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Zaros Zaros @lemmy.world

An avid meme observer and Fediverse enthusiast.

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Contemptuous Anger
  • One of the weird guys who come to a small grocery store without a shirt and start screaming at the poor cashier when they don't sell a very specific brand of tar shampoo. I'd say you did quite well indeed.

  • A resemblance often neglected
  • Unless we're talking about pets, funny enough.

  • Fight Coven #18 [MoringMark]
  • Final boss approaches...

  • Castle Iron Moon
  • The green-black things remind me of 'black metal' in Valheim, collected as scrap metal from some goblin creatures. It's now my headcanon that this is what their civilization was like before its collapse. They use fire magic too, which also fits.

  • Fight Coven #17 [MoringMark]
  • "As far as I'm concerned, you are my only opponent here."

    Huh, good thing she didn't pull this off against the three guys from earlier. Although, that would have been rather entertaining.

  • Castle Iron Moon
  • This might honestly be one of my favorite paintings I've seen. I've never wanted to have any art on my walls, but I actually wouldn't mind falling asleep looking at this. The moon (?) is a nice touch as well, makes the whole a lot more interesting.

  • Onko internet kuollut vai ei?
  • Juu kyllä täällä ainakin joitain on. Itse aloin lajittelemaan kaikki syötteet uusimmat ensin jo ekan päivän aikana, niin en ole tuohon ongelmaan törmännyt. Kannattaa tehdä sama ellet vielä ole.

    Internetin kuolemasta; ei se kaiketi ihan vielä kupsahtanut ole. Pitänee odottaa kunnes Youtuben uusista videoista ei löydy muuta kuin AI:n tekemää.

  • Dish-Illusioned [Ferd'Nand, 1951]
  • I remember reading so many of these as a kid. I had completely forgotten about these. A nice surprise in my feed.

  • Beach Day [admiralwonderboat]
  • I never really learned this skill. I can just lie down in bed all day doing nothing (apart from thinking), and not get bored. This trait is not very beneficial for productivity...

  • Sanctum of Rebirth Coming July 22!
  • I haven't been playing in a while, but we're getting new Amascut stuff? Yes please!

  • WAH - Return to Sender [MoringMark]
  • I like how Willow and Gus are freaking out, but Amity doesn't even flinch. Also, Luz has a portal gun now!?

  • Depression / nostalgia has hindered my ability to make new memories, I just re-live old ones
  • That's quite an interesting problem to have. I've never been very prone to nostalgia myself, partially due to there not being that many good memories. Not sure how to express this in English... I don't know how I would have handled the whole dropping out, unemployment, being kicked out and being homeless. Or if I would have handled it at all. I'm impressed.

    The part I can actually relate to is "I just want to keep barely working and playing games and staying up late forever", while also very much not wanting to be that way. (typing this at 5am) For myself, I've identified the likely problem to be that I no longer have any goals or dreams. There isn't really anything I'd want to work towards, nothing I want to achieve. I can't come up with anything either, so I'm kind of stuck in the present unable to look to the future, just trying to survive day at a time. Whenever I do think about future, I can only think about it in a negative way. I'm curious, how do you view future? Or do you have any leads as to how you might get out of your situation?

    If online friends aren't your thing, this won't be of any use, but when it comes to making real friends online... Based purely on my personal experience, I'd recommend some kind of an online penpal site. The ones where people look to chat with people from other countries or speaking other languages, for example. Differences between countries and cultures give a lot of interesting stuff to talk about, and easily leads to deeper conversations. Especially helpful if there isn't much going on in one's day-to-day life. And people there are generally looking for actual friends, more so than in most other online communities. I've made most of my best friendships on sites like that. Some of them I'm still friends with a decade later. (I just now realized it has been that long... damn.)

  • Shocking
  • A soul eater trying to explain how what they are doing isn't really any different from the humans hunting and eating other animals.

  • ink and watercolor / untitled
  • I don't know why exactly, but I find this absolutely adorable.

  • I have no idea what to shoot for in this game
  • Only goal I can really think of is unlocking War's Retreat. Never really been a goal oriented player, although I did give Taskman a try for a few months. Surprisingly fun.

