Sans Undertale shirt found at Blessings Abound in Overland Park, KS
I bought it and I've been tormenting @jack-fruit with it all week
you ever have just like, a really bad idea
anyways if you like bad things here’s a postcard
I was trying to figure out why this post starting spiking recently and then I found out you animals had this queued for Mother’s Day
I was trying to understand the whole idea of "fear ecology", where presence of predators = a ton of behavioural and psychological changes in prey animals, even if they're not hunting (so for example, a non-hunting outdoor cat lowers foraging + reproductive success among mice) and it seemed extreme until the next day when I realized thats just me when my boss is in at work.
"Damn, one cat changes the vibe of the neighborhood that much?" -me hiding in the stairwell with my sandwich because I don't feel relaxed eating around someone who is unlikely to actually kill and eat me
Does anybody have the quote from that guy who was talking about how he sees Yuri in places where there are no lesbians but it feels like some lesbians should be there? Like you go to the aquarium and think "this is Yuri" because it seems like a place where two girls would go on a date
Let him cook
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Some small insights on things I commonly saw in Japan - nerd edition:
- Not one day passed that I didn’t see at least one person with some sort of Kirby charm or keychain or sticker or somesuch on their person or backpacks. Not even in “nerdy” places, this extends to Everywhere.
- You’ve likely heard this already, but Akihabara as “weeb mecca” is pretty old news and not the case anymore. You can definitely find some kickass stores there (my favorites were Mandarake and Super Potato!), but otherwise it’s pretty Just Below Surface Level mainstream nerd culture shops now, that is to say, everything is Spy x Family (dear god Anya is fucking everywhere), Kimetsu no Yaiba, One Piece, Quintuplets, Genshin, FGO, Uma Musume, Vtubers, some Bocchi, and Kaguya-sama. Mind you, I don’t dislike most of these things, but it’s literally all that is there, alongside gunpla stuff.
- Den Den Town and Nakano Broadway were way fucking better for nerdy stuff. Props to Rinka for the heads up.
- Sunshine City was also pretty good for nerdy stuff but with a way more focused scope: You have a Pokemon Center + Cafe there, One Piece store, Bandai Cross Store, the works.
- Holy fuck they were not exaggerating, gachapon is absolutely everywhere. The Cross Store even had “Luxury Gacha” or “Premium Gacha”, can’t remember what the exact word was, that were in some cases 1500 yen a pop (for a pretty cool fucking figure though, not gonna lie).
- There is gachapon of absolutely fucking anything in the world that you can think of. No, even more than what you’re currently thinking of. Stray musical notes, tools like hammers, bozosoku jackets, Nintama Rantaro, that one meme construction cat, miniature nail clippers, literally such a massive amount of sundry variety. I was humbled.
- I’m kind of fucking sick of Anya Spy x Family. Literally everywhere.
- I didn’t know there were stores where people can rent a little cube and sell their figures and other nerdy stuff like that. That’s such a cool concept, a little nerd-to-nerd market. Imagine you’re trading in TF2 except instead of giving someone keys for their hat, you give someone a big titty One Piece character, I don’t know the name of any, sorry, as a trade for a big titty Vtuber.
- Among the stuff you could see occasionally in stores? Sakamoto Days. That made me so fucking happy.
- I met 4 honest to god monks in the wild and I really wish I was fluent in Japanese, I wanted to talk to them so so so bad.
- Even older nerds do NOT know VOTOMS. Every old school nerd I met in nerd bars and other such places knew Dunbine and Kinnikuman but I met literally no one that knew VOTOMS. They pulled out their phone, every time, looked it up, looked at me with that certified Japanese polite but obviously flabbergasted expression with a tinge of lemon and horror, and asked me, “how do YOU know of this?? it’s SO OLD” and I did not have the heart to tell them a 4chan dude mailed me VHS tapes with the show subbed back in 1937.
