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No game does ghosts right. Phasmaphobia almost does it right, but it turns into your typical cliche 3d model past a certain point, the abstract nature of ghouls and ghosts disappears once you figure out what ur lookin at! I wanna, I wanna make a game with ghosts where they fucking look you dead in the eyes, where it fucks with you and turns off your computer when ur not looking, for years after u close the game, haunted PC.Ā
my sister works in a restaurant and has taken to saying "do you think that's normal?" every time someone says something rude or is borderline harrassing her. fully doesn't engage except for telling them to Reflect. Look Inward. i'm obsessed with her.
we talk about the dangers of needing to be the smartest guy in the room but i think even more deadly is the urge to be the FUNNIEST guy in the room.
the problem with being a guy who is always doing a bit is that if your bits arent literally always funny 100% of the time some body is going to kill you. and you are going to deserve it
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Abled Person: Hey man, can you hold this wad of $2,000 and this one penny for me while I open my wallet?
Disabled Person: YOU COMPLETE AND UTTER FOOL!
The United States Government:
(Watch how many people donāt get this.)
#raises handĀ #i dont understandĀ #please explain?Ā
In order for disabled people to receive any sort of financial assistant for their housing, food, bills, medical supplies, etc., they cannot ever have more than $2,000 of resources to their name. Ever.
It doesnāt matter what itās for.
Youāre saving up for a new wheelchair?
For college?
To put a downpayment on a house?
Hell man, you just happen to budget for once in your life so that you can have some extra money in case something bad happens?
Your benefits immediately get cut off if youāre a cent over $2,000.
And, even worse, you usually end up having to pay back every dollar the government gave you that month.
So say you get $400. If they find out youāre twenty dollars over the resource limit, you have to give them all $400 back and you undergo an investigation of your funds to see if you will continue getting money.
āWhat if I spend the money that day?ā
Doesnāt matter. In fact, from what I can tell, people who do this are actually put under investigation for fraud.
And yes, this system literally kills people.
Remember whenĀ āGuardians of the Galaxyā came out? one of Rocket Racoonās creators, Bill Mantlo, suffered an accident in 1992 and has irreparable brain damage.
before the movie came out, Marvel gave him an exclusive preview screening. SOme people were upset because they felt if Marvel was really wanted to thank mantlo, they should have donated money to Mantloās family.
Bill Mantloās brother had to come out and explain: If Marvel gave them monetary aid, Bill Mantlo would lose his financial assistance.
Thatās so utterly depressing.
disgusting
I have friends on welfare who wonāt pick up a penny in the street because theyād risk the welfare they struggled to get for 10 years.
oh look another fucked up thing in this world. letās just add it to the list. number 63858b
My brother has been on California State SSI for autism for the last 10 years, and he absolutely has to (no joke, HAS TO) spend all 720 bucks of his SSI every month, because if he puts it in the bank he risks losing his SSI altogether.
Sometimes, at the end of the month, he has no idea what to do with his money because the whole month went by and he still has 400-ish bucks in his account, and he fucking panics because he doesnāt want to get anywhere near 2,000.
And hereās the funnest part of the story!
One day he did a huge commission on Second Life and wound up earning 1500 bucks off of it, and he told the guy to donate it 500 bucks at a time over 3 months. The guy didnāt want to, and just donated all 1500, which put my brother at 2,036 bucks.
The state IMMEDIATELY (Iām talking less than an hour) called him up to tell him over the phone that they were canceling his SSI, because they noticed he had gone over the 2,000 buck threshold. He had to tell them that someone had made a charitable donation to him and that this was not a common occurrence in any way shape or form, and upon not believing him, my mother had to call to talk to them as his legal caretaker and say basically the same thing until they called off the cancellation of his SSI money.
He also had to cancel his renterās assistance because it put him to 1,062 a month, so if he went 30 days without spending any money theyād cancel his SSI altogether. Like, none of us in the family have any fucking clue why that regulation is in place and itās the stupidest shit in human history.
Please, legal side of Tumblr, tell me what positive reasoning this law has?
Happy 4th of July everyone! This is what the ānation of opportunityā looks like.
Thereās something called an ABLE account that can help. If you are on SSI and were diagnosed as disabled before the age of 26 you can apply for an ABLE account that will allow you to save up to $99,000. More people need to know about this!
thank you so much for this information. iām applying for an abled account right now
THERES A WHAT
OH GOD BLESS THE SHIT OUTTA YOU YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW FREAKED OUT OVER THIS I WAS
Iāve been looking into SSI; I had no idea about this!
Read till the end for the important info
Reblog to literally save a disabled personās life
https://www.ablenrc.org/what-is-able/what-are-able-acounts/
remember to cry for help without guilt-tripping. i know it feels like youāve been abandoned and betrayed, but itās probably not true, and itās not okay to accuse the people around you of something they might not have done.
āi guess none of you like meā could be better phrased asĀ āi feel unloved right nowā
ābut nobody cares anywayā could be better phrased asĀ āi feel insignificant and i need reassuranceā
rather than assuming othersā feelings, give them time to explain them. youāll usually get a much better answer.
This is really important for future predictions, too.Ā āYouāre eventually going to leave meā is impossible for someone else to disprove without just sticking around forever, but no one wants to stick around when theyāre being constantly accused of future abandonment. Giving someone no choice but to either stay with you forever in order to prove you wrong or leave you and prove you right is incredibly emotionally manipulative, whether you mean it to be or not.
