Ah, man, now that I got this lumbar pillow this lounge chair reclines at the exactly correct angle that I don’t notice any strain that might be in my legs or lower back.
Cosmic horror themed mecha series where, for Mystic Technobabble Reasons probably involving some sort of celestial alignment, only people who were born during a specific period of time can pilot the giant robots. The complicating factor? The last time that magic alignment happened was roughly sixty years ago. Thus, the fate of humanity depends on a dwindling pool of people aged sixty-plus who are still in good enough shape to pilot a giant robot into battle.
(For casting convenience, let’s say that the magic alignment lasted roughly a decade, so there’s some flexibility in the ages of the core cast, but all of them being sixty-plus is mandatory.)
Man younger than me trying to establish himself as an authority for people even younger by recounting Sopranos episodes I realize yeah, would have been before their times
Amusing that as she tries to tailor her romantic narratives for the normies who grew up with her, Taylor Swift’s sense of How Young Adults Date Now is like
Congrats, we have reached a period of time where there is a generation that does not remember the first memes.
Look, i’ve been on tumblr for nine fucking years and I don’t get this meme. I remember seeing it at some point, but have no clue what it means.
because this meme is pre tumblr and pre-youtube and is about 17 years old, almost twice as long as you’ve been on tumblr
the ancient depths of albinoblacksheep will never die
But like, can someone explain. The fucking. Context.
It refers to a meme song, called The Badger Song or sometimes Badger Badger Badger, Mushroom, Mushroom. There is a snake in the lyrics also. You can watch the video on YouTube, if you so desire.
By way of further explanation, this comes from a time when most people had 56K modems or even slower, so downloading a full video clip of even crappy 320x240 resolution could take 5-10 minutes. You really had to want to see the Ballad of Bilbo Baggins or the Exploding Whale.
Flash bypassed this problem with cel animation. Each scene uses a static backdrop image plus small images of each of the moving parts, like pieces of a paper doll, which are then repositioned, scaled or flipped using a series of text commands written in a simple programming language. As the visual components were just a handful of static images, they didn’t have to be compressed as much as later Youtube video, making their edges as crisp as modern 4K. The most bandwidth-intensive aspect of Flash was the accompanying soundfile, but that loaded in a matter of seconds rather than minutes for video.
The result tended to look like a Monty Python animation, and so Flash yielded a bumper crop of the absurd from BadgerBadgerBadger to Pavoratti’s Elephants to Fight! Kikkoman, the soy sauce superhero. All of which only survive in imperfect, fuzzy YouTube captures.
I originally just put this in the tags, but I think it’s important enough to add to the actual post:
these flash animations aren’t just found in fuzzy youtube videos! you can see the original animations using BlueMaxima’s Flashpoint, a flash preservation project!
the software is free and open-source, and it has built-in players for flash and shockwave (as well as many other platforms). it allows you to search their archive of games and animations, and play them whenever you want!
they’ve got Badger Badger Badger, Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny, Charlie the Unicorn, the original asdfmovie, and just…so many other animations and games that were thought to be lost or unplayable.
as of their most recent update, their archive has over 130,000 games and 20,000 animations, and most of them look just as crisp as they did 20 years ago.
so, go put Badger Badger Badger fullscreen and admire all of those sharp edges and clean lines! or play the Escape the Room series from 2keysgames, or the old Barbie games, or whatever you want! it’s an incredible resource, and I have spent hours getting lost in it.
……I got recommended a youtube video about bodybuilder drama and
tell me this doesn’t look like random discourse that fell from the DC Universe into our own
i watched the video out of morbid curiosity and thus far it seems like bog standard hobby drama
an overproduced video accusing some dude (who tbf seems like a real prize) of plagiarism, not knowing what the fuck he’s talking about, and charging way too much money for his shitty products
but because I mostly hang out in nerdy and/or femme hobby spaces these days, I’m used to seeing hobby drama from Geeky Twinks, trans folks, and/or middle aged cis women who fake their deaths to not have to make large custom yarn orders
seeing incredibly buff men pull this shit is thus really really funny to me, because they are no better and no worse than my people
Analysis of the growing share of nonacademic administrative roles in American higher education with reference to the way college towns are the only economically coherent small town experiences left in America, that providing middle-class clerkdom roles is now one of the university’s social functions
Just walking home carrying a 2-gallon jar of milk from the indie convenience store, thinking back to when I was in LA and carrying one gallon that far would weary my arms, to say nothing of the once-equally-armsload bag on the other wrist (with the cane!) that’s nothing now
It’s not just sexual attractiveness, like since as soon as the brain stuff knocked me back a spell I’ve been becoming stronger and more capable, and for the last 8 months at least I’ve not only passed where I was before but I’m constantly the best I’ve ever been, with the sense I don’t hit a ceiling for a bit
I appreciate how the delivery app economy incentivizes things such that like, the three neighborhood places on EVERY strip aren’t pizza/burrito/bbq, some of them find more of an angle in being like the one Peruvian place on the east side…
*speaking to discord mods* You are aware, good sir, that Scooby-Doo is a fully sapient adult dog capable of perfectly intelligible communication, and therefore passes the Harkness Test, and in many versions and incarnations Mystery Inc. are teenagers, so if ANYTHING, the art I posted in #nsfw is unethical on SCOOBY’S part.
