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I’m switching accounts!

I’m going to a new account from now on. I’ll still check this one occasionally, but I’ll main on a different one. @my mutuals, (even if we’ve never actually spoken lol) if someone who posts the same type of stuff that I do follows you, it’s probably me. Feel free to follow back, or don’t. I’m not your dad. Anyway if you want to know what my new account is, just message me and I’ll let you know. 

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OH MY GOD. YOU ALL NEED TO WATCH THIS.

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Tips from my dad about buying a car

- Go in at the end of the month - Buy the model of the year right before the model for the next year comes out (dealers get desperate to sell the old models) - Refuse to put any money down. Say that if they ask you to put down money, you’ll leave - Seriously. If they ask you to put down money say you need to go and walk out - If there’s another dealership nearby, tell them that you’re walking there right after you leave - If a deal seems unfair but you really like the car, tell them you’re going to another dealership and leave. Chances are, they’ll call back the next day with a better deal - If possible, after the first call wait till the last few days of the month and they’ll likely call again with an even better deal - Look around for family and friends that need a car. If you buy more than one car from the same dealership you’ll get a much better deal - If a family member/friend is looking for a used car while you’re looking for a new car or vice versa, still get the used car from the same dealership - If you decide to buy a new car after a few years, trade in the old car and buy a new one from the same dealership. Companies appreciate loyalty and will likely offer you a lower price

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Important info if you have friends/family with adhd/add

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@skeletonkravitz

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whatever you do, don’t think about the possibility that lup, in the umbrastaff, went into the white space with taako in the eleventh hour and saw everything he saw.

don’t think about her watching as the chalice rewinds through his past and seeing nothing but static where she should be. all those memories of growing up together, life on the road, hopping from caravan to caravan, watching each other’s backs, teaching each other spells - all those memories that she treasures, memories that sustained her over ten lonely years in wave echo cave, memories that kept her sane and grounded and herself because they were so important to her…. all of them, just gone. staticked over like it’s nothing.

and she knows by know that taako’s forgotten her. she knows lucretia must have pulled some bullshit with fisher and the mission logs and that’s why no one remembers, she knows all that and understands it’s not their fault, not his fault for forgetting her - but that doesn’t stop it from hurting. it doesn’t take the sting out of seeing the most important person in her life unable to even acknowledge her existence. 

and then she gets to watch the years he spent alone - actually, properly alone for the first time in his life, and how terribly he took it, to the point where he latched on to the first person who would have him despite the fact that their working relationship was unhealthy and unbalanced right from the start. she watches his pride and vanity get the better of him without her there to help keep it in check, she watches sazed’s hero worship turn to jealousy turn to resentment turn to murderous intent and she’s fucking terrified at how close he came to actually taking out his intended target. taako could have died in glamour springs with the others - died for good, with no lich powers or starblaster to bring him back - and she never would have known. out of everything she sees in the white space, that scares her the most of all. 

and then after all that, just to put the cherry on top of this sundae of misery, the chalice decides to give thb one parting “fuck you” and shows them phandalin burning in glorious hi-def slow mo cuz it’s a vindictive little shit of a relic. meaning that, not only does lup - the same gal who values the fuck out of sentient life to the point where she was willing to fight her crewmates in order to protect a bunch of robots - get to watch the relic she created burn up thousands and thousands of innocent civilians…. oh no, that’s not enough. she also gets to see her creation kill one barold j bluejeans, the love of her fucking life. so that’s fun too. 

(which is not even to mention thb encountering barry outside of refuge and his helpless little “they don’t trust me, lup” and she’s RIGHT FUCKING THERE but can’t do anything to make him feel better and just guhhh. cut our poor girl some fucking slack, griffin, she’s had a shitty enough day as it is)

i just, i dunno man. the more i think about the end of that arc in the context of what we know now, the more upsetting it is. lup deserves a fucking break after all she went through in eleventh hour. and her body back. and $15. with 110 years worth of interest for her troubles.

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gibbon skeleton

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on the validity of recognizing emotions

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forget wanderlust, sonder, all those words for vague dreamy feelings… what I’m asking for is a concise word for the feeling you get when someone makes an assumption about you that’s 100% correct but you really don’t like that anyone was able to make that assumption. for now I’m calling it a fuckor

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@chocolatechipscones submitted:

Hey yknow who i have a lot of feelings about magic brians fiancee so their fiance has a mysterious job they cant tell them about and brian is usually a super nice dude but it seems like his work is turning him crueler and he starts becoming obsessive about an object they cant even comprehend and then he dissappears one day and never comes back and then they forget him and after the day of story and song they remember but they remember him as he was in wave echo cave, trying to kill people and they see him in lucas’s lab and in the suffering game as a villain and as soon as they remember him they realize hes not coming back and his murderers are called heros and they get their family back at the end even those that committed far worse crimes then Brian because all he did was give into the thrall Sloane and Lucas and June did the same and they are still alive and hailed as heroes but brian remained a villain Sorry this is really messy but i feel like no one ever acknowledges this

oh gosh!! i never thought about this but Oh No

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important PSA about when your car is smoking

like literally smoking from the engine

white and you smell pancakes? it’s the coolant. panic and pull over, but you’ll live

a slight blue tinge? it’s the oil. panic and pull over, but you’ll live

grey, looks like fire smoke? gasoline; the most combustable and dangerous. pull over and leave the vehicle, pray.

sharing because i didn’t know this when my car started smoking white yesterday and i was so afraid for my life.

