/warc/ - Wildcard Archive

>>293
Monster is a good show. It ain't Gothic, but there's plenty of tension.

Might be a bit far fetched and more on the comfy side, but I think both Mushishi and even more so Natsume Yuujinchou fit this category. Some mushi (the main "antagonist" of Mushishi) can be quite creepy. Picture related.

Thematically similar anime include xxxHolic, Ayakashi and Mononoke (not Princess Mononoke), and I think all of those fit too with varying levels of comfy & creepy. I remember their pacing and aesthetic being really comfy, but it has been years since I last saw any of them.

Rozen Maiden is definitely up there as well, for me at least. Some might not agree though. Laplace's Demon is a creepy fella.

Haibane Renmei and even Serial Experiments Lain might do it for some people as well.

>>293
Speaking of Gothic, there's always Gosick which literally means Gothic. Too bad I can't really remember anything about it, so I can't say if it was comfy or creepy.

>>296
And while we are at it, why not come up with some creepy-comfy manga. All I can think of at the moment are Hitsugi Katsuki no Kuro and Franken Fran, but then again I'm not too big into manga.

OT: This would've been a great image for bumping the tea thread. I'm just gonna leave it here though.

>>294
OP here, just finished Boogiepop. I would be lying if I said I wasn't at least a little confused, but I nonetheless enjoyed it. The atmosphere and music were particularly well done, and the individual stories never left me bored. Working out the connection between all of them, aside from the common theme of 'memories', is puzzling, though. Thanks for the rec!

>>296
Do you have a good torrent for Mushishi?

scrolling past this thread, I saw OPs image and thought to myself 'what a coincidence, I just finished that show' before remembering I picked it up because of this thread.

>>271
Talk about a tough decision, assuming I can only choose one. Maids 5, 8, 10, and 11 are all nice, but I think I'd probably go with 10 in the end.

As for 9, I agree she looks more like an abuse victim than a zombie. I'm not a zombie fan in any case, alas; a monster maid like >>284 suggested, however, would be a different story.

>>271
3 and 5 seem very headpattable.

>>271
I want to headpat #1, because she would be forced to maintain a straight face [%]but would secretly enjoy it[/%]

>>290
That's really cute :3

dropping by with some images

Dark wizards need no id, Mr.Error! Anyway let's try this again. Inverse tower go!

In the last age we wizards used to watch over the people. But then they began to fear us, as they fear everything they don't understand, so we had to flee into the mountains, still trying to protect those fools from the shadows beyond their reach.

>>309
Just looking at this image I feel like puking. I don't even dare enlarge the thumbnail. Towers are for madmen and lunatics.

I do most of my wizardly things from the safety of a damp crypt (definitely not my parent's basement). The one in the OP is passable, although it extends further above ground than ideal.

Think I know that game under the (unfortunate) name shithead - never played it with multiple decks however.

Another fun card game, which is not as well known as I assumed, is Hearts.
The game is based around tricks; any heart you win in a trick counts as a point, additionally the queen of spades counts as 13 points. Points are bad in this game. If you manage to win all the hearts and the queen, you get zero points and all other players get 26. It is hard to do but very satisfying - if you play it right people will realise what you're doing too late, and will be unable to stop you.
The other nifty rule is that, at the start of the round, you may pass three of your cards to other players. This allows for a lot of scope in how you play.
For example, if I have the queen of spades, I could pass her on (as she is likely to win if the trick is spades). Alternatively, I could try and get rid of all my cards of one other suit, so that if a trick is started in that suit, I can play her with no danger. My father is very good at that.

Solitaire is good for killing time. More convenient to play virtually though, perhaps.

