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I am taking the bus in paris i hope im not gonna get attacked by the creatures!
OH NOOOOOOOOO
big joel making a video abt the new mr beast game n ending it by being like "ik u invited dan olson 2 the studios n he did a very critical video saying ur inefficient n whatever but if u invited meeeeee i'd b a total yes-man! u should've picked me :)" n i DO believe him I DO so why did they pick dan n not henry
Great things going on in the comments of the newest Dan Olson video.
I watched the new Folding Ideas video about Mr Beast and the Beast games, and there's a detail that is driving me absolutely insane. At one moment, during an interview Mr Beast boasts of having broken the record of most BTS (Behind the Scenes) cameras with 16 working on set. And if I don't write about it it's gonna ruin my whole fucking night.
First, you need to understand that a camera person, ironically, is practically blind, since their whole focus is on the shot. While carrying around heavy, cubersome, and extremely expensive equipment around. In such a volatile, crowded and chaotic place as a reality game show, they need a handler to guide them around the set and be their eyes. That's 16 more people.
But they aren't (or at least I hope not) just wandering about the set, taping random stuff. Often there's someone checking the live feed (more people), plus people watching the whole set directing the cameras to points of interest ("player 45 is crying, go check that out" that kind of stuff.) Also making sure the 16 cameras don't overlap, getting redundant shoots of the same stuff at too similar angles.
And all of this for... Behind the scenes. The stuff that often ends up in the cutting room. Because is behind the scenes. It is the extra stuff. Why. Why. Maybe 40+ crew for what.
Let's be generous. Let's say the interview is taking advantage of the Kulechov effect and just showing the main cameras as background footage, only implying they are BTS. Let's say that in reality the BTS are using lightweight set-ups, like mounted smartphones. Lets say (and I fucking hope so) there were deemed not important enough to have another team coordinating the BTS. That's still 16 more people running around a live set, getting in the way of the actual shoot. I think adding 16 extra cameras to a live stadium concert might get you some weird looks. This is a tv show on real fucking time.
It's such a stupidly large and ineffective number only a kid would think of it. I've barely worked on live recordings and the idea of it makes me dizzy. This can only be some poor PA's karmic punishment. A ring in Dante's Inferno where "fix it in post" producers are sent. The whole thing is like boasting living in a house with 16 full toilets and trying to convince people that you actually live there.
Rant over, I can rest now.
this is my formal pitch for the new folding ideas video which is simply a must watch for people who hate mr beast and/or love hating
Pegasus but built like a pterosaur
Really fucked up bat
This is terrifying but i LOVE IT
it works so well HOW. the markings, the hoof on the wing, the short tail, the pink eye
Kind of a Jersey Devil
I actually had a hypothetical jersey devil concept but I envisioned it as a large winged leporid with shope papilloma virus. I should probably try making more shitty cryptid designs tbh
So a hammer-head bat?
When I say worse..I mean this thing is an anatomical nightmare
Imagine a hammer head bat of eternal suffering. Technically to form the wing I needed the two “claw” hooves as well as a extended finger to form the actual wing so it’s more or less inspired by the merychippus instead of a modern horse.
So yes a very fucked up hammer head bat lmaoo
I shall call it a Ptegasus
I had to make a 3d model this to print at D&D mini scale. I also make a flying pose for variety.
If you have a 3d printer and want to inflict this on your friends you can download the model for free here.
Everyone keep sending your attacks. She can't protect him forever
this bitch is literally crazy… she used to be a fitness influencer and scammed hundreds of women with alleged personalized fitness and diet coaching and she got sued by the state of texas and i believe settled for like 250,000 dollars. she then pivoted hard to conservative evangelical christian influencing. her husband is actually her second husband and he was fired from the kansas city police department for excessive use of force and when their family dog got hit by a car he whipped out his gun and shot it instead of taking it to a vet. they also forcibly exploited an unhoused man and sent him to a christian rehab… AND she holds religious retreats for roughly 700 dollars where her husband shows up despite the fact the events are described as being “women only spaces” and they baptize people in a horse trough…
Also for anyone that didn’t grow up in a fundamentalist Christian space, “husband is under spiritual attack” is usually code for having an affair/watching porn/is gay
anyway did you know that the first recorded use of the english phrase outer space was in 1842 by a woman named Emmeline Stuart Wortley in the poem Maiden of Moscow. The line goes, 'All Earth in madness moved,—o'erthrown, To outer space—driven—racked—undone!' The second record shown on the OED, though I don't know whether it's actually the second use, is from 1855 and it's a guy going Oh Shit What If A Meteor Hits Us?* (x)
*How do we know that even now, away off millions upon millions of miles distant, some wandering meteor in outer space is not on its way to knock this our planet into a universal smash?
my favorite example on the OED tho is this banger of a line to write in 1901, naturally courtesy of an HG Wells hot take:
"After all, to go into outer space is not so much worse, if at all, than a polar expedition."
one time my girlfriend found one of those catnip packets that come with new cat toys and dumped it on my cat except it was Italian seasoning and she seasoned my cat
He seemed cool with it to be honest
Why would italian seasoning come with a cat toy ??
it wasn’t, we’d coincidentally bought both a food item that came with the seasoning and new cat toys and the two became mixed up
no, that would have been great but unfortunately we immediately realized the error of our ways when we smelled my italian seasoned breadstick of a man
the thing about chekhov's gun is that the gun does not literally "need to go off by the third act." the story works just as well if someone merely grabs the gun and starts threatening people with it, or if the Jewish protagonist recognizes the particular model as a Politically Concerning piece of world war 2 surplus, or if the gun's owner waxes nostalgic about the last time he fired it, etc. etc. etc.
unfortunately I get the impression that a lot of people do not understand that and therefore build theories around the idea that if the gun is not Specifically taken down from the wall and fired, it serves no purpose to the story, so why the hell was it there in the first place
Dead wife montage but it's all slow motion shots of your dead wife throwing grenades and doing backflips and oneshotting the enemy with their long range weapons
Every River Song episode after “The Forest of the Dead,” in Doctor Who.
