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Caux Collective Introduces: King Of Fighters

Featuring no less than 125 fantastic GIF’s, a recent post on Imgur has been reigniting people’s adoration of old-school graphics, with this set of stunning images exhibiting extraordinary looping backgrounds, which we all became accustomed to playing fighting games such as the Japanese smash, King Of Fighters, during the the 90’s.

In an age where technology is moving faster than many of us can keep up with, especially in the realm of gaming, revisiting the simplistic, retro beauty of the graphics that many of our very first consoles kept us glued with, rarely loses it’s charm, as evidenced in these images.

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Saving the world, one wrinkled dress shirt at a time (x).

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:56:49 -0500

Saving the world, one wrinkled dress shirt at a time (x).

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finofilipino: ¡Feliz día de la madre! Enviado por From442.

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finofilipino:

¡Feliz día de la madre!

Enviado por From442.

Ice skating for the first time

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:15:03 -0500

laugh-addict:

When doing jumping jacks...

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:00:33 -0500

When doing jumping jacks...:

laugh-addict:

Expectations

Reality

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humlet: JK

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humlet:

JK

behindtheillusions: Michael J. Fox and director Robert Zemeckis...

Thu, 16 May 2013 06:49:51 -0500

behindtheillusions:

Michael J. Fox and director Robert Zemeckis on the set of Back to the Future (1985).

disclosur: Porphyria “The Vampire Disease” Porphyria is...

Thu, 16 May 2013 06:35:39 -0500

disclosur:

Porphyria “The Vampire Disease”

Porphyria is actually a group of diseases, all pertaining to the
metabolism of porphyrin rings that, along with iron, are responsible for
the oxygen-carrying properties of hemoglobin—the red ingredient in
blood. Porphyria is a very rare genetic disorder and is not contagious.
It may have developed among the European nobility due to inbreeding.

In a 1964 article in the _Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine_,
it was proposed that porphyria might be an explanation for werewolf
legends. Twenty-one years later, chemist David Dolphin presented a paper at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, proposing that porphyria might explain vampire legends. It was later refuted by other professionals, due to the fact that the only form of
porphyria which could have been likened to vampirism was the rarest
form, occurring in very few people throughout history.

So why the link between porphyria and vampirism? One of the varieties of porphyria, congenital erythropoietic porphyria, has among its symptoms: severe light sensitivity, reddish-brown urine and teeth, mutilation of the nose, ears, eyelids, and fingers, an excess of body hair, and anemia (compare these symptoms with the description of Stoker’s Dracula). In addition, some kinds of porphyria are associated with epilepsy. However, there is no evidence that porphyrics have any sort of craving to drink blood and, although it has been conjectured that eating garlic might be harmful to them, it is not.

In short, the hullabaloo over porphyria and vampirism was simply a media overreaction which negatively affected the lives of porphyrics by
associating them with vampirism. In one instance, for example, a woman’s husband left her because he was afraid he would be bitten in his sleep and have his blood drained by her. So please, take a grain of salt along with anything you hear about porphyrics as vampires.

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