Ragnarok (back from Gateway Fate)

✨ART RAFFLE GIVEAWAY✨

As thank you for reaching 600 followers, I would like to do an art raffle. ☺️

Rules to enter:
-Like and repost
-Must be following (new followers allowed)

-For a bonus entry, reply with a character or pairing you would like drawn by me!

Rules cont:

The general admission queues were *brutal*, but I GOT FANFEST TICKETS!!!

I had this experience not too long ago when I was trying to find art to use for my D&D character. In the last campaign I was a part of, it was easy to find real art that we could use at the table. When a new campaign started this year, it became impossible to find real art in the sea of AI.

I know that it's a long shot, but if anyone has a FF14 FanFest ticket lottery win that they don't plan to use, I'd love the opportunity to buy tickets for my wife and I. Otherwise, I'll just do the best I can with general admission on Friday.

Thanks for letting me know! I think I'll reach out to them if I don't hear anything in the next day or two.

Weird question - did you get a notice from them that your items shipped? I ordered the set of three items and haven't received a notice that any of them have shipped. I'm not sure if no shipping notice is normal or if me not seeing one is potentially a sign that they forgot my order.

I'm really bummed to have missed out on the FanFest ticket lottery. We had five attempts lined up (as we knew some friends that couldn't attend), but none of them panned out. I'm hoping that I'll be able to get lucky with general admission.

All good! I just appreciate having some more photos of my cosplay that I can share.

I'm the blue-scaled Au Ra in two of those pictures - do you mind if I share them with others? I really like how the second one turned out.

It was a bit of a bummer that the glow was hard to see in a lot of pictures from the photoshoots, but I can work towards making the next one glow brighter.

I have tons of ideas on how to make improvements to it all for future cons. In particular, I really need a small hidden pocket in my cosplay so I dont need to pull my crystal in and out of the bag for pictures, but that shouldn't be too hard to manage. (One for the battery would be good too.)

Image of a black glove with a glowing orange crystal on it. A wire runs out from the glove with lots of tape on it.

I went as a WoL for Gateway Fate today and will be going as Themis tomorrow. I'm pleased that my glowing Azem crystal glove held out for the day despite the loose connection.

Taskmaster is absolutely incredible and there are so many great seasons to watch! You also get the occasional curveball of a contestant figuring out genuinely brilliant solutions to weird tasks or finding clever loopholes in the rules.

I'm looking forward to the con, but it will also be nice after the con to be out of crunch mode.

My wig for Gateway Fate is "good enough" for now, so that's the last of my con prep. The light connection in my glove has unfortunately suddenly started misbehaving a bit, so I'm hoping it'll make it through the weekend before I rebuild it with a minor redesign to (hopefully) fix the issue for good.

I'd consider that an overall positive outcome for the shutdown. The filibuster needs to go. We'd probably see some pretty awful legislation pop up over the next year as a result, but TBH I'm not sure how much it's really stopping Republicans from doing what they want (especially nowadays).

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

1000% this. There are games with great gameplay that I sincerely enjoy, but the games / stories that really make me feel something are the ones that leave a lasting impression. Ultimately, I'm looking for those games that can draw me into forming that emotional attachment.

I can only imagine how long the text boxes will be by this time next year.

I always appreciate the opportunity to get art of my WoL! Thank you for the offer!

This logic (of considering the extreme case) is broadly a really helpful tool for conceptual understanding. I used it earlier today myself explaining a physics problem to some of my students. I hadn't considered it before for the Monty Hall problem, but I think it makes a lot of sense here.

So many core beliefs - whether you’re talking about Jesus or Mr Rogers or Bill & Ted - really just boil down to “don’t be a dickhead.” Being kind to others shouldn’t be revolutionary; it should just be how we conduct ourselves.

That's one of the fun things about ordering magic cards - you get to look forward to the mail for the next week or two.

Exactly! In a weird way it's kind of similar to road rage. Even though there's a person driving the car that may be annoying you on the road, it's too easy for our emotions to "see" just the car and not the person inside.

I was in a large student organization when I was in college, and there always seemed to be some heated drama that was cooked up over breaks. But once everyone could see each other in person again, the tension would calm down significantly. It's just too easy to get angry at people online.

As a user, I really like how it makes it super easy to keep mods updated. It's also nice how the mod in Penumbra automatically has a preview image with it (which makes it easier to remember what each mod is). Finally, it's easier to download and install mods compared to traditional methods.

A gposed screenshot of my character Naru giving a thumbs up and smiling at the screen. There is white text in sporadic areas which reads: "I hit a few milestones and then didn't doa nything and I like to dosomething for it so. Thanks for 1.9k baby even though a lot are bots thanks to blue sky's blocking function not removing. (said while crying.) GPOSE GIVEAWAY! That's right, for the low, low cost of zero dollars and looking at my lizard right now, you can enter for a chance for me to gpose your character. Oh, and also you gotta retweet this post. Sorry I lied. Vanilla and Modded characters welcome. If you use mods, an MCDF would be appreciated if you win but not required. Just retweet this post and be following me. I will pick a winner on July 10th. I'll put some examples of my work in the thread, baby."

gpose giveaway!!!!

read the image or the alt text for more info

I started playing during the pandemic (summer 2020). I had played Guild Wars 2 with my wife for a few years but had gotten kind of bored of it. I saw that the game had a race of dragon-people (Au Ra) that were being added to the free trial, so I convinced her for us to give it a try.

I know! I have the Y'shtola commander deck and would love to use people's WoLs as the hero tokens while playing it.

I'm thinking of doing the same! I'm kind of hoping that trading hero tokens with others at cons will become popular like sticker trades are.