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Eize Basa

@PonchoRebound

1 year

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Eize Basa

@PonchoRebound

2 years

It's only one minute long, but this CCTV footage has a better narrative and more compelling character arcs than most of the arthouse films I've seen:

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When I say “I hate drama” I mean I hate being involved in drama. Other people's drama? Big fan.

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11 months

I genuinely love everything about this sign. The messaging, the intent, the typography, the layout, the color choices.

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Hot Take: the joke in the Barbie trailer where Ken can’t understand that a woman is a doctor doesn’t make any sense. All the doctors in his world are Barbies. The joke would work better if he demands to see a woman because where he’s from men aren’t doctors.

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I am DONE being silenced for my BELIEFS!* *The Jetsons and The Flintstones take place at the same time, with the ultra-elite 1% living in the clouds far above a post-apocalyptic Earth where the mass of humanity struggles to survive among mutated animals.

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115 years ago today, a man arrived in a small Western town and before anyone even learned his name he somehow died eating paste. The town buried the stranger and gave him a memorial stone. Nobody knew him, but they still wanted the future to know he was here once, he was alive.

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3 years

Why call it ADHD when you can call it bees in my head there are bees in my head whenever I try to focus there are bees in my fucking head

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1 year

"An old professor of mine had this great thing..."

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2 years

Headed to the barbecue in my July 4th outfit:

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4 years

My dude found out exactly how expensive this hobby can get…

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4 years

I absolutely REFUSE to acknowledge the authority of any DM not wearing the official Dungeons & Dragons® Dungeon Master™ uniform:

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1 year

Still one of the all-time greatest gags:

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5 years

You've probably heard about how Opportunity's last words to NASA were “my battery is low and it's getting dark.” What you may not have heard is NASA's last words TO Opportunity: as a final transmission to the rover, they played Billie Holiday's "I'll Be Seeing You."

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4 months

I love AO3.

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3 years

“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it but all that had gone before.”

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@PonchoRebound

2 years

I mapped the character development of the bad boyfriend to the Hero's Journey monomyth:

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@PonchoRebound

4 years

"Do you subtweet at us, sir? "I do subtweet, sir." "Do you subtweet at US, sir?" [In the DMs] "Will the timeline be on my side if I say ay?" "No." "No, sir, I do not subtweet at you sir; but I subtweet, sir."

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@PonchoRebound

6 months

I'm not kidding: this is like 75% of my dreams. Just wandering through a multilevel urban labyrinth.

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@PonchoRebound

11 months

Real talk, we need to emotionally prepare ourselves for the possibility that the Barbie movie is going to be “just okay.”

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1 month

lifting a bar taht says "mass extinction" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right

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@PonchoRebound

4 years

YOU: Patiently explaining the rules to a new game one more time. MY BRAIN:

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@PonchoRebound

4 years

When you see something on Tumblr that's so true and so insightful but you can't think of anyone to share it with in your circle of friends because you don't know that any of them have the context to understand it, so you just tweet it out and hope some of your followers get it:

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@PonchoRebound

1 year

Quaker’s 35% Less Sugar Oatmeal doesn't actually have any less sugar, it just contains 35% less oatmeal per packet. You'll never guess how much it costs. (Exactly the same as the regular version.)

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4 years

Take a moment to read this elegant and touching solution a teacher came up with for a D&D player who didn't feel comfortable speaking up during the game because she didn't feel her English was strong enough:

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@PonchoRebound

6 months

environmental storytelling

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@PonchoRebound

5 years

Tumblr user stickmanbrandon elaborates on just why this is so touching:

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@PonchoRebound

3 years

Important message to everyone freaked out about Tim Curry trending today:

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@PonchoRebound

2 years

It’s a bummer for sure, BUT it’s also an interesting lesson in how important editing and framing is to the craft of filmmaking: the grainy, low res, cropped, and silent version I posted FEELS authentic in a way the real video just doesn’t, with its HD quality and sappy music.

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2 years

[David Attenborough voice] “Though dulled with use and soon to be discarded, the aged shears still have one last vital role to play for the kitchen it has called home for almost a decade: freeing its young replacements from their zip-tied cradle. The circle of life continues.”

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@PonchoRebound

4 months

Me at the party tonight:

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@PonchoRebound

2 years

About an hour after I posted the video, I was linked to the full version of the video, which is apparently a Dhar Mann-style inspirational video by Cris Elmasry. So, credit to the artist:

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1 year

The three stages of my daily routine:

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2 years

“The name Gary has almost died out. In 2013, only 450 newborns were given the name in the US, in the UK just 28.” Weirder, the name was only popular for a few decades, and was unheard of before the late ‘20s. Why the boom? Gary Cooper, who took his stage name from Gary, Indiana.

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Sir, please don't criticize the Barbie trailer, that is my emotional support $100M movie from a $31B studio about a $1.2B/yr toy line.

