#unintentional hilarity

[brightlotusmoon]

[kahran042]

Actual quote from the Boxcar Children. If I didn't know better, I'd swear that this wasn't originally in English.

[hestia-and-the-court]

[ID: The Behind the Name random name generator, which has given the name “Charizard Cockburn”. /end ID]

me: this is a background character who's in one scene, has two lines, and is completely irrelevant to the rest of the story. i am going to stop obsessing over what to name him and use the random name generator on behindthename.com. i am going to accept the first thing it gives me and move the fuck on.

behindthename.com:

[sohannabarberaesque]

A few words for such imagining this blog in foreign languages via Google Translate and similar

While some of you (especially in areas where English is not exactly the lingua franca) may be curious to know how this blog would read in different languages--a credit to Google Translate and a few other online software programmes capable of website translation--just be aware that these services rely on machine-based translation as may or may not involve Artificial Intelligence.

Meaning, ergo, that the ensuing translation into your chosen language may not actually be accurate and, more than likely, could wind up unintentionally funny, especially where the desire is one of "round-trip translation," where a word, phrase or expression--or, for that matter, webpage--is translated from English to another language, then back into English. (Itself calling to mind a story from the early days of computer development about where an attempt to translate the Apostle Paul's observation that "the flesh is weak, but the spirit is strong" from English to Russian, then back into English, came back as "The meat was rotten, but the vodka tasted excellent." But then, such were the limitations of computing before microprocessors and chip technology.)

Hence, this blog will not be liable for the consequences of how any translation attempts of same into other languages, especially so via online channels such as Google Translate, turn out--especially where Hilarious Consequences ensue as a result.

[pastlight]

loving the PowerWash Simulator background lore

[ingravinoveritas]

The only thing that would've made this better is if Michael had somehow emerged from the Scottish wilderness and they shared that glass of whisky together in the firelight...

[hestia-and-the-court]

[ID: The words "Mesopotamia typo", except all the letters are red, capitalized, and on fire. /end ID]

a good sumerian inexplicably donated five packs of 500 temporary tattoos to the classroom, each pack featuring identical pictures of a different invasive species of bug

[youngerfrankenstein]

One of the most mortifying things about watching Transformers G1 is that in amongst the terrible puns meant to make 6 year olds laugh there will be the odd joke that genuinely makes me chuckle. 😔

[hestia-and-the-court]

@junequeer

🔲 relax shoulders/unhinge jaw

🔲 stretch in any way that feels comfortable

🔲 go find+drink some water or any refreshing drink

🔲 deep breath

🔲 resume your silly activity of choice

[courthousesketchartist]

Rachel. Baby girl. You are the first and only person to describe the Annex as 'un-fun.'

[kahran042]

[gascon-en-exil]

About halfway through the Super Mario RPG project, at least on the recording end of things, and I already know that it'd take a lot of convincing to get me to do something like this again. I really don't know how streamers and let's players record entire game playthroughs all the time...it's exhausting.

[witheringslights]

One of my favourite things is how mysterious they keep Viktor at the start of Arcane to Jayce, we get the first scene in Jayce's apartment where he deliberately doesn't give his name, the court scene where there's a deliberate shadow drawn over him and finally the next scene in Jayce's apartment, where he talks him down from the ledge and says he believes in him and his research all before finally revealing his name.

The whole hilarity about this is the reason it's written this way is to have Viktor's identity be a big reveal to League players as him being the Machine Herald but without that in universe it comes across as a huge romantic trope to me for someone suddenly coming into your life, sweeping you off your feet before you've even been properly introduced (Jayce's "I don't even know your name" quote has such unintentional Cinderella nods to me)

[funnyjokesstory]

The Sneezing Symphony Unleashing Hilarious Harmonies - Funny jokes

Once upon a time in a quiet city, there was a set of pals who had a peculiar talent for synchronizing their sneezes. They known as themselves The Sneezing Symphony. One sunny afternoon, the buddies accrued inside the park for his 

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[buttercup-barf]

Wait, is it possible to do posing on loadout tf?? Like, not just game poses, but your own????

Yes!

Go to the main settings (big cog, not the two small ones), pick Scene Explorer, click on whomever you wanna pose out of the list (you can turn the visibility of the models you already loaded in on and off with the little eye icon), and look for the "skeleton" tab. It gets you a dropdown thing, showing the names of their various joints, and I have no clue how half of those work.

Most of them are considered "branches", so, like, you can't see the left finger joints, unless you open up the hand branch, through the lower arm branch, through the upper arm branch, through the collar branch- [INHALE] Which you get after clicking through the four spine branches, that stem from the pelvis (also considered the center of the model's rotation) branch.

Note that you need to have the manipulator thingy ticked, and select this spinny icon. The cross one moves stuff around (really good for moving around helmets, cigarettes, and weapons separately from the body, or just doing stretchy nonsense), and the size-changing one... I haven't touched that one, lol, it scares me.

The red, green, and blue curves are your axes of rotation. You just click and drag them (they're highlighted yellow, whenever they're selected), but it kinda requires giving it a few test wiggles to see which thing rotates where.

Also note, that after rotating something, it kinda stays in that position, so if you try to load in a different animation, it will, uh. Result in some unintentional hilarity. I know this advice is kinda doodoo, but I do sincerely hope it helped at least a little.

My good buddy and frequent tormentor, @/flandesuka, also fiddled around, and found tons of interesting stuff, like how to disable Sniper's glasses, or whatever, and you can most definitely find a lot of stuff on your own, too. You can always open the advanced settings (two small cogs), and reset everything, if things go haywire. Experiment.

[tomorrowusa]

Broligarchs – sounds like the name of a TV series that should be in development at HBO (if they're smart). Imagine a cross between Silicon Valley and The Regime. 🤨

As awful as a second Trump term may be, there will be the occasional odd bits of unintentional entertainment as well. Imagine the Department Of Greedy Egotists announcing cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, Veterans' Benefits, and Social Security around the same time the GOP Congress is voting to extend the earlier Trump tax breaks for the filthy rich. Hilarity (and chaos) will ensue.