#glom

[janmisali]

Super Mario Bracket: FUNKY KONG vs THE GIANT LIKENESS OUTPUTTING MACHINE

Funky Kong

SEED: 27 (22 nominations)

SPECIES: Kong

DEBUT: Donkey Kong Country

BIO: Mario Kart Wii

[Super Mario Wiki article]

the Giant Likeness Outputting Machine

SEED: 102 (7 nominations)

SPECIES: Contraption

DEBUT: Double Trouble

BIO: a cloning machine built by Iggy Koopa

[Super Mario Wiki article]

[link to all polls]

[patemi-pk]

I didn't know Rumpus was a meme. Not speaking finnish I will miss the opportunity to educate myself on the topic.

[planet-magic-land]

it is the Month where it Gets Cold so time to bring out all those classic Baubles and Snowglobes and Decorations for the Tree!

[englishlistwords]

Glom

intransitive verb

To grab or hold onto something. "The child glommed on to her mother's arm."

To become attached to something; stick.

To focus the attention on or become interested in someone or something. "The media glommed on to the heartbreaking story."

To understand or realize. "finally glommed on to the fact that he had been joking."

To cause to adhere; join together.

To get into one's hands or possession; grab or obtain. "glommed the photo off the desk."

To steal. "glommed the necklace from the safe."

[dutchjan]

May 23, 2024

[glomlings]

10 separate phone wallpapers of cute and adorable little Glomlings. Enjoy these cute little chibi creatures doing their painting. download and use as wall paper for your phone✨

[awhirr]

Glom - Pebble

[gabbogool]

Show: Moon By Moon, GLOM, Sonic Eddy at Quarry House Tavern | Wednesday December 7th, 2022

https://dice.fm/event/6bkr7-moon-by-moon-glom-sonic-eddy-7th-dec-quarry-house-tavern-washington-dc-tickets?lng=en-US

Moon By Moon (LAST SHOW OF 2022)

“Listening to Moon By Moon is a bit like watching a band of cosmic explorers test the limits of lunar gravity. Every step leaves deeper footprints and launches them higher towards open space, clouds of harmony and delay kicking up behind them. The Baltimore quartet–singer/keyboard player Gabrielle “Gabbo” Franks, singer/guitarist Etai Fuchs, bassist Seb McMillan, and drummer Brandon Gouin–write indie pop songs grounded in life, love, and politics, but with a fine layer of stardust, coating them in shoegaze atmospheres and psychedelic twists, their eyes fixed on a constellation of influences stretching from The Beach Boys through Spirit of the Beehive. 
 Since forming in early 2018 in the music technology program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, they’ve taken cues from Baltimore’s own Animal Collective, both in their experimental approach and their extended universe of solo projects; on an Etai album, you might hear a anti-folk take on an MBM standard, and if you catch the band live, you may be treated to a noisy, full-ensemble riff on a Gabbo solo track. As a group of songwriters with a vintage knack for melody, they’re ever in the orbit of the psych pop greats. As perpetual students of recording, their adventurous streak waxes brighter all the time.”

GLOM

Sonic Eddy

[catscraftsandcommentary]

Set in @inexplicifics' Accidental Warlord AU,

Someone starts a rumor that Eskel gives the best hugs of all the witchers. (Everyone knows he gives good hugs, that's not in question, but the best?)

The Cats - chaotic, competitive, and cuddly brats that they are - immediately decide to challenge this. The Cranes - just as chaotic, but in a "can we science or explode this" way - jump in with ideas on how to test it.

Of course it spirals.

By the end of the week, the Cranes have organized a competition - complete with rules - to determine which witcher gives the best hugs. There's an entire scoring rubric. And criteria for who can judge. And who can enter, and how.

Several of the more sensible residents of the keep just back away slowly.

Jaskier, of course, cheers the mischief on whole-heartedly...and then nominates Geralt and Eskel (as a team) and Aubry (by himself).

(The Cranes quickly reshuffle things to add a team bracket. Cedric and Axel start looking for someone to nominate THEM.)

Somehow, the children of the keep - at least the ones unrelated by adoption or step-parenthood to competing witchers - end up as judges.

The Cats are sure they have this in the bag. They're funny! They're friendly! They like cuddling! They even PURR! Clearly there's no competition. Eskel's done for.

...

...

...then Letho dark-horses his way into the title of "cuddliest witcher ever."

