Trip (ItsTripleAGaming)

Fact of the Day: Charles Dickens had a pet raven named Grip, for which the talking raven in his book Barnaby Rudge is named, that died in 1841 which Dickens then had stuffed

Fact of the Day: Thomas the Tank Engine, who debuted alongside other train characters in the 1940s Railway Series books, were originally stories the author Wilbert Awdry told his son Christopher while he was sick with the measles that Wilbert's wife encouraged him to publish

And remember everyone, while a perfect grade on this test is nearly impossible, it is not pass/fail. Even one makes a difference

NOOOOOOO I'D BEEN LOVING TRIALS OFF STREAM WITH FRIENDS. Truly tragic

Why the cinnamon toast fuck do people use AI generated/modified pictures on their dating app profiles? If you're not a bot, it's going to 100% make you LOOK like a bot AND automatically make me think less of you

Fact of the Day: In the game Fallout 3, if you glitch out of Vault 101 during the tutorial "Baby Steps", you can go on to complete the entire game as a baby (albeit with various strange visual glitches)

Fact of the Day: Leafcutter ants don't actually eat leaves, and instead use the leaf cuttings to grow, feed, and cultivate farms of the fungus which make up their diet

As a side bitch, yeah that's fine lol. I never know how to refer to y'all either tbh, words are hard

Wait that's actually so cool omg

Yep! The history of the vallon corps is really interesting :)

Fact of the Day: A rare kind of cloud called a polar stratospheric cloud, or mother of pearl cloud, instead of scattering the sunlight they reflect it to take on a rainbow appearance

I appreciate the @, I am interested and shall apply to check it out :3 ty ty

Fact of the Day: Due to a trade with the USSR to supply the nation with cola syrup in 1989, Pepsi acquired defunct warships and submarines with the intent for them to be sold for scrap which temporarily gave Pepsi possession of the world's 6th largest navy

Fact of the Day: During the American Civil War, there was a Union Balloon Corps which used hot air balloons for recon, aiding in various battles, and were personally approved by Lincoln with the Corps leader landing a hot air balloon on the White House lawn

and Bowl Gongs which sit flat on cushions which some percussionists also class as a type of bell (2/2)

Fact of the Day: There are three distinct types of gong: the traditional Suspended Gongs which originate primarily from China and Java, the Bossed Gong which has a secondary disc in the metal most famous for its use by Buddhist temples, (1/2)

Fact of the Day: Prior to the invention of radar, parts of the UK constructed "sound mirrors", large pieces of concrete with round indents akin to a modern radar dish locally called listening ears, to detect the sounds of approaching airplane engines effective from ranges as far as 20 miles

Well, Cult of the Lamb isn't a traditional roguelite, I meant to clarify that Tiny Rogues is a traditional roguelite, not a roguelike. Genre talk is confusing lmao

If you like deck builders, or wanna look into deck builders, I highly recommend Balatro and Dicey Dungeons as a place to start 💚

For traditional roguelites like Cult of the Lamb I highly recommend Tiny Rogues (small bias, since my eye patch is in the game as an item), if you like CotL Hades and Hades 2 are pretty mechanically similar, Binding of Isaac Repentance is kinda the gold standard for Roguelikes, to name a few

Brand new to roguelites you say?

*turns in chair dramatically, falls out*

Lmk if you want suggestions! Roguelikes & Roguelites have been the bread and butter of my content for a few years now ✨

All of my fellow coworking streamer friends have been using On-Together, been eager to give it a try myself :3

"images of these monuments were so visually compelling they became the roster" when people of the period thought of ancient architecture (2/2)

Fact of the Day: The concept of the "Seven (Ancient) Wonders" comes from the work of Flemish painting engraver Philips Galle replicating the paintings of Maarten van Heemskerck that, as Professor Andrew Hopkins put it, (1/2)

Fact of the Day: In Germany, attempting to escape from prison is not a crime that'll accrue additional punishment so long as subsequent crimes are not committed during the escape, with the laws remarking that it is human nature to want to be free

Fact of the Day: Evarcha culicivora, aka the vampire jumping spider, hunt mosquitoes who've recently fed because the spiders feed on vertebrate blood but only through indirect sources; they supplement their limited diet with nectar to compensate for their niche primary diet

and detailed his life of rampant escapades believing "I have never found any occupation more important [than his lust]" (2/2)

Fact of the Day: The word "Casanova" coming to mean womanizer or promiscuous male comes from Giacomo Girolamo Casanova's 18th century autobiography whose title translates to "The Story of My Life" (1/2)

their tasty seeds coverings are instead something called sarcotesta which are made of a different part of the fruit (2/2)

Fact of the Day: Even though Pomegranate seeds are the first examples that come up on Google when you search for "aril", what people often incorrectly call their seeds, pomegranates are part of a specific fruit group called exarilates meaning "without aril"; (1/2)

Fact of the Day: The periscope, originally called the polemoscope, was devised originally by astronomer Johannes Hevelius in 1647 and foresaw its likely military implications, which would come in 1854 when it was first used in the Navy by Hippolyte Marié-Davy