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Sometimes I stray so far into the "I'm surrounded by freaks" nature of Boromir's experience among the cryptid Fellowship that I forget he was confronted by an ACTUAL NAZGUL in the defense of Osgiliath.
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one of the biggest issues for feminism and indeed society as a whole that i run into a lot is people don't realise just how weird and interesting snakes actually are. they're genuinely incredibly unique as vertebrates with many amazing adaptations to their lifestyle and body type and nobody knows!!!
the other legless lizards are fascinating in a different way because they mostly lack these adaptations to limblessness, but kind of just get along fine anyway
a few interesting things about serpents
Miss Nebet, a spotted python (Antaresia maculosa) who will be serving as our live model for today.
many of these are probably well-known; others have surprised even other snake owners.
Snakes (suborder Serpentes) are lizards (belonging to order Squamata). Snakes are no longer thought to be a group outside of all other lizards; snakes are more closely related to iguanas than iguanas are to geckos, for example. The closest living relatives of snakes are Iguania (for example iguanas, chameleons, and dragons) and Anguimorpha (for example galliwasps, beaded lizards and monitors). Snakes are also relatively closely related to mosasaurs (such as the lovely Platecarpus pictured below), with some proposals suggesting mosasaurs are their closest squamate cousins. The various other legless lizards arise from all across Squamata, and aren't necessarily closely related to eachother or to snakes.
Snakes are almost entirely composed of "torso", with their ribcage extending down the majority (~90%) of their length and only a short neck and tail. The tail begins just after the is usually distinguishable by a slight narrowing and an end to the wide, flat ventral (belly) scales. By contrast, most other legless lizards have long tails making up a large portion of their overall length.
The green bar marks the approximate beginning of the tail, the diagram demonstrates the layout of belly and tail scales in two species. On her request, I have not included an image of Nebet's vent as it would be improper.
Snake ribs are jointed and manipulable, serving a role in movement, constriction and Their flat ventral (belly) scales are independently mobile, and can be raised in sections to create friction or flattened to glide across a surface. Both of these features are lacking in other legless lizards.
Miss Nebet's very cute pink ventral scales.
These unique features allow snakes to use four (conservatively; I have seen categorisations as high as eleven) separate methods of locomotion, combining these different methods in many ways to move across all sorts of surfaces. These methods include lateral undulation, in which the snake exerts muscles all across its body to push against the terrain in a typical serpentine motion, concertina, in which the snake pulls its body into bunches then extends in an accordion-like manner, rectilinear, in which the snake flexes muscles across its length while manipulating its ventral scales to drag itself in a straight line, and sidewinding, in which the snake 'throws' itself at an angle to traverse a slippery surface with little traction. Other legless lizards use simple undulation only, a more basic method of movement involving essentially wriggling in waves.
I have personally seen miss Nebet use all of these methods of locomotion except sidewinding.
Snakes do not 'unhinge' or dislocate their jaws when eating- rather, the lower jaw is split into two halves with a flexible attachment to the skull, allowing them to be independently 'walked' over prey. This allows them to swallow prey items much larger than the size of their head would suggest. Other legless lizards lack this bifurcated jaw, although they typically have very flexible skulls to allow them to swallow larger prey.
An Indian Rock Python (Python molurus) skull demonstrating the bifurcated jaw and Nebet demonstrating its utility in swallowing a mousey.
Snakes possess several unusual sensory organs depending on species. The first is their famous forked tongue. They flick their tongues to collect scents from the air then return it to a special cavity on the roof of their mouth (called the vomeronasal or Jacobson's organ) that allows them to detect chemical information. The fork in their tongue makes the sensing directional. They can also smell 'normally' through their nostrils.
The second of their unusual sensory organs is their heat pits, found in boas, pythons and pit vipers. These special rows of pits on (some) snakes' faces allow them to sense infrared thermal radiation. This adaptation, not found in any other lizard, has evolved independently multiple times across snake species.
Contrary to popular belief, snakes do possess ears and can hear sounds, although they lack visible external ears. They are also sensitive to groundborne vibrations through their jaw. Other legless lizards typically have visible, external ears.
Miss Nebet's forked tongue and heat pits (circled in pink). Scientifically speaking, these can also be referred to as 'charm points'.
These are just a few interesting things about snakes, the most beautiful and lovely vertebrates in the entire world. I haven't even talked about their teeth and fangs, the different kinds of specialised scales they can have, their venom or all sorts of other things. Please say thank you to miss Nebet for taking the time out of her day to have her photo taken for us, and please love and adore all serpents you meet!
it's self-evident