I don’t know why this home is so cheap, but it looks like a bargain to me, and it also has one extremely cool feature. According to Google, Saginaw has a
growing economy, outstanding healthcare, low cost of living, award-winning schools, and diverse housing options. It also has a vibrant, big-city feel with small city expenses and charm.
“X bodily fluid is just filtered blood!” buddy I hate to break it to you but ALL of the fluids in your body are filtered blood. Your circulatory system is how water gets around your body. It all comes out of the blood (or lymph, which is just filtered blood).
“Okay but why is it always so chemically roundabout and unnecessarily complicated” well buddy, that’s because your blood is imitation seawater. See? It’s very simple.
Buddy if anything is living in your blood (except for more parts of you) in detectable amounts then you have a serious microbial infection and need to go to the hospital.
Humans are seawater wastelands kept sterile of all but human cells, with microbial mats coating their surfaces.
Thank you that’s…very disturbing
It’s not my fault you’re human.
Ok but “It’s not my fault you’re human.” Is the best comeback ever.
You can use it against anyone except children that you biologically helped to create.
Picture this: you are a Thing That Lives In The Ocean. Some kind of small multicellular animal a long time ago, before proper circulatory systems existed. “Wow,” you think, metaphorically, “it sure is difficult to diffuse chemicals across my whole body. Kinda puts a hard limit on the size and distance of what specialised organs I can have. Good thing I have all this water around me that’s the same salinity as my cells (they have to be that way so I don’t explode or shrivel up) so I can diffuse and filter chemicals with that.”
“Wait a minute,” you say a couple of generations later, because you’re not actually a small animal but an evolutionary process personified and simplified to the point of dangerous inaccuracy for the purposes of a Tumblr post, “instead of losing all these important chemicals to the water around me, how about I put it in tubes? I can keep MY water separate from the rest of the world’s water! Anything I want to keep goes in my water! Anything I don’t, I dump back into the outside water! I’m a genius! An unthinking natural trial-and-error process that’s a GENIUS!”
“Wow,” you think a great many generations later, “being able to have such control over such high concentrations of important chemicals is so great. Look how big I’m getting. I even have a special pump to move my seawater around, and these cool filter systems to keep the chemicals in it right, and that control and chemical concentration has let me grow so many energy-intensive, highly specialised organs! Being big is so hard. I need special cells just to carry my oxygen around now, to make sure my enormous, constantly-operating body has enough of it.”
At this point you are embodying a fish, and eventually, fish start straying into water with different pressures and salinity levels. (I mean, they do that since befor ehty’er fish, but… look, I’m trying to keep things simple here.) “What the FUCK,” you think. “My inside water is at a different salinity and pressure to the outside water?? How am I supposed to deal with that? I can’t have freshwater inside my seawater tubes! My cells have a set salinity and they would explode! I need to start beefing up my regulatory and filter systems so that my inside seawater STAYS SEAWATER OF THE CORRECT SALINITY even if the outside water is different! Fortunately, adding salt to my seawater is a lot easier than removing it, and I want to be saltier than this weird outside water.” At this point you beef up your liver and urinary systems to compensate for different salinities. (Note: the majority of fish, freshwater and saltwater, have a fairly narrow band of salinities they can live in. Every fish doesn’t get to deal with every level of salinity; they are evolved to regulate within specific bands.)
You also, at some point, go out on land. This is new and weird because you have to carry all of your water inside. “It’s a good thing I turned myself into a giant bag of seawater,” you think. “If I wasn’t carrying my seawater inside, how would I transport all these important chemicals between my organs and the environment?” As you specialise to live entirely outside of the water, you realise (once again) that it’s a lot easier to add salt to water than to remove it in great quantities. Drinking seawater in large amounts becomes toxic; your body isn’t specialised for removing that amount of salt. Instead, you drink freshwater, and add salts to that. The majority of your organs are, at this point, specialised for moving your seawater around, protecting it, adding stuff to it, or taking stuff out. You have turned yourself into an intelligent bag for carrying and regulating a small amount of imitation seawater, and its salinity (and your commitment to maintaining that salinity) is based entirely on the seawater that some early animals started to build tubes around a long time ago.
