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ominous-signs

has no one submitted the no parking signs on I-95 just outside of St. Augustine for the 22nd??

Official ominous sign sign sign sign sign sign sign si

#When you click and drag a prop in Roller Coaster Tycoon

best-of-inspirobot

tearlessrain

this is in perfect iambic meter and sounds like the first line of a weird poem

tearlessrain

Rule #2

Don’t ever hug a lobster when you see one on the street,

For decorum is essential when a lobster you must greet.

You may comment on the weather, compliment his choice of hat,

But crustaceans like their space if one should stop them for a chat.

Don’t ever hug a lobster when you’re strolling down the coast,

Simply nod and give a greeting, or a handshake at the most,

For a lobster’s first priority is formal social graces,

And one seemes over-familiar if a lobster one embraces.

Don’t ever hug a lobster when you meet one in the sea,

For a lobster’s spines and chitin make it difficult, you see,

And he might become self-conscious if you bring that fact to light,

So don’t ever hug a lobster, simply put, it’s impolite.

dknightlight

Posting this iconic piece of media that I just NEVER found online isolated except in an archived reddit thread

somethingusefulfromflorida

orteil42

we're overdue for a reactive wave of anti-cozy games. animal crossing but office workers. restaurant management but applebee's. farming sim but all spreadsheets. never see an ear of corn the whole game

lapisamethyst

I can kind of picture an "Animal Crossing but Office Workers" concept.

You load up the game and you enter a nondescript but large floor of office space (the outside of the building is never perceived within gameplay)

You are positioned as a middle manager at Business Corp, your boss is never seen physically and instructs you via a landline phone in your office.

You are tasked with managing a growing roster of employees, arranging this floor of Business Corp with their cubicles and various utility objects like fax machines, water coolers, plastic potted plants, etc.

You can track a projected amount of profit your floor will make each day which gets turned into actual money at the daily reset. This number is affected by things such as how many and what utilities are within a certain distance of each worker's cubicle.

Daily Events largely take the form of penalties to your projected daily profit which need to be resolved by personally interjecting into the affairs of your employees.

You are not in charge of who gets hired to your floor. there is a process to fire people but it requires a multi-day process of interacting with specific paperwork each day.

You can decorate your personal office much in the style of decorating an Animal Crossing room. Most employees will be actively disgruntled if you overdecorate however.

haysey-draws

BREAKING NEWS #5 Let her have a lil rest!

excalibelle

me watching monsters inc as a kid: how did it take so long for anyone to figure out that human child laughter not only produced energy like screams, but was more effective, and that children aren’t actually dangerous at all?

me watching monsters inc now: monsters incorporated, a multi-billion dollar corporate giant, stood to make extra profits off a scream shortage because low supply with high demand makes it possible to charge a fortune for a necessary commodity and everyone has no choice but to pay the high prices because they can’t go without electricity. Therefore Monsters Inc, as well as any other major powers that may have existed at the start of the era of using scream energy, fabricated the idea that only screams could generate sustainable energy sources in order to create artificial scarcity, because laugh energy was far easier to obtain and far more efficient, and therefore stood to lower the value of energy due to surplus. They also fabricated the idea that human children were toxic, in order to a) make other monsters too afraid to go near them to do research and possibly discover the secret of laugh energy, and b) to make monsters so afraid of going near them that there is a shortage of scarers, making it harder for rival companies to rise up and create competition. Even in the monster world, capitalism is based on lies, greed and cruelty, and even monster companies have no qualms about using and abusing children to maximize profits.

left-reminders

lapisamethyst

worth noting within this interpretation how Mike and Sully end up being framed as people who are so passively sure that the status quo is good and that the people in charge have their best interests at heart, even assuming Mr Waternoose will agree with them regarding Randall's plan, up until the exact moment that he turns on them.

And of course within their status at the start of the film they have every incentive to ignore all the warning signs, Sully is the company's top scarer and Mike is his support staff, they're clearly well compensated enough to not feel financially stressed, and at the same time they're directed to focus on competing with Randall over a job performance metric rather than actually think through the longer term implications of the job they're doing.

aroacexuemeng

not the twitter migrants putting "reblog heavy" in their bios on here... like yeah. that's what we do here

doggirlhen

reblog heavy

animusbell

celestia is such a funny character like she's constantly manipulating twilight and friends to do shit instead of just asking and you could arguably frame that as being bc she's a "god" and pushing fate to her design or whatever, except that she engages with the group like a normal and relatable person, which makes it more like villainous machinations, except 90% of this manipulation goes towards things like "I don't want my party to be boring shit again. put my little country girl blorbos in there with zero prep so they fuck it up bad"

animusbell

you think you've fucked anything up around princess celestia and she's like heh. no worries. all according to keikaku

jukashi

Celestia instantly makes more sense as a character when you ignore the princess stuff and remember that she's a 1000+ years old wizard. Of course she does manipulative trickster stuff to teach moral lessons and/or cause chaos to amuse herself, that's classic wizard behavior. Of course sometimes she's actually socially awkward and bad at personal relationships and has bad ideas that she thought were good that result in her eating shit embarrassing style, that's classic wizard behavior. Of course she lets the aristocrats and nobles run around being assholes she's still running on wizard advisor programming, she's basically trying to merlin the entire upper class of equestria instead of just a king and some knights. "Yeah uuhhh we'll release the incarnation of chaos himself from his ancient prison because we think this shy girl can be friends with him", terrible plan if you're thinking like a ruler, amazing plan if you're thinking like a wizard. Just look at Canterlot 'Castle' for five seconds and ask yourself if that's in any way a castle. No. Wizard tower, yes. Wizard.

animusbell

You are so right actually

katnficer

finnbin

I'm fucking crying this means so much to me

kettle-bird

Jackass Jenny #4 (featuring Clyde): Outcast Solidarity

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twiststreet

"The Fencing World Championships will introduce the "Sword Tip Visualization System." This system was developed by Japanese engineers, used at the Tokyo Olympics, and can track and display the sword tip's movement trajectory without any markers." (X)

kangals

Excited for your favorite horsie to run today?

i am soooo excited i can't wait to watch his giant gangly body come steamrolling down the track.

fascinatingly despite sitting at between 20-1 and 15-1 odds for the past week, as of this morning i've seen him at 6-1 and 7-1, which is, well. i don't want to say undeserved, bc i think he's a very cool horse and winning isn't out of the question. but those odds seem very optimistic so i think he's just getting a lot of money due to being such a character. no one can resist the giant shark boy.

lapisamethyst

My understanding of the betting odds is that the field was all over the place due to there not being one standout favorite like the Preakness usually has. If I heard one of the analysts on the NBC coverage correctly, none of the horses entering the race had won a graded race before (and Ocelli hasn't won anything).

So between that, Great White theoretically being better suited for a shorter distance, and some people betting on him as a fan favorite after his stunt at the Derby, Great White's betting odds ended up fairly decent.