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@eldritch-vibe
step one: replace entire personality with open, festering wound
step two: contort absolutely all stimuli in my environment to relate to the my wound in some manner, ideally one which justifies random acts of unbridled aggression and vengeance
step three: marry a girl with generational wealth
printers behave like that because the medieval monks they put out of work are haunting them
I have to make the bed but hes in the way
Be sealed for all time
Now that the lead dev of silksong has publicly come out, I can share this funny story.
So, back in october I was at a monthly trans meetup just chatting with the other women there. We were talking about how all the best games are made by transfems, and I made the joke that someone from team cherry needs to transition. One of the other women cackled at my joke. At the time I didn't think anything of it.
Fast forward one month. The person who cackled at my joke brought a friend with her this time. I was chatting with this new girl for a while, getting to know her, as you do.
After like an hour of chatting, the conversation turns to silksong and team cherry. I casually say "My impression of team cherry is that they're all really chill dudes," and I swear to fucking god the girl next to me says, "Yeah, we are."
Cue me being absolutely dumbfounded. I actually couldn't believe that my offhand joke from a month ago was real.
Anyway that's how I met the lead developer of silksong.
once you notice half of all memes are just a picture of a black person with unrelated text over them you really cannot unsee it
this is actually horrific right? we can all agree about that?
I'd never thought I needed to be paranoid about the fact that photos I share on social media might be turned into memes in a discord run by JuicyBigNut but that's what existing in a public space as a black person is like! not to mention the fact that they don't even know who the man in the picture, yet we know who first spread it and no one has beaten that guy to death yet
itâs a beautiful day to check out a book from the library
its a beautiful day to return a book to the library unread after it auto renews 3 times
The library says thank you for boosting our circulation stats and the book will still be here later if you want it another time <3
"I don't want a treasure chest behind every waterfall in a game, it ruins the sense of discovery-" Wrong wrong incorrect. You are incapable of properly experiencing joy independent of novelty. You don't deserve to have it. Give it to me.
Man who hates the very concept of life and all living beings: I should design portal websites for colleges and job applications
Friend of mine was submitting a job application and discovered that they REQUIRED a photo:
Weâre trying to decide which of these is a better option:
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Thank you, lady đ¤
The Nigerian accent. God. She reminds me of home...
Always grateful when this makes the rounds
I donât care if Mondayâs yuck
Tuesday, Wednesday tread through muck
Thursday maybe eat a duck
Itâs Friday, Flat as Fuck
Its still so funny that they even thought to put this in the game in the first place. Yeah sure to get 100% completion you have to actively break the terms of service on purpose. This is normal
Letâs look at some elephants
*insert Backrooms reference here*
Okay where to startâŚfirst of all, the trunk isnât too far off from reality, yeah the opening is too big and too round but they still got the wrinkles on the trunk correct so Iâll give them props for that. They got the tusks pretty close too. As for everything else? WellâŚyeah đŹ
First of all, that tiny round earâŚno elephant in the world has ears that shape, they make it look like this elephant lost his real ears in a terrible accident and had to get mouse ears transplanted onto him for whatever reason.
And the bodyâŚwhyâs the chest so square??? He looks like he canât even raise his head. Tbh his body almost looks like a horse (except for his feet, which Iâll get to later), he even has a horse tail. Could the person who described elephants to the artist have used horses as a comparison maybe? That comparison wouldnât make sense considering an elephantâs body looks nothing like a horse but idkâŚmaybe the body wasnât described to them so the artist just made a guess. But yeah, elephants donât have long, thin, rectangular bodies, elephants are ROUND, baby.
Anyway, I find it amusing that the artist gave them toes and little claws. Elephants actually do have toes irl, if you look at an elephantâs skeleton you can see their feet actually have a pretty similar bone structure to a human foot (including toe bones), but we obviously canât see them due to the stumpy shape of their foot. They do have toenails though, but definitely no claws.
So yeah, they did an okay job with the trunk and the tusks but everyone elseâŚnot so much.
Since this post is about elephants, Iâm just gonna comment on the elephant here and leave the dragon out if it.
Anyway, like the caption says, this guy has no ears and a castle on his back. Letâs talk about the lack of ears first: jeez, you think the first guy having tiny mouse ears was bad? At least he has ears, this poor guy has none đ
As for the castle on his back, is there some kind of mythology to that or did the artist just think it sounded grand to have a castle sitting on top of such a massive animal? If itâs the latter then that would make sense because theyâre totally right, thatâs awesome as hell lmao.
This one has a rounder body shape compared to the first one so thatâs definitely an improvement. They still didnât get it quite right though, it makes me think of a pig more than an elephant, it even has a curly tail. The feet are stumpier this time but the legs make me think of a horse, especially the hind leg. It does look like they added toenails to the elephantâs feet, so at least they kinda got that right, even if they are drawn pretty awkwardly (I also just looked up how many toenails elephants have: African savanna elephants have 14 (4 on the front feet and 3 on the back), Asian elephants have 18 (5 on the front feet and 4 on the back), and African forest elephants have 18 (5 on the front feet, 4 on the back).
