Random headcanon: the reason that Peach and Bowser don’t seem to get a lot of respect in some Super Mario games is because the Mushroom Kingdom is kind of a rural backwater and isn’t terribly important or influential politically, so people tend to regard Bowser as a C-list villain for being so hung up on such an insignificant conquest. Nobody really expects Bowser to be a serious threat – that would be like expecting a guy whose main claim to fame is repeatedly failing to conquer Wyoming to be a serious threat – so they get taken by surprise every single time.
So what you’re saying is that Bowser is more or less on the same level of villainy as Dr. Doofenshmirtz?
Oh, quite the opposite – point him at any target that isn’t the Mushroom Kindgom and he’s this massive outside context problem that rolls over entire armies and cracks planets in half. It’s just the Mushroom Kingdom in particular he can’t seem to figure out, and that bothers him terribly.
The obvious implication is that, like, Mario is an A-tier hero who happens to live in a C-tier nation.
Like, if Clark Kent hadn’t moved to the big city for a reporting job, he’d still be Superman. And there’s be some villain who tried to knock over a bank in Bumfuck Kansas and wound up having a very bad day.
(And eventually we have Lex Luthor spending a huge amount of time trying and failing to run some penny-ante scheme in rural Kansas and failing, and no one can take him seriously despite the fact that he’s just as competent as he would be in canon.)
In Oregon there lives a species of snake capable of surviving tetrodotoxin doses strong enough to kill animals thousands of times their size. This is because they evolved alongside a species of poisonous newt which they consume regularly, which produces ludicrous amounts of a poison thousands of times stronger than cyanide. They got to this point by fighting each other in the same bumfuck nowhere habitat for millions of years. The newts got more toxic to fight the snakes. The snakes got better immunity to keep eating newts. Now we’re left with snakes capable of eating some of the most poisonous creatures alive, and newts so deadly that they are inedible to anything other than these snakes.
What I’m trying to say is that Mario and Bowser are the result of two evenly-matched overpowered idiots fighting the same battle for decades. The consequences only become clear when you square them up to literally anything else.
Why the fuck would language evolve in such a completely illogical way like this
fuck every last bit of this
Humans invented writing as a way of communicating information and it’s pretty great on the whole but we maybe did not adequately prepare for depreciation in legibility
Why the fuck would language evolve in such a completely illogical way like this
fuck every last bit of this
Humans invented writing as a way of communicating information and it’s pretty great on the whole but we maybe did not adequately prepare for depreciation in legibility
Catch is a big word. Doof would meet Kira by accident while doing an evil scheme in Japan, but every time Kira tries to write his name into the book it doesn’t work for a different backstory-related reason. He’s legally an ocelot, his parents were too poor for vowels, so that’s technically not how his name is spelled, he’s technically not a doctor, etc.
Kira gets so irate he launches into a rant where Perry the Platypus can hear him. Doof walks into the room mid-fight, and while he never actually understands what Perry has against the kid, if a platypus tells you to square the fuck up, you square the fuck up. The lab blows up in a way that incriminates Light in a dozen Kira-unrelated crimes and he gets arrested.
On his way to getting deported Doof finds the death note. He reads the rules and never even turns around to see Ryuk before calling it idiotic and tasteless, and spends the entire plane ride home deriding the very concept.
the number of jobs that disabled people could do with no problems if it weren’t for the way they would need to do it being deemed unprofessional is sooooo. 😐
like the things that keep disabled people out of a lot of jobs frequently have nothing to do with the actual requirements of the job
There’s a whole lot of jobs that could be done if they weren’t attached to “9-5, work 2 solid hours, 10 minute break, 1 hr 50 minutes more, 30 minute break, 2 more hours, 10 minutes, 1 hr 50 minutes, clock out.”
More if workers were allowed to sit down. More if they could take more frequent breaks - even off the clock - and lie down for them. More if they didn’t have to work in an “open office” with everyone’s conversations in the background. More if they could pick their hours.
And that’s before we get to all the jobs that could be done if workers could pick the location and method for doing the work.
The corporate system wants the system maintained much more than it wants the work done.
Hello skinny tgirl. Lately you’ve been complaining that your tits aren’t growing. In front of you is a plate of food.
Unironically my tits grow faster for a few days every time I eat salmon
I should probably cook more salmon
Well yes salmon does have some fat in it! And it is good! Try and eat it with some carbs, like potatoes, or maybe blinis. Why not add some vegetables as well? Steamed brocolis, grilled leaks, roasted eggplant, and maybe some cream? That sounds delicious.
Idk who this man is but he is right. Eat girls
commas save lives,,, rip girls, you were delicious,
Girls can be eaten many times if you know what you’re doing.
woke up this morning, rolled over, and very confidently tried to blow out my alarm clock like a candle. absolutely no precedent for that.
Ebeneezer in 1742 wakes with a start as for some reason he has put out his guttering candle by slapping atop it ith the palm of his hand. His hand is burned and his nightgown and cap are spattered with hot wax.
i meant to empty my contact lens case of cleaner and instead launched my allergy pills down the drain. wasn’t even holding the lens case
once confidently pointed my car keys at the door out of my house and pressed the unlock button
I once punched my deodorant so hard it exploded thinking it was my alarm clock. It took an hour to clean. I don’t have an alarm clock
I truly enjoy how much Animorphs is like “here are our young heroes, each with a distinctive trope to fill in the group!” And then it makes you watch how the pressure of each person’s role grinds them to dust. And also they have homework.
