retrogamingblog:

Artist will_o_wisps created a new bug type eeveelution during her livestream!

  • Name: Hunneon
  • Type: Bug
  • Species: The Humble Pokemon
  • Height: 1’05" (0.4 m)
  • Weight: 33. lbs (15.0 kg)
  • Ability 1: Levitate – By floating in the air, the Pokémon receives full immunity to all Ground-type moves.
  • Ability 2: Bumble Burst – When the user’s HP is low, the opposing Pokemon is randomly poisoned, paralysed or falls asleep.
  • Evolution: Eevee evolves into Hunneon after levelling up whilst holding the item Honey*.*

Pokedex Entries:

When threatened, it will spit a powdery substance from the tip of its tail to defend itself from predators.

Sometimes it feels conscious about having extra limbs and tucks them into its chest fur to hide them.

If you step on Hunneon’s tail, you’d better watch out! It shoots a powdery substance from the tip of its tail to defend itself.

The hexagonal pieces on its head and chest emit a sweet smelling scent that attracts wild Pokemon, predators and people alike.

Source: retrogamingblog

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trilllizard666:

wheel-skellington:

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imma be real here

piranha plant is legitimately a better addition to smash than fire-fighting starter pokemon #48320

i have just been informed that incineroar, the fucking pokemon thats based on wrestlers, knows a bunch of wrestling and fighting attacks, looks like this

and is constantly seen in wrestling ring

is not fire-fighting, but fire-dark

hes dark type because hes a heel

a what

in professional wrestling a heel is a wrestler acting as the villain, being rude and underhanded

in fact incineroar is called the Heel Pokemon

badguy wrestler

think more Stone Cold or Brock Lesnar rather than John Cena

He’s meant to draw the ire of the audience

If he isn’t getting under your skin he’s doing a bad job

Dark is Evil in Japan, therefore he is a Fire Evil type.

Also you could go further into wrestling terminalogy and say that the heel usually gets the heat of the babyface and then the babyface makes a comeback.

He’s the big heel of the pokemon universe, and he’s based off of one the most popular Japanese Junior heavyweights of all time’s arch rival the Black Tiger.

this is so dumb hes still based on wrestlers

wrestling is very much not fighting tho

If you wanna go really meta, the whole pokemon community was so done with fire/fighting types, especially after getting a break in the form of Braixen, that seeing Incineroar made everybody go apeshit

And then he was revealed to be a dark type instead of fighting

He was designed to make you mad from day 1

the-patron-saint-of-tony-hawk:

masonicbeheadingritual:

shen-ancalhar:

seashellronan:

grown ass men are out here not eating fruit or vegetables or washing their face and having a list of things women must do to be attractive to them and thus gain their respect like grow the fuck up and eat a carrot literally no woman needs you

“No woman needs you” said the future cat lady lol

Newsflash. No man needs a bitch telling him to eat rabbit food and nagging him constantly.

I cannot wait to see feminism burn itself out.

u gonna die of scurvy in the name of antifeminism

The scurvy got him

hatikarat:

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darthmelyanna:

thattallnerdybean:

You know what I find interesting? How I Met Your Mother just like… disappeared from culture after the finale aired. Like sure you might still hear the odd, “Challenge accepted” or use that gif of Marshall hugging the pillow as a reaction image, but no one really uses the phrases in vernacular, no one talks about the episodes.

And I think it has to do with the fact that the finale betrayed fans badly.

Take Friends for instance. It still is a lasting cultural thing. I think we can all agree now in hindsight, that Ross is an absolute douchecanoe, but at the time, the majority of fans wanted Ross and Rachel to get together because it had been this thing that the show had told us through cues was MEANT to be.

In HIMYM, the entire show was predicated on MEETING the Mother, and we had ruled out that Robin wasn’t the Mother. More than that, they had shown us that Barney and Robin were actually perfect for each other. They had spent episodes and seasons redeeming Barney, and softening Robin and showing us why they were meant to be. And to see BOTH of those relationships forced apart for a series finale that they had written all the way back in season 1 that didn’t make any sense for the story they eventually told, was damning for the show’s legacy in culture.

I firmly believe that writers should be able to write the story they want, and if you want to listen to constructive criticism or do a little fan service along the way then great, but when you get to the finale? That right there is 100% for the fans. The finale is when you let go of the story completely. The finale is a love letter to the people who made your show continue for as long as it did. Good finales are why shows survive.

When you’re writing a work-in-progress, sometimes you have to abandon your original plan. Let that be a lesson.

This. 

But, also, they actually succeeded with the Mother. I thought that ‘The Mother’ would never be able up to the hype and mythologizing Ted did, but y’know what? 

Tracy McConnell lived up to the hype and more, and had amazing chemistry with Ted. And instead of writing towards the characters and the amazing performance on screen the showrunners force an ending they planned from almost a decade before. 

HIMYM is also very much a lesson of listening to the characters and, if you’re writing for actors, to the truth of the chemistry that’s in front of them.

Another crucial lesson? Endings are important because if you botch that up, everything you did before that will just disappear into the ether of annoyance and anger.

I think the worst thing was they made us fall in love with Tracy and went ‘welp, she dies at the end’ which to me canceled out her value as a fleshed out character – which is an amazing feat in of itself with the number of episodes she was in – and turned her into this plot device that was brought into existence to give ted the kids he wanted so he can end up with ‘the love of his life’, Robin who never wanted kids.

