James Tiberius “sunk all his points into improvised weaponry and bluff” Kirk, space bard.
Commander “charisma is a dump stat” Spock, space wizard
Lieutenant “wait, can we use supplemental materials for this?” Sulu, space duelist
Lieutenant Nyota“lockpick and detect trap are literally always useful skills guys come on” Uhura, space theif
Lieutenant Commander Montgomery “definitely going to blow the party up with that flask of Greek fire” Scott, space alchemist.
Ensign Pavel “Does not know how to tank” Chekov, Barbarian
And finally, to round out the party, Leonard “I can’t believe not a single one of you motherfuckers took a single rank in healing, I should pick rogue just to spite you,” McCoy, space cleric.
when you break a world record, but a man comes in second (x)
And it’s worth note that Ledecky didn’t just win the 800 freestyle- she obliterated it:
Thats her. And those specks in the distance are her competitors. The second place swimmer was 11 SECONDS behind her. 11 seconds is FOREVER in something like this. Most second place swimmers in most races finish fractions of a second behind the first place swimmer.
Her finishing with none of her competitors in sight. And that yellow line is the previous world record’s pace. Ledecky is more than a full body length ahead.
Which, btw, she did in the 400m freestyle earlier in the games. Seen here:
(The previous world record in this race was held by her, to begin with, btw. As well as the 3 world record times preceding that one.)
So to sum it up: Yeah, Phelps is one of the most decorated Olympic swimmers ever etc etc but him getting silver means jack in the face of the actual-human-avatar-of-Poseidon that is Katie Ledecky.
@tinyadventureclub Last week I pulled off the most mundane prank possible in my office and all my colleagues have been talking about it for days.
We “clock in” by moving these tiny magnetic dots from the “out” square to the “in” square on a magnetic board. Everyone has their own black dot next to their name. For the last several months, someone has consistently been moving Grumpy Dan’s dot to various corners of the board. This outrages Grumpy Dan, and we enjoy watching his rants.
Well, the Dot Bandit hadn’t acted for several weeks, so I decided to take matters into my own hands and move Grumpy Dan’s dot on my own. Sure enough, Grumpy Dan comes in an hour later and starts yelling–only this time, he thinks he’s found the culprit. “Gerry! Freaking Gerry keeps moving my dot! How dare he!”
And so Dan moves Gerry’s dot.
Gerry comes in five minutes later. “NIIIIIIICK, DON’T MOVE MY DOT!” Gerry moves Nick’s dot.
Nick comes in two minutes later. “Jack just loves to mess with me, doesn’t he?” Nick takes Jack’s dot and puts it on the sink in the men’s bathroom (because Nick likes to take things to the next level.)
It’s already going well. Then I want to step it up a notch.
I have this pack of emoji stickers with me (because you should carry stickers with you at all times.) I put a smiley face on Grumpy Dan’s dot and wait for him to come back through.
Grumpy Dan returns. For the first time in my six months of working here, I see him smile. “Who did this?” He’s grinning. “This is…so nice.”
Jack comes in. “Oh look, Dan got a sticker! How cool!” When Jack leaves, I put a sticker on his. Every time someone notices the stickers out loud, I put one on their dot when they walk away, until everyone has one. Mostly animals. Everyone’s chattering–“I got a caterpillar!” “Why did he get a grizzly bear and I got a dolphin? What does that mean?” “Awww, a ladybug! How cute!”
My boss loves it. He thinks we should change the stickers seasonally. He wants to mix it up by doing shamrocks at Christmas and Easter bunnies on the 4th of July.
Everyone still smiles when they come in and look at the board.
I’m still pretty proud of myself for managing to make an entire local government office talk to each other and laugh about something so mundane.
And that’s my tiny adventure! Can I get a merit badge? :)
