I get sick every single time I visit Canberra without fail. Without fail. So no, I don't want to live here.
Also have you BEEN to Canberra? It's not a city, it's three towns strapped together with a cesspit in the middle (parliament house)
Canberra is what happens when tope and tan suits becomes a place.
Canberra is like that one shoebox that is kind of sturdy looking so you don't throw it out, but really it just is an empty waste of space
Canberra is like biting into a pork pie and just getting the gelatin bit.
Canberra is like dehydrated diet suburbia.
Canberra's highlights are shopping malls.
Canberra is like everyone ordered mcMansions, but mom said we have food at home
Canberra is like vanilla yoghurt without the sugar. Or vanilla. Or yoghurt.
Canberra isn't a capital city, it's just a bunch of towns in a raincoat.
Canberra is to cities what grit is to sex.
Canberra- if you could build the embodiment of disappointment in bricks and mortar, it would look like Canberra.
Guess where I am stuck?
Canberra travel adverts are like... yeah, look, my boss gave me this assignment and we all know the place bites, so... I dunno... do you like war memorials and racism?
Canberra exists solely because nobody could be bothered to resolve the squabbling over if Sydney or Melbourne should be Capital and just kinda make a shitty compromise.
It remains true to that vision.
Canberra is like when your partner lets out an impressive fart and then you try to match it but yours sounds like nothing at the time... but later...
Canberra is the city equivalent of that beige ball of packing tape that gets stuck to your fingers.
Canberra feels like you digging around in your cupboard for food but only finding an out of date microwave rice satchet and a can of cauliflower.
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Okay so fun word stuff. The Swedish Jarl being blood eagled is Borg, the name means fort or stronghold it comes from earlier words for "mound" or "mountain", hence 'Iceberg'. words like German burg (city) English Borough and so forth.
So he was literally...
Broke Back Mountain
Lawgiver: Jarl Borg, the gods have spoken, your fate is...
Borg: blood eagle. I get it.
Lawgiver: I'm sorry, it is just too funny.
Borg: yes for like the one chick who got the joke.
Borg: seer, what is my fate?
Seer: your fame will sleep, until the artist who turns light into monsters writes upon her magic stone and tells the world
Borg: I don't understand.
Seer: nobody will. But the cow herd cannot quit you.
□Parents playing with their kids
□Ragnar eating
□Bros being bros
□Ambitious dude shows up
□Ginger dude roars
□homosexually charged staring
□sacred oaths swarn on rings that everyone, and I mean literally everyone breaks ten minutes later
□slo mo
□the 'Vikings have weird casual sex scene'
□the one hot sex scene
□ that one cart everyone abandons during a raid.
□Ragnar goes to smile then stops himself.
□That one bit of mythology per episode being explained in a story.
□two pigs heads on table
□accepting fate scene
□bit of battle that someone yells shield wall but that one guy gets an arrow in shoulder and throws himself forward.
□bit of battle where the sound goes out whilst someone looks around at bad shit
□bit of battle where everyone vanishes except for people talking
The amazing thing about rewatching Vikings is Gabriel Byrne's Haraldson is a pure evil villain in season one. Yet after watching the entire run and rewatching him in that context of the world and all the other bastards he plays completely differently
Byrne gives us a faded lord, a once hero who has been beaten down by the conspiracies and failings of his people. He has lost his spirit, and that is his failing.
He predicts those who would plot against him, he moves against cheats and liars with restraint compared to...
...the later lords. He makes a strategic marriage for his daughter to profit his people. But, for all that he rules with fear and does nothing to inspire or cheer his people. He is resigned, a threat, and not loved because of it.
So that maths is wrong, I forgot that 666 is the only triple we want in the result, so it is 1/216, not 6/216
That said, that very mechanic can give you a slightly better dice curve in dnd.
The sum of 3d6 gives you between 3 and 18 on a bell curve. This means you are most likely to roll somewhere around 9ish and least likely to roll 3 or 18.
GURPS uses this as the basic mechanic