Trilodroid

Sunday, April 19, 2026

Analysis of Alice in Wonderland characters

https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/alice/character/the-mad-hatter/

Saturday, April 18, 2026

Giant statues kiinda kneeling but looking up

In the Ben Hur movie at the start of the big chariot battle, time 2:43:00 on Tubi.

These statues are weird… remind me of the gnoll boss miniature. Slightly oft proportions, some gands too big n blocky. Stylized tho. Squatting kneeling grimacing, looking upwards clutching their weapons n shields.

Thursday, April 16, 2026

Dnd ish game, Esoteric Ebb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJaJEUkh_b4

Looks great. Ok, it is a talker… super talker.

Styled after this 2019 game apparently https://www.wired.com/story/disco-elysium-the-final-cut/

Quote

you need similarly obsessed writers. Revachol, the city you’re in, has 1 million words per square kilometer. The game remembers that ludicrous thing you said about art and that mishap you had with that gardener. Your mind—through the talking skills—will later prompt you to become an art critic. And that gardener will eviscerate you for your comments.”

Dark Sun creator writer - Troy Denning

Writes novels too.

And star wars novels. And Halo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3vIoOCh-v4

Space atmosphere trivia; living things size trivia game

Most meteors burn up in the mesosphere... about 48 tons every day.
Temps in the thermosphere can get up to 4500 F but molecules are very far apart, such that a person wouldn't feel the heat (from the "air").
Sprites (atmosphere ... Pecos Hank type) can be 50 km long, while normal lightning is around 4 km in length.
Bar-tailed Godwit is a bird.
There is more than one type of Griffin vulture.

Via

https://neal.fun/space-elevator/

This is awesome too: https://neal.fun/size-of-life/

Polio facts are scary... read up on:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/history-disease-outbreaks-vaccine-timeline/polio
1948-1955 - Before a polio vaccine became available, several polio epidemics had occurred between 1948 and 1955. Many people avoided crowds and public gatherings, such as fairs, sports games and swimming pools, during this time due to concern about getting polio. Some parents wouldn't let their children play with new friends and regularly checked them for symptoms.

Wow did this attitude affect how parents/grandparents of that time functioned and lived? Wild.

Had no idea about Myxobolus Shekel, the smallest known animal, a parasite.
We produce ~ 1 billion white blood cells a day
Amoebas are weird

Why are water bears so ultra tough?
House mice can fit in a hole the size of a DIME?!

While the largest insect fossil was like 1' 4'' long or something, the giant centi/millipede thing, Arthropleura was 8.5 or maybe 9 feet long. Nine Feet Long. OMG, I knew about this thing, but realizing it is so much bigger than the giant dragonfly-cousin is crazy. The Carboniferous period for the oxygen win I guess (for both of these monsters).

Weird stalked eyes like a crustacean. https://www.sciencing.com/1761804/largest-prehistoric-arthropod-nightmare-fuel/
Kinda a real life Carrion Crawler. Yikes.

Speaking of the giant dragonfly cousin, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meganeura, back then hardly anything was flying. This is before dinos, etc. so like... only insects flew maybe?

A scientist lady on yt said they think insects became strong flyers b/c of birds eating them. So this original giant dragonflycousin was probably more clumsy.

https://a-z-animals.com/animals/insects/the-10-largest-dragonflies-in-the-world/
There is a jellyfish, Lion's Mane, that has a 7 foot diameter top bell thing. OMG. It's sort of taking up the space of a Mammoth, are you kidding me.

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Portraits for D&D, some ai (puke) tweaking for speed

If I get time, I might just color it myself. The ai, puke, ai stuff is killing me a little.

FINAL I HOPE:

#10, final i hope.

Real from B/X books.

Oh yeah... it combined the blackness of the cloak with the robes so now it looks wonky, like the robes are 6 feet wide at the chest height level.

Manual edit in gimp... slightly better. But now I notice the glyph on the head looks wrong, cuz it looks like it is a metal band sitting right on top of his head. Better to be just drawing this by hand with a pencil and paper.

OK headband kinda fixed, looks less like a metal headband at least. I filled in the glyphs on his robe's arm... meh.

More to do (way more manual edits in Gimp):

need to straight line the cape or remove it.
add more glyphs on the robes, see orig.
I wonder if making all the glyphs more silver and less dull grey would be better. And do they need that outline?

check Raistlin glyphs

no outline
thinner

#10, final I hope. OK, on DNDbeyond, you can't see the rune detail anyway so, glad I didnt' spend time on that. Made the robe more natural (thinner) under his armpit/that side, looks better. Defined the cloak darker, helped. Had to get rid of Swoosh lines, it didn't read correctly on the tiny portrait display on dndbeyond. Also had to make the white outline under his armpit to make it more defined. Seems OK now.

NEED TO DO: