Oreo Pizza Delivery Girl

  That One Game dev chick who's a little too into the Pizza Hut Oreo© Desert Pizza™, only $3.99!  

[jawanaka]

Content specifically for me and @andordean

[probablyasocialecologist]

“Musk talks about Mars as a lifeboat for humanity, which is among the very stupidest things that someone could say,” says Adam Becker, an astrophysicist and author of the book More Everything Forever, which outlines the messianic, sci-fi fantasies of the tech oligarchs. “There are so many reasons why it’s such a bad idea, and this is not about, ‘Oh, we’ll never have the technology to live on Mars.’ That’s not what I’m saying. What I’m saying is that Earth is always going to be a better option no matter what happens to Earth. Like, we could get hit with an asteroid the size of the one that killed off the dinosaurs, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could explode every single nuclear weapon, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could have the worst-case scenario for climate change, and Earth would still be more habitable. Any cursory examination of any of the facts about Mars makes it very clear.”

What You’ve Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us

[wire-smith]

I really like sci-fi stories where people have to go off and terraform a planet, or figure out how to rebuild civilization after some disaster, or ideally both. "The last ark-ship leaving Earth right before it becomes uninhabitable" sort of deal. But lately I've been coming around to this same idea, that it will always be more practical to try to save Earth than to try to start over elsewhere.

I was reading one story where the apocalypse was impossibly-rising oceans. Like, water is appearing from *waves hand* the Earth's crust or something, and literally all dry surface land on Earth is going to become underwater in X years. Part of the story was about a giant research project to invent FTL to send a few hundred humans to a nearby star which might have a habitable planet. You know what they were hoping to find? A planet with liquid water. Their plan was to descend from their starship and restart civilization using just the tools they brought with them, on a world with no life and no breathable air and the wrong gravity and the wrong temperate and the wrong sunlight and the wrong day-night cycle, just because it had liquid water. You know where else has liquid water? The flooded Earth you just abandoned. Instead of researching starship technology, you could have spent that time loading up all the same civilization-restarter tools into boats.

And this is really true of any futuristic apocalypse scenario. If you can terraform Mars to have a thick oxygen atmosphere, why not just do that to Earth? Even if you smash an ice comet into Earth and destroy basically everything, Earth will still be more habitable than Mars! It'll still have roughly the right atmospheric pressure, and magnetic field, and heat balance, and it'll still have whatever life the comet didn't kill... Same with a starshade to cool Venus. Same with excavating asteroids into city-stations. Same with abandoning Sol System entirely and heading to another star. If an ark-ship arrived in a new star system and found Earth-but-choked-by-climate-change, the crew would be ecstatic. They would never have thought to get that lucky. So why bother with the trip? Just stay and fix the damn Earth.

[graveexcitement]

The sci-fi connection reminds me of The Expanse, a space opera set a few hundred years in the future, where humanity has spread out within the solar system but not beyond it. In The Expanse, Mars is one of the two major political powers of the solar system, and is quite prosperous; it is Earth's chief economic, political, and military rival. But Martians live underground or in domes, and a large part of its society/culture is focused around the terraforming effort (along with military service to stay vigilant against Earth), which has been ongoing for generations. Several books into the series, over a thousand new habitable worlds that at least somewhat overlap with Earth climates are discovered, and they're even within reach (<2 years' journey thanks to space portals).

One of the major plot ramifications of this is that Martians realize en masse, "Okay, so either I can stay here and continue the terraforming project, the fruits of which even my grandchildren will never get to see... or I can take my family to a planet that's already habitable and doesn't need to be terraformed," resulting in a huge exodus from Mars. If an already habitable world is an option, people would and should live there rather than spend an unfathomable amount of resources trying to terraform Mars. Thankfully, we already have one.

[eddyneedssleep]

I find it so funny that people are shocked and freaking out that Mark knows about the bloodymary ship as if he wasn't saying shit like this on this very site back in 2015

[moringmark]

[sabertoothwalrus]

I hate the videoification of everything. If I have to hear one more video of someone speaking closely into their shitty mic and I have to have all their yucky wet mouth noises and plosives and nose whistles and throat clearings and sniffles I am going to dig a vertical hole the exact dimensions of my body and I’m going to slither in head first

[sabertoothwalrus]

as someone with misophonia, the widespread popularization of asmr audio editing + people that are being pushed to make video content with no formal training and have no idea how to edit their audio (ex college professors, average joe tiktokers, etc) is literally my nightmare scenario. this is hell I am in hell

[sabertoothwalrus]

this is actually the last straw for me I need to start sending people emails

[draconym]

I like this dress because it looks like something Ms. Frizzle would wear to the BDSM club

[draconym]

My friends and I were brainstorming PBS themed scene names. I would be Ms. Sizzle and they would be Bill Tye the Shibari Guy and Master Rogers.

