RinguPingu

Quality Assurance in the games industry. Posting about books (mostly Fantasy/Sci-Fi) and games. Mildly offensive, not always on purpose.

[mikaeled]

Are you scared now? Love, Death & Robots: Sonnie’s Edge

[ringupingu]

Not already watching Love, Death & Robots?

Get on that

[writing-prompt-s]

you’re an immortal, having lived for hundreds of years, and historians use you as first hand accounts of what happened all those years ago. couple of problems - you happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, or dismissed world changing events as unimportant, so you’re just bullshitting every response you give

[ringupingu]

This is basically Gene Doucette’s Immortal, but Adam would never talk to a historian.

[kingkumaaa]

When the whole party is down but your bard is up

[maliciousindungeon]

jack had absolutely no right to go this hard

[bramblepatch]

um excuse me Jack not only may but must go this hard

[thesmartbluebox]

Thor: Ragnarok + Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology

[nogoodpainting]

@ringupingu

[ringupingu]

I get why, but I’m kind of mad that they didn’t include the next line of the second quote:

“Shut up, Thor,” said Loki. Thor shut up.

[methyltheobromine-addict-deacti]

[magical-girl]

this is me

[deep-blue-supernova-blog]

anime can be saved now

[arielenhasarrived-deactivated20]

anime’s redemption story

[ringupingu]

I remember watching this show with @yuzahunter in the middle of the night.

It was a fun time.

[niggazinmoscow]

This is what every mayor should be doing.

[phdna]

“Opinion Piece: Should we allow this mayor to shamelessly, irresponsibly use his job in order to do his job?”

I LEARNED RECENTLY THAT PLATO WON THE GOLD MEDAL IN THE OLYMPICS FOR WRESTLING THREE TIMES. THIS PUTS A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON THINGS. I ALWAYS IMAGINED PLATO TO BE FRAIL AND MISSHAPEN BUT HE MUST HAVE BEEN FRICKEN RIPPED. I WONDER IF ARISTOTLE EVER FELT ANXIETY ABOUT GETTING PHYSICALLY (I.E. NOT JUST METAPHYSICALLY) DISMANTLED BY PLATO. PLATO WAS PROBABLY PISSED OFF BY AT LEAST A HANDFUL OF QUESTIONS ARISTOTLE ASKED HIM. ARISTOTLE WAS A LITERAL GENIUS TOO. IMAGINE PLATO LECTURING AND WRITING ON A BLACKBOARD AND ARISTOTLE THROWING A COMMENT OUT THERE ABOUT SOME COMPLEX MISSTEP IN PLATO’S LOGIC AND PLATO’S CHALK JUST SNAPS AND ARISTOTLE’S TESTICLES SUCK WAY BACK UP TO WHERE THEY DROPPED FROM, THEN PLATO IN A BLUR APPEARS BESIDE ARISTOTLE SITTING AT HIS DESK AND HE PICKS HIM UP AND SUPLEXES HIS MACEDONIAN ASS.

[was-once-somewhere-else]

given the content of a lot of Plato’s conclusions I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that Plato responded to a lot of reasonable criticisms with “Fight me” and that was the end of it.

[abotl]

We’re not actually sure whether Plato is his real name! Some people speculate that, because Platon means “broad” in Greek, this was actually his wrestling nick name. Basically, it’s like Dwayne Johnson became a famous philosopher and everyone still called him “The Rock”.

[miscreant-side-puffs]

More and more I wish we kind of had time traveling capabilities.

[lolhistoryposts]

Now I can’t stop thinking about Plato looking like The Rock

[youraveragecatastrophe]

@sabertoothwalrus Is this what you had in mind?

[sabertoothwalrus]

FUCK. YES. AMAZING.

[esperides]

tag your vibe

days of the week;

monday: snoozing your alarm clock, navy, seeing the moon in the morning, vanilla ice cream, writing poetry, blurry photographs, windswept hair, iced coffee

tuesday: seeing a cat on the street, a light rain shower, untied shoelaces, indistinct music from someone else’s earphones, empty coffee shops, denim jackets, long train rides

wednesday: pastel highlighters, drinking water, group laughter, plucking daisy petals, floral scents, counting down to a birthday, peonies

thursday: old books, a downpour, telling the truth, comfortable silence, hand holding, wrapping a gift, the smell of leather, reminiscence

friday: neon lights, sweet cravings, a little bit drunk, falling in love with a stranger, remembering your dreams, cherry red, late night showers, desserts at midnight

saturday: watering plants, childhood cartoons, a bowl of cereal, meeting someone new, waking up early and laying in bed, spontaneous plans, sitting on a rooftop

sunday: strawberry smoothies, golden hour, a soft feeling of wistfulness, lazy afternoons, 4pm naps, lofi mixes, deja vu, long daydreams, lighting sparklers

[micdotcom]

Watch: John Cena continues, “So, let’s try this one more time. Close your eyes.” 

