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@surfdirtnlake
I’ve had this tiny picture of this weird little wizard or something on my computer for twenty years and I don’t know what he’s from or if he’s even from anything, he just looks really cute. I have reason to believe he’s from a kid’s show that probably never came to America.
Thats wunschpunsch mate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wunschpunsch
There you go.
remember being little and thinking dandelions were fun or a pretty color or something and every adult in an 80 mile radius wouldn’t let you say that without screaming ITS A WEED
also like:
dandelions are edible, easy to grow, and are rich in vitamins a, c, k, beta-carotene, calcium, iron, manganese, and potassium
dandelions can be made into wine, tea, soft drinks, and a coffee substitute
they are used in herbal remedies to treat liver and digestive problems and as a diuretic
they’re good for bees!
they make good companion plants for various herbs and tomatoes; their long taproot helps bring up nutrients in the soil and they release ethylene gas which ripens fruit
dandelions secrete latex which means they can be used to make natural rubber
they make great flower crowns
Why ARE they considered a weed? They’re a good flower? Who decided they were bad? =(
You can also make beautiful jelly from the blossoms!
They’re considered weeds because they were a poor person resource and not having them was a status symbol.
Let’s back up.
In Europe dating back to the 1500’s and even earlier, you could only have immaculate manicured lawns if you had just pots of money and were able to own land. So, rich nobility had swaths of land, and they demonstrated their wealth and power by hiring people to physically cut the grass and keep their gardens and dig weeds out of the turf by hand. It was a demonstration of money and power. It said “I can afford to have eight people employed full time just to dig things that aren’t grass out of my grass. I can afford to have all of this land doing nothing. It’s not producing food. People don’t farm it or live on it. I can afford to just grow grass, and have someone tend to that wholly useless crop.”
Fast forward a few hundred years. Europeans come to America. Many of them are from the poorer classes in Europe. Many have never owned land before, and now all of a sudden they can (because they stole it from the Native Americans but that’s a whole other rant.)
Now, at first you see little cottage gardens like the lower classes in Europe always had around their homes; places where they grew food and herbs and kept chickens or other livestock. Dandelions were welcome here; they were eaten and brewed into wine and used for medicine, just as they’d been for centuries.
But then people start making a little money, and we have the whole phenomenon of people who can demonstrate that they are Moving Up In The World by buying all of their food and medicine, just like the old landed gentry back in the Old Country. So they do. What goes in the place of those cottage gardens? Why, the same thing that went in the place of productive land back in the Earl of Chatsworth’s front lawn; a lawn.
So. Dandelions were a symbol. They were a throwback to the old days. They were a sign that you were somehow less prosperous than your neighbors, or lazier. (A Mortal Sin in America.) But, many Americans work, and can’t afford to hire a gardener just to grub dandelions out of the yard with a trowel all day.
Enter the lawn care industry, which began to market a dizzying array of poisons and fertilizers aimed at making your lawn a sterile moonscape where only grass grew with minimum effort from the homeowner. This continues to this day and is a multibillion dollar industry that has huge negative impacts on the environment and human health, but we can’t seem to shake that old ideal of a manicured lawn.
We pour water on deserts and poison on native wildflowers to attain it. We expose our children to poisons. We poison pollinators and pets. The days where we recognized a well kept lawn as a symbol of aristocratic leisure are gone, but we’ve been successfully fed a lie that some dandelions and chickweed are Bad by the lawn care industry in their ads for decades. They, obviously, want to keep it going because they’re making fat $$$$$$$ off of us.
THAT’S why dandelions are viewed as weeds.
Also yeah dandelions are really good for bees, and beloved by native bees and honeybees alike. So please, leave them blooming!! You can support bees and do your bit to smash capitalistic exploitation of the working class and the environment all in one go!
Na mate dandelions are viewed as weeds because they reduce the productivity of grass per acre with several percent. Up to five even, reducing the amount of cow fodder from a square mile with about a metric ton. The herbicides were produced especially for this purpose.
So the tumblr history lesson above might be a reason why small lawns are kept “clean” but it is not the entire story, mate.
Yo, so, I’ve noticed some strictly SFW blogs I follow have ended up with very detailed porn posts and I am 100% sure that it is not their doing.
If you see any porn pop up on my dash AT ALL LET ME KNOW RIGHT AWAY.
Seriously this isn’t funny if somehow Tumblr is letting this happen.
Just send me a message with “hey there’s this post you made with pornography in it did you post that??” and the answer will be a firm NO. followed by me trying to find out what the fuck happened and where it came from.
So, again: LET ME KNOW IF YOU SEE ANY PORN POP UP ON MY DASH. I DID NOT POST IT. I DO NOT KNOW WHERE IT CAME FROM. IT IS NOT ALLOWED ON MY BLOG AT ALL.
