Just Watched The Thunderbolts* And I Kind Of Feel Better For Myself.

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Good to keep on your blog if nothing seems interesting at the moment.

i know this means absolutely nothing to most people but basically all of the little web game things I've made recently (angels in automata, hex plant growing game, d.a.n.m.a.k.u., life music, sudoku land, the metroidvania style map editor, etc etc etc) are all entirely self-contained individual client-side html files that can be downloaded and run offline and have literally no libraries or frameworks or dependencies, because i'm an insane woman who enjoys hand coding my input handling and display code from scratch in vanilla js and having it all live in one single html file with the game logic and the page structure and the page style all just living and loving together side by side in a universal format that can be run by any web browser on any devixe. i'll even include image files as base64 data-uri strings just to keep every single asset inside the one file.

Arkveld is really smart when you think about it design wise.

Ghosts don’t exist in Monster Hunter, so how would they make a ghost flagship (who recall, is titled “The White Wraith”)?

Obviously there’s the design, a wyvern whose wrists look shackled and bound by broken chains, a shaggy white coat of fur and cloaked wings… It’s chains burning with ghostly white flames before turning to a bloody, vengeful red.

Yeah yeah design is awesome… But lore! How does Arkveld lorewise connect to a ghost?

Simple… Arkveld is an ecological ghost.

Its species is dead, it is dead, the world has adapted and reshaped without it. Arkveld’s species is artificially revived, mankind’s machinations bringing something that should be dead back into the world of the living.

Something dead, dragged forcefully back onto the living world.

Pretty ghostly if you ask me

Sometime on this site, you can find the info you need, mostly due to people having a hyper fixation on a certain topic. So sometimes the clowns can have knowledge.

Are sharks actually smooth? I keep seeing people saying they aren't but also others saying they are and now I'm confused :(

sharkskin is completely covered with tiny tiny grooved teeth, which gives it some interesting properties!

these denticles are aligned in one direction with the jagged edges pointing back towards the tail, which breaks fluid mechanics in some weird completely bullshit ways that gives it basically no water resistance in that one direction.

this, in effect, means that sharks are INCREDIBLY smooth and can go as fast as they like in any direction, provided that the direction in question is forward.

however, if the shark tried to go backwards, or if you ran your hand down it the wrong way, the opposite effect would take place- the sharp edges of the denticles would create SUPER water resistance and shred the bejeesus out of your hand.

if you’re going to pet a shark, make sure you go from the head back!

With the many characters that I made in my head, I tend to have them come together to fight, whether it’s each other or together, I gave them them distinct fighting styles depending on weapon, like with swords, bows polearms, shields, whatever they could find, or a hand-to-hand fist fight like a bar brawler, wrestler, or a feral animal.

Sometimes their skills are made with stuff I take from things I see like martial arts, militaristic styles, or things like Wuxia. And their personality make them to the book, unpredictable, or volatile.

Magic is definitely involved with how they use it showing the people they are like duplication to stay relentless, portals to keep distance or stay defensive, defensive magic to make riskier move connection, or poison/strength theft and wait the clock out.

You can learn the type of person that they are with just they way they fight(which is a running joke in that world)

…Which makes it funnier that one of my physically strongest character's fighting style boils down to…

His hand-to-hand is him flailing around his arms and legs, mostly hitting with the arms, every weapon he touches ends wrecked, he feels nothing, so never bothers to dodge, and his “strategy” boils down to “hit them-not dead?-hit them harder”, yet his strength means blocking is too risky, borderline suicidal.

All the work going into how every character fights and there’s just one guy living of crackhead/godly strength and nothing else.

And he doesn’t even win many fights because most of his opponents figure out that hitting him from afar despite the thrown trees and boulders is the best option.

Just shows that strength itself is useless if you don’t even have a strategy to use it properly.

Roses are red, that much is true, but violets are purple, not fucking blue.

Ninjas don’t wear black. They used to disguise themselves as civilians. Unlike ninjas in movies, the real guys were smart enough to know that wearing a black outfit with a face mask wasn’t the best strategy for blending in. Source

Need a long Elmo of my own

what if Alhaitham's boob gem is something he had glued to himself in his childhood out of scientific curiosity and hasn't been able to get it off ever since like flint lockwood