secret-stories-misc

[hoary knot]

Yup.

[unkempt yew]

👀

I do love have Gnolls

[swift badge]

Cy's typing up an essay

[round loom]

Dang what is a great idea for something

[swift badge]

[round loom]

Oh no he's going to give us a lecture

[hoary knot]

👨‍🏫

[unkempt yew]

[swift badge]

I think hes just trying to say something informative or meaningful

We're in misc so

[round loom]

Okay just hope

[edgy scroll]

DnD, and more broadly, TTRPGs, are a messy crapsack of in-jokes, convoluted rules, and assorted chicanery. I love them, and play them often.

If you guys don't break the rules I don't have to say anything about it, you know

[round loom]

Cy what's a great way to get good at Colt of the Lamb

[hoary knot]

breaks all the rules

[round loom]

You got to be a game expert right

[round loom]

No no no no don't do that

[swift badge]

Do it

[hoary knot]

Awwww

[unkempt yew]

I love mistaking a normal chest as a mimic

[hoary knot]

Since you told me to, I won’t.

[round loom]

We have to follow the rules

[swift badge]

[hoary knot]

[swift badge]

[edgy scroll]

You've gotta upgrade beds and unlock things early.

[round loom]

Cy I think I just got something goated

[edgy scroll]

My most recent favorite was that I almost got someone with a gelatinous cube.

[round loom]

I got to go necklace oh no man

Never mind I got something bad

Well that was a waste of a god tear

[round loom]

Hey what do you think of a slug cat that can hypnotize

[hoary knot]

That could be really interesting.

[unkempt yew]

[round loom]

Indeed

[unkempt yew]

Give it rainbow colours

Be a sea creature

[round loom]

[hoary knot]

I think Saint would fit well in that kind of story.

[hoary knot]

Nah, I would make it pink or brown.

[round loom]

Okay one question should we add upgrades to the thing I'm thinking about

[edgy scroll]

I put a group of level ones into a level six dungeon, it was wild the kind of tricks they had to pull, how often they almost ate it. Good time.

[unkempt yew]

Ever see Hypno shroom from PvZ?

[hoary knot]

I played PvZ like ten years ago.

I don’t remember it.

[unkempt yew]

[unkempt yew]

Hol up

[unkempt yew]

This shroom right there, officer

[swift badge]

[hoary knot]

He looks high.

[edgy scroll]

This guy was goated

[unkempt yew]

Everytime I see a football zombie

I pull up with this guy

[unkempt yew]

It is a mushroom

[trim tartan]

Plants versus Zombies?

[unkempt yew]

[unkempt yew]

Yee

[trim tartan]

I’ve never played it.

[edgy scroll]

play hard or not at all (none of them died because they were locked in)

[hoary knot]

Fair enough.

[limpid ore]

ive played pvz 1 and 2 as well as the garden warfare trilogy

[unkempt yew]

That's why like rainbow colour looked like a trip

[unkempt yew]

There's 2?!

[hoary knot]

Apparently there was a PvZ3 but it sucked.

[hoary knot]

Yeah lol.

It’s like a decade old already.

[unkempt yew]

Did I missed from Pop Cap already?

[hoary knot]

PvZ2 is 12 years old.

[edgy scroll]

Garden warfare was better than it should've been, though.

[unkempt yew]

[limpid ore]

it was SO fun omgggg

[unkempt yew]

I haven't played Garden Warfare

[limpid ore]

i was so obsessed several years ago

[unkempt yew]

But it does look fun

[knotty sierra]

Both were so freaking good

[unkempt yew]

I always wanted to be a peashooter

[edgy scroll]

Real. I always wanted to play the plants, they were just more fun to me.

[knotty sierra]

Sad it all went down with bfn

[hoary knot]

I never played it.

[unkempt yew]

My most used unit in PvZ were repeaters

[limpid ore]

i liked bfn despite how much it lacked

[unkempt yew]

Very reliable and cheap

[hoary knot]

I should download PvZ again.

I haven’t touched the game in a decade.

[unkempt yew]

Now, gonna write Cap's oneshot after nearly a month of no writing

I need to break wroting block

[hoary knot]

Eat ice cream.

[unkempt yew]

Just a snippet

[hoary knot]

The best of ideas come during ice cream snack.

[unkempt yew]

Can't

[edgy scroll]

Chocolate ice cream, yes.

[unkempt yew]

I cannot bite ice cream

[hoary knot]

Why?

[hoary knot]

-_-

[unkempt yew]

It hurts me teeth

[hoary knot]

Who the hell bites their ice cream?!

[unkempt yew]

[edgy scroll]

I bite my ice cream

[unkempt yew]

I like biting my ice cream

[hoary knot]

[round loom]

Can I have some ice cream

Let me have a little bit

[unkempt yew]

But if I do buy, idk what to choose

[edgy scroll]

I ain't got time left to do all that licking nonsense. I'm a busy man with a busy life.

[hoary knot]

It’s time to reset humanity chat.

[unkempt yew]

(Cornetto, I choose you)

[edgy scroll]

None left

[knotty sierra]

I’ll only bite ice cream sandwiches.

[hoary knot]

Eat it with a spoon!

[round loom]

Okay

[unkempt yew]

Nah

[round loom]

Hey frog

[unkempt yew]

I eat it with cone

[round loom]

You mind if I do a little test

[hoary knot]

Haaaaiii!

[hoary knot]

Sure! Go ahead!

[unkempt yew]

disappeared for writing

[round loom]

Okay now I'm going to use the concept of the hypnotizer remember the slug cat I was talking about

[hoary knot]

[round loom]

Okay we're going to test out the ability

[hoary knot]

Okay!

