gives me Goosebumps just thinking about it

Shake Your Screen" Optical Illusion refers to a fetish drawing category

how could a dancing frog meme be turned into a…

popular on Japanese Twitter

ah, right-o. carry on, then.

where was Gondor when the Westfold swelled?

once you start to notice them, you’ll never stop seeing them everywhere.

this one is a magnetic nail, so it can be found more easily with a metal detector, which is pretty handy when there’s a foot or two of snow on the ground.

you’ll also see crosses, squares, and triangles carved out in stone, as well as the super common drill holes in concrete, which are typically only for temporary points.

I’ve found 100+ year old control points drilled into old stone walls, and they can still check within like ¼" of the new maps.

Yamaha makes nice basses, no doubt about that. I’d love to own a vintage BB series bass someday.

I bought a different brand of massager, for massaging, and it works really well for loosening tight muscles and easing pain. Highly recommend getting one.

It did come with some attachments that seem tailored to groin muscles, but those can live in the junk drawer.

And yes, everyone who sees it in my house makes a joke about using it to whack-off, but I have no problem with that.

keep running up that hill

well, ain’t that some shit

Yavanna gets the last word in

those bridges flipping upside down and the shapeshifting staircases were some next level platforming action back in the day! and that is also the song I go to most when going for sonic soundtracks. I jammed with a band for a while that played it, and also mystic cave zone.

run the whole trilogy, and keep those speakers cranked up

and the lasting feeling that you’ll never understand it, and any serious effort to learn more will inevitably drive you to insanity. to me, staring into the uncaring abyss and feeling hopelessly lost and powerless, is a key feature of cosmic horror.

getting potatoes onto plates was a massive psy-ops campaign for europe. the French nobility started wearing potato flowers as decorations to encourage people to eat them, and potato fields were heavily guarded to make them appear more valuable.

Atlas Obscura article about the potato PR shenanigans

all good questions to be pondering

how are you gonna sell more cars that way? petroleum doesn’t buy itself, you know

the future of AI is making fake testimonials as advertisements

that’s a whole lot of toothpicks

if 5 people are sitting together, and 4 of them proudly proclaim to be nazis, and the 5th person doesn’t leave - there are 5 nazis sitting together

I want to like hot showers, but it dries out my skin so badly, and it makes me feel like a pierogi that’s been left out too long; without any butter or sour cream

same! went to my spouse’s work party last week, and proceeded to develop a gnarly cold by the time xmas rolled in.

I’m better now, of course; just in time to get back to work.