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Choo-Choo Bear from early 2000s webcomic Something Positive, is that you?

kitty need blunt NOW

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oh and when i was a year old, after i got my foot amputated my parents were pushing me around in a stroller at a street festival in miami and i was chewing on my foot or whatever and this street performer came up to us and was like “aw i bet that tastes good!!” and my dad was like “yeah look at what she did to the other one!!!!” and pulled back the blanket covering my left leg to show a stump with a huge scar on it and i’m pretty sure my dad terrified that poor man

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twitter is fucking incredible

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Your name is BASSET HOUNDD. Today is just another day at the LOCAL GROCERY STORE, where you work. You interests include BODY BUILDING and PEN. But what you're really about, 110% of the time, is SLANGIN THAT THANG and SHOWIN WANG. Some people think you should feel INTENSE SHAME for this fact, but honestly you don't see the harm in it. After all, your body is natural, and that includes your FAT HOG. If GOD had wanted you to cover your nudity, maybe they shouldn't have given you such a ROCKIN SCHLONG. Your trolltag is canineWangus. What will you do? > BASSET: Add a splash of playfulness to your workplace.

almost sobbing trying not to laugh at this ai slop ad. is there no quality checking at ANY point in this process? not the ai generator? not the person okay-ing the ad? not tumblr?

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(computer version of the poll)

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I've lived in NYC for a decently long time - I moved out in 2001 (right before 9/11 lmao) and lived here for ten years, moved around the country a bit, and moved back to the city a few years ago to stay. I've lived in 3/5 boroughs (including Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan so a good amount of NEW YORK cred) and use the subway system extensively.

I also remember how things were before some of the moderinization changes to the system - like the informational displays about when trains are coming. Used to be you just waited for the train to come and it came whenever and that sucked ass. Now it's a remarkably accurate and predictable system and generally speaking I love it. Change is not an inherently bad thing.

HOWEVER

I completely agree with OP that the new map is worse in almost every way. The old one wasn't perfect, but it did a pretty good job of giving you both an idea of where trains went and connected, and also what was going to happen above ground when you had to get up there and walk or take a bus or something to actually get to the end of your trip. Or god forbid you need to make an above-ground transfer.

Having at least a rough idea of where stuff will be in relation to other stuff is hugely useful - especially if you're less familiar with the transit system - and the new map basically just eliminates that as a reasonable thing.

I wasn't paying a lot of attention to it but I was on the A-train the other day and took a look at the new map on the digital display and like... it's just harder to meaningfully parse how the subway maps to the city itself. I also don't find it to be a more useful map for navigating the subway itself, but whatever.

It feels like something designed by committee based on stuff from other cities that was also designed by committee and it's just like... the old map was good, y'all.

But hey we've got a proud tradition here in New York of ignoring dumb bullshit changes to stuff in a stubborn way. Hell, I'm pretty sure some of the road signs still call it the Triboro Bridge and it'll be a cold day in hell before I call the Queensboro Bridge the Ed Koch anything fuck that shit.

People are being so high and mighty about the new NYC subway map

"You're just catching up to the rest of the world" That's not a map. That's a chart with the barest bits of context.

.....okay. This is the old map, which we've been using for almost fifty years. This is the new map. As you can see, the old map was cluttered with words, and the new map is cluttered with lines, and based on the London Tube, as most underground maps are these days.

And I hate it.

To be clear to everyone who is not themselves a New Yorker and hasn't been paying attention because it doesn't matter to their lives at all:

The London-inspired map style is ONLY ever more readable and navigable if you're already familiar with what's above ground; it's not really a map style, so much as a chart style with a very small number of context clues, like There's A River Kind Of Around Here.

If you have directions on hand to tell you EXACTLY which app to get of at, fine, but if you want to look at a map and go 'oh, those two have a much bigger gap between them than I thought, let's not get off early' then the NYC classic is better.

If you're a tourist, also better! You can look at the map on the wall and get an idea of where you are in relation to the rest of the city, at the VERY least in Manhattan.

NYC's previous map was basically like if you took a regular map and overlaid it with the tracks. Not to scale, sure, but easy to see the locations as they relate to both each other and to above-ground locations. If I'm showing around some out-of-towners and want to plot routes, it's much easier to toggle between the old map and a map with locations on it of such things already roughly correspond.