[round loom]

3

2

1

[hoary knot]

[round loom]

https://tenor.com/view/hypno-hypnosis-hypnotize-illusion-optical-illusion-gif-5332716

[hoary knot]

honk mimimimi

[round loom]

Not frog The hypnotize will only go away once I put my third eye back into rest mode

And whatever I say with the hypnotize you have to follow my command

[hoary knot]

honk mimimimimi

[round loom]

Hypnotize rest mode

Damn actually worked

[hoary knot]

Bah!

I had a nightmare.

I got hypnotized by a weird ass slug!

[round loom]

Damn

Crazy go tell crispy

[hoary knot]

[round loom]

Wait why does your username have boy kisser in it

[hoary knot]

Why do you think?

[round loom]

Just wondering

[round loom]

[hoary knot]

It’s because I kiss boys.

[round loom]

Just hope I'm not next

[round loom]

When did this start

Of you becoming a boy kiss

[hoary knot]

I learned what homosexuality was at around 14 years old.

But I wanted to kiss boys before that.

[trim tartan]

As a tribute to Yamcha, “Gay”. /ref

[round loom]

Hi friend

I have a genius idea

[round loom]

Ok

Time to hypnotize you

https://tenor.com/view/hypno-hypnosis-hypnotize-illusion-optical-illusion-gif-5332716

[hoary knot]

honk mimimimimi

[round loom]

Now a simple command I will give you

Create a slug pup

[hoary knot]

https://discord.com/channels/291184728944410624/1331088483715911710

[round loom]

Wow the prototype of the hypnotizer ability that I can borrow is so useful

[round loom]

Hypnotize return sleep mode

[hoary knot]

honk mimimimimi

[swift badge]

Dang those are some good DnD players

[edgy scroll]

We've been at it for... nearly a decade . It doesn't feel that long, until suddenly it is

But there have been some good memories made along the way!

[limpid ore]

one of my friends made a leprechaun necromancer character

[swift badge]

Heyo cele

[swift badge]

Always the best part

[limpid ore]

little angry irish man riding on a zombie like a gargantuar

[round loom]

Krispy what do you think of this so this is the effect for when the hypnotizer slug cat uses his hypnotize ability

Okay allow me to demonstrate

[swift badge]

KRISPY?

[round loom]

I'm sorry

[swift badge]

[trim tartan]

Hello sorry, I’m dad!

[edgy scroll]

like the cereal

[round loom]

Father

[swift badge]

So can i call you dad now?

[swift badge]

Or the donuts..

[round loom]

Where have you been all this time

[trim tartan]

Milk.

And now I’m off for the cereal.

[round loom]

[trim tartan]

See you all.

[round loom]

No don't leave me

Father father

[edgy scroll]

donuts... always want one when they're mentioned, but after one I never have the stomach for another

[round loom]

Cy

[swift badge]

Fair enough, i cant handle too many sweet things

[austere hawk]

one donut is enough donut

[round loom]

My father left me

He went to go get the cereal

[round loom]

Hello

[edgy scroll]

[round loom]

I think Celestium is my biological slug cat Father

[limpid ore]

i could probs eat like eight donuts before i feel ill

[edgy scroll]

I think I'm gonna give that one another

[edgy scroll]

That's more than me. I will def feel sick after three or four.

[round loom]

What does that mean

[edgy scroll]

That that was a little bit of a strange thing to ping me for

[hoary knot]

I would probably eat eight donuts, feel sick, then eat eight more donuts.

[round loom]

I'm sorry

[edgy scroll]

You don’t really need to apologize.

[round loom]

Ok

[gleaming valley]

what

???

bro this is so bad i think one of the first encounters is like 6 goblins

[edgy scroll]

That strange feeling when you think you hear someone call your name in the other room, but then when you look in, no one’s there…

[unkempt yew]

[gleaming valley]

[unkempt yew]

True

I get that a lot, actually

[gleaming valley]

anyways heres some of my au art that i infected upon the library’s ipad

jm not finishing it

[edgy scroll]

You got something against 6 goblins
(I kid of course, these box sets are actually not very good at all )

[gleaming valley]

i dont want to get pummeled when im trying to learn how to play

[unkempt yew]

[edgy scroll]

I genuinely thought you were complaining about 6 goblins being too easy

[gleaming valley]

like yeah one on its own is fine, but 6 is just whoo

[gleaming valley]

naw

i think an experienced group might be able to manage it, but i dont think its good for those just starting out

[hoary knot]

[unkempt yew]

Man, I wanna experience the character-died-in-the first-turn

[gleaming valley]

[edgy scroll]

The best one is “die twice in one session”

[wraith bear]

oh hey we're talking about dnd

[gleaming valley]

hi sly

[wraith bear]

I shall silently wait for an opportunity once everyone is silent so that I may share my brews...

[unkempt yew]

I wanna roll the dice

[unkempt yew]

Ooooh

[wraith bear]

i made a website for my big public ones

https://sites.google.com/view/slys-custom-races/dionae

this is my best work because I also consulted the dnd discord for balance help

[swift badge]

:3

Nothing

[gleaming valley]

yeah, i read everything

😒

[swift badge]

?

[hoary knot]

[unkempt yew]

[edgy scroll]

Extra limbs says you can hold more light weapons. Does that open the door to more attacks?

[wraith bear]

no idea, I just stole everything for the extra arms from the thri-kreen extra arms

whatever goes for that goes for the extra limbs

[limpid ore]

i think one of my backlog characters is a demon-merman thats a lich

[unkempt yew]

The Lich from Adventure Time?!

