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I try and tweet occasionally with varying degrees of success. Not that you care though

[Wes @IDontWantThisOk]

Temporary pinned tweet until I think of something funny to say

[Nes 🎨 @feydemon]

FFXIV is the greatest game of all time

[Green Screen Videos by Murdoink @MurdoinkGS]

Danhausen "ah, shit" green screen + blue screen

[Willow|🏳️‍⚧️ @KittygirlWillow]

Better faggot than a fascist, Nazi bitch

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The guy who compared a Trump rally to Jonestown on live Fox News was invited by the Trump campaign. They called his work phone on Monday and asked him to come.

His name is Tom Hoyle. He's 57 and runs a small custom printing shop in Charlotte called MadPark Designs with his business partner. He's hated Trump since 1989, back when he was a sophomore in college. And he really, really doesn't like getting sales calls on the shop line, from anybody.

So when the rally people called, he said yes. He even signed up with his real name and contact info, because he wanted it on the record that they invited him.

Then he had to get through the door. A private security guy asked him straight up if he was a Trump supporter. Tom told him he supports the Constitution, then started talking about his shirt, which was for an old death metal band called Death. He kept going about the history of Florida death metal until the guard gave up and let him in.

His plan going in was honestly pretty juvenile. He and a buddy he grew up with figured he'd wait a few minutes into the speech and yell something filthy.

Then a Fox News reporter, Lucas Tomlinson, found him standing off by himself and asked if he could interview him live. Tom thinks a white guy with a big beard and a ball cap was pretty much exactly what they were looking for.

He told himself he wasn't going to cuss on national TV, so he made it up on the spot. He says the first line and then just waits. The reporter goes "Wait, the Jonestown Massacre?" and that's when he finishes it.

He told The Handbasket he picked that up from Billy Crystal, who said on Letterman back in the '80s that you always let the other guy set up your punchline. Tomlinson set it up for him perfectly.

A few minutes later some men who said they were Secret Service pulled him aside. He asked if this was about the concession stand, because it closed early and he was starving. They didn't love that and walked him out. On his way out he passed the guard from the front door and told him, hey man, you didn't vet me too well.

Think about how many people had a shot at stopping this. The campaign's call list found him. The signup form had his name. A guard questioned him to his face. A Fox crew put him on live TV. Every one of them took one look at the beard and the hat and filled in the rest.

That's how almost all of this screening works. Asking somebody what they actually believe takes time, and looking at them takes a second, so everybody just looks.

The one check that actually caught him came after he'd already said it on national TV.

[Grimmel🏹 @grimmelthgrisly]

Here we see how Primordial Malzeno and Velkhana don't fight eachother until the Hunter is present.
This is a reference to you being the cause of your parents' divorce.

[glasses 🐑🌻 @glassesjournal]

ao3 down but this fanfic shit easy af

[AEW on TV @AEWonTV]

THAT JUST HAPPENED IN REAL LIFE ON NATIONAL TV

#AEWDynamite is LIVE as Fright Night continues on TBS and HBO Max

[Viper Perabo 🇵🇷🐍👑 @KingSerpentico]

listen I don’t have a clever caption but I’ve been watching this clip for the last 45 minutes straight and you all need to know that

[Sean Murray @NoMansSky]

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[King Terak 🌌 Will Davies - Galactic Racer Era @hashtag7thson]

I'm an idiot.

[Gwen | Trails in the Sky SC @Avixxionn]

Duuude I cannot word how giddy I got hearing this it’s my boy🥹

[mel🐛 @meldotjpeg]

my deepest darkest kinkiest most fucked up fantasy is that there’s a hospital with all the doctors I need in one spot and they all communicate and are truly invested in me and work together and figure it out and I get better. and its $35

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Why does seeing KKK members being shot upset certain people so much?

[Casual Thursday @CasualThursday]

Pat McAfee said this. Pat McAfee did that. Wake me up when Pat McAfee actually protects my computer from viruses like I freaking paid for.

[The Mighty Dud Bolt @mightydudbolt]

Fun fact: When Alec Guinness first read the script for the original Star Wars and agreed to play Ben Kenobi, the character was a cyborg with a mechanical left arm.

At one point in this version of the script, inside his home shortly after meeting Luke, Ben Kenobi slams his mechanical arm down on a table in frustration while trying to explain why he isn't the man he used to be. The arm splits apart, "spewing forth wires and electronic components," a symbol of his impotence. Ben admits he "lost control" and apologizes, and subsequently he is described as resting his head in "his one good arm" while he explains the Force to Luke. By the time they set out for Mos Eisley the next morning (Luke has already agreed to come along), Artoo has repaired Ben's damaged left arm, and Ben "emerges into the sunlight and stretches his new arm," clearly feeling renewed and in much better spirits.

After Guinness was cast, this plot point was completely written out of the script, and all the business about a damaged mechanical left arm was, interestingly enough, transferred to Threepio. Now it is Threepio whose left arm is damaged, splitting off at the shoulder to reveal the wiring inside, and now Luke has to reattach and repair Threepio's arm in the subsequent scene in Ben's home.

