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Smiling sunflowers greet visitors in Tokyo
These cartoonish sunflowers have brightened the field in Tokyo, as well as many visitors, after workers created a smiling expression on them by removing pistils on their surface. According to metro.co.uk, among the nearly 20,000 sunflowers in the field, there are only a few that are able to smile. Can you spot them all?
Round number 4! Cultural norn glider design. This is the fourth concept after: Leaf Glider (Sylvari) Arcane Glider (Asura) Legion Glider (Charr) It´s based on the raven totem spirit and changes during flying to “spirit mode”. :)
and then we RPed as furniture
good day this is 10/10 patch
what the fuck ethan
I wish i had a context for this. But I really dont.
I was all ready to “um, actually” this, but, um, actually there’s about 3-4 grams of iron in a person, which x400 is 1.2-1.6kg, which is a smallish but not unreasonable sword. So. Math checks out.
How would you extract the iron, though? The more practical solution would be to kill a mere hundred men, then mix 1 part blood with 3 parts standard molten iron, imo. Cheaper and faster, while still retaining the edge that only evil magic can give you.
Or, you could just make the sword of iron, and then use the blood to temper the blade.
1.2 to 1.6 kilograms is a perfectly reasonable large sword. Your average longsword was 1.1–1.8 kg and I don’t even remember if that’s including the weight of the hilt, guard, and pommel or just the blade. Your more classic “knight sword” was a mere 1.1 kilograms on average; the blood of 400 men is more than enough.
This is using the comparatively crappy metallurgy of medieval Europe and their meh iron swords. Move east to, say, contemporary Iran and make a scimitar using high carbon steel (~2%) for a .75 kilogram blade and you only need the blood of about 225 men.
So putting my thoughts in on this… because how could I not.
So you’ve exsanguinated your 400 guys to get the iron for your sword. Cool. But now you have 400 bodies lying around.
Why not put those to good use and cremate them. Use the carbon from those 400 bodies (you won’t need all of them) and now you can make a nice mid-high carbon steel sword.
Now you have a sword forged with the blood of your enemies AND strengthened with their bones.
“high fantasy math” - the tag I should have expected to write some day.
I’m so proud of everyone in this post
The game I’ve been helping on (and doing streams with @thatsjustridiculous, and posting art from) is on Steam Greenlight!
AAAAAAH! I helped work on this! Please give it a look and help us get on steam :D As an added bonus, the original Crystal Control is playable for free (there’s a link in the Greenlight description)
don’t trust the clouds
Mark “Seleene” Heard, long-time Eve player and a former employee of developer CCP, says that, in his estimation, players outside of The Imperium’s sphere of influence have had enough.
“People have watched Goonswarm become the CFC and have watched the CFC monetize itself into The Imperium,” Heard told Polygon from his home in Germany, where he works for the U.S. Department of Defense. “They’ve watched Mittani do all these interviews and all this other stuff, and I think that the collective psyche of the Eve community has gotten tired of it.
"They want to see the game represented by a plurality of what the player base is, as opposed to … almost always having something to do with [CFC] guys.”
A betting site is funding an Eve war against the game’s largest empire.
Finding nice light leg armour for charr is suffering
How much bonus stat points am I getting by using 4-stat or celestial gear? Is it worth it over mixing together normal 3-stat stuff?
Remember, no two stat points are created equally. Adding one point of toughness to a build with 1000 has a different effect on survivability than it would to one with 2250, which would have a different effect than adding a point of vitality, etc. But it’s useful to see that, for example, if you value 6 stats equally in your build and don’t care at all about one, full celestial will give you an overall higher stat bonus than any combination of 3-stat or 4-stat gear types, while if 2 are of no value to you, it’s probably not worth it.
I want to know what’s really up with Dessa. How did her lab become a fractal itself? What is her connection to Thaumanova? What connection does she have to the Uncategorized Fractal? How long has Dessa and her krewe been trapped within her lab? Why does the consortium try to advertise this as a tourist attraction, and why is she upset by this? What connections does Dessa have with the inquest/consortium? Why are we as players able to return to Lion’s Arch while Dessa and her krewe are trapped in a never-ending loop?
