The Game Cube can be hit with a sledgehammer and work just fine. The Nintendo DS was specifically designed to be able to survive a 1.5 meter (five foot) drop onto solid concrete without breaking, and one of the company’s bigwigs wouldn’t let it go past the design phase until the design team could guarantee it could survive the drop at least 10 times. In fact, Nintendo products have such a reputation for being impossible to break through normal means that they spawned the term “Nintendium”—an all-purpose phrase given to pieces of technology that survive extreme punishment. For example, take the Gulf War Game Boy, an original Game Boy console that survived having a freaking bomb dropped on it.

Nintendo never advertises their products as being durable, they don’t brag about their Game Boys being bomb-proof or their consoles being tough enough to survive being hit by a car. They just expect their customers to be human and include features to prepare for that humanity. While other companies decide that they’re nice by including a cover to protect the screen of the $600 phone you just bought in case you drop it, Nintendo just builds a device that can survive being dropped in the first place and doesn’t make a big deal about it. Because that’s how a real company does business.

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“Cynicism Illustrated”

Illustrator Eduardo Salles offers us beautiful slices of bitter cynicism through his minimalist posters…

Related: Imagine

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bunniesarentracist:

A moment of silence for those who fell before the [S] Cascade update.

what about eridan

fuck eridan

Wweh

No 
Just fucking no  
I’m not dealing with this bullshit today 
I wish you could look me in the fucking eyes right now to see how fucking HORRIBLE that bull shit comment was. 
Fuck Eridan? 
FUCK ERIDAN? 
LOOK HERE, HE SAT THERE AND TOOK ALL THE LANDDWELLER’S SHIT. THEY THREW THEIR GARBAGE, MUCK, SHIT, PLASTIC, AND ANYTHING ELSE THEY DIDN’T WANT INTO THEIR FUCKING SEA. 
YOU KNOW, THE PLACE THEY LIVED? 
THEY BREATHED? 
THE PLACE THAT THE YOUNG  SEADWELLERS PLAYED? 
THE PLACE THE SEA LUSI WERE? 
THE FISH, THE ANIMALS, ALL THOSE INNOCIENT CREATURES WERE? 
THE PLACE WHERE EVERYTHING SUFFERED FROM THAT KIND OF BULLSHIT, BEING CHOKED, CUT, SCRATCHED, CHOKED, HIT, POISONED, AND ETC BY ALL THOSE THINGS? 
YEAH HE ALWAYS TRIED TO PROTECT ALL THOSE FUCKING CREATURES BECAUSE THAT WAS HIS FUCKING JOB. 
ALSO HAD TO GO AROUND KILLING TROLLS AND GRUBS AND OTHER LUSI TO FEED FEFERI’S GOD DAMN LUSUS 
IMAGINE HOW SCARED HE WAS OOF BEING KILLED WHILE HUNTING THOSE THINGS I LISTED OFF DOWN. HOW SCARED HE MUST HAVE BEEN WHEN FEEDING IT. HOW DEEP OF A SCAR THOSE IMAGES LEFT OF HIS MIND, HAVING TO MINDLESSLY KILL THINGS JUST TO KEEP THAT DAMNED LUSUS FROM DESTROYING EVERY TROLL IN EXISTENCE AND PROBABLY THE WHOLE GOD DAMNED PLANET, EXCLUDING LIKE, FEFERI. 
IMAGINE HOW FUCKING LONELY HE WAS, HAVING TO SPEND ALL HIS TIME DOING THAT. 

IMAGINE HAVING SOMEONE WHO WAS YOUR MOIRAIL, A MOIRAIL BEING A PLATONIC FUCKING SOUL-MATE, LEAVE YOU BECAUSE YOU ACCIDENTALLY FUCKED UP WITH YOUR HATRED. (YEAH IK THAT FEEL AND IT FUCKING SUCKS AND I WANT TO HUG THE SHIT OUT OF HIM FOR GOING THROUGH THAT) 
ALL BEING BROUGHT UPON HIM DUE TO HIS MORE FLUSHED FEELINGS FOR HER. 
IMAGINE HAVING SOMEONE WHO WAS THAT FUCKING CLOSE TO YOU HAVING LIED ABOUT ACTUALLY EVER FUCKING CARING ABOUT YOU AT ALL IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM, HAVING LIED AND USED YOU JUST TO KEEP THE PEOPLE WHO POLLUTED AND DESTROYED YOUR HOME DAILY SAFE. 
IMAGINE HAVING THAT HAPPEN AND FALLING INTO SUCH PAIN AND HURT AND DEPRESSION THAT YOU TRIED TO CLING TO THE FRIENDS YOU THOUGHT YOU HAD JUST TO HAVE THEM PUSH YOU AWAY AND CALL YOU GROSS. 
SURE HE FLIRTED WITH PEOPLE BUT HE WAS FUCKING HURT, ALONE, IN PAIN, ABANDONED, AND FUCKING HURTING 

AND NOT A SINGLE FUCKING ONE OF YOU CAN SAY YOU DONT KNOW HOW FUCKING SHITTY THAT FEELS 
HE IS JUST FUCKING LIKE YOU ASSHOLES 
ERIDAN WENT THROUGH PROBABLY SOME OF THE WORST SHIT IN THE FUCKING TROLL’S UNIVERSE.  