[wanderingtycho]

By far one of my favorite things about the way Disco Elysium handles politics is that Libertarianism is treated as an absolute joke. Like the game is obviously sympathetic towards communists, but there are elements of sympathy towards the moralists and fascists as well. Not sympathy in the sense of “oh can’t we all just get along, we’re all human” BS, but sympathy in the sense that you are able to understand a persons thought process that would lead them to embrace moralism or fascism. Even if that thought process is deeply flawed, and leads to horribly off kilter conclusions, going through the centrist and fash quests gives you meaningful insight into the appeal of those ideologies.

But Ultraliberalism? The game just laughs at you, repeatedly and mercilessly. As it should, you’re a cop so poor a guy you’ve known for one day has to pawn some fancy hubcaps so you can afford rent, yet all you talk about is your grindset. Your hustle, how you’re gonna disrupt the market and groove your way into the lap of luxury. It’s delusion, utter stark raving madness, and characters treat you as such.

Kim is at a loss for words whenever you crank on your libertarian spiel, Evrart calls you a retard, you have to *trick* the mega-rich light bending guy into giving you mercury mining stocks because he’s simply too perplexed by you. Joyce, last of the self identified Ultras, doesn’t take you seriously. Sileng just goes along with it the same way he goes along with any of the other nonsense you can spout, because he’s on his own hustle, and there is no loyalty among charlatans. The only character who is wholeheartedly onboard with the money engineering and the visionary wave making lifestyle is literally named IDIOT DOOM SPIRAL.

But you see, all these things are just incidental, where the game makes it most potent jab at libertarians is when the vision quest stops. Notice I said *stop* not *end*. The communist quest line ends with a Rhetoric check in order to ask The Most Important Question about Communism. The fascist quest has you look yourself in the eye with an Endurance check to see if you can stomach the truth about yourself and your Vöws. The moralist quest ends with a heart wrenching Empathy check as you beg the iron grey and soulless enforcers of the status quo to please god help this district before war breaks out in the streets. There’s real personal stakes for Harry in all these disparate paths he can walk, what does Ultraliberalism get?

You and Kim look at a statue covered in tinsel and disco balls, Kim asks you why you went through with all this, and no matter what response you pick he’s like “Right, yeah, okay. Anyway, let’s finish the case.”

That’s it, no grand moment of pathos, no red Savoir Faire skill check to see if you really are the baddest hustler in the neoliberal hood after all. It’s completely limp, flaccid, lackluster. The game treats all the effort you put into this as exactly what it is: sad, cringe fantasies of a poor old man who’s huffing copium over the embarrassed millionaire mythos.

Disco Elysium doesn’t give libertarianism a poignant, profound conclusion because it’s an ideology undeserving of such treatment. It’s a hyper-capitalist cult mentality of toxic positivity and confirmation bias, a way for desperate people to trick themselves and other chumps into thinking they can bootstrap their way into wealth and prestige. It goes past wishful thinking into pure delirium, the game doesn’t engage with it seriously because it doesn’t have to, the only people who sincerely believe any of its tenants are morons and the clowns who sucker them.

[pangur-and-grim]

people say The Colour of Magic is the worst discworld book, but I love Rincewind so much

[freakartack]

A boy and his GLOM

[freakattack]

Which one of you assholes is responsible for this

[givemewallywestorgivemedeath]

Abso-fucking-lutely vibing with World's Finest: Teen Titans' addition of Karen as one of the founding members.

Because good fucking god, before this the team was two demigods, two billionaire teens and a Normal Kid™ in neon yellow BUT NOW?! Now it's two demigods, two billionaire teens and TWO Normal Kids™ in neon yellow!

No but seriously though Wally is the only one who has to like... mow the lawn and watch his neighbor's cat when they go away for the long weekend. He's the only one who knows how to mail a letter at the post office and how much pencils cost at a book fair. He's got superpowers and terrible parents and yet somehow he is the MOST NORMAL ONE THERE.

Which speaks volumes about the rest of them tbh.

But now!!! Karen and Wally get to be nerds ✨together✨ and they get free tickets to watch the trainwrecks that the other Teen Titans call life

Seriously though I think these two are aggressively trying to be friends with each other while also roleplaying their 'cool guy' hero personas, which is extremely funny to me. These two are absolute nerds with no friends in school and they are DESPERATE for a friend and they've just met but they've both decided "Yeah that one. That one is friend shaped"

Wally: you move too slow

Karen: learn how to fly dumbass

Anyway I love them