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Late Season Snow Patches, Mt. Margaret Area, Mt. St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, Washington, August 2000.

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APOD: 2019 April 21 - Spiral Aurora over Icelandic Divide . Image Credit & Copyright: Juan Carlos Casado (TWAN, StarryEarth) . Explanation: Admire the beauty but fear the beast. The beauty is the aurora overhead, here taking the form of great green spiral, seen between picturesque clouds with the bright Moon to the side and stars in the background. The beast is the wave of charged particles that creates the aurora but might, one day, impair civilization. In 1859, following notable auroras seen all across the globe, a pulse of charged particles from a coronal mass ejection (CME) associated with a solar flare impacted Earth’s magnetosphere so forcefully that they created the Carrington Event. A relatively direct path between the Sun and the Earth might have been cleared by a preceding CME. What is sure is that the Carrington Event compressed the Earth’s magnetic field so violently that currents were created in telegraph wires so great that many wires sparked and gave telegraph operators shocks. Were a Carrington-class event to impact the Earth today, speculation holds that damage might occur to global power grids and electronics on a scale never yet experienced. The featured aurora was imaged in 2016 over Thingvallavatn Lake in Iceland, a lake that partly fills a fault that divides Earth’s large Eurasian and North American tectonic plates. via Instagram http://bit.ly/2UT306R

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Hey!!!

You, yes you there person in the Tak and the Power of Juju fandom. Want to meet others in this little fandom? Want a place to connect and meet new friends over the series? Well look no further.

I made a Tak and the Power of Juju discord server!!! Since tumblr hates links, the link is on my blog and can be found by searching the tag “tak and the power of juju” on my blog!

I can’t wait to meet others like myself who enjoy the series!!!

(If you cant find the link, just message me^^)

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I will shout to the heavens until people realise that the Tak games were art and deserve to be praised.

Why, you may ask?

• THE ART STYLE!!! ITS SO UNIQUE AND GOOD AND FOR EARLY 2000’s GAMES THAT BLEW MY MIND AS A KID (and still does) I MEAN LOOK AT THIS. THAT BACKGROUND ART IS GORGEOUS

• THE MUSIC!!! Cool tribal music that REALLY makes you feel like you were on an adventure is present in all 3 games.

• Not to mention that the whole concept of a shaman’s apprentice saving his people in a magical tribal world with jujus (deities) and breathtaking locations is a concept that still remains fresh TO THIS DAY.

• The dialogue is as witty and hilarious as are the characters. These games still make me laugh to this day.

• The combat is simple but fun in the first game and gets much better in the other two.

• AGAIN THE ABSOLUTE SENSE OF ADVENTURE IN AN OPEN WORLD (in the first game anyway) IS MINDBLOWING. EVEN IN THE MORE LINEAR SECOND GAME ITS SO MAGICAL AND GOOD AND BREATHTAKING I CANT.

• JUST LET THE CONCEPT ART DO SOME TALKING. HONESTLY, I MEAN LOOK AT THIS. THERES EVEN AN ELDRITCH THING IN THE ONE BACKGROUND.

In conclusion these games are fantastic and I will never not love the way I can get lost in them. Please someone get these good lads remastered.

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The mobile photoshop app makes everything so blurry akshdfhs

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my mom: Oh no! I lost a thumb tack.

my dumbass brain: 

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Rant No One Asked For: Tak and the Power of Juju is a Criminally Underrated Game Series

If you grew up in the early 2000s that name might ring a bell. It was a TV series on Nickelodeon that ran around 2008 or so based off of a game series of the same name. You may also remember the show was not very good and, if you were aware of the games, failed to do them justice.

The story centered on a tribal boy tasked with saving his village from a curse set by an evil shaman. It featured magic, unique enemies (including sentient rocks and voodoo dolls) and fascinating, most often outrageous, gods called jujus that occasionally help Tak along the way.

The trilogy today has almost all but been forgotten by time which really is a shame. The games themselves are ridiculously enjoyable. The characters are likable, the levels are memorable and immersive, and gameplay itself is fun.

That and the art style of this game is fucking gorgeous just look at the concept art:

This level design coupled with an incredible score of tribal music (sometimes accompanied with electric guitars) makes the world insanely immersive. Just listen to some of these tracks

It’s immensely atmospheric and does a great job of getting you absorbed into the world.

Not to mention the writing in this game is legitimately funny 

However when Nickelodeon decided to further capitalize on the series and give it its own television show, the franchised unfortunately suffered.

The show failed primarily because it failed to capture the tone, feel, and basically anything that made the games interesting. For example take a look at these two images, both of Tak’s village:

Two completely different moods right?

The TV series exploited Nick’s trademark toilet humor that was practically nonexistent in the games and overdosed on outrageous Planet Sheen-esque character design that in no way reflected the art style of the game trilogy.

It really is a shame because the franchise really did have such potential. It had fun gameplay, funny jokes, awesome character deigns and worldbuilding, a likeable cast, and intriguing story. But naturally, Nick fucked it over with a rushed, half assed TV series which unfortunately more people tend to remember.

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TAK AND THE POWER OF JUJU!!! 

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I AM HERE TO PROVIDE CONTENT

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I really wish

I could live in Tak and the Power of Juju. That’d be awesome.

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The Tak and the power of juju sereis & the Ty the Tasmanian Tiger series were great plat former’s,they never really got the attention they deserved  mainly do to other more popular franchises such as Sonic,Mario,Jak & Daxter,Ratchet & Clank ETC, but these game still are very good and did a great job at holding up their own.I enjoyed the hell outta them when I was younger.

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Are there any other Tak fans here...?

Can I join the Tak fandom? Does it exist? ouo