Birds are just dinosaurs after Steam blocked most of the adult content.
this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2025
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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Other phrases on this list include classics such as.
"Trees are just logs with branches on both sides."
"Snakes are just heads with tails."
"Cupcakes should have icing on the sides too for them to be cakes."
"Step aside mortals"
"Good Luck and bad luck are the same thing, just a matter of perspective." (love when they ask for me to elaborate on this one)
"Ants fought and died for this land!"
"Ever think about entropy?"
"Do you think wed survive at this speed?" In a car, plane etc or if theyve heard the phrase from me before say it again when moving at a snails pace.
"I wonder if theres a horton that can hear us whos."
"The devs really fucked this one up." in response to real world bad news implying we exist in a simulation
respond "NO" agressively with a straight face to very innocuous and polite requests, quickly smile and say "problem at all, ill do that right away" then do what they asked
I have more but they are contextual and dont spring to mind.
"Thanks for coming to my ted talk"
Do you think about Entropy, or have you only ever thought about Entropy, because of Entropy?
Only entropically and even when i dont think about entropy im thinking about entropy because of entrophy
Glad to hear you think of me, if indirectly
Always and slightly less over time. But also randomly.
It's cool, I'm playing the long game
Snakes do have bodies as well as tails, it's just not very apparent. The "body" part is comparatively long, while the tail is quite short. Cephalopods, however, are literally named "head-feet".
I know i just enjoy thinking in these odd out of pocket ways to get people out of their heads. Its actually really cool looking at a snake skeleton you can see where the limbs would have been had it not evolved to lose them and where the tail begins very clearly!
What the fuck is Nightcore?
Its a genere of... music. If you want to call it that. They basically just speed up and pitch up the song to make it sound like its being sung by a mouse version of themselves and then boom nightcore remix.
I dont usually post links because of tracking and what not but i dont know how else to show you its loud btw. This was one that i found as a teen that i didnt hate as much.
Nightcore https://youtu.be/-I0Pp-SMWdM Original https://youtu.be/Bjadoqjdz2c
Don't forget that adding anime tiddies to the cover art and/or thumbnail is also mandatory these days.
I don't trust the official history of this sort of thing. I maintain that this whole thing got popularized by the Caramelldansen debacle. In the good old days, if a DJ wanted to speed up a track to make it up-tempo for dance floor use it was also mandatory to add some drum and bass elements, and if you had access to the split tracks probably just reinvent the bassline, hook, and melody altogether. You know, things that took actual effort.
Nowadays anybody can open an .mp3 in Audacity and speed it up by 30% and call it a "remix."
Thats sad if they actually consider what they are doing art. Ive been out of the loop for a while but when I saw people making this stuff 15 years ago, it seemed like a thing a niche community was doing. I dont think anyone took it seriously. I still find songs that sound better sped up like this one is very funny try this one at 1.5 or 1.75 speed. Game changer kinda hits like rapgod from eminem
Second verse slapped harder than expected.
And on the topic of nightcore being art or not; who cares? Art doesn't have to be this totally involved thing for every person's every project. Making minor alterations to other people's work is its own style and form of creative exploration and, if encouraged and engaged with sufficiently, can easily grow into something with more luster and prestige. And besides that, some songs do just be sounding better when played faster and higher than intended. Artists or not, good on em for playing around and finding the ones work.
True. But at the same time If little to no effort is being put in, it does ride the line of being fair use. So if they are monitizing it which i dont think they were doing 15 years ago I find that kind of scummy. but other than that i look at it as the same thing as those AMVs back in the day. Just something someone made for the love of the source material.
Your description was accurate. Thank you
If you put it like that, than I can see how birds are nightcore dinosaurs.
They basically just speed up and pitch up the song to make it sound like its being sung by a mouse version of themselves and then boom nightcore remix.
Alternatively, a bird version
The truth hurts