I was playing Dragon Heist with Syrupsoft the Soda Strugel (strugels are short, halfling-like ferretfolk) a bit ago, and he ended up threatening to cut off a guy's fingers if he didn't shut down his own tavern and come work for Trollskull Manor Inn.
Perfectly reasonable. Gold star!⭐️
He's adorable for a former collector/demolition expert for the mob. Nowadays he just runs a soda shop out of an inn and desperately gets as much money as possible so he can prove that ice cream and soda can go together... because his beloved won't be allowed to marry him if he doesn't.
It's very lore-heavy. He's got big glasses and a bow tie.
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Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
May each word that I speak be backed by each of my teeth.
I was playing Dragon Heist with Syrupsoft the Soda Strugel (strugels are short, halfling-like ferretfolk) a bit ago, and he ended up threatening to cut off a guy's fingers if he didn't shut down his own tavern and come work for Trollskull Manor Inn.
Perfectly reasonable. Gold star!⭐️
He's adorable for a former collector/demolition expert for the mob. Nowadays he just runs a soda shop out of an inn and desperately gets as much money as possible so he can prove that ice cream and soda can go together... because his beloved won't be allowed to marry him if he doesn't.
It's very lore-heavy. He's got big glasses and a bow tie.
I love it.
and big glasses and bow ties are a requirement, darling.
I was playing Dragon Heist with Syrupsoft the Soda Strugel (strugels are short, halfling-like ferretfolk) a bit ago, and he ended up threatening to cut off a guy's fingers if he didn't shut down his own tavern and come work for Trollskull Manor Inn.
Perfectly reasonable. Gold star!⭐️
He's adorable for a former collector/demolition expert for the mob. Nowadays he just runs a soda shop out of an inn and desperately gets as much money as possible so he can prove that ice cream and soda can go together... because his beloved won't be allowed to marry him if he doesn't.
It's very lore-heavy. He's got big glasses and a bow tie.
I love it.
and big glasses and bow ties are a requirement, darling.
what’s the plot of dragon heist?
No idea, but we have a tavern now. I heard there isn't actually a heist, which is a bit frustrating.
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Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
May each word that I speak be backed by each of my teeth.
I was playing Dragon Heist with Syrupsoft the Soda Strugel (strugels are short, halfling-like ferretfolk) a bit ago, and he ended up threatening to cut off a guy's fingers if he didn't shut down his own tavern and come work for Trollskull Manor Inn.
Perfectly reasonable. Gold star!⭐️
He's adorable for a former collector/demolition expert for the mob. Nowadays he just runs a soda shop out of an inn and desperately gets as much money as possible so he can prove that ice cream and soda can go together... because his beloved won't be allowed to marry him if he doesn't.
It's very lore-heavy. He's got big glasses and a bow tie.
I love it.
and big glasses and bow ties are a requirement, darling.
what’s the plot of dragon heist?
No idea, but we have a tavern now. I heard there isn't actually a heist, which is a bit frustrating.
I was playing Dragon Heist with Syrupsoft the Soda Strugel (strugels are short, halfling-like ferretfolk) a bit ago, and he ended up threatening to cut off a guy's fingers if he didn't shut down his own tavern and come work for Trollskull Manor Inn.
Perfectly reasonable. Gold star!⭐️
He's adorable for a former collector/demolition expert for the mob. Nowadays he just runs a soda shop out of an inn and desperately gets as much money as possible so he can prove that ice cream and soda can go together... because his beloved won't be allowed to marry him if he doesn't.
It's very lore-heavy. He's got big glasses and a bow tie.
I love it.
and big glasses and bow ties are a requirement, darling.
what’s the plot of dragon heist?
No idea, but we have a tavern now. I heard there isn't actually a heist, which is a bit frustrating.
There isn’t a heist… in dragon heist?… I’m… what?
what on earth is it about then!?
well, have you at least had fun?
IIRC it's that there was a heist in the past but the characters are doing something else.
I was playing Dragon Heist with Syrupsoft the Soda Strugel (strugels are short, halfling-like ferretfolk) a bit ago, and he ended up threatening to cut off a guy's fingers if he didn't shut down his own tavern and come work for Trollskull Manor Inn.
Perfectly reasonable. Gold star!⭐️
He's adorable for a former collector/demolition expert for the mob. Nowadays he just runs a soda shop out of an inn and desperately gets as much money as possible so he can prove that ice cream and soda can go together... because his beloved won't be allowed to marry him if he doesn't.
It's very lore-heavy. He's got big glasses and a bow tie.
I love it.
and big glasses and bow ties are a requirement, darling.
what’s the plot of dragon heist?
No idea, but we have a tavern now. I heard there isn't actually a heist, which is a bit frustrating.
There isn’t a heist… in dragon heist?… I’m… what?
what on earth is it about then!?
well, have you at least had fun?
Eh, kind of.
The intimidation session dragged out for a bit because I rolled a 15, which wasn't enough even with the flames threatening to consume his actually pretty crappy workplace/home, a knife inches from his eye, no one coming to help, and me offering him a good paycheck if he came with me.
I think I remember you talking about being a fan of Sid Meier’s Civilization games, right?
I may or may not be getting Civ 7 when it comes out.
i also just might be misremembering everything, however.
Nice!
I started with Civ II when I was ~10 after my mom got it cheap. Been doing Civ V after getting it on a sale some years back.
Me and my father decided we’re gonna buy it after he found it, and I saw it was of the same genre as Total War Warhammer 3, the game I mentioned earlier, being like a civilization/kingdom building turn based strategy. Although from what I’ve seen, Civilization is with real empires and leaders, right?
Yep Civilization uses real world leaders and cultures.
