Fugitive From A Wisteria-Filled Land

[louceph]

[doumyakutosi]

260803白化構造物

[kathrynhoward]

the time travel agency seamstress (that one Tumblr post) |  Karolina Żebrowska

[feletida]

any game a nwah

[toffee32]

larger than life

[slimetony]

My doctor insists i cant eat clown food and that its bad for me

[dezposts]

What even is clown food?

[slimetony]

The food that they feed clowns to keep them docile and colorful

[faggotfungus]

[girldraki]

kind of harmonically beautiful

[funky-insanitear]

[lastoneout]

this is my entire stance on the "american food is bad" discourse summed up

[thebeatleshermajestydotmp3]

Listen man, its a work week, you just got done your shift at the dollar store, youre in a rural area and the local waffle house is a 35 minute drive away and driving from the waffle house back home will be another 45 minutes, so what youre gonna do is youre gonna pick these four bad boys up from the dry goods aisle, drive home, cook some Carolina long grain rice with a little bouillon cube stirred into the cooking water, and in a separate skillet, youre gonna add a tsp of veggie oil or if youre lucky some butter and cook down some of that garlic. Then add a little extra oil and if you have spinach or any hearty greens, youre gonna throw them in your skillet with some salt and cook them down, if not thats okay. But youre also gonna transfer your rice from the pot into the skillet with your garlic (and veggies if youre lucky) and stirfry that rice for a minute or so. The bouillon cube didnt quite season your rice to your liking, so youre gonna throw a little extra pinch of salt. Perfect. Then youre gonna turn off the flame and add parmesan to taste. You take a look in your fridge and you see that you have a little parsley left from the last time you were able to clock out early enough to stop in at the local Food Lion and its still in good condition. Youre gonna wash that parsley, dry it, give it a quick chop, and finish your fake risotto with it and a couple splashes of lemon juice.

You have some rice left over so you know whats for dinner tomorrow night and you can sleep soundly. Country girls make fucking do.

[lastoneout]

Peer reviewing bcs prev knocks it outta the fucking park.

[tinyyellowflowers-blog]

Was talking to a coworker today who explained that her grandfather was like Snow White “but Californian. And an old man.” in that the creatures of the forest would follow him around and presumably duet with him.

“When he died the ravens sat in the trees outside for a week, watching. Taking turns. A horde of raccoons tried to break into the house every night, tearing at the siding. Eventually they gave up, but it was unsettling.”

“Aww. They were checking on him!” I said, like a normal person. Internally, I thought “Maybe you could do the thing you do with dead pets, where you show them to the living pets so the living pet understands they’re gone. But I guess if you did that to a bunch of scavenging species, they’d be like “Well, that’s very sad but he IS food now.” So what you’d need, for human sensibilities, is some sort of transparent corpse barrier. Like a see-through coffin oh that’s what the dwarves were doing! You’ve stopped paying attention to this conversation about the loss of a beloved family member you gotta phase back in.”

[sun-ni-day]

oh that's what the dwarves were doing

[cloudabserk]

i know adrian is widely headcanoned as green. but they could really be any color

[savaralyn2]

Dungeon Meshi Cookbook - The Process.

[askagamedev]

Thoughts on EA's CEO getting a pay raise even as EA is doing massive layoffs, including at DICE after Battlefield 6 outsold last year's Call of Duty?

From the outside looking in, the situation looks bad, especially to the layman. However, that's not a good perspective because we're really only be looking at one game in EA's entire catalogue and not the larger perspective of the whole company. EA's overall situation is much more than the performance of a single game.

First, these two events are actually completely unrelated. Wilson didn't get a pay raise, he got his annual payout for doing his job and getting EA to hit the targets they aimed for at the beginning of the fiscal year. The majority of that compensation (~74%) is in Restricted Stock Units, which basically can't be sold for another several years and even then only under certain conditions. He can borrow against it and go into debt, but he likely can't actually sell any of it until 2030 at earliest. The main reason the amount looks so high is because Wilson gets paid mostly in stock shares and EA's stock price is juiced due to the impending deal to go private with the Saudi consortium. If/when the buyout happens, he and everyone else who holds stock will get all of their shares converted to cash at the strike price ($210 per share).

Second, the greater situation with EA is that they cannot continue operating the way they have been, even if they've been doing really well. They are 100% going into cost-cutting mode because of this buyout. Currently, EA is carrying about $1.5 billion in debt. At today's interest rate of ~7.5%, that's around $112 million annually paid in interest to keep afloat. This isn't too bad right now - EA currently earns around $2-2.3 billion annually, so paying $112 million annually for the interest rate isn't too bad since they earn so much more than they have to pay.

The buyout is going to leave EA with roughly $20 billion in debt, which means that EA is going to have to pay $1.5 billion every year just to keep the debt from growing. In order for that to happen, they need to cut a lot of costs and cancel projects until they can get their finances in order. This cuts their $1.9-2.2 billion cash flow to roughly 1/3 of what it was, leaving them significantly less wiggle room. This is why they are cutting costs so aggressively - the lower performers and riskier future bets are being cut company-wide in order to better service the massive debt they're taking on.

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[alolantrubbish]

Memory from when Mercury was still a magnamite and Gumpy didn't quite understand that he was a living thing

[victusinveritas]

Comic by Boldjun.

[alamuts-lair-of-madness]

The Magic School Bus is Arnold's very own personal hell.

[victusinveritas]

Hell is other schoolchildren.

[flork-of-cows-official]

How do you think it would go down if Trayzyn the Infinite decided he wanted to collect the Golden Throne?

[danatron1]

Hi real quick does anyone have the cat gif that goes like this

[sir-josh-of-art-deactivated2024]

Found and saved one from this very hellsite:

[virtuevistavalley]

You're lying to me. That's a squid