I tried making brownies at midnight and it was a 3 hour affair that ended with shockingly not the first time ive baked sweet soup

Be NICE TO ME

I tried to add frosting and, I have got say, its a thicker consistency than the brownie itself

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…no…

But. It is fully possible that I misread it as a cup and a half and not. Half a cup.

:) here's the post in video format to the song hall of the mountain king

YESSSSSSS THANK YOU @randomgooberness IT IS COMPLETE

ALL of the replies are people going "Mental is hocus, health not pocus" until OP turned off replies, and that is the stuff that keeps my mental hocus healthy and pocused

hate being the generation that remembers no ads on YouTube & the annoyance when we first saw 1 ad every 10 videos, then 1 every 5 videos, then on every video, then multiple ads within a single video, only for YouTube to market paying for Premium™️ to ‘get rid of ads!’ which weren’t even there at the start

I hate being the generation that remembers when I could easily find episodes of anime and whole ass movies on YouTube.

Hate being the generation that remembers when YouTube videos would buffer when you pause them, allowing the entire video to load and let you watch it without interruption even on slow connections.

As a biochem student and certified nerd, I feel the responsibility to bestow this knowledge upon as many people as I possibly can:

You do NOT need to "earn" meals through exercise.

You know why?

Because exercise only accounts for about 20% of your calories. The majority of the calories your body burns, it uses to keep itself alive. It uses them to power your brain and metabolism. In fact, your brain ALONE is responsible for spending about 20% of your calories.

Your BRAIN, just to keep itself going, uses up just as many (or even more!!!) calories than all the exercise you do.

Your RESTING metabolic rate is responsible for burning between 60 and 75% of your calories.

You don't just deserve food because you're working out. YOU DESERVE FOOD BECAUSE YOUR BODY NEEDS IT TO STAY ALIVE.

As a nutritionist, I confirm this is true

I never thought about the fact that some people don't know this, but some people's ideas about nutrition make sense now.

What I learned was that for the average person, it takes 1300 kcal a day just to run your organs. The breathing and digesting and thinking and stuff is what's using most of the fuel.

you are a VERY complex organism. get enough fuel to keep existing pls

I love my friends I love my friends they deserve the world and everything I hope that both sides of their pillow are the desired temperature I hope a meal they eat next makes them feel happy. I hope they get to see their favorite movie or play their favorite video game. I hope they are filled with happiness and joy.

“Sorry we missed our exceptionally high tree-planting target, the global pandemic that’s devastated every corner of the world got in the way”

BBC are the propaganda arm of the British government and they’re fucking dreadful.

“Only managed” 90% bruh they basically did it

In 2019-2020 Scotland "only" planted 10,860 hectares. England planted 2,330; Northern Ireland 200; Wales 80.

So, over 80% of new planting in the UK took place here in Scotland and the BBC criticise us?

"dont do kink in public!!" do you WANT those bitches who host taskmaster to lose their jobs?????

i love characters that are just a cunt. no redeeming characteristics. just there to stir shit up and scheme. cause a ruckus. get on everyone's nerves.

Just thinking about Rimmer refusing to shut himself off in White Hole, and then thinking he should shut himself off in TPL 🥲

the idle fantasizer has fallen victim to another reverie

I'm watching Lemons (skipped the first two episodes of X because I saw them a couple weeks ago) for the first time

I wasn't expecting Lister and Rimmer to be so... soft???? with eachother? It feels like there's so much less bite in their words than there used to be; especially for Rimmer. Rimmer now says "Listy" like it's the most natural thing ever. He only used to say it when he was being a smug git, but now it's just an affectionate pet name and no one bats an eyelid.

Also the fact that Rimmer is allowing Kryten to do operations on Lister now is weirdly wholesome? Lmfao. He knows that Lister would never agree to these operations or check ups if he knew, and it's not like Rimmer gets any benefit from saying yes. Maybe you could argue that it brings Rimmer peace because it stops Lister from whining about the stomach aches or whatever, but I don't think that's it. I was gonna write about this but now it's turning into a short fic so maybe I'll post that separately lol

ANYWAY I CAN'T COPE WITH THEM, THEY'RE SUCH AN OLD MARRIED COUPLE

Gandhi has been historically the most aggressive character in Civilization due to an original bug in the first game that caused him to go all-out once he reaches democracy. They just kept the thing going ever since.

