who else is in the mood to walk barefoot over the moors in a blood-red velvet ballgown w anguish in ur soul and wet leaves in ur hair while the wind blows moodily and dramatically?
can we all get mcdonalds afterwards
we all deserve it so yes absolutely. my treat
thamk kyuu
this is the most exquisite thing i have ever seen. ever. Ever !
Martha Crump was a biologist who studied the elusive golden toad extensively. They lived only in a four kilometer range in the Costa Rican hills, and spent almost all of their lives underground. However, once a year at the start of the wet season, the male toads would emerge and begin to sing for the females. It was described by Crump as a forest floor full of jewels; hundreds upon thousands of toads in a chorus of sound.
The 1980s saw a sharp decline in population. Whether it was human or climate driven is still unknown, but the mating pairs dwindled drastically. In 1988, Crump witnessed a singular male toad exit a burrow, climb onto a nearby rock, and begin it’s song. When the night was over, the toad descended back underground, alone. In 1989, Crump returned to the area, and again found the singular male. Again it climbed, sang it’s tiny song to a vast and empty jungle, and vanished back underground. It was the last ever sighting of the golden toad. Crump believed it was the same male from the year before.
The golden toad was declared extinct in the early 2000s. The story of the lone male toad helped usher in the species as a hallmark of modern conservation. It is gone, but not forgotten. May we do better with those that are left.
they just 100% with their chest stopped all smash tournaments from happening and like. i don’t care about the competitive scene at all but this is like. what the fuck
you can’t host an in person tournament more than 200 people and you can’t make more than a certain amount from tournaments NOR can you make more than that amount of money from content creation involving smash its like. what the actual fuck
you can’t have any nintendo IP or merchandise on your tournament
you can’t host more than 300 people for an online tournament
you can’t charge for online tournaments
no mods whatsoever
no sponsors whatsoever
like dude this is like……hateful towards a community that did nothing but play their games LMAO
From what I’ve gathered through various channels of scuttlebutt is that while they put their friendly execs and creators forward when it comes to game conferences, press releases, etc, the actual board of the company are largely old, totally out of touch businessmen who are ruthlessly litigious and protective of the brand. They take the customer base as a given constant and are totally disconnected from the reality of those customers and how and why the brand has its base to begin with. They don’t understand the use of their product in a tournament setting and don’t care to learn. It’s just another aberration and threat.
that is so insane nintendo board die challenge
Nintendo is actually really fascinating as a video game company, since they are simultaneously the oldest still-functioning business in the field and one of the big three console producers. Nintendo is 134years old. They were originally a manufacturer of playing cards, jumped on the arcade machine trend, produced an absolute smash hit banger by complete happenstance after they didn’t have the rights to create a liscensed Popeye game and swapped Bluto out for a gorilla, and the rest is history.
As a result of their unorthodox history, Nintendo has a lot of vestigal stuff going on. They are the whale of the tech world; originally a small creature that decided to enter a new environment, that suddenly found itself in a whole new world as a titan of its field. Unlike its fish contemporaries, which have always lived in the sea, the whale retains the underlying bone structure of a land animal. It’s the same with Nintendo. At their core of cores, they remain a conservative, suit-and-tie Japanese megacorporation. This, of course, creates unique problems. Most video game companies do not predate video game technology, and thus are rather “with it” in terms of the radical youth and their internets. Many of the people at Nintendo are like this as well, I imagine, but there remains a lot of people in this company that runs multiple huge online games and produces game consoles that honestly and truly do not understand the field their company specializes in. This square-peg-round-hole situation has clearly resulted in a lot of innovation, but also a lot of unique problems for the company and the games they produce.
Hence, you have a company that doesn’t understand that online content and tournaments are free and effective advertising that people willingly watch and produce, something that’s probably been widely understood since before I was born.
anything that contains the phrase “secret BBC memo reveals” intrigues me automatically ngl but I want you all to know that as far as I can gather, the facts are even better than this headline
which is to say, this was part of an initiative in the early 1970s that not only featured marginalized groups on BBC programming, but made moves towards handing them editorial control – the BBC had to approve proposals, but after that, the station’s role was primarily to provide technical resources, facilities, and copyright handling. (another notable program under this initiative featured Black teachers discussing racism in the school system, and a link to that – plus discussion of the hurdles it faced – can be found here).
the program on trans experience was aired in 1973.
The programme, featuring trans women, began: “Jokes about ‘the operation’ are all that most people know about transexualism [sic]. Tonight’s group discuss their situation in a more serious and comprehensive way, and draw attention to the many difficulties they endure”.
wizards thinking of clerics as hacks cause we spent years of study learning the secrets of the universe they cheated and got a god to do their magic for them
clerics thinking of wizards as hacks cause we spent years serving and cultivating a deeply personal relationship with a god they copied down some cheat codes to make stuff blow up
And sorcerers are like “no wait, hold on. This is basically a curse. I’ve been *experiencing* magic against my will since I was born and it’s hurt a lot of people.”
… and then everyone glares at the warlock in the corner. Their response: “Yeah, no. That’s fair. I blew Cthulhu in the parking lot behind the McDonald’s and now I can do magic. Best deal ever. You all can (and should) suck it.”
