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The recent hot VS cold polls have made me realise that a lot of people have no idea how to cool down.
As someone from a hot country that's regularly on fire, here's some tips:
WATER IS YOUR FRIEND! WATER! IS! YOUR! FRIEND! You can transfer SO much heat into this bad boy! You cannot cool down without water!
Wrists under the cold tap. Splash your face and the back of your neck. Fan yourself.
In some countries you can buy a little handeld fan with a water sprayer.
Damp tea towel around the neck. Stick an ice pack in there on hotter days.
Half fill a water bottle with water, stick in freezer. If you use a bottle with a straw, make sure it's lying on its side with the straw side up and out of the water. When frozen top up the rest of the way with tap water and off you go.
Desperate to cool off? Wet T-shirt. Sit in front of a fan. This will nuke it, just don't get hypothermia and don't fall asleep like this.
Cold showers are also your friend in summer. Some people get psyched up by these. Personally, I sleep like a baby, so I'm good to have them before bed. Just keep in mind that it takes a bit of time for the cool to circulate, so your body will tell you that you're colder than you actually are. I find that when I have cold showers I need to step out of the spray when I think I'm cold... I'll just wait, and thirty seconds later the temperature has evened out and I actually need to step under again. Rinse and repeat until you maintain coolness even after stepping out for a bit.
If you can't do cold showers, turn the cold shower on anyway and just stick your arms under. When they're cold, lift your arms up above your head. The sensation of cool blood draining into your body is fucking weird and kinda unpleasant but less unpleasant than being hot.
Feet in a tub of water with ice. Blood naturally flows to your extremities when hot, so take advantage of this. If you don't have a tub of ice water, sticking a wet rag on your feet in front of the fan works too, it's the less powerful version of the wet T-shirt.
Drinks lots of water but make sure that water has electrolytes as well. Stay in the shade.
Keep air circulating. Fans don't actually cool rooms down, they just help transfer heat from your body to the moisture on your skin or the air via evaporative cooling.
Block north facing windows early in the morning so the sun doesn't get in. If you're in the northern hemisphere, this is opposite for you. Keep in mind that if your home is brick, the bricks will still heat up and slowly release heat into your home even after the sun goes down so this will only do so much.
If it's hotter inside than outside, close all your windows but two, making sure they're on opposite sides of the house/unit you're in. Point a fan out of one window, making sure that the doors between the rooms with the open windows are all open. This will help create a mini pressure system in your home, pulling cooler air in and pushing the hotter air out via the fan. Bonus points if you can get that fan high up where the hot air rises; even within a single room the top is much hotter than the air by the floor. Adjust the amount of open windows based on how many fans you have, but generally you want more windows with fans open than windows without fans to keep the pressure correct.
Obviously, use your common sense for these. Not everything WILL work for you, just use the stuff that does and adjust what needs to be adjusted. Some of these will be impossible to use in the workplace but others you can still use. Others are best used at home. If humidity impacts your ability to use any of these, get a dehumidifier if that's an option, or use more ice instead of evaporation.
Also keep in mind that the skinnier you are, the faster these will work. More fat means more insulation, means more heat, so you may need to be more patient with some of these or use them in combination.
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i honestly don't really understand why "some people prefer watching gameplay online rather than playing games themselves" is treated as such a taboo when being a spectator is considered a pretty mundane way to engage with most sports, game shows, reality tv or even just like. chess.
like the usual arguments are "not everyone can afford video games or have the software to pirate" or "you can be a fan of a game's story, but not it's gameplay" but also some people just have more fun watching other people be really good at starcraft or speedrun super mario 64, i don't think that's a particularly out of the box way to engage with the medium.
i know this argument is generally about story driven games rather than competitive multiplayer games, but alot of discourse is around how "gameplay is a fundamental part of video games as an artform" and i absolutely agree but i also don't think you need to hold a controller in order to appreciate a video game on a mechanical level in the same i don't think you need a driver's license in order to be a vehicle enthusiast, like it certainly helps but some people are just kind of autistic like that.
