Look at these nerds
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#Monty Python #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog
Month: March 2016
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Hahaha ha ha h ––
Watch Episode 3 of our new original show series Margot vs Lily: http://gonike.me/MargotvsLilyEp3
Saw this tumblr promoted post in my feed and assumed it was a hypno porn gif …
That’s happened to me a couple times.
Same, though not this specific one. I wonder if tumblr’s got an ad consultant who just sits around helping companies make ads that appeal tangentially and subtly to weird kinky shit.
Did anyone else read that post theorising that Tumblr is using pornbots to inflate the note counts on sponsored posts, so they can say to the sponsoring companies “Look at how much exposure you’re getting! You’ve got X likes, Y reblogs, and Z follows! don’t look too closely at the composition of those numbers”?
Sex sells, indeed.
(Okay, yes, there’s also the “salience mechanisms cause fetishists to see kink in everything” explanation, but still.)
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#reply via reblog #sexuality and lack thereof #advertising
Although, thinking about the timing of that 60kg period for Light Sprites, I suppose it’s possible it was because of Brightshine? I wouldn’t want to bet on it, but I can’t rule it out.
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#oh look an update #oh look an original post #Flight Rising #not adding it as a postscript on the previous post because JT already read it
so assuming the person ahead of me takes the light sprite because they’d be an idiot not to, and assuming I’m not missing something more valuable in the prizes list, I’m going to be the proud(?) new owner of a set of sunchaser jewelry
which frankly I find fucking ugly but hey it’s 40k gems worth of ugly ;-)
idk if I should hang onto it until mid-june for a better price or whether the prices up there in the stratosphere even fluctuate the way normal under-a-million holiday skin prices do
As someone whose goals re: Kickstarter familiars require her to learn some proverbial ropes up here in the stratosphere (I’ve almost reached 90kg pure, and I’m currently trying to sell off several pieces of first-year apparel), first-year Festive Favors stuff hardly seems to fluctuate at all. Or rather, it’ll go up and down by relatively small (objectively rather large*) amounts according to how many people happen to be selling at the moment and how desperate they are, but I haven’t noticed any trends. When I bought my Light Sprite in…*checks* late May, it was for 40kg right before the price shot up to 60kg. When I looked at prices again a couple months later, it was back to 40 – 45kg. Around…maybe October, I don’t think I have a record for this and I’m bad at dating my memories…they were 30kg, and I bought a second one hoping to flip it. Shortly thereafter, they were back up to 40 – 45kg, and I spent the next few months** trying to sell it off, finally succeeding a few days ago.
Note that last sentence. It’s important to understand just how low the demand is for stratospherically-priced items. You’ve seen a lot of people say stuff like “Light Sprites are so expensive, I’ve given up on ever affording one”, right? Those people are never going to buy a 40kg item from you: you’re limited to selling to the fairly small number of people who both didn’t give up on one day having that much money and are currently being successful at actually having that much money. Buyers aren’t that easy to come by.
Relatedly, it’s pretty hard to sell items that expensive via the AH. Even people who have that much worth tend not to have it in liquid currency. Mixed payment is almost always the only practical way to sell something like Sunchaser. I spent several weeks with a Light Sprite on the AH to no avail, except for a few PMs from people offering mixed payment for it that didn’t pan out or whose value was way too low. When I made a forum thread offering it for sale? Got a decent offer within a few hours. I mean, I might have especially lucky with that thread, but still.
(Said decent offer was almost entirely that retired apparel I’m currently trying to sell off. I figured I’d have a better shot at liquidating several things worth a few thousand gems each that trying to find someone with 40kg in currency. Even with the smaller stuff, sometimes you still have to do mixed payment: that’s how I got rid of the Frigid Fugitive Shackles the Light Sprite buyer gave me. I may open another thread for whatever apparel remains in a couple weeks, but I am not touching the Items For Sale forum in these final days of trust-trading.)
tl;dr items that high in value fluctuate constantly by thousands of gems, but not with predictable direction or timing afaict (not even an overall upward trend over a one-year span); selling super-expensive stuff is hard because it’s hard to find a buyer who can afford it; be prepared for the process of turning a single 40kg item into usable funds to be long and multi-part.
*This is the primary reason why nearly all of my KS fund is in gems, and I’m working on getting even more of it into gems. You know where you stand with gems.
**Sort of: I took December and the first couple weeks of January off from FR, so they don’t really count.
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#part of the payment for that Light Sprite was a few Water and Nature Sprites #Water Sprites cost exactly the same as they did when I bought one for my collection like a year ago #do not trust inflation out here in the stratosphere #I hate dealing with fluctuating markets but I like the idea of owning KS familiars more #reply via reblog #Flight Rising
did he commit a crime? wheres the warrant?
he committed the crime of being so handsome and intelligent, leave the professionals to do their work
That’s an autograph
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#lizard
Captain: Well, I can give you the information if you’re willing to grease my palm, if you know what I mean.
Bard: *casts Grease on the captain’s hand*
Captain: That’s… that’s not what I meant!
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#overly literal interpretations
People are talking about April Fools’ Day already, so here is my pledge:
This blog will not create any April Fools’ Day pranks. I may reblog some, but they will be clearly marked with an April Fools’ Day tag so that they can be blocked or avoided. Nothing that originates on this blog will be a prank.