Civ VII will be a bit different in that. Previously you chose a civilization (example: Egypt) and played with that civ and leader (ex: Ramses) throughout the whole game. In Civ VI there were some minor tweaks with giving some civs different leader options. IIRC both Gandhi and Chandragupta are leaders for India in Civ VI. (Gandhi is a traditional leader in the Civ series, known for his love of nuclear weapons.)
But Civ VII is decoupling the civs and leaders a bit. So you'll choose a leader, such as Octavius, and then you also choose a civ for that. So you can choose to be Octavius of Rome. Or you could be Octavius of China possibly. And then as the eras advance you change your civ. So if you have a lot of horses you might have an option to become The Mongols. Or you might go with a different option.
I see… I heard they had Catherine the Great (the coolest Russian Empress) and that was what made me really want to get civ 7, but I hadn’t known about ending the connection between leaders and Civs. Interesting!
and I heard about Gandhi and his… nuclear tendencies.
In Civ V if you were playing Russia (led by Catherine) and researched Horseback Riding before anyone else you got the "My Little Pony" achievement in reference to the (most likely false) certain rumors about her.
And yeah Nuclear Gandhi is a fun story. Essentially it has to do with unsigned integers in computer programming. You see they wanted Gandhi to be peaceful so they set his aggression to be 1/10. And being so peaceable he'd later adopt Democracy as his government, lowering his aggression by 2.
So what's the problem? you ask? Wouldn't that mean he'd be at -1/10 aggression? Like super peaceful?
Good guess, but no!
Because with unsigned integers when you subtract from 0 you don't go negative. You get an underflow error!
So suddenly peaceful Gandhi went from 1/10 aggression to 255/10 aggression. And right around the time you were getting Democracy in Civ I you were close to getting nukes. Which meant players started to see Gandhi warning them that his words were backed by NUCLEAR WEAPONS!
Now there's some debate on whether or not this bug actually existed or if people just remembered, "Bro. Gandhi just nuked me!" But I choose to believe.
I think I remember you talking about being a fan of Sid Meier’s Civilization games, right?
I may or may not be getting Civ 7 when it comes out.
i also just might be misremembering everything, however.
Nice!
I started with Civ II when I was ~10 after my mom got it cheap. Been doing Civ V after getting it on a sale some years back.
Me and my father decided we’re gonna buy it after he found it, and I saw it was of the same genre as Total War Warhammer 3, the game I mentioned earlier, being like a civilization/kingdom building turn based strategy. Although from what I’ve seen, Civilization is with real empires and leaders, right?
Yep Civilization uses real world leaders and cultures.
Civ VII will be a bit different in that. Previously you chose a civilization (example: Egypt) and played with that civ and leader (ex: Ramses) throughout the whole game. In Civ VI there were some minor tweaks with giving some civs different leader options. IIRC both Gandhi and Chandragupta are leaders for India in Civ VI. (Gandhi is a traditional leader in the Civ series, known for his love of nuclear weapons.)
But Civ VII is decoupling the civs and leaders a bit. So you'll choose a leader, such as Octavius, and then you also choose a civ for that. So you can choose to be Octavius of Rome. Or you could be Octavius of China possibly. And then as the eras advance you change your civ. So if you have a lot of horses you might have an option to become The Mongols. Or you might go with a different option.
I see… I heard they had Catherine the Great (the coolest Russian Empress) and that was what made me really want to get civ 7, but I hadn’t known about ending the connection between leaders and Civs. Interesting!
and I heard about Gandhi and his… nuclear tendencies.
In Civ V if you were playing Russia (led by Catherine) and researched Horseback Riding before anyone else you got the "My Little Pony" achievement in reference to the (most likely false) certain rumors about her.
And yeah Nuclear Gandhi is a fun story. Essentially it has to do with unsigned integers in computer programming. You see they wanted Gandhi to be peaceful so they set his aggression to be 1/10. And being so peaceable he'd later adopt Democracy as his government, lowering his aggression by 2.
So what's the problem? you ask? Wouldn't that mean he'd be at -1/10 aggression? Like super peaceful?
Good guess, but no!
Because with unsigned integers when you subtract from 0 you don't go negative. You get an underflow error!
So suddenly peaceful Gandhi went from 1/10 aggression to 255/10 aggression. And right around the time you were getting Democracy in Civ I you were close to getting nukes. Which meant players started to see Gandhi warning them that his words were backed by NUCLEAR WEAPONS!
Now there's some debate on whether or not this bug actually existed or if people just remembered, "Bro. Gandhi just nuked me!" But I choose to believe.
I remember a short about the Gandhi story, lol. “In this world, there are two types of people: enemies, and collateral damage.” -Gandhi.
and that thing about Catherine… that is simply heinous. Have you played Catherine the great?
I think I remember you talking about being a fan of Sid Meier’s Civilization games, right?
I may or may not be getting Civ 7 when it comes out.
i also just might be misremembering everything, however.
Nice!
I started with Civ II when I was ~10 after my mom got it cheap. Been doing Civ V after getting it on a sale some years back.
Me and my father decided we’re gonna buy it after he found it, and I saw it was of the same genre as Total War Warhammer 3, the game I mentioned earlier, being like a civilization/kingdom building turn based strategy. Although from what I’ve seen, Civilization is with real empires and leaders, right?
Yep Civilization uses real world leaders and cultures.
Civ VII will be a bit different in that. Previously you chose a civilization (example: Egypt) and played with that civ and leader (ex: Ramses) throughout the whole game. In Civ VI there were some minor tweaks with giving some civs different leader options. IIRC both Gandhi and Chandragupta are leaders for India in Civ VI. (Gandhi is a traditional leader in the Civ series, known for his love of nuclear weapons.)
