this clip from make some noise s1e8 with oscar montoya and brennan lee mulligan is the only super mario bros content i care about personally
brennan lee mulligan has the greatest superpower: the unlimited ability to make an absolutely off-the-cuff monologue and then follow it up with the ultimate turnaround. he can share the power with others
but credit also needs to be firmly planted in the hands of oscar for hearing the prompt say "dramatic video game cutscene" and then going "got it, mario and luigi."
"dont smoke around your pets" okay well i dont even smoke im asthmatic. my dog smokes bc she needs to fucking chill sometimes and Yeah i light them for her Obviously bc she cant use a lighter. i dont get anyrhing out of this arrangment and i resent the implication. in fact shes giving ME secondhand smoke. so my question is why are you so hateful and jugemental and acting like an asshole to me making presumptions and shit about my life.
CHEERS TO GUY WALTON FOR “OUTING” THE FOSSIL FUEL COMPANIES
From the article:
Walton has devised his own criteria for named heatwaves in the US, based on duration and extremity, on a one to five scale similar to hurricanes. Heatwave Chevron is classed as a four and is “historic”, Walton said. The meteorologist said he has a list of 20 oil and gas companies – including Exxon and Shell – for upcoming heatwaves and will turn to coal companies if he runs out of names.
OUTSTANDING MOVE
Y'all know what to do. Use Walton's naming system. Make it catch on.
Sorry I wasn't listening to you, I was thinking about the Duke of Wellington's personal 11-foot-tall statue of nude, totally jacked Napoleon.
Twitter thread! (and yes Kate Beaton's "Nemesis" comic comes up)
Oh my goooodddd, im crying at Napoleon basically hiding it in embarrassment only for it to be put on display in the main room of his enemy
Napoleon: ... nice statue imma just *throws it into the basement*
Duke of Wellington breaking into Napoleon's house: OH BOY LOOK AT WHAT I FOUND–
What I wanna know is why Wellington put that statue there. Like was it some kind of power play to show off how he vanquished Napoleon, or did he just think it was a really nice statue?
Every time someone brings this up, I have to be the one to tell them that the statue was a gift to Wellington from the Prince Regent, and it wasn't looted. The British government paid around £3000 for a giant naked statue of Napoleon. Wellington had to put it somewhere people would be able to see it, or he'd offend the Prince. Love that for him.
shoulda been a blackadder episode about this shit
Source: twitter.com
This is why I dislike looking back on the past as if everything has been constantly improving to get us to where we are now
Our cement isn't as strong as the Romans, our steel isn't as strong as Damascus steel, we cannot replicate the beauty of a Stradivari violin, we've already lost some of the technology that flew Apollo and Gemini to space
And when I live out a suitcase I have to sift through a pile of stuff like a neanderthal
I hate to tell you this, but none of your examples are true.
Roman concrete lasts longer, but 1) we’ve already learned how to replicate AND IMPROVE it and the reason we don’t is 2) it’s not as strong as modern concrete. Modern alloys are stronger than Damascus steel. When blindfolded and asked to tell the difference between a Stradivarius and a modern violin, experts misidentified the modern violin as the Stradivarius a little over half the time. And while we have indeed lost some of the technology that first got us to the moon, that technology was cobbled together by hand and the fact it worked at all is nothing short of a marvel.
If you want to talk about how things aren’t always better in the present, consider:
—we’ve replaced thousands of forms of localized, “this will keep you cool in summer and warm in winter” architecture with standardized window-filled boxes that do neither of those things
—hundreds of varieties of very good apples have been lost or nearly lost because they were smaller/not as fast-growing/didn’t look as nice on the shelf as modern varietals
—basic life skills like cooking, sewing, and basic car maintenance are no longer taught in most schools
—ornamental ANYTHING has been widely eschewed in favor of “efficiency” and “resale value”
—while modern glass is stronger than medieval glass, we struggle to reproduce the vibrant colors of medieval glass because in a lot of places we don’t know what it was colored with
—fast fashion has given us more options Re: clothes, but it also means we’ve replaced natural, low-impact fibers like wool and linen with plastic, which is worse in basically every way
—the pyramids were built with such precision that in places where the outer capstones are still present, you can’t get a credit card between them. While we can theoretically do something like this in the modern day, it’s not considered worth the effort because it’s fucking HARD, and nobody has actually figured out how the Egyptians did it in the absence of automated tools
—art nouveau and Art Deco went out of fashion and I think those two tragedies speak for themselves
—we’re struggling to rebuild Notre Dame because over-harvesting of forests means we don’t have trees big enough to replace the roof beams
—we have very little idea what we lost in Africa due to colonialism and racism. We do know we lost entire literary traditions and we can only mourn and wonder about thousands of years’ worth of art
You can make the point on every front without relying on long-debunked legends.
People don't like to admit it bcs cringe or w/e but Homestuck really did revolutionize the webcomic as a storytelling medium and I am endlessly frustrated that before webcomic artists could really stretch our legs fucking webtoonz swooped in, set a new, more restrictive standard, and then monetized and monopolized the ever living fuck out of the concept of The Webcomic until it drove away anyone who couldn't be a professional quality manga artist for free, and now the only webcomics that actually feel like spiritual successors to Homestuck are so obscure they're basically cult classics that you have to beg people to read.
Like it's just so wild to be in high school and see Homestuck be like "we're using like fifteen different artistic mediums to tell this story bcs we can" and be really fucking inspired by that, only to grow up and see basically every webcomic ever have to conform to One Single Standard or fucking perish.
Actually, I realized my real point here: we all need to make our art weirder. Please make weird art. I want more stuff like Prequel Adventure and 17776 and MyHouse.wad and I want it now. Capitalism thrives on conformity. We must be weird at all costs.
you all hate the position i sleep in because you haven’t advanced to my level and you’re jealous of my mental acuity and caustic wit as well as being extremely good at sleeping
Went to the zoo today and they had these Arabian Oryxes but one of them found a hat somebody presumably dropped in the enclosure and was playing with it
He managed to get it on too. Looking stylish my friend
Compare paychecks with you co-workers. It is the best way to get equality.
Pequeño pero matón
They should put these on all the civil war miniatures. Spice things up a little
cute sun
in an alchemical-medical manuscript ("Hausbuch des Pfarrers Valentinus aus Ottrau"), germany, 1529
source: Kassel, Universitätsbibliothek, 4° Ms. chem. 82, fol. 21r
Holding the laptop’s power button down because it’s crashed and there’s no other way to turn it off feels so unsettling. It makes me feel like I’m holding a cushion over its face while the life slowly ebbs out of it.
