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[rookishwanderer]

If the sacrifice for being able to say/do whatever we want in Tomodachi Life is no sharing capabilities, then it's worth the cost.

[catgirl-kaiju]

here's to all of the neurodivergent transfems who never got the chance to be seen as the Weird Little Girls™ we were when we were kids

[nekoisopods]

Alien designs be like…

[teaboot]

Not pertinent to anything in particular but I do think it's kinda weird that we keep depicting cavemen in media crawling around on all fours covered in dirt with tangled, matted hair, speaking in broken, cobbled-together toddler language when like.

They were us.

Like literally genetically they were US, just like. A while ago.

Like

Would you trust a TV caveman with a baby? Probably not

A real life caveman though??? I think they'd be at least okay at it

[sheilikhal]

This is actually really important and comes up in Anthropology classes all. The. Time.

As long as homo sapiens have existed, we have had the same emotional and mental capacity as you and I do today. You nailed it. They were US. Even Neaderthals existed alongside and had offspring with Homo Sapiens for many thousands of years.

There's much evidence that cavemen would have had complex spoken language, culture (learned information passed down), symbolic interpretation, and I think they most certainly would have been able to handle holding a baby. In fact I have my suspicisions that an ancient homo sapiens mother may be a more present, attentive, and knowledgable mom than I could be today.

Do not let media trick you into believing we are the pinnacle of humanity. Unilinial evolution theory (google it quick I beg) is BUNK, GARBAGE, and the root of so much evil.

We've been human for a long, long time, and we are not inherently better than all those who came before.

[fresne999]

One the most profound experiences of my life was visiting Font de Gaume, which has 12 thousand year old paintings. They use a technique where the horses appeared to run across the wall when seen in flickering firelight. There was a bison the wall staring at us with such attitude, I could practically hear him. I had the most profound feeling of those ancient artists reaching forward to lay their hands on my shoulders. To say, "This was my world." It was a profoundly moving experience.

Some years later, I went to the Orkney islands where we visited a tiny family run museum of artifacts from the chambered tomb at the other end of the farm. They handed me a pestle once held by some neolithci human.They'd worn groves where the thumb and forefinger would be for better grip.

[cymbie8]

One time, in a French history class, my teacher randomly at the end of the class had all of us draw a sketch of a horse. And we were all like ??? Okay???

At the beginning of the next class, my teacher showed us a cave painting of a horse. And then he showed all of our horses, which he had scanned and put into the presentation.

He then pointed out all the ways that our horses looked similar to the prehistoric horse. Same features, drawn from the same angle, etc.

And then he asked us, "Isn't it cool that you draw horses the same way as someone who lived 20,000 years ago?"

Yeah. That stuck with me for a while.

[catgirlthecrazy]

In Spain, there's a cave full of ancient, ice age era drawings of bison and reindeer and other animals of that period... And one small section of chaotic scribbles just a little away from everything else. These scribblesv were so incomprehensible, they were originally just called the 'Panel of Enigmatic Signs'... Until it occurred to someone that drawings only three feet off the ground probably weren't made by adults.

Scientists are now pretty sure the scribbles were made by kids ages 3-6, more or less on their own. The adult cave artists were probably doing what any modern parent might do when they want to keep small children out of their hair for awhile: they gave the kids some drawing tools of their own and a small section of wall to work on, out of the way but still close enough to keep an eye on them, and let them have at it.

What's most charming about the whole thing is the way the cave scribbles look exactly like what you'd find on the wall of a preschool today. Artistic styles vary widely across different times and cultures, but child development is as near to a universal human experience as it gets.

[mikkeneko]

Wisher made detailed 3D scans of the drawings, which helped her understand the uneven pressure applied to the charcoal and the direction the lines were drawn. The team then compared the panel’s composition with age-appropriate artistic efforts by modern children. Kids across cultures go through the same developmental stages, which influence their physical ability to draw, until about the age of 6, Amir notes.

The team compared the ancient art with the developmental stages exhibited by modern children: the furiously scribbled circles and push-pull lines typical of 3-year-olds just learning to control their bodies, for example, or the wobbly, right-angled figures of slightly older kids beginning to master fine motor skills.

Both are apparent in the cave, superimposed on each other as though two or more kids were drawing at once. That’s a clue the Las Monedas marks were likely made by “siblings or a mixed-age play group within the sphere of safety around adults, but also within their own space,” says co-author Felix Riede, an Aarhus archaeologist.

...

Adults at Las Monedas would have been aware of what the kids were doing and presumably had lit fires or torches; without ample firelight the cave is pitch black.

[i-draws-dinosaurs]

These are the scribbles in question!!!