The high contrast colors and added details ALSO HELP. You can see the best entry points for Central Park, the intersections with other transit lines (yes, the LIRR and AmTrak are crucial here, along with things like the Tramway, ferry ports other than Staten Island) that can help you plan for transfers between systems, and major reference points or neighborhoods (The Met, various labeled parks that are on the old map but not the new one, important street names, physical bridges, major neighborhoods), and just generally everything you need in an actual MAP.

This new style makes things uglier, less navigable, and more cluttered due to the entwined lines. I'd liken it to a random animal's circulatory system laid out flat so you have no idea what the relation of two points is unless you already know what animal it is and what it's shaped like. If you plan to ONLY use the subway and know exactly where you're going, great!

The new map's primary strength is that it's good for people who are low-vision and already know what each station correlates to above.

For anyone who was looking for "a map of the city that focuses on outlining where the subway goes" rather than "a subway chart devoid of most context," then the classic map is better.

Trust me, I found the new style, the Tube Classic, to be ugly and difficult and CONFUSING when I was in Japan and London. It showed me a very neat and orderly chart that had little-if-anything to do with what little I knew about the city aboveground.

Also it's one of those things that's kind of woven into the city's identity. It's like your mom making you get a new haircut so you 'fit in at school' by making you identical to everyone else.

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Doing dirty talk during sex with the precise tone and cadence of repeatedly clicking on the same unit in a 1990s RTS.

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I was curious if there were any actual indications of whether or not Hiveswap's Earth segments take place in America - or at least, not in Australia.

So there's not a lot of localization-specific clues, but if you look at the wall plugs visible in a couple background scenes, they don't appear to be the style of plug that was in use in Australia in the mid-1990s - they look like standard US-style non-grounded outlets.

Interestingly, this also rules out the UK as a location but not Canada since they use the same wall sockets as we do in the US.

fuck it im putting the half harley mannor in tasmania idk how the fuck american shit works

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As of February 2025, I'm opening a private music lesson studio! I'm offering both in-person lessons for the NYC area, as well as virtual lessons!

Looking to learn piano, voice or saxophone? Want to brush up on your music theory, or have a second set of eyes look over a score you've written? Check out what I've got to offer at https://amhstudio.carrd.co!

I know music lessons can be prohibitively expensive for a lot of people, so I'm keeping prices at $50/hour (which in my experience is 2011 prices). Scheduling is flexible, and there's no need to commit to more than one lesson at a time if that's all you can spare. Money is tighter than ever for most people, but music shouldn't be something only the rich can afford.

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I abbreviate "Beetlejuice" to "BJ" with my one friend whose special interest is Beetlejuice and it's fine, it's protocol, it's a Tuesday afternoon, but I just did it with another friend via the sentence, "I don't even like BJ that much. I just wanna see that worm," and it was a little less than fine, I think.

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Meet Peony and Pearl, just a couple of twins on vacation!

Hailing from the distant town of Wenhua on the Eastern side of the Earth Kingdom, Peony and Pearl grew up with a true village. After their father died in a fishing boat accident when they were young, they were supported by their aunt and uncle, and their father's old fishing crew. Despite knowing tragedy, the twins have never had to know loneliness.

Years later, the twins visit their uncle's new place of residence in Republic City to see the sights and go on a tour of the city's many restaurants. While enjoying the city, Peony and Pearl run into a fire nation diplomat in a tea shop who will change their perspective on the world.

(art by @coastalglowstone)

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Ranking TEKKEN Characters Based On Their Fits.

In this video I talk about tekken characters and their outfits. I've always loved how stylish Tekken can be sometimes; I have been wanting to make this video for a while. Seemed like a good(?) time considering how much of a hot topic this game has been recently (iykyk) This will most likely be the last Tekken video I make for another long while, as more than ever I want to explore other games/ media. I know I was supposed to drop the QnA I got yall right after this video my fault 😭) Thank you guys. Enjoy.

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Friendsim 2 - Tagora & Galekh

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Friendsim 2 - Trizza's backstory

I think the game's been out long enough that I can safely post this! These were my first ever scenes I did for FS2 and thankfully there was much more to come :)

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Friendsim 2 - Tyzias, Stesla, and Daraya

I was starting to get more comfortavle with saturating my colors. A lot of small style changes were due to switching from SAI2 to CSP during this time.

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