Kaelygon

joined 2 years ago
[–] Kaelygon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's condensed content with simpler terms and plain English, which is helpful for those who aren't native speakers, like Gamba said.
Simple wiki also comes in handy in topics like biology, which can have very specialized vocabulary.

But in this context, the people who unironically believe in things like the moon not being a reflector can't be reasoned with. They won't change their mind no matter how simple English you explain the fact.

[–] Kaelygon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Finnish bank osuuspankki logo comes close to qp outline, but it has extra shaft at the top

[–] Kaelygon@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Google search results are often completely unrelated so it's not any better. If the thing I'm looking for is obscure, AI often finds some thread that I can follow, but I always double check that information.
Know your tool limits, after hundreds of prompts I've learned pretty well when the AI is spitting bullshit answers. Real people on the internet can be just as wrong and biased, so it's best to find multiple independent sources

[–] Kaelygon@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (11 children)

thankfully modern ones like molten salt reactors have passive safety, where they stop the reaction if overheating occurs.
edit: My mistake, there's no active commercial molten salt reactors.
But nuclear power is very safe nowadays because of the multiple fail-safes, which some can still be passive like emergency cooling.
I much rather get electricity from magic rocks than destroying rain forest in developing countries drilling oil, gas or mining coal.
The biggest risk in nuclear is environmental disasters like in Fukushima's case, which is the last significant nuclear incident in past 13 years

[–] Kaelygon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I loved every bit of Rain World! But I ended up quitting it mid play through when it became too hard. I found a way to gather stacks of berries to have enough reattempts for the hard parts, but then got lost where I was even supposed to go and gave up after ~25 hours playtime

[–] Kaelygon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Whoop, I mixed up dark souls 3 with Elden ring. Though, the same applies. I did like the gritty atmosphere and lore. The main issue I had was the learning curve and when trying to playing co-op there was no way to turn off strangers joining what I recall. But I bet by now there's mods for all of that like you said.

[–] Kaelygon@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago (15 children)

I once made the mistake googling easy mode for Elden ring that someone gifted to me. Once I saw the gatekeeping on Reddit, I decided it's not a game for me and uninstalled. I'm sorry that I suck at video games

[–] Kaelygon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I decided to spend a day debugging linux boot failure, which I found to be caused by the Nvidia driver.

 

60x60px 12 colors RGB15, I always love how much you can do with so little in pixelart.
This is upscaled to 360 because no website uses neighbor nearest scaling. The original image is just 1.4 kb

Kaelygon is my first furry OC and to this date I use it as a artist- and nickname.
Back in 2016 I stumbled upon Dutch Angel Dragons and it was the first furry community that I was active.

[–] Kaelygon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I got most hours in pokemon silver and blue. I have played only Gen 1-5 but still like the gen 2 and its sprites.
It amazes me how much the devs were able to get out of gameboy hardware.

[–] Kaelygon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I forgot to mention that the video shows 5pp for Venom Bite, but decided to change it since to more closely match thunder.
Old: 5pp 120 power, 85% accuracy, 33% chance to poison
New: 10pp 120 power, 70% accuracy, 30% chance to poison

I decided to lower the accuracy because poison status already deals 1/8th the damage each turn and Fire blast which accuracy is 85% has only 10% effect chance. The lower accuracy then balanced by the power point increase.

Comparison to gen 2 moves:
Fire blast: 5 pp, 120 power, 85% acc, 10% effect
Hydro pump: 5 pp, 120 power, 80% acc, --% effect
Thunder: 10 pp, 120 power, 70% acc, 30% effect

 

I converted my speculative species into a thematically fitting normal/poison Pokemon.

Venom Bite is the only custom move.
Physical, poison, 120 power, 70% accuracy and 30% chance to poison the target.
It's supposed to be poison variant of the Gen 2 Thunder.

No actual rom hack was done. This was a cheeky video edit, but all of the stats, sprite and flavor texts are within the original game constraints. Gen 2 Pokemon have 10 character limit so "Maned dragon" had to be abbreviated.

I scaled the IVs and EVs referring to my L73 Vaporeon, so every stat should be plausible and moves in the video is what Manedragon would have in wild.
They're not optimized for anything.


PokeDex:

No. ???
Manedragon
Venomous
Type / Normal Poison
HT 3'11"
WT 99.2lb

Stat Value
HP 85
Attack 110
Defense 70
Special Attack 80
Special Defense 85
Speed 105
Total 535

Flavor texts:
Silver

It prefers to hunt
alone and is ready
to strike with its
venom. Yet it
forms unique bonds
with its own kind.

Gold:

Its venomous bite
can defeat larger
prey than itself.
Despite its name
and looks it's not
a true dragon.

Rest of the Manedragon movepool, stats and details

Based on speculative species Maned dragon

Cry editor Github

56x56 Sprite

[–] Kaelygon@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That's what 65dos Taipei music video looks like, though that was released 2013 https://youtu.be/06ObT5yIIx8
image

[–] Kaelygon@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

I've been using lemmy almost a year now and it has been fairly smooth. But I still get logged out every time I refresh some community pages which is strange.

 

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Be logged out
  2. Search Communities
  3. Paste the full community link to search -> No results.
  4. Login
  5. Two results appear and if you edit the text field, a duplicate result shows up each key press.
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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Kaelygon@lemmy.world to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
 

It's totally fine if you believe that life starts at conception.
The thing that actually baffles me are the states that passed anti-abortion laws, but struggle to provide adequate health care, especially for those who are not financially stable.

