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So cuttlefish have some kind of rudimentary(?) language that has a gestural component. Or, if you don’t want to call it language, they communicate with each other, in part, through gesturing with their arms. (Not sure how a consistent system of signs isn’t a language but I’m not a linguist). Anyway, there is a tank of cuttlefish at the New England aquarium. Usually, the animals totally ignore the visitors. Once when I was there with a friend, the cuttlefish were signing to each other. My friend held his hand up to the glass and began to imitate their gestures with his fingers, and then made a sequence of random signs.  The cuttlefish became extremely agitated and signed furiously at him and rapidly flashed different colors, and we will never know what he accidentally said to them.  The moral of this story is actually that it’s fucked up how we keep sentient and sensitive beings in a weird little fish jail. 

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That one mutual who likes all your personal posts

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Litten becomes Fire/Dark and here’s why

So I’m sure 99% of everyone who hates this thing thinks it will be Fire/Fighting just because it’s clearly a wrestler. While it IS a wrestler, it’s based on a very specific wrestler:

Looks familiar, huh?

Anyone familiar with Tiger Mask might notice how I used an image of Black Tiger, Tiger Mask’s nemesis. Let’s go back to the “HEEL” part mentioned above. First, what is a heel?

So basically, they’re villains in wrestling. Why do I think Litten is a heel and not a face? Check out the now-confirmed-real concept art:

He’s spitting and hitting Pikachu with a table.

That’s not very sportsmanlike, is it? It’s exactly what a heel would do.

So since heels are evil, and faces are heroes, this fits the Dark typing perfectly. In Japan, Fighting type is equal to “Hero Type”, and Dark type is directly translated as “Evil type”. Think about Dark type moves: they’re all dirty and underhanded in nature.

In closing, he’s not only NOT Fire/Fighting, he’s a direct opposition to Fire/Fighting. GameFreak gave us a starter who combats this typing because they know we dislike it. Instead of giving us a boring quadrupedal tiger with zero deeper design or cultural significance, they gave us a story and a tribute to real life and fictional characters all wrapped up in a nod to our disdain for the idea of ANOTHER Fire/Fighting type. Which is, to say, FAR more interesting than “just a big cat on fire”.

Also, he looks badass as fuck, so shut up. But that’s just my opinion. Now you now why it is designed the way it is.

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When playing MGS V I tried fucking around with it and got some really weird guns like

A pistol with a grenade launcher barrel and a scoped shotgun on top of it, fairly normal

It has two triggers so you can fire two shots at the same time and kill the same person twice

A pistol with a grenade launcher attached to it with a rocket launcher attached to the grenade launcher

The pistol was redundant so I replaced it with…well it seems to be a scope that is actually a gun

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Ani ani he’s our guy! His midi-chlorian level’s high!

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Pretty Twi’lek lady pilots in Han Solo #1, what a delight.

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Being up at 4-5 am is like loading in a level but the textures haven’t loaded all the way through yet.

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My headcanon as to what Jasper’s gemstone might actually look like once poofed

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tim drake’s snapchat is 90% him making bruce wayne do normal middle-class american things and filming the results. popular youtube compilations include the one where they’re at denny’s at two in the morning and tim keeps trying to get bruce to order a moon over my hammy just so he’ll have to say it, the one where they’re at disneyworld and bruce gets increasingly frazzled culminating in him actually physically picking up gaston for reasons no one can entirely recall, and everyone’s favorite series “bruce wayne doesn’t understand walmart”

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Aliens are probably involved.

America’s pungent corpse flowers are all mysteriously blooming at once

Botanists across the US are trying to figure out why so many titan arums – better known as corpse flowers – are blooming simultaneously around the country this year.

This is super weird, because there have only been 157 recorded blooms ever between 1889 and 2008. But this year in the US alone, at least seven flowers have bloomed.

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i stared at the void and the void stared back

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#Elementary Custom Pokemon

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For all the artists out there