Yeah they’re students. If they don’t keep their grades up or if they miss too many classes (or miss classes at suspicious times) then they risk drawing the attention of the faculty and/or their parents, some of whom are the enemy and some of whom can just make future espionage a whole lot harder. There are multiple missions where they’re like “okay, this is incredibly time sensitive but it’ll take a full day or longer so it has to wait for the weekend and we’ll have to all lie to our parents about sleeping over at each others’ houses. It’s gonna have to be done at the last minute because we’ve gotta go to class. Also, remember to get that English paper finished, we can NOT afford to have you grounded right now.”
”How come you’ve never seen the Amazon rainforest if you’re from Brazil?” big country
Here, this should make it clearer:
Wait, hold on, I can illustrate it in a funnier way
There’s around one and a half Frances between me and the Amazon rainforest.
and? have you seen where some of the Americans that have gone to the redwoods come from? new york is pretty far from them and yet…
and the distance is not the issue (although I don’t think most people do road trips like that - unless they take the bus and even then). it’s just not a good way to get to it. aside from bad roads in the middle of nowhere - you can’t just. Drive through it in any direction you like.
If you want to have a tour or something you could go to Manaus. Which is even farther. and there’s like one road. lol
ok correct me if I’m wrong but what if op just
doesn’t. want to see the rainforest
like what if it’s just not that serious
I do, it’s the thing! I like, really, really do. I can’t express how much I want to see one of these pink thangs with my own eyes before I die:
Plane tickets are just not like, something I can splurge on at the moment and, well. I’m pretty sure that just getting from where I am to the nearest state considered within the rainforest biome would be a 15 hour bus trip. And I’m one of those people who gets violently carsick if they do as much as glance at a book or a screen while inside a moving vehicle. Not an ideal combo.
guys! i can’t read on the train either but do you never want to just take a long ride and clear your head? without a screen? not everybody holds this to be a borderline sacred experience? huh???
For like, one, two, three hours? Sounds great! I love a good daydream while looking at beautiful scenery. For FIFTEEN hours, though? That’s the torture I’d be going through if Dante met me in hell.
normally it’s frustrating when mystery games hand you answers on a silver plate but in ace attorney, the witnesses’ tendencies to conveniently say far more than what they were asked for is so hilarious that it becomes its own reward. ace attorney witnesses will be asked what time they saw the murder and they’ll say it was 10:40 and they know it was exactly that time because that’s the exact minute they open the can of Fancy Feast to feed their elderly russian blue cat, father of 12 kittens and phoenix will be like umm actually i spoke to your cat and here’s a written affidavit from him that there was a recall on Fancy Feast and also he’s never been to russia nor known the touch of a woman. you’re going to jail buddy
Maya Fey is such a fucking genius concept for a character it makes me insane. at 17 years old she’s the sole heir to a prestigious and powerful family of spirit mediums. her parents are gone and her sister is dead and the burden of the fey legacy is hers alone to bear. And so it is her destiny to spend her life entire training rigorously to detach herself from the world in order to hone her powers and reclaim the pride and standing of the Fey clan. and what does she do about it? she becomes the most unapologetically earthly, hedonistic, materialistic creature alive. A girl who is always chasing pleasure, be that in money, in food, in children’s tv shows. A girl who loves loudly, who wants loudly, who lives loudly. A girl who in all her strength and kindness is not afraid to be selfish and to take what she wants. And yet underneath all that is something small and sad and scared. She’s lonely, and afraid of being left behind. she struggles with self-esteem. she’s passively suicidal. and eventually, under enough pressure, she DOES start to crack under the weight of it all because at the end of the day despite everything she is still a teenage girl. I genuinely cannot imagine thinking that Maya Fey is badly written. I think she’s one of the most brilliant video game characters of all time.
you’re gonna see a lot of jokers today saying stuff like ‘make sure you vote for biden!’ and i just want to remind everyone that this is no time for jokes. we need to work together to get hillary in no matter what.
since we’re getting closer to canada’s election year and i plan on doing my part to help educate voters, here are two exceedingly simplified graphics for my international viewers on what we’re dealing with here. tldr: canada is tired of trudeau (the liberal party) and things are starting to lean a bit too right-wing for comfort.
i am compelled to remind canadians that the NDPis our leftmost leaning party and our best chance at getting some tangible, beneficial change for everyone and not just some people.
Republicans not wanting to fund libraries is part of their plan to make the next generation illiterate. That is why they are banning books too.
By all means put the library IN the rec centre! Public Third Spaces are important, and having a library in the same building as hockey or the Y just makes it more accessible. Imagine dropping one kid at practice and taking the other across the hall to read while you wait. Imagine picking up books after you have your workout. Imagine studying for a few hours and then going for a swim before you head home.
This is the John Harper branch of the Waterloo Public Library. I wrote a book and did job applications on the left, and then went up to that gym on the right to walk around the indoor track. Parking was free. The library was free. The YMCA had subsidized rates.
when it’s really bad again and it’s still way better than it used to be but it’s still really bad. and you do all the right stuff and you try and try and it still really hurts but it’s working but it still hurts and you go see the beautiful majesty of nature and your soul is so close to being at peace but your mind is still in pain. and it’s better but it’s still bad. and the sun is setting.
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