this is a blug

Popsicle sticks, cereal boxes, binder clips, some boxes of staples, and a chair

#10 crochet cotton. 6 4-hole cards (cereal boxes lol)

Took about 6 hours to make 1.3 yards of this

Don't know if I'll keep this up or not. I don't mind the actual weaving portion but warping was rough and this was only 24 threads. We'll see. Maybe I'll build a shitty loom. Maybe that will make warping less painful (this and other lies we tells ourselves)

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This

This love of painting is innate. You can hand a baby a bunch of finger paints and they'll bang something out, delighted at their ability to alter their little corner of the universe. Just don't let them go for too long, because then they'll develop performance anxiety about having screwed up the simplest goddamn composition I mean I am eighteen months old, I should be past this kind of mistake.

Folks since the dawn of history have been enjoying smearing brightly-coloured shit on darker shit. Or maybe you're supposed to be going light to dark. I can never remember. This feels right, and if it looks right, it is right. At least, that's what I'd say if anything I made looked right. Either way, that's how we got cave paintings, which everyone really likes to look at. Everyone, that is, except for the original artist, who if they were alive today would probably be dying of embarrassment at how many obvious errors in anatomy they made.

Are... are your organs covered in blood??? Since blood tends to flow thru the blood vessels, and if your body is healthy and all your blood vessels are imtact then your organs shouldn't be covered in blood, right? But just saying that feels wrong.

For example, a couple years ago, while learning Spanish, I encountered the word for a store, "la tienda." I thought "huh, that's a lot like tener (tiene) - the word for store in Spanish literally corresponds to 'to have/keep'. How interesting!"

False cognates happen all the time, within one language and when comparing two or more languages.

The word "tienda" is NOT actually related to "tener/tiene."

"Tienda" in Spanish means "tent," and it comes from the same Latin root word as the English word "tent." Every Latin-based language, including Spanish, Portuguese, French, and even Romanian, has a similar word.

"Tener/tiene" does mean "have/keep/hold," but it is unrelated to "tienda." "Tener" comes from an entirely different Latin root word.

However, the word "store" is the same in both instances. It refers to a place where items may be kept OR a place where items may be purchased (though the latter is mainly used in North America).

I'm not a linguist, but it's as simple as looking it up with a reputable source. It is so helpful to know root words instead of just guessing!

However, tener and tender are actually ultimately related, both derived from the same Proto-Indo-European root *ten- meaning "stretch". The meaning "have" coming from earlier meaning "to hold". Presumably the connection between stretch and hold being something like stretching your hand out to hold something?

and when it released for ios? holy fuck were they DROWNING in money. when they took a weekend to put the game on sale for a dollar, down from five, a couple months after release, they made as much in that one weekend as they did since its release. it was among the top paid apps for weeks.

with critics, peggle was among some of the top downloadable, mobile, and general best games of all time at the time of its release in 2007 and onwards, and it only shot up in popularity as they made it more accessible to more people. and this was in a time before candy crush.

the thing about simple addictive puzzle games is that they make you feel competent, confident, smart, and cool for being good at them. not everybody can learn how to aim in a shooter or the best strategy in an rpg. but anybodys grandmother or baby brother can play a simple puzzle game, and the nature of these games and the way they make you feel only makes you want to play more and more.

however very very fucking few people who play simple puzzle games that you can master on the toilet would be going to E3 in the early 2010s. remember in 2012 when every ~hardcore gamer~ would screech about ‘fake gamers’ who only play candy crush? thats what peggle was. it was THE crack mobile game from the pre-candycrush era.

no one who was excited about peggle was going to E3. the hundreds of thousands of people who played peggle were not the type of people who would consider going to (or even giving a shit about) E3.

but it sold like hot cakes, and candy crush was churning out content like a madman, and EA owned popcap now, so because the game sold amazingly, and because they wanted to keep cashing in on it, and because corporate drones who controlled the scripts didnt comprehend that their consumerbase isnt one homogeneous mass, they decided to announce peggle 2 at E3 2013.

but not just “oh by the way peggle 2”, no. peggle sold like skyrim, it sold like black ops, clearly they should be saving the best for last, they should announce it like it was the craziest most incredible announcement of the night!

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