Shadowking58

viostormcaller:

Hey so you guys remember those old tvs where if you turn them off and then touch them the screen feels staticy?

Do you think you’d get the same feeling if you touched Anti?

lil-mizz-jay:

There was a little girl cosplaying as “MLP Gameloft App Derpy” at BabsCon

She was under a cardboard box, with cartoon Derpy eyes on the front

And it said “TAP PLEASE” on the side of her box

And her parents were like “Go ahead and tap!”

And if you tapped her box, she’d pop out of the box and give you some candy

It was so

Fucking adorable

I like actually cried when she gave me candy it was the cutest thing

I’ve ever seen in my entire life

Sometimes I think back to all the good cosplays I’ve seen

And I always think of that one

And I’m like “God what an adorable idea”

cliffracer:

sonoci:

I love how the newer Animal Crossings have these really lax and beautiful tunes at night to sort of ease you into not staying up too late

and then there’s the Gamecube Animal Crossing

“HEY YO EVERYBODY IT’S 2AM LET’S JAM”

to be entirely fair to GCN animal crossing, this song perfectly encapsulates the brain state of anyone awake at 2 AM

xenodile:

nulldriver:

squishysnake:

squishysnake:

my fave Metroid lore ever is the one Prime log where the Pirates tried replicating the Morph Ball and ended up crunching all their testers

I just love when writers take these otherwise faceless and intimidating factions and make them out to be less than infallible

Science Team has vapor for brains

I like the set of minor scans that feature a warning to all Space Pirates working in the labs that metroids and other specimens are not pets and should not be treated as such.

Then about 3 rooms later you scan a contained metroid that is noted to be sick from ingesting several space pirate rations and pet treats.

needlemouse:

favoritelatina:

favoritelatina:

favoritelatina:

I wouldn’t normally ask for something like this, but the situation is quite serious. Mexico suffered another catastrophic earthquake that already has taken many lives and the death toll is expected to rise.

Please donate to Topos, a rescue team that was formed during the 1985 earthquake in Mexico City and has helped many other countries during catastrophes.

YOU CAN HELP EVEN IF YOU AREN’T IN MEXICO. Your dollars are worth almost double in Mexico, so something small as $15 has a big impact. If you can donate, you can do it directly here:

Paypal: donativos@brigada-rescate-topos.org

or visit www.topos.mx

If you can’t donate, please share with any friends or family that are interested in helping. The people from my country would appreciate it a lot.

Thank you and lots of love!

Also, if you can’t donate money but want to help, you can donate food, water, dog food, and clothes. Red Cross Mexico, Oxfam Mexico, and Save the Children Mexico is a way to get resources flowing. Smaller nonprofits like Project Paz are also collecting donations for earthquake relief.

Visit:

https://www.cruzrojamexicana.org.mx

https://oxfammexico.org

https://www.savethechildren.mx

and if you are local, there are different places all over where you can donate. You can find the nearest place here/ si eres local, puedes donar en los diferentes centros de acopio. Puedes encontrar el más cercano aquí:

https://www.google.com.mx/amp/amp.eluniversal.com.mx/amp/note/amp/eluniversal/995236

or visit http://comoayudar.mx

Please donate anything you can. 1 US dollar is equal to 17 Mexican Pesos.

Right now there are so many people helping the city and that’s amazing, but please know that there are many villages and small towns that also suffered just as badly as the cities. They need our help too, so please donate ♡

idiopathicsmile:

idiopathicsmile:

i just remembered this story my dad told me one time, about abraham lincoln

a guy challenged abe to a duel once. lincoln very much did not want to duel this cat.

so lincoln agreed, on the condition he got to choose the weapon. maybe that was how it generally went in 19th century dueling culture, i have no idea.

the guy said “sure”

lincoln said, “ok. broadswords.”

so that poor would-be opponent shows up on the day of the would-be duel, and abe is outside, doing, like, some quick sword warmups.

now, back in lincoln’s day, he was, as any american schoolchild can tell you, the tallest fucking dude on the entire fucking planet, so please try to even imagine the majestic reach of this stovepiped giant’s condor-like wingspan.

(wingspan plus broadsword.)

abe’s enemy takes one look at this, does some quick mental calculations on his own arm length (mortal, human), turns around and goes home.

the best part is that, as i remember it, lincoln of course had no fucking idea how to swordfight. it was the 1800s. we had guns. he’d just been, like, waving this giant sword around haphazardly, whacking at tree limbs, making his arms look as big as possible because he knew this joker could see him, and he knew that guy didn’t know that lincoln didn’t know what the hell to do with a broadsword.

anyway, i don’t actually know if that story is true or not but i really really hope it is. i would love to know that the president who defeated the confederacy was also fucking hilarious.

UPDATE: a very helpful anon just linked me to an actual account of the actual historical incident. i got a number of crucial details wrong, as it turns out.

PLOT TWIST: the real version is considerably funnier

lunarhalo24:

thisurlwasnttakenbutnowitis:

thisurlwasnttakenbutnowitis:

“There is a copy of the NES game Golf in the firmware of every Switch system”

Me: Oh haha, what a weird thing, probably some remnant from the debugging process -

“Since that was a game that Satoru Iwata programmed himself, this could have been intended as a way of saying that Iwata is spiritually a part of every Switch and is watching over and protecting every system.”

Me:

Oh my God, so hackers have found out the way to enable you to play the game. You know how?

On July 11th*, the date of Iwata’s passing, doing Iwata’s “directly to you” motion with the Joy-Cons on the home screen will play a sound clip of Iwata and launch the game.

(* Before you try this yourself, note that simply changing the date on your system will not work, as this runs off the Switch’s internal internet-synced clock, meaning that changing the date manually will only work if the system has never been connected to the internet)

I… I can’t…

It goes even further than that.

Firstly, opening the game like this person is in the video is only possible with a brand new unit on system version 1.0.0 that has never been connected to the Internet. Because of this, opening it is pretty hard to replicate, unless if you have a completely brand new Switch. So, even if the system’s internal date is on July 11, it still won’t open if the system version is up to date.

The thing is, it’s not supposed to be opened.

The hidden Golf game has been described as an omamori, which, in Japanese culture, is a charm usually bought at shrines that offers spiritual protection and good luck if you keep it close to you. Sometimes they’re made of cloth, and look like a tiny bag, which can contain a written prayer. People often tie them to something like a purse or a backpack, so that it’s always with them. Here are a bunch of different ones:

Omamori are not supposed to be opened, as doing so is said to remove its blessing.

Seeing as the hidden Golf game on the Switch is so difficult to run under normal circumstances, it’s probably not supposed to be opened in the first place. It’s likely meant to represent an omamori in Iwata’s honor. Its very fitting, because of how portable the Switch is, since people are likely to take it with them like they would with an omamori strapped to a purse or backpack.

ambris:

scoutaloo:

• season 1- they all go to a formal dance and have no fun
• season 2- they get trapped and then her brother and sister in-law beat the evil clone people using the power of love
• season 3- she screws up but then makes it better with a song and then gets to fly
• season 4- A INSANE FREAKING CENTAUR DUDE ESCAPES HELL AND STEALS PEOPLE’S STRENGTHS AND THEY FREAKING DUEL IT OUT WITH KAMEHAMEHAS AND THEN THEY MEGA EVOLVE AND DAMN HIM BACK TO HELL

Wow this show sounds freakin wild, I wonder what–

…oh wait

ask-thunderblast: