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"The Coalition promised to do one thing above all else. Eliminate the fucking deficit (by 2016-17). Are they on track to do that? Are they fuck."

The Labyrinth Table is a design by Benjamin Nordsmark. Underneath a piece of glass is a maze with three figures that can be controlled handles on the bottom of the table.

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At some point in your life you will be asked to order pizza for a group. When that time comes, don’t be afraid. All the information you need to determine how many pies to order can be found in the pizza itself. Because what is a pizza if not a tool for learning fractions?

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Mallory Ortberg on The Toast: 10. "I used to like your work, but I don't now. Have you considered doing the things I like again?" (via Kottke) Read the rest

Nature is awesome.

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I’ve been doing it ALL WRONG.

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"Friendly tag-based Javascript animators" JADSDS have made a gigantic HMTL5 map of the overworld from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, also known as the best Zelda.

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You can tell by the way I use my walk, I’m a ladies man, no time to talk. [video]

The Washington Wizards completed their first-round sweep of the Toronto Raptors over the weekend, which means it’s the perfect time for Paul Pierce, Troll Prince of the NBA, to do what he does best.

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It takes a lot to make a stew in Westeros.

As anyone who has read “Game of Thrones” or watched the show on HBO can attest, it’s pretty hard to keep track of the multitude of characters involved in the epic series.

And while many of them die some pretty cruel deaths thanks to George R.R. Martin’s bloodlust, new people keep popping up to take their place.

YouTuber Alex Cohen has edited together a “Too Many Cooks” parody called “Too Many Kings” making fun of the enormous cast.

We just wonder why it took this long for someone to combine these two?

Warning, lots of spoilers are coming.

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I never loved pen and paper games like Dungeons & Dragons as a kid. That kind of play felt like it took everything I liked about fantasy and pretend—being a character, drama and romance, surprises!—and turned it into a spreadsheet that chased friends away. But there are all kinds of ways to roleplay today, and some might surprise you. Read the rest

While you were getting high on 4/20, Waka Flocka Flame was officially announcing his candidacy for president of the United States.

The rapper broke the news in a video message to America on Rolling Stone.

“The first thing I’m gonna do when I get into office is legalize marijuana,” he says.

The next few things on his agenda would be banning dogs from restaurants, banning big-footed people from public spaces and requiring all students to memorize his lyrics before they graduate.

He thinks his only competition so far is Hillary Clinton, and his running mate will be DJ Whoo Kid.

Get ready for President Flame, America. This election just got real.

He first tweeted about his intentions back in 2012, so at least he follows through on his promises, which puts him ahead of pretty much every other politician out there.

I'm dead ass running for president in 2016.

— Waka Flocka Flame (@WakaFlockabsm) November 7, 2012

And if he doesn’t make it to the White House, he’s always got a job pitching throat lozenges.

I'm running for President!! #Waka2016 #WakaforAmerica #Waka4Prez http://t.co/dAUhegrxvK @RollingStone

— Waka Flocka Flame (@WakaFlockabsm) April 20, 2015

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• Please tell me this is a joke. by Ray Mann
• He's not 35 years old. Can't run. by Anonymous

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Chewbacca is back in the new Star Wars trailer, but he’s also apparently starring in his own comedy series.

This parody of “Louie’s” opening credits features Chewie in place of Louis C.K. emerging from the subway, eating pizza and lurking around the streets of the West Village in New York.

We also see a bit of his stand-up routine, which might get a little old if you don’t speak Wookiee.

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Worst or best tattoo ever?

The above image was posted to Imgur and Reddit on this week, showing a tattoo of the classic Pokemon character, but with a lot of problems.

“My friend was drunk and on Xanax when he decided to tattoo a black face Charmander with no experience or artistic ability,” the uploader wrote. “The flame saves it.”

He’s not the right color, he looks deathly ill and something is very wrong with his eyes.

Commenters were quick to point out that the tattoo is actually very similar to a Tim Burton inspired version of the character by illustrator Vaughn Pinpin.

But it’s a still a pretty poor copy, and so the Internet has decided to have some fun with the new character everyone has dubbed “Shartmander.”

A subreddit has been set up to satisfy all of your Shartmander needs including art, clothing and jewelry. It all escalated very quickly.

He’s even got a Twitter account.

We choose you Shartmander.

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And here is the infamous Xanax man responsible for the tattoo.

Images Via: Reddit

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Want to spruce up your tabletop games? Sure, there are official D&D miniatures you could buy. But if you've got access to a 3D printer, you could make your own menagerie of beasts and bad guys to fling at your D&D group (As a DM, not just chucking plastic toys around), all thanks to the hard work of Miguel Zavala.

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“Cheryl” is literally the worst.

Kenneth Kong from MediaCorp’ Channel 8 in Singapore posted a children’s math problem to his Facebook page this weekend, and it has since gone viral around the world, because it’s so hard.

“This question causes a debate with my wife,” he wrote. “And its a P5 question.”

The problem (above) involves a girl named Cheryl trying to have her friends guess her birthday in the most complicated way possible.

It turns out the question is actually from the Singapore and Asian Schools Math Olympiad (SASMO) exam, and it’s intended for secondary students that are a bit older.