But Civ VII is decoupling the civs and leaders a bit. So you'll choose a leader, such as Octavius, and then you also choose a civ for that. So you can choose to be Octavius of Rome. Or you could be Octavius of China possibly. And then as the eras advance you change your civ. So if you have a lot of horses you might have an option to become The Mongols. Or you might go with a different option.
I see… I heard they had Catherine the Great (the coolest Russian Empress) and that was what made me really want to get civ 7, but I hadn’t known about ending the connection between leaders and Civs. Interesting!
and I heard about Gandhi and his… nuclear tendencies.
In Civ V if you were playing Russia (led by Catherine) and researched Horseback Riding before anyone else you got the "My Little Pony" achievement in reference to the (most likely false) certain rumors about her.
And yeah Nuclear Gandhi is a fun story. Essentially it has to do with unsigned integers in computer programming. You see they wanted Gandhi to be peaceful so they set his aggression to be 1/10. And being so peaceable he'd later adopt Democracy as his government, lowering his aggression by 2.
So what's the problem? you ask? Wouldn't that mean he'd be at -1/10 aggression? Like super peaceful?
Good guess, but no!
Because with unsigned integers when you subtract from 0 you don't go negative. You get an underflow error!
So suddenly peaceful Gandhi went from 1/10 aggression to 255/10 aggression. And right around the time you were getting Democracy in Civ I you were close to getting nukes. Which meant players started to see Gandhi warning them that his words were backed by NUCLEAR WEAPONS!
Now there's some debate on whether or not this bug actually existed or if people just remembered, "Bro. Gandhi just nuked me!" But I choose to believe.
I remember a short about the Gandhi story, lol. “In this world, there are two types of people: enemies, and collateral damage.” -Gandhi.
and that thing about Catherine… that is simply heinous. Have you played Catherine the great?
There's some other delights with the achievements. For example "I don't remember that day in history" is an achievement you get if you play the Picts in a scenario about the Fall of Rome and conquer a city from the Sassanid Persians.
And yep I've played a game with Catherine. One of the the unique things about Russia in Civ V is that you get double-uranium (some tiles have special resources like uranium that are needed to build certain things, such as nuclear missiles) so I enjoyed building up a massive nuclear arsenal which I then used to absolute obliterate the last civ still standing in order to complete a Domination Victory.
I think I remember you talking about being a fan of Sid Meier’s Civilization games, right?
I may or may not be getting Civ 7 when it comes out.
i also just might be misremembering everything, however.
Nice!
I started with Civ II when I was ~10 after my mom got it cheap. Been doing Civ V after getting it on a sale some years back.
Me and my father decided we’re gonna buy it after he found it, and I saw it was of the same genre as Total War Warhammer 3, the game I mentioned earlier, being like a civilization/kingdom building turn based strategy. Although from what I’ve seen, Civilization is with real empires and leaders, right?
Yep Civilization uses real world leaders and cultures.
Civ VII will be a bit different in that. Previously you chose a civilization (example: Egypt) and played with that civ and leader (ex: Ramses) throughout the whole game. In Civ VI there were some minor tweaks with giving some civs different leader options. IIRC both Gandhi and Chandragupta are leaders for India in Civ VI. (Gandhi is a traditional leader in the Civ series, known for his love of nuclear weapons.)
But Civ VII is decoupling the civs and leaders a bit. So you'll choose a leader, such as Octavius, and then you also choose a civ for that. So you can choose to be Octavius of Rome. Or you could be Octavius of China possibly. And then as the eras advance you change your civ. So if you have a lot of horses you might have an option to become The Mongols. Or you might go with a different option.
I see… I heard they had Catherine the Great (the coolest Russian Empress) and that was what made me really want to get civ 7, but I hadn’t known about ending the connection between leaders and Civs. Interesting!
and I heard about Gandhi and his… nuclear tendencies.
In Civ V if you were playing Russia (led by Catherine) and researched Horseback Riding before anyone else you got the "My Little Pony" achievement in reference to the (most likely false) certain rumors about her.
And yeah Nuclear Gandhi is a fun story. Essentially it has to do with unsigned integers in computer programming. You see they wanted Gandhi to be peaceful so they set his aggression to be 1/10. And being so peaceable he'd later adopt Democracy as his government, lowering his aggression by 2.
So what's the problem? you ask? Wouldn't that mean he'd be at -1/10 aggression? Like super peaceful?
Good guess, but no!
Because with unsigned integers when you subtract from 0 you don't go negative. You get an underflow error!
So suddenly peaceful Gandhi went from 1/10 aggression to 255/10 aggression. And right around the time you were getting Democracy in Civ I you were close to getting nukes. Which meant players started to see Gandhi warning them that his words were backed by NUCLEAR WEAPONS!
Now there's some debate on whether or not this bug actually existed or if people just remembered, "Bro. Gandhi just nuked me!" But I choose to believe.
I remember a short about the Gandhi story, lol. “In this world, there are two types of people: enemies, and collateral damage.” -Gandhi.
and that thing about Catherine… that is simply heinous. Have you played Catherine the great?
There's some other delights with the achievements. For example "I don't remember that day in history" is an achievement you get if you play the Picts in a scenario about the Fall of Rome and conquer a city from the Sassanid Persians.
And yep I've played a game with Catherine. One of the the unique things about Russia in Civ V is that you get double-uranium (some tiles have special resources like uranium that are needed to build certain things, such as nuclear missiles) so I enjoyed building up a massive nuclear arsenal which I then used to absolute obliterate the last civ still standing in order to complete a Domination Victory.
How fun! What’s your favorite civ you’ve played as?
