#SNUB 38

[sports-drugs-entertainment]

TLKN BOUT HOW SHE ONLY DEAL WITH BUSINESSMEN

[professor-doc-emeritus]

that steely dan song from steely dan saturday fucks but its also hard to listen to cause its such a "a better world is not possible capitalism now and forever" americanism thing that it also makes me really mad

Never took you for an optimist rainy

I look at the song more as a response to the faux-deep hippie dribble that was as rampant then as it is now. Fun fact, It came out one year after John Lennon's imagine, and is in direct conversation with it. A good example is the stanza"you do his nine to five/drag yourself home half alive/and there on the screen/a man with a dream." It highlights the naivety and uselessness of the celebrity advocate. some billionaire nonce on the telly saying "gosh wouldn't it be neat if nobody has to work" does nothing to improve the working man's material conditions, and doesn't accurately portray the issues he's going through because John Lennon is a hack who never had a hard days work in his life. The whole experience just ends up mocking the plight the 9-5 worker is going through. The only person benefiting from spouting naive dribble without an actionable plan is the billionaire, i.e. the fool.

Since it's steely Dan, there's also an ironic meta-narrator commenting upon the knee-jerk cynicism that constitutes the core of the song. "Anybody on the street/has murder in his eyes/you feel no pain/and you're younger than you realize/only a fool would say that" directly addresses those who take an anti-protest stance, calling out the tendency to reduce protestors to their most violent excess and most naive members. Just as only a fool presents a fantasy world with no way to get there, only a fool shits on the people trying to get one step closer to it.

So akshually it's more of a "both sides are wrong I am very smart" Americanism song

[grenade-maid]

Shit's to the point where I feel physically ill when I see an attractive person and just want to shoot myself

[seat-safety-switch]

“Everything’s in the cloud now,” I shout at the hot air balloonist over the sound of the burners. Sun glints off my snub-nose .38. “I was never smart enough to be a hacker before.”

Phineas Fogg looks behind him. "Uh-uh," I gently scold, and shake the gun for emphasis. "That went overboard a long time ago." He looks glumly over the edge of the basket, hoping to see his Passenger Removal Blackjack. It's a a desperate hope, one that it was simply misplaced by me, rather than yote parabolically into a nearby state fair from 8,000 feet. "Now drive."

"Fucking Missouri," he spits, and he's right. In any other state, this would be a felony. Balloonists are like gods there, unimpeachable even by law enforcement. Here, the gods meet mortals, and they don't like it.

We float higher and higher as he works what I have determined to be a crude throttle. The fire is beautiful, but I know that I cannot allow myself to be distracted by the purging of hydrocarbons. These balloony-types are crafty, having fought their way out of the vicious canvas wars of their disgusting home country. I know that if I take my eyes off the prize for one second, he'll try something.

Indeed he does. We pass briefly over an attractive red-and-white circus tent, itself an overinflated artifact of a bygone age of freaks. My unwilling travelling companion takes the opportunity to leap out of the basket, falling hundreds of feet. He bursts through the roof of the tent, landing squarely in a conveniently-placed bale of hay. Figures, I grunt to myself, but then I notice that he's not moving. No doubt the Barnum Bros have gotten themselves a cost-cutting MBA, who has decided that rocks painted like hay is sufficient enough to convince the rubes that the elephants are eating well and treated well, in equal measure.

I have caught myself in quite the pickle, I realize, as I look at the crude array of burners, levers, strings, springs, and apertures that lay before me. Saturday morning cartoons have taught me that this contraption operates the balloon's height, but its exact nature is unclear to me. Safe for the moment, I decide to take advantage of the surprising-but-welcome solitude and meditate on the issue, sitting cross-legged in the bottom of the basket and pivoting my thoughts towards the eternal expanse of human ingenuity. Carburetors of my youth come unbidden to my mind's eye on this vision quest, and soon I have discovered the common ancestor of this gas-burping nightmare and my precious Plymouth Volare's single-barrel, ethanol-rotted Ball & Ball.

Opening my eyes, it is very clear to me now what I must do. I floor the fucker. An enormous wall of flame bursts from the burners, singing my eyebrows. I laugh, and rise into the sky. Up there, in the clouds, the banks dwell. I am coming for them.

