Thorium

i love the iron giant film like when are we ever gonna get another kid protag who openly hates american government officials 

Who was expecting a Personality Core from Portal to show up in Star Trek: Prodigy?

I once tried writing a fanfic where Old Spock teamed up with Guinan and Data's Severed Head (with all his memories up until TNG season six) to solve crimes in the Kelvin Timeline.

i don’t have a “mind palace” or whatever… it’s a male strip club in here

theme park fans : wow this rollercoaster sure is a marvel of engineering. the fact it can go 2000 mph and not break any bones is simply astonishing

carnival fans: if i go on Crazy Bills Assfucker Spintron of Death 5 Hundred and die so be it

water park fans: Teehee >_< this slide is very very tall!!!! down the hatch i go! Yippee!!!

whoever came up with the idea of painting your nails was so fucking right.......

kings. we owe them so much

bro it doesn’t feel like ‘christmas eve’ at all it feels like ‘reality but slightly to the left’ 

i don’t expect this to be very widely known but here in vancouver we’ve had a barge stuck on shore since mid november

we’re going on day 25 of barge simpson not moving a damn inch and i for one hope it never moves

They put up a sign

Wake up babe new boat stuck

latches onto you and you have 5 seconds to press the x button 20 times or I tear out your spine and dink the juice

[id: two men holding the halves of an amethyst geode, smiling. the geode is heart shaped, and both men are smiling. /end id]

My man was really gonna let a fucking BEAR into his house for the views and the BEAR had to be the sensible one here

Where’s the picture of the two bears cuddling and they both have cpap devices

This one?

Yes thank you

doc ock-toling

thinking about that WoW epidemic

i was telling my dad, ever the skeptic, about corrupted blood back in March at the start of lockdown, and how the cdc studied it. how it can be used as a model for what to do and how people might act in the event of an unpredicted pandemic, and how people were playing out the same behavior during covid.

he said “so they fixed it, right? how did they fix it in the game?” and i told him the truth: they didn’t. they couldn’t control it. they had to reset the servers and roll them back to the time before the ZG encounter.

a CNN article recently referenced another “viral” event in world of warcraft: leeroy jenkins facepulling as a metaphor for the expedited reopening of businesses. what it fails to mention however is how the video ends. everyone who charges in with leeroy dies. he wipes the raid.

it really feels like that meme where it’s like “wow, cool video game reference!” and the point soaring over their head says THE DAMAGE WAS IRREVERSIBLE. THE THREAT SPREAD TOO RAPIDLY AND EVERYONE DIED.

weird reframing of the corrupted blood incident to make it seem, for some reason, like it was all selfish actions that people said was unrealistic because real people would help others. in fact its literally the opposite, it was used as real world data specifically because of the player driven efforts to fix it

The reason this plague in the game was a good model is because we had all walks of life type people reacting in different ways.

Those with healing magic would go into infected areas to see if they could save the infected or at least keep them alive through the disease. Those that couldn’t do that tried to warn players before they entered infected areas. NPC could be infected and have “no symptoms”; they could be asymptomatic carriers and pass it to nearby players.

The best part though was by the time Blizzard had finally come out and said “if you are infected, try to quarantine yourself so you don’t spread it!!” the player base was ALREADY DOING SO. The players had recognized the problem and worked together in myriad ways to fix it.

They also had negative reactions as well, another reason this was such a good example of a real outbreak. They had a couple people report healers or alchemists who were claiming to sell cures/treatments to the disease that ultimately would do nothing. They had a group of players that would hide in the mountains near cities and just pass the disease back and forth between themselves and then raid cities to infect them all over again. They had higher level players start rebelling on the servers. Saying it was an overreaction and if you get it you’ll just die and you can come back and be fine, etc. Since they could get the disease and survive, ie it didn’t do enough damage to them since they were higher level, they felt it unnecessary to care about whether they got it or not. They complained about not getting to play like normal just because this plague could kill lower level players.

ALL of these reactions, good and bad, were real enough to what we assumed a real life epidemic would play out that people started to use it as a model. And now look, we have proof that it was accurate.

However, what we needed to learn from it was primarily that it wasn’t reversible. The bad reactions and lack of care from the few players that weren’t cooperating made it impossible in the end to contain. The only reason it was fixed at all is the game had to reverse time, literally just delete their entire game log a few weeks and time travel weeks into the past to before the plague even began.

Think about that.

The reason no one believed it was a valid model is that it was a video game and thus the consequences weren’t permanent. “No one would act like that in real life.” But look at how we are handling this outbreak. Is it not eerily similar?

And we can’t time travel.

“They complained about not getting to play like normal just because this plague could kill lower level players.”

This is the most terrifying one. This is how the rich and healthy are acting about the poor and disabled.

So I recently obtained Flick and Cj's amiibo (nfc cards) but it turns out you only need one or the other because they always show up to the cafe together~

[ID 1: A digital drawing of an annoyed CJ tugging an irate Flick by the hand as they walk behind Blathers. Blathers squints towards their direction in rage as he’s holding a book. Flick is silently fuming, eyes wide with pinpoint pupils glaring at Blathers. A clenched fist of his shakes. CJ tells Flick “Don’t. Don’t even make eye contact, Babe. Let’s just go straight to the café.”]

[ID 2: Edited screenshots of Hannibal Buress talking into a microphone against a dark blue background. Altogether he says, “But I was so caught up in the horror of homophobia that for like a minute I lived in a world where Blathers didn’t hate bugs.” /end ID]

two spirit is not a "native version" of anything

its not a "native version of nonbinary" or a "native version of bigender"

thats not what it means, that’s not what it’s ever meant

two spirit is an pan-tribal term coined by indigenous people in 1990, for indigenous people, to replace the term berdache, an offensive term that white settlers applied to indigenous people that fell outside of the western lens of gender and sexuality

two spirit isnt a "native version of nonbinary" because two spirit doesnt inherently mean someone is nonbinary. some of us are, but so many two spirited people arent. many people in our community also choose specifically not to label themselves with terms like nonbinary, gay, bisexual, etc, and solely use two spirit or another term from their tribe or language

we can be anything and everything and nothing you've ever imagined

to say its a "native version of nonbinary" is not just inaccurate, it's a complete erasure of a massive part of our community

I used to pretend to be these guys, I thought they were so cool (cis man here)

Now THIS is allyship

i do not think that he stopped