An ode to the best walk cycles in fighting games

gods, every time i see that Baiken one, i think, “…is she being controlled by her sentient, independent breasts?”

think you forgot someone

HOLY SHIT OH YM GOD OH MY OG DFLSKDFJASSLDFKJDFSA

CURSED

So i was just going to screenshot this post and-

this is the pic that wont load for any of us apparently

the pic not loading was a blessing why would you do this

So last night was my first welding class and the second i walked through the door the teacher said “hey you’re zoe right” and I started to panic because how does the teacher immediately know who I am fuck did I have this teacher before how come i don’t recognize him fuck fuck i’m a terrible person

turns out i’m just the youngest person in the class by about 30 years so the deduction wasn’t that hard

anyways, apparently people keep taking the welding class over and over again and the wait list is like 100 people long and so it was by some act of providence of pure dumb luck that I managed to get a spot. This also means I was the only person there who hadn’t welded before.

I’m stationed at a big center table where the teacher can keep an eye on me, and everyone else is in booths on the surrounding walls each making their own projects. And these are impressive looking projects. One guy is making a side table, a woman is making a giant metal rocking chair, and another guy was making a wind chime out of old compressed air canisters. 

The elderly gentlemen in the booth right behind me introduces himself to me as Jim and asks me if this is my first time and I say yeah and he smiles at me and tells me I’m gonna love it and how this class is so fun.

Immediately Jim becomes my new best friend. He comes over whenever I stop to take a break and asks how I’m doing and even helps me take the welding mask off when I couldn’t figure out how to do it myself. 

at one point i see Jim and another old guy talking to the teacher and i catch the old guy pointing at me. now being pointed at is usually never a good thing. the teacher has had me welding edges of scrap metal together so I can get a feel for the equipment. The teacher comes to check on me and I jokingly as him if those seasoned guys were making fun of me. 

Turns out I’m super good at welding and the old guy didn’t believe it was my first time welding ever and Jim was trying to convince him I was a newbie. :D

So for the entire 3 hour long class, like 15 middle aged and elderly people would periodically come by my table and check in with me, making sure I’m having fun and asking me questions about my life, and things like, do you know where the drinking fountain is, making sure I’m taking breaks, looking out for me and that kind of thing, all while being completely kind and supporting and complimenting me on my welding skills. 

and that’s how a community center welding class gave me 15 new grandparents. i love them all and this class is going to be amazing

important addition 3 years later because I forgot:

the other elderly gentleman’s name is Gino and spoke with a thick Italian accent and took to calling me Bella for the rest of the semester. Jim made sure to always take the booth closest to me. 

Another guy in the class named Mike did salvage diving as a hobby and always showed me pictures of the cool stuff he’d found. He also made very cool sculptures out of spoons, forks and knives. I at one point made an offhand joke that I was moving soon, and was jealous that Mike had all this cutlery to spare to make sculptures out of. (I was going to be moving in with my boyfriend and neither of us really had a lot of kitchenware) The next class he brought in an entire cutlery set insisting that he was trying to clean out his house because he had so many and wouldn’t take no for an answer. We still have them to this day :)

They had cupcakes waiting for me on my birthday and on the last day they had framed picture of me with my final project because “it’s important to celebrate your successes” and encouraged me to give it to my mom (which of course I did, along with my cattail sculpture)

long story short I would die for each and every one of them and there’s a group email chain that we all still keep in touch with and as of a few months ago it was Gino’s 85th birthday. 

It’s stories like these that shake me to my core and remind me that while I am not surrounded by the kindest people, kindness is innate and human. I’m so happy for you, op

Man, I want 15 new grandparents that all know how to weld, that's fucking sick

The music in water levels:

The music in snowy levels:

Don’t forget the desert levels

The haunted house level:

The cave level though

these details were absolutely needed

Here’s a link to the game if anyone wants to give it a try (I fucking hate christopher robin so fucking much)

I still have a bunch of the fanart!

Now this is my kind of meme!

I’M SO FUCKING GLAD POOH BASEBALL IS RELEVANT AGAIN.

