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De'Elgathor

@deelgathor

A personal blog I post about nerd things Add me on PSN to play Destiny 2, probably: deelgathor
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“Oh yeah, this is a great concept. Zelda? 2022? This will definitely be an easy, crowd-pleasing strip.”

- Me, right before trying to think of a third panel and ending up with this…thing.

we need to bring back the word square like i don't think it's problematic that you listen to taylor swift i just kinda think it's lame as hell

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Anonymous asked:

DUDE I MENTIONED TO MY GRANDMA THAT I WAS REALLY ENJOYING THE BOOK I WAS READING AND SHE ASKED ME TO SEND IT TO HER IM READING YAOI WHAT DO I DO

send her a book you've already read and enjoyed that's not yaoi so that you can keep pace and answer questions if she decides to read it too

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send her the yaoi. we can make a fujoshi of your grandma yet

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I'm changing my answer. do what starredforest said, anon.

Me playing d&d: “Listen, I know you struggle with this, but the DM wants us to make a perception roll. Do you think we can handle it? Do we think we can maybe, just maybe, roll at least above a 10? For me? Please?”

My d&d character, spitting in my face: “Fuck you. I have never perceived anything in my life and I’m sure as hell not going to start now. Now I will roll a 7.”

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Okay but this is serious, I work in retail and I had a lady come up and ask for 2 $500 Google play gift cards. We have been trained to look for these scams and to warn the customers NEVER give the card numbers over the phone unless you have met this person face to face. I told the lady this and she started crying, saying they were the IRS and that if she hung up they would call the police and have her arrested. They wanted to keep her on the phone so she couldn't call her husband, who was more aware of how the IRS works. I was able to convince her to hang up and call the police on *them* instead, and saved her $500.

Scams are serious, people lose a lot of money and older people are targeted the worst because they're easy targets.

First of all, the IRS will *never* call you and ask for money, and they definitely won't call the cops on you. They'll get your money if they really want it through taxes.

But now they're trying to target our generation using crypto, which is super hard to trace if the money gets lost. So they're getting smarter, and they'll use whatever they can to get you to give them money.

What you really need to know or take away from this is: NEVER, and I mean EVER, buy a gift card and give the barcode number on the back to someone over the phone. It is ALWAYS, 100%, a scam!

Please be safe and hang up on these fuckers the second they ask you to buy a gift card.

You know, it occurs to me that the known internet phenomenon of Reddit “am I the asshole?” posts having completely misleading headers is actually a really great example of a far less known but far more common practice of extreme journalistic spin in cases where there are large monetary incentives to diminish the story in question.

Like, if you see a Reddit post titled “Am I the asshole for buying my wife a new dress?”, the post is pretty much always something totally deranged like: “I (48) really dislike the way my wife (20) dresses, because I think it’s too revealing and makes her look slutty, which was fine when we started dating five years ago, but it makes me feel like she’s going to cheat on me now that we’re married. I’ve politely asked her to get new clothes multiple times, and every time she refused because she said she liked her clothes, and didn’t want to waste money buying new ones. Yesterday I couldn’t take it anymore so I threw out a bunch of her old dresses and bought her a new one that was more modest looking. She started crying because one of the dresses I threw out had been left to her by her mom who died when she was a teen, but I couldn’t have known that it had sentimental value. She said that I should have asked, but obviously if I asked she’d have just told me not to throw out any of her clothes, including the ones that weren’t sentimental. Also, the more modest dress I bought was pretty expensive, and she never thanked me for it. Am I the asshole here, or is she being unreasonable?”

Similarly, whenever you see a headline like “Woman Wins Millions From McDonald’s Because Her Hot Coffee Was Too Hot”, if you dig a bit, you’ll almost always quickly find out that what actually happened was: A 79-year-old ordered coffee which, unbeknownst to her, was being served extremely dangerously hot, because McDonald’s was trying to have coffee that stayed warm over a long commute without spending any extra money on cups with better insulation. The coffee spilled on the old woman’s lap, giving her severe third degree burns over a huge portion of her body, including her genitals. She got to a hospital and they managed to save her life with skin grafting, but she became disabled from the accident, and her genitals and thighs were permanently disfigured. She tried to settle with McDonald’s for her medical costs, and McDonald’s refused to cover any portion of her medical expenses at all, and so she sued. At trial, the jury discovered that this same exact thing had happened seven hundred times before, and McDonald’s had still decided not to change their policy because paying out individual suits was cheaper than moderately reducing their coffee profits. As a result, the jury awarded punitive damages designed to penalize McDonald’s two days worth of their coffee profits, in addition to the woman’s medical costs.

I think it’s largely the same phenomenon, but I know a lot of people who are familiar with the first case, but don’t know to look for the second. If you see some totally outrageous “how could a person ever sue over this stupid thing?” case, you should immediately be incredibly suspicious that that’s all that actually happened, because a lot of the time, it absolutely isn’t. The people who have the most incentive to make their opponent look not only wrong, but completely crazy for having any sort of grievance at all, are often the actually unreasonable ones. 

Anyway this is all to say that if I see ANY of y’all automatically siding with McDonald’s over the recent case where 4-year-old girl was severely burned by their chicken nuggets because “hurr durr dumb kid didn’t know that chicken nuggets were hot, people sue over anything lol”, I will grab that McBoot you’re licking and shove it all the way up your McFuckingAss.

lawyer fun fact! sometimes you need to sue someone before your insurance will pay for your medical bills (because your insurance would rather the other person pay for your medical bills so they don’t have to)! sometimes you need to sue because what you’d get from insurance isn’t enough to pay for all of your medical bills! sometimes you want to change a specific thing, like a dangerous practice or defective part, and that’s not going to happen if you just ask nicely!

most truly ridiculous lawsuits get screened before they’re even filed (because someone goes to an attorney and that attorney is like “yeah you don’t have a case here”) or very shortly after they’re filed (because judges can toss out cases that have zero merit). 99% of the time, if it sounds ridiculous but somehow it went all the way to someone suing and winning in a jury trial, it probably wasn’t actually as absurd as it sounds.

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the most devastating part about being transmasc is that I'm not quirky anymore, oh I like memes and playing games? I'm just like every other boys now. who the hell cares. I don't like talking about boyfriends and makeups? so does every men, idiot. cunt.

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I see those posts that are like "only BOYS will understand this 😂😂🤣🤣" and I understand it and I can't even make a snarky comeback bc I am a boy. I'm just one of them. pain suffering etc

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HEY HEY DON'T DO THAT

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why have you made this your life goal

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Round 1, Week 2: Match 28 of 32

Propaganda as submitted by YOU, in initial entries, tags, and reblogs:

Once Upon a Time:

  • "It was so iconic to my tumblr experience back in the day it needs to be in the contest"
  • "It was fun! It was unique! And you can't discount it just because the last seasons weren't great!"

How It's Made:

  • "It legitimately sends me into a trance. Constant puns, satisfying machines, fun facts. What more could you ask for?"

seriously what is there not to like about pacific rim we have idris elba aka the coolest man alive we have autistic gay scientists we have mako mori we have giant robots running on the power of love fighting giant monsters we have very cool visuals and excellent nerdy sci fi stuff we have an entire fucking ocean