Zagorath

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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 15 minutes ago

I vaguely recall the same thing from something fantasy, but can't recall what. I decided to brave TV Tropes to see. I got this:

[In A Song of Ice and Fire,] Chella daughter of Cheyk wears a necklace of ears from defeated enemies. Unusually for the trope, all of them had been left alive — they can come back to challenge her and get their ears back if they ever find the courage.

and then again in the TV show section:

[In Game of Thrones,] Chella daughter of Cheyk, the chieftainess of the Black Ears, stays true to her tribe's custom of stringing the ears of defeated foes on a necklace. She can be seen taking a new pair in "Baelor".

And in Western Animation:

At one point in Blue Eye Samurai, Heiji Shindo tries to buy Mizu off from her revenge quest, offering a fortune in gold and a position as a lord, with the price being that she must cut off her right thumb, so she can never wield a sword against Shindo and Fowler again. After making the offer, he shows Mizu and Taigen a box with a small collection of severed thumbs, in various states of decay.

In "Lair of Grievous" [in The Clone Wars], Kit Fisto and Nahdar Vebb discover that Grievous collects the padawan braids from young padawan learners he's killed.

But that's the best I could find. Definitely not ringing a bell for me.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 23 minutes ago

TranscriptionA Tweet by "☾ luna" @Lunarnaut_M:

I told ren faire guy I had no money for axe throwing and he told me I could throw for free if I gave him an ear.

I laughed until he gestured to this corner

[A photo of a woman in elf cosplay with one ear obviously visible, displaying a long pointed ear. She has a nervous smile. Behind her, hanging from a rope on the wall, are dozens of ear prosthetics.]

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 46 minutes ago (3 children)

TranscriptionA cartoon of a woman standing next to a coffee machine, holding out a takeaway coffee container. She smiles as she asks "Frankenstein?"

The same woman, now with no visible mouth, in a wider shot, showing two figures raising their hands and looking at each other: a man in a lab coat, glasses, and with grey frizzly hair, and a depiction of "Frankenstein's monster" as soon in popular culture.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 50 minutes ago

TranscriptionWhen you accept him as gay, the hair, makeup, ballroom, and Liberace-themed decorations suddenly makes a lot more sense.

[A picture of Trump and Zelensky meeting in the Oval Office, in a wide photo showing the background filled with an ornately-decorated background including portraits of former US Presidents in gold-trimmed frames, a fireplace with many ornate golden trophies displayed on the mantelpiece, and other bright gold decorations.]

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 8 points 59 minutes ago

Interestingly, the earliest example of this meme listed on Know Your Meme is "junior react developer", "senior react developer". So this meme seems to have come full circle.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 1 hour ago

TranscriptionThe stepping vs jumping on a rake meme, showing a stock image render of a person stepping on a rake and having it smack them in the face on top, and an image of a man doing a skateboard trick with a rake below, also landing on it.

The man stepping on a rake is captioned "programming for the first time".

The man performing a trick with the rake is captioned "programming for the hundredth time".

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Age of Empires is a bit different, because I don't think they've moved the same game around between different studios in the midst of development. ES got shut down in 2009, with all existing Age of Empires games having long since ceased development. Then in 2013 Microsoft decided to release an HD remaster of the 1999 Age of Empires 2, and they brought Hidden Path on to do that. And then with the 2019 Definitive Edition they brought on board Forgotten Empires (who had also developed the official expansions in HD). The new development team in each case was being brought on to create a completely new release.

The KSP2 and Bloodlines 2 examples above both involved unreleased in-development games being given by the publisher to a different development team, and Skylines 2 is a still-supported game being given a different developer for future updates.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 points 1 day ago

Bloodlines 2 came to my mind. And it even has the same publisher as Skylines.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This is Tumblr though, isn't it?

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 15 points 2 days ago

TranscriptionA series of Tweets by meeka @MeekyBlinders, each replying to the previous.

a piece of my roomba broke off and it vacuumed it up. self sucking little freak

@iRobot pls send me a new roomba mine is a freak

The third Tweet consists of a photo of a conversation with iRobot:

iRobot: Would you be so kind to send me a picture of the robot's full bottom, in order for me to be able to assist you further?

Reply: oh so you're all a lil freaky huh

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Transcriptiontrans-alisaie: helpful grammar tip! farther is for physical distance, further is for metaphorical distance, and father is for emotional distance!

vikibyte: Who hurt you?

trans-alisaie: my father did you not read the post

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 9 points 3 days ago

TranscriptionA picture of a young Donald Trump shaking hands with Nancy Reagan, with Ronald Reagan in the background. It is titled

game recognize game

 

Text TranscriptionA series of Tweets, each a reply to the previous.

  1. ABC News @ABC: Scientists have discovered a giant new species of stick insect in Australia, which is over 15 inches long and researchers say may be the heaviest insect in the country. [With a picture of a brown stick insect among some green leaves.]
  2. mary @theoceanblooms: can I ask a question: how does something like this go undiscovered until now
  3. soul nate @MNateShyamalan: Entomologist here 🙋‍♂️🤓🐜 Great question! It may seem surprising that the scientific community could miss an entire bug species after all this time, especially when it's THIS big. The answer might surprise you more 👀 Let's dive in 👇🧵 (1/?)
  4. soul nate @MNateShyamalan: he look like stick (2/2)
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