    Guthixian Caches is a good minigame to pay some attention to. Anachronia also has a few useful things even early on, although most of it is for higher levels. You'll want to unlock Menaphos, since that's the low-mid level training hub and might as well get the reputation there while the content is still relevant. As longer term goals... Prifddinas and Invention are probably the most obvious ones. If you're playing ironman, there's of course plenty of other things that are useful just for them.

    Storywise... World Wakes is a good one to aim for, I think. Lays a lot of groundwork for the newer stories.

  • Why is zoom so insane when you double tap on images?
  • I know at least Firefox and Signal do the same. I don't see why it should be changed, since pinching and double tapping are also supported. Although, the zoom on double tap is indeed way too strong.

  • VIPs [MoringMark]
  • Me here looking at the last frames, trying to see where Hooty is stalking them from.

  • Guess I’m too good
  • I've been carrying a lute I found in a cave for weeks now, still haven't found out who it belongs to, or to what quest. I refuse to look it up though, I'll search the entire Skyrim, if that's what it takes.

  • Be careful /s
  • The moment you get rid of the phone, you start turning into a sheep? Better hold onto mine then, I suppose.

  • What's the worst that could happen?

    (template stolen from Crow Time comic)

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    I have seen things that were never meant for mortal eyes...

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    Finding different numerals to use

    While learning multiplication in dozenal, I quickly ran into the issue of answers getting mixed with my already memorized decimal multiplication tables. So, to remedy this issue (and to prevent dozenal from corrupting the decimal multiplication), I began a search for an alternative set of glyphs for numbers! And after several uninteresting numerals, I came across these Kaktovik numerals!

    They're wonderfully simple, can be drawn without lifting the pen and clearly tell which number is portrayed, which also makes them easy to learn. And yes, it's for base-20, but it can be easily adapted for base-12 by cutting off the right column and bottom row. So each upper/horizontal line represents 4 and every vertical line represents 1.

    Now I can properly start getting into learning multiplication and other basics (reminds me of elementary school and I feel like a child again!). If anyone has any other interesting numerals to use for dozenal, I'd be interested to find out what. I don't particularly like using 1-9+A,B, or X and E, or such and I'd be happy to find more interesting alternatives!

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    They're just standing there... menacingly!

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    Dozenal Clock

    Yesterday I was thinking about how clocks could perhaps be improved upon by making them follow solely dozenal system... and lo and behold, a quick internet search led me to an implementation of just that!

    It looks familiar at first, but you notice the difference very quickly. No 10, 11, or 12 on it for one (to be expected in dozenal), and there appears to be more hands than usual! Seems complicated, but it's actually even simpler than the one we're used to:

    • The shortest hand follows the sun and circles the clock once a day (24h), pointing down at midnight and up at noon.
    • Longer red hand is 12 times faster, meaning it circles the clock in the exact time it takes the shortest to move from 0 to 1 (2h).
    • Every hand moves 12 times faster than the shorter one! So the next one circles the clock in 10 minutes and the fastest in 50 seconds.
    • You could of course keep adding hands by again increasing the speed by 12, but those would move so fast we'd have little use for them. (next one would circle the clock in about 4s)

    Unfortunately I have no clue what to call these time units, but I love them! The longest/fastest of these hands circles the clock 1728 times a day, which is 1000z in dozenal! This clock makes converting from one time unit to another a breeze, just move the dozenal point! (same advantage as SI-system generally has in decimal) No need to multiply with 60 or 24.

    I'll leave the beauty of digital presentation of time in this system for you to figure out. Check out the site linked above and just play around with it for a bit!

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    No idea what dozenal is?

    dozenal.org Dozenal Society of America | Main Page | Experiment

    Dozenal Society of America, and international, voluntary non-profit dedicated to researching, using, and teaching about dozenals (duodecimals) and other non-decimal bases.

    If so, you might want to check out Wikipedia to start with. Or even better, visit Dozenal Society of America as their site has plenty of material about the subject, explaining more about why dozenal could be a better choice than decimal!

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    Sylvari Firebrand

    I'm still new(ish) to the game so I don't have any fancy gear yet... but here's my first attempt at fashion wars anyways!

    I might have spent most of my gold on two dyes to try and mimic the colors of her flames, but I admit nothing.

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    People keep complaining about safe spaces, but I can't find any!

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    Phew, that was a close call...

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