[wraith bear]

I also was working on a magic item, but I've stopped for a while

I have to make a ton of tables for it and I didnt feel like doing those at the time

[edgy scroll]

Thri-Kreen are busted because of those extra limbs seems like a fun plant guy to play.

[limpid ore]

drymm said it reminded them of a capricorn

[wraith bear]

o h

well thanks for the compliment!

[unkempt yew]

They kinda look like Capricorn, ngl

[edgy scroll]

It reminds me of a certain Slugcat of yours more than anything

[limpid ore]

i have this demon satyr too

[wraith bear]

i also made this race for a character I'm playing a new campaign
I just did a ton of copying from the purple worm and also turned the light spell into an action

I like the idea of just being a big worm instead of anything vaguely normal

[edgy scroll]

This guy is based

[limpid ore]

worm sounds like my kind of silly

[edgy scroll]

Worm 🪱

[unkempt yew]

What's AC?

[wraith bear]

armor class

[limpid ore]

the legs took 2 hours

[unkempt yew]

I see

[edgy scroll]

The number to beat to see if you get hit or no

[wraith bear]

yuh

[unkempt yew]

BRB, GONNA DRAW ME WOLF BOY AGAIN

Image for context:

[wraith bear]

I was originally going to just make a young purple worm but that felt too unoriginal, and one of the other players informed me the campaign was going to start in a dark dungeon so I figured I could introduce the worm by having it break in

[edgy scroll]

I can tell. Those ding dang digitigrades.

[wraith bear]

when the digitis are graded

[unkempt yew]

Legs

[limpid ore]

shes still my favorite though

my favorite design

[edgy scroll]

Bugg

[limpid ore]

tarantula hawk wasp

[edgy scroll]

Hey. That’s three different animals. You can just be all of them

[wraith bear]

I have a reoccuring bug phase where I just make a ton of bug characters and then I calm down and forget all about it

le bug

[limpid ore]

i like making bug characters too

[wraith bear]

exactly why my first ever dnd character was a thri-kreen

[limpid ore]

i have this other make-believe world where martians descended from grasshoppers and make bio fuel with special moss

[edgy scroll]

Bug people

[limpid ore]

i also really like moths so ill probs have more moth ocs at some point

[unkempt yew]

Hollow Knight

Gonna try bug arts too

Especially, Hollow Knight bugs

[wraith bear]

i made this idiot a while back

[edgy scroll]

Hollow knight first sold me with it all being a bunch of funny bugs

[unkempt yew]

Gonna try me vessel too

[unkempt yew]

[wraith bear]

quite sure I had some more hk art but I guess the goblin ate it

[hoary knot]

[edgy scroll]

the goblin

[wraith bear]

oh wait sorry

the goblinio

[unkempt yew]

Goblins

[hoary knot]

Goblins are awesome!

Second best race.

[wraith bear]

the goblinio is the goblin that lives in my head, yells at me, and occasionally materializes into a physical being to eat my art

[unkempt yew]

Orks best boyz, yea?

[hoary knot]

Oh.

[hoary knot]

Mimics.

[unkempt yew]

Mimics

[edgy scroll]

Six goblins jumping out of the bush at a group of unprepared adventurers is peak

[hoary knot]

I love mimic PCs.

[edgy scroll]

Are you a DM?

[wraith bear]

oh yeah
one time in my first campaign the DM locked two of the players in a room with two mimics that took their place, and the session ended soon after so the mimics didn't get to do much

the two playes proceeded to never show up again, and the mimics never posed a threat to anyone ever again

we have since progressed far past that location

[edgy scroll]

Realest D&D story

[hoary knot]

Both.

[wraith bear]

D AND M????

[hoary knot]

DM three campaigns and play in one.

[edgy scroll]

best of both worlds, brother

[hoary knot]

Hell yeah!

[edgy scroll]

Three weekly? That’s a heavy load

[hoary knot]

Oh hell no!

There’s one where we haven’t gotten to play since last summer because of college.

And two that I play bimonthly.

[wraith bear]

the one I currently play is supposed to happen every wednesday but it keeps getting cancelled every time :(

[hoary knot]

Scheduling is DnD’s final boss.

[edgy scroll]

Like a rotation? Those are nice, but it can become easy to forget and mix things up.

[hoary knot]

Worst than five tarrasques in a closed room.

[hoary knot]

I have well organized notes and it’s not that much of a rotation. It’s often in the same week since that’s when I’m free.

[unkempt yew]

Chat, I can't draw

[edgy scroll]

Well organized notes?!? What kind of DM are you?

[hoary knot]

An autistic one.

[unkempt yew]

I was tryna draw this guy

[hoary knot]

Fuck you mean you can’t draw?!

[edgy scroll]

Lies. This is good

[unkempt yew]

Gonna draw again, brb

[edgy scroll]

I’ve yet to meet one that ain’t, at least just a little

[hoary knot]

I just hate non-organized stuff.

[edgy scroll]

You gotta like the charts and the stats to get behind the screen and stay there, methinks.

[hoary knot]

YEEEESSSS

My DM screen is full of a bunch of stat blocks.

[edgy scroll]

I remember the first time I cracked open the old DMG I got handed down from a relative. The numbers, the lists, all the little splash art. My fate was sealed from the start

[hoary knot]

Which edition did you start with?

[edgy scroll]

Oh, 5th, like most people under 30. Kinda moved off of it pretty fast, though.

But the first book I read was 3rd.

Which might have influenced me, I guess, cause I’m running pathfinder now

[hoary knot]

Nice! I started with 4th because that’s what my father and uncle were playing.

