Hippoplatypies.

the-dancing-batter: darecrowavis: aviculor: taleasoldastimelor...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:40:06 -0500

darecrowavis:

aviculor:

taleasoldastimelords:

Men of Tumblr, I’m counting on you to make this one good.

I got stuck

Pansy

Challenge accepted

bandkanon: raivokuningas: lesbiansofficial: thatpointlessidiot...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:33:53 -0500

bandkanon:

raivokuningas:

lesbiansofficial:

thatpointlessidiot:

magnezone:

krudman:

smilingemoticon:

itsvondell:

voldey:

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse.

wow

is this a joke because i’m not laughing at all

I thought to myself when I saw this, “no. This has to be some one being silly. This has to be something some one fabricated to make microsoft look worse and people just aren’t checking the source.”

NOPE. IT’S REAL.

AND IT GOT WORSE:

WHAT.

remember when the basic fucking concept of a commodity was that buying something meant it was yours

I want everyone to think long and hard on this information.

This means that you are not buying your games. You are paying 60+ dollars to rent the games from Microsoft, and they can take their game back whenever they feel like it.

You will not own your game. You will not own your console. Essentially, Microsoft is saying “We can disable your games and cut you off from accessing your console whenever we choose to.” Because a ban that locks your XBox Live account means that you will be locked out from all non-game functionality of the system, and by revoking your ‘licenses’ on all your games associated with your account, they can then disable each and every game you own for the system. Leaving you with a five hundred dollar cable receiver. Or, in the case of most users of the console, a five hundred dollar paperweight.

All because you accidentally walked into some online glitch and the rest of the players rage-report you for cheating.

This is unacceptable. Buy any console but an XBox One. Do not support Microsoft’s sudden belief that they own everything despite our purchase of it, and we have to prove we’re worthy of being shared with by paying exorbitant fees and jumping through constant hoops and hoping someone doesn’t report us for cheating because we made them mad in an online game.

Tell Microsoft ‘No,’ and do not give them your hard-earned money for what amounts to a video game subscription service with a $500 starting fee and $60+ dollar purchases.

There are way too many people that get banned unfairly. This is bullshit. I let my nephew play on my live account once when he was little, and I got a lot of people reporting me just because he was playing like a five year old. So. Cool.

A video game console should be something you can play anywhere you can get a screen to view it on and a power supply. Period.

Internet requirements should only be necessary for online multiplayer games, never for ANYTHING else.

.

>ok… This is a pretty riveting subject for me. Let me look into it. …Ooh, this guys brings up a valid question. Support’s answer sounds pretty valid too, right?

> But that leaves me wondering… I just HAVE to ask…

> Their answer…?

>Wai—wh—…what.
…So I have to… either make an alternate account… or use someone else’s… JUST to make an appeal?? Couldn’t we just, like, send appeals via e-mail to the moderators?
Well… that’s a strange system to me, but I’ll just have to see how well it goes. So let’s go through this thing.

> Looks pretty organized, I guess. Now let’s read through some of these appeals as thoroughly as I can…

> …

> wh—…

> WHAT.

>Ok so I went through 17 pages reading pretty much all of the appeals top to bottom. Seventeen pages. That’s 255 appeal posts.
Some of the appeals were pretty strong cases, but NOT A SINGLE ONE was solved, whether through recovering/unbanning accounts or ms point refunds.
@XboxSupport1 told @Tobias otherwise.

So that leaves me wondering ONE more thing…

> So what do they say….?

> …

Well that was quite the non-answer.

So there you have it. I was doubting what thatpointlessidiot was saying, but now after doing some serious research I can say for a fact that this is real.

And let’s just leave it at that. I’m just going to play the Live games I have to date, hope to GOD I don’t get randomly banned, and wait a year for my gold account to roll over and die by the end of this year.

Not that I was planning on doing that from the start. There’s really no use sticking around with xbox if I’m gonna have to log in every single goddamn day just so I can play a game.

I have nothing else really to say on the matter, except that Xbox One is not going to be found in or anywhere near my household.

Oh and just one more thing.

….

Not getting involved in the debate since I never have or ever plan to own an Xbox, but wow, this is really interesting.

the-seat-of-my-pants: This is how I’ve spent most of today....

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:52:32 -0500

the-seat-of-my-pants:

This is how I’ve spent most of today. Making giant underwear with some friends.

Lumière Brothers - The Serpentine Dance (c.1899). The Lumière...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:57:50 -0500

Lumière Brothers - The Serpentine Dance (c.1899). The Lumière Brothers filmed this in black and white, and then hand coloured (probably with little paint brushes) each frame of the film. You can see the full movie here.

These look like those slugs that turn all sorts of psychedelic colors as they twist together to procreate.

salzarslytherin: the golden snitch I am everything the Snitch...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:56:23 -0500

credit to artist for the drawing

credit to artist for the drawing

credit to the artist for the drawing

credit to the artist for the drawing

salzarslytherin:

the golden snitch

I am everything the Snitch is not.

sewingpatches: One down. One to go OTL You can do it! They...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:55:50 -0500

sewingpatches:

One down.
One to go OTL

You can do it!

They look awesome.

guceubcuesu: YO PHILOSOPHIC COCK THIS IS THAT THING I WAS...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:53:58 -0500

guceubcuesu:

YO PHILOSOPHIC COCK THIS IS THAT THING I WAS TALKING ABOUT

kkay58: abhortion: Wow, does she even speak Chinese? “Chang”...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:29:48 -0500

kkay58:

abhortion:

Wow, does she even speak Chinese?