Sun Tzu is so fucking funny to me because for his time he was legitimately a brilliant tactician but a bunch of his insight is shit like "if you think you might lose, avoid doing that", "being outnumbered is bad generally", and "consider lying."
My personal favourite is his lengthy lecture on the subject of Supplies Being Very Important I Cannot Stress Enough The Importance Of Protecting Your Supply Lines But Also Supply Lines Are Expensive As Shit So Steal The Enemy’s Supplies At Every Opportunity.
One of the more important things to consider about any historical work is the audience it was published for. The Art Of War was aimed at fancy nobles high on philosophy with little practical military experience who were nonetheless leading armies.
Sun Tzu, after desperatly trying to explain extremely basic logic to a bunch of upper-class twits, basically sat down and wrote the most elaborate "As per my last email" ever
idk when they starting calling that guy wojak and doing all these variations of him to me his name is feels guy and represents the feeling of having no gf
Actually, "Wojak" is the name of the Polish poster who first created the drawing! It's a self portrait, and he--Wojak--would often post it while lamenting about being single.
So he was "Wojak" first, because Wojak (the poster) was the "tfw no GF" guy.
It's not a lie! I care very much about the proliferation of significant cyberanthropological information, and Wojak is an extremely significant icon in the modern world!
THIS CITIZEN IS UNWILLING TO RECONCILE WITH THE FACT THAT MEMES ARE MAINSTREAM AND IMPORTANT
The language of zeitgeist shifts over time to fit whatever the most prolific mode of communication is during that period. In the 20th century there was a rapid escalation from hearing people from far away (radio), to seeing people from far away and in the past (TV) eventually landing on seeing and hearing people from far away while being able to immediately interact with them (Internet). Naturally, language and social icons shift with them.
Show a politician a picture of Mario and a picture of Pepe and you'd get very similar rates of recognition.
Many memes come and go but there are a handful which evolve past the point of "inside joke" to "iconography which can be used to communicate specific feelings and opinions at a glance", and become core visuals for modern movements and parties.
The Wojak face is absolutely, unequivocally a significant icon of the early 21st century and for me to say otherwise would be dishonest and unacademic.
no idea why this post from last year suddenly blew up but legitimately thanks for the information. here i was thinking the internet had lost sight of the meme’s roots but turns out i was the fool here
thank u, my friend likes your yoshis island remix
Valve speaking to developers at Steam Dev Days about how to make your game successful with microtransactions.
Not only did they make a new hat for Scout just to match the popular internet doodle/joke…
They literally used the exact same lines from the graph.
lol
tf2 heritage post
the fact that they wrote “yugioh” in the magic the gathering font
pointing out the issue with the font is the first test
if i think of baby swordfish again i’m gonna be sent into a coughing fit
best baby animal of all time. only the essentials (big funny snout)
THERES EVEN SMALLER ONES ARE YOU SERIOUS
fr tho imagine being this thing and you grow up into a beast that kills things with its nose what would you even do.
I’d kill things with my fucking nose what else
I’m crying over this picture
there they are
Gordon Ramsay drops the orb of transfiguration: Oh and what is- oh fuck. oh im so- im so sorry. oh it seems ive turned into a little ghoulie. oh fuck me. a little beastie most foul. unbelieveable
that looks like a condom and the fact that everyone in the notes is saying “the orb” proves that no one on this website fucks
the fuck kinda bouncy-ball ass condoms are you using
the fact that someone thinks that looks like a condom is proof that no one on this website fucks
ok y’all it’s LITERALLY taken from the “wizard pondering his orb” image
it’s an orb.
ok not to beat a dead horse but i found the ORIGINAL image and it’s cover art from a lotr themed ttrpg.
so
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No it isn't that's from 1993 you fucking poseur, it's from A SPY IN ISENGARD published in 1988 I'm SICK and TIRED of you people getting it WRONG
5 reblog additions later and this post is still best summarized by "no one on this website fucks"