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personally i think 2d animation and 3d animation are both equally good. the problem is that companies dont know how to actually use 3d animation to its fullest ability. like spiderverse? thats how shit should be DONE not generic big eyed kids movie number three hundred and thirty six

papermariosuggestion

How can you expect-a-me to save-a-the princess if I can’t even-a-fit in the doorway?

tired--archivist

village-witchh

HEY YALL !!!! IM ACTUALLY WORKING ON THIS PROJECT FOR MY INTERNSHIP!!!

the game is called Peace Island !!!

it’s a super dope project happening right now! it’s a small team of Eric, his friend and roommate Laura, and myself, plus anyone who we might need for a very specific job (ei the rig for the cats)

it’s a very non violent open world game, exploring mysterious, living living life as a cat, it’s really wholesome actually

we have another beta coming out in about 3 months time, we’re working on fixing the frame rate AND making it mac compatible!!

if y’all wanna know more you can DM me !!!!!

mothpile

shitpostinguniverse

bonnieventure

sonic mania 2 just cold opens with this

mushroomstairs

i just wanted to draw these specific kermits

skopostheorie

thisbibliomaniac

Me on Fourth of July like

depesoon

Anyway, stop spreading white nationalist rhetoric and toxic nationalism thanks

that-deist-dude-deactivated2022

Nobody said anything about race. Stop that.

It’s nationalist to state facts now?

How is this toxic?

Show me countries better than the USA.

baehraini

economically

x

human freedom

x

quality of life

x

social progress

x

income equality (america was among the worst)

x

healthcare

x x

gender equality

x

what exactly makes america the “best country” here? america doesn’t excel in anything.

pop-titty-epic-deactivated20180

I was gonna say aren’t we like #1 in a bunch of bad stats? Like aren’t we the top for rape and abuse?

kvltovcoyote

we are superior in waging wars, exporting and using firearms, and incarcerating the population among a lot of other terrible things. how depressing is patriotism and nationalism?

swimmingferret

I remember this epic moment from The Newsroom

Americans just buy into the propaganda they are the greatest country when there is absolutely zero evidence to say so.

just-shower-thoughts

The phrase “dont objectify women” literally uses “women” as the object of the sentence.

gothcostco

deadaccount528258835

You Know I’m Right

vampireapologist-archive-deacti

Every time these fuckers show up.my whole family is like “the slugs’re back” like we’re in a farside comic with no discernable punchline. An annual ritual.

vampireapologist-archive-deacti

No the cat food is not for the slugs but if my family did leave cat food our specifically as an offering to non native slugs just to observe their return every summer that would definitely track

floraleevee

vampireapologist-archive-deacti

I THOUGHT I WAS MAKING A JOKE IM YELLING!! Gary Larson runs my life and I’m just happy to be here

stcyan-deactivated20200202

what if..

mirkwoodest

One of the ballsiest things Tolkien ever did was write 473k words about some hobbits called frodo, sam, merry, and pippin and then write in the appendices that their names are actually maura, ban, kali, and razal.

mirkwoodest

This just in: Eowyn and Eomer’s names actually start with the letter “L.” [source for other nerds]

mirkwoodest

#wait so they have hobbitish names and common names?

No, they have Westron names and English names.

What you’ve got to understand is that everything Tolkien wrote was him pretending to merely translate ancient documents. He was writing as if the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were actually been written by Bilbo, Frodo, and Sam (or Bilba, Maura, and Ban) and he was just some random contemporary academic translating it all into English for us.

There are many languages in his books, but generally speaking, everything written in English in the books is a translation of the language “Westron.” Therefore any names that come from Westron, he translated. Names coming from other languages, like Sindarin, he left as they were. Why? IDK. Maybe because the stories are from a hobbit perspective and hobbits speak Westron, so he wanted the Westron parts to sound familiar and the other languages/names to remain foreign?

“But Mirkwoodest!” you cry, “The word ‘hobbit’ isn’t an English word! And the names Bilbo Baggins, Frodo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee, Peregrin Took, and Meriadoc Brandybuck” all sounds super weird and not like English at all!”

Psych! They are in English! (Or Old English, German, or Norse.) Once again you underestimate what a nerd Tolkien was. Let me break it down:

In Westron, hobbits are actually called “kuduk,” which means “hole-dweller,” so for an English translation, Tolkien called them “hobbits” which is a modernization of the Old English word “holbytla” which comes from “Hol” (hole) and “Bytla”(builder).

“Maura” is a Westron name which means “Wise.” Weirdly enough, “Frodo” is an actual Proto-Germanic name that actual people used to have and it means the same thing.

“Banazîr” is Westron for “half-wise, or simple.” In Proto Germanic, the prefix “Sam” means half, and wise is obviously a word we still use.

“Razanur” means “Traveler” or “Stranger” which is also the meaning of the word “Peregrin(e)” This one is a twofer because “Razar” means “a small red apple” and in English so does “Pippin.”

“Kalimac” apparently is a meaningless name in Westron, but the shortened form “Kali” means “happy,” so Jirt decided his nickname would be “Merry” and chose the really obscure ancient Celtic name “Meriodoc” to match.

Jirt chose to leave “Bilba” almost exactly the same in English, but he changed the ending to an “O” because in Westron names ending in “a” are masculine.

I’m not going to go on and talk about the last names but those all have special meanings too (except Tûk, which is too iconic to change more than the spelling of, apparently).

The Rohirrim were also Westron speakers first and foremost, so their names are also “translations” into Old English and Proto-Germanic words, i.e. “Eowyn” is a combination of “Eoh” (horse) and “Wynn” (joy/bliss).

“Rohirrim/Rohan” are Sindarin words, but in the books, they call themselves the “Éothéod” which is an Old English/Norse combo that means “horse people.” Tolkien tells us in the “Peoples of Middle Earth” that the actual Westron for “Éothéod” is Lohtûr, which means that Eowyn and Eomer’s names, which come from the same root word, must also start with the letter L.

The names of all the elves, dwarves, Dunedain, and men from Gondor are not English translations, since they come from root words other than Westron.

The takeaway from this is that when a guy whose first real job was researching the history and etymology of words of Germanic origin beginning with the letter “W” writes a book, you can expect this kind of tomfoolery.

Notes: Sorry I said “Razal” instead of “Razar” in my original post I’m a fraud.

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