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@fungustober
I couldn't be a cop for, y'know, the obvious reasons, but also because if I ever was in charge of telling a suspect where to go (like, "turn and walk back toward me... now take a step to the right") I would be tempted to call out "now slide to the left"
Can you imagine being Gandalf? Getting shit from other wizards because you have a thing for hobbits and you're just like, okay. Okay, maybe I'll temper my fascination with hobbits.
This Ring quest will have two hobbits. Maximum.
Then they all get to Rivendell and have somehow multiplied into four hobbits. And it's like. Okay. Maybe the others are right.
Maybe this is too many hobbits.
We have as many hobbits as we have not-hobbits.
But damn it, you just don't want to get rid of any of these hobbits. Screw it! Everyone can deal. Four hobbits. This is a four hobbits problem.
So away you go.
And things go bad in the worst possible way.
Over and over.
You've lost your hobbits. You've lost yourself. The fellowship has been separated.
It takes everything in your power to help the humans defend themselves, bringing them together to save Rohan. Finally, as things begin to look upright, you're ready to face the war with everything the Rohirrim have left.
You're ready to face him. This may be the hardest battle you've ever fought. But you ride.
Then you get there and two of your fucking hobbits are sitting there like "Yeah, while you were gone, we raised a tree army and beat Saruman's ass. Wanna help us loot his tower?"
....
There were not, in fact, too many hobbits.
This was a four hobbits problem.
Maiar forbid we ever see a five hobbits problem
I don't remember why this exists but someone in a discord server (who goes by the name of Roo) made this at my request and every once in a while I'm jumpscared by Obama Windex and I love it
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I don't remember why this exists but someone in a discord server (who goes by the name of Roo) made this at my request and every once in a while I'm jumpscared by Obama Windex and I love it
So I made this and have no idea if I did a good job or not because it's impossible to judge your own work but this song took me by the hand and led me down the rosy path of inspiration and I actually edited the video out twice because clipchamp sucks and DaVinci Resolve is borne down to earth on the wings of angels.
Shoutout to the Kraffts for shooting some of the best volcano footage ever, even though it's been well over 30 years since they left this world.
This is the volcanologist's love song, and for me that means Maurice and Katja Krafft. I have listened to the song, like, 100+ times while editing this video and it has not gotten old.
the 'a' key on my falling-apart laptop keyboard started working again. I excitedly told this to one of my discord servers, and noted that I've been just copy-pasting the letter 'a' in whenever I needed it and had to be reminded that this is completely insane behavior
Chat is this anything?
plural self-help book called "Plurality & You (& You & You & You & You & You & ...)"
Clanker? Well, I barely know 'er, but hell, why not?
Had some fun with color schemes recently. The first image is in the RGB color space, and the second image is in the CMYK color space.
"They are also not paying the workers enough and are working them too hard. Workers tend to "slack off" when they don’t feel appreciated. The argument against this is that the prices would be too high. I don't believe it. Someone somewhere would just maybe have to drive their own Mercedes instead of being chauferred (sic) in a limo."
-Anonymous participant in a study of how emergency workers dealt with the crash of United Flight 232, which occurred July 19th, 1989
every moral problem in america is like "would you pull the lever so the trolley runs over the one person instead of the five" and then never asks why people keep getting tied to the tracks
just finished reading There Is No Antimemetics Division via a reading flowstate the likes of which I have not experienced since middle school. I shit you not, there is a set of paragraphs in the book that is essentially just the previous post but worded way better and not presented as a joke. Something something great minds think alike
Plesiosaurus by Doug Henderson
hey tumblr, can you charge a demon rent if you get possessed by them? asking for a friend
i wish every "retired mech pilot who longs for combat" a very "plug your unremovable neural implant into a cv channel on an analog synth and play notes with your mind and compose beautiful symphonies"
"nooooo you can't do that! you're supposed to be traumatized with no outlet for the feelings of disconnection from part of your body forever lost to you!"
heehee :3
Fly high. It's a pity that your story hasn't been told as often as it should be. But there are those of us who have dedicated ourselves to ensuring disasters are not forgotten, and as long as I live I will do my best to make sure these things are remembered.