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11 months

i love this website

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1 year

Why do these exist!? I'm at a loss.

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@PonchoRebound

5 years

"I don't drink." - Lots of followup questions about why not - Sounds judgey - Makes you look like a nerd "I don't drink...any more." - Respectful silence and zero followup questions - Sounds mysterious and tragic and slightly badass - Asserts dominance over your drinking friends

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@PonchoRebound

4 years

James Corden is trending so once again here's the greatest Bad Celebrity anecdote of all time:

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@PonchoRebound

10 months

@ash_granthorror 1. Not introducing yourself to anyone. 2. Eating paste. 3. Dying.

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10 months

This image blew my mind. I had no idea chickens lived this long.

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@PonchoRebound

2 years

Since this is taking off, time for a little due diligence. If the original tweet brought you joy and you don’t feel the need to learn anything more about the origins of the video, that’s cool. Totally understandable. Just go ahead and back out of this thread. Otherwise:

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@PonchoRebound

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Anyway, what a ride we had, huh? While you’re here, check out my SoundCloud, it’s called “vote your ass off in every damn election because the attempted fascist takeover of our country isn’t over, it’s just started.” Also, don’t be an aggro handsy creep to your goth girlfriend.

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@PonchoRebound

3 years

Oh, you like this theory? Here’s an even better one, raised by the genius @cindytheintern : Statler & Waldorf are time-displaced versions of Bert & Ernie.

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@PonchoRebound

10 months

@BrobergMatthew @JenLRossman Whoa, this GIF looks like it's 115 years old as well...!

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3 years

Dear Intern, as a very young copywriter I once had to write a brochure about a prescription drug that "reduces mortality in patients," but it turns out I actually wrote that it "reduces morality in patients" and nobody caught it until 50,000 were printed.

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@maxhelp

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We mistakenly sent out an empty test email to a portion of our HBO Max mailing list this evening. We apologize for the inconvenience, and as the jokes pile in, yes, it was the intern. No, really. And we’re helping them through it. ❤️

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2 years

@OldGreggoire Yeah, I get into it a bit in the thread. The crummy quality and genuinely pretty great acting fooled me. Still, of all the things in the world to grab, money is probably one of the best. You can exchange it for goods and services.

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1 year

"Bears are often witnessed in the wild sitting still for long periods of time doing apparently nothing but staring at scenic vistas such as sunsets, lakes, and mountains. There is little explanation for this behavior except that the bears merely find such views to be pleasing."

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This is the Nissan Snail, a small utility van from the late '80s. Except it wasn't actually called the Nissan Snail...its real name was much much better, possibly the greatest corporate product pun ever, The snail-shaped small cargo van was...the Nissan S-Cargo.

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5 years

SCIENTIST: The ink-mixed water behind the leaf has a lower surface tension than the water in front of it. While this gradient tries to equalize via the Marangoni effect. the different adhesive forces around the leaf pull it along. ME: lol that leaf is all "cya l8r shitlords"

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2 years

I was just at the game store and overheard a college kid saying to his friend, with a mix of sympathy and exasperation, “I don't think teaching English in Japan is going to make you happy, bro. You don’t really want to live in Japan, you want to live in an anime.”

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Y’all love to talk smack about UNO but the official rules penalize anyone at the table for giving unsolicited advice, an idea so good every game on the market needs to immediately follow its lead.

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5 years

Another Tumblr user has these really lovely thoughts on Opportunity as well. They're too long to screenshot, so just click the link below. Her writing is so good I forgot to be jealous that the author is that skilled but apparently only 19, wtf.

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1 year

[showing Arrested Development to my grandchildren] “Let me just pause it for a sec…you see, it’s funny because back then $10 was a comical amount to pay for a banana.“

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3 years

An excellent point:

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@PonchoRebound If The Flintstones takes place in a post-apocalyptic world, it would explain why the people try to mimic technology that should be beyond them and why they have knowledge of Christmas in an allegedly B.C. era.

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2 years

Anyone else having their mind blown by learning that every Gary on Earth is indirectly named after Gary, Indiana??

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4 years

“A plague o’ both your mutuals!”

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11 months

Since the Barbie movie is PG-13 she’s legally allowed to have a single F-bomb. I hope Greta gives it to her, she deserves it.

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I'm having that dream again...

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1 year

He’s not going to fuck you

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4 years

When you walk into your non-gamer friend's dinner party carrying a big stack of board games:

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2 years

While you’re here: if you enjoyed this thread please consider making a small donation to help treat my illness, and by "illness" I mean a bottomless hunger for validation and when I say “donation” I mean hitting that Follow button. Pic unrelated.

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Watch a movie 100 times and you can quote every line. Listen to a song 100 times and you’ll be able to sing along with it decades from now. Play a board game 100 times and you’ll have to read the rulebook front to back again in three months.