[stresscrimes]

guns used by mass killers, part 3

first row left side

Nathaniel Train, Gareth Train, and Stacey Train, .308 Winchester Ruger M77 rifle, .30-06 Springfield Tikka T3 rifle, and .22 LR CZ 452-2E ZKM rifle

Martin Peyerl, Ruger Mini-14 with scope and Henry double barrel shotgun

Jose Ramirez, AK-47 style rifle

Tristan van der Vlis, .22 caliber Smith & Wesson M&P15-22 semi-automatic rifle

right side, first two rows, left to right

Anthony Polito, 9mm Taurus PT92 semi-automatic pistol

Tim Kretschmer, Beretta 92FS

John Robert Neumann, 9mm handgun

Nathaniel Berhow, .45 caliber 1911-model (privately made)

Jared Loughner, Glock 19 semi-automatic pistol with a 33-round magazine

Jimmy Lam, MAC-10 pistol

left side, top to bottom, second row

Gavin Eugene Long, 5.56 IWI Tavor SAR semi-automatic rifle

Jori Lasonen, Winchester Model 1895 (7.62×54mmR)

John Zawahri, AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle (privately made)

Robert Bowers, Colt AR-15 SP1 semi-automatic rifle

Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, AR-15 style rifles (DPMS Panther Arms A-15 & Smith & Wesson M&P15), and 9mm semi-automatic pistols (Llama Model XI-B & Springfield Armory XD Bi-Tone)

right side, last row, top to bottom

Elliot Rodger, SIG Sauer P226 handgun

Adam Lanza, Glock 20SF

Wellington Menezes de Oliveira, .38-caliber Rossi Model 971 revolver and .32-caliber Taurus Model 73 snub-nosed revolver

Byran Uyesugi, 9mm Glock 17

[gunzlotzofgunz]

ENFIELD MKI*

38 S&W; 2'' barrel These were altered from original 5" barreled revolvers to snub nose by importers back in the 1960's. Chambered for the British .38-200 (38 S&W) cartridge.

[voraciousvore]

Giganterra (Chapter 39)

Prologue/ TOC | Previous (38) | Next (40)

Content Warning: NSFW/ 18+ for brief giantess sex scene; vulgar language

Word Count: 1.9k

------ Chapter 39: Reflection ------

Ever since Bianca had been snubbed by Ray, and insulted by her brother, she had wallowed in the mess of her own making. She isolated herself from the rest of her family and the servants, receding into her private chambers whenever possible. She was further offended when nobody seemed to care about her absence, not even her father. She became moody and depressed and took out her feelings vindictively on her tiny man-slaves, especially Cesar, since he had also slighted her. Rather than reflect, she doubled down on indulging her selfish desires. 

After a particularly rough day, she chose Cesar for a session of furious masturbation before bed. She grabbed him out of the human enclosure, flopped down on her bed, and slid him up the soft skin of her thigh under her dress, until he was pressed against her hot, wet genitals. She grinded her dripping pussy on him, rubbed him all over her clit, and shoved him up inside her hole, plunging him in and out to stimulate herself. She wanted to feel something pleasurable, anything, in the endless wasteland of despair. Cesar emptied his balls inside her with alacrity as he thrust his hard dick against the slick inner walls of her vagina. Despite his dislike of the spoiled princess as a person, he couldn’t deny that she was physically hot as hell, and he enjoyed having sex with her, even if he was just being used like a dildo. 

When she was done, she fished him out from under her dress and released him back with the other two in the dollhouse. Cesar, soaked in fluid, marched over to Graham and dropped a slimy object into his lap. Graham jolted back. “Eww! Cesar, what the fuck is that?” 

“Your glasses,” he replied simply. 

“Are you fucking kidding me?” 

“Nope. They were stuffed up inside her pretty deep.” 

“Ugh. I don’t know if I want them anymore…” Graham pinched the spectacles with revulsion between two fingers and held them out at arm’s length. “It’s not worth it, even to see clearly again. What am I going to be looking at anyways, other than that gigantic cunt?” He squinted. “Looks like the lenses are broken anyways. No surprise there.” He tossed them away in the corner with disgust. 

Plaintive whimpers began to emanate from the giantess’s bed. Gio rolled his eyes with the upmost contempt. “Oh boy, here we go again. No sleep for us tonight.” He groaned and rubbed his face as her moans escalated into lugubrious wails. “I wish she’d just get it out of her system and shut up already.” 

