Kier Harris

Kai spends his nights working in a slaughterhouse. In the quiet moments between loading the ovens and playing chauffeur to carts of meat, he loses himself inside the worlds in his notebooks. Lately, one word keeps surfacing on the page: Azothar

@manfightdragon Or, hear me out, you could just have a valid internet connection and never have any problems.

Hugely terrible DRM has now been rolled out to all PS4 and PS5 digital games. Every digital game you buy now requires an online check-in every 30 days. If you buy a digital game and don't connect your console to the internet for 30 days, your license will be removed.

@Squad00dle @iTzPaincake @manfightdragon Adults have to pay for things. Welcome to being a grown up.

@iTzPaincake @manfightdragon This is someone who hasn’t moved out of their parents basement and doesn’t realize that internet isn’t free 🤦🏻‍♂️

The gradient point is the key issue. The shroud isn't a simple bright-center fade, it contains detailed anatomical features that diffuse sunlight through flat glass can't selectively encode. STURP did explicitly test light and radiation hypotheses. And the 3D data problem remains entirely unaddressed.

@KierNamesThings @maklelan It leaves no pigment because that's on the top side of the glass. It was analyzed as having been created by light, though the researchers failed to consider the sun as a source. It is simple fading and the gradient is exactly what we see.

The Shroud of Turin is clearly––for many different reasons––a medieval forgery & the first ecclesiastical authorities who dealt with it in the 14th century even said they found the guy who did it & he admitted to it.

@Schmeehh @maklelan That's a creative idea, but it wouldn't actually work! Sun-fading paint through glass would leave residual pigment, penetrate the full fiber depth, and produce a blurry gradient: none of which match the shroud. The image is caused by cellulose oxidation on the outermost fibrils.

@KierNamesThings @maklelan x.com/Schmeehh/statu…

@Michael35715972 @PeterDiamandis Do you want to have a discussion or just make silly faces?

@KierNamesThings @PeterDiamandis

The human brain processes visual information 60,000x faster than text. Humans are visual processors, not text processors. Images hit the brain instantly. Words take work. That's why a single SpaceX launch video communicates more than a thousand-word essay—and why your slide decks hit harder than paragraphs. We're wired for pictures, not prose.

@Michael35715972 @PeterDiamandis Language is inherently interpretive.

@PeterDiamandis I disagree. Images/videos are preferred because they’re open to interpretation. The 1,000 (or more) word essay focuses in on a very specific interpretation/ instantiation of an idea/concept.

@nikutaberuru Any of the following: VII, X, or XVI

ファイナルファンタジーを 初めてプレイするアメリカ兄貴に おすすめするナンバリングは どの作品でしょうか？

@FFVIINovels This drawing is awesome. I'd hang this on my wall.

You get the chance to live in any Final Fantasy world. Which one are you choosing?

@SubRosaMagick Okay you just made up "flibbertigibbet." I refuse to believe that one is real.

Be honest… does ANYONE actually use these words in real life? 🤣 Bamboozled Flabbergasted Discombobulated Shenanigans Cattywampus Lollygag Malarkey Kerfuffle Brouhaha Nincompoop Skedaddle Tomfoolery Flibbertigibbet Pumpernickel

@DungeonNoir *checks calendar*

Is anyone else outraged by the news that all new print editions of Lord of the Rings will be heavily edited to "align with Peter Jackson's film trilogy"? We knew this was coming mindful of how the rights to the book are held, but I can't believe it's finally happening. The details still aren't clear, but from what I gather we're losing Tom Bombadil, the Barrow Downs, Old Forest, and the entire "Scouring" subplot. Boromir will likely change significantly, too, and there will now be involvement of Elves in the Battle of Helms Deep. Worst of all, it's been confirmed that the revised edition "will be considered canon," so the changes will likely affect other works too, including The Silmarillion.

@elonmusk You can significantly reduce this by pushing the model to challenge you. But most people don’t, and the model doesn’t resist enough by default.

Major problem

@DungeonNoir I'm definitely doing this with my book.

Little Dragonlance sketches at chapter beginning

@AntiWokeMemes Yes.

@theWellRedMage Final Fantasy X is the poster child for this meme.

Final Fantasy X

@Critical_Scribe This critique of LOTR reads like it was written by Grima Wormtongue.

Moral clarity as a negative is such a wild concept. What do you mean you don’t like it when things are cut and dry and aren’t obfuscated by nonsense? This is why I tire of the “realism” argument when it comes to “gray” morality because there are indeed examples of clear good and clear evil in the world and to think it’s all some sort of relativistic “from a certain point of view” nonsense is such a boring concept to me because those stories land with the weight of a feather after a while. Are there some situations that require nuance? Yes, but in this spectrum of grays that so many people are desperate to live by they keep forgetting that Black and White are still there and prominent. Honestly, the saturation of this mindset makes many things just feel stagnant and floundering in life as well. We waste so much time bickering and arguing about this moral relativism that shit just doesn’t get done and we all wring our hands because we all just want to be right, but not do anything. With moral clarity comes clear purpose, with clear purpose does a road to walk forward manifest. The current climate just feels like we’re all walking in a roundabout and afraid to take an exit.

@MightyMog80 What is the bottom right?

Turn-based combat isn’t outdated. JRPGs have been proving that for decades. When it’s done right, every choice matters.
Every party member matters.
Every boss feels earned. That style never stopped being good. Some games just stopped doing it well.

@TheDavidVinc The Legend of Dragoon

What game did you pick up on a whim with absolutely no expectations, but then it turned out to be something absolutely amazing?

@fandompulse Dragons of Autumn Twilight, no contest.

What's the best Dragonlance book?

@PenginRob Don't you do it. I'm warning you.

Convince me not to read your book.