The group issued a statement clarifying the origins off the question to Mothership after it started to spread online.

Being Q24 out of 25 questions, this is a difficult question meant to sift out the better students. SASMO contests target the top 40% of the student population and the standards of most questions are just high enough to stretch the students.

Head over to Mothership if you want to see the official solution.

People on Facebook used the comments section to vent all of their frustrations about Cheryl.

Because with friends like her, who needs enemies?

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• Nopefor one simple reason: If the Day would've been 18 or 19 ... by nemthe
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• I just made a video Solution for the puzzle. Check it out here: ... by Ravi Handa
• jeez, this is totally simple. and its not may 19th. mr. Month ... by ronald monheim
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The Stone Sinister

Every now and again I go to my patrons at the $2.50 level and up and ask for ideas for upcoming maps. I don’t guarantee that they will get done or even incorporated into a map, but sometimes one just jumps out and grabs my imagination like a great big hand.

Like this great big hand.

How about a dungeon built into a giant stone hand rising out of the earth?

That’s what Simon Forster suggested and it took me about four hours to draw it from beginning to end. It just… grabbed me. It also launched a huge selection of hand puns on google+

A massive stone hand of a nigh-unbelievable scale, the Stone Sinister appears to be the grasping hand of some massive giant pushing out of the ground. Maybe the result of strange magics (or a titan fumbling a saving throw against a cockatrice), or just as likely a piece of obscure architecture, the Sinister is partially hollow with multiple levels linked together by a ladder that runs up along the inside of the back of the hand in line with the pointer finger.

Only the pinky, thumb and middle fingers have been hollowed out. The thumb is seldom used for anything, and the pinky collapsed opening the chamber beneath it to the elements. The middle finger, however, has its own secret ladder that leads up to two levels within it, the top having a series of narrow windows or arrow slits built into it as an observation turret.

This map is available to you for free for personal and commercial use thanks to the awesome patrons of the Dodecahedron Patreon Campaign. The awesome outpouring of support from Josh, Phil Everson, Ryan Stoughton, Pablo “Hersho” Dominguez, and over 200 other amazing patrons keeps these maps flowing for your use.

You can use, reuse, remix and/or modify the maps that are being published under the commercial license on a royalty-free basis as long as they include attribution (“Cartography by Dyson Logos” or “Maps by Dyson Logos”).

For those that want/need a Creative Commons license, it would look something like this:

Cartography by Dyson Logos is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Again, this shouldn’t need repeating, but this only applies to these two maps in this post!

If you do find a use for one of this distinctly odd map in your games, I would love to hear about it!

Brian Beutler with a proposal:

This week provides an occasion for the U.S. government to get real about history, as April 9 is the 150th anniversary of the Union’s victory in the Civil War. The generous terms of Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House foreshadowed a multitude of real and symbolic compromises that the winners of the war would make with secessionists, slavery supporters, and each other to piece the country back together. It’s as appropriate an occasion as the Selma anniversary to reflect on the country’s struggle to improve itself. And to mark the occasion, the federal government should make two modest changes: It should make April 9 a federal holiday; and it should commit to disavowing or renaming monuments to the Confederacy, and its leaders, that receive direct federal support.

Two things. First, Crushing Treason in Defense of Slavery Day should absolutely be a national holiday. That should go without saying. It should be a national remembrance of the Confederacy’s evil and the end of the racist slave labor system that underwrote the development of American capitalism (that it was replaced by another racist labor system is a fair enough point).

Second, monuments to Confederates should be renamed but that doesn’t mean those previous names should be forgotten about. In other words, the Edmund Pettus bridge should be renamed the John Lewis bridge and there should be a historical marker there explaining who Pettus was and why the name was changed. That should be done around the nation. There should be no schools receiving federal money named after Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, or Jefferson Davis. But that they were named after those slaveholding traitors should be part of our official history. Similarly, we should rename American military bases named after slaveholding traitors.

Yes, it's almost April Fool's Day, the national day of acting like a jerk with impunity, but this is no trick: You can play Pac-Man in Google Maps right now.

Suffering a creative block may simply mean that the thing you’re focussed on working on just isn’t ready to be worked on yet.  Do something else. Write some letters/emails and trick yourself into writing a tumblr post or something afterwards.  Make a meal you’ve never made before.  Make a mixtape or whatever your preferred digital version of that is.  Go to http://www.oblicard.com/ and use the little reload button in the bottom left corner until you hit something that has meaning for you.  Turn off the internet, turn off the television, read a book, listen to music, let yourself get bored and empty.  Put away what you’re working on right now and lock it in a drawer for two weeks.  Invite your most brilliant friend over, kill them, find and eat their adrenal glands and then wear their skin as a shamanic cloak until the next full moon.  Strap cats to every part of your body and tell everyone your new name is Pussy Fang Dervish.  If you live in a city, go to nature.  If you live in nature, go to a city.  Buy a cheap notebook and write down every stupid idea you’ve ever had.  And then write down the five most important things you want to achieve once the block is broken.  And then stand up, remind yourself that your name is Pussy Fang Dervish and you can do anything, and then go and give it another try.

And good luck!  This, too, will pass.

(Written in answer to a Tumblr ask.)

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