And that’s what a human is!
Well, there’s another few steps, of course.
Because at some point, operating along lines of logic that worked out perfectly so far, you did decide to be a mammal.
A mammal is a machine for adapting to Circumstances. A mammal is a tremendously resilient all-terrain life-support system, with built-in heating, cooling, respiration, and incubators for reproduction. Mammals internalise everything (grudges, eggs) and furthermore are excessively, flamboyantly wet internally. Sure, everyone’s a bag of chemicals; but mammals slosh. Mammals took the concept of an internal ocean and took it in an unnecessarily splashy direction, added aftermarket mods and a climate-control system,
and just to show off, you leaned across the metaphorical gambling table and said: “my internal ocean is so good-“
“Bullshit,” said the shark, keeping it salty (ha)
“My internal ocean is so brilliantly resilient, more so than any of YOURS,” you said, holding their attention with a digit held aloft, “that for my next trick, I shall artistically recreate the ballad of evolution as a performance. I shall craft a complex chemical ballet depicting the origin of multicellular life – using some of my own material, of course-”
“Oh, ANYONE can lay an egg,” yodel the fish, and the ray adds: “ontogeny does NOT recapitulate phylogeny!!”
And you’re like, “yeah no, it’s an artistic rendition, not a literal thing. Basically I’m going to take some cells and brew them up-“
“Like an egg.”
“Like an egg. An egg but internally.”
“Yeah,” said the viviparous reptile, “yeah, like, that can work really well. I’ve always said it’s the highest test of one’s chemical know-how. It’s a lot of work. And forget about support from your family – forget about support from your PHYLUM – all you get is criticism.”
“I’m gonna do it on purpose forever,” you said. “The highest chemical, thermoregulatory, immunological, everything-logical challenge. It’s gonna be my thing.”
“I’m with you,” said a viviparous fish, stoutly. “Representation.”
You kindly don’t point out, once again, that you’re planning to do this outside the ocean, in a range of temperatures; carrying the dividing cells in a perfect 37.5• solution of saline broth in all terrains, breathing oxygen in a complicated matter, you know, bit more difficult; but you need your allies.
“It’s solid,” says the coelacanth.
“But is it metal?” says the deep-vent organism.
“Oh, it’s metal. I will feed the young,” you say, magnificently, “on an echo of the mother ocean. The first rich feast of cellular matter, the first hunt for sustenance, the first bite they sip of our liquid planet-”
Everyone waits.
“Will be a blood byproduct. My own blood byproduct.”
Everyone looks uncomfortable.
“But,” a hagfish says carefully, “don’t you outdoorsy guys still need your blood?”
You cough and explain that if you stay wet enough internally and hydrate frequently, you should be able to produce enough blood byproduct to sustain your hellish new invention until they can eat your peers.
The outrage that follows includes questions like “is this some furry shit?” And: “milk has WATER in it?”
And you won the bet. “My inner ocean is such a perfect homage to the primordial soup that I can personally cook up an entire live hairy mammal in it. And then generate excess blood byproduct from my body and give it to the small mammal until it gets big.”
That is an absolutely bonkers pitch, by the way, and everyone thought you were a showoff, even before the opposable thumbs. When the winter came, and the winter of winters, and the rain was acid and the air was poison on the tender shells of their eggs and choked the children in the shells; when the plants turned to poison, and the ocean turned against you all; when the climate changed, and the world’s children fell to shadow; your internal ocean was it that held true. A bet laid against the changing fates, a bet laid by a small beast against climate and geography and the forces of outer space, that you won. The dinosaurs fell and the pterosaurs fell and the marine reptiles dwindled, and you, furthest-child, least-looked-for, long-range-spaceship, held hope internally at 37.5 degrees. Which is another thing that humans do, sometimes.
I do love when I get a whaler’s journal that has a lot of misspellings. It makes it slower to get through, but in my forever-fascination with New England accents prior to the latter half of the 19th century…when he spells things phonetically you get a better sense of his voice. I always try to preserve them.