I'm fry, and I make doodles. That's why they call me FRY DOODLES. Also no pressure but check out my YouTube channel (Fry Doodles) I'm a disabled, neurodivergent, artsy dumpster fire who's always open to chat. I'm a sensitive little sad bean, and somewhat of a clown. But, I'm also god's favorite princess and the most interesting girl in the world. Crafter of Constellations, vocaloid enjoyer, waluigi’s #1 fan, space alien, your favorite pretty boy, and certified silly goose
Ollie Beckett skipped down the forest trail he always took home from school. He gripped the straps of his stripy canvas backpack as he hopped down the wooden steps that poked out of a particularly slippery slope. The north end of mockingbird wood had lots of things like this, little bridges and ladders too. If you followed them, you were bound to end up in the Grove. Ollie had always took the other fork of trail that led to his house.
There were some rumors that floated around at school about a weird kid who hung out at the grove. Blyffe only had two schools, and the kid didn’t go to either, so Ollie just assumed she was a myth, but evidence suggested otherwise. Becky from his art class said she saw the kid holding a squirrel like a baby when she took the forest trail home once.
Blyffe was a little town at the base of a mountain with only around 3,000 people living there, but it got along fine. People came to camp and hike, and it made for a cozy pitstop on the way to the ski resort up the mountain. But if you lived in Blyffe, you did your coming and going through the forest trails. Fifty percent of the town was occupied by forest, not including the acres and acres of surrounding woods, and people respected it. Quite a few people lived in little houses in the woods, and Ollie was one of them.
Something just felt different about today. Not just because it was the last day of school and the beginning of summer vacation, though that helped. Summer in Blyffe never got warmer than 70 degrees, so you could keep your sweaters on most of the year. But as Ollie stood at the fork in the path, he decided to go left to the grove. The grove girl couldn’t hurt him, right? He remembered a story Paul Bonetti told about her. He found her in the forest and bet her five bucks that she wouldn’t eat a pinecone, and she did! Soaked it in the creek until it softened a little and ate the whole thing, Paul had said.
Uncharacteristically, sprig didn’t really worry as he trotted down the dirt path. Even he had to admit to himself that it was weird. Not bad weird, just weird. He always had a few worries running around in the back of his mind, but right now they stood still. The day was just too pretty for that, I guess. Bright afternoon sunlight shimmered through the canopy, painting the rocks like… uh… what was the word he learned at the art museum?
Oh,Pointillism! The paintings made of tiny dots. That was what the dapply light looked like. And the sunrays were swipes of yellow paint, vibrant enough to make a mark but translucent so that it made everything behind it look sort of yellow too. Sprig loved to think about those kinds of things. He always appreciated nature more when he imagined how he could paint it.
At last, he came to the grove. A solitary oak stood in the middle of a clearing full of wooden toys and furniture. A seesaw made to resemble a dragon prowled near a log-built fort. There were hammocks and platforms adorning the surrounding trees, but the oak remained bare except for a carving on its trunk. When Ollie walked a little closer, he could see that it said “Katie + Dad 1996” Woah, he thought, This tree must be ancient.
Suddenly, he heard a chirpy voice shout “Hey! You’re standing on percy’s face!” Ollie looked down and saw some lines drawn in the dirt. When he looked at the bigger picture, he could see that he had been standing on the nose of a giant dirt-scribble crocodile. Ollie stepped back, obeying the voice. It had come from one of the high-up platforms where stood a girl with a colander on her head. Tufts of scruffy brown hair stuck out from under her kitchenware helmet and squiggled down to her pot-lid shoulder armor that was stuck onto her rusty red sweater. She looked like a knight who protected a dumpster behind a crate and barrel.
As she climbed down the rope ladder, her colander hat bonked against each rung with a clank-ka-clank-ka-clank, and it would have fallen off if it wasn’t duct-taped firmly to a bike helmet. Something about her told Ollie that she was the grove kid, and he began to cross-check what he had heard. There were no squirrels around, but the girl’s hair seemed like a few were burrowed in it. She had a tooth gap. Was that from eating the pinecone?
“I like your boots” she piped to ollie
“You do?” he looked down at his apparently noteworthy set of secondhand galoshes with ducks on the sides.
“Yeah!” she grinned “the ducks have HATS” she said the last part with emphasis, as if it was a universal rule that ducks with hats=awesome. It was true. Each tiny duck had a tinier rain hat, which seemed redundant to Ollie because ducks were already waterproof. Maybe they just liked how they looked in hats.
“Thanks!” he replied, looking for something to compliment her back on. “Why are you wearing a colander?” whoops.
“Safety! I was about to test my new tightrope!” she gestured at a precarious rope stretched from one platform to another.
“tightrope?” Ollie questioned again
“Of course! Clemont did it in On the line! The bag guys were closing in on him and his only option was to walk on top of a cord! But I wanted to see if it was really possible, because my papa always tells me how unrealistic those spy books are” She gushed about some book he hadn’t read
“But what’s the crocodile for?” he caught her mid-explanation
“Dramatic effect” she said matter-of-factly “And his name is percy” She crouched down and gave the dirt drawing a pat.
“Isn’t that dangerous?” Ollie asked, craning his neck to look at the unstable rope that was quite literally hanging by a thread. Safety was important to his dad, so it was important to him too, and by the looks of the tightrope, A colander wasn’t going to do much if you took a tumble from way up there.
“Dangerous smangerous” the girl was already back up on the platform tightening her helmet. Before he could stop her, she took off, making it a surprising four steps across before plunging into a waterless bellyflop into the dirt.
Ollie sprinted to her side and gently poked her motionless body with the toe of his boot, holding his breath. Please don’t let her be dead, he wished.
The girl flopped onto her back and sputtered “I think I swallowed an acorn” She looked a little worse for wear with leaves clinging to her sweater and a dent in her colander, but she was just fine. “Well, second try’s the charm!” She stood up and dusted herself off, but before she could reach the ladder, a hand grabbing her sweater yanked her back.
