It is too hot here. I have become one with the sweat. I assume that this is Aldrich's actual origin story

GF loaves are this Loopy Whisk recipe, except for that I replaced the sorghum and millet with buckwheat

The PdC is this King Arthur one that I've never quite gotten to work 100% right. Has anyone else had any experience with it?

Taken from my window at 2am

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2262020/Exo/_Rally/_Championship/

A few folk have expressed their interest in this when I've posted about it, so I figured I'd let you know that you can all come wrap it around a tree on a whole new planet along with me now

It's Yhormin the Giant and Siegwander of Catarico

Non-youtube link: https://streamable.com/p4hlrn

Non-youtube link: https://streamable.com/gky260

I think this technically means I'm at least as good as a professional GT World Challenge driver

Happy pride everyone!

Non-youtube link (only in 720p to fit within file size limits): https://streamable.com/0j2w4a

I posted my idea for this a few weeks back here, and [email protected] suggested making a video about it, so here it is!

A pic from the weekend while I was over at Findhorn, looking towards the Cromarty Firth. A few more here

It smells incredible (and will certainly taste fantastic too). Forage safely and responsibly if you're going out to get some yourself!

Edit: a specific note on safety for wild garlic, it is quite easy to confuse with lily of the valley, which is toxic if you eat it. You can tell them apart - most obviously because the one you're after smells of garlic - but take care that you are confident in doing so

walhaz > walh > wealh > Wēalas > Wales
walhaz > walh > wealh > (+Körnɨw) Wēalas > Cornwall
walhaz > walh > Wallon > Walloon > Wallonia
walhaz > walhs > valxu > volxъ > volox > Walache > valah > Valahia > Wallachia

Crossposted from https://kbin.earth/m/[email protected]/t/2632683

Many people more competent with these tools than me have suggested ideas, but none that I've seen have done it the way that I think it should be, so I did it myself with Smithbox. So, the principles I worked on:

• The scale of the game maps is not accurate. The general form of the lands and the relative positions of landmarks is accurate, but the Lands Between are obviously meant to be bigger than a couple dozen castles that you can run between in less than an hour

• The Suppressing Pillar's inscription, "The very centre of the Lands Between", is accurate

• The centre that the Suppressing Pillar refers to is the centre of the hexagon inscribed by the Lands Between's six Divine Towers

• The Erdtree and the Scadutree were once a single thing, the Scadutree being the "shadow of the Erdtree". As such, they should be in the same place.

So the plan, then, was to rotate and re-scale the Realm of Shadow until it fits the other principles. That gives us this map, which I have annotated here

In Smithbox, that looks like this. The Lands Between are reduced to 75% of their normal height, and the Realm of Shadow is reduced to 75% of its height and 55% in the other dimensions

To check that the Suppressing Pillar is where it is supposed to be, here it is lined up with the Limgrave and East Altus towers and then the Caelid and West Altus towers

With this positioning, Jagged Peak meets the Dragonbarrow and matches well to Gurranq's Sanctum. I presume that this is where Farum Azula used to be due to a) all of the dragons, and b) the Farum Greatbridge.

Here are the two trees rising from the same point. This also means that Shadow Keep is at the foot of Leyndell, an ideal place for the Crusade to begin.

There is a bit of a gap between the Divine Tower of West Altus and Rauh, but the surroundings of the tower suggest to me that the land that was there has substantially collapsed. If that is the case, it would have connected to Rauh. This is relevant because it is a reasonable location for the broken Divine Bridge running from Leyndell, which currently goes nowhere, to head towards Rauh.. Rauh is, of course, where we access Enir-Ilim and therefore the Divine Gate. It would make sense for Marika to set up infrastructure to access this gate without having to cross the entire Realm of Shadow and go through Belurat.

And one final thing that's just kind of a fun coincidence, there is a very narrow strait between Caelid Colosseum and the Fissure. That means that there is close proximity between the Fissure, which is just packed with death, and the area with the colossal jar full of corpses and all of the giant skeletons embedded in the cliffs. It also means that St Trina was abandoned very close to Mohg's palace.

I now leave it to cleverer people than me to tell me why I'm probably wrong

Greetings, traveller from beyond the fog.

I am Skua. I offer you a fun afternoon.

WHAT YOU NEED

• Elden Ring on Steam

• Seamless Co-op for Elden Ring

• A new character that has completed the tutorial

WHEN IT'S HAPPENING

We got enough interest to do more than one session! Since we've got two different places for voice chats, I figure that I'll run one session on each of them.

• Discord session at 1400 UTC+0 (timezone converter available here)

• Matrix session at 1800 UTC+0 (timezone converter again)

WHAT WE'RE DOING

Co-op gameplay! We can do PvP duels and the like on the fly if people want, but the plan is to just leave the balancing options off, rip through the early game, and have a bit of fun bullying Limgrave's bosses. Nobody is expected to take things too seriously.

If you need help getting Seamless Co-op set up or have any other questions, don't hesitate to ask!

LINKS TO MATRIX AND DISCORD

• Matrix https://matrix.to/#/#soulslike:matrix.org

• Discord https://discord.gg/XYVKNtK67

Judging by the size of the fruits it's made of, it's meant to be like twice the height of a human too

It's sunny again for the first time in a while and Alaric is making the most of it

I've made a fair few entirely fictional maps and I have a process I'm quite happy with. I have much less experience on working with maps of the real world. A bit of alt history writing has captured my attention lately and I'd like to put visuals to it eventually, so I'd better figure that out. How do you go about it for your projects?