âYouâre not my Dad!â
Hahahahaha
âIâm in a tank and your notâ is probably the best argument ever.
I love how the dude keeps popping in and out for each response
trying on a metaphor

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âYouâre not my Dad!â
Hahahahaha
âIâm in a tank and your notâ is probably the best argument ever.
I love how the dude keeps popping in and out for each response

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yall let the yodeling kid prosper but not this LEGEND???
^^â^^
Thanks Bethesda
The scariest part of Halloween is how anatomically incorrect these decorations are.
cyan-biologist
listen, sometimes necromancers get bored, and thereâs always lots of little bones laying aroundâŚ.
âGonna make a bone spiderâ
âWhyâ
âBECAUSE I DO WHAT I WANTâ
I work in a government-funded spider research lab at a top university and we have this in our lab:
I had to reblog this, whatâs better than a literal bone spider.
does he have a name
Spiderman

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How it really went
@blackkatmagic
pEOPle WHO CAN WRITEâŚ
PEOPLE whO CAN dRAWâŚ
PEoPLE WHo CAN wriTE AND DRaWâŚ
PEOPLE WHO CANâŚ
PEOPLE WHO CAN CANâŚ
CANS THAT CAN CANâŚ
And then thereâs me:
This last GIF. Iâm in love.
i wish i lived in the sims, i could just be like âooh, shooba wormie!â and eat a sandwich

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i have a fake son. his name is Tim and he is working on his M.S. in astrophysics at Berkeley. he is devestatingly handsome and enjoys rock climbing and volunteers as a counselor at the local YMCA there in Berkeley, California. i am so proud of my fake son. i have raised him up in my own head to be such an outstanding member of society. âTimâ is only brought up when asked about by one particular woman at work that i only see on occasion. i donât make a habit or game of lying to people, but with her, it kinda came about as follows: Faye is one of those people who has been there/done that and will hang herself on the cross while she tells you how much worse the experience was for her. iâve seen this woman Kanye West an 8-month pregnant girl at said girlâs own baby shower to glorify the gift she gave her as well as go into how horrible her labor was with her own children. Faye also is a braggart. her car/purse/house/ring/shoes/etc. all cost more than whatever yours did and her children are all angels. i was forced to work with Faye for 2 days about 5 years ago. she called me Emily a few times before i finally told her my name is Amy, not Emily. she gave me a sideways glance and said, âI like Emily betterâ, and since then, she has always called me Emily. i let this go because to get angry with her and tell her off is to see her become dramatic and begin crying and insist she did not mean anything by it while not issuing anything close to an apology. Faye is always right, too, you know. anyway, when she shut up long enough about herself and her fabulous offspring on the second day, she asked, âDo you have any children, Emily?â i replied that i do not. she then launched into her daughter taking fertility drugs so that she could give her mother grandchildren someday. that was the only question she asked me until i saw her about a year later. âOh, HI, Emily! How are you?!â âHi, FayeâŚhow are you?â âWonderful, wonderful. Stephen just graduated from UT. Heâs going to be the best doctor ever! How is your son, uh, Tim?â it took me a second. Tim? son? what the hell is she talking about?! it dawned on me what a complete narcissist she truly is. she hadnât heard me the day she asked if i had children, because she didnât care. she didnât care enough to call me by my real name, so it wasnât much of a surprise. i couldnât stop myself. i briefly thought about correcting her, but i decided to just go with it. âTim is doing so well. He was just accepted to Berkeley after his amazing thesis on planetary nebuli. We are so proud of him.â her eyes grew big. âOh, how nice! But, Berkeley? Thatâs so far from home. UT is an excellent school; surely he couldâve been accepted there?âŚâ i gave a small chuckle. âOh, well, they wanted him for sure, Faye. I mean, all the letters he received, practically BEGGING him to study there. But, well, they just donât have a sufficient astronomy department. UT is a fine school, but not for the subject that Tim is going into. Astrophysics is not something you can study just anywhere, you know.â her eyes narrowed. âMedicine is what these young people should be going into. Astrophysics? What is that, anyway? How will it contribute to the world?â âGosh, I donât really know how to explain astrophysics, Faye. Itâs so mind blowing for simple minds like mine and yours. But searching for things in space that could potentially help our planet is a pretty big deal, I think.