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Games beaten in 2019

1/22- Mother 3 (GBA) 1/29- Thief Simulator (PC) 2/9- XCOM 2: War of the Chosen (PC) 2/11- Firewatch (PC) 3/7- Dragon Warrior Monsters 2: Tara’s Adventure (GBC) 5/3- Return of the Obra Dinn (PC) 5/23- 2064: Read Only Memories (PC) 5/29- Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don’t Dry (PC) 6/12- Fell Seal: Arbiter’s Mark (PC) 8/4- Fire Emblem: Three Houses (Switch) 8/18- Outer Wilds (PC) 9/2- Quern: Undying Thoughts (PC) 9/19- Later Alligator (PC) 11/12- Dragon Quest XI (Switch) 11/13- Tangle Tower (PC) 11/13- AI: The Somnium Files (Switch) 11/17- Pokemon Shield (Switch) 12/30- Persona 3 Portable (PSP)

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Joke: Gyrados was originally the final evolution of the Dratini line because they are all long and blue.

Broke: Game Freak swapped around Butterfree and Venomoth during development, which is why Butterfree has more similarities to Venonat than Caterpie and vice versa.

Woke: Blastoise was originally completely unrelated to Squirtle and Wartortle, with its own pre-evolution, but was made into the final evolution at some point during development, presumably due to redundancy.

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galaxy brain: tessa thompson and janelle monáe as aziraphale and crowley

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(one last) breath of the wild

or a tale of three friends, 10000 years ago

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Is this what real beauty looks like?

By Steven McIntosh (Entertainment reporter)

“Go to Google Images right now,” says photographer Mihaela Noroc, “and search ‘beautiful women’.”

I do as she tells me. Millions of results come back.

“What do you see?” she asks. “Very sexualised images, right?”

Yes. Many of the women in the top pictures are wearing high heels and revealing clothes, and most fit into the same physical mould - young, slim, blonde, perfect skin.

“So beauty all the time is like that,” Mihaela says. “Objectifying women, treating them in a very sexualised way, which is unfortunate.

“Women are not like that. We have our stories, our struggles, our power, but we just need to be represented, because young women, they see only images like this every day, so they need to have more confidence that they can look the way they look and be considered beautiful.

“But,” she adds, “Google is us, because we are all influencing these images.”

Mihaela has just released her first photography book, Atlas of Beauty, which features 500 of her own portraits of women.

The Romanian photographer’s definition of beauty, however, appears to be that there is no definition. The women are a variety of ages, professions and backgrounds.

“People are interested in my pictures because they portray people around us, everyday people around the street,” Mihaela explains.

“Usually when we talk about beauty and women, we have this very high, unachievable way of portraying them.

“So my pictures are very natural and simple. And this is, weirdly, a surprise. Because usually we are not seen like that.”

Each of the book’s 500 portraits has a caption with information about where it was taken, and, in many cases, the subject.

The locations are varied, to put it mildly. They include Nepal, Tibet, Ethiopia, Italy, North Korea, Germany, Mexico, India, Afghanistan, the UK, the US, and the Amazon rainforest.

Some locations, however, proved more problematic than others.

“I approach women I want to photograph on the street. I explain what my project is about. Sometimes I get yes as an answer, sometimes I get no, that really depends on the country I’m in,” she explains.

“When you go to a more conservative society, a woman is going to have a lot of pressure from society to be a certain way, and her day-to-day life is carefully watched by somebody else.

“So she’s not going to accept being photographed very easily, maybe she’s going to need permission from the male part of her family.

“In other parts of the world they are extremely careful because there might be issues concerning their safety, like in Colombia. Because they had Pablo Escobar and the mafia for so many years.

“So they say ‘OK, so you’re going to take my picture but I’m probably going to be kidnapped after that because you’re part of the mafia and you’re not who you’re saying you are’.”

She adds: “If somebody were to start this project just with men, it would be much easier, because they don’t have to ask permission from their wives, sisters or mothers.”

Mihaela says she occasionally puts pictures through Photoshop, but not for the reasons you might think.

“When you take a picture, it’s usually raw, and that means it’s very blank, like a painting, you don’t have the colours you had in the reality.

“So I try to make it as vibrant and colourful as it was in the original place. But I’m not making anyone skinnier or anything like that, never, because that’s very painful.

“Because I also suffered as a woman growing up from all kinds of difficulties, I wanted to be skinnier, look a certain way, and that was also related to the fake images I saw in day-to-day life.”

It’s safe to say Mihaela’s photography book is quite different tonally to, say, Kim Kardashian’s 2015 book of selfies.

“These days, the bloggers, the famous people of our planet have set this unachievable and fake beauty standard, and it’s very difficult for us as women to relate to that,” she says.

“Kim Kardashian has 100 million followers on her Instagram page and I have 200,000, so imagine the difference - it’s astonishing. But slowly, slowly, I think the message of natural and simple beauty will be spread around the world.”

So what’s the best piece of advice Mihaela could give to anyone keen to get into photography? Buy a good quality camera? Learn about lenses and angles?

Not exactly.

“Buy good shoes,” she laughs, “because you’re going to walk and explore a lot.”

Link here for the original article

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Elaborate backstories are well and good, but one of the best and most evocative pieces of character-driven roleplaying I ever saw was a dragonborn fighter who’d make a point of hitting up the local moneychanger every time the party visited a town to swap one gold piece for a hundred coppers, which she’d keep in a pouch on her belt, and for the whole rest of the session she’d randomly describe herself snacking on those coppers like potato chips.

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“Is that a tiefling or a Homestuck troll?”, you ask the artist, as though there’s any difference at all.

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#not this time bitch

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this bit from hbomberguy’s new video on climate denial is the funniest thing i’ve ever seen

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people in discord doin cute things so I ALSO HAD TO DO A CUTE THING 

here’s a messy lil thing. i don’t think i’ll clean it up bc i really just wanted to get it out of my system but i like it.

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me encountering shinies

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The thing that’s funny and relatable about Luigi isn’t that he’s a coward, it’s that he’s a coward with no sense of scale. He reacts to literally everything with exactly the same level of oh-gee-I-dunno apprehension, whether it’s hearing a noise in a dark house at night, or coming face to face with a world-devouring horror. This is more or less the root of his self-esteem problems; he’s the universe’s second-greatest warrior and doesn’t realise it because as far as he’s concerned, being scared of a spider in the bathroom and being scared of Cthulhu are the same thing – he just totally lacks the necessary context to appreciate that managing to grit your teeth and deal with the second one is any sort of achievement. It’s all spiders in the bathroom to him. He’s equally terrified of everything, and that makes him invincible.

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I’ve compiled every raw ass quote from tumblr shitposts into my phone and i’m gonna use every single one of them in my campaign at some point.

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Happy pride everyone!!! Kiryu said trans and lesbian rights!

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lmao i lost at least 7 followers after reblogging that…. anyway if you exclude nonbinary people you’re ignoring the white stripe of the trans flag; aces and aros are not straight and thus lgbt+ because theyre literally not attracted to the opposite sex, trans women are real women, and physical dysphoria is not required to be considered trans

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