To further explain this bug, because I was chatting with mothmonarch about Civilization and other strategy games last night and I never got around to explaining this fully, but I love this story:

Gandhi’s AI in the original game had its aggression set to the absolute minimum (0 on a scale of 0 to 10, I believe, I may have this wrong but the basic idea I’m about to explain is accurate, as far as I can tell). Adopting democracy lowers an AI civ’s aggression by 2 points, so when someone who is fully peaceful loses two points of aggression, they should still be nice and polite, right?

Except this is an old DOS game, and so computer math is in place. What actually happened was that Gandhi’s aggression level ticked backwards two steps, from 0 to 255. On a scale of 0 to 10, Gandhi is now 255 points of pure nuclear rage.

And that’s the story as I recall it, but again I may have gotten some details wrong, so feel free to correct me! After that, as the original poster said, the devs loved the bug so much that they just kept it in as a running joke!

“On a scale of 0 to 10, Gandhi is now 255 points of pure nuclear rage.” I about pissed myself laughing at this.

early homo sapiens b like help i cant stop making bowls . help i cant stop domesticating plants and animals. help i cant stop developing language and architecture and religion

ok im obsessed w this tag

once in grade 6 I saw a 'pottery making club' in a ditch on the schoolyard- I assume at some point someone realized there was actually good quality clay in the ditch and when I walked up there were about a dozen 12 year olds sitting around the few girls who had brought their water bottles out to mix the clay, and a designated spot to put the finished bowls and tablets, and people going off and collecting sticks to make designs with and i really think that's the natural state of the human race

In elementary school I learned that you can make paint out of certain sedimentary rocks on the playground if you crushed them and mixed with water and at one point I had up to 25 kindergarten through third graders making cave paintings on the underside of the slides

The nature of man is such that every so often, someone recreates the neolithic era.

Yeah, every recess

never in all of my years would i have expected to characterize a company’s rebrand as “actively hostile” and “potentially endangering lives” yet here we are

for context, that X sign is dangerously bright, directly faces an entire apartment complex, and to top it all off it fucking strobes

Once again its 3am and this washing machine wizard haunts me

never actually blank

i have been talkin on this alot during my book tour but wanted to put words here for any buckaroos trottin around the internet.

questions chuck gets asked in signings or Q AND A sessions have WIDE VARIETY in their way, but theme that comes up over and over is: 'i wish i was a creator but i cannot find success in this way' or 'i wish i was a creator but my mind is blocked'

bud, you ARE a creator. we are all HERE TO CREATE it is our natural state of being. we cannot help but create.

buds might say: 'but i have not painted in months i have no inspiration left'

as far as chuck is concerned this is missing the incredible vastness of what CREATION is and what ART is. the art of a painting is not just about oil on canvas. it does not end at the border or the frame. the ART and the CREATION is so much more than that and sometimes we can numb ourselves to this way. the months spent pining for inspiration are just as important as the brush you pick. what you had for breakfast that day is just as important as the colors and hues. every misstep or big win along the way IS THE ARTWORK.

your art is not just your painting, it is the mixed media piece called your life. you are creating thoughts and ideas and dreams. in a physical sense you are creating heartbeats and breaths and even words vibrating through the air saying 'i cant think of anything to paint'

BUD THESE ARE ALL VALID PIECES and together they make something incredible and unique and POWERFUL. how deeply moving it is to exist here on this timeline, adding yourself to the even LARGER piece that we are all constructing together as we push back against the empty spaces and fill the cosmic void with our love.

so do not be discouraged by writers block or a blank canvas. a canvas is never actually blank and you are writing with every moment that you trot through.

i cannot speak for YOU, but whenever i let the artwork of this timeline flow around me, the more my specific pieces like writing or drawing come into focus.

bud you are building a masterpiece with every second of your life, sometimes tragic and sometimes glorious. just gotta step back a bit and give it a look

Everyone I Like Should Live Within A Five Mile Radius Of Me

how do people get through their lives without thinking about fiction during their every waking hour