â Faye promptly excused herself. i knew i had gotten her. iâve bumped into her on and off throughout the past 5 years and she always told me how her angels were saving the world, especially Stephen, and then sheâd ask about Tim. and i made sure my Tim was one step above her Stephen. her face would turn crimson and she would have to abruptly leave. i saw her as i was leaving work yesterday and she stopped me to wish me a happy Easter. âStephen is coming home this holiday. Heâs bringing his fiance. Sheâs a doctor too, you know. How is Tim? Donât tell me heâs still not graduated?âŚâ âOh, Faye, donât be silly! Astrophysics takes YEARS to graduate from. Itâs not as simple as medicine. But, yes, he is close to graduating.â âIs he coming home for Easter? I canât imagine spending holidays without my children; how dreadful! Oh, but heâs all the way in CaliforniaâŚit costs so much to fly here, I assume.â I grinned. âYes, it does. But heâs such a sweetheart, heâs flying me out there this year! Taking a break from his studies and humanitarian efforts to have his dear olâ Mom around for Easter. Iâm so lucky!â ââŚyes, well, have a nice time, Emily. Happy Easter!â âYou too, Kay! Oh, I mean Faye!â you know, like i said before, i donât like to lie. it does seem very silly to have let this go on for so long. Tim has been a fabrication in the making for over 5 years now, he almost feels real to me. when i see Faye, i have images of my fake son, looking so handsome in his lab coat as heâs peering into a microscope looking at dust particles from a comet. i see him jogging with his dog on the beach. i see him hiking and biking and climbing. i see him helping an elderly woman with her groceries. itâs a true testament that if you lie, or let a lie go on for a while, it becomes a solid thing that you have to keep up with. oddly enough, i donât lose sleep on this lie. i donât see her often enough to fib about this on a daily or consistent level. Faye never cared anything about me or my life until she had something to try to one-up me on. SHE is the one losing sleep on account of her Stephen not succeeding quite like my Tim. itâs amazing how this lie has eaten her alive and made me feel proud of something that doesnât even exist⌠eh well. iâll be boarding the fake plane to Berkeley this afternoon, to celebrate Easter with my fake son. Mamaâs soooo proud of you, Timmy!
This is legendary
me: oh yeah iâll watch [insert mega popular easily-accessed netflix thing] at some point
me:
happy epilogue day
And always had tea and snacks for Harry and his friends when they came to his hut. Even if they werenât always good, he was always trying to take care of Harry.
harry literally says hagrid is the bravest person he knows in like prisoner of azkaban?? what happened harry???? why you do my boy like that???
pour one out for Rubeus Remus Potter, the name that never was
What we Say: weâre fine
What we think: THIS
how the FUCK did they make that penguin from wallace and gromit look so evil like itâs literally just a plasticine penguin but it somehow radiates Pure Malice look at itÂ
truly character design at its finest
Part of the reason that Wallace and Gromit is so successful is that every single character is just so expressive. The peopleâs lips move like half a foot every frame. Gromit has basically only his eyebrows, and he has more personality than two average real people. The Moon Machine was up there with the rest of them, and it didnât even have a face.
The penguin, on the other hand, never expressed anything at all. Itâs designed almost explicitly with purpose of not expressing anything. Itâs practically featureless, with only the bare minimum of detail necessary to tell you itâs a penguin. It has a face, but it never uses it. It has no sclera, meaning it stares straight ahead at all times. It actively repels most attempts to ascribe any emotion to it â at best, you can feel that it is coldly satisfied, perhaps detachedly frustrated. Iâd say itâs like a robot wearing the skin of an animal, but thatâs literally the villain of A Close Shave, and he was pretty expressive.
Itâs like Aardman found a tiny crack in the likability curve, far away from the uncanny valley but a hell of a lot deeper, and decided to build a penguin there.
Kimi No Na Wa (ĺăŽĺăŻ) PV
I saw this movie. (Funimation dubbed it and has been doing a limited theater release of it in the U.S.). Itâs really good! I recommend it. It is based on a light novel by the filmâs director and writer Mamoru Shinkai, which is coming out in English this month. Theyâre releasing a second related light novel, focusing on the minor characters, in English in October, and the manga adaptation comes out in English soon too. I was so into the film I pre-ordered all three off Amazon within hours of seeing the film.