“No! It’s not going to work because… because…” Ollie searched frantically for something he could use to talk her down. “There’s no bad guys! Yeah! The guy probably only could do it because he was in danger!”
“That’s a thing?” she puzzled, hopping down from the first rung of the ladder.
“Mhm! It’s got something to do with adrenaline, I think. Dad said so.” Ollie wasn’t really sure. His dad loved using examples like those in his ranger talks, but he didn’t really elaborate much.
“Whoa” the girl stared off into the distance, contemplating what Ollie had just said. “Is adrenaline, like, some sort of danger thing that spies use? Is your dad a spy?” she pounced on ollie, shaking his shoulders out of excitement
“n-o-o” he warbled, wrenching free of the girl’s mittened grasp. As he caught his breath, he corrected “He’s a forest ranger.”
“Which one?” she asked. there were only a handful of rangers who patrolled this part of the forest, and Ollie knew all of them.
“Ranger Ted Beckett.” he answered
“The tall one with the terrible jokes and red boots?”
“Mhm!” It seemed a little weird to ollie that she knew who his dad was. Most people didn’t give forest rangers a second glance, much less take the time to memorize their names.
“He was the one who helped my grandpa clear the path when the tree fell last fall! Any friend of Ranger ted’s is a friend of mine” she grabbed his hand out of his pocket and shook it with vigor. The shake turned into a tug as she took off down a thin windy trail, dragging a very confused ollie behind her.
“Keep up!” she shouted to him. He didn’t really have a choice because if he stopped she would have ripped his arm off and kept running with it. When the two-person hyperactivity conga line finally ground to a halt, they were standing in front of an elm tree with a ladder and a net in its branches. Leaning against the tree was a tallish boy in a jean jacket reading a comic book, a pair of sticker-covered forearm crutches propped up beside him. He took off his slouchy black beanie and shook it out, pulling it back over his equally black hair once all the leaves were out of it.
“Cole!” the girl shouted, dropping ollie’s hand. “Did i leave the sandbag up in the net again?”
Cole picked his crutches up and knocked on her colander. “This is like, the tenth time, Birdie.”
“I was just going to check on the tightrope, but I got sidetracked.” she took the helmet off and hung it on a branch.
“I’d say you did. Who’s this?” Cole pointed a crutch at ollie
“He’s, uh…” birdie stammered, realizing that she never asked Ollie for his name.
“I’m Ollie!” he grinned, straightening up a bit.
Here's a snippet of my writing!
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I'm fry, and I make doodles. That's why they call me FRY DOODLES. Also no pressure but check out my YouTube channel (Fry Doodles) I'm a disabled, neurodivergent, artsy dumpster fire who's always open to chat. I'm a sensitive little sad bean, and somewhat of a clown. But, I'm also god's favorite princess and the most interesting girl in the world. Crafter of Constellations, vocaloid enjoyer, waluigi’s #1 fan, space alien, your favorite pretty boy, and certified silly goose
I'm fry, and I make doodles. That's why they call me FRY DOODLES. Also no pressure but check out my YouTube channel (Fry Doodles) I'm a disabled, neurodivergent, artsy dumpster fire who's always open to chat. I'm a sensitive little sad bean, and somewhat of a clown. But, I'm also god's favorite princess and the most interesting girl in the world. Crafter of Constellations, vocaloid enjoyer, waluigi’s #1 fan, space alien, your favorite pretty boy, and certified silly goose
I think I remember you talking about being a fan of Sid Meier’s Civilization games, right?
I may or may not be getting Civ 7 when it comes out.
i also just might be misremembering everything, however.
Nice!
I started with Civ II when I was ~10 after my mom got it cheap. Been doing Civ V after getting it on a sale some years back.
Me and my father decided we’re gonna buy it after he found it, and I saw it was of the same genre as Total War Warhammer 3, the game I mentioned earlier, being like a civilization/kingdom building turn based strategy. Although from what I’ve seen, Civilization is with real empires and leaders, right?
Yep Civilization uses real world leaders and cultures.
Civ VII will be a bit different in that. Previously you chose a civilization (example: Egypt) and played with that civ and leader (ex: Ramses) throughout the whole game. In Civ VI there were some minor tweaks with giving some civs different leader options. IIRC both Gandhi and Chandragupta are leaders for India in Civ VI. (Gandhi is a traditional leader in the Civ series, known for his love of nuclear weapons.)
But Civ VII is decoupling the civs and leaders a bit. So you'll choose a leader, such as Octavius, and then you also choose a civ for that. So you can choose to be Octavius of Rome. Or you could be Octavius of China possibly. And then as the eras advance you change your civ. So if you have a lot of horses you might have an option to become The Mongols. Or you might go with a different option.
I see… I heard they had Catherine the Great (the coolest Russian Empress) and that was what made me really want to get civ 7, but I hadn’t known about ending the connection between leaders and Civs. Interesting!
and I heard about Gandhi and his… nuclear tendencies.
In Civ V if you were playing Russia (led by Catherine) and researched Horseback Riding before anyone else you got the "My Little Pony" achievement in reference to the (most likely false) certain rumors about her.
And yeah Nuclear Gandhi is a fun story. Essentially it has to do with unsigned integers in computer programming. You see they wanted Gandhi to be peaceful so they set his aggression to be 1/10. And being so peaceable he'd later adopt Democracy as his government, lowering his aggression by 2.
So what's the problem? you ask? Wouldn't that mean he'd be at -1/10 aggression? Like super peaceful?
Good guess, but no!
Because with unsigned integers when you subtract from 0 you don't go negative. You get an underflow error!
