#based boomer

[general-gh0st]

My grandfather told me to throw ball bearings and bricks at cars that don’t respect pedestrians

[buggachat]

"augh, this [media] sucks. it's all about shipping"

romance is a genre, harold

[sing-me-under]

[foolsocracy]

in that mirror, there's thousands of you

[cakesnake04]

Ppg designs and rrb season 1 ideas

[lcspopart]

[secondhand-lions]

thinking about deathclaws btw. i think a while back i did a little doodle woth text attatched but i didn't do an image id (sorry) and also it wasnt that good but uhhhhhhh anyway. disclaimer i haven't played fo1+fo2 yet so there's no input here on sentient deathclaws

surface-dwelling deathclaws are crepuscular/nocturnal trust me on this one. Deathclaws in general prefer more cavernous terrain with lots of hidey-holes, and feed primarily on molerats, because they're blind and a little stupid and live in the same area anyway. Young deathclaws have been known to move into larger molerat dens - good for them, bad for any wasteland pest control.

large claws help dig, horns swoop over the eyes like that both for protection and so they can push more dirt/rubble around.

anyway EYES.

(rods are light-sensitive, cones are colour-distinguishing)

Deathclaws would have a lot more rods than cones, and what cones they DO have would be primarily red. It's a lot easier to hunt something when you're the one who can actually see in the dark. They'd need the extra light sensitivity to differentiate between what to us is Blue-Black #307 and Blue-Black #306 as to them it would be Tree (Don't Run Into, Ouch) and Food (Yes Run Into, Straight Into Mouth). Really really good at seeing movement. Deathclaws see more red because blood and that's important - wounded prey now looks like a beacon! especially armoured wounded prey; red shows where the armour is broken, and thus where to aim.

also! pit organ! like (pit) vipers and pythons! deathclaws can see infrared! because that's cool! being able to see temperature is pretty important for these guys. Also, the deathclaws in fo4 having black scales on top plays into this - it's pretty good camouflage against other deathclaws/other infrared-sensing creatures. The deathclaws in fnv don't have this and are instead more tan-coloured because they have to be more concerned about being hidden in the sand than hiding from other deathclaws (fo4 has less deathclaw packs? i think? idk i might change my mind on this, i'm not that far through fo4 yet)

anyway yayyyyyyyyyyy wooo deathclaws.

this was born of a love of biology and Why Animal Is That Way and giant fuck-off critters. and also i wanted deathclaw bullfighting to exist.

[shirtlessradfahrer]

usa men would genuinely rather destroy their own lives and/or die than concede power to a woman huh

[ode-of-odr]

// I can remove backgrounds? I AM GOD!!!!

[incarnadinedreams]

There are a couple common claims about things MXTX has said in author's notes which I just wanted to make a little note-to-self with the exact context/source of because they keep coming up again and again. I find that between general translation issues and then further filtered through summaries and offhand comments and then repurposed for... uh let's just say spirited debate, they tend to be presented as much stronger or more emphatic or more serious statements than the impression I got when reading them in context (the translated versions, of course!).

'Morally perfect' comes from the postscripts (published by Exiled Rebels as chapter 113.5):

Both WWX and LWJ are highly ideal characters, so there wouldn't be too much dispute on their moral standing. They're perfect as the protagonists. Of course, I do like WWX a lot, but if I'm looking for a boyfriend, sorry, I'll only have LWJ please.

This is the same postscript where she talks about the difficulties of publishing on the timeline she did and how she was worried the structure of the novel would do badly in serialized/webnovel format, how Xue Yang was like a has-been internet idol in the comments section compared to the Jiang Cheng haters (lol), how she threw everything she liked about an ancient setting in a pot and changed whatever she liked without any intention of historical accuracy at all, etc. So the focus of the postscript wasn't like a morality essay or anything, just offhand comments and notes and trivia.

'MXTX wants us to be like Wangxian' comes from the final author's note of the last extra (ExR ch. 126):

Without care for anything at all, I shall give the entirety of my soul to the pen and the paper.

I no longer like to tell my readers, 'I love you.' These words are too light, and yet these words are too heavy.

I hope each of you who enjoys this book can be like Lan WangJi in virtue and Wei WuXian in character.

P.S. I received the help of many in the publication process.

There's more before and after, from talking about how she decided the type of story she wanted it to be, outlining process, and then after she goes on to thank her editors, the webnovel platform, supportive friends, etc.

Whether any given person cares what her opinion is out-of-text or not is another matter of course! But since it gets brought up so much as if they're very serious Word Of God proclamations... well... it's probably pretty obvious my opinion/interpretation lands in the 'it's not supposed to be that serious, bruh' category.

Though even if it were meant to be super serious I'd personally still be like, 'well that's just like, your opinion, random author lady.' But at the same time, these quotes tend to be used in a way that gives a distorted impression of how serious and thorough they were intended to be and often add confusion.

Also I don't think MXTX is saying we should go feed a guy's fingers to a ghost child in front of him while he's forced to eat his own leg but that's really just wild speculation and assumption on my part, maybe she would appreciate that idk.

[penginlord]

A theme park engineer has a lower mortality rate when demolishing buildings then an actual demolition company.

Let that sink in.

[nomaejie]

Anya at her rock fangirl era. She has more pictures of her bias than her actual boyfriend.

[beskad]

fitting that my first post of 2024 would be me returning to the squandered potential of FinnPoe by the cowards at Disney

I MISS THEM AND THEY DESERVED BETTER

[falloutconfessions]

“Let us recap, shall we?

You are probably one foot away from a chain link fence,

Aiming a missile launcher through said fence

At a target probably six feet away.

And you claim that I am the savage here?

Pfft… Whatever, Boomer.“

Fallout Confessions

[television-overload]

My dad texting me that he likes the new episode of Percy Jackson every week is so cute like it makes me giggle

It started as a classic dad

"whatcha watchin" -> standing by the TV -> hol' up I gotta sit down

in the middle of the Medusa episode while I was home for Christmas, but now he watches them by himself 🥹

[bimbelygimbly]

Hey Tumblr. How do we feel about me starting streaming again? I think I'd probably start by streaming various turn-based RPGs, Popcap games, boomer shooters, and point-and-click adventures 'cus that's what I got on my PC. Should I get a capture card, you bet your ass I'll add DS and any Switch game I got to the list.