I'm Thinkin Tacos.

I'm just a guy playin games, lookin at memes, and thinkin of tacos.

[musashi]

Hey can you guys reblog Cheeseburger so he can take a sunbeam nap on lots of blogs. No other reason I just want you guys to see him.

[musashi]

So, Cheeseburger died on November 21st after an unfairly short battle with an unfairly rare cancer that is rarely seen in cats. I only got to spend a month with him after his diagnosis, and losing him has been the greatest heartbreak of my entire life so far. He was my best friend and my soul cat, and he was there for me when I was completely alone, for twelve long years.

I made this transparent PNG the night he died in preparation for one of the many ways I was going to memorialize him--a surface rug in his likeness that I planned on laying directly in the line of his favourite sunbeam. And I uploaded that PNG here, because this is the website where people post their cats.

I was not expecting the reception I got. Many people have pointed out that this post has more reblogs than likes, and how insane that is in 2025 when reblog culture is at an all time low. I didn't even talk about the fact that Burger passed away in the original post, it wasn't a tearjerker reblog bait or anything like that. People just loved Burger that much, in the same way I fell in love with him at first sight. He was such an ugly kitten.

Anyways, it's really special to me that so many people have reblogged my best friend. I made this PNG to memorialize him in a completely different way, and you all wound up doing just that in ways I never even imagined.

Thank you. Wherever he is, I know the sun is shining.

[miechancomeback]

Father Primarchs ( part 1 )

[cptsalmon]

Rice Shower uses her Secret Assassination Technique

[invictus12]

Error: Bourbon.exe has stopped responding.

[pancakepanties12]

This image really resonates with me….

[werecountingthestars]

Spending a normal part of my day thinking about Star Trek's Universal Translator. Genuinely fascinating technology. Completely underused. WHERE ARE MY "UT STOPPED WORKING, CHAOS ENSUED" EPISODES???!?!!?!!?!?!!

Especially on DS9 with so many cultures, most of which have no reason to know or speak Federation Standard! AAAA WYYY

[werecountingthestars]

Does the UT translate nuances? Can it tell difference between idioms, names and direct meaning? When and why does it decide to not translate a phrase? Usually the character explains what it means afterwards (for the audience) so do they know they didn't translate?

Do kids get a UT? At what age? How does it affect language acquisition?

[werecountingthestars]

Thinking about Quark offering people bribes all the time, about Sisko being insulted every time. Is 'bribe' maybe something highly honorable to offer in Ferengi but it translates negatively in Federation Standard because of cultural values? Is Quark calling Grilka 'something of the highest value he wishes to acquire' an insanely romantic sentiment that gets lost in translation?

[libraflyter]

First: if the concept intrigues go read Lost in Translation (Patching the UT) by sayler_antimony on ao3.

Second: agreed, Quark is absolutely demonstrating Ferengi manners to Sisko and Grilka. Unfortunately, cultural values don’t translate.

Re: Bribes

It’s not the UT’s fault; the literal meaning is very much intended by Quark. Quark was not saying “I am polite and respectful to someone of higher status”. He was saying “person of higher status, I’ll give you stuff so you don’t make my life harder.” To Ferengi, being offered the bribe is very flattering. But it’s got to be backed up with the goods.

If Ferengi culture and language continues to evolve away from pure capitalism, whatever that phrase was might lose the meaning of “bribery is on the table” (as the literal exchange of latinum ceases to be a relevant practice) and instead linger as a polite greeting denoting respect to the addressed. The UT translation matrix would change the translation accordingly.

Point of comparison: English has the word “Goodbye.” We use it when ending a conversation/taking our leave of someone. It came from the phrase “God be with you”. Meaning not just “I acknowledge our parting” but “in my absence, I extend a wish that the divine being of our shared religion blesses you.” That meaning has completely been dropped; it’s a fully secular word now. Trek’s UT wouldn’t translate “goodbye” to include the religious connotation. Trek’s UT would try to offer the religious flavor if it was working on an older form of English. And possibly offending someone who isn’t psyched about being lumped in with this other person’s religion.

[invictus12]

Mustn't forget the TNG episode "Darmok" where it can successfully translate the words of a species' language, but not the meaning attached to the words based upon knowing the stories that the words reference.

[corvid-attano]

Something I don't think will get mentioned all that often but I really like about Wilds is that they establish very sincerely that hunting monsters is always the last resort, to be used only when it is necessary to save lives.

And nothing highlights this more than the way the game handles quests - it requires two people to say yes before you can hunt a monster. You (implicitly: if you dont take down the monster its pretty blatant you didnt sign off on it dying) and Alma, your Handler, who is the one acting on behalf of the guild to give you authorization to hunt a monster.

You're given special permission to use a weapon and to be a Hunter at all, and it will have been ensured that you will do right by the natural world, but you cannot unilaterally decide to hunt a monster, at least in canon quests. You have to have Alma sign off on it too. Every time, she has given you permission on behalf of the Guild, so that when questioned, you can both individually attest to the necessity of disturbing an ecosystem the Guild was not a part of until very recently.