especially with how long many games are today, a lot of people just don't have time for a full playthrough. streams and longplays enable people to experience most of a game without having to invest the time and energy required to sit down, power the console, have everything plugged in correctly, and learn how to play the game. not that i endorse people to not learn skills and take the time to actually experience things, because you can easily slide to the opposite end of the spectrum of forgetting how to engage in hobbies if you just watch videos all day. but it's really good to have video game streams and longplays as an accessibility option. and the hope is that someday the people who watch those might be inspired to complete a game (any game, not necessarily the one they watched) on their own when they find the time and ability to. or at least have more knowledge of the kind of experiences that are available to them in the world.
this is the philosophy my longplay channel is built on so check it out if you like watching games 😁 unfortunately i've been really busy this month so i haven't had a lot of time to update it, but hoping to finish my tears of the kingdom playthrough soon and record more games in 4k in the future; https://www.youtube.com/@triforceprincess1
a summary of the consequences of my life because I read percy jackson
1. I steal my older brother’s PJO books, read them, and download Pinterest on my Kindle to get my first taste of fandom
2. I spend a lot of time online, secretly, and am exposed–for the first time–to the fact that it’s weird that I share a room and bed with my dad and am not allowed anywhere else
3. My dad brings me to a corn field and tells me obama is the anti-christ who’s been sent by god to end the world, as foretold by the bible. I believe this and cry when he’s elected because i don’t want to die
4. I begin googling and discover that my situation is not great. I begin a careful attempt to ~distance~ myself from my father by sleeping anywhere else through any means possible. Eventually, I’m allowed to sleep in my own room
5. Now that I’ve been exposed to the real world and the fact that I’ve been groomed, I’m not ~obedient~ anymore and my dad Dips(™) to find a new kid. We lose our house and have to move to government housing in a new city
6. Eventually my parents divorce because of this. My dad moves to a horse ranch. I visit him on the horse ranch, think it’s cool, and invite my friends over for a sleepover. I have my first gay kiss with a girl in a tent. The next day my father tries to ~kill~ me on the horse ranch(™) with a golf cart
7.My dad disappears from the face of the earth. He forgets his phone is connected to the family iMac. We know all about the crimes he is committing. He fakes a heart attack in a Wal-Mart at some point, idk
8. The FBI is onto his life of crime. He flees to Romania to escape them and lives with a millionaire Romanian woman. She’s suspicious of him after a while. She hires a private investigator and unearths his life of lies and crime. He flees to Alaska. He gets a roommate in Alaska. The roommate goes to federal prison. We never hear from my father again. He is, perhaps, dead.
9. It’s revealed to us that my grandmother is also involved. She’s been smuggling drugs from the hospital. She also goes to federal prison. Also apparently my older brother and I aren’t related. This was another scam from my father
Understandable response
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Me reading from point 2 to point 3:
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Gresh: I'm glad you're here, Toa, even if we've only just met. It means a lot to Takanuva. You know, the first day we met, he must have told me four different times how glad you would be that the Rahkshi were destroyed.
Jaller: That makes sense. A Rahkshi killed me once.
Gresh: What
Jaller: I got better
Jaller: Takanuva got killed by a door.
Gresh: What?
Jaller: He got better too.
Jaller: Though, he was fused to Makuta Teridax at the time.
Gresh: wHaT?!?!
Jaller: It was just a phase. Though he did go full emo goth later.
Gresh:….
Jaller: Got it from a bug bite.

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THIS. I saw a post the other day that literally said if you do it to a fictional character, you’ll do it in real life.
No. Just NO.
I’m so glad someone put it into words.
In art, we can be fucking nuts.
Art is the place to safely explore all those other sides of you
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Cats (2019) is worse than Doctor Who (2006) even though the show was made with the budget of a crisp packet
okay everyone buckle the hell up cause I'm gonna nerd out to you about the makeup they used for this episode.
