there's not enough "tee hee" in the world

alabaster | gender is an illusion and any pronouns you give me i will find funny | what is there to say anyways

[molabuddy]

really specific trope i like that i feel like can only be explained in a diagram

[gravityjunior]

Starting a collection

[kleinergeist]

You don't even need to study for the Rorschach test, btw, it's super easy. All they do is show you a bunch of stupid pictures of your dad getting eaten by a horse

[hermann-rorschach]

Do not share the answers with your classmates.

[kleinergeist]

Yes Dr Rorschach

Sorry Dr Rorschach

[kuuderecatgirl]

you know apparently you're not supposed to give kittens and cats saucers of milk? yeah what you're actually supposed to give them is 1-2 Modelo tall boys. easy mistake to make, happens to the best of us.

[catboybiologist]

Ice beam is low-key a sauceless "standard" move for its type

[catboybiologist]

Earthquake? That is THE ground move. The ground quakes beneath you.

Surf? A giant wave of water that your pokemon can ride. A thunderous tide. Invokes the ocean.

Thunderbolt? Arcing flashes of electricity zap you.

Flamethrower? Fire breath, fire throwing, an arc of propelled flame is classic.

Ice beam? It's a beam. Of ice. Could've been a gust of frigid wind, or a frost incursion, or being entombed in a glacial slab, but noooooo it's a beam. Of ice.

[kittycatwhore]

yes but it goes foowaaaa ting ting ting ting ting ting and i really like that part

[catboybiologist]

Fuck you're right post cancelled

[probablyasocialecologist]

Study finds nearly every pre-2010 video game is unavailable

Games from older consoles are being made less and less available to the point so much of the industry's history could easily vanish without

[gay-jesus-probably]

Vimm's Lair: Preserving the Classics

Preserving classic videogames from consoles past.

I'm just gonna slide this on in here for anyone that is interested in preserving old games. They take it very seriously too, they want an archive of every single game. Like, they have lists of every game ever released for a system, and once that system gets old enough, they add it to their archive and start collecting. Their latest addition was the Xbox 360, they opened that vault up in September 2022, and proudly announced they'd finished their collection of games for it back in April.

Also, while their game archives are almost entirely complete, they've got another project of archiving the manuals that came with those games, and that is... considerably less well filled out. Their collection of Xbox 360 manuals is especially rough, they've only gotten manuals for three games. So if you've got some Xbox 360 games kicking around, and the manual's still with them, please consider scanning them and submitting them to the site!

Game preservation is important, but people rarely consider preserving the manuals as well; I really respect Vimm's Lair for being so thorough in their archival work.

[anachronic-cobra]

I've been using Vimm's Lair for years, I have yet to see a single bad link or virus on the entire site. It's arguably the safest and most comprehensive archive of video games in existence. Preserved history

[a-book-of-creatures]

Drop quiz! What’s wrong with this stamp?

[a-book-of-creatures]

Trick question! There’s absolutely nothing wrong with this stamp. But when it came out in 1865 collectors sneered at it, referring to it as “the seal with feet” and relegating it to the bin of Stupid Stamp Mistakes.

Except for the fact that, yes, seals like the harp seal on the stamp do have feet with claws. See for yourselves.

Apparently Wikipedia didn’t exist in 1865, and neither did physical encyclopedias either.

At any rate the Canadian postal service was sufficiently cowed to re-release the stamp in 1880, with the offending paws tucked in and out of sight.

No more claws for alarm.

PS: the 1865 original goes for up to $400-$500. How’s that for a last laugh?

Reference: https://www.linns.com/news/us-stamps-postal-history/2014/april/lack-of-zeal-for-1865-newfoundland-seal-led-to-des.html

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[birds-in-posts]

Goldcrest (Regulus regulus)

[himejoshi-doll]

[jewish-joy]

Last year, I befriended a Catholic seminarian. We've gotten to be pretty decent friends. Seeing as he was staying in town for the summer and I wasn't, I entrusted him with caring for my plant.

He did a wonderful job, but as he was returning my plant to my custody, he explained "I watered her every other day, I gave her new dirt, moved her into the sunshine, prayed the rosary-"

"What?"

He looked at me, confused. "Isn't she a plant you pray with?"

"No," I said slowly. "She's a prayer plant. That's the... colloquial name of the plant."

Upon seeing his stricken face, I realized something went wrong. Turns out, this entire time, he's been including my plant in on his prayers and leaving her near icons.

Listen, totally cool. My plant becoming Catholic is a great deal for her not dying over the summer. But now I must navigate this interfaith household. Keep me in your thoughts.

[lakevida]

the menstrual cup and menstrual scepter

[tragbarerpanzrabwehrkomplexfagot]

[nick-nonya]

[anh3-donia]

insane goodwill pickup

[mclennonyaoi]

?

[mclennonyaoi]

who do you think was the first person to say “ok now let’s dress it up”

[zxid]

collection

[fishlung8877]

[ask-pacman]

Man Im sorry for snapping at you , uts just that I only got 8 hours of sleep last night and I only had like, two pandcakes with strawberrys and whipped cream and like three premium sausags for breakfast