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  • I love all the pleasantly deep answers in this thread.

    For my input: I’m everything I ever was, all at once.

    You know how lenses refract over each other at the optometrist? Or how colors combine when you stack transparent cups in the washer? That’s me. I have parts from everyone I ever met, and parts from everyone I ever was. There’s no mask, even if I focus on one part of the mosaic in a meeting vs. another when I nerd out w/ a buddy – it’s all equally me.

    I’m not Shrek though. Onions have layers, but I’m prismatic glass, chips and dips and all.








  • I’m not sure I understand the question

    If you’re looking for a “something is two opposites at once until met” then that’s anywhere any unsureness exists. Lesson plans are decent and lacking until taught to students. Visual art is pretty and dismal until witnessed by another beholder. Speeches are rousing and dogshit til spoken at the mic.

    If you’re looking for a “something that’s explained oversimplifiedly then a lot of people say they get it (and are wrong)” then that’s like a subset of all misconceptions.

    • Monads in programming. Lots of people say they “get it” after a simplified explanation, but actually don’t get it (judging by blog posts that recite a simplified explanation, but actually don’t get it).
    • Tariffs. Lots of people learn middle school mercantilism (zero sum wealth) then guess that the economy is still import export balance, and that if we make people exporting to us more expensive then we get more of the zero sum pie. (Obviously wrong, and a basic macroeconomic lesson on consumer welfare in a system with a world price is useful)
    • A lot of physics terms tbh. “I get momentum, that’s when it’s hard to stop when you’re fast.” Often they mean something closer to inertia. “I get the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. It’s when seeing something changes it!” It’s closer to uncertainty in the measurement of tiny things because of the physical implication of what we measure it using. (e.g. by reading a photon off of something, we know we’re kinda inaccurate cuz the photon was discharged)






  • I reserve some wordless music for when my sadness gets critical. That way, they always sound bittersweet without me listening them to death.

    • Lourié’s 5 Préludes Fragiles. Makes me feel aware of how easy I am to break at the moment, but also how pretty survivalism through fragility can be.
    • Ravel’s Pavane for a Dead Princess. It’s not about a dead princess, just one in the past, but it makes me feel like I’m that princess, rich and sad and stepping around in a bright, cream-beige ballroom. Instead of just solely sad.
    • Debussy’s Images. II. Hommage à Rameau. A quiet plaintiveness with occasionally rising energy helps me tend closer to neutrality.
    • Stanchinsky’s Prelude in the Lydian Mode. As the n-tuplets get desperate, I get desperate to fix everything. But then the curses stop and we return to a pretty but occasionally sickly quiet. The nonsenses are pinpricks in its floral thoughts.
    • Glinka/Balakirev’s The Lark. Reminds me that I’m fluttering, not just floundering.

    In any order, but I usually start with the Fragile Preludes (especially the middle few of the set). Lyrical songs are usually for higher energy/mood to me


  • big-ass dragon.

    skate around on hot wheels, zip around the burj khalifa, blend in with humans.

    wear a beat-up rag in the desert and save a traveler.

    be mysterious at the soup kitchen. but an observant worker notices something’s off.

    live through a hundred calamities because eh, humanity will get through it.

    smash a wall with my big-ass human-form tail.

    eat 1500 drumsticks, sleep 80 hours, then fix the wall bc the landlord’s a nice lady and i don’t want to disquiet her.

    the soup kitchen friend is on to me.

    big-ass dragon.



  • Our party peers over the gate and sees…

    Kali Bandit (Level 3)

    A script kiddie. Lots spawn at once.

    STR: 3 (+7 during practice combat)
    DEX: 3
    CON: 5 (-4 when angry)
    INT: 4
    WIS: 1
    CHA: 1

    Kali Mercenary (Level 9)

    Uses Kali for work. Well-balanced, but weakened because the company hasn’t had a security incident anyway.

    STR: 8 (+15 when fighting Kali Bandit)
    DEX: 9
    CON: 10 (-2 when teammate gets phished)
    INT: 12
    WIS: 12
    CHA: 8 (-2 when dealing with the one paying for them)

    17 year old with Amazon fire stick (Level 12)

    The judge prohibited them from touching computers.

    STR: 7 (+3 if he gets SSH running…)
    DEX: 8
    CON: 12 (+1 from the big house)
    INT: 16
    WIS: 7
    CHA: 9 (-2 when dealing with Nvidia)