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#co-signed #April Fools #(that’s the tag I’ll use)
Deeper For Me: I’m Changing My Major to Kink
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Oh my god last night. Oh my god, ohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygod last night…
I’ve lost my virginity three times: Once when a woman touched me, with intent, for the first time (my first intercourse, only a week or two later, is almost an afterthought in my memory); once when I pinned a submissive girlfriend to the carpet and first saw that look in her eyes; and once when I hypnotized someone for the first time. After each one, the world changed.
…
Read on for my pre-NEEHU opus, about fighting programming that says it’s wrong to spend all this time, money and energy pursuing kinky sex. I put in video clips and quotes!
If we’re friends…
If you follow me…
If you read one thing about kink…
If you care about joy and love and living free from fear….
Read this.On embracing something joyous. :)
“Opening yourself up to desire and passion takes courage. Makes you silly and vulnerable, like Alison in her underpants. My friend has a line about how much safer it is just to fantasize alone in the dark – besides the obvious risks of going out and doing things, you also risk having your cherished masturbation fantasies touched by disappointment, embarassment, sadness, all the complications that come with doing things with real people, in the real world.
The upside? Having my wildest dreams come true.”
…I honestly can’t tell if there’s something wrong with this post, or if it just caught me at a really bad time.
When I talk about losing my taste for mind-control-as-such and focusing more on the sedation aspect, I describe it as uncovering something buried under desperation and ignorance of other options. I still think that’s true, but today (just today, literally a few hours ago) it occurred to me there might be something else to it as well.
It’s also more convenient. When all I had were tales of mind control and people telling me it couldn’t be done, I was most attracted to the most common type of porn. Now that I know a great deal of it can be done, I’m most attracted to the safest acts.
Perhaps that’s not entirely a coincidence. Perhaps my reaction to learning my wildest dreams could come true was to stop having wildest dreams. My dreams are tamer, these days. Oh, the thought of partnered sex still scares me, but it’s nothing compared to the terror I’d feel at wanting to enact that.
I don’t like this theory. I don’t like the way it carries the implication that the way I am now is wrong. I’m happier now than I was, more hopeful now than I was, and it feels more right and true. I neither want nor want-to-want to play in the deep end of the proverbial pool: I like sticking to the shallows. Is that wrong? If my not wanting-to-want it is at all a factor, even partially and subconsciously, in my not wanting it, does that change the answer?
(I keep thinking of those people who say you haven’t lived until you’ve done psychedelics (and risked coming back wrong), that the simplistic highs of sedatives are not and should not be enough. I wish I were confident enough to tell that idea to fuck off. I wish I were not so worried that telling the idea to fuck off would be the wrong move.)
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#sorry Divney #pretty sure this isn’t a response you were looking for #sexuality and lack thereof #I have tried to polish this thought process from its original form into #something comprehensible to people who aren’t me #don’t know to what extent I succeeded #TMI
Anonymous asked: How much to spend a day lying in bed.
Well, as a Responsible Human who definitely wears clothing, consumes food at least twice in every twenty four hours, attends all her lectures, and has never spent a solid week in bed just because, I would be highly inconvenienced by this and would demand lots of money for it.
Define “lying in bed”, though. Are you allowed toilet breaks in this scenario? Will water and Internet be supplied? If any of these are “no”, I think you’d want to find that out first and charge accordingly.
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#obviously if Internet is a no you start asking about other forms of entertainment #reply via reblog #how much for ask meme
So apparently today is the 20th anniversary of Pokemon.
For obvious reasons (aka IT’S A VIDEO GAME THE DEVIL WILL EAT YOUR SOUL), I never played Pokemon as a kid, and my grasp of it even through fannish osmosis is about limited to “I know what Pikachu looks like”. Recently I’ve been wanting to check it out, not unrelated to all the anniversary hype, but Google and the marketings seem to be aimed at people who at least have a little sense of what the fuck’s going on.
So. Do I have anybody that could answer some questions?
* It has color names instead of numbered game-episode-thingies like Mass Effect. Does that mean you can jump in anywhere, or do I need to know a playing order?
* I’m only seeing references to it being played on a console. Is there a PC port or an app version? If not, is it the sort of console you plug into your TV (I don’t have a TV) or the sort where there’s a little screen built in? How much does it cost and where do you buy it? (The console and the game/s both.)
* Are there guides / walkthroughs? I fail hard at video games without guides. I got so lost in the tutorial level of ME1 that I had to watch a video walkthrough to find my way down the ramp to the Prothean beacon.
* Is it primarily single-player, co-op, player-vs-player, or what? Do the older ones not have enough players to make it fun anymore / are there servers that have shut down / anything like that?
I, too, feel very left out by my inability to speak Pokemon. (*grumble grumble Crystalline Gala grumble*) Anyone want to help us out?
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#at least my mom does seem to have *some* regret about accidentally depriving me of a cultural touchstone #(she mistook Pokemon for a passing fad not worth wasting money on) #Pokemon #reply via reblog #signal boost #can’t promise I’ll necessarily get around to playing any games you rec me #lbr I still haven’t gotten very far into Mass Effect #(in general games that don’t require booting into Windows every time I play them are a lot more likely to actually get played)
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