explaining old praetorium to people who never experienced it makes me feel like a crazy person. like yeah there were 8 players there. the tanks pulled every single add so that the rest of the party could hit a button, then they pulled two full hallways of enemies so the party could skip ahead, and sure they usually died but it was prae so that didn’t matter.
then after the first boss you had to get on the elevator. all 8 of you. at the same time. yeah if we forgot someone we have to go back. then every single person has to pick up a key to turn on the magitek armor and get on another elevator. hope you didn’t miss that one.
nero was whatever but gaius barely did any mechanics, he really just fell over. then you’d have the whole ultima weapon fight, which was two phases and one of them you barely did any damage. oh and at the end you fought lahabrea. if you were lucky he was Lahabread and if he lived more than ten seconds it was a miracle. congrats for spending 45 minutes of your life in prae, have some exp.
need a trip to m&s, but sadly on the wrong side of the atlantic
For well made underwear, or for that strawberries & cream sandwich they’re going to end up in court about?
for a sausage roll and their frangiapane cake, but tell me about this illicit sandwich?
Oh so a couple of months ago they made this strawberries and cream sandwich, right, looks like this:
And it went viral instantly. Couldn’t move for a few weeks for random people and other brands displaying other (mostly AI generated) British inspired sandwiches that are arguably not sandwiches.
HOWEVER
We have a small thing here called VAT, which is more or less the same as the goods tax Americans pay on their stuff, but it’s rolled into the price and not added on at the till when you go to pay.
But VAT is a deep and mystical art, with different rates for different things and sometimes those rates are changed or temporarily reduced or frozen and whatnot. It doesn’t matter to the average person on the street, because as I say, all you see as a consumer is one single price. Whether that’s made up of X amount of VAT or not doesn’t really matter to you - but it really, really matters to HMRC.
And HMRC are, let me stress this, absolute bastards.
You do not want to get on the wrong side of HMRC because you will lose and they will take you for all you’ve got and then some.
The problem with this sandwich is that … it might not be a sandwich. It definitely *looks* like a sandwich, and it’s very much being treated as sandwich for VAT purposes - which is to say, it is VAT exempt. We don’t pay VAT on sandwiches, it’s just one of the VAT rules.
We *do* pay VAT on confectionary, and that’s where this gets sticky for M&S. It’s got a sweet cream filling, strawberries and cream are considered a dessert, and even the bread is sweetened. Which … might make it a cake. And if it *is* a cake, or at least a confectionary product … HMRC will want their pound of VAT.
So it might all go to court.
amazing. things are heating up in the confectionery tax fandom.
there is a term for this in tax economics - a “notch in characteristic space”. absolutely love to see one in the wild
i think my favourite visual design for knight-themed characters has to be when their armor is almost like a carapace, or a second skin. when it fits them just a little too well, as if it’s fused with them over time. when it’s borderline impossible to imagine them without it, or that anything else could lie beneath. when the armor is almost more of a character than they are. it’s a little hard to describe but you’ll know it when you see it.
and if their helmet is removed to emphasise the contrast and the jarring wrongness of a human face and flesh against their far more fitting, “natural” state as a featureless, unyielding living weapon? that’s the good stuff
Sometimes the rats in my brain come together and start yelling “YEARNING” and in trying to appease them I ask “FOR WHAT” but they are too small so all they can say is “YEARNING” which is a very big word for such a tiny creature, even collectively
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I loved this visual so much I had to doodle it.
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Thank god this is still circulating because of your wonderful art, Mandy. I needed it tonight
Thank god your post was such a lovely way to describe such a universal feeling. The brain-rats yearn eternal 🐀🐀🐀
i got these knockoff boots online and instead of the brand name on the tag they have the name of an apparently nonexistent martin scorsese movie??? what the fuck
THE ORIGINAL? ON MY DASH
this post led to a series of events that had martin scorsese himself reacting to his alleged movie goncharov and it has less than 400k notes almost 3 years later?
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