Pastelbat @pastelbat@awoo.space
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Vandals will be ~PASTELBAT~
Joined Dec 2017
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LGR reviewed the software the old animorphs covers (and a ton of movies) were made with https://youtu.be/tRLi0VWdNIg
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yet another wholesome Tingler from the world's greatest author, consent (positive), birdsite boost
RT @ChuckTingle@twitter.com
please enjoy new sexless tingler NOT POUNDED AT THE LAST SECOND BECAUSE CONSENT CAN BE GIVEN AND REVOKED AT ANY MOMENT AND THIS IS A WONDERFUL THING THAT’S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND about right of all buckaroos to choose way they are pounded on their terms https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NGLDM6N/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ChuckTingle/status/1093543727748898817
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"Once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand."
-Horse from Velveteen Rabbit
Brain: "Ooh, there's a Twine gamejam!"
Me: "But.. We're already workin on a Unity project.."
Brain: "Ehh.. You only just started it. And I mean you could absolutely do it in Twine ASCII."
Me: "It's.. Isometric tactics."
Brain: "That's like, one step of difficulty up from the top-down ASCII graphical interfaces you've done before in Twine. Like.. One step at most. You got this."
I like that my brain believes in me so much..? o.o
gnight folks
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This is a good Duck.
A fine example of a Duck.
We should be inspired and awed by this Duck's Duckiness.
Photo by H. Dryad
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your regular reminder that Crystal Method have The Best Fuckin Instrument
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Lots of bats like to take shelter in plant leaves. This is Spix's disc-winged bat – its thumbs have little disk shaped suction cups for climbing.
It likes to hide inside young leaves of Calathea and Heliconia plants, which are still unfurling.
As well as giving a handy sleeping spot, the trumpet shaped leaves act as sound amplifiers, so the bats can more easily hear calls made by other bats outside. This way, the bats can help each other find good places to roost.
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This plant is nepenthes hemsleyana. Most pitcher plants are carnivores, adapted to catch prey, but this one's different. It's no good at catching insects. Instead it's a bat house!
The pitchers are the perfect shape and size for bats to roost, and they're adapted to be easy to find with echolocation. In fact, they're such ideal sleeping places that bats will actively choose the plants over other places!
Bats aren't too fussy about where they poop, so the plant gets a steady supply of fertiliser from all the guano its guest leaves behind.
I hope you all realise that whenever you make a Losing My Religion joke I get that jingly guitar riff stuck in my head
Seriously how do you make a guitar that jingly without just replacing your pickups with electromagnetic sleigh-bells-
*searches online*
Oh.. It was a Mandolin all along.
Huh.
(Jingle jingle)
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I guess I'll just make this a thread of goofy item ideas
Thaumatic Warning Stickers
A set of stickers that say "Do Not Shake", "This End Up", "Keep Frozen", etc. When placed on something, they become true, and violating the instruction causes it to explode in a fireball of magical energy
Disability
Okay so really
I've been disabled my whole life and I still don't know what "accessing the community" actually means, let alone "being independent"
I just kinda
Glaze over and go "Oh. Meaningless words.." when they come up.
And then when I have to actually interact with them, use them, I kinda.. Uhhh.. Get overwhelmed really fast.
Because they're super-important to various institutions? And my understanding and agreement is just kinda.. Assumed.
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I made another robot animation, this time a run cycle with bonus jumping
https://gfycat.com/SpitefulIndolentIslandwhistler
Here's a link to my comment explaining the context: https://old.reddit.com/r/worldbuilding/comments/amggh1/a_solar_collective_recon_frame_exploring_an/eflqre0/
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Also found another good historical fashion book (Historical Fashion in Details: the 17th to 18th Centuries).
I think we forgot how lovely books of clear diagrams of historical pieces paired with hi-resolution photography of the details & construction are.
That kinda professional-and-assuming-decent-reader-knowledge pragmatism of the diagrams & descriptions, paired with all involved still getting to coo at ridiculously embroidered cuffs.
That "Civ Dude's: At The Gates" 4X game was advertising itself with
"Will you take the place of the crumbling Roman Empire.. Or will you be forgotten forever!?"
And yet The Byzantines managed to do both in a single playthrough
Pop/general-appeal western history has a weird trend of going
1. Ancient Greeks!
2. Romans!
~Europe hits the Snooze Button for 1000yrs~
3. The Middle Ages!
Brb putting "lionizing Ancient Sparta" as a hard limit on dating site profiles
oh jeez I only just realised that "- + !?" must read as really confusing on those posts this morning
Meaning was "negative and wtf"
Am sleep deprived, not making intentionally-useless CWs..
re: [NHS, Therapy, - + !?] (last one)
I suppose when you get this far into in "Hideo Kojima Boss Monologue" territory, the only way out is through, huh..?
I'm done. I'm gonna go.. Eat, then try to chase up the NHS on (happily, unrelated) things.
- Pronouns
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This is a graffiti-free zone.
Vandals will be ~PASTELBAT~
Joined Dec 2017