But for whatever reason, Guinness appears to have retained aspects of this earlier characterization of Ben Kenobi. As the scene in his home begins, Luke temporarily pauses his work on Threepio as Ben sits down next to them. At the very moment Luke resumes fiddling with Threepio's left arm, Ben moves to stroke his beard, and in this same motion he seems to go out of his way to hide his own left arm from view as he fondly reminisces to Luke about his father. Ben's left arm remains obscured like this until an idea occurs to him, and he gets up to give Luke his father's lightsaber.

Then, on at least two other occasions throughout the film, Ben seems to exhibit a tic of gingerly grabbing his left arm when warning of impending danger or experiencing acute anxiety. This habit of the character is pronounced enough that Ewan McGregor even adopts it as a nervous tic in the prequels, though, interestingly, he swaps the arm.

Another interesting data point: Originally, in The Empire Strikes Back, it was specifically Luke's left arm that was to be severed, not his right. The description of Luke's mechanical left arm in a script insert clearly evokes the discarded scene from the first film where Ben's mechanical left arm is split open, and the innards of Luke's mechanical arm are also specifically likened to what we've seen of Threepio:

"Luke's lower left arm is exposed, revealing metal struts and electronic circuits, similar to Threepio."

Most of the scenes in the first film where Ben exhibits this tic were filmed after George Lucas had decided to kill the character off, so it seems relatively unlikely this had to do with him wanting to seed hints about Ben that he could potentially choose to pay off in later films. A likelier explanation is that this is something Guinness developed as part of his conception of the character based on the original script he received, and he decided to keep it; maybe Ben simply has a bad left arm.

However, it is curious that Lucas actively chose to transfer this visual symbol of impotence to Threepio and to keep it as part of basically the same scenes involving Ben. It is even more curious that (to my eyes) Alec Guinness seems to be deliberately making himself resemble an amputee in that first wide shot where Luke is reattaching Threepio's arm, dropping the apparent affectation only when he rises to retrieve Anakin's sword.

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

The shoes are legal. The name on the side of them is not.

Caleb Williams went out and bought a pair of cleats with his own money, from a company he has no deal with and makes nothing from, because of what is underneath them.

They are made by a company called Caddix, and the part that matters is the studs. The founder, Jack Rasmussen, says they are built to release under what he calls injurious load.

In plain words, the stud is supposed to let go of the grass before your knee does.

That is aimed squarely at the injury that ends careers without anybody touching you. A man plants a foot, changes direction, and the foot stays while the rest of him turns.

Caddix says on its own website that the shoes are designed to reduce the rotational force on the knees and ankles.

So the quarterback of the Chicago Bears, the first overall pick in 2024, bought them himself and wore them against the Atlanta Falcons.

The NFL fined him 11,941 dollars.

Not for the cleats. The cleats are fine.

He did not cover up the Caddix name on the outside of them, and league rules only let a player show a logo belonging to a company the NFL has a marketing deal with. Nike. Adidas. Under Armour.

Then he wore them again the next week against New England without covering them.

A second offense is 23,882 dollars, which is exactly double the first one. The league has not said yet whether that one is coming.

So the rule is not about his knees. It is about whose name is allowed to be seen on a football field, and the answer is the names that pay for it.

Caddix says it will cover the fine, and any more of them.

Now be straight about the other side of this, because it is the whole reason you are reading about a shoe company you had never heard of yesterday.

Caddix just got more attention from one fine than it could have bought. The company is new. The injury claims about those studs come from the people selling them, not from the league and not from a medical journal, and I cannot find anybody independent who has gone and tested them.

Offering to pay the fine of a quarterback you have no contract with is a very good day at work for whoever runs their marketing.

Both of those things can be true.

The company is getting a windfall out of this. And a 24 year old is still paying out of pocket for equipment he believes keeps him on the field, and getting charged almost twelve thousand dollars for the crime of leaving the name visible.

He has not stopped wearing them.

[T00NYBOY @T00NYBOY]

Mass Effect 1 literally establishes in dialogue that the Reapers DO need a shortcut. It's heavily implied that they cannot get to the galaxy through normal means. When Vigil explains what Sovereign's intention is in attacking the Citadel, he specifically states that the Reapers are believed to enter a state of dormancy between 50,000 year cycles to conserve energy, and the Citadel's now-deactivated signal wakes them up and activates a Relay to jump them into the galaxy. Vigil then says that if Shepard is successful from preventing Sovereign from reactivating that signal, the Reapers will become trapped in dark space.

ME2 literally had to retcon this because ME1 established that the Reapers had no way of returning, and ME2 basically created the opposite problem for both itself AND ME1. At the end of ME2, the Reapers just wake up by themselves and enter the galaxy without Relays in what is assumed to be a matter of days or weeks. Sovereign is stated to have been trying to orchestrate the taking of the Citadel for several hundred years. ME2 completely fucked ME1 by retconning away Sovereign's entire reason to exist and asked the question "why are the Reapers several hundred years overdue if they could have got here in a week".

Oh, and the characters in ME1's several endings literally talk about the Reapers existing.

Asari Councillor: "You saved not just our lives, but the lives of billions from Sovereign and the Reapers"

Udina if you went Renegade: "That's how we can stop the Reapers!"

The only one where *other* characters beside Shepard don't mention the Reapers is if you killed the Council but remained Paragon.