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NO BUT YOU ALL NEED TO UNDERSTAND HOW FUNNY THIS IS THEYRE LITERALLY FILLING A ROBOT WITH BULLETS, LIKE BULLETS THAT YOU FIRE FROM A GUN. NOW NORMALLY FIRING A GUN TRIGGERS THE BULLET TO EXPLODE CREATING A PRESSURE THAT CAUSES THE TIP OF THE BULLET TO BE FORCED OUT OF THE BARREL AT A HIGH SPEED. 

WHaT CAVE JOHNSON’S TURRET’S DO IS LOAD A TON OF FUCKING BULLETS INTO THE CASE OF THE SENTRY LIKE IT”S A GODDAMN GUMBALL MACHINE AND THEN USE A FUcKIN SPRING LOADED PISTON TO FIRE IT THAT IS SO UNNECESSARY AND INEFFECTIVE LIKE NO WONDER CHELL CAN RESIST SO MANY BULLETS THE LIKELIHOOD ITD CAUSE ANYTHING MORE THAN A BAD BRUISE IS LIKE ONE IN A HUNDRED

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if you are honest to god confused about how to introduce sexual dimorphism in your fictional alien series without making the females look like hot human ladies i am going to take you from your home, lock you in a nature preserve and not let you out until you fully realize the precise magnitude to which you fucked up.

Much of the world welcomes workers in wacky socks.

Socks—and their cousins, tights or artsy hose—give professionals a place to be playful, creative, a little offbeat, even when our bosses may be more buttoned-down than brilliant hues. And unlike some more visible displays of individuality such as tattoos, hats or scarves, crazy socks easily tuck under conference tables or desks if  the wearer cannot take a chance at turning off a client or senior executive.

Some wear the colors of their alma mater, others choose a single bright tone. Others pick and choose an array of animals or colors based on their mood, the season—or the clients they will meet that day.

So go ahead and pair the purple fishnets with a polished navy suit, as fashion blogger Kat Griffin once did, or pair your black fashion suit with some lime-green socks.

Colorful or character socks show playfulness and make a great icebreaker or way to connect with others, says Lauren Rothman,  a stylist and author of Style Bible: What to Wear to Work. She thinks the trend may have started in Silicon Valley. “Folks are showing their power, their bravado in the boardroom. The louder the socks, the bigger the wallet.”

Serious people and politicians don funky footwear.  For former US president George H.W. Bush’s birthday last year, several political pals pulled some on.  So do tech types at Twitter and Giga Omni Media, where the colorful geometric patterned socks serve as “this universal sign, almost like a gang sign,” Hunter Walk, a YouTube director, told the New York Times.

Another possible advantage of wearing fanciful socks and other unexpected attire: You build a brand as “the gutsy guy” or a creative type and over time, it may give you more room to bend or break rules, Neil Tambe, an MBA student and former management consultant, writes in his Civic Yuppie blog.

Warning: Not every boss will embrace your creative accessories. Some Wall Street types have even been taken aside and chastised for wearing argyles.

Still, socks have become a stretch-yourself statement for companies and individuals. When Evernote launched its business note-taking app, its team also decided to exercise its design muscles to create striped socks, which are sold alongside a Jot Script.   And Mad Men costume designer Janie Bryant will bring out a line of fashion hosiery this fall, and shows some of her patterned preferences in a Pinterest board.

Rothman, the stylist and author, thinks women may best  show their personality with jewelry, “a really fun statement necklace from Zara” or a vintage pin from a flea market. Just don’t go for studded jewelry though it is popular. “You still need to keep a professional tone” even as you pop out your personality, she notes.

Follow Vickie on Twitter @WorkingKind. We welcome your comments at ideas@qz.com.

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A woman in Australia was fined $4500 and lost her driver's license for 9 months after pleading guilty to dangerous driving Monday. According to The Standard, she struck the cyclist at 7:20 p.m. near Koroit, Victoria, having used her phone 44 times during the short drive from Warrnambool. Most striking, though, is what Kimberly Davis told investigators.

“I just don’t care because I’ve already been through a lot of bullshit and my car is like pretty expensive and now I have to fix it,” she told a police officer. “I’m kind of pissed off that the cyclist has hit the side of my car. I don’t agree that people texting and driving could hit a cyclist.”

