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So the thing with chickens are, they are adaptable and frankly, do not care.

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FAT PEOPLE DESERVE TO MAKE HOMES OF THEIR BODIES AND LOVE EVERY INCH OF THEM.

We had a chat with the women of www.GirlsCantGeek.com about Geek Culture and Hip-Hop. Check it, check it.

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Detroit grandmother gets real with injustice-themed Halloween decor

A Detroit woman has decided there’s one thing scarier than any ghost, ghoul or monster this Halloween: the reality of being a black person in America.

Larethia Haddon, a grandmother, decorated her front lawn with a horrifying tableau depicting the inequalities and injustices black Americans face, including police brutality and references to the Flint water crisis. In a video interview, she explains which portrayal impacts people most.

Learning Self Care from The Sims

by W. L. Bolm When I was 19 or 20, I bought The Sims. I was in a bad marriage and hundreds of miles away from any family; the game was a way for me to escape for hours into a digital universe where I could build mansions and lead fictional characters through their lives, at a time when I felt isolated and very lonely. To say I put hours into this game was an understatement. I was working as a…

Of course, there’s Pokémon, too—the names of each individual Pokémon are these carefully crafted puns, which—admittedly, sadly—don’t always translate perfectly. Consider Pidgey, which is called Poppo in Japanese, after the noise the bird makes, but is just a weird portmanteau of “pigeon” and “pudgy” in English. Worse than that, the French version is just Roucool—roucoule, the French for “coo”, and literally just the word “cool.” Pidgey isn’t cool.

But then you have something like Hitmonchan and Hitmonlee, two martial arts Pokémon that are named after famous martial arts men, Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee. In the original Japanese, they’re named Ebiwalar and Sawamular, in reference to boxer Hiroyuki Ebihara and kickboxer Tadashi Sawamura respectively. The localization team would have to know the references being made in the original names, and be able to parse them into a Western equivalent.

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