Sir Skeletal

i hate it when game devs put “fixed several issues” in patch notes 

no. tell me what you fixed. i wanna know what the glitch was.

you know those patch notes that are like “fixed an issue where if the player sat in a bush for too long, they’d become the size of a skyscraper” 

i wanna read those. tell me those. 

Adjusted value of Bees. Now that was a special one… because every item in the game had a minimum value, and a beehive was a container for bees, which each had a minimum value… which meant the moment one of your dwarves picked up a beehive, your entire fortress’ net worth skyrocketed… a value used in determining how powerful the foes that visit and try to murder you are.

Reblogging for the explanation of what “adjusted value of bees” actually means, because I know several folks following this blog have been wondering.

Okay but you’ve all forgotten the best Dwarf Fortress bug of all “Flying creatures give birth in midair, leading to tragedy” 

Actually I lied it’s the one where after a major update werewolves and vampires started climbing the nearest tree and refusing to come down. It turned out that he’d given evil creatures the ability to sense each other, but forgotten to set a maximum range on it, so werewolves were aware Hell was underground and trying to flee by climbing 

This has to be my favorite patch note ever

Maryland vs peta

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

It’s a universally known fact that you don’t fuck with our crab cakes here in Maryland.

Unfortunately, that second billboard is a photoshopped fake. BUT the real billboards that went up are just as fun!

So PETA put up that top billboard in 2018 in Baltimore, and the restaurant across the street, Jimmy’s Famous Seafood, put up a response. They also debuted a beer called, appropriately, PETA Tears, but I digress.

The ME was a subtle call out, a warning shot if you will.

But earlier this year (2023) right in time for Lent in very catholic Baltimore, PETA decided to try again.

To which Jimmy’s decided fuck that, let’s get two billboards this time. (WaPo)

No lie, ‘savor the sacrifice’ is my new favorite tag line.

*peers out the window* Weird shit, mostly. It's fun living here.

You don’t get between a Marylander and their crabs.

Beautiful.

Sauerkraut

Danke

Affe.

Außerdem ist Ihre Hand nach hinten gerichtet.

bratwurst

Flamenwerfer

Schmetterling

Krankenhaus

fraulein

Anfang

Nein

#the shadow on the ground showing its actually in the game is the best part

it is very much in game, here’s it being attacked by bees

you guys can’t do this to me.

Everyone always says that but they never turn off reblogs when the notes start flooding in

CONTEXT MATTERS

Ford's business outperformed all competitors because he paid every employee well enough that they could become a customer.

Compare that to the modern standard of 'sorry your rent is higher than your full time paycheck, have you considered getting a second or third full time job? Also I'm gonna need you to be on-call all weekend and every night.'

enlightened self interest.

Ford had a lot of things wrong with him (Nazi support and rabid anti-Semitism being one of them), but this isn't one of them.

Though I feel bad that people don't know that people used to work 100+ hours a week in the era immediately after the Industrial Revolution.

Less nudity, more public service

if i had seen the transition from sepia to color in wizard of oz in 1939 i would have lost my shit i would've started screaming in the theater

Okay no but like, I am still SO ENAMORED by this transition y’all, ‘cause when Dorothy opens the door of the house onto the colors of Oz, the inside of the house is still sepia toned. And they did that by literally making the interior and the costume and everything SEPIA TONED. You had a double for Judy Garland in a specifically-created sepia-toned dress, in a sepia-toned set, opening the door, backing out of frame, and then the Dorothy that steps back into frame is Judy Garland in her full color costume and makeup, stepping out into the color set.

It’s just

Y’all it’s such a GREAT EFFECT, and this was before computer effects and green screen, it was all practical and yeah it feels like nothing now, but at the time, man, not only was technicolor new, but I’m pretty sure no other movie had done a transition out of b/w or sepia into color, and even knowing it was a technicolor film, that must have just been fucking wild to see! It still is wild to see!! It’s so good.

The technique of switching between double and main actor without an edit is called a Texas Switch and it's still used today, it's very neat to have something so simple yet tricky persist pretty much just because it genuinely looks better to do it with timing than with editing.

I hate the “we should have child free cafes but not dog free cafes” and the “kids shouldn’t be out in public” shit that’s getting popular again cause whenever you ask them why they hate kids they say their loud annoying etc.

Just because another person is inconvenient for you doesn’t mean they don’t get to exist in public.

I feel so horrible for the future generations, I really do. Not only are we taking away all their spaces (getting angry when they’re out in public at malls theatres etc. hell even McDonald’s has been taking down play places and there’s not enough people taking care of public parks) but we’re also demonizing them to the point of comedy.

Bodies of Hostages

The bodies were found in a tunnel the entrance to which is inside a United Nations compound in Rafah.

I'd say "look surprised," but I don't think any of us are surprised any longer to learn that the UN collaborates with Hamas.

fucking evil

What is the point of even adding the video if they ain't showing no bodies? Wasted my time listening to a language i don't understand for nothing.

Personally I don’t know how anyone reads any Greek myths, particularly the Iliad and comes to the conclusion “the gods are good and worthy of my love and worship.” Seems counter intuitive. I don’t even think the Greeks liked doing that, it was more like lip service to a crime boss. They just didn’t want their gyro stands burnt down.

Gods being GOOD is, iirc, a Jewish peculiarity that Christendom spread to the rest of Western society.

gods were never worshiped for their goodness. It was an exchange relationship. I make sacrifices, you send rain. Done and done.

Exactly. Which is why I raise an eyebrow when neo-pagans start talking about having personal loving relationships with their supposed gods. Look if you’re gunna do this shtick you should be fearing for your life, like your ancestors did.

Can’t leave this in the tags

In which the Knight picks up some hobbies while waiting for Hornet to return from Pharloom and tell stories about her adventures

Something about this is so genuine and funky. It feels so natural that if I heard the correct lyrics it wouldn't process as right in my brain. This man yelling about his green tea and watermelon sour patch kids fits so well with the live music playing in the background, the atmosphere, the whole situation. It's like some reverse slam poetry talking about how good life is and how the simple pleasures should be enjoyed. I'm in love with this tik tok.

old alt rock fans in the notes are like:

1) this slaps and actually sounds like a lot of the classics

2) if i went to a concert and they played this i wouldnt even question it. id be like FUCK yeah they were watermelon!!!

WATERMELOOOON

The Department of Fisheries in Hyderabad, India, is shaped like a fish.

finally, some good fucking architecture

The US has a long tradition of neglecting Asians in media. Blackface gets all the attention but they used to have white folks portray us too. Early forms of entertainment made us look evil and sinister, always sneaking around and plotting shit.

... I'd dead ass come back to haunt them

THE FUCKING PUNCHLINE, I’M ENDED