Yeah that's right I SAID MAKE UP
Everything from the top of their head to the end of their neck
purely intricate, beautiful makeup
(by the very talented make up designer Sheelagh Wells who is the only one to have worked both on doctor who in '63 and new who)
Each shaped individually to each actors face and able to pick up each micro expression we still struggle to produce with cgi to this day without it looking wrong or plastic
everything from the small cheek movements to the eyebrows to the nose crinkle, the actresses is able to act as if she usually would.
By not having to restrain her face to act in one peticular spot or with nothing but small motion capture dots on her face, means she can actually bounce off the more realistic reaction to the other actors performance rather than if they just said "right well pretend she's a cat and we'll add it in later".
and sure, okay, I'm not gonna lie to you, the main reason the nun cats were made to be nuns was because it meant that they could cover up as much skin as they possibly could to save time in the makeup chair, because like op said, they truly did have the budget of a crisp packet
but hey, if it works
IT WORKS
Yes, each actresses sat in the makeup chair getting the extensive hair and make up done for HOURS, but ultimately the sheer amount of detail they were able to add to the characters by doing this made it worth their while.
THEY ONLY HAD A BUDGET OF AROUND £800K PER EPISODE at the time, in 2006 FOR EVERYTHING INCLUDING LOCATION ETC
Imagine what these make up designers would be able to do with A HOLLYWOOD MOVIE BUDGET
FINALLY SOMEONE WHO IS AS INSANE FOR THE CAT PEOPLE AS I AM
THEY DID IT MORE TOO GRIDLOCK IS ONE OF MY FAVE EPISODES THANKS TO THIS GUY
Thomas Kincade Brannigan (yes of course he's dressed like that for the same reasons come on)
YOU GUYS TALKING ABOUT MICRO EXPRESSIONS LOOK
This whole episode reeks of "we don't have money at all so we will film only tiny tiny interiors". It almost feels like the whole scenario was written BECAUSE OF THIS
Brannigan is also the proud father... Of... A... Litter of actual real life kittens 😐 ok I remember I laughed out loud while watching I loved this.
Anyway this to say OFTEN THE BEST THINGS COME FROM INGENUITY IN FRONT OF LIMITATIONS AND PASSION
NOT FROM MONEY (and rushing your workers to make more money faster 🙃)
This thesis is absolutely sound. (Do I have to mention JAWS? Every time that mechanical shark broke down, Spielberg wound up having to make that film better in some other way to compensate.)
Limitation is the lifeblood of art.
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Finally done! 😅🎬 This animation really drained me… it took a whole month of non-stop work! 🖌️💪 I hope you all enjoy it! 💖✨🎉
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#i like to think data took him all the way to the brig tossed him in and left#and then came back 60 seconds later and was like ‘i believe i have successfully played a ‘practical joke’ on you :)’#riker loses it & claps him on the back like ‘wow. good job u rly had me going. dont ever fucking do that again’ Perfect.
Actually it’s 73 seconds. Data, knowing something of how human minds work, estimates that Riker will give him 60 seconds to come back (because humans prefer “round numbers”, however arbitrary the units). After 60 seconds it will take 4 seconds for Riker to fully process the conclusion that Data is, in fact, not coming back after all, and an additional 9 seconds to build to the optimum level of anxiety.
After all, comedy is timing.
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Fun little fic idea
Legend loses his hat.
It's not a super big deal, really It really isn't. Legend totally doesn't care at all about it, obviously. (Except he sort of does. He's always worn a hat, before he was a hero, before he picked up the master sword, before he can even remember).
Uncle Aflon just got into the habit of putting a hat on his head when he was a baby, because the village women always said it was important to keep little ones warm and most of the heat escapes via the head. So, since he was tiny, Aflon always helped his nephew get dressed and then popped a hat on his head. And even after Legend was old enough to do it himself, his Uncle still always tucked a hat on him because Aflon sort of just got accustomed to it and Link grew out of everything else already so he's just keeping this one small thing as long as he can.