[edgy scroll]

4th! That’s actually cool as hell, I don’t know anyone who’s played a lot of 4th.

[hoary knot]

Because it kind of sucks compared to the others lol.

[edgy scroll]

It’s the only one I’ve never sunk my teeth into, because I’ve heard a lot of criticism like that

I’d still like to give it a shot someday, just because I know it’s trying something different.

[hoary knot]

They kind of wanted to go the MMO route I guess? But like, it’s hard to do that when you are a tabletop.

[hoary knot]

Yeah, to be different it is different.

[edgy scroll]

Hey, some systems are different in really good ways. CoC is always on my rotation just because it’s so starkly different from “the standard”.

[hoary knot]

Lol.

But yeah, it’s just that 4e doesn’t really put the RPG in TTRPG.

[unkempt yew]

I just try to follow how to draw the Streltsi's rifle from Kislev

[edgy scroll]

people don’t want to play a video game on the table, after all.

[hoary knot]

Yeah lol.

[unkempt yew]

I wanna play a game on a table

[swift badge]

Is the DnD talk still going?

[unkempt yew]

It's been so long

[edgy scroll]

Kislev. Where do I know that from?

[hoary knot]

I play my video games on the floor! 🗣️‼️

[unkempt yew]

Warhammer Fantasy

[hoary knot]

Yesh.

[edgy scroll]

[swift badge]

[unkempt yew]

[edgy scroll]

Far too cute for the spire of iron and crystal

[hoary knot]

This looks awesome!

[unkempt yew]

[edgy scroll]

Don’t me, they look like they belong in a warm and well-lit terrarium

[hoary knot]

This emoji is so cursed!

[unkempt yew]

[hoary knot]

[swift badge]

sorcerer glass canon that previously destroyed their old friends/team

Not intentionally

Accidentally

[unkempt yew]

Dang

The price of power is real

[swift badge]

fr fr

Cursed

[edgy scroll]

It happens

[unkempt yew]

Gonna draw again

[hoary knot]

« Accidentally. »

[swift badge]

Hey it was a curse

[hoary knot]

You sure it isn’t a warlock?

[swift badge]

Sold part of her soul for the pursuit of knowledge

Meaning that in certain situations she will become almost empty of conscience

Going full dragon form baby

[hoary knot]

Oh!

That reminds me.

[edgy scroll]

Really, sounds like she’s got no one to blame but herself

[swift badge]

Yep!

[hoary knot]

#every warlock ever

[swift badge]

So now she’s hesitant to join a new group but wants to get a refund basically

[edgy scroll]

#and every wizard #and every bard #and like half of all sorcerers #dont even get me started on clerics

[hoary knot]

#not every warlock ever

[hoary knot]

Not really, bards get their power from their art, wizards from their knowledge, and sorcerers because their grandpa had… questionable tastes.

Clerics get their magic from their faith.

[edgy scroll]

All I’m saying is that any of them could’ve chosen to be like a baker or something

[hoary knot]

Fair enough.

[edgy scroll]

Adventurers are a wretched lot, grave robbers and killers for hire by trade, the only difference being that they have some sanction from some authority or another… sometimes

[unkempt yew]

Back

[hoary knot]

Yeah, when the DM is an unfun person.

[unkempt yew]

Need to work on expressions

[edgy scroll]

Have you read my little comment on my discord profile, by any chance?

[hoary knot]

[unkempt yew]

The Anti-Fun is real

[hoary knot]

Fun killer.

[unkempt yew]

[edgy scroll]

In all seriousness, my players seem to like being a bunch of dirty folks of checkered background and questionable morals. Makes the heroism really shine when it does happen and gives them a little more leeway to rob some stuck-up noble or merchant just cause he was rude to them.

[hoary knot]

I have two ways of making a character: the most adorable creature you have ever seen and the most adorable creature you have ever seen but it has ADHD and won’t stay on track ever.

[plucky zenith]

I have two types of characters: chronic overthinkers, and pure assholes

[hoary knot]

Lmao

[gleaming valley]

those are the only types of characters

[plucky zenith]

[swift badge]

Bisexual eyes

[austere hawk]

perdy dragon

[wraith bear]

pritty

[gleaming valley]

https://tenor.com/view/art-eaten-art-eat-art-eaten-consumed-gif-3964616362436141214

[swift badge]

Frick

[gleaming valley]

[swift badge]

the multiple nuclei model

which is often found in modernized areas

[eager warren]

What

[swift badge]

it includes multiple nodes where high end settlements can cluster

this model is usually the most accurate imo

since it realistically includes multiple nuclei

[plucky zenith]

[swift badge]

such as airports and universities

[plucky zenith]

Is that all of them?

[swift badge]

no

[limpid ore]

qhar

[swift badge]

the sub-saharan development model

[plucky zenith]

we're doing homework here

[swift badge]

its unique because of it's multiple CBDS

but not to get confused with the multiple nuclei

[plucky zenith]

what's a CBDS?

[swift badge]

since multiple nuclei is-

[swift badge]

central business district

AKA downtown

[plucky zenith]

okay, continue with what you were saying

[swift badge]

multiple nuclei includes many nodes such as transportation services while the sub-saharan african model has many "downtowns"

so its not the same

aisian model or whatever

i forgot the name

its located near ports for easy transportation

[plucky zenith]

Alright

[swift badge]

the CBDs are usually near large transportation centers in result

[plucky zenith]

so these all relate to the placement of high-income and business districts?