I love highly niche memes from specific environments

Good Find

tumblr really has gone from being an open pvp zone to being my chill little retreat from other social media sites. nobody is trying to hock NFTs. i'm not forced to hear about joe rogan. i mean i know statistically people like this and things that are even worse also exist on tumblr but it's out of sight out of mind. they aren't being forced into my view by an algorithm. it's all just among us babies

Gameboy peripheral PediSedate was designed for dentists and dosed kids with nitrous oxide as they played games.

Time to enter the ＧＡＭＥＲ ＺＯＮＥ

Camera, printer, sewing machine, now a fucking anaesthetic adminstrator…was there anything the Game Boy didn’t have an accessory for?

Do you know about the fish finding sonar?

gameboy sprinted so smart phones could lag and be ugly

Baiken’s walking animation really went from this.

To this.

TO THIS.

All of you are right.

Captain America – Infinity Comic #4 (2021)

Fascism: I sometimes fear… (by Michael Rosen, May 2014)

I sometimes fear that 

people think that fascism arrives in fancy dress 

worn by grotesques and monsters 

as played out in endless re-runs of the Nazis. 

Fascism arrives as your friend. 

It will restore your honour, 

make you feel proud, 

protect your house, 

give you a job, 

clean up the neighbourhood, 

remind you of how great you once were, 

clear out the venal and the corrupt, 

remove anything you feel is unlike you…

It doesn’t walk in saying, 

“Our programme means militias, mass imprisonments, transportations, war and persecution.”

(see also: GB News, The Daily Mail, The Sun, The Spectator, LBC Radio, Priti Patel, the ERG … )

y'all will circlejerk yourself to the mysticisms of faeries and elves in european countries for centuries and take it as fact but the second native americans ask you to respect our spirituality and culture suddenly you're all aetheists

non natives can, should, and will reblog this.

same goes for african rooted religions.

goes without saying, but also Asian and Pacific Islands' indigenous spiritualities and religions.

Restaurants and bars really love to test your sobriety by making the route to their bathrooms as labyrinthine as possible

Me: I'm not that drunk

Me trying to figure out where the Fuck they've hidden the restrooms in this bar: So this is how Odysseus felt huh

Everyone tagging this post with their local bars/restaurants that have ridiculous bathroom layouts.....I see u. I am u. We are all Odysseus, and our Ithaca is a toilet covered in stickers.

ok I just HAVE to include this picture from inside the bathroom door of this one bar I went to

only one of these knobs work and it's not the one that's a different color from the rest

There’s a tourist trap in NYC called the Jekyll and Hyde Club. It’s kitsch, overpriced, and kinda fun. The elevator is wonky on purpose, there’s animatronic talking heads on the walls, the paintings talk, the waiters are dressed up, and it’s all interactive. I’ve been there a few times.

But the bathroom?

This is the hallway to the bathroom. You have to read the titles of the books to figure it out. And they don’t tell you how to get in.

Riddle me piss!

Okay riddle me piss caught me off guard and now instead of being angry that these bathrooms exist I'm trying not to laugh and wake everyone up

Riddle me piss, boys!

I've been pretty consistently getting third place every race in Mario Kart ever since me & my dad & brother started playing together regularly (early 2020) and I just figured it was because I sucked but then me and dad switched controllers for a race and he was like "???? Ashland this thing is very broken". So we got new controllers and now I'm winning very regularly. Like just absolutely crushing them. It's been very funny.

Literally I sat down on the couch one evening completely prepared to lose horrifically but have fun anyways and my brother passed me a new controller and I won first place seven tracks in a row. It was like this

OP getting a new controller like

not gonna fuckin say it again

i don’t remember posting this but to this day i have not said it again so mission accomplished i guess

Stagnant is a really terrible word choice, marinades are about flavor and if sufficiently acidic can penetrate and tenderize about a quarter inch into the meat, while brines use salt to make meat tender and juicy all the way through but impart relatively little flavor other than risk of over salting.

You want to avoid brining and marinating at the same time, but brining first, then marinating can make for some exquisite cooking. Also don’t switch the order, brining second will steal the marinade flavors, and for thinner cuts a marinade might be all you need anyway.

I’m relieved this post has some good replies rejecting this brine propoganda.

What a bad cooking take. Brines and marinades are both valid.