Cesar shrugged and went to take a hot bath. His brain was buzzing with the pleasant dopamine of erotic release. He dunked himself in the water and washed off the thick coat of goop with a copious quantity of soap. As he dried himself off, he listened to Bianca’s full-bodied sobs, magnified by her huge size. He shook his head and rejoined the others in the bedroom. Gio and Graham had cotton stuffed in their ears and pillows clamped over their heads to drown out the deafening howls as they tried to sleep.  

Cesar sighed and looked out the glass wall to the massive bed. The giantess was facing away from him with her face buried in her arms, bare ass sticking up in the air as her dress rode up her waist. She was, quite frankly, pathetic. She’d been inconsolable for almost a week now, bawling her eyes out every day and night. The men had hardly gotten any sleep, with her constant need to take out her anguish on them and sulk in her room. 

He massaged his face with a grunt, pressing his fingertips into his eyelids. He always had a soft spot for women, especially hot women, even if they were insufferable. He was fully aware of his tendency to think with the wrong head, but he was regrettably incorrigible in this regard. He figured it would be in everyone’s best interest if he at least got her to stop crying. He inhaled deeply, then shouted as loud as he could project his voice, “BIANCA!” 

Gio and Graham stiffened, peering out from under their pillows. Bianca cringed and her sobs halted, reduced to pathetic sniffles. She slowly raised her head and turned around, her eyes swollen and puffy. “Huh?” 

“Let’s talk.” 

Bianca raised herself into a sitting position, repositioning her dress with humiliation around her legs. “What?” 

“Take me out of here so we can talk face-to-face.” 

Bianca blew her nose with a tissue and wiped the nonstop leakage from her tear ducts. “Why? You hate me, just like everyone else. What’s the point?” 

Cesar planted his hands on his hips with exasperation. “Would you just do it, woman?! You always have to make everything so difficult!” 

The princess huffed but opened the roof. The two others cowered in their beds as she lowered her enormous hand to collect the fearless man. She deposited him in her lap, wrapping her fingers around him and tousling his curly locks, still damp from his bath, with an elegant fingertip. As annoyed as Cesar was with her constant immaturity, abandoning her felt wrong. He settled down on her squishy, plump thigh. “What’s this about?” 

“Bianca, I know you’re upset that nobody likes you. But have you stopped to consider why that is? For even a second?” 

Bianca gritted her teeth. “Because they’re all jerks.” 

“No, girl! You’re missing the point!” Cesar protested. He paused to collect his thoughts, massaging his temples with irritation. “Did you know how excited I was, to come out and meet you for the first time? I volunteered to be here. Chester rejected me because of my subpar taste, but I hitched a ride on Leon’s ankle and made it here anyways. I put in a lot of effort, you know.” 

“Yeah, so?” 

“So? I wanted to believe you, the beautiful and regal giantess, were everything that I imagined in my wildest fantasies. And at first, you were. Smoking hot, horny, and huge. You drove me wild.” 

Bianca smirked. “Yeah. I remember.” She tickled him teasingly with her fingers. Cesar pushed her hand away. 

“But then... I saw how you treated Graham and Gio.” Her smile faded. “I saw your indifference to their suffering, your selfishness, your petulant whining when you didn’t get your way. I saw how your father coddled you and poisoned you to be a horrible person. It was... disappointing, to say the least. You’re not the woman I hoped you would be.” 

If Bianca had heard him so brashly proclaim those blunt judgements a few days ago, she would’ve hurled him across the room at the wall for his audacity. Now, however, she could only avert her gaze with shame. He was right, of course, and she knew it. Everyone knew it. She couldn’t deny that everything he said was true, as much as it hurt to acknowledge it. 

“Why are you saying all this to me?” she snapped defensively. “Just to hurt me more?” She tensed up with rising anger, but then slumped down on the bed instead, scooping Cesar off her lap and drawing him closer to her chest. She didn’t have the energy to retaliate. 

“No, of course not,” Cesar responded. He set his small hand on one of her fingers curling around him. “I want you to understand, you’re not powerless to change. You CAN become a better person. I want you to be better. I believe in you!” 