[night lily]

I was about to defend that geography is very interesting Then i realized I mixed that up with geology

[swift badge]

mmm yes

well

where the nodal CBD would be in accordance to place

so it depends on the country

the US follows a very unique pattern

in that high-income suburban areas are on the periphery

while in other places, such as london, high income areas are near the CBD

[plucky zenith]

Suburbanization

[swift badge]

because of the large amount of services and fancy residential buildings

[swift badge]

surburbanization also varies in the US and UK

in the US, they like wasting stuff

so they waste land

causing suburban spread?

idk what its called

i should probably study that

OH

sprawl

suburban sprawl

[trim tartan]

Cy. Hello.

[edgy scroll]

Because there’s more land and everyone has cars in the US, so large gaps can be handwaved in the name of having a fancy lawn.

[swift badge]

thats also true,

but companies also like leapfrogging

because of higher land costs near the CBD

so they skip that land, going to cheaper areas instead

which can be justified by increased transportation

[trim tartan]

“I’ll put the wrong flag on my lawn so Geoguessr players will get it wrong!”
“Lawn, United States.”

[swift badge]

as the US is heavily reliant on cars for transport

while in the UK they have stricter land laws as to not cause sprawl

since sprawl creates too small pockets of land to be sustainable

waiting for the essays

[night lily]

I'd imagine having cars = the need to have land to park them too even more sprawling i guess?

[swift badge]

yeah! cause of more complex roads and like you said, parking

[edgy scroll]

The suburban periphery leads to the strange phenomenon where the very fancy, expensive “downtown” in the US is often just a block or two from the roughest and poorest parts of the inner city, as well.

[swift badge]

actually, i think a large percentage of cities (40%) is "wasted" on just car use

[trim tartan]

Ah, yes. The wealth gap.

[swift badge]

gentrification

where middle class residents transforms lower-income downtown areas

[trim tartan]

Because you all keep making your cars so damn big.

Not that I don’t like big cars or big things, but it is true.

[swift badge]

even though public transportation would be more sustainable, americans refuse to use it because they like doing things differently

[edgy scroll]

I almost started using some no-no language there. I’ve had some friends basically shoved out of their homes by gentrification.

[swift badge]

damn

yeah gentrification has good and bad effects but it still isnt fair for low-income people

raising taxes, rent prices, etc

level 46 oo

[edgy scroll]

It’s the automotive arms race. The truck gets bigger to appeal more to the worker moving cargo, so the SUV gets bigger so it can survive getting hit by the truck.

[swift badge]

Lmao?

[unkempt yew]

The Biggering is real

[plucky zenith]

real

[swift badge]

uhhhh urbanization is cool and whatever i guess

(not really)

(its so boring)

[unkempt yew]

I don't like urban areas

[swift badge]

(this class is easy but its so boring)

(0/10)

[plucky zenith]

What do you think about de-urbanizing trends post-covid?

[unkempt yew]

It made me feel uneasy

[swift badge]

i enjoy urban areas :)

[swift badge]

my textbook isnt that new how rich do you think my school is?

[unkempt yew]

I'm fine with me and a huge open field right outside my doors

[plucky zenith]

especially as most intellectual work goes remote?

[plucky zenith]

[swift badge]

uhhh are you talking about brain drain..?

[plucky zenith]

Critical thinking question

[swift badge]

youre spewing too advanced words

well,

suburbanization was always a thing

it increased recently in the US

but only in the US

because US is wierd like that

[unkempt yew]

[plucky zenith]

We like lawns

[unkempt yew]

I have a backyard filled with trees

[swift badge]

well, technically a rural area if im not mistaken

which means further from CBD

which means more commute

[unkempt yew]

Not really a rural, not really urban

[swift badge]

which people dont enjoy

[swift badge]

s-suburban?

[unkempt yew]

We literally going to have McDonalds soon

[plucky zenith]

But is it really brain drain if most companies are still operating from the citites, just more and more of the labor is done over the internet?

[swift badge]

ohhhhhhhhhh

okay so outsourcing

yeah

[night lily]

Well, some essential works still can't be done via WFH/remote
Like healthcare jobs

[swift badge]

due to improved communications/the internet yeah labor is more common in the internet

but it depends on the service

like epochs said

[unkempt yew]

[austere hawk]

this description feels like animals evolving in an ecosystem

[edgy scroll]

I had a doctor’s appointment that they tried to move to an online consultation this week due to bad weather, as a matter of fact

[swift badge]

interesting!

[austere hawk]

david attenborough style narration of the machines in a city

[plucky zenith]

this is the essay section on the test
Describe what effect you think this shift will have on cities

[swift badge]

ARE YOU SEARCHING IT UP?

[unkempt yew]

What

[swift badge]

I DONT WANNA DO A FRQ

okay wait

[plucky zenith]

I am your teacher

[swift badge]

what effect?

[plucky zenith]

Tree let me log into his account

[swift badge]

wait Mr. ___ is that you?!??!

[plucky zenith]

Yes

[unkempt yew]

Holy crap, your teacher tracked you down

[swift badge]

okay then what color shirt were you wearing yesterday?

get kahoot question karma

[plucky zenith]

Discord office hours

[night lily]

that sounds weird to me. I guess since it's an appointment, you've met in person before? Because if it's a new visitation how would the doctor do physical exams

[plucky zenith]

What color shirt were you wearing yesterday?

[swift badge]

do you think i'd remember?

yellow i think

[edgy scroll]

It wasn't really that kind of doc. I'll leave it at that.

[plucky zenith]

[swift badge]

ask me about services

im done talking about ubanization

*consumer services

[edgy scroll]

My answer? It's going to make cities dissolve like sand castles when the tide comes up

[unkempt yew]

I don't like urban

[plucky zenith]

you got a 100 on the exam

[hoary knot]

Dog.

