Scrappy Doo True Crime

Jaiden, Kansas boy, 23. I'm Kmart smart. I post about games @zelda-breath-of-the-weed

absurdistraccoonsterrorizelocals:

onetwothreemany:

FEMA is doing an emergency alert test on all TVs, radios, and cell phones on October 4, 2023, at approximately 2:20pm ET.

If you live in the US and you have a phone you need to keep secret for any reason, make sure that it is turned off at this time.

Yes, I’m doing this months in advance, and yes, my blog has very little reach, but I figure better to post about it more than less.

Please reblog and add better tags than mine, I’m bad at tags.

OCTOBER 4, 2023

TURN OFF YOUR OTHER PHONE AND DO NOT TURN IT ON AGAIN UNTIL YOU ARE ALONE AND SAFE BECAUSE THE ALARM WILL COME THROUGH AS SOON AS THAT PHONE IS POWERED ON.

AGAIN I REPEAT:

OCTOBER 4, 2023

THE ALARM WILL COME THROUGH AS SOON AS THAT PHONE IS POWERED BACK ON.

SO ONLY POWER IT BACK ON WHEN IT IS SAFE TO DO SO.

OCTOBER 4, 2023


If this doesn’t make sense, then good news it’s not for or about you but still reblog it because you never know who may need to know this.

Reblog and add more tags.

tododeku-or-bust:

jodielandons:

Remember The Blind Side starring Sandra Bullock? The movie showed how a kid who had an extremely rough upbringing got help from the family of a school friend, found success in football and ultimately ended up being adopted by the family. Turns out he was never adopted.

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Michael Oher says that he was tricked by the Tuohy family into signing documents that made them his conservators. Since he was already 18 at the time the family told him, “that it means pretty much the exact same thing as ‘adoptive parents,’ but that the laws were just written in a way that took [his] age into account.”

Oher also says that papers were signed so that his story and likeness were given away for free to use in The Blind Side. He also never got a single royalty check for the hugely successful, Oscar nominated film in the 14 years since its release.

'Blind Side' subject Oher alleges adoption was lie
In a 14-page court petition, the former NFL star alleges that Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy never adopted him, instead tricking him into signing
ESPN.com

It just continues to baffle me that they essentially purchased a young Black man’s life to make football money off of, like buying a racing horse, except a person. Like, I don’t know how else to say it. And then made everyone think it was something wonderful they did to “save” an “impoverished, Black boy”, and he’s been saying it for years to no avail that they took advantage of him!

spar-kie:

lunimy:

gaysamurai:

halfmoon-horse:

toskarin:

it’s poor form to air your petty grievances with someone when it comes out they did something actually bad. save that for companies, like when you learn duolingo removed kanji from its beginner’s japanese courses as part of their collab with crunchy roll

duolingo is shit for japanese imo*, here are some apps i reccommend:

Hey Japan - comes with a cute shiba inu bc fuck that aggressive owl. its basically duolingo made specifically for japanese and much better at teaching you HOW the language works.

Kanji Study - its the grey one, made by one person. it covers the first 80 kanji plus the main radicals that make kanji up, PLUS hiragana and katakana FOR FREE. you can practice by drawing, flash cards, multiple choice, and you can decide whether you read or select the romanji/character/meaning. i learned hiragana in 5 days using this. the upgraded version (one time payment) with higher level kanji goes on sale a few times a year, consider supporting the app if you find it useful

Todai - more advanced but good for reading comprehension. japanese news in… japanese. highlights which JLPT level words are and gives percentages of each level for each article. has inbuilt dictionary to check words you dont know.