[darringtonshorthalt]

x

[themaddahlia-deactivated2023040]

I know very little about this man beyond memes but this really made me feel a little bit better about myself today. And that’s not an easy task.

[nogoodpainting]

I’m in Greece!

[ringupingu]

That’s a ridiculously large book, my dude.

[blacksalander]

Following up on the Western wizard concept

[blacksalander]

Cowboy/Western Mage

[jibberthegretchin]

“Y'all won’t be passing.”

[babyanimalgifs]

You ever seen a cat with a deep meow??

[brbjellyfishing]

that cat smoked 3 packs a day for 20 years

[toytowns]

“woah, wow, woah”

[bunjywunjy]

get this cat a jazz contract, stat

[pizzaotter]

HAUSVIABEJSBAKMSJDK WHAT IS THIS OMFG I LOVE HIM 😭

[chocolatemilk4029]

Imagine staying over at their place for the first time and shitting yourself in the middle of the night because you think james earl jones is meowing at you from the door

[hotdogsngiggles]

oh my god

[staff]

People of Tumblr, we’re throwing up the Bat Signal.

Though this Administration has vowed today to sign an executive order that would end the separation of families at the border stemming from its “zero tolerance” policy, we must continue to apply pressure and do our part. Families should have never been separated in the first place.

Here are five ways that you can help:

1. Call your Senator and let them know that immigration reform is still needed. Call the Senate switchboard at [phone] and ask for your Senator’s office.

2. Donate to organizations that are providing support to immigrant families being held in detention centers all over the country:

The Florence Immigration Project - The Florence Project is providing free legal and social services to migrants being detained in Arizona.

The Texas Civil Rights Project - Lawyers in Texas have banned together to fight for “equality and justice in and out of the courts.”

ACLU of Texas Border Rights Center

RAICES Bond Fund - This fund provides money to release parents from detention centers so they can look for their kids.

CARA Family Detention Pro Bono Project - CARA provides legal representation for families in detention centers.

KIND - Kids In Need of Defense (KIND) provides legal representation for unaccompanied minors in detention centers. They’ve also provided other ways for you to help oppose family separation here.

CARA Pro Bono Project - Help alleviate the cost of housing for volunteer lawyers, as well as sending coloring books to those children in detention centers.

Refugee Caravan - Donate what you can to help detained immigrants make phone calls to their families and lawyers.

3. Contact the Immigration Justice Campaign if you, or someone you know, are fluent in Spanish and can assists lawyers at the border over the phone as an interpreter.

4. Contact Northwest Immigrant Rights Project and volunteer your services as a Spanish-speaking interpreter or as a lawyer for those parents who have been sent to the state of Washington without their children.

5. If you’re a lawyer, law student, paralegal or Spanish-speaking interpreter, contact the Dilley Pro Bono Project for a week-long shift as a volunteer in Texas.

Let’s do what we can to right this wrong because children and families should never have to suffer these kinds of irreparable trauma.

[dracofidus-deactivated20200523]

Needless to say, I am HORRIFIED.

[thecottageinthedark]

‘All that you need to know about boars can be summed up in the fact that if you wish to hunt them, you must have a specially made boar spear. This spear has a crosspiece on it to prevent the boar from charging the length of the spear, driving it all the way through his own body, to savage the human holding the other end.’

-Boar and Apples, T. Kingfisher

[dracofidus-deactivated20200523]

fuck OFF

[palindromordnilap-deactivated20]

Note that pigs are also HUGE. So, yes, they ARE slightly larger pigs.

[dracofidus-deactivated20200523]

So I grew up in the city and have never seen a pig in real life and I just googled it and WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS

I thought they were like labrador sized, like, fat labradors, not mini-cows.

[tokensouthernbelle]

every time I see this post there are more people discovering how fuck off huge pigs actually are and I love it I thought this was a thing everyone knew but clearly not and I’m laughing 

[stillwaterseas]

This is me with our Tamworth boar, a heritage breed closer to their wild cousins than the Yorkshire above. I am a fully grown, average sized human. He was a gentle sweetie who, sadly, is no longer with us. His name was Mr. Big. 

[dracofidus-deactivated20200523]

FUCK OFF

[coelasquid]

Forever laffin’ at people who don’t understand how enormous, terrifying, and tenacious wild boar are. 

They’re like if bears had knives protruding from their closed mouths and Didn’t Know When To Quit. Their survival instincts when they’re wounded aren’t “run away and minimize injury” it’s “take the thing that hurt you down with you” They also make sounds like someone crossed a pig with an alligator.

Their head and neck alone can be like the size of an entire human torso.