Bianca sighed. “I... I don’t know,” she admitted. 

Cesar showed off his pearly whites in a dazzling smile. “It’s not so hard, girl! Start with little things. Be more considerate of the thoughts and feelings of others. Be nice! You’d be surprised. It’s easier than you think. You can’t change the past, and undo what you’ve done, but you can make different choices moving forward.” 

“I guess,” the princess mumbled. 

“Just try, okay? It’s preferable to locking yourself away in your room all day and wallowing in self-pity, isn’t it?” 

“Yeah. I guess so.” She shrugged. 

“I‘ll help you,” Cesar assured her, still smiling. “We’ll get through this together!” 

“Well... okay.” Bianca softened, touched by his empathy. She hadn’t given him any good reason to show kindness towards her, yet he was putting forth the effort to reassure her, even if he didn’t actually like her that much. She appreciated the gesture, especially when everyone else had shunned her. “I’ll try.”  

She wrapped her hands around him tighter and held him to her buxom chest in a hug. She was amused when she saw him blush, despite the fact that he’d literally been inside her in the heat of passion not long ago. She supposed this was quite a different type of intimacy, more tender and sweet. She liked how he made her feel. She felt in control, and not quite so powerless, when she had a tiny man to hold. He was the only one on her side right now. 

The giantess rotated so she was lying on her back, with Cesar perched on her breasts, sheltered by her hand. “It wasn’t always like this, you know,” she reminisced with misty eyes. “I wasn’t always like this.” 

“Oh?” Cesar listened, curious. 

“I had a dashing man who loved me, once,” she continued. “He was one of the servants, not of noble birth, but goodness was he handsome! And funny, and charming, and charismatic, with a blinding smile and the most enchanting blue eyes I’ve ever seen! I have a weakness for those...” She grimaced, briefly, as she was reminded of Ray. 

“But anyways, we engaged in a steamy love affair. I lost my virginity to him. He was my first true love. I adored him, and he cherished me, of course. We were star-crossed lovers. However...” She winced with pain at the distasteful memory. “Daddy found out. He was furious. He disposed of him by publicly beheading him, and forced me to watch him die. He threatened the other male servants with the same fate if they so much as looked at me funny. After that... none of the men wanted to be anywhere near me. I was devastated and bitter, and I felt very alone and unwanted, long after he was gone.” 

“How tragic,” Cesar commented. He rubbed her thumb gently to console her, while ensconced in the curve of her hand. 

“I must confess, I didn’t respond to the whole incident in the... healthiest of ways,” she admitted. “I have my pride, you know? My royal bearing. I didn’t want anyone to think I was going soft, or that I had serious feelings for this man, least of all my father. I pretended like nothing bothered me. I hardened my heart, so it wouldn’t hurt anymore. I didn’t want to bond with anyone else, for fear of losing them. I think... that was a mistake.” 

“I see. Understandable, I suppose.” 

“I just want to be loved,” Bianca expressed. “Is that too much to ask?” 

Cesar winked at her and patted her finger. “Not at all. You just need to work on yourself first.” 

“Mm,” Bianca affirmed. “You’re right.” Somehow, the hollowness inside her didn’t feel quite so empty anymore. She held on to Cesar, who relaxed on the gigantic plush pillows of her boobs as they gently rose and fell with her breathing. She resolved to do better. What did she have to lose, after all? She eventually fell asleep with Cesar laying on top of her. For the first night in days, she slept well.

Chapter 40

Tag List: @yummynomms @tinycoded360

[is-the-battlemech-cool-or-not]

in line with the name of your blog, do you think Maulers are cool or not? I have one in the hangar and I was planning on getting one as holiday gift for a friend of mine!

--MESSAGE DELAYED: 8 DAYS--

Maulers are quite cool. An interesting and aesthetically pleasing design.

