I am aware of and actually dislike my rococo wordiness/phrasiness/qualificatory asideiness

bakedandbipolar:

every.single.one.of.these

proletarianprincess:

demonologys:

Cat Hat

$33.03

if i bought this how many friends would i lose

Tuesday is kitty hat day.

12-gauge-rage:

How a ship’s gun works.

Been playing the new Shadowrun game. They’re right, the Dragonfall DLC campaign is a lot better. Better writing, feels truer to the feel and the mythology (where Dead Man’s Switch seemed more generically cyberpunk slash SNES-Shadowrun [which I loved and still own on cartridge]). Also the mission flow and NPC personalities feel a lot closer to the old Bioware classics in terms of fleshed-out-ness.

So that got me looking at the Shadowrun Wiki, because I was like “oh yeah, what did happen at Dunkelzahn’s inauguration?” and it was fun to notice how the mythology’s been updated to keep up with whatever the future looked like, like in 2005/“2064” the main BBS got replaced with a p2p system

Also that wiki had, as advertising, an autoplay news channel with geekbait anchors - busty in tight nerd-reference shirts, (actually isn’t that 3 or 4 years behind the curve now, I haven’t seen a Snorgtees ad in a while) that I think might have been the selfsame “very cyberpunk” channel I mentioned being disoriented by a while ago, so full circle I guess.

Yeah, there are a lot of halfassed, far-past prime gaming webcomics; there were always a lot of halfassed, far-past prime parenting and officeworking papercomics.

I guess that was so distinct about Calvin & Hobbes - though in papers with a domestic family setting, it was actually an in-prime childing comic.

WHY do cars in car commercials these days have real license plates that are all totally there but painted to match the body in a way that makes it even more ridiculous?

It’s some dumb California bullshit I guarantee

Every “city”-set car commercial is shot in an 8-square block section of downtown LA (in fairness LA blocks are huge) and it’s a testament to the power of cinematography that I only glancingly notice this having lived down the street

(McDonalds also maintains dummy versions of every currently-active interior decoration scheme juuuust inside the eastern edge of the TMZ, for the sole purpose of filming commercials)

Holy shit, Eric Cantor?

policeeternity:

monetizeyourcat:

pragnificent:

fuckyeahsexyatheists:

My mom just sent me this.

This is a real, actual thing that happens like 2 miles from my house.

voidwish look at this 

my new gender identity is the world that makes this possible

*kontextmaschine voice* Muscular Christianity

daa-aaa-aaa-aaamn, girl
I want to love you so hard
you vibrate inside

hey remember the trackball, as an input method that competed with the mouse once?

You know, it’s kind of funny when people invoke Moloch in an attempt to infuse the power of Christianity into whatever “think of the children”-of-the-day, because when you think about it it’s not like the Christian tradition is all that down on child sacrifice as such.

I mean, God called off Abraham before he went through with killing Isaac, but the takeaway message of that was that the willingness to sacrifice your child is Right And Good and will be rewarded. (As long as it’s to, you know, the right god - the Moloch slagging strikes me as more part of Jehovah’s well-established jealousy than anything.)

Hell, it’s literally the most canonical thing ever that God sacrificed his own only son. To himself. As the price for his forgiving humanity for violating the strictures that he had insisted on. Because I guess he was always kind of OCD like that.

Anyway, the next time you hear of someone who said that God told them to kill their children, keep an open mind, because that’s well within character.

monetizeyourcat:

psychoqueer:

i dont think people on this website know what ironically means anymore

it means “not in keeping with my main aesthetic”

monetizeyourcat:

“it’s soccer when america wins more games than you”, not as in it should be called soccer, but as in you have to call it soccer as punishment for being worse at it than the united states

I’ve long thought that a good compromise would be that Americans agree to call it “X Football” where X=the last World Cup winner (i.e. “English Football”, “Brazillian Football”); obviously the deal is if we ever win one everyone else has to call it soccer.

Like that stuff about how katanas are made by highly trained masters folding steel into a thousand layers and how even then so many attempts failed and had to start over again from step one?

That’s true…ish… enough, but overenthusiasts tend to read that backwards as a sign of the supreme awesomeness of the end product when it’s more a matter of the supreme crappiness of the inputs.

The Japanese islands are notoriously lacking in extractable minerals, which means that traditional metalworking not only used very low quality iron sands as a ferrous source, but had to make do with charcoal rather than bituminous coke (and even that very expensive and thus used as little as possible) as a fuel source and reducing agent for smelting. Applying extensive and elaborate high-skilled labor to these shitty materials wasn’t just a matter of pridefully insisting on a quality product but more a necessity for making something acceptably functional.

(Nah she’s actually more of a naive Gail Wynand.)