Command of War is a highly addictive and challenging WWI trench warfare RTS in which you attempt to manage the deployments of your squads across a hostile battlefield. The adorable 2D visuals belie a surprisingly hardcore RTS experience, where strategy really is king.
Nor the fashion to the unfashionable! Or something. The Bible didn’t actually have too much to say about fashion.
Tubbs, ya gotta learn to go with the heat
Jake is apparently on his way to a Miami Vice audition. He’s almost got the look down, but the blazer is just a bit too… fuzzy. You’re gonna die of heatstroke in Miami wearing a blazer made from a flannel blanket, dude.
Slacking off
A peek at the rest of the outfit. The slacks are nice, but they kinda belong on a reporter from the Daily Planet. The vest seems to have been made out of a zig-zag afghan. WTF, Jake, did someone tell you space was cold and you took it literally? Don’t the runabouts have climate control?
The quicker picker-upper
The medical garb at this station seems to be made of dish towels. Because when you’re working with bleeding people and you need a sterile environment, the one quality you really look for is absorbency.
They’re a pretty nice cut for scrubs, though. There’s that crossover flap collar (who even needs that in a medic station? It’s just gonna get in the way!), a stylish nipped-in waist, and slacks that are actually creased. There are no fashionistas in foxholes, y'all.
Today’s theme: thermal
I just had to get a close-up of that fabric. That’s either surplus tea towels or surplus long johns. Either way, this episode is trying to give Jake a rash.
Stars and Stripe
Now this interests me, because we see some wounded people in the black-with-colored-yoke Starfleet uniform that we’re used to, but we also see other wounded in this ensemble with the single stripe across the chest and sleeves. (No comm badge, but maybe they don’t wear those in battle.) Is this, like, Starfleet’s equivalent of the Marines or the Navy SEALS or something? Probably not the latter if this guy is any indication.
I’ll see you on the other side of the war
These uniforms are also a different fabric, sort of a crinkled crepe from what I can tell of the bits that aren’t ripped, with the stripe in a smoother ribbon of, I dunno, hopefully something durable. Weird choice for a battle uniform; not terribly breathable and I’m pretty sure it’s synthetic. Then again they probably have flame-retardant fabric tech solved in the future. I hope.
Excuse me, it’s called a kigurumi
Bashir has been injured, so he’s now in one of the baby blue fleece onesies that they put patients in for some reason. Because if you’re going to be a big helpless baby, we might as well dress you like one!
That’s all for this one. Battle on, soldiers of style!
Star Trek - “Albatross”
McCoy gets accused of decimating a planet with a plague so while the Enterprise tries to clear his name everybody gets infected with a space aurora borealis.
RATING: 63%
darquingdragon asked:
nerdfishgirl answered:
ooohhhh yeeaahhh I was wondering if someone was gonna ask. The common gypsy moth
Lymantria dispar dispar aka the scourge of northeastern forests, destroyer of oaks, giver of rashes, stainer of clothing, etc.
The problem of course isn’t the moth (which is boring, but cute) but the caterpillar.
EVIIIILLLLL EVVIIIIIIILLLLL
Anyway - yeah these dudes are from Eurasia - idk where, but some idiot brought them over in the 1800s bc he thought they were the next silk worms (they do produce silkish stuff, but not like silkworms). And then, one daaarrrrkkkk, stooooorrrrmy night (that is actually how the story goes), the high wind knocked over his cages, and the rapacious beasts escaped into a neighboring woodlot. The hapless researcher pleaded with his neighbor to burn the forest down, but to no avail. And so the destroying plague was released.
Idk how much of that is apocryphal - but that’s the story of how they got introduced.
Since then they’ve spread all over the northeast/Mid-Atlantic - and they LOVE to eat oak trees (which the Mid-Atlantic Appalachians have a lot of). Bc they have no natural predators here, their population reaches biblical plague proportions every ten years or so. So bad, that they will - and I am not exaggerating bc I have seen them do this - almost completely defoliate entire mountainsides. Where I live, there will be so many caterpillars up in the trees that their poop sounds like rain coming down through the leaves. Most people attempt to control them by putting this sticky tape around the tree trunks, so that they can’t get up the trunk after they hatch in the spring. That’s why in many areas a lot of the trees have this dark ring of residual stickiness around them.
Residential areas will try to control them by spraying Bt (Bacillus thuringensis - a bacteria screws up their digestive systems) - which is how I got to sit in a sprayer helicopter when I was little - and see a crop duster fly over my street. In the wild areas, they’re just left to eat themselves into starvation. Unfortunately by the time that happens, they’ve gone through several high population, high defoliation years, which kills a lot of the trees. You can still see the dead trees up on some of the mountains, although they cut down the worst hit areas bc they were fire hazards.
Not only do they wreck havoc on forests, but they are seriously nasty to be around. If you skoosh them and get the chlorophyll laden insides on ur clothes - that stain is NOT coming out. And all those (kinda cute) hairs? Many of those are laden with histamine - so if a caterpillar drops on you (and they do, bc they parachute down on silky strings) - you will get a nice caterpillar shaped rash.
I hate invasive species in general, but gypsy moths are one of the more annoying and destructive ones, so I reserve slightly more hate for them.
i’m reading a very manly 1950s account of a hunt for el dorado but i’m thirty pages in and the narrator has already described his traveling companion as “handsome” 4 times, “extremely handsome” twice, “exceedingly handsome” once, his voice as “quietly husky” and “a husky whisper,” his fingers as long and deft, his body as “tall and cat-like,” and his eyes as some variation of ice-blue at least three times.
just men being dudes. dudes being pals. it’s great. this is great.
“Ever since he had aimed that gun at my throat, I had liked him immensely. And now I liked him even better.”
oh my god
Sometimes language like this is just “the difference between then and now”, and sometimes it’s the writer’s choice of adjectives getting into a rut. And sometimes it’s just about rutting.
Meet Neuro Dan, The Most Adorable Special Needs Ginger
“Hi! I am Neuro Dan. I am special needs, but I keep my chin up and will purr for anyone who will pet me!”
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people love to compliment tiktok's algorithm on how good it is at showing them updates to videos they'd seen in the past but tumblr, man. tumblr doesn't even need an algorithm. it's just a bunch of nosy ass people spreading around the information and it is almost always a reliable system. if i see a post on tuesday the update will come around on my dash by friday without fail
algorithm vs small town gossip