They are good enough in my eyes that I had SLDF engineers theorycraft a custom variant for our Regular Army forces:

Mauler MAL-4Rb

Mass: 90 tons Chassis: Alshain Class 101 Power Plant: Hermes 270 XL Cruising Speed: 32.4 kph Maximum Speed: 54 kph Jump Jets: None Jump Capacity: 0 meters Armor: New Samarkand Royal Ferro-Fibrous with CASE Armament: 4 Light AC/5 2 LRM 15 2 Snub-Nose PPC Manufacturer: Luthien Armor Works, Luthien Armor Works Primary Factory: New Samarkand,Luthien Communication System: Sipher Security Plus mk.II Targeting & Tracking System: Matabushi SuperSentinel Introduction Year: 3153 Tech Rating/Availability: F/X-X-X-X Cost: 24,749,400 C-bills

Type: Mauler Technology Base: Mixed (Experimental) Tonnage: 90 Battle Value: 2,082

Equipment Mass Internal Structure Composite 4.5 Engine 270 XL 7.5 Walking MP: 3 Running MP: 5 Jumping MP: 0 Double Heat Sink 17 [34] 7 Compact Gyro 4.5 Small Cockpit 2 Armor Factor (Ferro) 278 14.5 Internal Armor Structure Value Head 3 9 Center Torso 29 43 Center Torso (rear) 14 R/L Torso 19 29 R/L Torso (rear) 9 R/L Arm 15 30 R/L Leg 19 38

Right Arm Actuators: Shoulder, Upper Arm, Lower Arm Left Arm Actuators: Shoulder, Upper Arm, Lower Arm

Weapons and Ammo Location Critical Heat Tonnage Double Heat Sink LL 2 - 1.0 Double Heat Sink CT 2 - 1.0 Caseless LAC/5 Ammo (40) RT 1 - 1.0 CASE II RT 1 - 0.5 LRM 15 RT 2 5 3.5 LRM 15 Ammo (16) RT 2 - 2.0 2 Light AC/5 RT 4 1 10.0 Snub-Nose PPC LA 2 10 6.0 2 Double Heat Sink LA 4 - 2.0 Caseless LAC/5 Ammo (40) LT 1 - 1.0 CASE II LT 1 - 0.5 LRM 15 LT 2 5 3.5 LRM 15 Ammo (16) LT 2 - 2.0 2 Light AC/5 LT 4 1 10.0 Double Heat Sink RL 2 - 1.0 Armored Cowl (Armored) HD 1 - 1.0 Nova Combined Electronic Warfare System HD 1 - 1.5 Snub-Nose PPC RA 2 10 6.0 2 Double Heat Sink RA 4 - 2.0

Features the following design quirks: Battle Computer, Combat Computer, Cowl, Easy to Pilot, Extended Torso Twist, Improved Communications, Improved Sensors, Multi-Trac, Variable Range Targeting

[sixty-silver-wishes]

Hmm gonna make a classic film ask game!

(for the purpose of this game, I'm defining "classic film" as films made up until the 1960s.)

1- Silents or talkies? 2- If you could see one lost classic film, which one would it be and why? 3- Who is your favorite classic film director?

4- What is your favorite decade of film? 5- Favorite actor/actress?

6- What's a popular classic film that you dislike? 7- What do people get wrong about your favorite film? 8- Give a fun fact about the production of a classic film! 9- Have you ever seen a classic film screened in a movie theater?

10- How would you adapt a classic film of your choice?

11- Does your favorite classic film have a sequel and/or remake? If so, do you like it? 12- If you were cast in a classic film, which one would you want to be cast in, and which character would you want to play?

13- Favorite instance of practical effects in a classic film?

14- Hot take!

15- What's the oldest film you've seen? 16- What's your least favorite role of your favorite actor's?

17- Which film do you want to see that you haven't seen yet?

18- Where do you go to watch classic films? (Physical media? Streaming services? Internet?)

19- Does your favorite classic film have source material, such as being based on a book or play? Have you read or seen the source material?

20- Thoughts on colorizing black and white films?

21- Which film do you prefer- Nosferatu (1922) or Dracula (1931)?

22- Do you own a physical copy of your favorite classic film?

23- Have you shown your favorite classic film to someone else? What did they think of it? 24- Is there a classic film you watch as a holiday tradition (ie, "It's a Wonderful Life" around Christmas, "Arsenic and Old Lace" around Halloween?)

25- Have you seen any classic films made outside western Europe or the US? If so, what are your top favorites?

26- How did you get into classic films?

27- Whose acting do you prefer- Charlie Chaplin's or Buster Keaton's?

28- What is "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (1920) actually about?

29- Least favorite classic film?

30- They're making a Muppets adaptation of your favorite classic film. Who's who?

