Ari's Repository of Mind-Expanding Discoveries

I found these things and I thought you might like them.

[invisiblefoxfire]

Love having a new wave of bots come in just as I start getting new followers after a surprisingly popular post. HERE IS YOUR REMINDER:

When you get a bot follower (untitled blog, default header, usually a default icon or photo of a woman as the avatar), be sure to report it as a bot! If you don't, they will, after a certain amount of time has passed, start using your blog to legitimize scams.

If you are following ME and your profile looks like a bot (see above), I will IMMEDIATELY report you as a bot and block you. I do not care how many likes you have. I'm too busy to investigate every rando who follows me.

Don't want to get blocked and reported? EASY! Just change your blog title to something human-sounding like "NOT A BOT!", change your icon and header to any image aside from the bot-style ones, and make an original post. Literally ANY post. Literally "I am not a bot, please don't block me!" Pin it if you're reblogging things. DONE. It is VERY simple and if you're not willing to put in the effort, you will be blocked and reported.

Side note that likes do nothing on tumblr to make a post more visible, so you should be reblogging things anyway, not just liking them. That is the ONLY way a post gets more visibility.

[lesvegas]

[lesvegas]

Ok I think this might be funnier with context actually. This is a review for a strip club in Toronto.

[depsidase]

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

People will be so mean to teenagers do you literally not remember what it was like to be sixteen. Every time I talk to a teenager I feel I should hold their hands and tell them I think they're one of the bravest people on the planet just for choosing to endure but I don't because I don't want to be creepy.

[depsidase]

[b0rtney]

Had a friend express worry that Eliot Spencer gets injured so often in leverage and I had to reassure them: no no. U dont get it his old job was "getting the shit beat out of you constantly for the sake of people who dont care if u live or die," and then afterward he had to drag himself home, patch himself up, and do it all over again tomorrow. NOW he gets minor cuts and bruises (usually), and the moment the job is done his whole clingy crime family gets to go "oh that looks like it hurts let's get you some bacitracin and bruise cream!! Do you wanna cook dinner to feel better?" And then they all make sure he is never in any true mortal danger and he always gets a say in what he does for the job. This is like a working dog who got house privileges and now enjoys fat naps in front of the fire and fancy wet food after his long day guarding the flock. Hes doing great actually.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I remember during puberty talk in 6th grade they handed out permission slips for parents to sign if they didn’t want their kids getting sex ed and like five students ended up having to wait in the library while the rest of us learned about puberty and health stuff.

Afterwards during lunch recess almost everyone in class spent our time telling those five kids what we learned and showing them our handouts.

[flipocrite]

This, on its own, would still suffice to explain why comprehensive sex ed invaluable. Teens and preteens are going to educate themselves, one way or another. They will do so with the handouts and knowledge given to them by the public school curriculum, or with strangers who find them on the internet. The idea of “my child would never disobey me so they don’t need sex ed” is pure authoritarian parent fantasy, complete with the subtext of “cervical cancer is a fitting punishment for disobedience”.

[mcromwell]

[effinbirds]

[thepoisonroom]

literally so important to have friends where you can be like "can i be insane for a second" and then you get to be insane. and they still like you afterwards

[prokopetz]

Metroidvania where you start out with a fuckton of hit points, but each upgrade you collect reduces your maximum HP because you're "binding your power to it" or whatever; most upgrades are technically optional, but if you want to 100% clear the game you need to do the entire final boss gauntlet with 1 HP.

[prokopetz]

(For bonus points, design said final boss guantlet in such a way that it goes enormously faster if you're able to damage tank, so each upgrade you don't collect saves extra time right at the end of the run. See if you can contrive for the optimal any% route to be identical to low%.)

[wintercorrybriea]

terra projectum leather armor jacket and waxed denim

[iconuk01]

Posts claim photos show Sean Connery and Thomas Brodie-Sangster at age 34. They're almost right

Connery was actually a several months younger than Brodie-Sangster in the photos, based on evidence.

Okay, that's just... unsettling

Snopes checked into the claim that these photos show actors Sean Connery and Thomas Brodie-Sangster when they were both aged 34

They've classed it as "Mostly True".... but not totally true, because whilst Brodie-Sangster IS 34 in that photo, Connery was only 33 in his!

[moshroom]

he had to jump in the ballpit to cool off after getting all airplane ears over a treat puzzle that proved a little too advanced

[moshroom]

he's done this a few times now. the ball pit actively soothes him when he gets mad over puzzles. i could learn something from this

[moshroom]

[labelleizzy]

[zipstick]

it should be mandatory for every pc game that has absurdly high resolution graphics and monstrously large filesizes to have a "dogshit version" that you can play on any old pc cause i've had it up to here with getting excited for games only to discover that my laptop doesn't meet the minimum system requirements and i will never be able to play them. i don't care how realistically the windows reflect light. i don't need to be able to distinguish every available hair on the player character's head. i just want to play viddy game :(

[tomb-mold]

THE IMMORTAL

about 9 months & 38,340 stitches later, i have finished this screenshot of a 1990 sega genesis game lmfao

[invisiblefoxfire]

@primitivedisaster