[unkempt yew]

[plucky zenith]

Now crisby needs to answer the essay question

[swift badge]

uhhh

okay but what effect?

[plucky zenith]

-5

[night lily]

What tide /j

[swift badge]

like is there a stimuli or what

[swift badge]

[plucky zenith]

-5

[swift badge]

WHAT SHIFT?

UBANIZATION?

SUBURBANIZATION?

[plucky zenith]

needs to be supported by evidence

[edgy scroll]

criby is blowing this test

[plucky zenith]

-5

She's bombing it rn

[swift badge]

THERES NOT ENOUGH EVIDENCE IN THAT QUESTION?

YOU PROVIDE MORE EVIDENCE

[plucky zenith]

-5

[swift badge]

uhhhhh suburbanization leads to more lower-income people to get forced into CBDs due to filtering

AND UH

[plucky zenith]

Thesis statement

[swift badge]

which might cause other things like white fli- WHAT?

AM I WIRTING AN ESSAY?

[plucky zenith]

I said it was an essay question

[hoary knot]

Botos pinted?

[plucky zenith]

it has been very poorly structured up until now

[swift badge]

THERES NO ESSAYS ON THE AP EXAM?

[edgy scroll]

nah, you're writing one, not wirting one

[plucky zenith]

[plucky zenith]

Except the ones I'm adding

[edgy scroll]

kids got it easy these days, huh?

[swift badge]

YOURE ON THE COLLEGE BOARD???!?!??!?!

[plucky zenith]

I'm also the test writer for College Board

[swift badge]

hey i have 3 FRQs, basically an essay

[plucky zenith]

and the Admissions councilor for every school you're applying to

[edgy scroll]

"back in my day we had to write two essays uphill on every test"

[swift badge]

[swift badge]

[sly carbon]

in the snow, too?

[austere hawk]

in the rain

[plucky zenith]

I let a lot of people log into my account

my internet safety is terrible

[swift badge]

cant be worse than my wife's

im surprised she isnt like

[gleaming valley]

[swift badge]

hey

[gleaming valley]

[swift badge]

what are you doing here

[swift badge]

what is that look mean

[gleaming valley]

ive been here for a while

[plucky zenith]

anyway, 8/10 essay

[gleaming valley]

lurking

i just never engaged

[swift badge]

YO? i just wrote like 1 sentence

based teacher

w college board

[plucky zenith]

that part where you talked about your wife was weird but like I'm not payed enough to care

[hoary knot]

[gleaming valley]

anyways

im gonna go back to outer wilds

[swift badge]

LMAO IT STILL WENT THROUGH? I THOUGHT I WAS DONE

[gleaming valley]

occassionally glancing over here

crispy you have to tell me whether i did a bad job at writing

but you can do that later

[austere hawk]

crispy did you do your homework

[swift badge]

:)

no

[edgy scroll]

Alright stories, it's been a blast, but I'm going to call it a night here

[sly carbon]

OUTER WILDS MENTIONED 🚨🚨🚨

[swift badge]

well

[plucky zenith]

[swift badge]

WELL

[austere hawk]

[gleaming valley]

OH MY GOD MESMO

[plucky zenith]

[gleaming valley]

[swift badge]

i was studying

banan

[gleaming valley]

are you gonna point it out every time i even slightly mention outer wilds

heck

[swift badge]

they helped me study yeah

[night lily]

the sleep debt is catching up to you I see /lh

[unkempt yew]

don't worry, officer

[plucky zenith]

Go study more

[unkempt yew]

He got a pardon

[swift badge]

um do any of you know biology

[unkempt yew]

No

[swift badge]

like DNA replication

[plucky zenith]

Part two of the test is tomorrow

[unkempt yew]

[plucky zenith]

AP bio?

[swift badge]

beadsssssss can you help moi studyyyy

[unkempt yew]

Im a cook

[plucky zenith]

I'll see what I can recall

[swift badge]

taking that next year, not this

just normal bio

would AP bio and AP lit be a bad combo

i feel like its alright

[night lily]

A bit im a self-proclaimed Jack of all trades in science (and a master of none )

[plucky zenith]

So the strands unzip with the little splitter thing

[swift badge]

little splitter thing is the helicase

[plucky zenith]

and then the RNA polymerase kind just attaches in there

[swift badge]

:)

[plucky zenith]

or the DNA polymerase?

[swift badge]

thanks for the 2nd science lesson

[swift badge]

DNA is for replication?

i think?

[night lily]

What exactly/how deep you need to know?

[swift badge]

RNA is for transcription

[swift badge]

basics

[plucky zenith]

And then the little zipper things comes back and seals it up :)

[swift badge]

honors bio?

[swift badge]

polymerase?

wait

[unkempt yew]

[night lily]

Not necessarily, some prokaryotes/primitive species use RNA as main genetics materials as well

[unkempt yew]

Meanwhile trying to understand any of it:

[swift badge]

thats just a guess

i dont know anything

[plucky zenith]

We use the DNA polymerase in DNA replication iirc

[swift badge]

its been a while since i learned this stuff, still hazy good ol' high school days amirite

(learned 3 days ago)

[limpid ore]

i have no idea what the fuck yall are talking about

[plucky zenith]

the topoisomoerase uncurls it and then the DNA polymerase attaches the Okazaki fragments

[limpid ore]

school information i learned went in one ear and then out the other

[unkempt yew]

Same

[night lily]

It's like, RNA was something that evolved first, DNA came up later

So RNA is a bit more basic than DNA ( having 1 strand instead of double strands, some components are different, and the 'length' is shorter)

I have to dust off my knowledge on this Haven't recalled these for a long time

[plucky zenith]

and uh it recurls on its own because of the VESPER of the molecules and stuff

[swift badge]

too advanced, too advanced!

