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They definitely can put out some heat, especially if there's issues with the internal cooling. Old laptop I had had a busted fan for... years, and there were times parts of it got hot enough to straight up burn me, left marks on my skin. Didn't scar, fortunately, but it fried the hell out of me for a while a few times.

When the AC's out in florida summer and the laptop's capable of burning flesh on a cool day, you test just how much you want that internet connection. Also maybe risk a house fire, but, y'know.

E: Incidentally, it was also why I found out about Battle Encoder Shirase, and early underclocking/CPU throttling stuff in general -- I did it because if the CPU went too hard, the bloody thing would overheat to the point it just shut down. Turns out the things do actually have safeguards against that, even decades ago :V

But yeah, if you're curious, there's software that'll read the internal temp of your lappie. If there hasn't been some pretty substantial improvements on that front since the last time I looked at that stuff, it'll probably be running somewhere over 80F/~27C, often even higher. It's a testament to thermoregulation those things don't feel like tiny ovens.

Dog just got so tangled up in a blanket he wasn't able to move and was whelping for help.

Poor thing just got their ass whooped by inanimate thread, that was a low point for their life, yikes.

Along those lines, I've had a small, idle background-of-mind horror for decades now of fleas somehow crawling into my ear and feasting on my brain. Like, bigger bugs are a smaller worry because it's harder to miss them, but small ones? Fleas, ants? You sometimes don't really feel those until they bite, or after they bite.

... realistically, the actual thing that happens and occasionally kills someone is worm infestations in the brain, but still. The crawlylegs are somehow more visceral despite being less of a concern.

First time in... several playthroughs with the mod enabled. Built the Soul of Eternity in modded terraria, the more or less apex item of Fargo's Souls Mod.

... those that know, know. Those that don't, it, uh. It's basically a super-artifact you build by getting and combining. Basically everything? Basically everything. In the game. Close enough to it, anyway, it's made of four primary items, which are made of 27 sub-items, which have between 4 and >10 components themselves -- counting the extra bits and bobs and materials it's several hundred pieces, altogether 552 unique items total according to a relevant wiki (for reference, the most complicated vanilla recipe has, like... 20.). It's an effort.

Getting there is silly. Having it is sillier. The tooltip for it autoscrolls, because there's too many effects on one item to fit on basically any screen resolution Terraria can provide.

Cat jumped off the bed at the same time the dog tried to jump up.

Falling angel met the rising ape, and the sound it made was

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That's been a sporadic thing for... centuries? Something like that. It's occasionally just a scam, and has the standard potential issues for tax concerns in regards to forgiven debt, but it's an old, old thing.

Incredibly wildly insufficient as a means to mitigate or manage the general issue in society, of course, but it's not nothing for the folks it helps out. Sometimes churches actually do charity that's something other than a half-assed recruitment drive for tax grift purposes.

Already lost most of it, but that ending bit.

Someone had somehow or another roped an adventuring party into watching a scuffed elementary school play. Started out with just them and a handful of kids doing the performance, technical difficulties and whatnot just got worse as it went along and more people trickled in. Ending was great confusion as the projected background goes completely off the rails and shows what looks like a cupboard full of corpses of identical, similarly young kids in nurse outfits... and then the world goes greyscale, and one of the nurse-things walks out from behind the screen.

Lights flick on, projector goes out, ghost-thing stays where it is. Jumpscare from hell, entire room starts screaming.

Punchline is the PoV character is some kind of barbarian equivalent. They're screaming in unison with everyone else, except it's a scream of unfettered rage as they launch themselves forward axe flying, shooting out like a rocket straight over the audience at the horror-thing, which promptly panics and flees back behind the stage area, barbarian rampaging after it trying to get a hit in.

Wake up as the PoV character started hacking at the wall the ghost-thing ran through.

... anyway, it was pretty great. Just realized this is something of a trend, as the last dream I had any recollection of, the PoV character walked into this creepy swamp area near a building, and as the general feeling started drifting towards nightmare territory, they whipped out a wand and staff and started raining hellfire and lightning on the surrounds, setting the creepy landscape and approaching horror-things on fucking fire. Metal as hell, it was. Mythos-swamp shouldna' messed wit' a witch.