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[canadian-riddler]

I got one of the shell mods for my Steam Deck and I’m trying to decide if I want to replace the front

[harmonysixx]

what am I doing

[naswoop]

The regicidal monochromatic time loop games are holding hands

[gunnslaughter]

Passing rains

[kikker-oma]

Warning: Blood

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[jupiterlandings]

Video Game Aesthetics: Professor Hershel Layton

[skyward-floored]

Swamp Link: there's an easy rhyme to remember whether a snake is venomous or not: "if red touches black, you're okay Jack, but if red touches yellow, you're a dead fellow"

Zelda: so what if the snake is a different color?

Link: just start screaming, I'll come tell you if it's safe or not

[saym0-0]

i really love the mack the knife bit. its good. do they make robots what are crazy?

[shortkinglink]

Hiiiiiiii I just wanted to let you know I am absolutely feral over your Twi, Wars, and Sky designs and that they are the trio ever. I love them so so much and I hold them gently and bark so softly at them. Thank you for blessing me and the world with your drawings

thank you SO much for the kind words. it truly means a lot!!!! it took me a ridiculous amount of time to answer this bc i really wanted to draw you something IM SO SORRY OTL!! i love your fics!! they're lots of fun and i loveeeee modern stuff PLUS BIG BROTHER TRIO 4EVER!!!! i hope youre having a nice day and that you like some modern twi...smiles

[boimann]

help my steam profile is getting swarmed by what i'm pretty sure are scammers trying to get me to promote their site

[kurozu501]

20 years… i cant believe i'll get to make the long journey back to this image on my switch soon… its been so long…

[rouzys]

“Are you going to leave with grace? Are you going to leave a path to trace?” // Oblivion by Bastille

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[pokemon-cards-hourly]

[weirdowithaquill]

Fish in An Engine's Tank? It's More Likely Than You Think:

So, recently I wrote a story for my 'The World Famous Engine' fic (read here) which focused on the Flying Scotsman getting fish and weeds into his tanks, which clogged up his injector.

While on the surface, this sounds like a rehash of 'Thomas Goes Fishing' from Season 1, it's actually a rehash of a real-life event that happened to 60103 Flying Scotsman in 1958.

The story of the original incident goes as such: back in the late 1950s, the Flying Scotsman worked on the ex-GCR mainline through Leicester. On the way to London, the injectors failed one after the other, leading to pandemonium on the footplate as they were forced to basically drop the fire at speed and try desperately to get the injectors working again before their engine blew up with a full express. You can imagine their relief when the water started flowing again!

And despite all of this, they were only five minutes late to Marylebone!

The reason for this absolutely frantic and tense few minutes? Well, the outlet pipes from the tender to the injector were protected by wire mesh, which was absolutely clogged with algae and weeds! And then they managed to extract roughly three buckets worth of live fish - and not little minnows, I'm talking bream and rudd - from Flying Scotsman's tender!

And the cherry on top? The fireman, Ken Issett, recalls a lady who said to the crew: "Thank you for my safe journey."

Yeah, this actually happened. The world's most famous engine was very nearly destroyed by some weeds and fish.

But how did the fish get into Flying Scotsman's tender? The answer lies in where railways got their water supply from: anywhere and everywhere. Railways needed a lot of water in an era when pump infrastructure and feed-water was treated a lot less carefully. Furthermore, a lot of railways (in the UK at least) also owned canals, which they would simply take the water from and use. The water was moved to water towers via either gravity or pumps, and then stored before being loaded into the engine's tanks. And the pipes were big, to handle the amount of water required by steam railways.

Some firemen from the era recall using homemade rods to go fishing in tenders and water towers and catching fish! Others recalled the fact that they disliked going into the water tanks to clean and inspect unless they were ordered to. One account literally says:

'The bigger tanks were best, not the smaller side tanks. Better than the canal, though.’

Another said:

‘On Friday afternoons they had trouble finding cleaners because we were all up in the water tank with rafts!’

From this, I'm pretty sure we can all agree that Thomas getting a fish in his tank after having to use a bucket is surprising, not because there was a fish in his tank, but because it wasn't pumped in months ago! Apparently steam locomotives were just massive, unwilling fish tanks.

Considering this, it's a real wonder that there weren't more stories about fish causing an absolute menace on the railways!

For those who want to read the article this is based on, here is the hyperlink and the URL:

[leadendeath]

found out recently that the holy mackerel is a scout-only melee weapon. sad! i had assumed it was multi-class and i will never play scout.. bUT NEVER MIND THERE IS A DIFFERENT CLASS-SPECIFIC MELEE MORE RELEVANT TO ME!!!

edit: omg theres a follow up to this post !!1!

[stanwixbuster]

Quinn & Flynn is out now.

at the low low price of $5.99, with a 10% discount for one week! wow!

A mature queer visual novel, telling the heated and convoluted story of the love triangle between Quinn, an obsessive police detective, Elias, Quinn's direct superior, and Flynn, a poet with a very talented tongue, caught in a criminal case that spirals rapidly out of hand.

Summary:

Semi-linear narrative

5 chapters, each ~1 hour long

Three POVs

Features:

Non-Blocking choices, letting you go see more of the conversation before making a choice, or skipping it entirely

A fully queer cast

One major ending, four epilogues

Content Warnings:

Quinn & Flynn is a mature visual novel that features scenes and depiction of police brutality and sexual violence; it's not a game intended for minors

Buy now on Steam

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