So suddenly peaceful Gandhi went from 1/10 aggression to 255/10 aggression. And right around the time you were getting Democracy in Civ I you were close to getting nukes. Which meant players started to see Gandhi warning them that his words were backed by NUCLEAR WEAPONS!
Now there's some debate on whether or not this bug actually existed or if people just remembered, "Bro. Gandhi just nuked me!" But I choose to believe.
I remember a short about the Gandhi story, lol. “In this world, there are two types of people: enemies, and collateral damage.” -Gandhi.
and that thing about Catherine… that is simply heinous. Have you played Catherine the great?
There's some other delights with the achievements. For example "I don't remember that day in history" is an achievement you get if you play the Picts in a scenario about the Fall of Rome and conquer a city from the Sassanid Persians.
And yep I've played a game with Catherine. One of the the unique things about Russia in Civ V is that you get double-uranium (some tiles have special resources like uranium that are needed to build certain things, such as nuclear missiles) so I enjoyed building up a massive nuclear arsenal which I then used to absolute obliterate the last civ still standing in order to complete a Domination Victory.
How fun! What’s your favorite civ you’ve played as?
Got a couple favorites.
1. The Mongols They have two unique units. The Keshik and the Khan. The keshik replaces the standard Medieval knight and turns it into a ranged unit that has good movement and can move after attacking, making it very power and a city-killer. The Khan is a general that moves quicker than normal generals (so it can keep up with your keshiks) and offers extra healing. Keshiks change the nature of warfare so much compared to other civs that it's a delight to play with them. (The Arabs also have a similar unit in the Camel Archer.)
2. Venice Led by Enrico Dandolo, Venice's big shtick is that unlike other civs you can't found cities but in exchange you get double trade routes which offers you a lot of gold from those. You also can purchase in puppet cities (game mechanic; too long to explain here) which other civs cannot. So it's a big change of playstyle compared to other civilizations and I enjoy it.
3. Iroquois They aren't the strongest civilization in the game. In fact there's a decent argument to make that they're worse than a generic civ without any bonuses due to have one of their unique things works. But the big thing with them is that they do well with forests so I like to stack them map when I play them to use a setting with tons of forests. And within that unique setting they have fun ways of playing out.
There's also a lot of other civs that are fun. The Netherlands have polders which can be very strong on desert maps (ironically). The Inca do great in hills. Zulus have The Impi + Ikana for some very strong infantry units. England has longbows and ships of the line for fun ground + sea armies. Polynesia has a unique gameplay option if you stack the map to have a continent where no one spans at the beginning and play the game of "I'm going to sail over there in the ancient era when no one else can." Poland has extra social policies (they do things like give you more science, money, happiness, etc.) which is nice.
I'm fry, and I make doodles. That's why they call me FRY DOODLES. Also no pressure but check out my YouTube channel (Fry Doodles) I'm a disabled, neurodivergent, artsy dumpster fire who's always open to chat. I'm a sensitive little sad bean, and somewhat of a clown. But, I'm also god's favorite princess and the most interesting girl in the world. Crafter of Constellations, vocaloid enjoyer, waluigi’s #1 fan, space alien, your favorite pretty boy, and certified silly goose
He's adorable for a former collector/demolition expert for the mob. Nowadays he just runs a soda shop out of an inn and desperately gets as much money as possible so he can prove that ice cream and soda can go together... because his beloved won't be allowed to marry him if he doesn't.
It's very lore-heavy. He's got big glasses and a bow tie.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
May each word that I speak be backed by each of my teeth.
I love it.
and big glasses and bow ties are a requirement, darling.
what’s the plot of dragon heist?
No idea, but we have a tavern now. I heard there isn't actually a heist, which is a bit frustrating.
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May each word that I speak be backed by each of my teeth.
There isn’t a heist… in dragon heist?… I’m… what?
what on earth is it about then!?
well, have you at least had fun?
IIRC it's that there was a heist in the past but the characters are doing something else.
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Eh, kind of.
The intimidation session dragged out for a bit because I rolled a 15, which wasn't enough even with the flames threatening to consume his actually pretty crappy workplace/home, a knife inches from his eye, no one coming to help, and me offering him a good paycheck if he came with me.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
May each word that I speak be backed by each of my teeth.
In Civ V if you were playing Russia (led by Catherine) and researched Horseback Riding before anyone else you got the "My Little Pony" achievement in reference to the (most likely false) certain rumors about her.
And yeah Nuclear Gandhi is a fun story. Essentially it has to do with unsigned integers in computer programming. You see they wanted Gandhi to be peaceful so they set his aggression to be 1/10. And being so peaceable he'd later adopt Democracy as his government, lowering his aggression by 2.
So what's the problem? you ask? Wouldn't that mean he'd be at -1/10 aggression? Like super peaceful?
Good guess, but no!
Because with unsigned integers when you subtract from 0 you don't go negative. You get an underflow error!
So suddenly peaceful Gandhi went from 1/10 aggression to 255/10 aggression. And right around the time you were getting Democracy in Civ I you were close to getting nukes. Which meant players started to see Gandhi warning them that his words were backed by NUCLEAR WEAPONS!
Now there's some debate on whether or not this bug actually existed or if people just remembered, "Bro. Gandhi just nuked me!" But I choose to believe.
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I remember a short about the Gandhi story, lol. “In this world, there are two types of people: enemies, and collateral damage.” -Gandhi.
and that thing about Catherine… that is simply heinous. Have you played Catherine the great?
There's some other delights with the achievements. For example "I don't remember that day in history" is an achievement you get if you play the Picts in a scenario about the Fall of Rome and conquer a city from the Sassanid Persians.
