absolutely not

the pettiest whomst in all of your groups

[lasersquid]

Whenever I think up a scenario for a story, part of my process includes the question 'Would Wes Craven find this scary?'

Anyway, this is the first good trolley problem in a while.

[homunculus-argument]

If Ratatouille mechanics were real, there would be a whole market of businesses offering the services of operating rats to people who want them, and it'd be like how bees produce honey. People in the rat business would be so exhausted of having to explain over and over again that no, the rats aren't being exploited. If the rats didn't like how they're being treated, they would simply not return. There's no goddamn way to force a rat to be so passionate about playing the saxophone that they'll figure out how to puppeteer a human to do it for them. All that the business does is finding a way to put that specific rat in the hair of someone who's about to go on stage.

[terrie01]

The rats 100% think the businesses are being run for their benefit and worry about the humans being exploited.

[homunculus-argument]

A rat manager who is a rat and deals on their end of the deal is exhausted of having to explain over and over again that look, an average fully grown adult human being is like 200 times your weight, their hands are very fast and they can throw things better than you want to imagine. If one of them things didn't want you in their hair, you're not going to stay there for long. You'd be yote out the window in two seconds flat.

[kevytmaitohorsma]

Reblog this photo of a käpylehmä to have a käpylehmä in your blog

It's a trick! If you reblog you get TWO käpylehmäs in your blog!

[kevytmaitohorsma]

They're traditional Finnish toys, little cows made out of spruce cones, on their way to see the world from one tumblr blog to another

[terpsikeraunos]

ancient greek word of the day: κακοθερής (kakotherēs), unfitted to endure summer heat

[aphilologicalbatman-deactivated]

this literally means “bad at summer” pass it on

[zipstick]

Reblog if you, too, are bad at summer

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[godtrauma]

the man who owns and runs the thai restaurant in my town knows me by name. he is one of the kindest and most thoughtful men i know. i started ordering from his place back in january, which was when i got my fibromyalgia diagnosis. back then i was using a walker, had limited mobility in my entire body but especially my hands, and was very visibly in pain. i always ordered the same thing: yellow curry with no meat, potatoes and carrots only (i have texture and other dietary issues). he always made it a point to make sure i could get out the door and carry the food safely. he had his workers package the food so that it was easier for me to open. as i kept coming back and i told him a little bit about my health status, he would always encourage me to keep going. he told me about how the spices he used were good for inflammation and began to edit the recipe just for me so that spices that were even better for fighting inflammation were used. he’d give me extra portions and despite the fact that i would tip every time, i realized later that he never charged my card for them. as time went on and my condition began to get better, especially with the help of a physical therapist, he would make encouraging remarks and tell me how happy he was for me. the day i came in without my walker, he practically jumped for joy, and despite my insistence, he gave me my meal for free that day. i continue to make progress with my conditions and i continue to go to the thai place. this man who does not know me personally and who i hardly know anything about is one of my favorite people. it’s interactions with humans like these that make loving life easier. and his curry really does help my chronic condition. it’s comfort food taken to the next level.

this is what love looks like

[lasersquid]

if failbetter games doesn't fix that garish and comically large number that shows up on the opportunity deck now in fallen london, someone should make a plugin that disables it. but also and to be clear this is a different attack on this practice and not a defense of it in the slightest but it seems weird that there's no indicator for just one card. like if adding the number was dumb, not having a number for one card is stupid and dumb. i don't think anyone was confused about the opportunity deck situation at any point after the first day or so, and things were very clearly labeled before, but the one situation where the number of cards you have left in the deck is unclear is the one situation where if you needed additional indications to prevent you from making a mistake and drawing a card when you don't want to, they are not provided. were i worried people don't know how to count to six or ten, i would simply cover all of the possible integer numbers from one to ten, as well as zero. the implementation makes clear that the intent was not. that's intrinsically poor game design.

this is probably the only ui design element i have ever complained about in fallen london because it's just so comically unnecessary and you know what i'm going to say it: hack. it's hack, okay? it's such a great game and this is such a little thing but it mars the whole vibe. you put a turd on a bright brass ring. you might as well have written it in orange crayon. infinity sign different sized in the opposite corner. throw a timer in there too. maybe start showing rewards on the cards with a ludicrously large icon in the lower left. how about an emoji telling me if the card is good or bad in the upper right. don't do those things either. fix the deck.

[cecut]

what do red pandas even do

[cecut]

I MEANT AS SELF DEFENSE STOP THE HATRED im sorry red pandas

[sokkalore]

does this answer your question

[crit20lesbian]

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[lasersquid]

girl i got ten eels ten squids ten marine iguanas and twenty-one lamp cats i don't got troubled waters, troubled waters got me

[lasersquid]

My demon told me law furnaces keep eating his fallen london player characters so I asked how many fallen london player characters he has and he said he just goes to new newgate prison and gets a new fallen london player character afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding fallen london player characters to law furnaces and then his imp started crying.

[lasersquid]

[looks around]

all hands action stations, rig to repel boarders, helm set course absolutely-not degrees, mister nitwit get DOWN from there, engineering officer confirm flank speed, zignalman flash message to criminal air patrol, message reads TIGHTWIRE, confirm.

[growls]

deploy lamp-cats

[lasersquid]

getting thrown out of the razaär for getting in a fight with merry gun because i bought 5000 map scraps but i only needed 4978. what do you mean no returns it's not like i'm trying to buy one egg. you scoop them out of a BARREL.

[lasersquid]

babe wake up it's explosionfest in fallen london

[lasersquid]

i like to think this is where the endless shrimp come from

[lasersquid]

this should be an option for everything at all times

[lavendertoastmoth]

reblog to deploy lamp-cats

[lasersquid]

babe wake up it's explosionfest in fallen london

[lasersquid]

i guess my only issue with this event, and i don't actually think it's an issue, like i agree that the mechanics have to be the way, it's just like this, is that the first difficulty is fine for babyzailors, and the middle one is extremely doable and fun for players sort of midrailroad/evolution/roove, but the hardest one can very easily be insane even if you have every single piece of zeefaring gear that exists. like sure you can manage your troubled waters but sometimes the cards suck and you get there with like a 4 on the explodometer because you had to eat 2-3 cp of tw on every dang card all the way there and your reduction gear did not proc once. this happened to me last year but i think it was a 5 and in fairness i did do a single piracy but it was also capturing the ship. so like i'm rounding down on that basis, truth in griping, et c. [infomercial voice:] there's gotta be a better way!

[lasersquid]

girl i got ten eels ten squids ten marine iguanas and twenty-one lamp cats i don't got troubled waters, troubled waters got me

[lasersquid]

babe wake up it's explosionfest in fallen london

[lasersquid]

next whitsun should have mini eggs your agents hatch, for inscrutable effect