3dprintmefuckingadvice:

Tinder, but just for smoking weed!!!!

internetopia:

babylonian:

paigeirl:

chibisokka:

ok i actually put the rainbow road theme at 70% speed and it sounds like an infomercial soundtrack from the 1980s

vaporwave

this is a jam

Getting pumped up to buy 20 floppy disks of office productivity software over the phone with this jammm

hyperallergic:

Futuristic pyramids and boxy concrete forms rose up with the modernist architecture of Africa in the 1960s and ’70s, although beyond the continent the radical forms aren’t widely recognized. Growth following independence from colonialism in Ghana, Kenya, Côte d’Ivoire, Zambia, and Senegal coincided with this radical new aesthetic, dotting the countries with striking buildings that represented a new optimism.

Africa’s Overlooked Modernist Architecture from an Era of Independence

Ah, the classic question: did this unknown on my dash change both name and icon recently, or did I fumble-finger-follow some random?

Just saw actual graffiti tags for a tumblr crew.

Haha, someone stole my credit card number and used it to buy iPhones and pizzas in Indiana. Fucking perfect.

1) BioWare does a good job with their worldbuilding in drawing just enough from real history that players can bring some baseline knowledge to the table to fill in gaps, while making the specific sources obscure enough, and kinking the end result enough, to leave space for novelty. Like how the setting is not just Fake Middle Ages but specifically Fake *French* Middle Ages, or how Andraste, “Bride of the Maker” is a conflation of Jesus and Muhammad, with Judas’ betrayal setting the stage for the Fitnas and the Sunni/Shiite split.

2) I like the handling of healing, all on to the limited but freely refillable single type of healing potions, upgradeable in number and power. It means that the felt experience of gating map areas by enemy difficulty went from being wiped out by a single enemy and sent to last save point to having a series of victories “cost” too much resulting in the “decision” to fast-travel back. Same ultimate effect but much less tedious and unpleasant. (plus evading all the inventory management shit, I don’t know how long I’ve spent in Spiderweb games consolidating and redistributing potions) It’s like the RPG equivalent of the FPS innovation of regenerating health.

3) More sympathy than I expected for the people giving them shit for their yay diversity treatment of gender/sexuality. “Shoving it down our throats” isn’t right, but they do noticeably drop their standards for the sake of putting it in there. No comment on the charge that straight romances available to men suck - I’m playing as a bi woman, as one does. But the two times they put gender/sexuality stuff front and center - Dorian and his dad, drinking with Bull and Krem’s gender identity - feel like those G.I. Joe PSAs, bracketed off from the rest of the story, with an earnestness that’s at odds with the tone and characterization elsewhere.

And I mean BioWare’s still competent, so it’s not terrible, just substandard. That Bull would accept Krem as a man is believable - as he says, his band’s a bunch of misfits and there’s a lot weirder shit taken for granted in this world. That he would so earnestly and firmly deliver The Message instead of smilingly busting balls over it like he does everything else… nah. And that your conversation options range from enthusiastic agreement to friendly curiosity, in a game that usually offers cynicism and hostility (at the expense of good relations) and otherwise presents sympathetic presentations of multiple views on genocide, slavery, totalitarian collectivism, and the prophylactic killing of innocents… it stands out.

Dorian’s more believable - that there might be some emotion and trauma under that insouciance, I buy it. But his situation just shows how the devs are trying to have their cake and eat it too - crafting a fantasy of a world where sexuality doesn’t matter (as infodumped in the Sexuality in Thedas codex) and then stretching to rig up scenarios for you to triumph over retrograde opinions anyway. Just like they make a world where no one comments how Fake France is populated with a random assortment of Irish- to Ethiopian-looking folks, and then bring in the Dalish to Explore the Issue of Racism.

I’ll live. But like I’ve said before, however well-intentioned this shit really comes off like “‘90s attitude” Poochieism sometimes.

Wolverine and Gambit are on a British Columbia ferry because, I don’t know, some Alpha Flight tie-in

this is the framing device for Logan telling this story about an old-time riverboat gambler he knew back in the day, with the subtext that dude was like a better version of Remy that he could stand to learn some life lessons from

Gambit does not remotely care and is trying to look cool and mysterious in front of this van taking a girls’ basketball team to a tournament

Cute glasses girl: what're you reading there?
Me: (to self) don't fuck this up don't fuck this up 
(to her) a history of the Italian campaign in North Africa in WWII
Girl: oh, who were they fighting, the Germans?
Me: (to self) aaaaaaaaaaaahh

So if you’re trying to track down the address of a rich American figure, my first recommendation is looking at FEC filings. Anyone whose giving passes the $200 mark has to put their home and employer on record, and this has gotten orders of magnitude easier to search since the internet happened.

Anyway the moral here is that Joss Whedon’s 2004 candidate was Wesley Clark.

abbyjean:

katherinestasaph:

glad to see pieces treating Max Martin as something other than a punchline, this is quite interesting

this is an amazing article about an amazing man who makes amazing music, and there are 30 max martin songs to listen to AND there is a demo version of “i want it that way” with different lyrics. totally worth your time.

“But… you’re dead!” she wailed.

“Well, I waia,” he said, with an affected nonchalance. “I’m from a future.”

She stood in shock, speechless.

"Look, it’s a long story.”

Nothing. He rolled his eyes.

“And it involves tenses that haftnye invent.”

It’s interesting to see an upstart political movement take power after a long period of struggle, because there’s often a pressure to use the victory as a chance to vindicate the superiority of doctrines that worked out for an insurgency, or to address the complaints that originally inspired the movement in a bygone era.

Like, the founders of Israel were big on kibbutzes because one of the oldest ambitions of the tendencies that congealed as Zionism (many shared with Soviet communism) had been “stick it in the eye of the Tsar and Polish magnates by proving it’s totally possible to do premechanized folwark manorial agriculture without the institution of serfdom”.

And then as time went on they were abandoned because the people actually living in Israel in the mid-20th century looked around and said “wait, what?”

An interesting thing is he used to be the patron saint of self-improvement

bloodandhedonism:

Don’t forget large denominations of money, of course!

That’s a good point. Contrast with below.