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Bob Ross used to get 200
fan letters a day. When people
who regularly wrote him fell
out of touch, he would call them
just to see if they were OK. Source

we didn’t deserve bob ross

I’m still pretty sure Bob Ross was some outworldly cosmic entity because there’s no way any fuck on here can be that kind spirited, nice and pure

@kithandqin

Before he came to be the artful mindful guru that we know him as, apparently he was in the Air Force for 20 years and was a drill sergeant for part of it.

“I was the guy who makes you scrub the latrine, the guy who makes you make your bed, the guy who screams at you for being late to work. The job requires you to be a mean, tough person. And I was fed up with it. I promised myself that if I ever got away from it, it wasn’t going to be that way anymore.”  

Now I’m just wondering what airforcemen thought about seeing drill sergeant Ross on tv painting trees

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programmedradly:

However, this bit of nonsense single-handedly illustrates why we should never try and create an official AO3 app (aside from, you know, not even having enough personnel to build and maintain the desktop version while also dealing with server emergencies and trying to train new developers)–

–in that we would literally have to design, prototype, build, test, and refine *two* mobile apps at the same time (three if you count Windows phones) (so, two) (rimshot) and then go through an arduous app store approval process not once, but twice, and then PROVIDE TECHNICAL SUPPORT AND KEEP UP WITH OS UPDATES AND HARDWARE CHANGES FOR TWO. ENTIRELY. DIFFERENT. PLATFORMS. FOREVER.

(Also, we don’t even have an API yet, lol, that would be the first step, WE AREN’T EVEN CLOSE TO HAVING AN API, ALL DISCUSSIONS ABOUT APPS END HERE.)

Asking for “an AO3 app” is like asking for “a thing to get me places” and then being mad when you’re presented with the promise of a car, because you don’t have a driver’s license and what you really meant was a bike, except there are people who can’t ride bikes and would like to go places too, so the car is a good start at least, PLEASE STOP YELLING.

In addition, the people who now have to design and build a bike for you are also building the road at the same time. For free. In their spare time. While also holding down full-time jobs and taking care of their families. Also, people are yelling at them to go faster the whole time, and build that damn bike and that damn car already, it’s fucking 2015, HOW IS THERE NO AO3 APP YET GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER BITCHES.

(actual quotes)

If you’re now wondering if there are really that many people asking for an app to warrant this kind of post, isn’t the website perfectly usable on mobile, like, I was reading some fic on my phone earlier, it was fine, why would people clamor for an app–

hahaha haha hahahasjlkjdlksjdlksjd

sdfkdj.

so, what you are saying is that an app will be coming soon, right?

this killed me. i’m dead. 

Renay: 

archive of our own lol but seriously the abuse and harassment from fandom over this app what is up with the entitlement what exactly would an app do that the website doesn’t currently do companies have just convinced people everything needs an app this is a lie use the website love the website it’s a pretty great website i still think all app questions should be answered with a picture of grumpy cat saying NO and this is why sam won’t hire me for support

I really really really wish they were lying about the tone of some of the tickets.

I really do.

I’m not sure, though, exactly what an app’s supposed to do, though, that the site doesn’t. The seemingly most common request (after “it’ll look better”, which lolwut) is “allow me to read offline”. Last I asked a dev, the works database, not counting the tags linking which allows for filtering, is north of 100GB. Also, the mobile interface allows for downloads, so…

I dunno.

(For reference, when Renay says “hire for support”, she means “allow to volunteer”. We are not paid, which makes some of those tickets…even better.)

My personal vote @heyheyrenay is to answer all the tickets with “anyway, here is wonderall [LINK TO THE NO APP POST]. @samjohnssonvt will also not let me do this, idk why… xD

Ok here’s the thing: apps are a scam. Particularly apps that allow you to access content that you can otherwise access in a browser, that make that content “prettier” or “more user friendly” on mobile. There is no reason the organisations in question can’t just build a mobile website, that you can access through the browser of your choice, or make their main website look good and be usable on mobile browsers, just like AO3 does. Literally none.

But viewing websites in the browser of your choice allows you to do all sorts of other things. Use ad blockers for staters. Use “Do not track” and browser extensions that protect your privacy.

And companies where you are the product – Google, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Medium, Reddit, mainstream media and news outlets, most commercial websites – they have no interest in protecting your privacy, no interest in giving you the freedom to not look at ads, to view their website through a standard interface that you can choose and customise (i.e. a browser).

Their interest is in collecting as much of your data as possible. In pushing as many ads on you as possible. In using all the data leakage from your phone (is your location on?) to build more and more detailed profiles of you, to better target ads so they can make money off you.

And that’s a hell of a lot easier if they’re in control of the technical infrastructure you use to access their site (i.e. an app) than if you are by using a browser.

You don’t need an app to read fic. You’ve just been taught to want one by people who don’t have your best interests at heart.

Web developers have spent a huge amount of time developing open standards for the web instead of leaving it in the control of big corporations  — that’s why sites like AO3 can exist in the first place, and why you don’t need to use a specific browser to view the website of your choice. It’s better for security, performance, functionality…

You don’t ask for a desktop app — in fact being told to download, install, and run an application on your desktop when you could just be viewing a website through a browser, would raise serious complaints and security concerns — frankly, it would be regarded as suspicious as hell.

Mobile apps are no different. There are times when they are appropriate, just like there are times when installing an application on your desktop is appropriate, but if it could just be a mobile-friendly website instead, it really should be.