two years ago today i started running my first DnD campaign
two years ago today i started running my first dnd campaign. the first few sessions were very rocky as i was new to being a DM. the maps looked like this
very linear and shaky. what even is all that? it was supposed to be a smeltery and a jewels. looks like shit. two years later my maps look like this
my players have gone from having no clue what the fuck theyre doing to actually making plans and theyre in endgame territory. the story placed the players in has developed in ways i could never have predicted and its become crazy, wild and beautiful. my players have grown to competent dnd players and ive grown to an almost competent DM. but more importantly. ive had a lot of fun over the last two years and brought a lot of fun for my players. kind of forgot what the point of this post was but im just feeling proud of how far weve come as people who play dnd.
Why did old biff die and cease to exist when he made young biff rich but when marty changed the past to make his parents rich, he didnt die?
There was a cut/aforementioned scene where Lorraine shoots Biff sometime in the 90’s, which is why he’s shown clutching at his chest and clearly in pain once he gets back to 2015.
oh yeah that actually makes a lot of sense. im assuming she shoots him with his own gun.
so I read the article and the story is both less and more insane than it sounds.
basically, there’s been an ants’ nest near a vent shaft of this abandoned Soviet bunker for decades. the nest spilled over into the bunker itself at some point once it was abandoned and there was no way for the ants to make their way back up to the nest, no queen but a constant supply of new colony members raining down from above, and no source of food in the bunker other than the corpses of their fellow ants.
fast forward to some scientists looking for bats that stumble on what’s basically a post-apocalyptic ant society. they go “holy fuck” start studying, and observe that, all things considered, the ants still pretty much act like regular ants doing regular ant things.
fast forward some more, and the scientists feel like they have enough data from observing the colony as-is, so they decide to try an experiment. they put a little walkway between the bunker colony and the og colony in the vent shaft so the bunker colony members have the option of leaving and rejoining the og colony.
spoiler alert: every single ant in the bunker immediately nopes the fuck back to the colony in the vent shaft. within days the bunker is completely empty. the scientists leave the walkway in place so when more ants inevitably fall back down the vent shaft they can just climb back up instead of starting up the cycle anew.
tl;dr it’s not “oh noes evil ants are on a rampage”, it’s “ants forced into a horrible situation to survive get to go home”