I adore this level of respect - a level that's been true in Monster Hunter the entire time, but put front and center in this game for in my opinion the first time.

[animalcrossingmemes]

[perfectlynormalperson]

[invictus12]

This would probably work on me, actually.

[todaysbat]

[thebewilderer]

THE BATS ARE DOING CALCULUS

I REPEAT: THE BATS ARE DOING CALCULUS

[salamencerobot]

THE BATS CAN ONLY DO CALCULUS IN ONE DIRECTION

[athena-cat-wizard-official]

human brains do calculus too, its how we can locate the direction a sound is coming from.

i mean we also can do calculus consciously, but that's unique to us as far as we know. my point is that the bats are doing it unconsciously, they can't *do calculus*, their brains are automatically integrating data just like any other complex brain.

[butch-witches-deactivated202412]

i saw a bat doing calculus on a whiteboard once so u can go ahead and incorporate that into ur worldview

[technicoloryuri]

I'd prefer to integrate it rather than being derivative

[janmisali]

do you pronounce "gerrymander" like "Gary mander"?

yes

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

unsure

[show results]

Voting ended onJan 18, 2024

[janmisali]

voting block 1 (options 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12): 60.9%, highest option "yes"

voting block 2 (options 2, 10): 39.1%, highest option "no"

looks like "yes" wins!

[aberrantemotion]

I think this better explained gerrymandering better to me than any explanation I've heard

[bryn-irl]

wake up babe new educational meme dropped

[dankmemeuniversity]

[dectech]

preperations for the long journey ahead, friend

[same-pic-rick-roll]

Literally the first post I saw after I logged onto tumblr after a few hours of inactivity.

[yer-a-legend]

Halfway through my dash

[gandalf-the-bean]

also top of my dash

[mysteriaqueen]

this was a bit of a ways down, actually

[invictus12]

A gift of tea from a man like Iroh is a treasured gift indeed.

[princebuffovt]

[invictus12]

"Dad, I'm a man"

"I'll love you no matter what, son"

"I want to be called Oden"

"Get out. Now."

[invictus12]

Something I haven't seen anyone mention about "Empire of Death"...is that Sutekh' goal is to kill all life... and the TARDIS is alive. But when Harriet Arbinger goes into the TARDIS and pulls a lever, the room goes dark, with only the center illuminated by the same red glow as Sutekh's eyes. In my eyes, she's 100% killing the TARDIS right there. In "The Doctor's Wife", we learn that House is able to fly the empty shell of the TARDIS, and I see no reason why Sutekh, as powerful as he is, couldn't do the same.

[queer-as-city-folk]

Which field that influences the appearance of our cities do you have the most respect for

Architects

Urban Planners

Civil Engineers

Specifically Traffic Engineers

Developers (ugh)

Mural Artists

Voting ended onJun 18, 2024

[invictus12]

Slightly biased by my 3 years of University where I studied civil engineering

[system-architect]

my guild wars 2 'take' is that joko is probably the best villain the game ever handed to us. like yeah ok balthazar wanted to take over the world and the dragons wanted to eat the world. whatever. joko was hand crafted by an artisan for the express purpose of being the most irritating possible guy. him and the commander have such a dire fatalistic frenzied dynamic where its like they want to eat each other alive like two overstressed rats in a tiny cage. he is not ONLY cruel and creepy, he is also intensely stupid and furthermore has the gall to get horny about it. if he weren't a shriveled desiccated corpse with a big hat he would be this fandom's emet-selch i think.

[invictus12]

This isn't even factoring in the grudge I(and I'm sure many other gw1 players have) against this dude. He stole my sunspears :(

[daily-prompts]

I need everyone’s best character advice. STAT.

[theidealistcynic-deactivated202]

You're not creating real people, you're creating the illusion of real people. You don't have to mention their favorite food if it doesn't come up, you don't even have to know it, though if they were actual people they'd have one. You can throw plot events at your characters to force them to take certain actions, or you could just rewrite the characters to be the kind of characters who would take those actions anyway. Your characters have a life of their own in their own little world, but don't be afraid to play god to get what you want out of them.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

In the vast majority of cases, a character's strengths and flaws should be the same thing. There are exceptions (you can have a character be clumsy for the lols without needing to find some way that it's an advantage), but for most character traits, the difference between a flaw and a strength is the situation at hand and learning when to indulge it.

[roach-works]

desire is the source of action, so your characters should WANT things. all of them should have something they want that's good for them, something they want that's bad for them, and something that's just a little silly, for spice.

[invictus12]

You'll always put some of yourself into a character, even when you don't mean to. Embrace it. Accept that you're a part of your character, and your character is a part of you.

[notherpuppet]

How the old timey prick got his pet

[notherpuppet]

[thefloralmenace]

Can we boost this one until it reaches the Oklahoma City Tumblrites? This seems like something this website could rally and solve. Help save all this genetic information? I messaged them to offer to consult with the entymology lab near mine to see if they could store the bugs with us, but they are VERY far away and would have to drive long distance to us.