AND DON’T EVEN TRY TO BLAME YOUR “FUCK HIM” ON HIM KILLING FEF OR KANAYA OR BLINDING SOLLUX. NOT ONLY DID SOLLUX ADMIT IT WAS TOTALLY HIS AND FEFERI’S FAULT, BUT THEY FUCKING ATTACKED HIM FIRST. SOLLUX PISSED HIM OFF UNTIL HE DID FIGHT HIM, ON FUCKING PURPOSE, AND HE GOT WHAT HE DESERVED FOR UNDERESTIMATING HIM, AND DON’T YELL AT ME FOR SAYING THAT BECAUSE SOLLUX HIMSELF SAID HE DESERVED IT, AND WAS AT PEACE WITH IT AND DIDN’T EVEN FUCKING CARE ALL THAT MUCH. AS FOR KANAYA, BY THEN HE WAS RUNNING IN ADRENALINE, INSTINCT, AND FEAR. SHE DIDN’T DESERVE IT BUT HE WAS SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW SHE WOULD BE COMING AFTER HIM, CONSIDERING WHAT SHE HAD JUST WITNESSED. SO HE KILLED HER AND THE MATRIORB, SINCE, WITH HIS PRINCE OF HOPE BULLSHIT, HE KNEW THAT JACK WAS COMMING ANYWAYS AND THOUGHT THERE WAS NO HOPE FOR ANYONE, AND WITH HIS PLANS OF JOINING JACK AND KANAYA’S DEATH THERE WAS NO POINT IN IT EXISTING. 

Now I’m NOT saying what he did was okay. Constant flirting, and after rejection continuing is a no-no. As for killing Feferi, to humans killing is wrong but in troll culture it is normal and looked down upon NOT to, and it was self defense. I went over the thing with Sollux already, and I am upset he killed Fef and destroyed the orb, yes, 
But fuck him? 
No. 
Fucking relate to him. 
See shit from his fucking point of view. 
Stop being such a narrow fucking minded prick and asshole. 
You fucking make me sick. 
Every single fucking Homestuck character has fucking flaws, BUT THEY ARE ALL GOOD FUCKING PEOPLE AND DESERVES TO BE FUCKING LOVED, NOT HAVE HATE AND STUPIDITY THROWN ON THEM BECAUSE YOU DON’T EVEN WANT TO TRY AND SEE THEM FROM THEIR FUCKING PERSPECTIVE. 
YOU CAN GO AND FUCK RIGHT OFF AND THINK ABOUT SHIT BEFORE YOU SAY IT. 

“Every single fucking Homestuck character has fucking flaws, BUT THEY ARE ALL GOOD FUCKING PEOPLE AND DESERVES TO BE FUCKING LOVED”

eridan was a genocidal maniac oh my god the lengths people will go to to defend characters

Your wrong, and clearly haven’t actually read a lot of the parts that have him in :v feferi admitted she was just using him, and Sollux kept harassing him with his black feelings continuously. Plus, Sollux challenged Eridan to the duel.
And genocidal maniac? really? Eridan was like 12 in our terms when he was taking about that he clearly was not being serious and just being hyperbolic

Sollux never once flirted black with Eridan. He hated him platonically. Eridan went to duel him and Sollux very likely beat him. He doesn’t like Eridan. He doesn’t black hate Eridan. Feferi, also, didn’t use him what the fuck are you on about.

I love Eridan but he himself stated he was RED for Feferi and was essentially using PALE as a stepping stone to try to get red with her when his actual PALE confessions usually went to Karkat or to Kanaya! He never discussed problems with Feferi unless she humoured him completely and he then brushed off any of her problems because he was selfish.

And yes, he was genocidal. It states it in his fucking intro.

He is a TROLL, not a HUMAN. I don’t care if he’s “twelve” in our terms, he wanted death machines to ruin trollkind even if he likely ended up self-sabotaging because yeah, many of those lowbloods he felt he was better than were people he considered friends.