31- Peter Lorre or Dwight Frye?

32- Has a classic film ever genuinely scared you? Which one?

33- What's your comfort film?

34- Is there a classic film that makes you cry?

35- Favorite comedy?

36- Best Hitchcock film?

37- Best Fritz Lang film?

38- Favorite Universal monster?

39- What's your classic film character OTP? NoTP?

40- Thoughts on talking during a silent film?

41- Favorite Lon Chaney role?

42- Ingenues or femme fatales?

43- Favorite pre-Code film?

44- Without the Hays Code in the way, would you change anything about your favorite Code-era film?

45- Which actors do you think were snubbed with the roles they got?

46- Do you own any classic film memorabilia- ie., autographs, photos, etc.? If so, what's your favorite piece?

47- Which role do you wish your favorite classic film actor got to play, but didn't?

48- Favorite classic animated film?

49- Black and white or glorious technicolor?

50- Favorite classic movie musical?

[jisforjudi2]

Things I love about Perry Mason

Barbara Hale William Hopper Raymond Burr

DellaPaulPerry

Ray Collins as Lt Tragg is the funniest snarkiest SOB in the entire series and when he stopped appearing he really left a gaping hole

Hamilton throwing hissy fits

Paul Drake drooling over Della, beautiful women in general, and food

Guns are kept in glove compartments or purses and always get stolen

It's usually a snub nosed . 38

Hamilton Burger sweeping away from the witness box when he's done questioning

Nobody ever locks their car or rolls the windows up

Convertibles with the top down are de rigueur for conducting surveillance or "discreetly" following another car

Everybody loves Della

The little button at the end of the episode - but only the ones with Perry Della and Paul

Della's after 5 / evening wardrobe

[aubreyathame]

THE YTTD POPULARITY POLL RESULTS!

ALRIGHT i'll call the vote now.

DISCLAIMER !! I accidentally lost the first 30 votes or so. So tragically this does actually effect the poll a small bit (especially for last place winners)

221 responses! ii wouldve wanted one more because i hate odd numbers but im lazy and this is like a month old now so at least 50% of you forgot you did this probably.

Shin Tsukimi (Fake Sou Hiyori) - 224 Points, 91 votes (~13.7%)

Gin Ibushi - 156 Points, 71 Votes (~10.7%)

Keiji Shinogi - 110 Points, 48 Votes (~7.2%)

Joe Tazuna - 99 Points, 45 Votes (~6.7%)

Sara Chidouin - 84 Points, 58 Votes (~8.7%)

Kai Satou - 79 Points, 38 Votes (~5.7%)

Kanna Kizuchi - 71 Points, 38 Votes (~5.7%)

Nao Egokoro - 62 Points, 34 Votes (~5.1%)

Midori (Real Sou Hiyori) - 55 Points, 29 Votes (~4.3%)

Ranmaru Kageyama - 53 Points, 27 Votes (~4%)

Reko Yabusame - 51 Points, 29 Votes (~4.3%)

Alice Yabusame - 44 Points, 22 Votes (~3.3%)

Rio Ranger (Sei) - 42 Points, 25 Votes (~3.7%)

Tia Safalin (Michiru Namida) - 31 Points, 17 Votes (~2.5%)

Q-taro Burgerberg - 24 Points, 17 Votes (~2.5%)

Naomichi Kurumada - 19 Points, 13 Votes (~1.9%)

Kazumi Mishima - 18 Points, 8 Votes (~1.2%)

Mai Tsurugi - 17 Points, 11 Votes (~1.6%)

Maple - 13 Points, 7 Votes (~1%)

Anzu Kinashi - 12 Points, 8 Votes (~1.2%)

Sue Miley (Emiri Harai) - 7 Points, 5 Votes (~0.7%)

Shunsuke Hayasaka - 6 Points, 4 Votes (~0.6%)

Gashu - 5 Points, 3 Votes (~0.4%)

Mr. Policeman - 4 Points, 2 Votes (~0.3%)

Hinako Mishuku (Fake) and Megumi Sasahara - 3 Points - 2 Votes (~0.3%)

Meister, Ryoko Hirose, Kobushi, and Touko Rikuno - 1 Point, 1 Vote (~0.1%)

Kugie Kizuchi*, Mr. Chidouin, Ursheen, Stronghold, Ryuu, Gruusem and Jin Mutou - 0 Points, 0 Votes (0%) *Due to the loss of the first 30 or so submissions, I think Kugie got snubbed of being tied 25th place but with 1 vote. I'm almost certain I saw that during early result checking, and I am SO sorry to that one person...

