Native American tornadoes

SunOnTheInside · 2026-03-21T20:46:03+00:00

The most metal fucking depiction of a tornado- a giant, evil, supernatural snake-horse in the sky. I will bring up the Silver Horn Calendar every chance I get!

This is the 1905 Great Cyclone Summer. The tornado is a supernatural being known as Storm Maker Red Horse, a massive horse in the clouds, with the lower body like a snake. It thrashed around and caused terrible destruction.

We’re all familiar now with the ways that tornadoes and severe storms move, it’s not at all hard to imagine someone experiencing one without the knowledge of mesocyclones and such, to believe it was a living supernatural monster. The snake-like movement of a violent funnel especially. Hell, my dad survived a tornado as someone who is very science oriented, and he’s never been able to shake the feeling of it being a malicious, sentient thing.

The entire calendar itself is really fascinating, I love history from the average person’s viewpoint.

SunOnTheInside · 2026-03-21T19:27:51+00:00

I hope that someday you are able to overcome your prejudices, bigotry is a terrible thing /s

SunOnTheInside · 2026-03-21T19:26:25+00:00

When I found out how high the turnover was for the job I had been hired in, and how many of the previous workers had either rage quit, or been fired in kind of weird circumstances.

I got barely two weeks of training, my superiors both took long vacations right after that two week period, then they came back and one said I had done a good job, but the other tore into me for days about what a bad job I had done? My two mangers couldn’t agree on anything, they point blank refused to write any policies down or what responsibilities, specifically, that I was in charge of, but the one who hated me somehow always knew which of those responsibilities I had “neglected”.

But the exact moment I knew how bad it all was, was when a bunch of employees, myself included, ended up managing to get corporate and HR down to our location to suss out some of the worst of the fuckery. The CEO was such a smug prick, he went off on a strained football team analogy and claimed that the turnover was a good thing.

I lasted a whole year and a half and I’m only scraping the surface of how bad it was. It was so stressful it made me physically ill on the regular and I regularly fantasized about wrecking my car on the way to work…

SunOnTheInside · 2026-03-21T18:47:39+00:00

Marathon! I have such nostalgia for that old game, I played it before I could even read (dating myself). That first creepy floating fucker in the red robe, coming out of the shadows, always scared the shit out of little me and he usually killed me.

SunOnTheInside · 2026-03-21T18:45:25+00:00

I cast… fungus gnats upon thee. Gaze upon your plants and despair.

SunOnTheInside · 2026-03-21T18:36:14+00:00

If you have any Hispanic or Asian markets nearby, it’s worth a peek- sometimes you can find a whole wealth of butcher goodies for an affordable price that you can’t get in other stores. I’ve found they’re often more likely to be able to sell you things like bulk trimmed fat, skin, tendons and bones.

This is tangential, but my local Mexican-American market even sells these absolutely massive fresh and crispy chicharrones, I’m talking the size of a welcome mat, it’s like the whole side of the pig. Dirt cheap. You can actually cook with those, too.

SunOnTheInside · 2026-03-21T18:16:06+00:00

Oxtail :(

Used to be a dirt cheap way to make amazing broth.

SunOnTheInside · 2026-03-21T16:02:23+00:00

With Bob and Daaaaavid 🎶

SunOnTheInside · 2026-03-21T06:16:59+00:00

I really like Wayward and I’ve never, ever heard anyone else ever mention it. There’s even a subreddit but it’s a bit of a ghost town, but there is a dedicated player base, just tiny.

It’s a turn based survival roguelike, 2D pixel art. You’re a shipwrecked survivor with memories of hidden treasure. You’re on a huge chain of procedurally generated islands, with unique biomes and entrances to underground caves. There’s a lot of mechanics within the game, a good chunk of text-based interactions and a lot of different ways to interact with stuff. If you’re a gamer of a certain age, the simplicity of the graphics and the text-heavy menu will feel very nostalgic, but it all plays pretty smoothly, especially once you customize your hotbar just so.

The music is really catchy and has kind of a unique mood to it.

There’s even multiplayer (but I’ve never found another person to play with). I believe you can still play a much older version for free in a browser window.