This guy also has human-shaped eyes that are obviously way too big for him, but honestly Iâm okay with that because it makes him look adorable lol. The way heâs looking up and frowning makes him look annoyed though, I wonder if heâs unhappy about having a castle on his back or if heâs annoyed by the dragon. Maybe both lol.
This trunk is smoother than the first elephant and has a similar round opening, also the lower lip is too long. The tusks are shaped pretty well, but it looks like theyâre jutting out of his chin instead of his jaw lol.
Overall, definitely another very inaccurate design but still very cute.
Again, Iâm only gonna comment on the elephants here.
First of all, even though those trumpet-shaped trunks are obviously inaccurate, I donât mind at all because thatâs clever as hell lol. Especially since the humans are playing trumpets of their own. The artist mustâve been aware that elephants make a trumpeting sound.
Everything else is once again wrong. Those tusks look more like a wild boarâs tusks or like two large fangs, an elephantâs are waaaaay longer than that.
The artist was almost close to making the ears look accurate to an Asian elephantâs ears but unfortunately they came out looking more like floppy dog ears. The forehead shape also makes me think of Asian elephants.
These elephants have long necks, something elephants very clearly donât have. These body makes me think of a pig once again, their feet even look like pig trotters.
Obviously very inaccurate overall, but still a cool creature design (especially the trumpet trunk).
Another instance where the trunks look like trumpets lol. Strangely enough, their ears look trumpet-shaped as well, albeit very short ones. Now Iâm imagining elephants that trumpet out of their trunks and ears lmao. That would actually be pretty cool, Iâm ngl.
The tusks on these guys are pretty accurate. The lower lips are once again too long though.
The heads on these guys are way too small for their bodies, a problem every elephant in this post has had so far except for the earless guy with the castle on his back. An elephantâs massive head is one of the most noticeable things about them so itâs funny seeing how small they are in a majority of medieval manuscripts.
The bodies once again make me think of a pig, although here the legs are too long and they have tiny paws like a dog or a cat. An elephantâs big stumpy feet and big toenails are also one of the most noticeable things about them, why were the people who described elephants to these artists so bad at describing things lol.
The rails are pretty accurate though.
Once again very inaccurate, but I also wanna point out how cute it is that the bottom picture has a mom cuddling with her baby.
Thatâs all for now đ
IIRC, the castle-elephant thing goes like this.
Medieval Europeans were very aware of the concept of âwar elephantsâ, as they show up in a number of classical sources & said classical sources are where they get most of their conception of What Am Elephants. Alexander âthe Greatâ is the origin point here, as he often is â heâs said to have captured some war elephants from the Persians, thought they were awesome, and immediately set about getting more & integrating them into his army. Medieval Europeans love Alexander, so now thatâs wedged into the zeitgeist.
One of the effective uses of an elephant in pre-modern warfare is as a mobile weapons platform: you put a squad of archers or whatever in a howdah, and now they have the high ground no matter where they go. This is also sometimes the command post, because (1) it provides a vantage point from which one can see more of the battlefield and (2) officers considered riding around on an elephant to be sick as fuck.
Texts that talk about howdahs often refer to them as âturretsâ or âtowersâ. A military howdah is usually made of wood & leather, of course, but Europeans donât have a clear sense of how big elephants actually are, so they imagine actual stone towers or even full castles.
This castle-elephant iconography actually survives into the present day, in at least one form that I guarantee everyone reading this has seen:
Yeah, what did yâall think was letting those castles move around the board like that?
it really is kind of interesting how attached people are to the idea of the improvised line and the genuine reaction in film. nearly every single famous moment or line has some sort of claim floating around that it wasn't in the script and was either made up on the spot by an actor or was sprung as a surprise on the actors to get their 'real' reaction. you know, sometimes people do come up with good lines in advance and write them down, and sometimes people can pretend to be have a convincing emotional response on screen
also important to note that a lot of the 'improvised' lines that people talk about are things that might not be in the script, that the actors cone up with while shooting, but still discuss and figure out with the director before shooting the final takes. genuinely improvised lines without any prior knowledge are pretty rare. i think instances when the people involved in making a film collaborate to make changes to a script are really cool, and the fetishisation of the 'genuine reaction' and 'improvised line' also cheapen this form of 'improvisation' i.e. collaboration and flexibility among artists
"we live in an uncaring universe." sorry the special planet full of beauty and animals and food literally growing out of the ground isnt good enough for you. i guess
If someone beats you up for being "cishet white male" and nothing else, is this okay? Did you deserve it?
what if the world was made of pudding
