Still to this day i found this scene hilarious, because it’s fucking kingdom hearts, taking someone’s heart has an entirely different meaning in the context of the series, and the evil queen is the first person in decades over like 7 games to actually wan’t someone to literally rip someone’s physical heart, the actual honest to goodness organ, as means to kill, of course these people would be absolutely confused about the idea.
Some of you are reblogging because you think its funny that programmers would talk to ducks. I’m reblogging because I think its funny picturing a programmer explaining their code, realizing what they did when they explain the bad code, then grabbing the strangling the duck while yelling “WHY WAS THE FIX THAT SIMPLE!? AM I GOING BLIND!”
AS A PROGRAMMER I CAN TELL YOU THAT THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU FUCKING DO WE HAD TO BAN THE DUCKS FROM MY CLASSES BECAUSE EVERYONE WOULD FLIP THE DUCK OR THROW IT AT A WALL OR SOMETHING WHEN THEY FIGURED OUT THE PROBLEM IN THEIR CODE
so that’s the function of a rubber duck
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I work at a startup and part of the onboarding package you get when you first start working here now includes a rubber duck. We also have a bigger version of the duck for the extra hard problems. Sometimes one duck doesn’t cut it and you need to borrow your neighbors to get more ducks on the problem. One time we couldn’t figure out why something wasn’t working right so we assembled the counsel of ducks and by the grace of the Duck Gods were we able to finally come to a solution. These ducks have saved many lives and should be respected for the heroes they are.
I use this for writing, actually. Explain what I’m doing and what I want to do and the different ways i can get to point B from A, as well as the different problems, amazingly working them out as I explain why I could or couldn’t the different things. I love the Rubber Duck theory.
Former programmer, can confirm. We didn’t have a duck in our office so our other programmer, who I shared a space with, used me as a duck proxy. (For the explaining, not the throwing.)
There was more than one day where I’d casually hear “Hey can you be a duck for a minute?”
these watches are so pretty i just had to design characters for them… rainbow white’s wand is the minute hand of a clock, and rainbow black’s is the second hand! they both specialize in time magic ✨
i think solarpunk should have texture, physical texture that explicitly rejects the perfectionism of capitalism / colonialism / eugenics.
like, really tangible solid objects and spaces, that are allowed to be wonky and imperfect and unique and non-minimalist with signs of repair and reuse. and realizing and celebrating that nature is the same way. and getting dirt on your hands. and the same logic applied to people – solarpunk by and for and about people with scars and marks and quirks, disabled people, neurodivergent people.
and solarpunk that rejects forcing prescribed requirements of “usefulness and functionality” onto people and objects and… everything.