Counting the times my discord crashes or becomes otherwise unusable on my phone in a day
Today, April 3rd, we are up to [32]
Big Men / Tiny Men ?
No bitches
Someone fix this percentage
when i was a kid i used to respond to the "glass half full/half empty" question by asking how the liquid in the glass got there in the first place. nobody ever gave me a chance to explain my reasoning so i'm doing it now
if you have a glass and it has some liquid in it, up to the halfway line, whether it is empty or full depends on what happened before the question was asked. if you started with a full glass and poured half out until only half remained, the glass is half empty, because if you continued pouring it would be fully empty. however, if you started with an empty glass and poured liquid from another container into the glass up to the halfway line, the glass is half full because if you continued pouring it would be all the way full. logical, no?
i was 13 years old when somebody finally told me it was supposed to be some kind of optimism/pessimism thing. i always thought it was a riddle that nobody let me solve
Okay but that actually goes really well with the metaphor. How did you get to where you are right now? Have things gotten better or worse? Does it seem like the trend is continuing?
Nobody's really an optimist or pessimist all the time, your outlook depends on the situation and how you arrived there.
OP I need you to understand you were not wrong. You are smart. Please please please understand that fact and I hope that you still keep your thinking style. There's just simply not enough people on this planet who can look at a question like this and think "well obviously you're only asking half the question". You're right and I hope you keep it up
To make OP's point more concise:
"Is the glass half empty or half full?"
"That depends. Are you emptying the glass, or filling it?"
the great thing about the kungfu setting is the hero can be fighting three strapping young men simultaneously and you know he's not going to have any problem ripping them to shreds but then a portly octogenarian shows up and you think oh fuck this guy looks like bad news!!!
and after the geezer fuckin’ obliterates everyone on the scene with psychic energy blasts of incredible cosmic power he has to be helped into a chair because after all he is exceedingly ancient and those knees don’t bend like they used to.
you get it!
[ID screenshot of Tumblr tag reading "beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young" end ID]
This just makes me think of Rule One from Thief of Time.
"Do not act incautiously when confronting a little bald wrinkly smiling man"
As someone who's favorite color is green and who has always wanted a snake, are there any green snake species that make for good pets? Or green morphs?
Bit of a disappointing answer, I'm afraid - green snakes overwhelmingly tend to be arboreal, and generally make lousy pets. Arboreal snakes are typically quite defensive, so they're difficult for new snake keepers to handle.
Green morphs are also incredibly hard to find because that color in snakes is generally a mixture of yellow pigment and blue structural color - structual color is inherent to how the scales are shaped, and isn't really possible to breed for in snakes that don't already have it.
That's why axanthic - that means the absence of yellow pigment - rough green snakes, who usually look like this:
Come out blue, because without the yellow all they're left with is blue structural color:
Many of the most common green snake species - like those rough green snakes - aren't good pets because their diet is difficult to replicate in captivity and they're exclusively wild-caught. There are a few green snakes who make okay pets, but not really for beginners.
Red-tailed green ratsnakes are beautiful and can be okay pets for experienced keepers, but they tend to have very defensive personalities and wouldn't be the best fit for a beginner.
Green tree pythons can also be awesome for advanced-level keepers, but their personalities (again, they're prone to being very defensive), fragility, and tricky care mean they're not easy pets.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news! Green just isn't a common color in the pet snake world.
A comic about the spectrum of responses to stress - we talk alot about the more extreme ends of this and trauma, but the more subtle and every day responses can be harder to spot. if we can understand our own and other’s responses better, problems Are easier to confront and blaming is less likely to happen :) hope it’s helpful!!
slapping modeling clay around blindly without thought or purpose, i look down and find a perfectly sculpted replica of myself seated at a table with a lump of modeling clay before me, similarly shaped into a still smaller instance of the same scene. and i am afraid to look up
hey i just got rid of my appendix any words of encouragement while im recovering from surgery?/nf
CONGRATULATIONS ON THE SUCCESSFUL REMOVAL! CAN I HAVE IT FOR ILLEGAL REASONS?
want to add that he didn't take a game. It wasn't close.
you know what they say - best not miss
wake up babe, new reason to ditch FANDOM/Wikia just dropped
Previosuly
- corporate monster infested with ads which devoured Gamepedia and other companies (feat me on their shit policies, SEO and migration process)
- turning entire articles into ads if paid enough
- limited functionality preventing admins to even fight vandalism
- merging and removing of LGBT+ wikis (and forced domain change for educational [think serious] wikis to "fandom")
- official wiki status has no meaning in controlling shit
- very much censorship (same good ol' allergy to adult stuff)
- gets paid by US Navy to advertise their events (one, two)
Alternative free wiki hostings (aka wiki farms)
- Miraheze - started in 2015, non-commercial - no ads and runs on donations, wide array of MediaWiki features, wide array of allowed types of wikis and content, much autonomy for projects, custom domain and private wiki options
- wiki.gg - started in 2022 by former Gamepedia staff, limited to video games, accent on involvement of game devs and thus hosting official wikis, has ads for anons (but only of games having wikis here)
- Telepedia - started in 2022, limited to entertainment (although might allow other themes upon review), has ads for anons, replicates Miraheze structure
- WikiTide - started in 2023, no ads and runs on donations (but also tied w/ premium version called WikiForge), largely replicates Miraheze but has stricter content policies, custom domain option
Other free options I'm aware of are either too limited in allowed content or are very outdated/unstable in technical department to recommend here (or in case of Neoseeker - I'm completely unfamiliar with it, and can't say anything about it), but you still can check them out, alongside paid hostings, on this MediaWiki page.
If you (or your community) are brave and dedicated enough you can go with self-hosted MediaWiki instance (aka independent hosting), like JoJo Wiki (who started on Wikia and succeed at overtaking the SEO) or NIWA wikis. This option, of course, requires funding and technical knowledge, but it's still very much possible.
How to find existing alternative/independent wikis
- try to use "-fandom" filter for search query in Google, or use other search engines like Bing or DuckDuckGo
- Indie Wiki Buddy browser extension - it modifies search engine results and performs redirects based on its centralized list of independent wikis; a new indie wiki has to be requested/submitted to get added [ Firefox / Chrome ]
- Redirect to wiki.gg browser extension - same as IWB but for wikis moved to wiki.gg (as I understand, works automatically without dedicated listing) [ Firefox / Chrome ]
- (simple) Redirector browser extension - in case the wiki is neither on IWB or wiki.gg, and it doesn't filter out search results - only performs redirect on whatever you get; a redirect has to be set manually - see this tutorial [ Firefox / Chrome ]
Fuck FANDOM, support real people, support indie wikis
Unmute !
Thought process of announcers: why don’t we get another ball…?
OR MayBE WE SHOULD GET A CHEERLEADER! THEY’RE USED TO GOING UP HIGH
OH LOOK, THE CHEERLEADER HAS DONE IT
pirates of the caribbean really introduced an eldritch octopus man who kills indiscriminately and torments the dead as their poster villain and then you watch the movies and it's like, "oh no, actually the worst villain in this series is a small white british man who functions as the herald of capitalism" and that was very very brave of them