So many questions. So little answers.
and why does she not know who the sylvari are? if she hasn’t left her lab in over a quarter of a century, just how long has the Consortium been around?? what other disasters have they been involved in??? and why is the Consortium so hellbent on creating the perfect tourist trap? like they failed both attempts with Southsun and Fractals & at one point they even approach Moto about making SAB a chain. wHY
i have been waiting for answers for so long anet pls
Ah!! I have a theory about her connection to the Uncategorized Fractal! And it’s sad as fuck.
As a progeny she studied at Rata Sum, but it “didn’t work out”. Her friends Greeza and Chibb were Inquest technicians at the Thaumanova Reactor, but it is not known if she herself is affiliated with the Inquest. At some point, she “lost” her boyfriend to the Consortium.
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The fractals were marketed as a Consortium tourist attraction, but Dessa denies any connection to the Consortium and becomes angered when they are mentioned.
When Dessa entered the asura gate back to Lion’s Arch, she immediately reappeared in the Mistlock Observatory with no memory of the previous events, revealing that the observatory is subject to the same rules as all the other fractals, and that Dessa is just as locked in the same loop as all the other creatures in the fractals.
(Wiki)
So! That’s three big facts about Dessa. She’s affiliated with the Consortium yet she’s not. And she’s permanently caught in her new reality, that being her lab and its extensions into other parts of the Mists.
We don’t know how old the Consortium is iirc, but given how much they’ve been able to build and such, I can only assume that they’ve been long enough in years to build enough money and power that they could do things like establish a tourist resort, get a large office in L.A., etc etc.
So my idea is this: Dessa and her boyfriend left Rata Sum because her ideas about the Mists and wanting to build the Observatory weren’t working out for whatever reason. She approaches the Constortium about funding the Observatory, and they put up the money for it if she’ll help them make it some sort of theme park. She agrees because she has few other options to keep her research going forward. But something goes very wrong with one of the Fractals. Maybe they don’t realize the danger of it yet, maybe it was just a freak accident. But in any case, her boyfriend becomes trapped in the Fractal, caught in the loop, and seemingly the only person who survived it.
Raving Asura: Breach! Broken! Falling! Screaming! Dying! Raving Asura: I couldn’t save them. I heard them all. Pleading. All gone. All on my watch!
“All on my watch” seems to imply that he was involved with a job somehow. Building the floating city? A krewe? Or in investigating a new fractal that turned out to be more dangerous than it seemed. Notice that Dessa knows which Fractal you’re in the second you land. She’s familiar with it, and immediately gets emotional and distances herself from it.
Dessa: You’ve landed… I…need to go. I’m sorry. Dessa: I…I apologize for leaving you like that. Just…never mind. Keep progressing. You’re getting closer to the local instability.
The Consortium is notorious in-game for being pushy, demanding, and putting money over people. It wouldn’t surprise me if they were more interested in getting results than the safety of their research krewes. If it is Dessa’s boyfriend in the UC fractal, then it would explain why she describes her boyfriend as being “lost” to the Consortium. Lost to their disregard for life and their gluttony for profits. She hates them now, but because she’s trapped in her Fractal loop, she can’t stop them from marketing her lab as a tourist destination, and she’s basically forced to watch adventurers kill him over and over again as part of their “tour”, possibly reliving it for the first time each time we do because of her Fractal loop.
And she can’t save him, because he’s trapped as she is now, each one stuck in their pocket of reality, cycling through it.
Possibly forever.
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This is so sad
[ Boss Fights - Mouth of Mordremoth ]
I personally love how Mouth of Mordremoth looks like, he sure is beautifully animated in great detail.
Hey listen I know yesterday was Valentine’s day and all but like
being anywhere in caledon forest at any given point in time:
I like to torture my guild with obvious puns (as does the game).
Some decoration clipping tricks for you and your guild
(More on the way depending on how well received this is)
