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happy birthday to our real hero
so ocelotâs a geminiâŚ.đ
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sources tell me a bitch is having a birthday
If i were an animator for wha, i too would fall in love with brushbuddy and give it more screentime
It's end of May, yall know what that means
i think the key difference between george lucasâs star wars and disneyâs star wars is that lucas is a man with an ideology. someone with a point of view, and all that entails. which comes with ideas of revolution, anti-imperialism, challenging the status quo, cultural appropriation and racist stereotypes. complex and contradictory ideas because thatâs how artists are: complex and complicated people. disney is not. disney is a corporation. a corporation canât have ideology, because ideology defeats the purpose of profit. and when the only thing you do is to turn on the movie manufacturing machine before you sit down and plan what ideas are you trying to convey to the audience, then your results are going to be washed out corporate garbage. and because when youâre a giant corporation who only cares about selling to the widest audience possible, you canât take sides. you canât decide on an idea. because you want to sell your product to people who are on the entire political spectrum. which results in movies without ideology, without purpose, without soul.
I have been looking for this post for years after I came across it and itâs finally here and I need to reblog this because it is absolutely and entirely accurate.
#as I always say: lucas was making a samurai film and a ww2 flying ace film and a western film and adding laser swords#because he fundamentally LIKED samurai films and dambusters films and westerns and 40âs adventure serials#but disney are making a âstar wars filmâ and adding nothing because it already had laser swords and they have nothing else to say#xerox of a xerox baybeeeee (via harrietvane)
This is why Andor is the best Star Wars product to come out of the Disney era (so far), and it's not even close.
She got the idea for the study while walking with her advisor at Stanford to discuss her thesis topic, and the paper she eventually published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology in 2014 is sharp enough that it should have ended the seated meeting on the day it came out.
She ran 4 experiments on 176 people. Same person tested twice. Once sitting, once walking. The creativity tasks were the standard ones psychologists have used for decades to measure how good a brain is at generating novel useful ideas.
81% of participants in the first experiment produced more creative ideas while walking than while sitting. In the second experiment, 88%. In the third, 100%. Every single person walked into a more creative version of themselves. On average, people generated 60% more novel useful ideas the moment their legs started moving.
The skeptical question is the obvious one. Maybe it was the fresh air. Maybe it was the scenery passing by. Maybe it was the change of environment doing the work, not the walking itself.
Oppezzo killed every one of those explanations with one experimental decision. She put people on a treadmill facing a blank wall. No scenery. No fresh air. No environmental change. Just legs moving in place while staring at white drywall. The 60% boost held.
Then she ran the experiment that closed the case completely. She took participants outside in two conditions. Half of them walked through a Stanford courtyard. The other half were pushed through the exact same courtyard in a wheelchair. Same outdoor stimulation. Same scenery passing at the same speed. The only difference was whether the legs were moving.
The walkers produced dramatically more novel high-quality ideas than the wheelchair group. The outdoors did almost nothing on its own. The walking did everything.
She also tested the opposite kind of thinking. Convergent thinking. The kind where there is one right answer and you have to narrow down to it. Word puzzles where 3 words share a hidden fourth word that connects them. The seated participants did slightly better on these. Walkers got slightly worse.
Walking is not a general intelligence enhancer. It does one specific thing. It opens up the divergent search inside your brain. The part that generates options. The part that produces unexpected connections. The part that takes a problem and finds five ways into it instead of one.
When you need to converge on the single right answer, sit down. When you need to find the answer in the first place, get up.
The mechanism is now well understood. Walking selectively activates what neuroscientists call the default mode network, the system inside your brain that runs when you are not consciously focused on anything. The DMN is where mind-wandering happens. Where memories cross-reference each other. Where ideas that have been sitting in separate folders inside your head finally bump into each other.
When you sit at a desk and force yourself to concentrate, you suppress the DMN. When you walk at a natural pace, the executive part of your brain gets just busy enough handling the walking that the DMN comes online and starts doing the work that focus was blocking.