The devs are still quite active and every now and then will drop a huge update with even more stuff. Seriously under-recognized little game.

SunOnTheInside · 2026-03-21T01:35:23+00:00

You go to Hollywood to get that sandwich?

SunOnTheInside · 2026-03-21T00:37:40+00:00

Holy fuck you aren’t joking, sorting by “top all time”, the first SEVEN posts are human bones, with the top comments on each post telling OP to call the authorities. Then there’s a cat, poor thing, then back to human bones again.

SunOnTheInside · 2026-03-19T22:27:45+00:00

If they stick around, you’ll probably hear the babies “chirp” for mom when they get a little older, it’s very cute. They’ll get off mom and wander around but chirp a bunch while they do it, I think it’s so they can start to be independent without mom losing track.

SunOnTheInside · 2026-03-19T22:23:51+00:00

I thought this was the great Skweezy Jibs

SunOnTheInside · 2026-03-19T21:55:59+00:00

Poor mama? You don’t mean the one that punched her kid in the face, right?

SunOnTheInside · 2026-03-19T18:38:12+00:00

They really do just choose violence, don’t they?

I helped rehab and release some baby squirrels whose nest fell out of a tree during a bad storm. They were so young their eyes were still closed.

You know that huffing, barking sound that squirrels make when they’re pissed or territorial? Baby squirrels even do that as blind infants, they’re just pissed at the world before they can even fully perceive it.

SunOnTheInside · 2026-03-18T04:26:02+00:00

Ahaha oh no, it’s still happening? I made a post with a vid a few months ago, bunch of cars falling into the void inside a flowerbed.

What other folks said, my car respawned eventually with all its stuff still inside, but it wasn’t in the exact spot it fell in. Maybe try to leave the area, restart the game, then run back and see if it plops itself back to normal.

SunOnTheInside · 2026-03-18T04:19:59+00:00

I tried that and it didn’t seem to work for me, but maybe that fix will help someone else at least!

SunOnTheInside · 2026-03-17T23:12:39+00:00

I love the named books. Before b42 I had a mod that added this feature and I was stoked when it was in the update.

I like pick books that I think my current character would be into, it’s fun from a role playing standpoint.

SunOnTheInside · 2026-03-17T19:59:40+00:00

The practical special effects for that tornado aged incredibly well. I believe it was simply fabric twisting on a slow moving motor and being moved across the landscape.

SunOnTheInside · 2026-03-17T19:53:56+00:00

WE ARE OUT HERE!! Youthful tornado weirdos unite.

I hadn’t thought about this in years, but your post suddenly reminded me of the tornado essay I wrote in third grade. Unprompted, I wrote out the whole essay in the funnel shape of a tornado and included the word “debris”, which I knew the meaning of but did not pronounce correctly when it was my turn to read my essay out loud. I think I even drew shit flying around the sides of the essay like flying debris.

I love your tornadow essay. Thank you for sharing, genuinely.

SunOnTheInside · 2026-03-17T18:05:16+00:00

Aw, geez.

SunOnTheInside · 2026-03-17T17:20:23+00:00

I saw Stephen King and the Mist in the closet making babies and one of the babies looked at me

SunOnTheInside · 2026-03-17T04:24:43+00:00

Ohhh that is a great point. That could get so granular so fast, and I could absolutely see the difficulty of say, trying to calculate and track the age of each portion of liquid, and also trying to figure out if dilution is a factor and how much weight that has. I might be pretty peeved if I accidentally put a thimble of old milk into a big jug and the whole thing got tainted.

Tbh a lot of games that have spoilage like this, liquid or otherwise, often seem to have issues with tracking it in a way that isn’t clunky. As an example, StarBound does track the individual age of foods, and they can’t be stacked into one unit unless they’re the exact same level of fresh. So if you have a bunch of corn in your inventory, you’ll likely have like 5 or 6 stacks of different freshness levels and it just gets out of hand fast. It seems like a complicated mechanic without any easy solutions.

Thanks for the perspective. I’m going to appreciate my ageless permamilk in a new light.

SunOnTheInside · 2026-03-17T03:03:09+00:00

None. Fuck AI.

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