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New Fallout76 Info

So some takeaways from the Making of Fallout76 Documentary:

- Fallout76 was originally the idea for multiplayer for FO4 that wasn’t used - They’ve done so many cityscapes, they wanted to go rural for once - Reason it’s so green is “Nobody’s going to nuke West Virginia” - “The lore of WV has so many myths and conspiracies that fit in well with Fallout” - Mentioned the Grafton Monster, Flatwoods Monster, the Snallygaster, and Mothman - “Mothman is incredible… we’re hoping to do stages to him early on, maybe he’s just stalking you.. you see these creepy little eyes in the dark…"  - far more creatures in 76 - everything from 2 headed possums to giant sloths and even intelligent plants - no raiders because they didn’t want people spending a large part of the game trying to figure out if it was a player or enemy AI - this world has yet to be claimed by one faction or another - They have made The Scorched - a new faction of ghouls that are like ferals, but not entirely gone yet - Other than forests, there’ll be a hollowed out mountain top, mountain ranges, swamp areas,  - Abandoned cabins, woodmills, BBQ joints, etc - features new technology that they may be testing out for future games (complex animations for creatures and such) - wild mutations for monsters - also taps into the Cold War conspiracies because WV was the location of the US Radio Quiet Zone and was also the original location of the Presidential nuclear bunker - something is going on at the golf course across from the Greenbrier hotel, but they don’t wanna spoil it - Helvetia, WV is known for their cheeses.  They also have a festival where they make paper mache masks.  You’ll be able to find quite a few of those masks around there to wear. - They noted a fire station where you can find fire trucks, fireman gear and such - There is a lighthouse that’s in the middle of nowhere (@ohmdo - you’ll be happy about this since you wanted to build a version of Kingsport somewhere in this game :D ) - There will be events where stuff happens and players can group up to help each other out (like super mutant invasions and such) - when you move servers, if there’s space, your camp will just be there - you can pack up blueprints and place it somewhere else - they’ve been trying to balance quests vs. just giving players chores. - On the downside: you can eat cats.  On the upside: Hey, the game has cats! - food will rot - items degrade like FO3 - you can trade food and other items with other people in game, meaning if you want, you can literally become a food vendor where people trade you caps for high-quality food that you cooked with a high cooking skill.  - will have voice chat, an emote wheel, and a photo mode - “it’ll be messy for a little bit, but we can solve it” in terms of figuring out how to reduce griefing - Todd said it’s a matter of balancing out briefing vs. making sure it’s not boring (personal note: getting ganked over and over is boring, Todd, lol) - 24-32 people per server - You can see where people are on the map, for good or bad.  You can help them, or shoot them, etc - “We wanted to make it fun for single player, co-op, 4 person level gameplay, and even bigger 12 on 12 death matches” - They wanted to introduce an endgame that’ll challenge high level players, but also be repeatable and fun.  That’s what the nuclear codes are. - If I understood correctly, the area that’s nuked will become a very hard ‘level’ afterward (an endgame area) - “Depending on where you nuke, different things will appear.” - "The game will feature microtransactions, but it will only come in the form of cosmetics, and any cosmetics available will also be available to earn through gameplay.“

That’s not everything, but that’s the majority of what was mentioned on the video.

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You need to tell that story immediately.

The Colin Mochrie story? Gladly. This is a good story.

So I go to this college, and it can best be described as a little weird. It desperately wants to be Cambridge, but it’s not Cambridge, so it takes out its frustration with not being Cambridge on weird collective mockeries of Cambridge stuff. So far so good.

One of these weird mockeries is the debate club.

It’s hard to even properly call the Literary Institute a debate club - it is a club, and it does debates, but the debates are 100% stand-up comedy in a parliamentary format and the other half is bullshit pantomiming. For instance, every year at matriculation, the club drunkenly rushes the stage, interrupts the ceremony, and calls everyone in the audience a horse’s ass (occasionally while quoting Dune). It also puts on a yearly event called ‘Tuck-Ins’, in which people in the dorms can sign up (or sign their friends up) to have the entire LIT burst into their room, give them bedtime snacks, give them bedtime beer, sing some bedtime songs, and tell them a bedtime story. Except, the LIT never does anything seriously, so the bedtime song was always Barrett’s Privateers and the bedtime story was almost always something we called ‘The Rat Story’. Let me tell you about the Rat Story.

The Rat Story was a piece of… literature… that a LIT member dragged out of the dregs of the internet many years ago. Nobody knows where it came from, and my efforts to find it again were unsuccessful, but good lord, it was bad. It was a page-and-a-half-long Hermione/Wormtail (rat form) smut fic and it was awful. So awful. I’m cringing just thinking about it. It’s the worst thing I’ve ever read, and at this point I basically know it by heart. We read it aloud, from the poorly worded introduction to its horrible closing line (AND HE SCAMPERED AWAY WET! STUNNED! AND THRILLED!) dozens of times in a single night to unsuspecting students. It was an experience.

Now you might be wondering how Colin Mochrie fits into this.

So, one of the other things my college does powerfully and often is pretension. We are the most pretentious college you will ever see, and our college clubs are proof positive of this. Every year, various college clubs send out dozens of official-sounding letters inviting our various favourite well-known-people to attend our meagre college events (I, as president of the James Bond Society, personally invited Barack Obama, Sean Connery, and the Queen to our AGM). However, this year the Comedy Club was riding particularly high, and it sent out quasi-sincere invitations to speak to a variety of Canadian comedians.

And Colin Mochrie showed up, one fateful Tuck-Ins night.

He gave a talk, which was very good, but noticed as the talk finished that many students were rushing away to something in an awful hurry. We explained that it was the night of Tuck Ins, an important and sacred college tradition and that

We would be delighted if he would join us.

And that, my friends, is the story of how I found myself crammed in a dorm room with 20 other people, listening to Colin Mochrie describe Peter Pettigrew’s rat boner to a couple of second years who had no idea what they were getting into.

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taako: I WANT TO SEE MY LITTLE BOY

magnus, holding a very fed up angus under one arm: HERE HE COMES