I found this article, "States with more abortion restrictions have higher maternal and infant mortality", but feel free to correct or educate me on the topic.

Edit: removed "this article" appearing twice and tried to fix preview

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Kaelygon@lemmy.world to c/furry@pawb.social
 

Krita Base: https://kaelygon.gumroad.com/l/ManedDragonBase

This species which is based off my sona Tiena

More details about maned dragons: https://pastebin.com/2uyim0m4

Aaneu is anthro maned dragon as the species itself is feral. He'll be one of the reoccurring reference character.

The character, species lore and concept are public domain, but the art is CC BY 4.0 which only requires crediting me if you use the base.

For example the credit can be watermark in the art, mention or link in same post when you share it.

 

-Easier birth control: Make the egg into an omelette

-Relaxed child support laws: Requires deliberate decision to incubate the egg

-Clean packaged periods: Egg = No mess!

Although, there would be stories about partners hiding fertilized eggs: Instead of unplanned parenthood we would have unconsensual parenthood

There's probably more nuances I am missing. But do discuss it in the comments.

 

I made this blender render quite a while ago for a drawing reference.

I generated multiple frames with large pixel grain, applied few color curve filters every few frame in krita.

Made those frames into a mp4 and xor:ed random bytes of the binary file using a c++ program.

Few clean up cuts in openshot-qt and made it into a gif with ffmpeg

 
**Lacertocyon plumocrista** (feather crested lizard dog), also known as Feather Maned Dragon or simply Maned Dragon.
Despite the name and similarities, L. plumocrista isn't directly related to nowadays reptiles or canids, but it shares similar traits. 

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Lacertotheriidae
Genus: Lacertocyon
Species: plumocrista

Average size: 100 cm at withers, weight 45 kg
Speed: Up to 50 km/h in short sprint

**Traits** 
Warm-blooded, Mammal, Predator, Omnivore, Venomous

**Appearance**
Whole body covered in thin fur. 
Feathered mane reaches from head down to end of the tail. The mane can puff up to appear bigger when threatened.
Long ears with tufts at the end. 
Depending on the environment, color can vary between yellows, browns, and greens. Light countershading.
Canine like teeth. 
Whiskers as wide as the body front profile.
Five 3-segmented fingers and four 2-segmented toes, which are closer to reptilian hands than canid. 
Head is similar reptiles like Komodo dragons and lack rhinarium, but smell receptors are still located in nasal cavity.
L. plumocrista has long digitigrade legs to be able to see in tall foliage. Making their run look similar to Maned Wolves.

**Behavior**
Diurnal. Doesn't have great dark vision, as trichromatic color vision is more advantageous in foraging.
Habitat is dry tropical forest and semiarid desert. Ideal temperature when the species is active is around 10-25C.
Solitary hunters during the day, but they may have overlapping territories. Despite this, they are rarely aggressive against others of the same species unless food is scarce.
Hunts prey usually not bigger than 60 kg.
Omnivorous. Often forages and eats various vegetable matter.
When food is very scarce, it can resort to scavenging, and its stomach acid is strong enough to digest bones.
Communicate via howls and barks or roars similar to Maned wolves.

**Reproduction**
Sexual organs are similar to some aquatic mammals. The males don't have external testis, and both males and females have a genital slit.
During mating and nursing litter, the pair may share territory.
Gives live birth to a litter of size 2 to 6, which is nursed by the female and sometimes by both parents.
Very little sexual dimorphism.

**Venom**
Has venom glands in the lower jaw. Some of the bottom teeth have grooves for the venom.
Venom is useful if the prey is too big to be disabled quickly as a threat by just teeth and claws. 
If the prey becomes troublesome to kill, L. plumocrista may stalk the prey until the venom takes effect.
The venom may also be used in defense, as it induces intense pain to repel the attacker.

Venom effects and potential analogs
Intense pain: Bradykinin, Capsaicin
Muscle paralysis: Alpha-latrotoxin, Maurotoxin, Tetrodotoxin
Venom spread promoters: Phospholipases, Metalloproteinases, Vasodilator

Fictional lineage would have needed to diverge far in the past if this species had evolved on earth, as it has such an unusual mix of traits.
Amniota -> Therapsida (279.5 mya) -> Cynodontia (259 mya) -> Eutheria (145 mya) ->  ... -> Lacertotheriidae

L. plumocrista evolved from a semiaquatic mammal more akin to crocodiles in their hunting habits.


Edit: formatting new lines. Newlines never work in forums properly

 

Clip from Stand-up Maths video https://youtu.be/pgyI8aPctaI?t=75

 

This was a VRChat avatar commission and to showcase it I made this render.

 

I tested the claim of Vaporeon's impressive Base Stats for HP and access to Acid Armor. Ungodly defense stat+high HP pool+Acid Armor means it can take pounding, all day and still not faint.

I wasn't planning to use Vaporeon against water types because I have Raichu and Vaporeon doesn't have any physical attacks learned. Thankfully Vappy got lucky freeze after tanking a crit.

This is my first time playing Pokemon blue in +10 years. Some months ago I played through Gen 2 the first time and because I never had tried Eeveelutions before so I caught/bred them all in silver.

Because I found Vaporeon's move set fun to play in silver it was my carry in gen 3 and now in gen 1. Espeon is good as well because of the psychic type. I swear it's not ~~only~~ because of the memes!

Full elite 4 fight https://youtu.be/8igSeN9_V_A

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