[zmpl]

has anyone noticed that after the porn ban of 2018 tumblr was essentially killed from the mainstream and everyone flocked to other social media sites like twitter and meta. then those sites got enshittified to where twitter became Nazi Central and meta sites had an entire meme around getting “zucced” aka mark zuckerberg himself would ban you for saying a no-no word like fuck. and then the mainstream shifted to tiktok where infamous toddlerspeak sentences like “he got unalived by a pew pew” were born because if you once again say a no-no word like kill or gun or any other word that isn’t corporate i mean kid friendly then the algorithm will bury your post into the ground. and somehow we’ve come full circle and tumblr is now the most bearable social media site because although we can’t have female presenting nipples we can at least talk to each other like adults. has anyone noticed that at all or is it just me and the flaming skull

[croaksac]

the complete and total defeat in the prosecutor's voice at the very end..... im 💀💀💀

[bogleech]

Havent seen a lot about this on tumblr so maybe not a lot of people know:

He was wrongfully raided by police in 2022

He used footage and names of the specific cops in posts, videos and songs making fun of them

The cops sued for defamation and cried in court about the songs ruining their lives

He won anyway

[evilwizard]

gnome scientists have discovered how to split the atomberry

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

The invention of bombasticly berry flavors, and their death toll, based on this break through, ended up becoming gnome physicist Alberry Tinystein’s biggest regret in life.

[evilwizard]

upon hearing the term, “mushroom cloud,” many gnomes ran outside laughing and giggling with glee, only to be caught in the blast

[sunnylovesgirlythings]

The thing that makes the Tomodachi life sequels handling of adding LGBTQIA+ content in as promised so great?

Is that they had so many “safer” options and still chose to make it explicitly LGBTQIA+ in a natural way.

Like they could’ve just done a sims and omitted any limitations on the mii’s attraction functions to begin with. A “there! Your miis can like anyone! Same sex attraction added via the technicality of everyone being pan!” Solution. Which most would’ve accepted.

But they took it a step further and said “we’re letting you choose the finer details of your mii’s interiority.” They let you pick what each mii is attracted to! Bi, pan, gay or straight you can make them it!

Which not only allows it them to be a lot more personalised? But also allows for Aromantic characters who aren’t attracted to anyone! Which wouldn’t be possible if they just took it out of the players hands and made attraction general.

Same with there being a distinct and named Nonbinary option. They could have so easily just snuck in a vague genderless option where if you didn’t select a gender your mii would default to they/them.

But no it’s not hidden away. It’s firmly one of the options. The mii is nonbinary not just nebulously neutral.

It stops it feeling like a “queer by technicality” afterthought. They were thinking of us. They had us in mind when implementing these.

We are just as deserving of thought and consideration in the media crafting process as anyone else.

We matter enough to be directly thought of.

It’s the difference between accepting we’re gonna be there and being actively inclusive to our presence.

[tunanoot]

Me when I fool around and get the whole island fighting for me

[moguche030]

I need this game NOW

[consider-the-coconuts]

Justice for my man Bubbles 😔

[thesalsaguy216]

Honestly, in the most light hearted way possible, I can already predict that this will be how some people’s resident census in their islands will be looking like in Living The Dream

[kirbstarzz]

LIVING THE DREAMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[fusionkitty23]

You can customize your tv screen they say

[consider-the-coconuts]

I didn't even consider the things I could do with the TV...

THE ISLAND SHALL ONLY BE ALLOWED TO WATCH THE GREMLINS FRANCHISE!!! MWAHAHAAHAHAHAHA

[herohalcyon]

Something I haven't seen people people talk about that I really enjoyed was that the direct was presented as someone just making up ocs as they go along. "So uh there's this college student, and this is her childhood teddy bear, and this is her professor who loves *takes random paper from a hat* monster trucks, and this is the sexy clown." It's all very whimsical

[evilwizard]

i don’t support the elf king’s social policies i just think he’ll be good for the economy

[evilwizard]

oookay so im learning orc city did most of the manufacturing for the elf kingdom

[bixels]

This is about the new Pixar movie but I’m complaining about a lot of the animation “community” at large, and not at all an equivalently serious comparison, but online animation fans who shit talk Pixar’s latest art styles have the same kind of mindset as anti-vaxxers who will make shit up to justify an opinion and then launch into full conspiracy theory mode whenever someone with actual professional experience speaks up.

Just say you don’t like how it looks, don’t pull buzzwords like “pipeline optimization” and “homogenization” out because you ‘thought about it really hard’ for a couple minutes. Brother, you are a 3D Blender hobbyist. Watching a lot of cartoons and making PS1 low-poly models of your OCs doesn’t suddenly make you a media theorist or an industry expert.

[bixels]

I dunno, I feel like the last five years of Pixar have looked pretty good too.

[bixels]

I watched Elio. It was good!

[consider-the-coconuts]

Seeing everyone call this the WORST Pixar movie makes me very embarrassed because I sobbed uncontrollably watching it what the hell does that say about me ;-;

[feral-pixie-dream-possum]

As a kid you think you're Gizmo but as an adult you realise that of course you're a gremlin. You'd do anything to snack when you want. Life is all about going drinking with your buddies, doing drag, having movie nights, being unapologetically annoying. Sure, sometimes you'll end up in a fucking blender, but shit happens.