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4 years

THE EVOLUTION OF BOARD GAME THEMES

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“May your mentions be full of oatmeal discourse” - ancient curse

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Folks, I promise you that “actually this math is wrong, they’re only selling 30% less oatmeal for the same price” is not the hashtag-checkmate Gotcha rebuttal you think it is.

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4 years

Also from Tumblr (via n0na9on)

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For everyone asking about The Jetsons Meet The Flintstones, the 1987 special where Elroy builds a time machine that is supposed to take his family into the future but instead accidentally sends them to the past:

Eize Basa

@PonchoRebound

3 years

@Meeplevision Elroy thought his time machine was broken and sent them to the past instead of the future. But maybe it was working all too well and the Flintstones are the somewhat-more civilized descendants of the savage 99% living on the ground in the Jetsons' time.

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DARREN ARONOFSKY: The film will be a touching and very human story about obesity. This is a fraught topic but the film will treat the main character with the utmost respect. PRODUCER: What's the name of the film? DA: [starts sweating] PRODUCER: What's the film's name, Darren?

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In the Halloween issue of the wonderful Gwenpool series, Gwen sees her first trick or treater dressed as her:

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3 years

wow this blew up, i guess i should link to one of my creative projects except i’ve never actually finished anything because all of these BEES in my fucking HEAD

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"You can't buy back your childhood no matter how hard you try. The magic of childhood is that you were constantly encountering new things. The best way to feel that way again is to fill your life with new experiences."

CodeMarvelous 🚴💖💜💙

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Millennials please stop saying the best part about being an adult is being able to buy toys and merchandise. I am begging you to look for more in your life than consuming and collecting.

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4 years

The only dexterity game that matters. At this point, the Spiel des Jahres is theirs to lose.

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I have to mute this, it’s still 2 hrs until lunch and my notifications are making me too hungry. If you liked this post, give me a follow…I post about whatever it was you liked all the time. Noodles? Sure. Design? You bet. Don’t look at my profile to verify, just hit Follow.

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It must be difficult to be a man cursed by a wizard to never be funny.

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Elon Musk claims he will give Wikipedia $1 billion, if they change the name to “Dickipedia”

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This remains the best troll in all of tabletop gaming: after years of the two being confused for each other, Steve "Munchkin" Jackson wrote three books for Steve "Fighting Fantasy" Jackson without any indication which Steve Jackson it was.

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Tabletop gamers, if someone else is teaching a game you already know how to play, you have one very important duty you must perform: • Keep your damn mouth shut and let the other person teach it

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The Kinkos branding was so strong that people still call it that even though there hasn't been a store by that name in 13 years. If someone actually said "FedEx Office" to you in conversation you'd think they were a psychopath.

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An intern just came into my office without knocking and caught me making this. We just looked at each other, neither of us saying a word. She left a moment later, closing the door behind her.

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I'm glad that this post is resonating with people but please remember that Brennan isn't saying you should freely brand anyone who isn't nice to you "susceptible to fascistic tendencies." Let's all try not to dilute the word "fascist" the way we did "narcissist."

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This image blew my mind. I had no idea chickens lived this long.

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“Not to be that guy…” - That Guy

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If you enjoy stories about the past like this one, follow @PonchoRebound for news about my debut novel, out in Fall 2023! "Emily is an attorney with no time for love, but that changes when she finds her late grandmother’s diary about a steamy forbidden romance in her youth."

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My brain when somebody's trying to teach me the rules to a new board game:

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@Meeplevision Elroy thought his time machine was broken and sent them to the past instead of the future. But maybe it was working all too well and the Flintstones are the somewhat-more civilized descendants of the savage 99% living on the ground in the Jetsons' time.

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PSA: if you’re gifting someone a board game… - Open it, punch all the tokens, make sure the components are there - Sleeve cards and laminate player aids - Read through the rules, do a solo play, print out the FAQ and errata - Give them an Applebee’s gift card and keep the game

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6 years

To be fair, @JennyENicholson , this is really good advice even outside of dark Internet rituals...

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It’s cool that Ms Marvel is into board games, but she really needs to watch out for those third-party Amazon sellers she’s using:

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4 years

My guests when I bring out the board games after dinner...

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2 years

These are four different movies:

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Dan Hays Colorado Snow Effect 4 2007, oil on canvas

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There's a really lovely moment in @ShutUpShow 's review of Root that I liked so much I bashed together a quick little image set of it:

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I don't like to get too political on here but I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that I can think of at least one German leader who was worse.

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When you google a question about a board game rule and discover Board Game Geek users arguing over the same question back in 2009.

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This advice from Arnold Schwarzenegger to someone struggling with depression might be exactly what some of need to hear right now:

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My entire timeline right now:

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In 2020, as the lockdown began, a group of tabletop content creators started playing board games together on stream. Let's check in on them one year later and see how they're doing:

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If your cat and your dog suddenly became humans.

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