magicarcherylessons

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yessss I gotta start wingspanposting. Hey you, play Wingspan. it's a boardgame about placing birds in habitats and building points using their effects. It's got very good Steam/Switch versions that add lovely audio clips of their calls, in addition to the beautiful hand painted art each bird gets. Really scratches the shit out of my birdwatching and card game/engine building itches simultaneously.

The base game is North American birds, but for me nothing beats the Oceania expansion. Being able to build a point-raking engine out of your backyard bird faves is really an unmatched experience imo.

GST + TFM my beloveds. I know I was just glazing the artwork but imho they don't do justice to how handsome the Grey Shrikethrush is irl.

Another really good part is that Wingspan has a rock-solid Solitaire mode with adjustable difficulty and extra features. There's no attacking or removal or any hostile interaction between players, so any potential background frustration levels typical of games like it is mostly evaporated. On top of that, Wingspan never drags on. it's always four rounds of a diminishing number of turns each, so games always pan out to like 45 minutes. As much as I love a week-long game of Twilight Imperium, (for another post, don't get me started) table space is a thing that's a thing. Play Wingspan!

What's Tony got you cooking up in there Nubby?

Today Nubby is in the Test Chamber

reblogging this so I guilt myself into making those gd phonecalls cos apparently that's all that will ever truly motivate me.

adhd will get you thinking "i should make this doctors appointment" every day for 7 months and counting

i keep forgetting to search this up when I'm at my desktop so I'm reblogging to remind myself cos I really wanna play me some puppytruck.

updating the demo again

I fudgin love me some REDLINE if you haven't seen it I cannot recommend it highly enough

everytime i watch redline im absolutely ass blasted by the idea that it was animated entirely 2d by hand

you had to have been out of your god damn mind to agree to work on this film

wait til you fuckers hear about The Expanse. it's got Jovian moon battles galore and ship crew polycules and maybe even some crazy alien goo please read it please I need a community to talk about it with and you're all so close it's so good. book 2 cold opens on the icy surface of Ganymede with a shooting war about to begin from the POV of a Samoan power armour marine girl from Mars. you get to watch space Mormons get their investments reacquisitioned for a harebrained scheme to save millions of lives. the protagonist has like ten biological parents for tax reasons.

twitter is being overrun by ice war posting. Best this sites been in ages

lovely snooters

Has anyone else noticed that they do this?

I can't stop watching this- it's been stuck on loop for 4 hours. Somebody- help me.

bittern!

Least Bittern Appreciation

Just look at this silly creature

AND LOOK AT HOW LITTLE THEY ARE

Truly one of the creatures of all time

...bittern....

Von Schrenck’s Bittern (Botaurus eurhythmus), female, family Ardeidae, order Pelicaniformes, Singapore

photograph by Alex Low

I love bittern

twisting and bitturning

Just stayed up all night across the road from a bushfire, watching the updates. Never been so relieved to hear heavy rain against the roof before in my life.

Capybaras

"Bevelopment" was right there people come on

it’s crazy how it’s been like 5,000 years and beer is still the third most widely consumed beverage on earth. you would think we would have found something that tasted better by now.

Henriëtte Ronner-Knip, A dog and her puppies

disagree. while obviously it's true that slavery is slavery and one of the worst things humans can do to each other, and have done for thousands of years, precise clocks have only been used in the workplace for ~200 years. *factory owners had the government issues fines* to their workers for being a single minute late, then /confiscated their pocket watches/ because they were cheating the workers of their breaks and slowing the clock during work. the sheer amount of machine authority involved in worker exploitation is absolutely an unprecedented change that is the calling card of modern Capitalism. medieval peasants the world over had way more time off than any worker nowadays, as did Egyptian slaves. their employers provided food and drink every day, and all work ever since the stone age has a universal pattern of "hard work day, relaxing work day, repeat"

Historia Civilis explains it better in his best video, titled simply /Work./ and Engels' "/The Authority of the Machine/" is like 2 pages long.

yes suffering and exploitation predates it, but there are undeniable and important differences that only came about around the turn of the 19th century, and they're bad enough to be worth singling out.

being an archaeologist in tumblr is so funny because I see so many text posts and go. Imperialism pre-dates capitalism. Rebellion against empires pre-dates capitalism. Money pre-dates capitalism. Social inequality pre-dates capitalism. Misogyny pre-dates capitalism. Wealth inequality pre-dates capitalism. Unilateral rule by oppressive rulers pre-dates capitalism. People’s dependence on their job for their survival pre-dates capitalism. Capitalism as an economic system is about 200-250 years old max but these problems are much, much older, and capitalism supports, entrenches, or exacerbates many of these problems… doesn’t mean it invented them and doesn’t mean they will simply cease to be problems After Capitalism.

this is the post to beat. my favourite. House MD Zero Mission my beloved

house plays both zero mission & prime hunters in season 1 which can only lead me to believe he’s a hardcore metroid fan. thank you for your time.