[teaboot]

“Why are you scared of dating” I’m not scared of dating, I just haven’t found anyone’s company to be more enjoyable than my own. And also I don’t care

[justlightmeonfire]

I just don't want anyone to steal my very cursed amulet

[teaboot]

Also the amulet

[whimsicalmayhem]

Is that you talking? Or the amulet? Are you SURE a new hand doesn't want to touch the beacon?

[teaboot]

The amulet and I are not currently looking for a third

[bumblesteak]

A pyromancer who burns most of her outfits 🔥🔥🔥 (Adara's 4 year redesign)

[dailymarvelheroes]

get you a man who can do both

[nitramaraho]

one of my patients came in for an emergency visit, because she snapped the wire on her retainer watching the movie when MBJ took his shirt off she clenched her teeth so fucking hard she snapped it. that is the fucking funniest shit ever to me this tiny 17 year old girl thirsting so goddamn hard she busted steel

[crystalitesummerstar]

Y'all, it gets better. She found out.

[buzzfeed]

We interviewed her, obviously.

[buzzfeed]

update:

[rainbowselfies]

[blvckgeezus]

Such a developing story.

[pastdueeverything]

I love this story

[athenadcvell]

This was a wild ride from start to finish

[gambit-of-a-small-rabbit-deacti]

I know I say this a lot, But this is one of the best things on this website

[nitramaraho]

Sophia is currently doing great in college, and I still get about one kid a month in the office who asked if this really happened.

[demigoddessqueens]

I found it!! The original post!!

[urcadelimabean]

HAS SHE SEEN SINNERS

[madenthusiasms]

Preferably when she wasn’t wearing the retainer.

[jaypilled]

are those my only options

[carnivalwizard]

[dorothylarouge]

[wrigglewormz]

I'm perfectly fine with people criticizing my favorite stories and frequently do it myself but can you stop being so boring about it

[wrigglewormz]

"This scene made me so uncomfortable" given the subject matter, it would be really, really badly written if it wasn't.

[vexwerewolf]

"The writing in Borderlands is cringe" - pedestrian. Boring. Uninspired.

"The writing in Borderlands is cringe because it refuses to commit to the bit" - now we're getting somewhere

"The writing in Borderlands is cringe because it's desperately afraid of standing for something" - YESSSSS. ROAST MY FAVOURITE SERIES MORE, LITTLE MAN

[grave--accent]

I'll say it again, a loading screen tip in Borderlands 3 has a dumb joke that goes something like "Maliwan guns have a bonus 'cool' stat, but it's not visible because you aren't cool if you have to say you're cool." This is advice that the game pointedly fails to take because Borderlands 3, at all times, feels like it's screaming "I'm so cool aren't I cool don't you think I'm cool?" Which is really the least of the game's issues in how it portrays itself.

[sigulary]

Is my birthday so I get to be self indulgent

Sorta of a redraw of this

[willgrahamscock]

reading problematic fanfiction but shaking my head so random tumblr user who thinks thought crimes are real knows I don't condone it in real life

[willgrahamscock]

ignore my boaner 👍

[willgrahamscock]

fictional characters can't consent because they aren't real.. but YOU can consent to reading heavy themes, and you can withdraw consent by clicking the back button and stopping any time, it is your choice to read stories that include or exclude consent 👍

[willgrahamscock]

I love when puritans are so far up their ass they circle back to being more perverted than the original concept

[virtualgirladvance]

love how ive noticed this trend lately in drawn porn with little a bubble in the corner showing a small cutesy version of the characters saying they consent

makes me laugh every time thinking about anons like this finally being relieved they can jerk it without going to thought hell

[depsidase]

[do-not-u-dare]

Stole this from somewhere but i think it’s appropriate

[cake-crumbs]

Rocky now in chonker form! This one was another custom commish for a d20 chonk die.

[hayleywilliamsfan84]

i keep laughing at the way that eridian culture in the movie and eridian culture in the book are not contradictory at all, if you accept that movie rocky is just a total FREAK

grace: boy i sure can't wait to meet other eridians haha! rocky, putting on a shirt for the first time in four years: rocky has something to tell grace but does grace promise not to be mad, question?

[hydrangea-pop]

I can't leave this in the tags lmaooo