Hey gamers, if you’re a giant nerd who’s into branding/logo design (like me), then consider joining the 5th iteration of the Brand Battle contest, hosted by yours truly.
The info project shall be released in the near future, and signups will be out not long after that. Be sure to give the Scratch account a follow if you’re interested. https://scratch.mit.edu/users/BrandBattle_5/
Let the games begin. (in like 2 weeks)
imagina how graat wastaof would ba if thara wara imagas and vidaos
imagine how great wasteof would be if there were images and videos
now replace N with S
the best solution I’ve seen is to design cities around foot and bike traffic, like in many European cities such as Amsterdam. They’ve outright banned cars within certain distances from the city iirc, and it’s significantly reduced their carbon emissions while still allowing commuters to freely travel throughout the city en masse. This is largely impossible in America bc we’re so built around car travel, but it’s not impossible to switch over. I believe Berlin has also limited many roads to strictly bike traffic.
I also wanted to point out that this circles back to the climate change problem. Transportation is a huge chunk of pollution, and there’s no easy way to fix many of the environmental problems that come with it. The aforementioned overhaul of urban infrastructure would cost billions of dollars and possibly decades. Decades we don’t have in terms of fixing the climate crisis. Public transport is a great way to solve pollution problems, but it’s simply not designed efficiently enough for it to be a viable option for many commuters in terms of speed and efficiency. Because of this, people keep circling back to other means of transport like cars, which contribute significantly to many climate issues.
I know this is kinda all doom and gloom but thanks for hearing me out
I was just watching an interesting series of YouTube videos.
The first one: Urban areas are being dominated by tangled messes of highways that do nothing to solve congestion! They should go back to the neat and orderly grid system!
The second one: The grid system is inherently flawed because humans’ decision-making time is not fast enough, which causes more cars to slow down, which causes gridlock. Public transport should be used more often.
The third one: Public transport is set out in a way that makes it very inconvenient for many commuters and wastes a lot of time.
What I kind of learned from this is that all of these different ways of getting places are products of each other. Public transport is by far the best option, but it’s designed in such a way that it’s not a viable alternative to the already-inefficient means of commuting by car. It’s a vicious cycle. Why take a 1.5-hour train ride to work when it’s a half-hour by car on the most congested days? The way all of these different means of transport interact means that even if all of the options are inefficient, even the ones that are slightly less inefficient are the best option. The problem is that to fix this, there needs to be a complete overhaul of cities’ infrastructure, potentially costing billions of dollars. And this isn’t something that happens overnight.
Thanks for coming to my rant guys idk where I was going with this but I thought I needed to say it
My face is still swollen from getting my wisdom teeth stolen and now I look like I eated a bees
throwback to my infanthood when i would eat handfuls of raw flour and eat mud for fun
to clarify i got my wisdom teeth removed earlier today
Bro I unironically have Walk the Moon, Bill Wurtz, Hozier, big band jazz covers of video game soundtracks, and contemporary Swedish folktronica all in the same playlist so I feel you
The current state of my Spotify liked songs is Travis Scott followed by Skrillex followed by the Bad Piggies Theme trap remix so I feel like I know a thing or two about weird music taste
My brother and I have a semi-annual tradition where we get giant cardboard boxes, cut out armholes, put on boxing gloves, go outside in the yard, and punch each other until our boxes are too broken to provide defense
Last Tuesday, I earned my first victory of the tradition via TKO. I am now 1-2 since the event’s inception in 2018
usually, it’s on the day after Christmas so we can call it ‘boxing day box boxing’ but we wanted to do it at a get-together with the boys this year
this is the highlight of my entire career
gingerbread waffles, bacon and sausage, and hot chocolate for breakfast
roast beef, Gorgonzola mashed potatoes, and green beans for lunch/dinner
my sister’s signature triple-chocolate peppermint brownies, several kinds of pie, an absurd amount of homemade cookies for dessert
Whats your families Christmas dish? We have this great sort of like stuffing, which includes meat, apples, cinnamon, nuts, and so much more, It’s really delicious but only when you eat it like once a year :)
if the multiverse theory is true do you think there's universes out there where a month other than february has 28 days
like there's one where it's january who gets the short end of the stick and other individual universes where it's the other months
i went to Ikea with the gang last night and we had a blast purchasing 5 Blåhaj’s and giggling like small children as we ran around sitting on every couch and lying down on every bed and opening every cabinet on our way to being completely lost for an hour bc it’s literally set up like a maze
10/10 experience would highly recommend
3 of my classes are
“we’re gonna go over the most basic stuff imaginable and basically just read out of the book, here are assignments that are either way too difficult or childishly easy, here’s an A for literally just showing up”
and the other 2 are
“We’re gonna do something that’s fun and hands-on for the entire class time, the only homework is creating something related to what we discussed in class and you have complete creative freedom, here’s an A for being actually good at art and understanding the material”
college is wack
I swear half of my classes are like “You have two entire class periods to color in this picture of the digestive system” and the other half are like “After you finish this 80-question college-level quiz, you will have 10 minutes to write a 20-page essay explaining quantum mechanics and proving the origin of the universe. If you have a single spelling error or grammatical mistake, you will automatically receive a zero.”