Also forever laffin’ at people who think pigs are tiny, ‘cause we designed those things can get in the neighbourhood of a thousand pounds in ideal circumstances. 

It’s like when people assume Tuna must be small because they’ve only ever experienced them in hockey puck form.

[obstinate-nocturna]

Like seriously why the fuck y'all think everyone FREAKED THE HELL OUT when Dorothy fell into the pig pen in Wizard of Oz? It’s because pigs are HUGE and weigh a shitton and would crush her in an instant.

[proserpine-in-phases]

also dont they eat like, basically anything?

[justabrowncoatedwench]

YUP. Pigs will eat people, if given the chance. They dgaf.

[wolverinequeen]

That’s why boar hunters use a team of very tenacious dogs to hold the boar so they can be speared without fucking you up. The dogs wear body armour. 

I’ve heard stories of people shooting boars, and if it didn’t kill them, it just pissed them off. 

[andthentheywilleatthestars]

how the hell did we ever domesticate these things?

[petermorwood]

…“how the hell did we ever domesticate these things?”

Very carefully, I would imagine.

WIld boar babies are rather cute, like living humbugs…

…but the adults and their ferocity have been associated with warriors for thousands of years, from Mycenaean Greece (a helmet made from sections of boar tusk)…

…through Celtic Europe (reconstructed carnyx war-horns and standards)…

…Ancient Rome (the crest of Legion 20 “Valeria Victrix”). A couple more legions also used a boar as their crest - I wonder did they squabble over which was the “right” one the way a couple of Swiss cantons had a little war over whose bear was best…?

…then Anglo-Saxon and pre-Viking helmet crests…

…right up to the late Middle Ages (here the white boar badge of Richard Duke of Gloucester, later Richard III of England)…

…and the blue boar badge of the Earl of Oxford, more usually represented by the De Vere arms, quarterly gules and or, in the first a molet argent.

After Richard was defeated at Bosworth in 1485, there was a run on blue paint as inn-signs were changed to reflect new loyalties since Oxford was on the winning side…

And pigs will definitely eat people.

It gets mentioned in the movie “Snatch”, the book/movie “Hannibal” and the webcomic “Lackadaisy Cats”, among numerous other fictional sources, and IRL it’s suspected to be the reason why numerous missing persons have stayed missing.

More here (another comment to this same OP) and here (slightly different).

Here’s some boar-hunting armour for dogs, ancient…

…and modern…

…and the modern one looks very like a simple style of ancient…

[mircalla-tepez]

As a village kid I grew up with all the horrific hunter stories from wild boars they encountered or tried to shoot (all time fave: Boar lost it’s whole underjaw due to the hunter’s shot, yet still just run away. He went after it - and found it a few kilometers distant from their first encounter. It actually ran untill most of it’s blood was pumped out of the huge injurie. And then of course there are all the stories of wilde boars attacking people in the woods…Hell, they are even capable of disrooting younger trees if they really want to get you from your thought safe spot up the tree. *shivers* ).  Remembering all the puzzled looks of my city-friends, all in total disbelief, when the topic arouse and I dropped my two cents I totally approve this post! Share the wisdom!

[gahdamnpunk]

Happy pride 🌈❤️💛💚💙💜

[inquisitorpsyduck]

Gay speedsters

[bellaxiao]

[explainguncontrolandsafespaces]

It’s like millennials do not understand that middle east has been at war for 1000′s of years. That we intervened on behalf of Kuwait. That without “bombing” people that want to kill and oppress others, millions will be murdered and tortured.

[mideast-nrthafrica-cntrlasia-de]

“at war for 1000′s of years”

you clearly know nothing about Afghanistan nor the middle east

here’s Afghanistan in the 1950′s, 60′s, & 70′s

if you really want to know what caused all the instability & growth of extremist groups I suggest you take a look at the US foreign policy towards Afghanistan during the 80′s

It’s interesting to note that when the communist government came to power in Afghanistan in the late 70′s, one of the first things they did was declare equality of the sexes, made education for girls mandatory, & banned child marriages. The conservative tribal leaders who the US armed & funded (& who later became the Taliban) declared this to be a “war on Islam” & fought against the central government.

The US had no problem back then with encouraging the growth of Islamic conservatism to counter socialism/communism. You created your biggest enemy & you have no one to blame but yourselves.

[sniffyjenkins]

BLESS THIS POST

[blackfemalescientist]

its crazy to me how the US talks about war in the middle east as if its this ancient problem inherent to the area instead of a recent problem created by western countries to further their own interests.

[nevaehtyler]

☕️☕️☕️

[urulokid]

the CIA took out the democratically elected leader of Iran in the 1970s over oil and that set off an entire chain of events leading to ISIS, here’s more about multiple other countries we’ve fucked over