In my everlasting quest to cover all the weird new bosses that appeared in New Super Mario Bros. DS, I eventually kept finding myself coming back to Lakithunder. Lakithunder… why are you so enticing to me? Is it the shades? It’s the shades, for sure. LOOK at those shades! And that cloud… so menacing!
Lakithunder is… a pretty basic fight, if I’m being honest. He does shenanigans in the air, shoots some thunder, then swoops down for you to jump on him, like a dummy. Along with Mega Goomba, he’s one of the few optional bosses in the game, because World 4 and 7 were banished to secret exits… for some reason. Really, you could play through this entire NSMB game without encountering a single jungle or cloud level! That’s heresy!
Name: Thunder Lakitu
Debut: Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island
From one game to a completely different one, here’s Thunder Lakitu! Yeah, I couldn’t think of a better segway, but you think I’d let this opportunity slip by? I’m not good at writing. Sorry!
Like a lot of enemies in the first Yoshi’s Island, Thunder Lakitu only shows up in one stage (though, they did make a later appearance in New Island!), that stage being BLIZZARD!!! A great stage name, by the way… And yes, they shoot thunder.
Say, don’t those drum-things that he carries around seem kind of familiar?That’s right! It’s a pretty clear reference to Zan Partizanne… No? Thundurus? Ah, I mean, the Japanese thunder god, Raijin! Hooray! I enjoy stuff like that.
Why you shouldn’t put goldfish in a bowl – WTF fun facts
By the way, bettas are the same. It’s a myth that they live in puddles. Wild bettas live in rice patties that look like this:
And you know how males fight in captivity? Yeah see, in the wild, each male betta has a territory of roughly one square meter [X]. That’s over 260 gallons of water per betta! Of course they’ll fight in a tiny 1 gallon tank! (The myth about puddles exists because, in the dry season, a betta may get trapped in a puddle, and it is equipped to survive that, but only for a short period of time). Also, notice how much is growing in that water – bettas need a lot of places to hide in and rest on, not just a single bamboo shoot in the center of a vase! They will get stressed and even more aggressive without the hides.
Fish are animals just like your other pets. Do your research before buying and treat them appropriately. If you can’t afford a proper betta or goldfish set up (at LEAST 5 gallons for a betta with a heater and hides, at LEAST 20 gallons for a goldfish with a strong filtering system and NO GRAVEL, and I recommend adding at least 10 gallons to those minimums for healthy and happy fish), don’t get one. They are living things, not decor pieces.
Here is more information on how to properly care for: Goldfish: 1234 Bettas: 123
It’s surreal that “if we take away the thing making people grovel for their lives, then how are we going to make them grovel for their lives?” is an honest to god argument that more than half of the us population finds compelling
“If we end hunger, then how will we be able to threaten people with the specter of starvation?”
“If we guarantee housing, then how will we be able to exploit them under the threat of homelessness?”
Tbf I think many of those folks are laboring under the misapprehension that everyone would rather laze about doing nothing all day than do work that they find personally fulfilling because that’s how a lot of exhausted people spend their down time after being ground down under the heel of capitalist work environments for 8+ hours. Imo a lot of it is the runaway Puritan work ethic thing that associates leisure with sin, or at the very least something that must be “earned” by putting in enough time being miserable at a job. The argument goes “if people aren’t motivated by survival they aren’t motivated at all” despite a decent amount of evidence that people can and will do work and be overall happier and healthier if you remove the anxiety of needing to do X or else face starvation and ruin.
so i cannot reblog this since i commented on her familys child slave once after she made me mad with some bullshit post about greek culture but i just wanted to say this is me when i accidently sniff bleach
The sixpenceee slave child moment of tumblr is literally top 3 most wild moments ever… everyone rbs her and then out of the blue shes like ugh I feel weird about having slaves but its ok bc its culture
One day that tiny baby will be a big shark able to rip people to shreds
most blacktip reef sharks are no more than 5.5ft long when mature. not only that, blacktip reef sharks are timid and shy, with no fatal human attacks documented. don’t comment stuff like this on my posts, save it for another post and stay off mine. thanks
Serows have a tendency to look like ungodly goat-wolf hybrids and i just
i really appreciate that
i’ve read all the replies and most of the tags on this post and this is the only valid response in all the notes, thank you for reminding me of this beautiful art
ugh I feel weird about having slaves but its ok bc its culture
Monsters and Stuff 