ANALYSIS BELOW THE CUT

Unsurprisingly, Shin won by a LOT. What did shock me, however, was that Gin got second place. I had no clue there were that many gin fans?? Where are you people at...

Another thing that surprised me was that Midori was...really low actually. I was expecting him to be second, but no...he's 9th.

Due to the points system, a few things like Rio Ranger being below Alice is debatable, but...do you really want to put Ranger in between the Yabusame siblings again? It's also insane how Sara scored a fair few more votes than Joe, yet Joe still won.

If anyone's curious who won based on votes instead of points...I'm not writing that out again. Sorry!! This post just took fucking ages to write and it was entirely because of the list I don't want to do that again... ahaha..

ALSO. REKO AND ALICE AND RIO TOGETHER THAT CLOSE... YOU WERE SO NICE UNTIL YOU WERE EVIL.

In terms of placement, Shin won 1st place for 1st and 2nd, but Sara shockingly overtook him in 3rd.

Also the poll did have some...suspicious activity. Namely this complete duplicate answer HOWEVER it also has 4 Saras in a row here which is very funny.

This is also I think the only exact pair of duplicates but I don't wanna check the data again...

Also shoutout to the LEGEND that only answered their first favorite and put Mishima. You might've only gotten 17th, but you left a huge impact on this poll because you had the funniest answer.

anyways, enough rambling. this was neat!

[knotty-et-al]

Polytope info card of the Snub Cube

Today's shape was the archimedian solid "Snub cube".

The snub cube has 38 faces in total - 6 square faces and 32 triangular faces.

It has 60 edges and 24 vertices.

Each vertex is met by 4 triangle faces and 1 square face.

A snub cube is an alteration of a truncated cuboctahedron.

The drawing:

For the isometric projection drawing I started with a truncated cuboctahedron, and continued to alter the truncated cuboctahedron's octagonal faces into square faces.

[inkandguns]

I got that itch for a .38 snub revolver @uncle-beanbag-gaming

[best-shapes]

Regular-ish Convex Polyhedra Bracket — Round 2

Propaganda

Regular Tetrahedron:

Also called the Triangular Pyramid

Platonic Solid

Regular

Dual of the Regular Tetrahedron

It has 4 regular triangular faces, 6 edges, and 4 vertices.

Self-Dual

Image Credit: Cyp

Pentagonal Icositetrahedron:

Also called the Pentagonal Icosikaitetrahedron

Catalan Solid

Dual of the Snub Cube

It has 24 irregular pentagonal faces, 60 edges, and 38 vertices of three types.

Chiral so it has two forms that are mirror images of each other.

Image Credit: Cyp

[dailypolyhedra]

Polyhedron of the Day #47: Disphenocingulum

The disphenocingulum is a Johnson solid (J90). It has 24 faces, 38 edges, and 16 vertices. It is an elementary Johnson solid (i.e., it cannot be separated by a plane into two other regular-faced polyhedra). The prefix spheno- refers to an arrangement of two lunes similar in structure to a wedge, di- refers to the fact that there are two such structures, and the suffix -cingulum refers to the "belt of 12 triangles connecting the two. Its dual is an order-5 truncated snub disphenoid.

Disphenocingulum image created by AndrewKepert using Cyp's povray macros, distributed under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license.

Disphenocingulum image created using Robert Webb's Stella4D software (https://www.software3d.com/Stella.php).

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Cal Rolls Past UCLA, 33-7

Ott has 100-yard kickoff return

LOS ANGELES -- In the final Pac-12 regular season game in history, the Golden Bears decided to make it memorable. Not only did the defense force four turnovers and Cal score on a 100 yard kickoff return, but they won their third game in a row to become bowl eligible.

California crushed their hosts 33-7 and actually the game wasn't even that close. Besides Jaydn Ott's 100 yard score, Jeremiah Hunter had a pair of touchdown receptions from Fernando Mendoza and Mateen Bhaghani kicked four field goals for the Golden Bears (6-6, 4-5 Pac-12), who passed their baby bear cousins in the standings and won what could be the last meeting between the two UC teams for the foreseeable future.

