whoa I don't know this game very well but I certainly didn't know about this secret meat shower

*guy attending a business conference held in Castlevania* wait is this not Forgotten Cloister? Oh shit, this is Forbidden Cloister, and Forgotten is all the way back down the Hallway of Madness. Also I don't see how to get there without turning into a bat? *clock strikes 13* nm, missed it anyway

James Wallet, inventing the wallet: Oh and there should be a little hole in the middle that shits out your pennies and dimes

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

Working Hornse 🦄

but we'd never put up with a technofascist dystopia here in the good ol' U. S. of A., right? ʀɪɢʜᴛ? ʳᶦᵍʰᵗˀ

When I see a bumper sticker or w/e for a dominant sports team, it's like, OK maybe you're a lifelong and/or regional fan, in which case, fair dinkum. But otherwise it's like, wow, however DO you manage to keep that ember of faith glowing in the face of the howling winds of, uh, nigh-constant victory

bros fetishizing the Roman Emperors when in reality they were like "ooh wenny widdy weekie. time to swim in my sex pool full of *TOPIC INAPPROPRIATE FOR DISCOURSE*"

Polymaths of the ancient world practicing medicine were like PHYSICK: "Thy complexion bespeaks a surfeit of Melancholy, the influence of Venus. Imbibe ye this concoction of Sulfur, Salt, and Mercury, and abstain ye from all Water" PATIENT: "That all sounds reasonable and not at all insane, sure"

~ 🌿𝘐𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘵

every Wheel of Fortune bonus round now is like "Around The House" and it ends up being something completely unguessable and barely in the category like JUDGY MOM

Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago

Rawr! This is a commission recently completed by @halybs.bsky.social ! I'm so strong and thick! I'm going to throw my weight and strength around if you try to challenge me. Big dragon is BIG. 🐉

Sclerotic Dem leadership today is probably like "hold your horses, we can't assume that winning is a nationally viable strategy"

Is that seriously the best they could do? I guess the Republican wordplay game is like the Republican bedroom game: limp and forced?

You can qualify as a Real American in one of the following ways: * sufficient hours clearing brush to become rugged * sufficient hours on the trail to become trailworn * sufficient literal or figurative cragginess * yelling at >= 3 sons, plus at least one racially tinged "tough frontier decision"

villain: Yes, DO take me into custody. This will only help me because <10-D chess reason> hero: gdi, he's right me: so f'n tired of this trope. How about if I turn off your show villain: Yes, DO go ahead and turn off my show. This will only help me because <11-D chess reason> me: gdi, he's right

me (playing a Level 1 druid): I shift into bear form and fuck a tree DM: You don't have access to Wild Shape yet me: My character doesn't need to know that he doesn't have that. He proceeds with the plan

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

Can’t stop thinking about all the robber baron fucks that held secret meetings and spent MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in bribes and campaign investments and attack ads and media manipulation trying to tank Mamdani currently having the dawning realization that their money is completely and utterly useless.

I thought that a Dummit & Foote homework problem's claim must be mistaken, but that can't be right, because D&F are not in the business of making mistakes. That is generally left as an exercise to the reader

RIP to the original Holden Bloodfeast

ah, Cheney's death, the symbolic passing of a Neutral Evil no longer in touch with our Chaotic Evil age

Finally saw 12 Monkeys and dang it was good. Also this piece of trivia is wonderful

Some of the older Castlevania games are like, Evan Belmont goes "welp I guess I should walk all the way to Dracula's castle, ideally via some dangerous underground river route, and kill him. Not gonna take the bus line that stops right outside. Gotta get my steps in" STAGE 1-1 EVAN'S BATHROOM

I hate that a book on American politics that I just bought, which was published in *2024*, now feels naive and obsolete because it doesn't include the shitshow of 2025

@sizabledanger.hyper.wang does such good big man shapes~

Weretober2025 Bonus Day - Ogin (and Rio) 🦎🐥

at bat lad indeed -:/ still rooting for the Jays

it's OK, I got everything I need right here, including a reminder of the basic premise of the game in case I forget

well I was able to watch two 5-minute chunks of the World Series. in Spanish. and using the ol' incognito window gambit, which unfortunately only worked once

Know your subgenres, Cracking open a cold one with the fellas: buddy comedy Cracking open fellas with the Cold One: dark fantasy Cracking open one fella with a cold: medical drama A cold open with one cracking fella: sitcom One cold fella with the open crack: public solo porn in winter

"it has come to our attention that there are better buys"

Why did I get a Ticketmaster message saying there was still time to go to this? What even is it? Is it just lots of falling over? And what in this day and age has 2.8 stars? Or are most of the reviews probably just (quite rightly) "fuck Ticketmaster"?

oh god people are going to speedrun the FFT remake using the fast forward as much as possible, aren't they

I bring a small towel and a water bottle to the gym, and on any given day, for each item, there is a 25% probability that I will forget to bring it. These probabilities also appear to be independent. My life really is just math problems

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

I was hard on Highest 2 Lowest for feeling like an unnecessary remake of a better film I had seen first, but seeing the AV Club review of Bugonia do the same thing (with the 2003 South Korean film it is based on) was pretty annoying because of the tacit assumption that everyone has seen every movie?

Bugonia sure is a movie! There are some facile readings of its themes in today's climate, and those are a valid part of the soup, but honestly I think this one just deserves to be called a very good, very well-acted, occasionally distressing, and ultimately strangely cathartic film.

About to see Bugonia and get our Jemma Stemons on? Essie Plone? I mean I prefer a Jirsten Plunst but

I do not like any part of this, and least of all the phrase "Mama Poot" (also wasn't this movie like months ago)

Original FF Tactics translation: Ramza: Gafbag!! Surrender! Revised FF Tactics translation: Ramza: You well know 'tis naught but for 't, Grasphbasgue. Even a bevored knight yields to cold steel at the seam.

me, re: scheming (ig)noble brothers and/or literal demons in Final Fantasy Tactics: yep, those are bad guys all right me, re: every random enemy Summoner just doing their job: you overpowered piece of shit. you deserve worse than death. Gonna personally wait around until you become a box or crystal

YCH for DavionPrimus

the way I see it, if you have a white supremacist tat from your 20s, you can 1. own the bad decision, convincingly reassure voters, and still be ahead of the other side, who have such tats that they *don't* apologize for, or 2. say something implausible, even as evidence to the contrary circulates

now, I am aware that one magazine can publish two conflicting views on the same day, and, indeed, that holding opposing ideas together stimulates a productive dialectic and a synthesis blah blah, but... really?

Amazing strat. Immovable dead Argath in the doorway, the three Knights behind him are just passing their turn because they can't leave, while Korb's Knight throws rocks and his Archer shoots through. And the best part is that Argath is dead

Korb had a rando in FF Tactics named Thomas, and for no particular reason he renamed him to Thoma s. Imagine that conversation with your boss

This is for just our table. They don't take any chances, I guess