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Stardew Valley's lack of a detailed tutorial is one of the reasons it is a truly great game.

Like, the theme of the game is making connections with other people and building community. To learn the game, you can either painstakingly spend hours figuring everything out by trial and error, using the limited in-game resources of the tv and the library, or you can connect with a community of other players who are eager to help because they remember feeling lost and confused too.

Use the wiki. Use the subreddit. Watch streamers and YouTube. That's literally the point of the game: building connections to a community.

racethewind10

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candyredterezii

ugh, okay. Unfollowing. I was a fan of him and his friends solving mysteries together but I didn’t know he thought Coolsville sucks.

stuart-townsend

Jackson Rathbone & Ashley Greene in Twilight (2008) dir. Catherine Hardwicke

why-i-love-comics

It’s Jeff: Infinity Comic #2 (2021)

written by Kelly Thompson art by Gurihiru

thefingerfuckingfemalefury

I WAS SO WORRIED

Kate, check your laundry before you put it in you have a cat and a doggo as well!

arktham

Atlantis: The Lost Empire 2001, dir. Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise

kvroko

✰ POKEMON GENERATION 1-7 ✰

shadow27

witchofprose-deactivated2020041

This is the FUNNIEST SHIT I HAVE EVER SEEN

untitled12573

Reblogging for cultural enrichment

lab-gr0wn-lambs

bout time I brought back the Laurel and Hardy flex tape-

arsanatomica

You know those weird horizontal pupils that goats have?…. they get a lot weirder. Other places to see my posts: INSTAGRAM / FACEBOOK / ETSY / KICKSTARTER

nosleep4sam

I did not know this.

wardenmcpherson

I see this at a farm nearby where I like to hang with the goats, but the only time I’ve seen it captured on film was in that recent episode of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia where Sweet Dee got trampled in the petting zoo. I guess it is deeply disturbing and kind of underutilized in horror, but I still wish my eyes did that.

Like, seriously, why isn’t this in more movies? Why did I have to make the .gif myself?

ainawgsd

In all fairness, human eyes do this too…it’s just harder to tell because we have round pupils instead of horizontal pupils.

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waspinfested

i want there to be less information on this post please

shitboy96

Felt the need to add that the very last thing isn’t quite accurate, while human eyes can and do rotate, they only do so a few degrees (not sure exactly but something like 15 degrees). That’s why when you turn your head your field of vision rotates too.

goobleflop

s-kinnaly

Recharge Hydrated Ganondorf Comic

omghotmemes

Y'all forgetting the OG

berlynn-wohl

The above post is not the OG.

The original, as seen below, was posted on Facebook by a guy in Cincinnati. Someone else saw it and thought they would have more luck propagating it if they changed the city to “Detroit,” because in the American popular consciousness, Detroit is a more infamously blighted city than Cincinnati. And indeed, that version was the one that proliferated, because it resonated more with the people who saw it. The original poster and the original city were forgotten.

Does this really matter to anyone (besides Joshua Cromwell)? Perhaps not. But sometimes people do this with things that are more important than porches…

tricerasox

someone stole our fucking meme! can’t have shit in Cincinnati

mapsontheweb

US Elevation.

by @cstats1

ginger-ale-official

man the Appalachian mountains really aren’t shit huh

archosaur-automaton

The Rockies are new, young and virile and fresh from the Laramide orogeny, tall and lanky teenagers on the geological scale. the Appalachian mountains are old, formed hundreds of millions of years ago before dinosaurs walked the Earth. They are ancients, elders, witnesses to half a billion years of life coming and going. To be tall is not a virtue. To be small is not a sin. The Appalachians are eroding under the weight of time, slowly shrinking and returning to the Earth from which they sprang. Appreciate them while they are still here.

beabaseball

I do want to say real quick again about the age of the Appalachians…

They said “before dinosaurs,” but we have a cave here that began forming between 450 million to 550 million years ago.

There are no bones in that cave. No fossils. No nothing.

That’s because this cave began forming before bones existed on land, and had only just started to exist in the ocean. Shellfish hadn’t evolved yet. Limestone, which forms many caves, was just starting to become a more prevalent rock.

