Hence forth, man shall walk.

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[whitepeopletwitter]

[patchwork-crow-writes]

Y'all ever think about the way video game bosses are designed to lose? How the bombastic soundtracks, the impressive displays of villainy, the teeth-rattling power of their attacks, are at once engineered not just to sell you on how unfathomably strong and vile they are, but also to make the player's inevitable victory all the sweeter?

Viewed this way, a boss battle is more like a choreographed dance - they call, you respond and counter-call. The trick is to learn the steps - once you know where to move, when to strike, when to defend and how to best allocate your resources, victory is not just achievable but actually almost impossible to avoid. You cannot help but recite the winning plays, over and again, because that is what the dance demands of you both - and is there not a savage sort of beauty in such a thing?

Is it any wonder then that we look back on these bosses so fondly, almost as if they were old friends? We danced together once, and oh what fun we had while doing it!

[nicky999doors]

[jabberwockypie]

[transfemmbeatrice]

[marisatomay]

“don’t eat honey because it exploits the bees and they can’t consent!!!” bees are literally unionized and will walk out if they don’t like being in the beekeeper’s hives

[redshiftsinger]

It's true.

I worked with a beekeeper (not at beekeeping, guy had a day job as a machinist and kept bees as a side thing). One day there was a swarm in the parking lot and people were freaking out because, y'know, BEES EVERYWHERE. Beekeeper guy went to his truck. Pulled a swarm-catching box out. Put it on the ground and walked away. Bees went in the box after a while. Guy put the box back in his truck and drove home with them.

You cannot prevent bees from leaving a hive they don't like the conditions of, without also preventing them from being able to make honey. The latter is dependent on them being able to come and go as they please. If they don't like their hive THEY WILL LEAVE.

Beekeeping is probably the single most non-exploitative animal agriculture in the entirety of human history. I don't know how it's even possible to exploit bees. They answer only to their queen.

[swordshapedleaves]

They absolutely do not answer to the queen. If she sucks they will kill her and make a new one.

[depsidase]

[unionizedwizard]

i cannot believe catboy zenos is real and that nobody thought to tell me about it. hello?

[unionizedwizard]

i said

catboy zenos

is REAL

(spoilers for the ARR society quests final quest, i guess?? apparently he is a recurring opponent in those)

[eemamminy-art]

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[bizarrebazaar13]

what if your doppelgänger wasn’t evil it was just a person. what if your doppelgänger wasn’t trying to replace you it was just trying to learn to be a person and you were the best model it had. what if your doppelgänger looked at you with your eyes and said with your voice that it just wanted to be loved. what then.

[themythicalcodfish]

that is horror of a different kind

[eatyourpapitas]

what the fuck is kingdom hearts

[inoppositionflorien]

Your wish is my command, random advertisement. I don't know what you expect me to do with your devilish concoction, but your wish remains my command.

I need to know what demographic hates this! Dentists? Dermatologists? General Doctors? Counter-Terrorist Organizations? Interpol? The USPS? Grocery Store Employees? The lucrative 18-35 demographic? Will I be put on trial for war crimes? But you don't tell me, you just tell me to mix one with the other and fail to tell me who hates this one weird trick!

Well joke's on you I'm going to do it without looking at your probably actively malicious website, and find out what you're not telling me! If it turns into an explosive, it's entirely on you, random advertisement.

[inoppositionflorien]

Update: Don't try this at home or anywhere. This creates one of the worst things I've ever personally made.

It started off fine as I mixed them. It changed to the color of the toothpaste (white), and vaguely resembled lotion in appearance. Then I made a horrible error. I touched it.

I touched it and immediately nearly all of it adhered to my skin. Everything I touched thereafter gained a thin layer of vaguely minty-smelling slime. It was some unholy abomination of a substance. Water couldn't get it off. Soap couldn't get it off. It stuck to tile, it stuck to wood, it stuck to carpet, and it doesn't adhere to itself, so no amount of scraping with my hands could get it off, it just spread more.

Finally I had to get a sacrificial towel to wipe the substance off of me and everything I'd touched on the way to get the towel. Despite washing and scraping with a brush, my hands still smell like mint and feel slightly slimy. I can feel my skin burning from the mint flavoring of the toothpaste nearly an hour after getting it off my skin. I didn't even know that was possible until today. I could have gone my whole life without knowing that, but now I know.

I have no idea what the ad actually wants you to do with this concoction as I did not click through, but I can only assume it wants you to use it to torture prisoners or something, there seems to be no other possible purpose for it.

[anexperimentallife]

[ahasiw-okitowin]

@ people whining about not being able to pronounce this:

Learn.

We learned English.

[theunicornincaptivity]

It’s easy!

Pronounciatipn guide from my Nahuatl speaking SO: chal chut li que e quat le

Something like that.

Way cooler than anything in English that’s for dam sure

[medjoul]

An alternative is Ayollohco Mexihco

pronounced ah-yohl-LOH'-koh meh-SHEE'-koh

source:

Pre-Invasion Nahuas and the Gulf of Mexico

You may have seen a meme suggesting that we start calling the Gulf of Mexico “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl,” as that is what Indigenous peoples of…

[ndiecity-deactivated20241101]

KILL DIE THE VIOLENCE GUY

[who-let-the-gods-outt-deactivat]

*KILL!! KILL!!! KILL!!! KILL!! KILL*

[squeakybold]

VIOLENCE RULES!

[redavexat]

[honeydewcorporation]

Tried to figure out how I've been running these things and I came up with this

[sephirthoughts]

SO MUCH THIS. it drives me up a fucking WALL when people call male witches wizards

[raccoonskoodilypoopdungeon]

my take on this

[galehowl]

unfinished doodle of Holydramon and her tamer

[raccoonspooky]

Fuck a personality test. Which label sticker r u?

[r0zeclawz]

sick post i just found online. sorry i couldnt find the source

[eclecticopposition]

what is THE worst thing you've ever drank. all liquids acceptable. please tell me what it was, bonus points for why

[carby]

Hey whoa hi. Hello. I am looking directly into your ear canal. What do you mean you drank a tube of virus concentrate.

[whyamiherewhosummonedme]

So, I was working in a lab, right? My job in the lab was preparing a pure, concentrated enough sample of virus. This is tricky since, y'know, viruses require hosts to replicate, but you then need to get the host cells (and the pieces of the host cells that died!) out of the sample while still keeping the viruses. Once I'd finished and the samples had been sent to the database for analysis as well as a second one sent to be frozen for future reference, there was still some left over that needed to be disposed of.

I, knowing that this was a once in a lifetime opportunity, waited carefully for the lab director to be deep in conversation with someone else on the other side of the laboratory. And then I took my chance.

Test tubes, as it turns out, are really bad as shot glasses. Their shape turns any liquid inside into a stream, so you really can't knock it back quickly - it takes a couple seconds. Additionally, the best way I can describe the taste of virus concentrate was "sterile rot". A very unique kind of bad! Made worse by the test tube's inefficiency as a shot glass.

(by the way we were studying bacteriophages, not animal viruses. these viruses are too specialized on attacking prokaryotes to even recognize our cells as targets at all, according to studies.)

(but also like. if the viruses managed to successfully switch hosts and killed me with a violent infection, itd still be worth it.)

(for science.)

[violetthunderstorm]

You have a fitting blog title

[nico-the-overlord]

this post is getting 50k easy

[marlinspirkhall]

[teaboot]

This WOULD be how humanity would go out though tbh

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

There have been some weird zoonotic origins of viruses but with a bit of bad luck this would have been the weirdest

[elenorasweet]

[caats]

[dysfunctionalroomba]