Ms. Davis will be back on Victoria's roads in the New Year.

Police investigate a suspicious backpack at the marathon finish line. A man detained. #fox25

Nominees for the comic book industry's biggest awards were announced today, and plenty of Portland creators and publishers made the list. The winners will be announced at Comic-Con International in San Diego in July, but here are the locals who snagged nominations:

Kelly Sue DeConnick: Nominated for best writer for beautifully creepy Western Pretty Deadly.

Matt Fraction: DeConnick's husband Matt Fraction is also nominated for best writer (oooOOOooo), plus he picked up nominations for his super-fun Hawkeye, his super-silly Sex Criminals, and for the great Hawkeye issue "Pizza Is My Business," about a dog who loves pizza.

Paul Tobin: The writer shared a nomination for best limited series with artist Juan Ferreyra for the Dark Horse title Colder.

Dave Stewart: The local colorist has won like a gajillion Eisners; he's nominated this year for his work on Dark Horse titles including Abe Sapien and Hellboy: Hell on Earth.

Greg Rucka: Lazarus, the science-fiction series writer Rucka created with artist Michael Lark, got a best series nomination.

Dark Horse Comics: Venerable publisher Dark Horse Comics cleaned up in the best limited series category, with nominations for The Black Beetle: No Way Out by Francesco Francavilla; 47 Ronin by Mike Richardson and Stan Sakai; and the aforementioned Colder. They also received two nods for kids’ books, for Itty Bitty Hellboy (aww) by Art Baltazar and Franco, and The Adventures of Superhero Girl by Faith Erin Hicks; plus nominations for best anthology (Dark Horse Presents, edited by Mike Richardson) and best reissue (The Creep, by John Arcudi and Portland artist Jonathan Case).

Top Shelf: The Portland publisher snagged two nominations (best teen work and best reality-based work) for March (Book One), by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell. The publisher was also nominated for best reissue for Heck, by Zander Cannon.

Here's the full list; holler if I missed anyone.

UPDATE!: I missed one! A big one. Portlanders Christopher Sebela and Ibrahim Moustafa were nominated for both best new series and best digital/web comic, for their series High Crimes, published by Monkeybrain.

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UPDATE (3:30pm): What we first thought was a bug is actually an intentional fan project, according to Telltale, the company behind The Wolf Among Us. "This is actually a fan made modification using existing game animation assets from a previous episode," a Telltale rep tells us. (The episode in question.) Kotaku's headline has been changed accordingly.

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Here's a question we never thought to ask: how would Andrew Lloyd Webber's rock opera about the life of Jesus play with the Muppets? Now we know, thanks to the Muppet Christ Superstar album, with Kermit as Jesus, Gonzo as Judas, Miss Piggy as Mary Magdalene, and a chorus of clucking proto-Christian chickens.

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A new study suggests it's all downhill after our mid-twenties. By comparing the performance of 3,305 StarCraft 2 players aged 16 to 44, researchers say we reach the peak of our cognitive motor performance at the age of 24. On the positive side, they say older plays can still find ways to compensate.

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Missing child found inside claw machine in #Lincoln bowling alley: http://t.co/XtIK39sEXF pic.twitter.com/gjd0Eb68Dp

— WOWT 6 News (@WOWT6News) April 15, 2014

A simple bowling alley, a time-honored tradition, a chance to do more.

Prophecies foretold of a time when a child would be born in Lincoln, Neb. and refuse to accept his lot in life. Any boy could wait for toys to be delivered to him, passively passing away his existence hoping a bear would fall in his hands by conveyance of a benefactor -- but this child would want more.

The mountain was tall, the road perilous and cramped, "Never stop climbing" the boy told himself, dodging the claw and avoiding plexiglass burns to finally make it to his destiny. He played games the likes of which you'll never play, dreamed dreams those of which you'll never have.

That boy grew up to be Theodore Roosevelt.*

*This is a lie

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The Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation 

When the main character Christy dies at the end, apparently the only thing to do to bring her back is to really, truly, care. Caring enough will bring anyone back to life.

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