keyhollow:

musiczodiacmystery:

screwyouandrew:

pangur-and-grim:

man, I have very little sympathy for people who’re like “I gotta let them play in traffic, my cat WAILS and acts MISERABLE unless I let them outside!” 

because like……….so does mine? at a certain point each day Grim decides she wants out, and until that happens she a) follows me about SCREAMING, and b) sits atop whatever I’m doing and bites my hands. this is not an exageration

wanna know what I do? I take her out. either supervised in my backyard or on leash in the front

she naps in the sunlight, eats copious amounts of grass, rolls in dirt, and murders butterflies. after 15-30 minutes (equivalent to the time you’d spend on a neighbourhood dog walk) I take Grim back in, and she happily sleeps/plays/cuddles indoors for the remainder of the day

it’s legitimately low-effort

Outdoor cat owners: but my cat whines when I don’t let them outside

Rational people: so why don’t you just watch them to make sure they’re not going to get hurt

Outdoor cat owners:

…. Play in traffic? I’m guessing this is about cat owners in the city bc I live in the middle of nowhere and we let the cats go in and out as they please bc they’re not in danger. If you live in the city, please do like op does but if you don’t live near a heavily populated area with a lot of traffic, and danger to cats, then I’d say it’s ok to let the cats go free outside

NO IT AINT

because there is still

• Disease
• Parasites
• Feral cats
• Feral dogs
• Coyotes
• Hawks
• Other predators
• They are decimating local wildlife! Bunnies! Birds! Lizards! 63+ species have been driven extinct just by cats! They are INVASIVE
• And more!

Keep your animal inside!

I’ve had cats my whole life and live in a pretty suburban neighborhood and never had much issue with them going outside. A few of them even exclusively lived outdoors.

I also don’t live in a place with hawks, coyotes, and numerous feral cats and dogs, so use some common sense on whether it’s safe or not to have your cat outside.

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pencil-rebagels:

papavore:

kazucrash:

thathomestar:

julialynnrubin:

Is it just me?

When I first bought the game back in 2001, I remember it being addictive, awesome, groundbreaking for its time and wonderfully odd. When compared to the later, sweeter installments, and even its many expansion packs, it feels cold and well…kind of creepy in comparison.

The original How to Play instruction manual for The Sims, which I remember vividly but could never find in my house, was snarky and full of witty commentary. Later on the manual was more straightforward, but still retained some of the self-referential humor that is inherent in the gameplay and is, I think, part of what makes the game kind of unnerving.

(To this day, I wish I could find that damn original manual!)

Just looking at that main screen with that one neighborhood you’re forever attached to as the jaunty background music plays in the ever-sunny world, even that kind of weirds me out. 

Maybe it’s the uncanny valley-ness of the dated graphics, maybe it’s remembering the way the kids never aged, how the adults remained awkward and odd and never got any older, and how if the children failed school, they were just sent off to some horrific place only known as “boot camp”…forever. Yes, remember? They NEVER came back.

And when those burglars came stalking in the night and the Buy and Build modes just shut off as that scary, urgent music played and you were left helpless and asleep…

And when the fires started out of nowhere while your Sims made that same plate of salad-looking food and you forgot to install a smoke alarm and you were forced to watch them hopelessly burn to death and run around screaming for their lives…

And in the first expansion pack, Livin’ Large, when that awful Tragic Clown appeared and made it impossible for your Sim to rest or eat until they fell ill and eventually just died unless you put that eerie clown portrait in front of the fireplace…if you even figured that out…

Sure, things got more mellow and felt less odd with later expansion packs, especially when you were given the ability to visit shopping areas like Old Town and other places outside of the claustrophobic little classic neighborhood.

And OK, I’m not saying The Sims is a scary game or even that it freaked me out as a child, but I will always look back on the original as being, well…kinda creepy.

Sims 1 is the scariest goddamn game in existence

seeing ghost for the first time scared me so bad too

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The core principles of id Software game design, from John Romero.

sourdoughnibblers:

oohtheyhavenibbles:

I JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT GLOSTER CANARIES AND I’M GONNA CRY LOOKIT THEM

THEY HAVE BOWLCUTS

BOWLCUTS

LOOK AT THAT SMUG LITTLE FUCKER WITH HIS FUCKING BOWLCUT

galar region legendary birds

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seals-cats-and-random-stuff:

thetrashthatsmilesback:

littleprxgrammer:

deepspacequeer:

tfw someone calls you their friend for the first time

tfw someone calls you their friend for the 323,729,425th time

Friend

tfw you see someone’s face light up because you called them a friend:

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