[swift badge]

[plucky zenith]

Behold

[swift badge]

RNA has ribose while DNA has deoxyribose

RNA has u and DNA has like t or some shi

omg

[swift badge]

i can make a science pick up line

[plucky zenith]

[limpid ore]

made up fantasy words

[plucky zenith]

This was my favorite diagram in school

[swift badge]

okay im also learning about neurons; like the different parts

[swift badge]

w-why?

[plucky zenith]

It has cool colors

[swift badge]

fair

[night lily]

Yep. And also the 'code' components

Both use 4 'coding components'(like how computer use base 2 of 0 and 1 to encode information)

DNA uses A T C G
RNA uses A U C G

[swift badge]

A - T

C - G

ya

apples in the tree cars in the garage or something

[plucky zenith]

uhhh we never did this in my honors bio

[limpid ore]

made me remember this

[plucky zenith]

there's the dendrites

[swift badge]

[plucky zenith]

the axons

and the nucleus

[swift badge]

oh yeah that stuff

nucleus is circle

[plucky zenith]

dont forget the soma

[swift badge]

dendrites in the big hand things

[night lily]

This is a bit too advance maybe need to explain what's leading and lagging strand

[swift badge]

axons is the end????

idk

[limpid ore]

the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell

[swift badge]

this wont be on the test; just need basics

oh yeah

[simple mango]

ture...

[swift badge]

DNA transcription and translation too

transcription is the first and translation is next ????

i think?

mayhaps

[plucky zenith]

axons go to the terminal thingy

which has a whole bunch of synapses

[limpid ore]

repeated from first grade all the way through 12th at the schools ive been to

[swift badge]

ohhhhh

i got axon mixed up with axon terminal

i got dendrites right though

[limpid ore]

that looks like one of those inflatable tube men

[swift badge]

bro i should not be a straight a student

too hard

[plucky zenith]

the axon sends signals away, while the dendrites send signals in

and uhhh

[swift badge]

soma

[gleaming valley]

i didnt see the a in this sentence at first

the second a

[swift badge]

S:AGLO

i am not a straight student

[gleaming valley]

:slagom

'spad

;sagolgnu

[swift badge]

spasms

[gleaming valley]

[swift badge]

shotgun

imperial russia

[plucky zenith]

kinda just there to keep the cell alive and functioning right iirc

[swift badge]

[unkempt yew]

[night lily]

In that scenario, basically think of DNA as a prime blueprint that shouldn't be used directly (and also because usually DNA is in double strand form, can't be used directly)

Transcription is to copy the DNA into a workable form as RNA strand (so have space for enzymnes to cling, onto)

Translation is using that RNA to make actual proteins/products

[plucky zenith]

has all the usual cell thing,like the mitochondria

[swift badge]

thanks

so i think i was right

[swift badge]

"cell thing"

"like mitochondria"

[plucky zenith]

just cell things

[swift badge]

cells doing cell things

[plucky zenith]

cells will be cells

[limpid ore]

cells at work is getting its second season on netflix soon

[swift badge]

im tired of school

just put me in work already

[limpid ore]

mm anime

[swift badge]

epochs youre just like my mom

she says work is worse than school

[plucky zenith]

[night lily]

I think you might change your mind when that time comes

[swift badge]

i dont want to be here

no what if work is fun

[limpid ore]

i sadly cannot get job. i fall fairly often and im nearsighted

[swift badge]

i wouldnt know

i never tried

[plucky zenith]

it's pretty equally sucky imo

[meager moat]

at least i get paid

[swift badge]

what if taxes are simple and easy and fun?

i wouldnt know

[plucky zenith]

just different kinds of suck

[swift badge]

fr?

[night lily]

Idk, i kinda miss my academic years I liked reading (some) papers

[meager moat]

i mean when you have a job, at least you get paid for it

[swift badge]

[swift badge]

[plucky zenith]

[swift badge]

i can find a paper online and read it out of school

[limpid ore]

big bad irs knows how much money you owe but wont tell you, and if you guess wrong, JAIL

[swift badge]

guess who? ah

[night lily]

Just get lower income than the minimum threshold for taxes |||| /j

[swift badge]

thanks for the advice uncle epochs!

[night lily]

But then it's hard to find someone to talk to about

[swift badge]

ill keep it in mind

[swift badge]

talk to your wife about it

hey! do you wanna know what i learned about the properties of physics?

"no"

[limpid ore]

i just wanna vomit up random facts to people

[meager moat]

just randomly say "fun fact:" here then say the fact you wanna say

[limpid ore]

did yall know theres a kind of tumor that can grow shit like fingernails and hair and teeth n whatever?

teratoma

[swift badge]

i did not know and i wish i still didnt know

frick i have a french test too

why so many test

BEADSSSSSSS

COME HELPPPP MOIIIIIII

[night lily]

dw it's something that you either had it from birth or not at all, not something you get randompy

[meager moat]

here ill show you.
Fun fact; this sentance has 3 erors.

[limpid ore]

elephants' brains register the same thing as the part of the human brain that responds to puppies and babies being cute

[plucky zenith]

oh I don't know any French

[limpid ore]

i have some shampoo with french written on it if that helps

[swift badge]

oui oui baguette

[austere hawk]

you still have to do them

[limpid ore]

does rattatouie take place in france

[plucky zenith]

linguam Galum non loquita

solum linguam latinam

[swift badge]

is that latin

[hoary knot]

@frigid ibex

[plucky zenith]

et pieces de graecae

[plucky zenith]

linguistics person?