The most useful finding in the entire paper is the one almost nobody quotes. The boost did not turn off the moment people stopped walking. Participants who walked first and then sat back down stayed elevated. Their next round of seated creativity work was still significantly better than people who had been sitting the whole time. The rest lingered for at least several minutes after the legs stopped moving.
You do not need to do creative work while walking. You need to walk before the creative work. The brain holds the state.
Edited down a long tweet. (x)
Here is a link to the paper: https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/xlm-a0036577.pdf
the silmarillion bride
Okay, but see, this is even more perfect than it first appears, because the entire conceit of The Princess Bride in the novel was that William Goldman had edited out huge swaths of really boring world building so as to only include "the good parts" that would entertain a 12-year-old boy. Aka, exactly what any adaptation of the Silm would have to do in order to have mass appeal.
I didnât take many photos this weekend, but you can enjoy this one that made me laugh.
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you may have noticed that my blog is disorganized and thematically incoherent and my tag game is weaker by the day. this is commentary on the chaos of modern existence
would you rather be able to
understand (read, write and speak fluently) any human language (dead or alive)
teleport (guaranteed safely) anywhere on earth
thereâs a used bookstore in rural western massachusetts (the montague book mill) whose motto is âbooks you donât need in a place you canât findâ and i just feel like that summarizes tumblr too
posts you donât need on a site you canât search
if you illegally download all of your music and then buy like 2 albums from smaller or independent bands youâve likely already done more to pay musicians than a year of spotify streaming. just pirate everything and send some walking around money to a couple artists you like. theyâre probably on bandcamp, wait till a bandcamp friday. spotify hates you anyways.
Next Bandcamp Friday is May 1st, 2026!
Even buying from Bandcamp in-between Bandcamp Fridays yields more profits to the artist than Spotify. Bandcamp charges artists 10% to 15% to host their music, compared to $0.003 and $0.005 per stream on Spotify.
That's right, you'd have to play the same song 200 times minimum to earn the artist $1, and 30% of that $1 earned goes to Spotify. Worse, Spotify pays the rights holder these royalties, not the artist. So if your band has a contract with a label, the LABEL gets paid, then the artist gets a percentage of that.
This article is from 2020 but illustrates the issue with an example. The spotlighted artist earned $4200 from Bandcamp via 700 customers in two days. The same artist earned $100 from roughly six years of streaming.
Also, while you can stream from Bandcamp, you can keep your music! Download the mp3 and it's yours forever.
Also also, there's no ads!
Also also also, there's no AI!
WHY are you giving money to Spotify??
Coolest thing about lord of the rings? The king of horses shows up. It appears he is no different from all other horses
King of the eagles shows up later. He can talk. Horse king couldn't talk.
He didn't want to talk to you.
Uh.
Point of order.
King of Horses ran 450 fucking miles at almost entirely a gallop, without more than a few minutes rest, in 4 nights and basically was like "wait why are we stopping?" when Gandalf took him into the city and he ended up in a stable.
This was not his top speed, nor did it push any limits on his endurance.
King of horses is very different from other horses, actually.
He just doesnât do much about his administrative duties
But he didn't need to - his rule was stable, after all.
YouGov doing the Lord's work yet again
Which of the following is your favorite dinosaur?
Tyrannosaurus Rex
Brontosaurus
Triceratops
Pterodactyl
Velociraptor
Stegosaurus
Brachiosaurus
Other
I don't have a favorite
*We know pterodactyls and plesiosaurs aren't dinosaurs
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Let's play TTRPGs together!
Ya'll mind if I try something new? I can? Cool.
I (Kendo) am officially a GM for StartPlaying!
It's something I've been wanting to get into for a while (partially just as an excuse to play more games) and I've finally pulled the trigger. With everything going on in the world, I could use the extra income to help fund the podcast and keep our editors paid.
Even more than that, I'm excited to meet more people and help spread my love of indie TTRPGs with them. From weird horror to tense political intrigue to intimate coming of age dramas, we are going to tell some amazing stories together.
Hey there! I'm Kendrick or Kendo, whichever you prefer, and I want to be your Game Master! Quick things you should know about me: I'm a 30