I’ve watch the phylogeny discourse on Tumblr go from “cladistically speaking, birds are dinosaurs”, to “by the same logic, humans are fish”, to “from a taxonomic standpoint there’s technically no such thing as a fish”, and frankly I’m excited to see where it goes next.
If, taxonomically, there’s no such thing as a fish merely because the term is used to describe a group of species that is not a clade, then there’s also no such thing as a monkey, a crab, or a bee. There is, however, such a thing as a bird.
My favorite part of the plague doctor outfit is the walking stick because it was mostly used to examine patients without touching them but apparently it was also used to keep people a respectable distance from the doctor.
Someone sick with bubonic plague: doctor please I’m–
Some goth harbinger of death crow-looking dude: get the fuck away from me *slaps him with a stick*
Apparently plague doctors would also sometimes offer it to patients to use for self-flagellation in the hopes that God would forgive them and take away their plague
Someone sick with bubonic plague: doctor….please ….
Goth harbinger of death crow-looking dude: *holding out walking stick* I prescribe you 50cc’s of go beat the shit out of yourself
She doesn’t think of GLaDOS’s insults as malicious. GLaDOS isn’t trying to hurt you. She’s trying to motivate you, so you’ll do better in testing. From her perspective, she’s trying to help.
((Notice, also, how when Wheatley does it, it’s for the same reason.
He’s trying to imitate GLaDOS’s methods in order to get better test results.
It’s because he’s going through withdrawal symptoms and not getting enough solution euphoria to satisfy himself that he thinks that Chell isn’t testing properly.
This is why he tries to use GLaDOS’s methods to see if it will help. He’s just imitating her.))
“Apparently being civil isn’t motivating you. So let’s try thing HER way.”
Omg can’t believe I never made that connection.
OF COURSE it’s to motivate you. Being petty and mean for the sake of being petty and mean is a waste of time and energy, and any self-respecting robot who wants good test results would know that.
This is all really interesting but when i read Ellen i thought you meant Ellen DeGeneres and I was like “oh I didnt know she was a gamer”
the more i look at this the more cursed it gets. theres just so much
the smash bros the ugly ass bong the inflatable palm tree the fact that the one who took the picture was likely sitting on the bed considering the controler placement prior to getting up and walking to the spot the pictures taken from
it’s interesting to me that I love defeated villains choosing to die on their own terms, hopefully while sneering about the hero’s idea of justice (“I’ll stand trial, then, and ‘justice will be done’. No, I’ll die as I deserve: in flame and glory!” before calling down a pillar of flame) but I hate less dramatic versions that I feel allow the hero to abdicate responsibility for the villain’s death – the villain committing suicide off screen, or dying through an accident while at the hero’s mercy (the cliff they’re standing on crumbles), or a side character killing them. I think it’s that in the first, the villain is dying as they lived – being cool as hell – and in the second, the hero doesn’t have to stain their hands with blood, but the villain loses something at the end.
the best kind of death is when the villain not only chooses how they die but also the narrative of how they die. like they die in a very public way that makes it look as though the hero killed them when the fight had already been won
And when they cut your pay/hours/benefits for no reason maybe you can get your XBOX to collectively bargain your employer for you with the help of your PlayStation. Wow! Thanks XBOX!
And dues are assigned on a sliding scale so you would have to be making absolute fuckin bank to be expected to contribute 700 a year
Workers at #Delta have responded to the company’s anti-union propaganda with their own campaign.
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