[hoary knot]

Je peux t’aider avec le français si tu veux. :3

[limpid ore]

that sounds like the default latin text on stuff like google slides templates or any template in google docs

[plucky zenith]

I need some help with my ancient Greek homework

[hoary knot]

Yes, they love languages.

[limpid ore]

whyd that send so late

waa

[swift badge]

[plucky zenith]

I only learn ancient useless languages

[hoary knot]

Lmao

Ancient Greek?

[night lily]

It's not useless if you use them in writing

[plucky zenith]

Attic Specfically, yes

[hoary knot]

Nice!

[plucky zenith]

that's why I wrote SiTS entirely in Latin before translating it to English

[swift badge]

really?

[hoary knot]

Uuuuh, something something Julius something something aquarium.

[gleaming valley]

[plucky zenith]

Tres circuitus post eius mortem.

[gleaming valley]

yes, you pinged me?

oh wait i cant read

ill be on my way now

[plucky zenith]

Ventis frigius montes ferrus perflant.

[gleaming valley]

[hoary knot]

Lol, Rev (the person I pinged) is a massive Outer Wilds fan.

[gleaming valley]

as they should be

[hoary knot]

They have been trying to get me to play recently.

[gleaming valley]

you should play outer wilds

[hoary knot]

But I only have a Switch.

[gleaming valley]

its big fun

[unkempt yew]

What happened here

[hoary knot]

And a PS3.

[gleaming valley]

@sly carbon convince this fine frog to play outer wilds

[hoary knot]

So even though I want to, I can’t really.

[gleaming valley]

and epochs since i see you in chat too

[gleaming valley]

[plucky zenith]

that's why OAK is going so slow... I don't know Ancient Greek very well

[hoary knot]

I’ll play when the Switch 2 comes out.

[gleaming valley]

[hoary knot]

Lol.

[plucky zenith]

(I'm going to plant it underground near Athens)

[gleaming valley]

you better actually play it

[swift badge]

wait are you serious????

[unkempt yew]

Those are olives

[hoary knot]

I’m hoping Rev can nerd about Outer Wilds with you.

[sly carbon]

play outer wilds play outer wildplay outer wildsplay outer wildsplay outer wilds

[plucky zenith]

[gleaming valley]

good job mesmo

[hoary knot]

AAAAAAAHHHH NOT ANOTHER ONE

[gleaming valley]

theyll havta wait until i actually beat the game

[gleaming valley]

[hoary knot]

Fair enough lol.

[night lily]

Play OW
(OverWatch)
(Outer Wilds)

[plucky zenith]

I'll have to learn Old Norse for the fic after OAK

[gleaming valley]

I FORGOT OVERWATCH EXISTED

[swift badge]

[eager warren]

https://tenor.com/view/plastic-man-real-real-powder-powder-that-makes-you-say-real-animated-comic-plastic-man-gif-7493651428267836743

[swift badge]

should i play outerwilds? no or no

[hoary knot]

Lol, it’s just worse Marvel Rivals as far as I know.

[gleaming valley]

yes

[swift badge]

not an option

[gleaming valley]

[hoary knot]

Play Skylanders.

[gleaming valley]

ill

[night lily]

Yes and right now

[gleaming valley]

read omniforge

ill read omniforge right now if you dont play outer wilds

not sure what that would do to you

[eager warren]

https://tenor.com/view/denzel-training-day-gif-16743259178450786472

[gleaming valley]

but ill do it

[swift badge]

wil not effect me in the slightest

[meager moat]

whats your favorite game from there?

[gleaming valley]

yeah thought so

[hoary knot]

[hoary knot]

Superchargers.

[gleaming valley]

uhm

[meager moat]

ah, my fav is trap team

[hoary knot]

Based.

It’s my second favourite.

Wildfire is peak.

[meager moat]

played a bit of swap force, but thats really it

[swift badge]

no threats will effect moi

cheesesticke

[hoary knot]

Fair.

[gleaming valley]

ill tell your wife youre lebsiabs

[hoary knot]

No Hornet X Moon fic?

[gleaming valley]

[swift badge]

but

thats like

[gleaming valley]

[swift badge]

thats like

[gleaming valley]

ill do it

[swift badge]

literally gonna compromise everything

[gleaming valley]

play outer wilds

play outer wilds crispy

[swift badge]

my life will be over bro

[gleaming valley]

you know you want to

thats why you should play outer wilds so i dont tell her

[meager moat]

i got a xbox starter pack for trap team, that im semmingly just keeping cause im too lazy to sell it right now

[swift badge]

no, no i dont want to

[hoary knot]

Bahahahah

[gleaming valley]

[hoary knot]

They won’t sell for much unfortunately.

[gleaming valley]

its big fun crispy

[hoary knot]

The portal will though.

[swift badge]

im going to tell her to block you

[hoary knot]

~20$.

[swift badge]

but i only have swithc

[gleaming valley]

i think its on switch

lemme check

[hoary knot]

It is.

[gleaming valley]

yeah

[hoary knot]

But the system requirements are higher than what the switch has.

[meager moat]

then ill just wait another decade
oh and i forgot to say the magic word: "unopened"

[hoary knot]

Ooooh! That’s an easy 100$.

[hoary knot]

(Which is why I’m waiting for the Switch 2.)

[night lily]

I heard ow kinda runs badly on switch like 20-30fps with long loading time between deaths

[meager moat]

i just got my switch, just before they announce the switch 2

[gleaming valley]

mad respect to people who played outer wilds on switch