So legend literally has gone his whole life wearing a hat and suddenly not is...weird. It's not a big deal, but also, he's oddly uncomfortable, and cold, and there's something missing all the time and it bugs a tiny little part of him.
The rest of the heroes' notice something is off. They push. legend of course tells them that it's nothing, he's maybe just slightly sort of out of sorts. Maybe he doesn't even realize that's what's wrong.
But then, maybe as a joke? Maybe just because, maybe because Legend's being extra grouchy and they just were trying to get him to shut up, someone tosses a spare shirt or a scarf/pelt/cape at his head one evening and it just sort of clicks. Legend's mid-way through saying something and then he gets hit literally and mentally with the realization of what's wrong and just goes oddly quiet.
He doesn't yank the offending article off and throw it back like normal either.
Wind's the one who asks if he's missing having a hat, sort of as a joke. But when Legend just nods, looking totally and completely confused...well
Well! The rest of the chain all have various hats they never cared for, or don't use, and if Legend would like a new one then he has his pick! (Technically, Legend's got plenty of hats from Hytopia, but he doesn't tend to carry them around and besides, he wasn't thinking about it because they're not The Hat).
All this as an excuse for Legend to just...get to wear some different hats. Maybe he does pull out some of his own (The Kolkiri hat is a favorite of mine, he'd be so Snufkin), but there's also a couple others I think would be fun. Twi's silly gilded hat thing from his fancy rupee draining set looks like sort of a crown with a hat attached, and if you go for the Twins Theory then it's sort of ironic. Hyrule has his red one that almost exactly matches Legend's jerkin, and he's only too happy to offer Legend something for once when usually it's the vet lending him a tool or new boots or something of that nature.
But the one with the biggest collection? Wild, obviously make this post TotK if you want the most options.
For fluff, maybe Legend realizes that Ravio's hood is actually like....really comfy? Ad smells like him, and thus like home, and thus he's oddly calmer and more sedate with it.
Crack? He unironically loves the CeCe hat, and Wild gets such a kick out of that that he just begs him to keep it. how he keeps the thing balanced in a fight in anyone's guess but he's slaying
Angst? The Royal Guard's Beret is oddly comfortable and Legend actually really likes wearing it, but whenever he catches his own reflection he gets that lovely little reminder that he is, in fact, from a family of knights, a family that's all gone and who's legacy he's failed to take on like he was supposed to or maybe he realizes he looks like one of the knight Uncle used to hang out with, maybe he used to steal their hats after big functions when he was a kid, when the knights would be all dressed up when they visited and the beret was too big on him then but the captain of the guard would fix it for him anyway with this soft little smile, and the memory of that just makes Legend's chest ache (especially if Wild or Wars keeps adjusting the hat for him now when it slips or smth)
Anyways, thanks for coming to me TEDTalk about legend and hats I guess
Growing up on the internet it was drilled into us to not give our real name, age, etc. only for all these social platforms to turn around and be like 😦☝️ um actually, we really need your social security number, credit card, and full government ID.
“So this fic has been abandoned but you should read it anyways because…” hold up. Have you not been reading all promising fics regardless of completion this entire time
Thissssss.

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when she says she doesn’t send nudes
when guys objectify women and expect them to send nudes
when someone asks you about your nuclear plans for russia
When Russia sends you nudes
#what the fuck happened here
This is my favorite post in all of tumblr
reminder that this post is now illegal in Russia
reblog it, because Russia can´t
Thanks Obama
When Russia makes this post illegal
I HAVE ONLY SEEN THIS IN SCREENSHOTS
I will reblog this every goddamn time I find it on my dash
I have a piece of tumblr history on my blog now
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Closest match: Bombyx mori BmN4 cell DNA, chromosome 24, sequence Common name: Domestic Silk Moth
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When the domestic silk moth sends you nudes
Domestic silk moth is just being friendly
Now the moth is banned in Russia
…well what the fuck is this
Art.
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This post somehow has gotten better since the last time I saw it.
THE POST
THE FUCKIN POSTH
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