it's a four lane mobius interchange now. I don't know why I'm doing this, or why I'm enjoying it so much. The chaos is beautiful
so historically ninjas were just like, black ops samurai. guys who specialized in surveillance, spying, and assassinations. they'd either wear samurai armor or commoner clothes to blend in and carry out their actions. (there's even evidence of them doing things like sharpening coins into shuriken for assassinations). but after the fact (as in decades--centuries) in japanese theatre in kabuki in particular there were ninja characters who'd appear. what they did was have the ninjas in all black--the uniform of japanese stagehands. the audiences are trained to just completely ignore the stagehands even if they were like actively moving scenery during a scene. so for the ninjas to appear in all black and then start talking, would have been as if they materialized out of thin air and been a very powerful special effect. this continued on into japanese film with the costumes
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Friendsgiving is this weekend for our little chapter of sonoma-marin queers, co-run by myself and @leafnoodle! You know what that means - it's time for..... A COOKING THREAD! 🎉🍴🔥
It's about that time of year when people start wondering things like "hey, why isn't DECEMber the tenth month of the year?"
So it's time for my little lecture on Romans, calendars, and our friend Gaius Julius Caesar.
I'll be posting it as a tootchain replying to this one, but if you're impatient, here's the whole thing: https://gist.github.com/joyeusenoelle/3754e00a37fe81aa43aad3eb9543f3ce
So: “Why isn’t the new year on winter solstice?”
The answer, honestly, is that the Romans had no fucking idea how to run a calendar.
pokemon snark
the genre must stay completely unchanged and backwards compatible to 1996, the same way that we all still play Quake 1, Diablo 1, and Daggerfall.
pokemon snark
In 1996, newly-founded Game Freak signed a deal with Satan to ensure the success of their new franchise.
As part of the deal, they are demonically bound to ensure any player can “catch ‘em all”, without interruption, in perpetuity.
To think they would try to break that pact after a mere 23 years! madness!
look i know ive been yelling about this for 2 days but its so good
RT @pup_hime@twitter.com
look at this bomb-ass art of Yura by https://www.furaffinity.net/user/xicheo/ !!!!!!
I was an average happy kid; I liked sparkles, jumping around, stickers, hugs, sunflowers, tractors and making friends.
But because the skull of my father's dead horse followed me everywhere I went, whispering ancient songs, people assumed I was cursed and destined for a life of Goth poems, corsets and eye-liner.
It didn't even glow in the dark! It wasn't even on fire!
The day mom added giant googly-eyes drastically improved reactions.
RMS pulls a serious power move (read: dick move), unilaterally appointing a maintainer to Guile without consulting the other co-maintainers or community, because the current co-maintainers disagree with him on governance https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2019-10/msg00005.html
An ace leafy seadragon tooting about.
Retoots lots of dumb stuff.
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