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i say this in all seriousness, a great way to resist the broad cultural shift of devaluing curiosity and critical thinking is to play my favorite game, Hey What Is That Thing

you play it while walking around with friends and if you see something and don't know what it is or wonder why its there, you stop and point and say Hey What Is That Thing. and everyone speculates about it. googling it is allowed but preferably after spending several minutes guessing or asking a passerby about it

weird structures, ambiguous signs, unfamiliar car modifications, anything that you can't immediately understand its function. eight times out of ten, someone in the group actually knows, and now you know!

a few examples from me and my friends the past few weeks: "why is there a piece of plywood sticking out of that pond in a way that looks intentional?" (its a ramp so squirrels that fall in to the pond can climb out) • "my boss keeps insisting i take a vacation of nine days or more, thats so specific" (you work at a bank, banks make employees take vacation in long chunks so if youre stealing or committing fraud, itll be more obvious) • "why does this brick wall have random wooden blocks in it" (theres actually several reasons why this could be but we asked and it was so you could nail stuff to the wall) • "most of these old factories we drive past have tinted windows, was that just for style?" (fun fact the factory owners realized that blue light keeps people awake, much like screen light does now, so they tinted the windows blue to keep workers alert and make them work longer hours)

been playing this game for a long time and ive learned (and taught) a fuckton about zoning laws, local history, utilities (did you know you can just go to your local water treatment plant and ask for a tour and if they have a spare intern theyll just give you a tour!!!) and a whole lot of fun trivia. and now suddenly you're paying more attention when youre walking around, thinking about the reasons behind every design choice in the place you live that used to just be background noise. and it fuckin rules.

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might as well post the the first zoh shia doodles too

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by my own order

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We need to bring back the athletics body type post

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I hate when I say things like "oh I want an ipod classic but with bluetooth so I can use wireless headphones" and some peanut comes in and replies with "so a smartphone with spotify?" No. I want a 160GB+ rectangular monstrosity where I can download every version of every song I want to it and it does nothing except play music and I don't need a data connection and don't have to pay a subscription to not have ads and don't have popups suggesting terrible AI playlists all over the menus.

Gimme the clicky wheel and song titles like "My Chemical Romance- The Black Parade- Blood (Bonus Track)- secret track- album rip- high quality"

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Zoh Shia, the White Seraph Dragon

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mutuals can always dm me but be warned i talk like your coworker who is trying too hard to get to know you and my response times are akin to the response times you might get if we were communicating by letter

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Spread the word.

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quick little sketch of everyone's favourite equal dragon weapon

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final line of defense

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there should a monster hunter crossover with rain world where you fight a rot-infested elder dragon and can recruit slugcat palicos

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the emotion i just experienced is kind of indescribable

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Folks in the U.S.:

There are lots (too many) things to be fighting for right now, but libraries are one of them.

Trump has signed an executive order that will destroy the U.S.'s library system.

The ALA has linked to the action form below:

I can't emphasize how important libraries are. It's not just providing access to information - libraries are community and resource hubs.

This might not be as dramatic as a book burning - but it's worse (books are just paper - libraries are the institutions that allow people to access that information). Treat this like the threat it is!

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extremely cool article you should read if you haven’t already

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If you ever looked at a Monster Hunter game and thought "whats even the point of this game all you do is fight monsters" I really REALLY hope you give Wilds a try someday.

Honestly it may be one of the best entries into the franchise to date and this is coming from someone who went in with ZERO expectations.

Theres a lot of heart in here guys I hope you will join me a hunt here someday.