>>221
Not really a game, but something comfy that you can do with cards. It's called Solitaire (or sometimes Pontifex), and has nothing to do with the normal cardgame called Solitaire that is very popular among senior citizens.
You start off with a secret message that you want to encrypt. Conventionally, you separate it into 5-character segments. An example is DONOT USEPC for "Do not use PC". Keep the message short because you're encrypting it character-by-character by hand.
Another pre-requisite is that your Joker cards are different. One has to be "A" and one has to be "B". Usually one joker is in color and one joker is black&white. Make the black&white one the "B" Joker, because B is for Black. If they're both the same coloring, but one has a larger image on it (like a bigger star or more writing), then make that one the "A" Joker. It's important that we can tell the Jokers apart.
Once you've got two different Jokers shuffled into a deck and you've got your secret message, you're ready to start encrypting.
1. Point the deck of cards so that the face of the card showing on top is towards the ceiling. If you're used to putting decks of cards so that nobody can see the cards, just turn it upside down.
2. Find the A Joker and move him down (towards the bottom of the deck) by 1 card
3. Find the B Joker and move him down by 2 cards
(it's really important not to do those two out of order)
4. Perform a swap-cut. Take the deck-piece above the A Joker and switch it with the deck-piece below the B Joker.
(if your deck before was 1 2 3 A 4 5 6 B 7 8 9, then after it should be 7 8 9 A 4 5 6 B 1 2 3)
5. Look at the bottom card of the deck (the one closest to the table) and convert it to a number. Take the face value and add the value of the suit. Count that many cards off of the top of the deck, and place that deck-piece at the bottom of the deck, but just above the bottom card (so that the bottom card doesn't change, that's very important).
(Clubs=0, Diamonds=13, Hearts=26, Spades=39) (Ace=1, Jack=11, Queen=12, King=13)
6. Look at the top card. Convert it to a number. Count that many cards down from the top. The next card is your key-card. The numerical value of that card is the first number in your key string.
(so if your top card was the 7 of Diamonds, the 21st card in the deck would be your key-card because 7+13=20+1=Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

No way.

Absolutely not. They are not a comfy organization.

Can't really say I feel inclined to, no.

Hell yeah!
I'm in the same situation though, I haven't been camping proper in a very long time.
I've used quite a few alcohol stoves, my favourite is a coke can penny stove though. Simple, efficient, and literally free with a little bit of work. The only downsides are that you need a really good windshield to keep it burning well, and that if you use one with smaller holes they can soot up over time if your fuel's not good.

I love gasifier stoves too, they're wierdly expensive to buy, but you can throw a pretty good one together from a few cans in no time.
They're bulkier than an alcohol stove, but mostly hollow so you can store cooking stuff in it for transport, and with any luck you don't need to bring fuel atall!
You need way less wood than for an open fire, so it's easier to scavenge stuff lying around.

>>247
And another surprise find

this is cute fern

>>251
Wow, that's a fern?
Either way, it's hella cute

Been curious about fiddleheads for a while now. But I have no idea if the young ferns that grow in norway and other nordic countries are safe for eating. I don't want to go totally into the wild just yet. They seem pretty delicious to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su0t6FVCLC4

have some black ones of them. they do seem to take easy from cuttings - on in my case, broken off bits from when the dog knocked the pot over.

>>257
This one was black when I found it, I plan to take it out to the sun when it grows a bit more so it gets black.
My mother loves them when they're black, and I have to admit, they're pretty dope.

I kinda want to get one for my room, what should I get?
I heard they are really easy to care of, is this true?

>>259
I don't know too much about succulents, but I've never had any trouble caring for them, in general they like good light and free draining soil.
I'd say just pick one you like the look of and have a go, there are plenty of sites with more detailed instructions if you're not sure what to do.
The RHS plant finder [ https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/search-form ] is pretty comprehensive, although a lot of the reccomendations are specific to the UK climate.

>>260
>although a lot of the reccomendations are specific to the UK climate

That's were I live currently, perfect.
I'll give it a go.

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>4:3
that's one ugly ass ratio you've got yourself there, have a nicer one

13:21 is an iteration of fibonacci and thus an integer approximation of the golden ratio.

I have been reading:

>Mathematical Recreations And Essays
Early 1900s book about various maths problems and anecdotes about studying maths at Cambridge. Its age makes it really interesting. For example, the book states that the 4-colour island problem is 'solvable, but so laboriously so that it will likely never be done'. In the 1970s, the four-colour problem became the first ever problem to be solved by a computer.

I have also been reading Binney's 'The Physics of Quantum Mechanics', which is basically pure maths. I am finding it very tough but it is very interesting and I recommend it if you are looking for a quantum mechanics starter.

Last math book I read was "Logic: A Very Short Introduction" by Graham Priest. A short but good read, I want to get more into logic tho. I'm also interested in topology, geometry and algebra.

>>228
If you like logic, you should check out Lewis Carroll's Game of Logic.