“It was a month ago there wasn't a lot of positivity around the program. I think it just speaks to the character of the guys in the room,” Cal head coach Justin Wilcox  said.

UCLA, which had started the remarkable conference collapse last June when it announced that it was moving to the Big Ten Conference in 2024, was hit upside the head by a group of scrappy, angry Cal players who were ready to get their revenge for the fiasco the Pac-12 has become. They also dropped Chip Kelly to 34-34 in his six seasons at Westwood and put his job on the line. The greed and fear that drove UCLA and USC to dump their conference after nearly a century saw them lose out in their final season games and exposed their weaknesses as football programs that have seen better days but underachieved in recent years as teams such as Washington, Oregon and Utah have eclipsed them.

The Bruins (7-5, 4-5) committed four turnovers that resulted in 13 Cal points. Quarterback Ethan Garber (little brother of former Cal QB Chase Garber, who decided to snub Berkeley when he was being recruited) was sacked early and had to leave the game after only 12 plays due to a right shoulder injury on the play. Freshman Dante Moore had to take over and was only 23 of 38 with two interceptions. He was also sacked six times. Cal's Cade Uluave had 12 tackles, a sack and an interception for the Bears, who only trailed for 16 seconds midway through the second quarter.

"The guys played with guts," Wilcox said. "I just have so much respect for the guys in that locker room - finishing the season the way we have. I have a lot of pride seeing those guys enjoy the moment."

After UCLA took a 7-6 lead on Logan Loya's 5-yard touchdown catch, Ott fielded R.J. Lopez's kick at the goal line. The sophomore found a seam near the Cal 20-yard line and then went up the right sideline the rest of the way.

It is tied for the third-longest kickoff return in Cal history and the sixth time it has had one of 100 yards or more. It was also the first kickoff return for Ott this season. Wilcox said the plan was to use Ott as a returner because UCLA came into the game leading the nation in run defense, and he didn't think Ott would get many opportunities with the ball.

“We know that Jaydn is an electric player. I give a lot of credit to our special team staff as well for getting it schemed up,” Wilcox said.

Ott also had 80 yards on 21 carries. Mendoza completed 19 of 30 for 178 yards with two touchdowns and two interceptions.

“Not a lot of people believed in us, especially when we said in the interviews that we were going to burn the boats (beat Washington State), burn the forest (defeat Stanford) and now burn down the city (beat UCLA) and crush the Bruins," Mendoza said. "But everyone in that locker room really believed that and we knew it was gonna happen.”

Cal led 6-0 at the end of the first quarter on a pair of field goals by Bhaghani. After UCLA linebacker Laiatu Latu picked off Mendoza's pass and returned it to the Cal 8, the Bruins took the lead three plays later when Moore connected with Loya for a 5-yard TD.

UCLA's advantage would be extremely short lived though as Ott ran back the ensuing kickoff and devastated the home crowd, who fell nearly silent the rest of the game.

Cal extended its lead to 20-7 late in the first half. Three plays after Brett Johnson recovered Moore's fumble at the UCLA 11, Hunter scored on a 14-yard touchdown pass from Mendoza with 10 seconds remaining.

Bhaghani had a 32-yard field goal early in the fourth quarter and Hunter caught a 13-yard pass in the left corner of the end zone to further the Golden Bears' advantage. Hunter finished with eight receptions for 101 yards.

Several thousand Golden Bear enthusiasts who made the trip to the Rose Bowl stayed well after the end of Cal's 33-7 victory over UCLA, dancing and celebrating in the stands behind the South end zone along with players, coaches and staff. The players carried the enthusiasm into the locker room, flying high on their three game win streak after suffering some extremely close losses mid-season.

"I want them to soak it up," Wilcox said. "I want them to be with their brothers. There's nothing like that. That's why a lot of us coach - you can't find that anywhere else. As gut-wrenching and agonizing losing is, there's no feeling like being on the other end of the spectrum - especially under the circumstances and what was at stake. I'm just really proud of those guys. I have a lot of love for those people in that locker room."

The Bears are expected to find out their bowl bid on Sunday, December 3. It will be the third bowl so far in the Wilcox era.