Bruce's Chalupas

Fine chalupas and other exotic delicacies.

[party-4-1]

“Sometimes, I’m the mess. Sometimes, I’m the broom. On the hardest days, I have to be both.”

— Rudy Francisco (via wordsnquotes)

[longowatchrepair]

[oncelerfucker69-deactivated2019]

my politics summed up

[draw-blog]

CW: Self-harm, mention of self-harm There was a recent uptick in responses to my old comic about being bullied, and I worried readers may be drawing conclusions about what kind of person bullies and what kind of person is bullied based on a pretty limited slice of information. The reality is a lot less tidy than that, at least it was for me.  If you’re hurting because of something that happened in your past, or you’re a young person going through a tough period, I hope you’ll reach out to the people you trust and/or the resources accessible to you. If you’re under 18 and in Canada, I know Kids Help Phone does terrific work. 

[wit-witch]

what men call “logic” is really just a lack of empathy

[blackmodel]

OH TEA

[abandonambition]

Which one is your favorite?

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[jusketuntrunked]

@zooophagous

[northstarfan]

Big love for “Carpe Diem” and “Welcome to Goodbye”.

[elkian]

“Done is Better than Perfect” is so freaking important tbh?? I can’t count the projects - mine and others’ - that I’ve seen get abandoned or run out of time because we focused on editing+perfecting before the frame was complete.

[scaledgrace-deactivated20180210]

I’ve reblogged this before, and I’ll do it again. These wolves are so right.

[theletter27]

@thedragonisaprincess @ocarina-of-what

[paxamericana]

The epidemic began on September 13, 2005, when Blizzard introduced a new raid called Zul’Gurub into the game as part of a new update. Its end boss, Hakkar, could affect players by using a debuff called Corrupted Blood, a disease that damages players over time, this one specifically doing significant damage. The disease could be passed on between any nearby characters, and would kill characters with lower levels in a few seconds, while higher level characters could keep themselves alive. It would disappear as time passed or when the character died. Due to a programming error, players’ pets and minions carried the disease out of the raid.

Non-player characters could contract the disease but were asymptomatic to it and could spread it to others.[2] At least three of the game’s servers were affected. The difficulty in killing Hakkar may have limited the spread of the disease. Discussion forum posters described seeing hundreds of bodies lying in the streets of the towns and cities. Deaths in World of Warcraft are not permanent, as characters are resurrected shortly afterward.[3] However, dying in such a way is disadvantageous to the player’s character and incurs inconvenience.[4]

During the epidemic, normal gameplay was disrupted. Player responses varied but resembled real-world behaviors. Some characters with healing abilities volunteered their services, some lower-level characters who could not help would direct people away from infected areas, some characters would flee to uninfected areas, and some characters attempted to spread the disease to others.[2] Players in the game reacted to the disease as if there was real risk to their well-being.[5] Blizzard Entertainment attempted to institute a voluntary quarantine to stem the disease, but it failed, as some players didn’t take it seriously, while others took advantage of the pandemonium.[2] Despite certain security measures, players overcame them by giving the disease to summonable pets.[6] Blizzard was forced to fix the problem by instituting hard resets of the servers and applying quick fixes.[3]

The major towns and cities were abandoned by the population as panic set in and players rushed to evacuate to the relative safety of the countryside, leaving urban areas filled to the brim with corpses, and the city streets literally white with the bones of the dead.[7]

[gaypet-deactivated20150628]

please read the full wikipedia article

[lesbophobes-deactivated20220907]

Orgrimmar during the incident.

[lyinginbedmon]

This is legitimately one of the most fascinating events in online and/or gaming history to date.

[nerdgerhl]

This post leaves out the most incredible part, which is that the CDC straight up contacted Blizzard and asked for all the data they had on the Corrupted Blood Plague for the purposes of refining their models of epidemic behavior in real human populations. 

[hikikomomo]

Is this a real life thing

[cool-ghoul]

Yup! Scholars still look at it to this day.

[fenderjess]

Corrupted blood will probably always be my favorite gaming story.

[dykespeare-deactivated20181228]

every fall teenage girls are like.. “oh , im gonna enter a place of business and order a product which is offered by that place of business because i like the flavor of it” and honestly? how dare they. that’s so annoying. why can’t they buy the beverage that i, a smart man, would prefer to drink

[godlessondheimite]

szechuan sauce frappe bc the cartoon science man like it

[neurodivergent-crow]

I’m WHEEZING

[meme-mother-deactivated20180327]

[popculturebrain]

Portraits: ‘Stranger Things’ season 2 | Entertainment Weekly

[mediamattersforamerica]

WOW. Watch these 3 minutes from Dallas sportscaster Dale Hansen talking about what Trump doesn’t understand about the national anthem and the right to protest. Compare this to any right-wing media whining and that’s why this is one to remember.

[texnessa]

Dale Hansen is a fucking treasure.  He admitted he was a childhood victim of sexual abuse in the hopes that it would encourage others to come forward and seek help. He has been an ardent supporter of scholar-athletes and of gay players in the NFL and of trans athletes.

“I’m not always comfortable when a man tells me he is gay; I don’t understand his world. But I do understand that he is part of mine.”

[firely]

Life After Trauma 2nd Edition

[unfuckyourhabitat]

Unfuck tomorrow morning

Wash the dishes in your sink

Get your outfit for tomorrow together, including accessories

Set up coffee/tea/breakfast

Make your lunch

Put your keys somewhere obvious

Wash your face and brush your teeth

Take your medication/set out your meds for the morning

Charge your electronics

Pour a little cleaner in the toilet bowl (if you don’t have pets or children or sleepwalking adults)

Set your alarm

Go to bed at a reasonable hour

[twloha]

Therapy costs a pretty penny. And if I’m honest, I expected the sessions to fix me—but they didn’t. I sobbed during the first few; I couldn’t stop. The experience was an odd melancholy release of everything I had been holding inside. And while I have yet to feel ‘fixed,’ I will liken it to someone coming alongside a weary traveler and offering to help carry their bags. It doesn’t make you feel less tired, but it makes your burden more manageable. And it’s the relief of someone else saying, ‘I care that you make it to your destination.’

Courtney Bunting, “The Reality of Therapy” (via twloha)

[suppermariobroth]

In Super Mario Bros. 3, the rock between the path to the first fortress in World 4 and the Spade Panel can be destroyed with a Hammer item, allowing the player to bypass the fortress. There is no obvious indication that this rock is destructible, as it is surrounded by decorative rocks. In fact, many guides for Super Mario Bros. 3 do not mention this shortcut. (Footage recorded by me in a NES emulator.)

[suppermariobroth]

Boo Luigi sleeping in Super Mario Galaxy. (Footage recorded by me from a Wii emulator.)

[pdlcomics]

Squirrel Stores Food

[comicsforever]

Jack Kirby turns 100 today!

One of the most influential and prolific creators of the 20th century would have been 100 years old today. His legacy lives on every character he created and in the hopes he put on every single one of them:  “My characters represent … a kind of transcendent feeling we all have: we can do better. We want to do better. We have time to do better. We can become the people we lionize.”