Pastelbat @pastelbat@awoo.space

It me in the corner

It me in the spotlight

Relating to random objects

2 days until I can nestle cozily in a new Age of Wonders game and never come out

I'm hype

Doing tasks that require waiting in-between stages for a few minutes at a time is the worst

Like, I routinely fail at "Take teabag out of tea" or "Just remember you put food in oven"

"Pre-heat oven for 5m, then go back and actually put the food in, then go collect food and turn off oven" is basically wizardry to me

https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=450638

She can see through all of time and change fate at whim, and she activated her own Planeswalker Spark (read: X-Men 'power awakening in crisis' dealio) simply because: She sees it happens in her future, and goes "That looks rad as heck, why wait"

On top of that:
Goth-as-hell little girl
Esper colours (Blue/Black/White)
Blink, deck manipulation & ridiculous boardstate-changing shenanigans
Moths, lots of moths
A Commander
Precon deck is called 'Subjective Reality'

I love her on every level

Presumably she doesn't interfere with the rest of the cast's interdimensional biff-ups cuz
A) she can control time and fate, so who cares
and
B) She's 8yrs old. She has a *million* better things to do than hang out with Jace & Pals

I think I'm getting the hang of the Fencer's boost-cancelling momentum stuff in EDF5

Being able to combine the tanky "static artillery" and the fast-moving kiter/reviver roles is odd but cool

Also flying around massive enemies going "Hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi okbye" with hit n run shenanigans

It feels different to the Wing Diver in the kinda "Spiderman to (someone who flies like Superman but not at ridiculous speeds, idk)" comparison in how they approach flight

Sudden bursts of huge momentum in new directions vs having fine-control over your flight

I was thinking about limited information Go variants in the shower. There are a few around, but I've not yet come across the exact sort of thing I'm thinking of (with enemy stones blocking visibility).

I'm tempted to play around with the idea now.

If I could whack together a quick-n-dirty Go engine to tweak in something like Unity/Godot, I'd do that, but I cannot.

(The idea of doing it in Twine amuses me, and is quite feasible, however. Or a Discord bot, which is an idea I've played around with in the past.)

The Cursed Goban of Milton Keynes
http://www.britgo.org/clubs/mk/mkboard.html

This Is How You Lose The Time War is a lot of fun.

I'm only a short way through it, but it avoids the usual time travel tropes in favour of a back-and-forth rivalry between two agents of opposing time-travel-capable factions, which starts off as taunting/professional-recognition kinda vibe, and plunges into nemesis-rivalry-flirting with wanton abandon via meticulously planned pranking-come-sabotage of each other's missions.

Oh wow EDF5's difficulty is completely different in MP lobby vs SP campaign

I'd been told enemy health scaled with # of players, but I'm not sure that's true so much as MP vs SP.

But yeah, I'd been trying to tackle Hard missions solo in an MP lobby, assuming it just stacks difficulty according to difficulty level + player count. Then got disillusioned and went down to Normal, and still got nommed..

Now playing the same levels on SP-Hard and it's wow, kinda a cakewalk by comparison

Max Gladstone & Ada Palmer are my two main "Any excuse to loudly fan at people til they read their stuff" authors atm

Though Anne Leckie is certainly up there too, she's fab

Yay, dead-tree copies of Jacques the Fatalist and This Is How You Lose The Time War arrived today

Mainly curious about Jacques the Fatalist because of Ada Palmer talking about the weird narrator stuff it does and complete disregard for narrative/novel-format conventions generally.

grabbed This Is How You Lose The Time War cuz I will read everything Max Gladstone puts out there and it seems like a cool concept

I just realised something

You absolutely wouldn't find the Hounds of Tindalos hanging around run-down Universities in New England

Now, all the Universities built in the Brutalist era?

They be all over that

Brutalist university campuses would be eldritch anglepuppy heaven

'body horror', also known as 'scream at own ass'

*searches for collapsible box, collapsible crate, collapsible container*
*gives up*
...
Ah. Of course.

"I saw in a hall an arrow pointing the way and I thought that this inoffensive symbol had once been a thing of iron, an inescapable and fatal projectile that pierced the flesh of men and of lions and clouded the sun at Thermopolae and gave Harald Sigurdarson six feet of English earth forever.

Some days later someone showed me a photograph of a Magyar horseman. A coiled lasso circled the breast of his mount. I learned that the lasso, which once whipped through the air and brought down the bulls of the prairie, was now nothing more than a haughty trapping of Sunday harness.

In the west cemetery I saw a runic cross, chiseled in red marble. The arms curved as they widened out, and a circle encompassed them. That limited, circumscribed cross represented the other one, the free-armed cross, which in its turn represents the gallows where a god suffered, the “vile machine” railed at by Lucian of Samosata.

Cross, lasso, and arrow–former tools of man, debased or exalted now to the status of symbols. Why should I marvel at them, when there is not a single thing on earth that oblivion does not erase or memory change, and when no one knows into what images he himself will be transmuted by the future."

The true power of seamstressing is when you realise you can make any obnoxiously patterned bedsheets or curtains into pants