Wait is this really something happening? Like a glitch or a virus?
I guess for the record I don’t post anything NSFW.
Bro you literally just posted an unedited scene from a pornographic film.
The Shift Came! UnDungeon is live on Kickstarter!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/laughingmachines/undungeon-pixelart-action-rpg-with-roguelike-eleme
Man this is so gorgeous. The atmosphere feels like Tim Molloys mr unpronounceable comics! Very good!
Over the garden wall
They look great! That was fast, too!
IT LIVES!
starting on a new game
Working name is patchwork. So far it is to be a game about experiencing inequality from different perspectives, set in a sci-fi universe, with minigames to make it feel more lively.
The planet is called patchwork because from above this aquatic planet littered with village and town sized islands is so much like a quilt. The world is also a patchwork of different cultures, races and power.
The player controls a person of certain colour, age, gender and according to these variables the npcs interact with the player.
The games atmosphere I hope to get in the neighbourhood of “Beyond good and evil”, something I in part hope to achieve with the addition of “minigames” like races.
I don’t know yet where to go with the story now. I know I’m threading about none too pleasant subjects so I’m hoping to find somebody who likes to write and is a bit more knowledgable about the subjects.
The coming days I’ll be making the basic engine in gamemaker.
*bites a pear fucking stem first* MMMMMMMMM NROMAL HUMEN CRETURE SUCH AS I AM ANJOYS DELISIOUNCE HUMEN CRETURE FOOD AND NOT SUNSPITCHIOUS AT ALL MMMM MMMM IS A NUTRINTCHITS FRUTT
This being an apple isn’t even slightly less weird she is biting directly into one end of the core
Well, that way you eat the least good part first and ya end on the sweet and pleasand outside. Its like eating potatoes first or first munching the hairy outside off a kiwi!
Another day in the wastelands #2
This terrifying eel-robot will perform maintenance on undersea equipment
Nope.
“Maintenance”
Do not fear the Love Eel Human..
what the fuck do u mean by “terrifying”
Robo-Eel is beautiful, let them do their job
Could’ve been a boss from beyond good and evil.
How are things going currently? Don't worry, take your time!
anon you have wonderful timing
so i’ve been (in addition to doing my thing as a freelancer) in the middle of a sort of reformation with star signal. gameplay direction, how i want that to interplay with the story, if i want to tell a story at all, how to tell that story, that sort of thing
a few gems have come out of it; in particular i’ve settled on renaming ‘White Planet’ (that is, the space colony that is the setting of the game) to ‘Polestar (Labs)’ and come to realize that star signal’s shooter gameplay isn’t necessarily conducive to the core gameplay loop of “get object > learn to use object > use object to explore new areas, to find new objects”.
i also just came out of (and i do mean just came out of) a really promising feeling tech demo that ended up getting 100% stifled by game maker’s shitty 3d support
please do not be impressed. it took GM like a solid 20 seconds to load up these models. these models have 20 frames of animation a piece on them.
to that end, i am now listening to several unity podcasts
not, like, for star signal. just in general. i didn’t know i had this kind of 3d tech in me and now i want to be ready to go a year or two down the line when star signal is out the door and i get to make a big stupid arena shooter or something
you know what she has? hands! proper human(?)-ass low-poly mitten hands! i couldn’t do hands before. hands are proof of progress.
I actually made a 3d arena shooter in gamemaker. It’s almost playable... See what it’s like and why you really really need to use not gamemaker here!: https://gobbo-the-civet.itch.io/spearfeather
STRAFE®’s main menu is super badass, It should feel great in VR too.
It is not very difficult to find coders or visual artists for hire in dev. Now when it comes to sound... Simple audio effects and such I can make by myself or use stock. Up to a certain extend, of course. But with music; music HAS to be original and it because it dictates the atmosphere of your game also needs to fit with the game’s intended feeling and setting.
Where should I look for a composer?
I know where I’m going with this but animations gonna be tough.
All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof. All things are known because we want to believe in them.
Why are so many people able to make video games and every time I even begin to look into it my brain just shuts down? I figured out flash animation on my own but I’ve never gotten anywhere in RPG maker or gamemaker or any of that stuff, even with a tutorial. Blech.
Do you enjoy doing it? Maybe you would like a quicker yield? Flash produces something useful and fun even with only the keyframes... For a game you need gameplay, sound, graphics and at least one level which takes about a month WITH an already functional engine to build upon...
It sounds real boring when I state it like that but it’s a continuous and various process. It’s really a lot of fun when you’re diddling but if you want to produce something semi-pro you shouldn’t want to be doing it alone anyway.
