So, I’ve been off Tumblr for the better part of two weeks, doing other things. Unfortunately not too many of them have been dreadfully useful.
Anyway, I purchased a new sims expansion pack, and have spent significant time fiddling with that. Not playing the game so much as *fiddling* with it. There’s news of two more expansions, an awesome new content patch for all players, and I got gifted a bunch of sim points so had a higher than usual interest in the Store content. Since its still a few weeks until Civ V: Brave New World comes out, and Toady has so me so excited about the new Dwarf Fortress version that I wet myself a little bit if I so much as glance as the website name in my favourites list, The Sims has monopolised my analysis for the moment.
Primarily I’ve been considering the difference between store content (ie Officially supported Mods) and mods from the modding community, beyond the simple ‘one costs money’ aspect.
Some thoughts with images behind the jump, for those interested.
I got home from donating plasma, and in the parking lot were about thirty kids, probably between 12 to 14, all wielding sharpened sticks.
And I saw Children Of The Corn recently so that doesn’t help.
We get out of the car, I’m trying to figure out how I’m going to wield the…
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i scrolled past this on my dash twice before i realised this wasn’t actually flynn
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Pocket Princesses 64: Will Power
Please reblog, don’t repost.
Medieval computer
This is a volvelle, a medieval device that allowed you to calculate the phases of the moon and the latter’s position in relation to the sun. The dials, with their charming depictions of moon and sun, tell you what you need to know. What’s most remarkable about the device is not so much its crafty nature - it consists of complex layers of rotating disks - but that it is usually fitted inside a medieval book. Some are so bulky that they pierce the adjacent pages. What a surprise it must have been for the medieval reader who thumbed through such a book for the first time. Turning a page, he or she was confronted with an ingenious piece of machinery. A medieval computer.
Pic (BL): London, British Library, Egerton MS 848 (15th century). More information about the manuscript here.
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you think your neighbors are cool?
This is Rocket. She enjoys pink lipstick, working out, and being really friendly. She also happened to casually talk to me about an anti-anxiety routine that my therapist taught me years ago.
Animal Crossing.
Smashing the patriarchy and mental illness stigma with cute pink gorillas. Rated E for everyone.
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This is a wolf made from pipe cleaners. (more)
ARE YOU KIDDING
GET OUT
WHAT IS MY LIFE
THAT’S PIPE CLEANERS
PIPE
CLEANERS
Holy fuck.
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