The mountains aren’t older than dinosaurs. They are older than bones.

jumpingjacktrash

see that little lump up at the top of minnesota? the sawtooth mountains? so small most places would just call them hills?

those are over a billion years old.

that’s why they’re so small. they’re the last ancient remnants of a lava flow 5 miles thick. the lava didn’t kill any dinosaurs. or any fish. or any animals at all. because there were no animals. you know what there was?

algae.

those mountains were 5 miles tall when the most advanced life on earth was algae.

so i’m just gonna go ahead and keep calling them mountains, even though all you need to climb them is hiking shoes and a nice afternoon. because a place where you can crouch down and touch basalt that was lava before leaves were invented deserves some respect.

bumblebeerror

The earth is unfathomably ancient, and you garner no love from her when you insult her eldest children.

fiovske

not only that, the Appalachians predate the Atlantic Ocean and were fragmented. they stretch across three continents, as Atlas in Africa and Caledonians in Europe as you can see here:

the Appalachians are way way old. the fossils that ARE found in these ranges are ancient marine beings, whose fossil remains predate the anatomical structures of beings migrating to land for the first time. THAT’S how old the Appalachians are.

show the elders some respect, they have witnessed eons and are returning to the land from which they grew, it’s the kind of the passage of time on a scale that our human lives could not even begin to comprehend.

savagedefectives

‘previously undreamed-of’

mx-chievous

this just gave me a glimpse into an alternate reality where human society functions the way carpenter ant society does

malgudinights

We actually have something similar in India. It’s done for the festival of Janmashtami which celebrates the birth of Krishna. The story goes that when he was a baby, Krishna was always getting into pots of yogurt and white butter and just eating it by the handfuls. So his parents and village took to hanging the pots from the ceiling to keep it from him. But he and his friends would get long sticks and climb on each other’s shoulders and steal the pots anyway. So on Janmashtami now, people attempt to recreate his heist and it’s just the most adorable thing.

useless-catalanfacts

Castellers from Catalonia found out about this tradition in India, and they thought it was amazing that we had such a similar tradition so far away. So they went to India to meet them. They filmed it all and released it as a documentary on YouTube (called Dahi Handi - Documental viatge a l’India, you can find it easily).

Then in 2006, they invited a team of govindas from India to perform in Vilafranca’s square during their festivities. Vilafranca’s central square, especially during the Sant Fèlix festivities, is the place for castells. It’s the most important center for this tradition (people from Tarragona please don’t kill me for saying this but you know it’s true). And the Vilafranca colla (casteller group) is one of the best and most important ones in all Catalonia, they’re like superstars in the world of castells. So this is a huge honour to be invited by the castellers of Vilafranca. The govindas also received an official welcome in the city hall, and invited to a rehearsal of the Vilafranca castellers. They rehearsed together and then made a tower all together in Vilafranca’s central square, where the Vilafranca castellers were at the base to make the govindas’ structure stronger and higher:

(The ones with white shirt and black trousers are Indian govindas, the ones with white trousers and green shirts are the Catalan castellers from Vilafranca)

Everybody was very happy and the govindas and castellers got along together very well so, in 2019, 200 castellers from Vilafranca (including the mayor, who is a member) went to India to visit them again for the Janmashtami festivity (that @thepivanquisher explained) in Mumbai.

The day they arrived in India, the Vilafranca castellers did some castells in front of the Gateway of India monument, ending with two pilars where the anxenetes (the kids on top) unfolded a flag of India and a flag of Catalonia.

The castellers and govindas also rehearsed together in Mumbai. I’ve seen a video and it’s so lovely, it was in a square of a working class neighbourhood and it was full of people waiting to meet them.

The castellers were also invited to take part in the ritual before Janmashtami, and they were also received by the Islamic community of a neighbourhood of the city. They were very happy to be so well received.

And then the day came:

(That’s govindas doing their tower and behind you can see the Vilafranca castellers, in their usual clothes, cheering for the govindas).

(And that’s the castellers doing their castell after!)

The castellers also performed in a school in the Mumbai and used their rest of the time there to give support to the NGO Mumbai Smiles which helps fight against poverty in the slums.

(The castellers in a school)

Again, they got along very well and were happy to celebrate together their shared passion. They have also learnt from each other: the Catalans showed their method to the Indians so they now can build higher towers, and by looking at how Indians climb they learned how to be faster. That’s why they have invited each other to their countries more times after that.

I think it’s wonderful and I hope to see more of such exchanges 😄

(By the way, we don’t call them “human towers”. In Catalan, “castell” means “castle”. They are human castles, and “castellers”, the people who do it, means “castle-ers” or “castle builders”.)