as much as i believe languages are living tools, cannot be constrained by rules, and will evolve no matter how much old timers complain

if you tell me about a “venomous mushroom” I’ll freak out at the possibility of such a being existing faster than you can explain how you don’t really see a reason for the distinction between venomous and poisonous and that other languages don’t even have it

seagulls are spirits of mischief and chaos, i’m pretty sure they’d intentionally fuck with the data

PhD grads? My guys, I’m in the same situation with a flipping Bachelor of Arts in my pocket.

I recently got rejected from a shop that sells cheap and poor quality items for being “underqualified” (the listing required 0 experience and basic education so I’ll go ahead and assume this is the only rejection email template they use and it’s actually the opposite)

i know you’re joking but fuck, sometimes it do be like that.

Obviously nobody should infantalise people suffering from depression by telling them to “just be happy”, “go outside” etc. but if you’re malnourished, have vitamin deficiencies, don’t go out to hang out with the human tribe, and sit in your home the entire day without moving - you’re going to feel like shite. Fixing those problems won’t cure clinical depression, but the other way round is true too - getting meds for depression won’t cure you of feeling like shit if you don’t use the chance they give you to try to improve your life yourself.

I’ll take 8pm vacuuming over 8am vacuuming any day

fun fact! the opacity of audio effects is instead described by a scale from wet to dry, with full wet being 100% “opacity” and dry being 0% “opacity”

rats are simply too smart man, I recently became an owner of two rat boys and in two months they learnt to open their cage (first two weeks actually), foiled my ratproofing 5 separate times, learnt they get farther into the forbidden zone (the bin) if i’m not looking and redecorated their cage too many times to count. All those smarts and they’re using so much of it for crimes

there isn’t one! So feel free to make it up, you probably won’t find it, or won’t know when you’ve found it, but the mere act of looking will point you in the right direction - going out and enjoying the absurdly rare phenomenon of being alive. You and I are a cosmic anomaly, friend, isn’t that cool?

for a more comprehensive guide on what do when you realise life is meaningless: refer to existentialism and absurdism

i love nature

a plant can evolve to survive in soil without any nutrients by becoming carnivorous, but rain? that’s a step too far buddy

also reminds me of lurking in the magic mushroom growing subreddit, in the wild those mushrooms can grow on literal cow shit, but in people’s homes they die if their rice is not sterile enough

then wait until the 10min mark then! Would be rather odd if all news sources in unison decided to pull a prank like that

unless you’re sleeping - 8 minutes and maybe 30 seconds to start seeing posts online, 10 minutes to start getting news about it

and look at Bilbo!

So many years of having the ring just for himself and the worst he does is disappear sometimes and then he doesn’t want to give it back more than usual. Hobbits seem like hoarders of nice little trinkets anyway, the ring just made the hoarding instinct stronger

Boromir was in near proximity of the ring for a couple of months and got corrupted by it to the point of temporarily losing his mind just in time for the orcs to attack a freshly split fellowship

And though Boromir’s circumstances certainly didn’t help him - his home being close to the soon-to-be front lines of the war & the long perilous journey both certainly put a strain on his psyche, all he had was the mere idea of the ring’s promises & he was alongside Frodo during the journey, that against everybody telling him “the ring is the most dangerous thing in the world and using it might make things better in the now, but will spell doom in the long run anyway”

what is language than making sounds to convey meaning and then decoding said sounds to understand their meaning

human language is incredibly complex but a bee just buzzing a particular buzz that means “bear nearby” counts as a valid form of linguistic communication imo

honestly even worse is destroying angel. That thing (well same species(?) different kinds but all as deadly) can be found on all continents! and it looks similar to yum mushrooms in all places :) number 1 cause for mushroom related deaths, and it also liquidifies your organs! whoo!

i’m so glad the texture of mushrooms makes my skin crawl so i never get the idea to go out there and forage them for food. Wikipedia link 4 different edible shrooms that look similar to that one and to my eyes they all look the same, and idk about you but the level of anxiety I’d feel preparing dinner with something that is as far as i can tell edible would be unreal

it’s neither

slang mostly, I mod a strictly 18+ space and recently someone used the word “skeet”, and would you believe it, they were a minor

yea precisely. Sound design is less about how it really sounds, but more about how you think it should sound + some flair to make it a show.

Fun fact! sometimes in movies when there’s a big fire sound designers will put animal roars into the fire sounds to add an extra layer of fear you don’t even realise your body is going to react to

the sound design of the real world is rather boring and often unappealing. Sound designers on movies are gods of those audiotary universes, they will paint it however they want

nah IQ tests are more or less bullshit, they’re incredibly flawed and biased, only situation you’d see me talking about them at lenght is bashing the entire concept of trying to quantify general intelligence

mmm, unironically sounds like me. According to my iq test i had PhD level intelligence at 18, and what am i doing at 24? unemployed, playing video games, and crying