āI get scared sometimes because Iām afraid of being alone againā is easier to address and doesnāt leave your partner(s)/friend(s) feeling as though theyāre being preemptively accused of something.Ā Ā
Honestly the biggest disappointment I had researching ABC was that medieval authors did not, in fact, see the creatures they were describing and were trying their best to describe them with their limited knowledge while going āwhat the fuckā¦ what the fuckā¦ā
Instead all those creatures you know came about from transcription and translation errors from copying Greco-Roman sources (who themselves got them from travelersā tales from Persia and India - rhino -> unicorn, tiger -> manticore, python -> dragon, and so on).
So unicorns are real
beholdā¦ a unicorn
I always thought animals in medieval manuscripts looked like the result of having to draw say. A Tree Kangaroo, but your only source for what it looked like was your friend who heard it from a fellow who knows a man who swears he saw one once, whilst very drunk and lost, and I am SO PLEASEDĀ to find out this is, in fact, the case.
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- Neck of a snake
- body of a leopard
- haunches of a lion
- feet off a hart (deer)
So is it
Orā¦.
donāt forget that some of the legendary creatures they were describing were from other peopleās mythos which were passed down in the oral tradition for gods know how long. You know what existed in Eurasia right around the time we were domesticating wolves into dogs?
these beasties. For a long time, science had them down as going extinct 200 thousand years ago, but then we found some bones from 36 thousand years ago. Which, yāknow, is quite a difference. Since you can bet that any skeleton we find is not literally the last one of its kind to live, many creatures have date ranges unknowably far outside the evidence.
In South Asia there were cultures that described a man-beast/troll forrest giantĀ whoās knuckles dragged the ground, and everybody from the west was sure it was superstitious mumbo jumbo, but you know what used to live there?
And did you know that some of the earliest white colonizers of the Americas heard accounts that there were natives still alive who had seen and hunted and eaten a great hairy beast, shaggy like the buffalo but much bigger, with a long thin nose like a snake and two giant fangsā¦ so, like, mammoths, you know? but they were totally discounted because europeans of the time were like, elephants live in Africa and arenāt hairy, you canāt fool us, pranksters!
Anyway, the point is between the early writing game of telephone description thing talked about by OP, and the discounting of native cultural accuracy, Iām pretty sure most legendary creatures are in fact real animals one way or anotherĀ
It canāt explain every single legendary creature, but yes, this is super important. Because History relies on written sources, it tends to sweep oral tradition under the rug, even if thereās a lot of interesting informations in it.
And itās not just living animals that were badly described, or which descriptions got exaggerated over the course of centuries or through translation errors. Sometimes, people finding fossil bones of extinct animals might have also influenced some myths!
By now this is pretty well-known but it has been theorised that the Greek myth of the cyclops was started when people found Deinotherium skulls. Now you might say, uh, how is it possible to think a cousin of the elephant is a huge human dude with one eye?
Well-
- the big nasal opening kinda looks like an eye if you have no idea what kind of animal had this kind of skull (you can read more about this theory in this old National Geographic article if you like).
Hereās a less well-known one; the griffin is a mythological hybrid with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle. The earliest traces of this myth come from ancient Iranian and ancient Egyptian art, from more than 3000 BC. In Iranian mythology, itās called Ų“ŪŲ±ŲÆŲ§Łā (shirdal, ālion eagleā). Now, itās been the subject of some debate and itās not confirmed, but thereās a theory that people might have seen some Protoceratops and Psittacosaurus fossils in Asia and might have interpreted it as āa lion with an eagleās headā:
Check the āoriginā part of the wikipedia page for āgriffinā if you want to find more sources for this theory and for the arguments against it! Again, itās just a theory, but I think itās super cool.
This is a pretty well accepted theory for why dragons (or animals we group as like dragons, eg wyverns and drakes) are seen in mythos almost worldwide - because people found dinosaur bones, looked at them, and wentĀ āoh fuck whatās that? some bigā¦. lizardy thing?ā and then created dragons.
Also many deagon legends are simply exaggerations of well-known living reptiles like snakes and crocodilians.a
It also explains why dragons can look so different in the myths of the various regions.
In asia, Dragons tend to look very long and snake like:
One of the most common dinosaurs that used to like in the asia region, so would have been the most common fossils found by people:
The Mamenchisaurus, this thing is just all neck and tail! You find just half a fossilised skeleton of this monster, you can easily end up thinking of a long snake-like beast.
South America also has legends snake-like dragons among some of its peoples:
What fossils from pre-historic south America could be found?
The Titanoboa, which can easily grow to be 40 feet long.
In North America there is the Piasa Bird
Which wikipedia tells me comes from ā the large Mississippian culture city of Cahokia,ā itās describes as
What fossils could have been found in that region:
Pterosaur, and Triceratops. Features of both sets of skeletons could have been merged into one legendary creature.
Then we get our European style dragon:
One of the most common fossils that could have been found was a CetiosaurusĀ
which, despite being a herbivore, looked to have a mouth of sharp looking teeth, consistant with a dragons.
Dragons amongst the peoples of Africa are even more varied, but most revolve around some kind of giant snake-like creature. As a quick example, weāll take Dan Ayido Hwedo commonly found in West African mythology.
Fossils in that area could have been included the Aegyptosaurus:
A quick google search tells me that most Sauropods: well known for being long necked and long tailed, are found in Africa.
If you found only a half complete skeleton of this thing; which is likely, because itās rare to find a complete dinosaur skeleton, you could easily think of a giant snake monster.
the ātumblr community invents a whole mafia movie apparently directed by martin scorsese with an official soundtrack, movie posters, screen caps, and all enough to make one question if that movie really did exist at all like a mandela effectā was not part of my 2022 bingo card
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