Find out all about why RuneScape is the place to be this festive period, including:
– A brand new Elf City task set. – Dominion Tower improvements, including new ‘Rumble’ mode! – Premier Club 2015. – Winter Weekends. – All our Christmas events – including Community Crackers, our Snowman Boss, and a Snowboarding event!
Which are you most excited for?
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#Runescape #…oh god what do I do #so many video games so little time #(I can’t just play Mass Effect part of the day and Runescape part of the day) #(my brain doesn’t work like that) #(I have to ‘pick’) #((some conscious influence over a mostly subconscious process)) #(one game to be in the mood for at a time) #(…fuck it I’m going to play Runescape) #(I’ll play more Mass Effect sooner or later) #(and it’ll still be Enjoying My New Computer because the 15R runs Runescape noticeably better)
Penn & Teller kill the anti-vaccination argument in just over a minute.
This is why Penn & Teller are personal heroes
Probably the educational comic I’ve had to link to most is The Facts in The Case of Dr. Andrew Wakefield, by Darryl Cunningham, which is a total deconstruction of the bullshit that STARTED this whole idea. It’s a fascinating read!
The “vaccines causes autism” lie was research sponsored by a company wanting to discredit their competitors (you know, the Big Pharma anti-vaxxers are so het up over), issued horribly painful, invasive procedures on children against guidelines, and was generally Very Bad Science that did NOT actually care about the well-being of children.
However, it plays into people’s fears about autism, science, and vaccines, and so people risk the health of CHILDREN AROUND THEM to satisfy their completely irrational fears. (This is why the “they’re just trying to protect their children!” argument holds no water with me. You want to protect children? You ain’t doing it by purposely denying vaccinations to your healthy child, thereby exposing immune-weakened kids, the ones who really CAN’T get vaccinated, to possibly fatal, crippling diseases. You’re sacrificing other people’s children FOR YOUR SELFISH DESIRES. You fucking prick.)
Despite being taken down and proven wrong again and again, people continue to BELIEVE this bullshit because it FEELS real, because it’s been around so long it MUST be true. They knew this autistic kid once who became autistic after their vaccinations, so correlation MUST be causation, and also autism is totally worse than fucking measles. (Cluebat, people: it ain’t. Not even CLOSE.)
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#vaccines #lying bastards #as it happens I got my annual flu shot and my decadal tetanus shot yesterday #both of my upper arms are sore but it’s *completely* worth it
In 1959, after the engine of his F-8 fighter malfunctioned as he attempted to fly over a storm, Rankin was forced to eject directly into the heart of the thunderhead. His parachute ride from 47,000 feet (14,326 m) above Earth should have taken ten minutes, but instead it took him forty. The punishment he endured on the way down is almost beyond belief.
This video tells the story of the trip that made William Rankin the only human to have ever lived inside of a cloud. I hope he never had to pay for a beer for the rest of his life, because this man was one of the baddest asses to ever walk the Earth.
last night i accidentally made this piece of garbage and i can’t stop laughing
This is, literally, the greatest video ever made in the history of the world.
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#Buffy the Vampire Slayer #this vid is *exactly* what I hoped it would be #and it is *amazing* #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog
My first ProsopAnonymous video is up! Tell me what you think!
Note: these will get better over time. I have a friend of mine working on an intro song for the show, so I’ll be able to add one by episode 2 or 3
It’s promising, but I suggest you try talking a bit more slowly. Your speech struck me as kind of rushed in a lot of places. This isn’t a conversation: nobody’s going to butt in and cut you off if you give them the slightest pause. (I swear I read somewhere that people actually do expect recordings to speak more slowly than live people, but I have no idea where.)
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#reply via reblog #prosopagnosia #tales from the prosopagnosia tag
You know the answer to the question “what happens in space if you aren’t wearing a spacesuit” is going to be “very bad things”, but just what those bad things are is the interesting part.
For fun this Canada Day, my brother and I set out to make the most Canadian music video ever. How’d we do?
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#our home and cherished land #music #good old Chris Hadfield #my family doesn’t own any Canadian Tire money #though we do have a Tim Hortons donut hole #(…we’ve had that donut hole since our Yay Citizenship party two months ago) #(we really should get rid of it) #(but *not* on a day of the week where it would fall to me to wash the container we put it in) #(if Mom really wants to keep that disposable container she can wash it herself)
Brinens and Things 