Eridan was raised on a world where the highbloods rule and the lowbloods are to be servileto them. He believes this is how things should be because that’s how things are taught. He has excessive degrees of confidence and pride and his overly confident nature meant his world literally caved in on itself when Vriska ended their black romance by no longer keeping in touch with him (because she was bored and wanted more than he could provide, similar to how Mindfang stole the Dolorosa from Dualscar’s cargo and brainwashed her into pleasuring her before him just to make him hate her more and it didn’t work). Eridan believes he is perfection incarnate. When people break up with him, he doesn’t understand how it could have been him.

The “Eridan is desperate” trope comes from the fact he pursues a LOT of people despite their lack of interest because he has lost TWO QUADRANTS and for a troll that is almost suicide. He doesn’t see anything wrong with himself so he flirts because he believes people would be honoured to be with him and it’s a scummy thing to do since often he gives little to no shits about those people beyond making sure his quadrants are safe and secured.

Feferi didn’t use him. Sollux was neverblack for him. Yes, Sollux antagonized him at the end when he came out with his wand and talked about his plan to team up with Jack so they would live, but this doesn’t make Sollux the armpit stink of the universe. 

Eridan’s plan was initially: Team up with Jack. I don’t die. Feferi doesn’t die. Maybe the others won’t die but mostly this is for Feferi and I since she’s the Heiress and I really honestly do like her a lot. Eridan was upset with the break up but he was fine with her getting with Sollux even if it irritated him.He tried to kill Sollux because Sollux came at him as well. When he blasted Sollux into the wall, knocking him out, Feferi thought he’d gone mad, as his plan certainly seemed to be, and attempted to kill him, so Eridan killed her. His original plan was never to kill anyone. It was to convince them hope was lost and to join Jack. When the trolls rebelled against his idea, they became beacons of Hope, which he DESTROYED. He destroyed the Matriorb because it was HOPE. He killed people because they HOPED. That is IT. And he even shows signs of regretting it!

This eventually lead to him trying to kill whoever he came across since ALL OF THEM HAD HOPE and he had NONE. His only source of hope was in the belief that being the villain meant living. That was it. It was a gamble and he lost.

Is Eridan scum? No. He’s a tragic character. He’s hilarious. He’s a douchebag. But he’s capable of being a friend when he’s not being a miserable lump of conflicting feelings about hating lowbloods as he was raised to and being friends with them.

Please don’t ERASE all of the shit Eridan has done because “you like Eridan.” Don’t say “fuck Eridan” but for God’s sake don’t make him a pweshus babu dumpling.

The only person who hates that more than me is likely Eridan himself.

Eridan wanted to be respected and feared as the Orphaner Dualscar himself was.If anything, him going down at least as a respected villain would make him a little more content than going down as “that poor baby who everyone ganged up on for no reason ablublublublu”

Besides, he himself apologizes to Feferi in death. He’s obviously had a good long time to think about the shit he’s done while being amalgamated with Sollux and thus seeing himself from Sollux’s viewpoint.

I wouldn’t be surprised if he became a better troll for it, because he really was a jerk before, even if he has his moments.

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bajo-el-mar:

Reading about abusive men and the way they think. Very unsettling and an incredible book so far. Here are my very professional notes.

what book is this?

This is from “Why Does He DO That” by Lundy Bancroft.

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cumbercrieff:

so there’s these English and American state/county photosets floating around and I thought well this is straya’s time to shine

hahahaha queensland.

DOES NO ONE ELSE REMEMBER THE BIG PINEAPPLE.

Oh yeah. poor forgotten pineapple. 

shaerahaek:

Bilbo Erebor Fashion part 2

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fernacular:

Welcome to: If Male Superhero Costumes were Designed Like Female Superhero Costumes!

Aaaaa I dunno. I got tired of guys having no idea why girls find female superhero’s costumes kinda sexist, so I, um, made this?

My main goals were: 1) Make it so the first thing you think of when you look at them is sex, whether you want to or not. 2) make it so that any male human who looks at this feels really uncomfortable. 3) make it funny, because, well, it’s kinda hilarious really.

Not trying to start a war here, just wanted to poke a bit of fun.

So, here you go menfolk, welcome to being a girl who likes comics.

If you like this, you’ll love Escher Girls: ”a blog to archive and showcase the prevalence of certain ways women are depicted in illustrated pop media, specifically how women are posed, drawn, distorted, and/or sexualized out of context, often in ridiculous, impossible or disturbing ways that sacrifice storytelling” 

prouvairies:

photoshop ate this three fucking times before i got it colored

but u can’t keep the johndave down

boyprincessmanic:

REASONS TO LOVE PROFESSOR MINERVA MCGONAGALL