Palestine Donation Links Masterpost

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(Last Updated: 13-02-2024)

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“I thought this city didn’t have any gods.”

The pigeon grinned a beak full of dog’s teeth. “Ha. They say there aren’t. They even kept most of them out for a while.”

“How did you make it?”

“By being smart. By hiding.”

She gave the one-legged, feral feathered thing a sideways look. “As a pigeon?”

“Sometimes,” said the pigeon. “Sometimes I’m graffiti on a wall. Sometimes I’m a coin dropped in a beggar’s hand. I am neon at night, the rain in the light. I am the song the busker sings. I listen to the prayers of those who come to the city with big dreams.”

“And in return?”

It grinned again. Steam rolled off its feathers, smelling of cigarettes. “I eat their despair.”

“That’s cruel.”

It moved its wings in something like a shrug. “That’s the big city for you.”

I was reminded of this story and wanted to try and paint the pigeon god

drew this while watching my best friend play random jerma games he found on steam

I’ve been on a bit of a Portal kick lately, and playing through Portal 2 again, there’s one particular aspect of the story I can’t stop thinking about, and that I haven’t seen anyone talk about.

Wheatley.

He was literally built to be moronic, and conjure ideas that should not work at all.

But when you consider Wheatley’s actions throughout the plot… he’s actually pretty smart if you think about it.

Like, yeah, he’s bumbling and sometimes can’t figure out seemingly basic concepts, but in other respects, Wheatley is frighteningly capable, even before he betrays the player.

He’s the one who comes up with the plan to shut down the turret production line and the neurotoxin generator. While obviously Chell does most of the legwork to achieve that, GLaDOS was caught completely off-guard and defenseless. To say nothing of how he managed to navigate the facility far enough to interrupt you in the middle of a test to help you escape.

And that’s to say nothing of how after he betrays you, and expresses his intent to kill you, he tricks you into thinking that he’s going to do it later down the line, before suddenly springing a trap on you that even GLaDOS compliments.

And then the boss fight. Wheatley not only thought to re-watch the old recordings of when Chell defeated GLaDOS, but even used that to prepare himself to avoid meeting the same fate. And even after you beat him, he booby-traps the stalemate button, and if completely crazy idea of portaling all the way to the moon hadn’t worked, Wheatley would have won ( albeit, he would have destroyed the facility too, but still ).

Like, on the last two points, I sort of initially thought Wheatley being smarter was due to the influence of GLaDOS’s body. But when I think about it, he totally displays a penchant for schemes and even outsmarting GLaDOS even before then - and I can’t help but wonder what that means for the little robot who was literally built to be as stupid as possible. GLaDOS literally describes him as an “idiot made to come up with stupid unworkable plans”, but… most of his plans throughout the game actually DO work, give or take.

WAIT PEOPLE ON TUMBLR ARE REAL FUCKING PEOPLE

no im a search engibe

no im not im a grocery store

No I’m a shit music platform

No I'm an online game

NO IM A COUNTRY

Yeah no I'm a country too. Not a real person sorry

no im a fanfic website

Nope I'm Staff

im a small potato

"people show their true colours in life threatening situations" no, they show you what they act like when they're mortally terrified, an emotion notorious for literally turning your entire brain off to the point where people who go into those situations as a profession need to be literally trained on how to not have that happen

#god i hate any 'true colors' take so much#maybe all we are made of is facets and maybe those facets are all equally true even if they are not equally beautiful

why are these kinds of levels so alluring...

stim toys for dads

Just adopted...

MY ULTIMATE CREATION

We’re coming close to ten years on this puppy

I’ve always wanted to chug a jar of mayo

Okay, this is pretty incredible. A 3D artist, consulting scholars and archaeologists, worked for a year and a half in Blender to create a reconstruction of pre-Columbian Tenochtitlán, complete with the surrounding landscape. It’s staggeringly beautiful, and—at least to me—gives a wonderful impression of the city as a place where people worked and lived and worshiped

HOLY SHIT CLICK THROUGH THIS IS INCREDIBLE

People really struggle with the whole WE thing. WE would be the WHOLE UNION not just the millionaires.

"But you got yours, why aren't you saying 'fuck them'?"

Jack Lemmon used to call this "sending the elevator back down", helping younger actors/actresses with their talent, introducing them to producers/directors, helping where he could. An Oscar winning actor helping the up-and-coming, just because he could do so. Nice to see that spirit still alive and well standing up against a bunch of rich, entitled, forgot-where-they-came-from CEO's.

This is a sugary drink with questionable ingredients to YOU. It's the blood of the gods.to me. We're not the same.

people complaining that any critique of a thing they like ruins it for them is such a skill issue. personally i can spend 10 hours a day critiquing the things i like and still enjoy them passionately and wholeheartedly