Warning: Itâs a bit confusing at first until you figure out whatâs going on, and it gets pretty sad at one point, but the ending is good.
The directorâs name is Makoto Shinkai and heâs my absolute favorite Japanese director. Iâd definitely recommend checking out his other work! Watching 5 Centimeters Per Second, especially, before you watch Kimi no Na wa does a lot to change your viewing experience.

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So The Arcanaâs pricing scheme is exploitative and terrible and Iâm astonished nobody is talking about it.
The standard response from the developers is that all of the paid content is âoptionalâ, but you know what I want out of my romance game? Romance. 90% of which is paid content.
Also, this assumes I donât want to pay for the game. Except I do! I backed it on kickstarter! I want to give these people my money. But I also donât want to be bled dry.
This isnât even getting into how the kickstarter promised backers the game itself as a reward, then reneged on their promise, offering a paltry $10 refund to make up for it (which will buy you a grant total of 1 chapter for 1 characterâs route).Â
This kind of business practice hurts other kickstarter projects down the road, because it erodes peopleâs trust in the platform. A lot of indie otome game devs rely on kickstarter. But my experience with The Arcana has sure made me think twice about supporting any other projects.
The worst thing is I like the Arcana. The art is gorgeous, the characters are fun. I supported it on Kickstarter. I told my friends to support it on Kickstarter. But I can no longer turn a blind eye to how Nyx Hydra seems to be willfully exploiting their fans.
Iâd been planning to pick this game up at some point because Iâd heard good things about it, but the pricing and the developerâs lack of willingness to address fan concerns about it (and their completely disastrous Kickstarter) have completely lost my business on this and any other games Nix Hydra puts out. I have no patience for small companies that donât respect their customers.
Dishonesty from The Arcana
Iâm going to talk about @thearcanagame and its companyâs business practices. My goal with this piece is to educate and urge consumers to hold all companies to a higher standard in the mobile games industry.
Nix Hydra Games is a company that acquired $5.6 million in funding in 2014.That funding was not for The Arcana (which didnât begin development until 2016), I point this out only to demonstrate that Nix Hydra is not a struggling indie company. This isnât their first app and their marketing team is smart; they titled it âThe Arcana - A Mystic Romanceâ to likely capitalize on people searching for Mystic Messenger as this subtitle is seen nowhere else. The player character is faceless and nameless, instilling a sense of ownership in the player who creates their own original character. Nix Hydra apparently have no trouble acquiring funding and only used Kickstarter as a way to gauge interest and marketing.
Thereâs nothing wrong with any of that, where they mistepped was on their promises to backers and false marketing.
In numerous places they stated that backers will receive the PC/Mac versions in exchange for backing the project. Less than a year later, in an update to their Kickstarter on October 9, 2017, they reneged:
Why would their artist and writers need to stop creating content to port the game to PC unless theyâre also programmers? Mobile games are developed on a desktop and get compiled to a mobile device. Bug testing and distribution is required but the major work is already complete - itâs already on the PC. Theyâre using Unity, a game engine that supports all platforms, and a visual novel is not a complicated program. Porting is not as difficult as theyâd like you to believe. Thereâs even a video in which their programmer states theyâre at a point where the game doesnât need him anymore.
Programmer Zach Vinless said, âWe pretty much have the game to a point where the story is totally content driven - data driven - so that, you know, Iâm pretty much free to not work on stuff specific to the-the story or the user interface and we can work on, you know, maybe some cool new features.â
The dead look in his downcast eyes and the way he trails off is telling. This man knows whatâs up but heâs sitting right next to his boss. Writer Elle Hudson, visibly thrilled to be receiving a paycheck no matter where it comes from, jumps in to say, âSome of those features require content like the Wheel of Fortune [âŚ]â
So instead of instructing their programmer to port the game to PC/Mac, they are using their time to implement more blatant pay-to-win gambling âfeaturesâ like their new Heart Hunter and Wheel of Fortune.