And yep I've played a game with Catherine. One of the the unique things about Russia in Civ V is that you get double-uranium (some tiles have special resources like uranium that are needed to build certain things, such as nuclear missiles) so I enjoyed building up a massive nuclear arsenal which I then used to absolute obliterate the last civ still standing in order to complete a Domination Victory.
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How fun! What’s your favorite civ you’ve played as?
someone give me a number between 23 and 1
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May each word that I speak be backed by each of my teeth.
17!
Ollie Beckett skipped down the forest trail he always took home from school. He gripped the straps of his stripy canvas backpack as he hopped down the wooden steps that poked out of a particularly slippery slope. The north end of mockingbird wood had lots of things like this, little bridges and ladders too. If you followed them, you were bound to end up in the Grove. Ollie had always took the other fork of trail that led to his house.
There were some rumors that floated around at school about a weird kid who hung out at the grove. Blyffe only had two schools, and the kid didn’t go to either, so Ollie just assumed she was a myth, but evidence suggested otherwise. Becky from his art class said she saw the kid holding a squirrel like a baby when she took the forest trail home once.
Blyffe was a little town at the base of a mountain with only around 3,000 people living there, but it got along fine. People came to camp and hike, and it made for a cozy pitstop on the way to the ski resort up the mountain. But if you lived in Blyffe, you did your coming and going through the forest trails. Fifty percent of the town was occupied by forest, not including the acres and acres of surrounding woods, and people respected it. Quite a few people lived in little houses in the woods, and Ollie was one of them.
Something just felt different about today. Not just because it was the last day of school and the beginning of summer vacation, though that helped. Summer in Blyffe never got warmer than 70 degrees, so you could keep your sweaters on most of the year. But as Ollie stood at the fork in the path, he decided to go left to the grove. The grove girl couldn’t hurt him, right? He remembered a story Paul Bonetti told about her. He found her in the forest and bet her five bucks that she wouldn’t eat a pinecone, and she did! Soaked it in the creek until it softened a little and ate the whole thing, Paul had said.
Uncharacteristically, sprig didn’t really worry as he trotted down the dirt path. Even he had to admit to himself that it was weird. Not bad weird, just weird. He always had a few worries running around in the back of his mind, but right now they stood still. The day was just too pretty for that, I guess. Bright afternoon sunlight shimmered through the canopy, painting the rocks like… uh… what was the word he learned at the art museum?
Oh,Pointillism! The paintings made of tiny dots. That was what the dapply light looked like. And the sunrays were swipes of yellow paint, vibrant enough to make a mark but translucent so that it made everything behind it look sort of yellow too. Sprig loved to think about those kinds of things. He always appreciated nature more when he imagined how he could paint it.
At last, he came to the grove. A solitary oak stood in the middle of a clearing full of wooden toys and furniture. A seesaw made to resemble a dragon prowled near a log-built fort. There were hammocks and platforms adorning the surrounding trees, but the oak remained bare except for a carving on its trunk. When Ollie walked a little closer, he could see that it said “Katie + Dad 1996” Woah, he thought, This tree must be ancient.
Suddenly, he heard a chirpy voice shout “Hey! You’re standing on percy’s face!” Ollie looked down and saw some lines drawn in the dirt. When he looked at the bigger picture, he could see that he had been standing on the nose of a giant dirt-scribble crocodile. Ollie stepped back, obeying the voice. It had come from one of the high-up platforms where stood a girl with a colander on her head. Tufts of scruffy brown hair stuck out from under her kitchenware helmet and squiggled down to her pot-lid shoulder armor that was stuck onto her rusty red sweater. She looked like a knight who protected a dumpster behind a crate and barrel.
As she climbed down the rope ladder, her colander hat bonked against each rung with a clank-ka-clank-ka-clank, and it would have fallen off if it wasn’t duct-taped firmly to a bike helmet. Something about her told Ollie that she was the grove kid, and he began to cross-check what he had heard. There were no squirrels around, but the girl’s hair seemed like a few were burrowed in it. She had a tooth gap. Was that from eating the pinecone?
“I like your boots” she piped to ollie
“You do?” he looked down at his apparently noteworthy set of secondhand galoshes with ducks on the sides.
“Yeah!” she grinned “the ducks have HATS” she said the last part with emphasis, as if it was a universal rule that ducks with hats=awesome. It was true. Each tiny duck had a tinier rain hat, which seemed redundant to Ollie because ducks were already waterproof. Maybe they just liked how they looked in hats.
“Thanks!” he replied, looking for something to compliment her back on. “Why are you wearing a colander?” whoops.
“Safety! I was about to test my new tightrope!” she gestured at a precarious rope stretched from one platform to another.
“tightrope?” Ollie questioned again
“Of course! Clemont did it in On the line! The bag guys were closing in on him and his only option was to walk on top of a cord! But I wanted to see if it was really possible, because my papa always tells me how unrealistic those spy books are” She gushed about some book he hadn’t read
“But what’s the crocodile for?” he caught her mid-explanation
“Dramatic effect” she said matter-of-factly “And his name is percy” She crouched down and gave the dirt drawing a pat.
“Isn’t that dangerous?” Ollie asked, craning his neck to look at the unstable rope that was quite literally hanging by a thread. Safety was important to his dad, so it was important to him too, and by the looks of the tightrope, A colander wasn’t going to do much if you took a tumble from way up there.
“Dangerous smangerous” the girl was already back up on the platform tightening her helmet. Before he could stop her, she took off, making it a surprising four steps across before plunging into a waterless bellyflop into the dirt.
Ollie sprinted to her side and gently poked her motionless body with the toe of his boot, holding his breath. Please don’t let her be dead, he wished.
