If You Just Saw This, No You Didn't.

If you just saw this, no you didn't.

I remade it to say this applies whether you played it yourself or watched someone play it!

There's only two options because a third for wet eyes or like a single tear would probably muck up the poll, somehow.

Crying is up to personal interpretation, I guess, so if you felt like your reaction would count, then vote Yes.

Otherwise, vote no.

(I'm curious after watching Ray play Like a Dragon Gaiden and him talking about the last game that made him cry tbh.)

every so often I remember this exists and lose my shit all over again

I was asked multiple times if Francis counted as a Babygirl and thought really hard about his response.

Sound on for full effect.

it’s thanksgiving aka a GREAT day to donate to the wampanoag/wôpanâak language reclamation project. for those of you that don’t know, the wampanoag were living in the plymouth-area long before the pilgrims arrived and still live in massachusetts today. however, the number of native speakers in their language is very low and they need more supplies to teach new generations.

fun fact: the words for moose and massachusetts come from wampanoag

I think that what's brilliant about The Far Side is how it can imply an entire narrative with only a single panel. It's sequential art without the sequence. Like this one

There's the obvious implication of what's going to happen in the future (there's going to be a hunt), but it also stretches into the past: what circumstances in the anthropology of this group of cavemen must have happened to establish a tradition of dancing with Woolly Mammoths? Why does it, in spite of it's obvious absurdity, feel kind of right that there should be a dance before the cavemen and the mammoths engage in mortal combat? The reluctant fearful expression on the caveman at the bottom; is this his first hunt? Are those his elders trying to reassure him? Does the one mammoth actually seem to fancy him? What about the one looking fearfully back at his friends? How does he feel that the others aren't there to reassure him? One of the mammoths in the upper right looks just as fearful as the cavemen; why? etc.

And all of this is purely evoked. There's only simple line-drawing and two sentences of text, but you see it and it reminds you of other sorts of narratives you've seen or experienced, and your brain constructs a whole temporal sequence; and any possible answer you could get to above the questions would never be as satisfying as what your brain fills in.

I could write an entire essay about this.

Drives me nuts the amount of times I have to hear "a black hole is a [blank]* from which nothing can escape, not even light!"

Brother I KNOW we have been over this literally ad nauseam PLEASE just get to the interesting part

*sometimes object, sometimes region of space, sometimes other, seems to be little consensus there

RIGHT? Everyone and their mother knows what a black hole is now, Documentary Makers, so please tell me in detail what happens when you smash them together instead.

David A Hardy