Takoboto - my preferred japanese dictionary but there are loads out there. i like it bc i can search in english, romanji, kana, or kanji and it breaks down kanji compounds into individual characters. it also shows different conjugations eg: to eat, eating, ate, to be able to eat, etc

those are just the phone apps i use, there are so many other resources out there that are free and not pulling bullshit like skipping one of the 3 ‘alphabets’ of a language

*to be clear the reason i think duolingo is shit for japanese is that it doesnt follow the JLPT pathway. which… you dont NEED exactly, but i think the country that had to make a new, easier language profiency test bc not enough people were passing the existing one will know how to build courses that teach their language. plus duolingo is doing *gestures* whatever shit that is up top.

if you seriously want to learn japanese, memorise your kana (drop romanji asap or youll forever struggle and I’ll come to kick your shins) and find the ebook of genki 1 that someone uploaded, or some other JLPT N5 course. but NOT duolingo.

Edit: just realised that duolingo may be your only real option if your first language isnt english (too easy for me to forget, sorry). in that case, make sure you supplement duolingo with your own kanji study!!!

Link to all the Genki exercises that lets you do them in different ways (writing, matchups, multiple choice etc)

renshuu is one of the best resources out there!!! i’d definitely recommend it if you want to learn vocabulary or kanji. It mainly teaches through repetition tests but i’ve found it the most helpful out of all the apps i’ve tried. you can choose courses or make your own and it has the option to write your answer, has games and a built in dictionary with pictures and example sentences. it has a premium version but the free version is still super complete

Oh shit one of these posts I can actually add on to!

Unfortunately these options do cost money (unless you wish to sail the seven seas as it were, but this was made by a group of indie devs so I’d suggest you support them if you can), but the main tool I used to learn Japanese characters in preparation for studying in Japan was the Learn Japanese To Survive series.

The three games are, Learn Japanese To Survive: Hiragana Battle, Learn Japanese to Survive: Katakana War, and Learn Japanese to Survive: Kanji Combat

Full disclosure, I only managed to get through Hiragana Battle and about half of Katakana War before I had to head off and started taking Japanese classes at the university I was studying at. However I was far more on top of Hiragana than I was Katakana, and I know hardly any Kanji.

How it works is that the game basically has you learn one set of Hiragana or Katakana, with you supposed to practice writing them in your own notebook (so, unless you have one laying around add that to the price tag). Then you get some vocab with the Hiragana or Katakana you just learned in it to see the characters in a word. Then you fight in turn based battles by matching the character to the sound it makes to reinforce it.

It won’t teach you grammar aside from some very basic things, so it is not your end all be all for leaning Japanese and should be used in conjunction with something else, but it is the best tool for learning the alphabets that I used.

wizardshark:

grimeclown:

 “hi welcome to mcdonalds what can i get for you?”

“yeah can i get a deluxe quarter pounder with cheese?”

“absolutely, do you want the meal or just the sandwich?’

“uuuuuh hold on”

*fishes something out of my pocket*

“mikey what do i do?”

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“get the fries. youll need the energy in the coming days”

*stuffs it back in my pocket*

“uhh yes please  the meal would be great”

Now that it’s back it’s hard to remember a time where they sued to get the post taken down

rydenxo:

rydenxo:

does tumblr know about tim misny??? like has the level of tim misny awareness that exists in northeast ohio broken containment and become known online yet???

ok so tim misny is a personal injury lawyer here in ohio.

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that’s him. you do not have to remember his face from this image because you’re gonna see it a lot in this post. so mainly i think we all kinda honed in on tim misny because of his slogan

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he’s gonna make them pay. he’s gonna get you that money but also it’s a little threatening like he’s gonna fully fuck his legal opponent’s shit up. this sprung tons of local memes. then there were the billboards which were normal at first.

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but here’s the thing; we already know what misny does. he makes them pay. so it turns into just saying “you know what i do” which is funny enough if you don’t at all have the context.

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but this is not where the absurdity caps out, my friends. no. this is what it has evolved to and they. are. everywhere.

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that’s right. no text. just the judging eyes of tim misny, glaring through our skin and into our souls. there is no god. there is no devil. there is just tim misny and he’s gonna make them pay.