Month: April 2017

texelations: texelations: I’ve been on the internet since 1998 starter pack Reblog this if you are an old fogey online Reblog this instead if you are a young whippersnapper Things this starter pack simply does not convey: The unholy shrieking of the dial-up modem The computer

texelations:

texelations:

I’ve been on the internet since 1998 starter pack

Reblog this if you are an old fogey online

Reblog this instead if you are a young whippersnapper

Things this starter pack simply does not convey:

  • The unholy shrieking of the dial-up modem
  • The computer hanging up on the internet when someone called
  • How damn long everything took to load
  • Having multiple windows open in the task bar because there was no such thing as a tabbed browser
  • IRC bots 
  • The frantic search for the midi player when a  webpage started playing music
  • Putting videos on to download overnight
  • jpg compression on photos taken with the webcam
  • This: 

Well I guess she finally got nerfed.

Well I guess she finally got nerfed.

blackwellbrothers: “Do you fear death Helios? Can you not hear it sing to you in your ear as it embraces your soul..” I procrastinated a lot lol! Part 1 and Part 2!

blackwellbrothers:

“Do you fear death Helios? Can you not hear it sing to you in your ear as it embraces your soul..”

I procrastinated a lot lol!

Part 1 and Part 2!

geekandmisandry:

theprofessor86:

reyesgabriel:

theprofessor86:

racheloddment:

I keep thinking about that straight girls in gay bars post and so here’s a list of things that straight people have done to me or around me in gay bars

  • I ask a pretty girl if she wants to dance. She looks at me with disgust and says, “I’m not gay” in the snottiest valley girl voice I’ve ever heard. 
  • A short greasy dude will not leave me the fuck alone at the bar. I tell him multiple times “I am a lesbian.” He says, “me too” and in the same breath tells me I’ll like it if I try it. When the guy steps away to talk to his friend, three gay men surround me and buy me a drink and swear to keep him away from me for the rest of the night.
  • 2am, drunk, cheering on my favorite local drag queen on stage. A contestant from Dr*g R*ce is in the audience, hanging out, supporting her friends. The straight girls next to me spot her and start shrieking at the top of their lungs and trying to get to her. Security escorts the contestant elsewhere so no one could get near her. Not a single straight person in the audience tips any of the performing queens. 
  • I’m by myself on the dance floor, feeling myself to Bey, as you do. A man comes up to me and starts dancing. After a minute, he starts grinding on me and tries to kiss me. I put my hand in his face and tell him I’m a lesbian. He says something very vulgar that I don’t completely remember because I was drunk af. I tell him to fuck off and I leave the dance floor completely. I end up on the patio with a beautiful butch girl and when I tell her what just happened, she offers to beat him up for me. 
  • A girl with a bachelorette party, telling me, with complete seriousness, that she was just discriminated against at the bar for being straight. What happened? The bartender didn’t pay attention to her immediately and she had to wait “forever” for her drink. 
  • Related: Almost every negative review of my favorite gay bar is by a straight person. At least half of them claim that the bartenders or bouncers discriminated against them. 

And then this one isn’t bad, it just made me laugh when it happened 

  • Guy: hey can you ask the bartender for a drink for me? They usually pay more attention to girls
    Me: oh baby not here they don’t lol
    Guy: ??
    Me: This is a gay bar, sweetheart
    Guy: I… oh… *looks at the shirtless male bartenders, the go go boys, the rainbow flags, the drag queen behind me, the glitter everywhere* *walks away in a daze*

Okay first of all, you’re heterophobic if you think straight people are the cause of all of the problems in a gay bar.

Second, just, fuck off.

“heterophobic”

Yep, heterophobic, like homophobic but against straight people.

I am not against straight people! I can’t be heterophobic and I have like bunches of straight friends. They are great, we get together and do straight people stuff like mini golf and yelling outside of abortion clinics.

I can’t be heterophobic when I have at least three straight friends and I don’t judge them! Like, as long as they aren’t being straight in front of me because no one needs to see that lol. But no, I love the straights!

tevruden:At least your kid is smarter than you are y0urleftnut replied to your photo  “At least your kid is smarter than you are”Vaccinations are just a stale virus waiting to erupt and make you weaker and cause problems later in life the government issues these to restrict

tevruden:

At least your kid is smarter than you are

y0urleftnut replied to your photo  “At least your kid is smarter than you are”

Vaccinations are just a stale virus waiting to erupt and make you weaker and cause problems later in life the government issues these to restrict children at a young age so when they grow older they’ll be weaker our society is putting pressure to parents and adults to hurry and get all your shots done for all these “new” diseases when in reality they are creating these diseases and these vaccines only weeks later along with them to fool the masses into thinking they are being protected when not

So idk why you guys are making that big of a deal that mother is just very concerned for her child because she’s probably aware of it also but she shouldn’t be overreacting too. Seriously guys you need to wake up and realize that this is scary for the mom to see her daughter has done this, she shouldn’t file a lawsuit for such a large manner and what’s done is done at this point but her daughter should’ve really told her that she got vaccinated. She’s still her daughter.

There is so much to unpack here…

but holy shit

catbatart:Commission for @tevruden of their awesome Death Knight! I had a lot of fun tinkering with the blue glow and magic effects (even if WoW armor/weapons murder me.) Thank you so much for commissioning me!

catbatart:

Commission for @tevruden of their awesome Death Knight! I had a lot of fun tinkering with the blue glow and magic effects (even if WoW armor/weapons murder me.) Thank you so much for commissioning me!

kintatsujo:

ploppythespaceship:

dubiousculturalartifact:

straight-as-a-curly-fry:

My favourite fact about Star Trek TOS is that, because automatic doors weren’t invented yet, the ‘automatic doors’ in TOS were really just some guy yanking a rope and pulley system to make them slide open. Problem was the person was far enough away that they couldn’t see when exactly the doors needed to be open, and relied on a signal from somebody just off set. The actors, however, had to act as if they were 100% confident the doors were going to open at the exact time and moment despite the fact that they occasionally did not which lead to multiple occasions in which the actors walked directly into the doors while they were opening. 

A. it’s so surreal to think of the modern technology like automatic doors, that we just take for granted while watching Star Trek. But they were legitimately part of the futuristic elements of the show to the viewers at the time. It’s interesting to consider how these elements may have influenced those future inventions, as in the case with other tech on the show like the commmunicators. Also how differing social/historical contexts influences the reception of a work. What elements in our contemporary science fiction will seem commonplace or even hopelessly dated, to societies of the future? How will what we envision wind up shaping those societies, and what is the responsibility of us to…

B. nah anyway someone tell me there’s footage of Shatner doing this

Here’s a montage of several bloopers where people have problems with the doors. My personal favorite is Michael Dorn walking directly into the turbolift door and Patrick Stewart just smiles because it has to happen all the time.

My favorite part of this whole thing is how many times I’ve watched people walk into real automatic doors and it still looks just like this