The girl flopped onto her back and sputtered “I think I swallowed an acorn” She looked a little worse for wear with leaves clinging to her sweater and a dent in her colander, but she was just fine. “Well, second try’s the charm!” She stood up and dusted herself off, but before she could reach the ladder, a hand grabbing her sweater yanked her back.
“No! It’s not going to work because… because…” Ollie searched frantically for something he could use to talk her down. “There’s no bad guys! Yeah! The guy probably only could do it because he was in danger!”
“That’s a thing?” she puzzled, hopping down from the first rung of the ladder.
“Mhm! It’s got something to do with adrenaline, I think. Dad said so.” Ollie wasn’t really sure. His dad loved using examples like those in his ranger talks, but he didn’t really elaborate much.
“Whoa” the girl stared off into the distance, contemplating what Ollie had just said. “Is adrenaline, like, some sort of danger thing that spies use? Is your dad a spy?” she pounced on ollie, shaking his shoulders out of excitement
“n-o-o” he warbled, wrenching free of the girl’s mittened grasp. As he caught his breath, he corrected “He’s a forest ranger.”
“Which one?” she asked. there were only a handful of rangers who patrolled this part of the forest, and Ollie knew all of them.
“Ranger Ted Beckett.” he answered
“The tall one with the terrible jokes and red boots?”
“Mhm!” It seemed a little weird to ollie that she knew who his dad was. Most people didn’t give forest rangers a second glance, much less take the time to memorize their names.
“He was the one who helped my grandpa clear the path when the tree fell last fall! Any friend of Ranger ted’s is a friend of mine” she grabbed his hand out of his pocket and shook it with vigor. The shake turned into a tug as she took off down a thin windy trail, dragging a very confused ollie behind her.
“Keep up!” she shouted to him. He didn’t really have a choice because if he stopped she would have ripped his arm off and kept running with it. When the two-person hyperactivity conga line finally ground to a halt, they were standing in front of an elm tree with a ladder and a net in its branches. Leaning against the tree was a tallish boy in a jean jacket reading a comic book, a pair of sticker-covered forearm crutches propped up beside him. He took off his slouchy black beanie and shook it out, pulling it back over his equally black hair once all the leaves were out of it.
“Cole!” the girl shouted, dropping ollie’s hand. “Did i leave the sandbag up in the net again?”
Cole picked his crutches up and knocked on her colander. “This is like, the tenth time, Birdie.”
“I was just going to check on the tightrope, but I got sidetracked.” she took the helmet off and hung it on a branch.
“I’d say you did. Who’s this?” Cole pointed a crutch at ollie
“He’s, uh…” birdie stammered, realizing that she never asked Ollie for his name.
“I’m Ollie!” he grinned, straightening up a bit.
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I'm fry, and I make doodles. That's why they call me FRY DOODLES. Also no pressure but check out my YouTube channel (Fry Doodles)
I'm a disabled, neurodivergent, artsy dumpster fire who's always open to chat.
I'm a sensitive little sad bean, and somewhat of a clown. But, I'm also god's favorite princess and the most interesting girl in the world.
Crafter of Constellations, vocaloid enjoyer, waluigi’s #1 fan, space alien, your favorite pretty boy, and certified silly goose
I'm fry, and I make doodles. That's why they call me FRY DOODLES. Also no pressure but check out my YouTube channel (Fry Doodles)
I'm a disabled, neurodivergent, artsy dumpster fire who's always open to chat.
I'm a sensitive little sad bean, and somewhat of a clown. But, I'm also god's favorite princess and the most interesting girl in the world.
Crafter of Constellations, vocaloid enjoyer, waluigi’s #1 fan, space alien, your favorite pretty boy, and certified silly goose
Got a couple favorites.
1. The Mongols
They have two unique units. The Keshik and the Khan. The keshik replaces the standard Medieval knight and turns it into a ranged unit that has good movement and can move after attacking, making it very power and a city-killer. The Khan is a general that moves quicker than normal generals (so it can keep up with your keshiks) and offers extra healing. Keshiks change the nature of warfare so much compared to other civs that it's a delight to play with them. (The Arabs also have a similar unit in the Camel Archer.)
2. Venice
Led by Enrico Dandolo, Venice's big shtick is that unlike other civs you can't found cities but in exchange you get double trade routes which offers you a lot of gold from those. You also can purchase in puppet cities (game mechanic; too long to explain here) which other civs cannot. So it's a big change of playstyle compared to other civilizations and I enjoy it.
3. Iroquois
They aren't the strongest civilization in the game. In fact there's a decent argument to make that they're worse than a generic civ without any bonuses due to have one of their unique things works. But the big thing with them is that they do well with forests so I like to stack them map when I play them to use a setting with tons of forests. And within that unique setting they have fun ways of playing out.
There's also a lot of other civs that are fun. The Netherlands have polders which can be very strong on desert maps (ironically). The Inca do great in hills. Zulus have The Impi + Ikana for some very strong infantry units. England has longbows and ships of the line for fun ground + sea armies. Polynesia has a unique gameplay option if you stack the map to have a continent where no one spans at the beginning and play the game of "I'm going to sail over there in the ancient era when no one else can." Poland has extra social policies (they do things like give you more science, money, happiness, etc.) which is nice.
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hi
I'm fry, and I make doodles. That's why they call me FRY DOODLES. Also no pressure but check out my YouTube channel (Fry Doodles)
I'm a disabled, neurodivergent, artsy dumpster fire who's always open to chat.
I'm a sensitive little sad bean, and somewhat of a clown. But, I'm also god's favorite princess and the most interesting girl in the world.
Crafter of Constellations, vocaloid enjoyer, waluigi’s #1 fan, space alien, your favorite pretty boy, and certified silly goose
'ello
Hi, I’m DrakenBrine, here’s my Sig and characters
I am The Grand Envisioner!