but they want a full revival to have their ‘perfect victory’). pbj are new: they don’t really see the suffering and pain previous ‘heroes’ (aka zam most of the time) had to go through, and ash is new to the whole ‘good person’ thing: he is used to complete and utter victories and power that compromise and sacrifice (something not really a problem in his godly endeavors) are a cost of pursuing their goal.

their goal for the server is unattainable, and they proved it themselves with their obsession of beating the other team

[boinday]

In case you missed the episode update yesterday, here's your little reminder that Rose Tide Rising is back! (and free to read ^_^)

[buddieswhvre]

I'm right now thinking of Evan "All my life I've only drifted from one place to other, sometimes almost drowned with no place to call mine" Buckley and Eddie "I want to be your solid ground" Diaz.

[teoft]

With each change, I changed, too. My thoughts, personality, how I saw right and wrong. Words can kill.

[bigmangamin]

[solidgroundif]

A science fiction interactive novel WIP set in a future of space travel, intersystem politics and somewhat unfortunate protagonists.

Current progress: Chapter 3 (incomplete), ~55 000 + ~31 000 words added

Latest update: 2023-08-13

[play the update here]

Things move in the shadows, and you are desperately behind. This is when you begin catching up.

A few picks from this update’s menu:

‣ take a 'shower', finally ‣ explore a colony and its shadow dealings, or ‣ ascend to the top of a thunderstorm ‣ maybe meet a new ally(?).. ‣ discover if you have a knack for stealth ‣ learn more about the target on your back ‣ people might get hurt

Technical details:

The update additionally fixes some inconsistencies in the previous chapters, such as content being displayed twice or not showing up where it should. Small word fixes here and there. If you still have your saves, you might need to restart, though I tried to make it so that you wouldn't have to (I don't yet know how to test for that reliably, sorry!).

Setting the appearance of the MC's hair is limited in length and color with reason, but you have the option to express that they are upset about it. This will factor into future content :)

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

rip Winter. he's not dead, but his character development is.

[subsequentibis]

figuring out headcanons for my three weed smoking girlfriends (and yes they smoke weed)