mai 2013
legendariess:
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Theres something that psychologically makes me go “Oh god not more of this shit” and want to quit the game when Im on a Mario 3 style level select map and when I get to the next screen over it I find… another batch of levels in the same world.
Especially if the map isnt doing anything interesting. Just put them all on one screen and make it look nice. Sonic Colors and Donkey...
ambassador-of-anguish:
shouldertappingghosts:
If I was a famous author I would publish a book with ten different endings which all went to print with varying degrees of rarity, but not tell the fans about it so that I could watch their confusion as they disagree over how the story ended. Then when they figured it out I would ‘come clean’, telling them that I had released eleven alternate...
The amount of times I saw “Cmon, ya gotta pay to play” goes up from zero to “an embarrassing amount” when i play poker
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rneerkat:
“sorry we’re hero-out of heroin” the drug dealer informs one of his customers. he never wanted this job, his dream was to be a comedian
confusedtree:
In all seriousness Idris Elba as the 12th Doctor would be a great casting choice because he’d kill it and we’d get to find out just exactly how many anglophiles are also gigantic racists
I have to admit, NBC trying to spin Hannibal starting so late in the season into “All of your other dramas are now on reruns, but Hannibal continues to be ALL NEW” is a little clever.
Re: Cucumber post
You guys might have remembered that list of like amazing cucumber uses. I dug it up again because we have cucumbers now and I wanted to try out the few I was interested in.
-Using them to clean sinks and faucets works like a charm
-The trick of holding a slice to the roof of your mouth to remove bad breath also works
-The boiling them in water to relieve stress from the aroma...
The Great Gatsby wasn’t set in in a period called ‘The Minimal Twenties’. It was...
– Baz Luhrmann (via mediumcloseup)
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Luhrmann yesterday likened the reception to his film by some quarters in the US...
– AUSTRALIAN film maker Baz Luhrmann has received the ultimate critics review of his The Great Gatsby film - from the granddaughter of the novelist F Scott Fitzgerald.
kermitthefrrog:
sirseph:
i can’t believe tumblr user kermitthefrrog bought tumblr
when u make a joke and no one hears it
emmilions:
5 minutes ago
me: “any games you wanted to reserve today? Call of duty, battlefield, last of us, Ellen page simulator 64” customer: “no I get all those games on steam” me: “.”
I’ll have you know the steam edition of Ellen Page simulator fixes the framerate issues the n64 original had in the Juno level
The $1.1 billion purchase price, meanwhile, will vaporize more than a third of Yahoo’s cash balance
I kind of cant believe Yahoo bought Tumblr mostly because they’re spending 1/3rd of their balance on a site that made 1% of that price in revenue last year.
Like thats “Me making high bets my hand cant cash playing poker” levels of stupid
Oh I forgot the reason I keep not changing the queue on my electroswing blog is that trying to organize it just flatout doesnt work for me anymore for no good fucking reason
anyways gatsby scorecard from best to worst gatsby movies
High Tier
2013 Gatsby: Its fucking great
Mid Tier
1949 Gatsby: I like its noir sensibilities even if taken solely as an adaption its really poor
2002 G: Its fun and interesting as an adaptation. It plays out like a higher budgeted BET drama which is enjoyable enough for me
Garbage Tier
1974 Gatsby: If you muted it, at least id look...
bedquest:
dear fucking tumblr
this is a fucking bumblebee
this is a fucking bee
this is a fucking hornet
this is a fucking wasp
as you can fucking see the longer their legs are and the less fuzzy they are is equivalent to how fucking evil they fucking are
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thumbcramps:
you know all you guys do is bitch about every update tumblr does so you should probably be happy that it got bought because maybe someone will fucking fix it
Ah yes, because Yahoo has that stunning track record of ever making the sites they buy better.
[F]or the first several years the SAT was offered, males scored higher than...
– “Gender Bias in College Admissions Tests”, FairTest.org
And then people urge me everything is fine, of course it is, when you’re ignoring statistics that is.
(via cwnl)
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Oh! I forgot to do a writeup of the Baz l. gatsby film.
Spoilers: its /really/ good, its my favorite adaptation by far, and anyone who says the Robert Redford 74 version is better is out of their fucking minds.
We’ll talk more tomorrow when i can be arsed to type up a few paragraphs
Why didnt anyone tell me Omaha was easy mode, id be a poker god if i was playing that all night