NEW FISH JUST DROPPED
I KNOW that playing God is morally wrong, but holy HELL, it looks fun.
Why is it playing God? We aren’t violating any natural laws. God set the parameters of the universe to allow these things. There’s nothing wrong with it, there’s no hubris in learning more about how to manipulate the universe around us.
We made a whole-ass fish.
The reason this was accidental BTW is because they used paddlefish eggs as a negative control group for a breeding experiment on sturgeons because the scientists, quite naturally, assumed that they were SO unrelated it would be genetically impossible for them to mate. Like. I cannot stress enough to you how these creatures last related ancestors were
140 MILLION YEARS BACK.
If you don't know how far that is, that's basically the start of the cretaceous. Let me simplify that for you even further. Chimpanzees and humans seperated, what, 5 or 6 million years ago?
This is basically like if humans could hybridise with THESE THINGS.
This is the sort of thing that should be impossible. They used those eggs to be ABSOLUTELY 100% SURE NOTHING WOULD HAPPEN.
And then THEY GOT FISH OUT OF IT.
Like. You can quite clearly understand why they didn't think anything would happen. WE ARE MORE RELATED TO BLUE WHALES THAN THESE THINGS.
THE AMERICAN PADDLEFISH AND THE STURGEON ARE SO COMPLETELY UNRELATED THAT THIS IS NOT PLAYING GOD. IF ANYTHING THIS IS AN ACT OF GOD.
THE SCIENTISTS HAD NO BLAME IN THIS BECAUSE NOTHING LIKE THIS HAD EVER HAPPENED BEFORE
It sort of goes against the rules of genetics a bit.
Oh i forgot to add
THESE THINGS, FOR HYBRIDS, HAD A REALLY HIGH SURVIVAL RATING. LIKE 70% OF THEM SURVIVED.
To put that into perspective, getting a blue whale and a squirrel and trying to hybridise them is more sensible, and that wouldn't produce anything but getting you banned from science. Most animals that aren't plants can barely hybridise two degrees away from each other.
BUT THESE TWO ENTIRELY UNRELATED FISH create PERFECTLY HEALTHY HYBRIDS.
the scientists literally had to do the tests AGAIN just to be like "okay this is real right. This is actually like, not a fluke, this works right" and it worked again. They just Can!
So for those who don't know what the original fishes look like, this is an American Paddlefish:
And this is a Russian Sturgeon:
So honestly, saying the hybrid is "weird looking" is a bit fort de café when you see its parents. I think the sturddlefish looks cute.
"these creatures last related ancestors were 140 million years back"
(glances at fish)
Yeah that's exactly what I thought you'd look like, you Mesozoic fuck
#Holding a red squirrel in my left hand and a blue whale in my right desperately hoping to make a purple squale (via @dykepuffs)
placental mammals (eutheria) diverged from marsupials around 100 million years ago. whales and squirrels (rodents at least), being both placental animals, would have diverged at or after that time, meaning sturgeon and paddlefish still have 40 million years more separation.
before the sturddlefish, a purple squale would have seemed more likely- and since that's ridiculous and obviously no one would think that's possible except as a joke, that should speak to HOW impossible this situation seemed, and why they thought obviously this will be perfectly fine. If you took squirrel eggs (the gamete) and tried to use whale sperm to fertilize them, you could reasonably expect that to not work. That should be a good control. The eggs would definitely not actually be fertilized, and even if sperm somehow made it into the egg and some kind of development started, you would expect them to not make it to term and definitely not make a whole ass new animal that's perfectly fine actually.
And yet there is a purple squale in your fish tank, in fact there's like 100 of them and everyone is saying you played god but this was not what should have gone down, this was never the plan. This isn't you playing god, you think, this is god having a laugh at your expense.