In all the things I’ve cobbled together regarding early 19th c New England accents, ranging from the Biglow Papers to children’s speller books (targeting ‘mispronunciations in rural accents’), and whaler journals I can only describe it as like…
A Twangy Brogue. I love it. I’m so fond.
Examples off the top of my head to get a sense.
Catch – Kitch Certain – Sarten Oil and boil – Ile, bile Such – Setch Lantern – Lant-horn Coin – Quine Chair – Cheer After – Arter Birthday – bethday Water – Warter Exhausted – Exorsted Get – Git Sit – Set Girl – Gal, gel Chimney – Chimbly Dirt – Dut Learn – Larn Cards – Cairds Solider – Soger Nervous – Narvous Afraid – Afeared
Turns of phrase like asking ‘be you happy’ instead of ‘are you happy’, swapping ‘on’ and ‘of’ such as ‘she died of a summer day, and fever was what she died on’ instead of ‘she died on a summer day and fever is what she died of’. ‘Wake snakes’ meaning stirring up trouble. etc. etc. etc. Love all of it.
Although its been never officially confirmed by Capcom, many fans have speculated that the inspiration for Cammy comes from Gally/Alita, the main protagonist from manga and anime Battle Angel Altia. Much of Cammy’s mannerisms, moves, and design are similar to Gally. Again, nothing has been confirmed by Capcom, so take this with a grain of salt.
Cammy’s Street Fighter V appearance is inspired by original concept sketches of her from Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers.
In 1996, Capcom premiered X-Men Vs. Street Fighter in arcades, the first in the Capcom Vs. series. In the game it premiered Alpha Cammy AKA “Killer Bee” Cammy in the game before her first Street Fighter appearance in the update in Street Fighter Alpha 2, Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold.
She retains her XVSF in her Alpha 2 Gold appearance however her arcade story and ending is considered non-canon. Her first canon appearance is in Street Fighter Alpha 3 in 1998
Cammy’s Killer Bee sprite has seen the most appearances too.
In the SF manga, Sakura Ganbaru!, Cammy gets her name from Sakura who finds a then amnesiac Cammy and names her after a cat by the same name she found.
These events are considered canon and in Street Fighter IV, both characters share dialogue acknowledging this in arcade mode.
In Street Fighter X Tekken, Cammy’s Cross Art is a reference to the opening scene of the Street Fighter II:The Movie where she assassinates someone by snapping their neck.
Capcom also references this opening bit as well with the intro toAlpha Cammy’s, where Cammy comes out hooded similar to how she was introduced in the movie.
Cammy is one the few Street Fighter characters have a star in her own non-Fighting Game, Cannon Spike, named after her attack with the same name. This 2001 run and gun shooter was made by Psikyo and stars various other Capcom characters with character designs by Kinu Nishimura.
Cammy’s default design in the game is also inspired by her concept sketches from Super Street Fighter II. Her second outfit, Alpha/Killer Bee, is also an unlock able outfit in the game.
Cammy also made a cameo as a boss character in Final Fight Streetwise.
Probably one of the weirdest appearances by Cammy in the Street Fighter universe was in the American Street Fighter II cartoon where she was Guile’s love interest (?) before revealing she was a spy for M.Bison as well as his love interest (?!) resulting in one of the more infamous scenes of series.
Cammy’s final appearance in the American SF II cartoon came in the series finale where after being told she had been brain washed by Bison she made another very infamous scene from the series…
Happy Birthday Cammy. Maybe someday you’ll get to wear pants (at least wear them in a game that is good).
Another January 6th, another birthday for Cammy. Still no pants. Here are some more pointless trivia facts:
Famous Actress Jamie Lee Curtis reveled in an interview that not only is she an avid Street Fighter player, but Cammy is favorite.
That same year, Curtis along with her family attended EVO 2015, all of them cosplayed at the event. Weaver was cosplaying as Vega/Claw
As of SFV, Juni lives with Cammy after she was resuced by her. She also now shares Cammy’s love of cats
Cammy’s and Chun Li’s Capcom Pro Tour costumes are based around a promotional art work for Super Street Fighter II Turbo done by Kinu Niishmura
Cammy has had leading roles in Manga series and Comic Books.
