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State of the Trolls, 2024
State of the Trolls It has been a momentous few years since my last State of the Troll. A great deal has happened since, from the OGL conund...
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Geoffrey Blackwood As is common knowledge, the Winter Dark lasted for 11 centuries. Locked in the grip of that long winter the world a... -
Myths can be scary. I won't go into a few because I just didn't want to read about infanticide this morning. But through infanticid...
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The teardrop shape is how it's made. They drop molten glass into water. The outside cools and hardens faster than the inside. In the fat part, this means the inside contracts and puts a lot of stress on the glass. It also makes it very strong at the head - you can hit it with a hammer. (I'm not sure if the video shows this because I'm at work) The tail is thinner so the hardened part is thinner and you can break it. Once any part is broken, the shockwave travels at about 4,000 mph through the rest of the structure and it disintegrates.
That's in the vid. But why? Why do they make a tear drop glass? is it a bead or for decoration or just accidental?
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