I think this is my favourite tweet. I've definitely read funnier and cleverer tweets, but this one is my favourite.

for reasons i shall not discuss, a tweet

no notes. perfect adaptation of Disco's artstyle, and just an excellent job conveying characters and their struggles/concerns through portrait.

"Storming Disco" collection (Part one)

(For those who don't know, I drew some Stormlight Archive characters as if they were in Disco Elysium)

1. Renarin

Maybe I used too many lines but he goes hard as hell

2. Kaladin

I wanted him to look a little like glass but idk

3. Elhokar

The point was to give him a theatrical vibe

4. Shallan

I think that I don't need to explain anything with this one

5. Adolin

He has the most clear space and palette of all of them (you know, most of the time he's a happy boy)

6. Jasnah

She's in Shadesmar

7. Dalinar

He has the same style as Renarin (ironic, right?) Also there's the Stormfather on the background too

8. Navani

A very casual style that I think suits her very well

9. Syl

She was happy because I was going to draw her

10. Szeth

I like that he's different from the rest. The black space represents Nightblood

girl loses one cat in the snow and she never hears the end of it

There’s no way. there is no FUCKING way

Kaladin chapter, Shallan chapter

his swagless mental breakdowns this, his homoerotic patterns of grief that. what about HER grief-stricken moments of extremely poor decisionmaking? what about HER incredibly alarming isolation and trauma-driven life choices?!?!?!

that pikachu sent me. I spun into the sky and went **ding** as I disappeared in the distance.

I feel like, we as a society, don't talk enough about people messing up needle felting.

You're watching the manufacture of consent evolve and adapt in real time.

oh my god...

so the first screenshot is trying to look this up on tiktok normally, "donald trump rigged election" and it says that search violates community guidelines.

the second screenshot is looking up the same exact thing, but with a (australian) vpn on. canadian vpn didn't fix it fyi.

THIS is exactly the type of censorship to be looking out for on tiktok. this actually is crazy.

scary how fast agents of empire(s) will set aside their rivalries or inter-imperial competitive squabbling in order to cooperate, share ideas, exchange technologies, and protect their shared interest in hunting and crushing you

uh oh!

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

Cracticus, my True Kin Praetorian had a new and very brief archnemesis - who I've nicknamed Refracticus. The chaos of friendly clones is enough (thankyou, four unique Temporal Fugue-granting items in a row), when they're out to get you it gets really spicy:

my favourite excerpts from this log are: "Refracted Cracticus attempts to conk you on the head" "You fall asleep" (amid Evil Twins, explosions and energy beams) and of course the final grenade smacking into me for zero damage in what I can only imagine as a certified Looney Tunes moment before the 89 explosion damage smears my cybernetics and other, less awesome innards on the walls. I am so into this game. I'm being all annoying irl to people about it. if you haven't yet and you read this far, PLAY IT! this shit is cash! Sun and Moon! Positively Quetzal!

just a good little time capsule for a bunch of history happening at once

a friend of mine and i were having a kiki about the state of the world as one would, and we literally could NOT stop laughing (because at this point, what else can you do?) but i mean PLEASE you cannOT MAKE THIS SHIT UP:

the whole bit with the healthcare insurance CEO.

shooter man is not just immediately beloved by the masses.

he's also insultingly good looking and he's so the drama that he CARVED. WORDS. on the bullets.

he gave everyone a motto to rally behind. i have never seen the U.S. this united over anything ever.

he's literally just a girl. a girl in a 2010s dystopia.

it's giving katniss everdeen with a gun.

theN THE WHOLe thING WITH FRANCE HAPPENS??!?

like their government collapsing????

like the extreme right AND the extreme left banded together somehow to give the parliament the middle finger????? because macron wanted to dissolve the parliment and call for snap elections?? i honestly don't even know what's going on over there and at this point i'm too afraid to ask.

AND THEN KOREA SPEEDRUNNING THROUGH A COUP, A DICTATORSHIP, AND OVERTHROWING SAID DICTATORSHIP IN THE SPAN OF THREE HOURS???

and my friend and i were like 'a big week for the international relations girlies' 'and didn't sabrina carpenter get cheated on? why are men. 💀' 'wait, aren't there like, BTS members IN the Korean army right now???

we lost it.

well that didnt last. Tried to make camp at the stilt and instead whacked the priest sharing its square. reloaded and now Sheba is stuck as a Jell. just something about multiple objects/creatures in the same space that i just cant get my head around in this game. I hit ctrl+direction instead of ctrl+space THEN the direction. fuck me i guess!

yoooo! I rolled Dromad Trader for Sheba! this run is gonna be sick. also, Trash Diviner is my new favourite skill. Never knew i wanted to RP a wise old trash-wizard til i had it.

yoooo! I rolled Dromad Trader for Sheba! this run is gonna be sick. also, Trash Diviner is my new favourite skill. Never knew i wanted to RP a wise old trash-wizard til i had it.