“Chang” is one of the most common last names in the Chinese language - it is the Wades-Giles romanisation of the word 张 or 張. It could also be the Wades-Giles romanisation of the word 章, although this last name is less common. It could also be the pinyin of the word 常, although this too is a less common last name. This would hold true for the Cantonese and Mandarin pronounciations of the words too, although “Cheung” would also work for Cantonese. The author of the very famous books “Wild Swans” and “Mao: The Untold Story” is named Jung Chang, for example, and I can assure you that she is definitely Chinese. In fact, according to a survey, there are 88 million people in China surnamed 张 alone, and I haven’t even taken into account the other two. But I’m sure that they are all secretly Korean.

“Cho” could be multiple different words in both Cantonese and Mandarin. In Mandarin, it could be 周, or any one of the multiple words

with the same pronounciation shown above, which using romanisations other than pinyin, could translate to ‘cho’. It could also be the romanisation of the Cantonese word 秋, which is what was used in the Mandarin translations of the Harry Potter films. There are multiple other Cantonese words which could be translated to “Cho” in English.

Yes, “Cho” and “Chang” are both Korean last names - but they can also be Chinese names. It’s like calling an American character “Kim Lee” and complaining that her name is made up of Korean last names: yes, it is, but “Kim” and “Lee” are also English names.

Anyone who speaks even a little bit of Chinese would know this, so either the lovely lady in the gifset doesn’t speak a word of it, or does, but is deliberately using misleading facts in order to portray J K Rowling as racist.

What a pathetic attempt.

Finally, thank you!

OP’s last paragraph thank you wow.

raccoonmama: I hit my first HUGE milestone today of 1234...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:28:06 -0500

raccoonmama:

I hit my first HUGE milestone today of 1234 followers, which I’d been waiting for before starting this giveaway… and just a little less than one week away from my fanniversary on June 24th! To show my love for my followers, and the band, one lucky winner of this giveaway will get their choice in $50 worth of merchandise from the SPG store. You pick what you want, and I place the order and have it shipped straight to you!

Are there rules to this giveaway, you might ask? Well, there are… right below!

One like and one reblog per person.

No giveaway blogs; I will check before I do the drawing.

This IS open to fans outside the US, but be aware that I may not be able to cover shipping in this case (shipping to other countries is often expensive and I only have so much money).

The giveaway will run until 7/12/13. This is a week after I get back from my trip to Kentucky! I’ll do the drawing around 6pm that night, Eastern Standard Time.

The winner will be determined by random number generator.

You don’t have to be following me, but you can if you so wish and it would be appreciated.

And that’s it! Good luck!

(Photo up top is by me, from the SPWF concert… second image is a webpage screenie. :B)

niikudragon: talksofcamelot: Mother of Dragons and The Last...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:25:31 -0500

niikudragon:

talksofcamelot:

Mother of Dragons and The Last Dragonlord

If this was all the show was, I’d be tempted to watch it. But I have a feeling the dragons play not a very big part in it? At least that’s what it feels like from the poking and prodding I’ve done.

Still, gotta reblog cute babies.

This is Merlin and GoT, so it’s like the dragon motherload.

nightmarebc: satanhasclaimedthisblog: anewwhovian: Okay...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:10:11 -0500

nightmarebc:

satanhasclaimedthisblog:

anewwhovian:

Okay so, the Doctor is from out of space but does he only breathe oxygen like everyone else? Does Gallifrey have an atmosphere like Earth’s? Because I’d never thought about it before now but he seems to be struggling just as much as everyone else and he does seem to have the same basic anatomy as a human, other than the two hearts.

Anyone care to answer?

Gallifrey’s atmosphere is 77% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen and 2% other, which means that it’s similar to Earth’s atmosphere, but it’s a bit thinner.
The Doctor needs oxygen as well, but Time Lords have a raspiratory bypass system that allows them to go without breathing for a longer time span than humans.

Most fandoms have some pretty deep canon. The Doctor Who fandom can tell you the concentrations of gas in the atmosphere of the home planet of the main character. DW Fandom > Your fandom

Doctor Who AU: Nine and Donna, adventures through time and...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:09:07 -0500

_{Doctor Who AU: Nine and Donna, adventures through time and sass}

"That boy’s head looks like the Taj Mahal."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:04:20 -0500

“That boy’s head looks like the Taj Mahal.”

quilti: sp00kycrick3t: touchmygulpin: jackleslantern: every...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:01:02 -0500

quilti:

sp00kycrick3t:

touchmygulpin:

jackleslantern:

every skrillex song at once

At first I was like “this isn’t so bad”

and then I was like

Been waiting for to be back on my dash

THE DROP THO

Holy dammit this is crazy

amsterdamnedd: it’s been ten years and i still think this is...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:53:24 -0500

amsterdamnedd:

it’s been ten years and i still think this is one of the best plot twists in history

Draco’s Birthday Gif set — Adjective Edition!

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:51:41 -0500

Draco’s Birthday Gif set — Adjective Edition!

regards-draco: Submitted by theothermadi

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:37:48 -0500

regards-draco:

Submitted by theothermadi

Photo

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:35:24 -0500

bulletbakas: ain’t no friendship like a friendship where you’re either confused as siblings or gay...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:28:50 -0500

bulletbakas:

ain’t no friendship like a friendship where you’re either confused as siblings or gay lovers

Worst Customer Ever.

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:59:00 -0500

Some poor waitress/waiter is going to hate my guts after this afternoon because I’m going out to lunch, I have nine dollars and sixty cents in change, and I want to get rid of all of it.