As many of you know, I recently purchased an Uruk-Hai scimitar.

Well let me tell you, it was quite the pragmatic purchase. It has endless uses in my morning routine.
Such as making the bed:

Making toast:

Getting things off high shelves:

Making coffee:

Reaching the remote when it’s too far away:

And assisting me when I ran out of toilet paper:

I don't know how I survived life without it.

Happy 10 year anniversary to this dumbass post.
the years start comin’ and they sure don’t stop comin’
I have since moved out of my moms house, stopped destroying my hair with drugstore bleach, went back to school, got a job in tv, went through a pandemic, got married, quit that job, moved across the country, and gone back to school again to make video games.
The scimitar is proudly mounted on the stairs surrounded by LotR posters. It is still my most pragmatic purchase, aside from my bread machine. This bitch loves some fresh baked bread.

Anyways stay cool and stay kind everybody. <3

Anonymous asked:
enough about cookie clicker, what inspires/inspired you to make NESTED 1 and 2? and also what inspired you to add certain things too like the cat thoughts or pasta butts and so on-
orteil42 answered:
as much as Cookie Clicker draws from various sources i think Nested is probably the “purest” thing i’ve made! i toyed with the idea of a complex interconnected text-based world during a lunch break once and started coding it once i got home. after i got the basic recursion mechanic working the rest basically wrote itself! (it didn’t it took me a while) in the end due to design limitations i didn’t have much of the initially planned interconnectedness (ie. finding some person in an office thinking about their spouse and kids, then exploring the rest of the town and coming across said spouse and kids at home) but that would’ve been a lot of work for something that hardly anyone would notice anyway. in Nested 2 i try to suggest a bit more structure and cohesion ie. each planet procedurally generates its own set of recurring brands, famous authors, popular drinks etc.
each category of animal in Nested has its own set of thoughts based on whatever archetype i thought was funny at the time, ie. horses are very confused, worms go squirm squirm and cetaceans are insufferable. cats, along with some lolcat quotes of the era, quote the Time Cube conspiracy website, to reflect their wise and easy-going personalities.
as these were the far reaches of 2011 i was fairly big on “lolrandum” humor which is why among other things there’s a 0.01% chance the game will generate a random kind of pasta inside someone’s butt, and 0.2% of some crustacean spawning inside a black hole, for instance. this sort of infantile nonsense is something i still stand by and i will try my best to maintain it for the sequel
what the fuck ever it's not like you guys have found the cup or the scepter yet either