But letâs just say PC/Mac is impossible for some reason. On their Kickstarter update from March 21, 2017: âThe purpose of releasing a desktop version of the game on itch.io for backers is to circumvent app store rules that prevent us from giving paid content only to specific players for free.â
Itâs true that Google and Apple have strict rules and limits on promo codes, they want their piece of the capitalistic pie. However, what is stopping Nix Hydra from distributing a copy of their app directly to their backers with all of the content unlocked? They could create a download portal on their website strictly for backers and update it with each content release or simply send copies via a mailing list.
Oh right, thereâs no money in that. An office in LA with over twenty employees doesnât come cheap. The founders are Yale graduates, do you really think they arenât aware they can do this? They are counting on you to not know. The desktop market is far less profitable than mobile, microtransactions and premium currency are a harder sell. They ran the numbers and know that refunding people $10 is cheaper than giving backers what they were promised. Theyâre hoping their fans grow impatient and just spend more money to unlock the content for which they already paid. This pricing isnât going to fly with a PC audience:
As of May 25, 2018 all content in the game is unlockable for $180. Thatâs not too bad until you consider what the current route will cost when complete: $170 each. Thatâs $510 total for three characters. Now add the three extra routes they plan to complete - weâre up to $1020. That is more than the price of some first edition signed books and certainly more than an AAA game. It doesnât even include the bonus content acquired through their sordid gambling minigames.
On November 22, 2016 they said the following:
Thatâs quite a change. Maybe they put the decimal in the wrong spot?
This is a classic bait and switch with some microtransaction bullshit sprinkled on top. Updates are released in increments and not everyone will do the math, leading people to spend more than they might want otherwise. They pressure you to spend premium currency with manipulative wording and make the call to action buttons nice and big:
They give you a time limited chance to earn in-game currency through gambling but they donât publish their (likely low to impossible) probabilities:
Their argument for their ludicrous pricing is that itâs premium content and unnecessary to the story. Is it not false marketing to declare this is a romance novel then put all romance behind a paywall?
Founder Lina Chen said in the video linked above, âWe get a lot of really positive reviews, the only negative ones are often about money. Um, and I donât think people understand how much it costs to make something like this. How much it costs for a company to run to be able to offer this to people, that, like - and I donât think people are quite thinking about, like, okay the people who make this also need to, like, buy food, and, like [laugh] and like living-living, you know, with a roof over our heads, that kind of thing.â
Using addictive gambling and every psychological trick in the book to bleed microtransactions out of the people who supported you then being condescending to them when they dare say itâs a bit much is reprehensible. I absolutely support creators getting paid - I am one - but letâs be real. They are making an unanimated visual novel in Unity. They donât need half the resources they claim to need and they arenât acquiring them in an honest manner. This behavior hurts mobile developer reputation, consumer trust of crowdsourcing platforms that indie developers require and the industry as a whole.
Friendly reminder that Lina Chenâs statement about âour developers need to eat!â is absolute bullshit because according to reviews by actual employees on Glassdoor, they make well below market average. How much below market average? The yearly salary for game designers at Nix Hydra is $44K-$48K. If you search California companies to see what their salary for game designers is and order those results by salary, you are given 12 pages of results. So, whereâs Nix Hyrdra in that list? You wonât find them until more than halfway down page 11.Â
Honestly, Iâm not sure how any of the employees can afford to live in Silicon Valley with the salaries they make. According to a 2015 Priceonomics article, an employee making $100,000 per year would have to devote 100% of their after tax paycheck to housing if they wanted to live in a 3 bedroom. Okay, not everyone needs 3 bedrooms, but even a studio apartment is going to cost you $2,722 a month.Â
Continuing to pay for the Arcana is not doing its developers any favors. By doing so, you are not only paying far more than you should have to be for a game, you are also contributing to keeping your favorite developers in a job that is exploiting. The level of pay they get at Nix Hydra is going to affect them for the rest of their lives. Itâs going to keep them from being able to save for their future retirement, it will keep them from being able to ever afford to start a family should they desire to do so, and itâs going to make getting paid the salary that they deserve at their next job harder.Â
If you really want to support your favorite Arcana developers, you should contact them and let them know you will support their next project should they decide to leave Nix Hydra. The only ones who are benefiting from the pricing on the Arcana are Nix Hydraâs corrupt upper management.