C.F. Ricks

Biology M.S.; Follow me for a dumb tweet every now and then.

[C.F. Ricks @HitmanCFR]

Hey, I do #wildlifephotography for a hobby, often focusing on #reptiles and #amphibians, but occasionally other taxa too. If you think that's neat, I'd appreciate you giving my Instagram a look. Link in the replies.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

This is how Rush introduced Tom Sawyer last night. This was their first show since 2015. Incredible. 😁

[Pablo Torre 👀 @PabloTorre]

James Dolan invited his friend Donald Trump to watch Game 3. In order to do that, they have to ban the organic, historically joyous parties happening outside MSG for fans who can't afford to be inside. Modern sports in a nutshell

[Hunter Weiss @Hunter_Weiss]

Rich people love saying shit like this after they’ve made $100s of millions

[C.F. Ricks @HitmanCFR]

@celaper OH IT LEGIT HAS "ALL I WANT"

[C.F. Ricks @HitmanCFR]

@celaper https://t.co/xRTZJ2U3l4

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

The fact that billionaires still want more money should be studied by the same people who study serial killers.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

When I paid over $4 a gallon for gas today, I thought to myself, “Thank god the reflecting pool is bigger than skyscrapers.”

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

I know it’s become pretty cliche and cringey to talk about at this point but if you’re under like 25 I cannot stress enough how one time Obama wore a tan suit and people spent a week arguing over whether or not it was demeaning to the Oval Office and they were serious about it.

[C.F. Ricks @HitmanCFR]

@_AndrewEverett A century of "Brother me softly"

[Northwest Cee @CeeHawk]

It’s a game to so many of them, and a lot of them pivoted to predator catching after pranking and other shock value streaming dollars dried up.

Terrible people are running down on worse people and using “saving kids” as an excuse to do so.

[Skyler Higley @skyler_higley]

it’s so fucking crazy all the time… like one thing after another, so I mostly don’t react to it and let it wash over me. But every once in a while I have these moments of clarity where I’m like damn… what the fuck.

[C.F. Ricks @HitmanCFR]

Also, Banjo-Tooie is fun. Bite me.

[C.F. Ricks @HitmanCFR]

I appreciate this take; one without rose-tinted glasses. Nintendo might have seen the writing on the wall and knew better.
A part of me thinks Nintendo would have weathered the storm of Rare's mediocre 2000s releases better than Microsoft and come out the other side better off.

[Jeremy @ManaByte]

By the end of the N64 era, Rare was missing deadlines and their output was slowing to a crawl while development costs skyrocketed. When Rare co-founders Tim and Chris Stamper put their remaining stake up for sale, they triggered a bidding war hoping Nintendo would overpay out of sentimentality. 

Hiroshi Yamauchi looked at the math and refused to bite. Rare only accounted for a tiny fraction of Nintendo’s revenue at the time, and critical talent was already leaving the studio to form independent teams. Crucially, Nintendo owned the rights to Donkey Kong and Star Fox, meaning Microsoft was paying an inflated 375 million dollars for a logo and a handful of niche intellectual properties. 

Passing on Rare wasn't a mistake; it was letting a competitor spend a fortune on a studio that had already peaked, freeing up resources for Nintendo to build their own internal teams and weather the GameCube era.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.

[maddie @madsssagascar]

if someone ran a marathon and someone else drove 26 miles i wouldnt congratulate the driver just because he ended up at the destination

[Emily 🪽 @virtualpigeons]

I am so beyond tired of the shilling of AI. I don't want an AI assistant on my phone, I don't want to generate AI photos/videos, I don't need ChatGPT to summarize everything for me or write something for me. I have zero use for AI in my day to day life, fuck off

[C.F. Ricks @HitmanCFR]

@PShewGoodTakes Man's got shoe shine all over his face

[Joe G @EastEndJoe]

Why is Trump paying ANTIFA? 🤔

[C.F. Ricks @HitmanCFR]

@CMCroley96 That's a gorgeous corn snake. I've had one as a pet, but not that color morph.

[Alex Reimer @AlexReimer1]

I love this trick from baby boomers. Make things insanely unaffordable and do not raise workers’ wages. Then, complain that young people spend too much money on frivolous activities like eating lunch.