Happy Birthday Cammy!
Another year, another fictitious B-Day for the English lady with no pants. Here are more facts on Cammy.
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Super Street Fighter: The New Challengers, the first game Cammy appeared in.
This year also marks the 10th anniversary of Street Fighter IV, the first mainline Street Fighter appearance since Alpha 3.
Another January 6th means another does of Cammy related Trivia
In Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition, Cammy was given a Shadowloo Catsuit. This is actually a reference to a drawing done by Akiman for Cammy in Street Fighter Alpha 3. A drawing of the concept for this costume can be found in Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection:
Cammy’s Cannon Spike outfit, appearing as an costume in Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition’s Fighting Chance, features select colors from her appearance in Super Street Fighter II: Turbo. Mainly colors 2, 3, 5, and 10.
Colors 15 of Cammy’s Battle Costume in Street Fighter V are references to Cyclops from X-Men. This was alluded in an entry on Capcom Fighters Network entry over that costume:
Color 14 could possibly be a reference to the X-Men Psylocke due to its purple color and that the titular character, much like Cammy, is also British.
These references to X-Men are significant as Alpha/Killer Bee Cammy premiered in X-Men Vs. Street Fighter in 1996
Cammy’s Extra Battle Costume (Fiona from Haunting Ground) and Resident Evil (Jill Valentine) in Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition are one of the few costumes that if you put the costume code, have completely different costumes. For her Finoa costume, you unlock Fiona’s Cowboy costume that was unlocked after being the game and getting Ending A. For her Jill Valentine Costume, Cammy get’s Jill’s redesign default outfit from Resident Evil 3: Nemesis:
Cammy’s Resident Evil costume is also note worthy as it the first costume in Street Fighter V to give her pants. However, its not the first costume that she ever had pants on. The first costume she had pants on was in her cameo in Final Fight Streetwise, as a hidden boss. The first time Cammy had pants on in a mainline Street Fighter game was Ultra Street Fighter IV’s Summer Costume for Cammy. That outfit was designed by Udon Comic artist Edwin Huang: (Twitter, Tumblr)
For her appearance in Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold for the Sega Saturn, Cammy’s theme was a remixed version of her X-Men Vs. Street Fighter Theme. This was the first, and last, time a character’s remixed theme made it into a mainline Street Fighter game:
Cammy is the favorite Street Fighter for former Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono and Street Fighter V Concept and Promotional Artist Shigenori Kiwata/KIKI/KIT-KIT-KIT, whose art is shown below.
Here are some new facts for this year:
This year marks the 30th anniversary of Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers, the game Cammy debuted in.
In 2021, Cammy was given her original Killer Bee outfit from Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold/X-Men vs. Street Fighter in Street Fighter V: Champion Edition. This is different from her Dolls costume, which was to match the redesign that was given to all of the other dolls in the Shadow Falls Cinematic Story Mode.
Pressing the costume code (LK+PPP+UP during the Vs. screen transition) will give her red hoodie from her intro. That hoodie is from her scene from the Street Fighter 2 Animated Movie.
Cammy was added to Fortnite as part of the second wave of Street Fighter X Fortnite on August 8th, 2021. Her outfit was modified to have leggings and her second outfit was based around an unused outfit for her appearance in Final Fight Streetwise. One of the items she comes with is the Northern Lights from her English Manor stage from Super Street Fighter II
Cammy will be apart of the starting character roster of Street Fighter 6, making this the third mainline SF game where she is not only apart of the roster, but the default cast.
Cammy with pants make an appearance in the Street Fighter II V anime series.
She’s still an assassin here, and while she’s not brainwashed in this universe, she’s still being manipulated by a wily Balrog under the employ of Bison.
Her role here is far more fleshed out than other anime appearances, but then that’s the luxury of a 29-episode series.
And don’t worry, they still find a way to have Cammy with no pants.
