Zaros

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[–] Zaros 4 points 2 weeks ago

"Why does it smell like burning hair in here..?" ( Very cozy bonus! ^-^ )

[–] Zaros 4 points 3 weeks ago

Painbows are terrifying indeed.

[–] Zaros 1 points 4 weeks ago

I just use this against compliments.

[–] Zaros 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The mightiest motivation of all to find the bugs! Must keep Hooty fed and happy.

[–] Zaros 3 points 2 months ago

Me having discussions with the voices.

[–] Zaros 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

One of the weird guys who come to a small grocery store without a shirt and start screaming at the poor cashier when they don't sell a very specific brand of tar shampoo. I'd say you did quite well indeed.

[–] Zaros 3 points 4 months ago

Unless we're talking about pets, funny enough.

[–] Zaros 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Some thumbnails work for me, others don't. Either way, that's a creepy dragon! I like it.

[–] Zaros 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Final boss approaches...

[–] Zaros 2 points 5 months ago

The green-black things remind me of 'black metal' in Valheim, collected as scrap metal from some goblin creatures. It's now my headcanon that this is what their civilization was like before its collapse. They use fire magic too, which also fits.

[–] Zaros 6 points 5 months ago

"As far as I'm concerned, you are my only opponent here."

Huh, good thing she didn't pull this off against the three guys from earlier. Although, that would have been rather entertaining.

[–] Zaros 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This might honestly be one of my favorite paintings I've seen. I've never wanted to have any art on my walls, but I actually wouldn't mind falling asleep looking at this. The moon (?) is a nice touch as well, makes the whole a lot more interesting.

 

(template stolen from Crow Time comic)

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submitted 2 years ago by Zaros to c/dozenal
 

While learning multiplication in dozenal, I quickly ran into the issue of answers getting mixed with my already memorized decimal multiplication tables. So, to remedy this issue (and to prevent dozenal from corrupting the decimal multiplication), I began a search for an alternative set of glyphs for numbers! And after several uninteresting numerals, I came across these Kaktovik numerals!

They're wonderfully simple, can be drawn without lifting the pen and clearly tell which number is portrayed, which also makes them easy to learn. And yes, it's for base-20, but it can be easily adapted for base-12 by cutting off the right column and bottom row. So each upper/horizontal line represents 4 and every vertical line represents 1.

Now I can properly start getting into learning multiplication and other basics (reminds me of elementary school and I feel like a child again!). If anyone has any other interesting numerals to use for dozenal, I'd be interested to find out what. I don't particularly like using 1-9+A,B, or X and E, or such and I'd be happy to find more interesting alternatives!

 
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Dozenal Clock (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by Zaros to c/dozenal
 

Yesterday I was thinking about how clocks could perhaps be improved upon by making them follow solely dozenal system... and lo and behold, a quick internet search led me to an implementation of just that!

It looks familiar at first, but you notice the difference very quickly. No 10, 11, or 12 on it for one (to be expected in dozenal), and there appears to be more hands than usual! Seems complicated, but it's actually even simpler than the one we're used to:

  • The shortest hand follows the sun and circles the clock once a day (24h), pointing down at midnight and up at noon.
  • Longer red hand is 12 times faster, meaning it circles the clock in the exact time it takes the shortest to move from 0 to 1 (2h).
  • Every hand moves 12 times faster than the shorter one! So the next one circles the clock in 10 minutes and the fastest in 50 seconds.
  • You could of course keep adding hands by again increasing the speed by 12, but those would move so fast we'd have little use for them. (next one would circle the clock in about 4s)

Unfortunately I have no clue what to call these time units, but I love them! The longest/fastest of these hands circles the clock 1728 times a day, which is 1000~z~ in dozenal! This clock makes converting from one time unit to another a breeze, just move the dozenal point! (same advantage as SI-system generally has in decimal) No need to multiply with 60 or 24.

I'll leave the beauty of digital presentation of time in this system for you to figure out. Check out the site linked above and just play around with it for a bit!

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submitted 2 years ago by Zaros to c/dozenal
 

If so, you might want to check out Wikipedia to start with. Or even better, visit Dozenal Society of America as their site has plenty of material about the subject, explaining more about why dozenal could be a better choice than decimal!

 

I'm still new(ish) to the game so I don't have any fancy gear yet... but here's my first attempt at fashion wars anyways!

I might have spent most of my gold on two dyes to try and mimic the colors of her flames, but I admit nothing.

 
 
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