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when i was like 8 all the ants in my area came out and i pointed it out to my dad and he told me that it was because it was 'antday' and once every year all the ants come out as like a holiday. this really stumped me for a while because i couldn't wrap my head around how we communicated to the ants that it was ant day and it was time to celebrate and i asked my dad and he just said 'wow thats a good question'. anyway its ant day

Bringing this one out of drafts because of, Ant Day, (I'd been scoping out watching THEM!, but this is the post that got me around to actually watching it-- solid flick!). Anyway, Bound and Raising Arizona are two of my top five movies I've seen this year! They're seriously so good! I'm constantly thinking about them!!

tumblr please watch some good movies. thanks

Taking the kids to see Alien in Fort Worth, Texas, May 1979.

I think an important part of the "D&D is easy to learn" argument is that a lot of those people don't actually know how to play D&D. They know they need to roll a d20 and add some numbers and sometimes they need to roll another type of die for damage. A part of it is the culture of basically fucking around and letting the GM sort it out. Players don't actually feel the need to learn the rules.

Now I don't think the above actually counts as knowing the rules. D&D is a relatively crunchy game that actually rewards system mastery and actually learning how to play D&D well, as in to make mechanically informed tactical decisions and utilizing the mechanics to your advantage, is actually a skill that needs to be learned and cultivated. None of that is to say that you need to be a perfectly tuned CharOp machine to know how to play D&D. But to actually start to make the sorts of decisions D&D as a game rewards you kind of need to know the rules.

And like, a lot of people don't seem to know the rules. They know how to play D&D in the most abstract sense of knowing that they need to say things and sometimes the person scowling at them from behind the screen will ask them to roll a die. But that's hardly engaging with the mechanics of the game, like the actual game part.

And to paraphrase @prokopetz this also contributes to the impression that other games are hard to learn: because a lot of other games don't have the same culture of play of D&D so like instead of letting new players coast by with a shallow understanding of the rules and letting the GM do all the work, they ask players to start making mechanically informed decisions right away. Sure, it can suck for onboarding, but learning from your mistakes can often be a great way to learn.

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Oh wow, that's awesome! (If it's not too weird to add in on strangers' posts like this.) A couple high school friends of mine were in their own production of that same play just last month, which I had no idea existed till then! So, congratulations on legs well broken, tiny people in my phone.

The final night of my school play I'm in just finished🎉 I played Miss Scarlett in the clue play. It was so fun I hope I can do something like this again!! @neil-perrys-glasses

Who's your favorite of the classic universal monsters and why? (based solely on their portrayals in the universal movies, sequels and crossovers included, not their original book counterparts.)

The Wolf Man, because the character was both written and performed so well that he basically redefined what werewolves are in Western culture. None of the other Universal monsters can claim that impact, and since they never recast him, he also remains the most consistently well characterized and acted monster from film to film. Dracula and Frankenstein got their characters shaved down in sequel after sequel, but Lon Chaney Jr. made sure Larry Talbot was never less than his best.

That moment you realize that the godless hellscape of www.tumblr.com is the most biblically accurate of all the social networking sites

Happy Holidays, everyone!

Please enjoy this Biblically Accurate Angel Food Cake I made.

Everything is edible except for the halos. My mom says the wings taste like communion wafers, which feels thematic.

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home video rentals at Wegmans, Feb/March 1992

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, an all-new original series starring Michael Cera & the rest of the Scott Pilgrim cast, releasing November 17th only on Netflix.

Reblog for a bigger sample size.

Say in the tags what you voted for and if you live in or outside of the US

"Italian units in Campaign for North Africa need more water so they can boil pasta" is the "Viggo Mortensen broke his toes in this scene kicking the orc helmet" of tabletop war games.

Everything in this picture is magnificent.

I was just thinking about this poll earlier today

Love when one of those "do you know this thing" polls looks like this

Did you know I make cool games?

You know that "inverse indiana jones" thing everyone always jokes about? You want a version of that made by someone actually affected by the colonialism and racism that would need to be discussed? Do you want the pulp adventure with an folkloric fantasy coat of paint? Do you want it as a narrative-tag driven ttrpg that allows you to self define your culture and your relationship to it? I've been developing it for years and before that joke was a thing... I'm about ready to turn it into a book too.

Okay, but was anyone gonna bring up the fact that they have TWO Paramount+s?

Alright im back from the dentist where the shot was to my mouth (fillings)(not from cavities or anything just replacing some that had fallen out) and well... I watched the best I could??

Needle-watch poll

So, I got some vaccinations the other day, and the pharmacy tech seemed unnerved that I opted to watch him insert the needle. And he is not the first to comment on it. I'm willing to accept I'm an outlier and shouldn't be counted, I'm just curious how much of an outlier.

Always watch... Always watch.

Needle-watch poll

So, I got some vaccinations the other day, and the pharmacy tech seemed unnerved that I opted to watch him insert the needle. And he is not the first to comment on it. I'm willing to accept I'm an outlier and shouldn't be counted, I'm just curious how much of an outlier.

Reblog and put the species of the nearest stuffed animal

Reblogging to salute potato

Yeah, I've got complcated feelings about As Above So Below, and this is speaking from a place that really is best described as "relative unfamiliarity with the subgenre" ([REC] is... on my watchlist.) The fact that it is found footage to begin with sort of both helps and harms it; just thinking through it, the "found"ness of the footage doesn't really make sense- is that good is that bad does that add to the effect does that subtract from it, I don't know. By the time it matters (the end when everyone's dying off and there was no way that that footage could've gotten recovered) it's done its job (given verisimilitude to the trippiness of entering the catacombs.) By then the "found footage" nature offers an objective perspective, thus undermining the is-it-just-inside-my-head stuff and, ???

In the end I do like AASB though— I watched it after having seen Vivarium, and it lives in the same space (literally?) as the climax of that film. So automatically I was partial to it, because the digging bits were the only parts of Vivarium that worked for me, and AASB did those bits better! and made it the whole movie even! So that did it for me. (Now that I've seen Men though, it really makes me want to give Vivarium another go...)

Everyone seems to like “As Above, So Below” but I thought it was pretty mid when I saw it in theaters. Maybe I owe it a re-watch but I suspect it was just really enjoyable to audiences who are relatively unfamiliar with the subgenre