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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
cipheramnesia
cipheramnesia

How far off the ground does a ship need to float before it becomes an air ship? I feel like technically it counts at a meter.

maximum-mom

If it's touching neither water nor ground and isn't being held up by supports it counts. Half an inch of full air suspension makes it an air ship.

cipheramnesia

Okay, now, my feeling also is that if a ship is magically airborne, assuming that's the case here, there's no reason the same principle can't be applied to all sides of the ship to make it completely frictionless and eliminate the need for aerodynamics. We could apply the same principle inside this field to make it inertia-less.

What I'm suggesting here is that it would be much cooler than an airship to have a full sized castle blasting along at 80 mph over any surface it encounters, cornering like a gazelle or fully ricocheting off anything it can't go around.

kitschygnostalgic

Technically a maglev bullet train is an airship if you use the definition "can't touch ground nor water and is not physically supported".

cipheramnesia

Maglev bullet castle.

thekijs

At first I was thinking that since you’re basically just describing a normal hovercraft, just being off the ground and water isn’t enough to make something an airship. You’d need something more, like all of the air being navigable instead of just the layer closest to the surface, wouldn’t you?

But then I realized, regular ships *also* can only navigate the bit of the water closest to the surface. What most people think of as an airship? That can ascend to significant altitude, like an airplane? Those aren’t airships. They’re airsubmarines.

veteratorianvillainy
guerrillatech

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thekijs

I dunno about you, but I dedicated myself to efforts in my community (inside my home is in my community) to help ensure that my friends and neighbours were better protected against the pandemic (by staying home), and also did volunteer work (it certainly was voluntary) to provide entertainment and relief (netflix mostly) from cabin fever for people (myself) who were quarantined.

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jellyfishtree
demonsee2

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datasupremacy

He's sleeping with all of them. They let him win.

thekijs

Letting him win? No. Riker is just the only person at the table who’d cheat.

Worf is too honourable to cheat against worthy opponents, Data too logical to cheat in a game where the stakes don’t matter, Troi too principled to cheat against her friends, and Geordi too nice to take unfair advantage of them.

Meanwhile Riker is well aware he’s the underdog at the table, he outranks everyone else, and they play in his quarters.

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probablybadrpgideas
probablybadrpgideas

Monster Manual entries often (especially in earlier editions) have throw away lines like "Betentacled Faceslurpers are often hired by evil historians for their ability to recall the memories of every pereon whose face they've slurped", or "Literary Horrors often make their nests among well stocked bookshelves and for this reason evil librarians will employ them as security" and then never elaborate on what these evil versions of regular professions are like.

Fix this by running a game where the entire party is comprised of evil versions of mundane jobs. If they won't tell you what an evil cartographer or archivist even does you'll find out yourself.

kwarrtz

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ughquaria answered:

i’m screaming every single part of this is wild and it just keeps getting better 

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andromeda3116

man, i’d forgotten how good feet of clay is, and how relevant

i mean, it’s got:

  • commentary on slavery (given how we use them, maybe we’re scared because we know we deserve it)
  • commentary on labor rights, when dorfl is given ownership of himself and goes on his (for lack of a better term) rampage
  • and yet a deep understanding of how the human psyche works (you say to people, throw off your chains, and they just make new chains for themselves?) 
  • explores the definition of personhood, how if a golem is a thing then it can’t commit murder and if it can commit murder then how they’ve been treating golems is indefensible
  • the poetic beauty and horror of being poisoned by the candlelight
  • the core of vimes’s personal philosophy is exposed, but subtly, when he visits cockbill street and he thinks about how he grew up dirt-poor but his granny always said that no one was too poor to buy soap – on cockbill street, mostly what you ate was your pride. because cockbill street people, in spite of their absolute poverty, still believed that there were rules. and who, on the disc, is more the avatar of law and order, true law rather than the kind that lets rich people do whatever they like, than samuel vimes?
  • the one-off joke (oft-repeated, long before terry pratchett) of there never being any female dwarves being brought back up again to comment on trans rights; you can be any sex you like provided you act male. cheri coming into her own and, bit by bit, claiming her own femininity, even though it’s deeply against her culture to do so, and many people treat her with open disgust and refuse to stop calling her “him”.
  • vimes going from thinking of golems as objects with nothing behind their eyes to demanding that dorfl be given a voice so he can speak for himself, and swearing him in as a watchman
  • also, in a smaller way, getting to see the genuinely kind side of vimes, when he’s speaking with mildred easy, who took the candle-ends and extra food home with her and was terrified that she’d be arrested at her grandmother’s and little brother’s funeral for it (it is [stealing], vimes thought treacherously. but i don’t give a damn.) because there is a difference between taking the odds and ends from the palace to feed a fussy baby and your old granny, and stealing out of greed
  • the absolute tragedy at the beginning, of dorfl trying to save father tubelcek by putting a copy of his chem in his mouth, a tragedy that doesn’t become clear until much later in the book. he tried to save the priest the only way he knew how, with his own holy words.
  • god, the horror of the golems solemnly and silently killing themselves, leaving behind nothing but shattered pottery and slates written in all-caps anguish SHAME and CLAY OF MY CLAY
  • that they made themselves a king to save them, my god, they built themselves a savior out of their own bodies, but all their needs and all their suffering and all their hopes drove it mad, it makes you hurt
  • what makes the lesser pawns of the villain evil, the ones who weren’t involved in the big plot, but just went along with it for the money: you caused the death of an old lady and a baby down in cockbill street. –were they important?
  • were they important – somehow, that’s the coldest and most evil line spoken by any character in the whole book, maybe even the series as a whole, it’s at least up there
  • and then
  • you gave one of them a VOICE? … that’s blasphemy!
  • that’s what people say when the voiceless speak.

i just. i could keep going forever. i just. god. 

liz-squids

Feet of Clay was the first book in the Watch sub-series that I read, and honestly? What an amazing introduction.

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