Just The Stuff

Shitposter, Nerd Lord, and Proud Member of the OfficialFam!

[retrospektiw-deactivated2024081]

still laughing my ass off to this

[soupknightbeingdemoted-deactiva]

eminem said

[i-was-today-years-old-when]

i learned about Marion Stokes, a Philadelphia woman who began taping whatever was on television in 1979 and didn’t stop until her death in 2012.. The 71,000 VHS and Betamax tapes she made are the most complete collection preserving this era of TV. They are being digitized by the Internet Archive. (x)

[followthebluebell]

i feel like this is selling her a bit short tbh.  It’s not like she was a random woman who decided to tape ‘whatever’ was on television.  She was a civil rights activist and archivist, who was extremely concerned about preserving history.  She believed that, by taping television, she would be preserving history EXACTLY as it was perceived at the time; she didn’t want the detail in the news to disappear with time.  And she was RIGHT.

Like I said, she didn’t just tape ‘whatever’ was on television.  It was extremely targeted towards news stations.  There were 8 VCRs running at all times in her home.  Her life—-and her family’s lives—-were centered around 6 hour blocks, since that was the amount of time that a tape would record for.  Her collections were also extremely organized. 

[archivlibrarianist]

The Marion Stokes Movies and Video Collection may be found on the Internet Archive here.

Wikipedia’s article on Marion Stokes may be found here.

A documentary of her life, Recorder: the Marion Stokes Project, was released in 2019, and seems to have good reviews, though I have not yet seen it.

[aliensexdream]

From archive.org (Internet Archive) - The Marion Stokes Papers contain documents related to the life and activism of Marion Stokes (1929-2012), civil rights activist, feminist, and news archivist. Stokes’ social activist career began in the 1950s, and encompassed many areas of left politics during a particularly transformative time in America. Her groundbreaking television show (co-produced with her husband John S Stokes Jr), Input, addressed many pressing issues, and much of it remains relevant today. Additionally, Stokes amassed a huge archive of videotaped television news, which is slowly being made available through the work of the Internet Archive.

[garbage-empress]

Every time I am reminded about this archive I think about how cool it is, and how useful it is for so many purposes. For example, a lot of period pieces end up as caricatures of the eras they portray based on a telephone game through history books and fictional works, but this gives you thousands of hours of examples of what media from the time looked like, how people dressed, how events might have been perceived by the general public, etc.

[gffa]

QUESTION:  “Anakin returning Ahsoka’s lightsabers with a few upgrades was an incredible moment. Did Anakin find a way to alter her kyber crystals to emit blue blades, or did he somehow swap them out entirely?”

DAVE FILONI: “Anakin knows enough about lightsabers to be able to alter the angle or frequency of the saber blade, or crystal, to make it more like his own. As far as the story goes, I wanted to show a clear connection between the Master and Apprentice relationship of Anakin and Ahsoka, so I decided to shift her lightsabers to blue, like Anakin’s.  Him tinkering with her lightsabers while she is gone shows that he was always thinking of her. And the lightsabers are then a representation of her in the story, and his thoughtfulness regarding her.  His changing the color can also be seen as him exerting control, or being too protective, which is very Anakin.  He means well, but often takes things too far when trying to express how he feels.  Changing the sabers, modifying them, improving them shows his care, but also his ego–something that Ahsoka is familiar with. So the simple adjustment of the lightsaber color serves as many aspects of the relationship between the two characters.”

[joshpeck]

ok sometimes facebook mom humor is actually kind of funny

[luminousalicorn]

[Prompt]: A fantasy world is so used to human children arriving to go on quests and learn moral lessons that they've set up a whole bureaucracy to deal with it.

“Name?”

“Trudy C-”

“Is that a nickname?  I need your full name.”

“…Gertrude Chau.”

“Favorite mythical creature?”

“Unicorns.”

“…do you have a second favorite?”

“…Mermaids?”

“I can get you mermaids.  What were you doing before you - how did you say you got here?”

“I looked under my bed for monsters and fell.”

Scribble scribble.  “Before that, what were you doing?”

“We just moved and -”

“Hang on -”  Papers rustle.  “Which of the following best describes your attitude: excitement about your new opportunities, apprehension about your new school or neighborhood, resentment at loss of old friends and familiar settings, or other?”

“….what does resentment mean?”

“It means you’re mad that they were taken away.”

“That one.”

“Okay.  And, fingerprints here in case you take longer on your quest than you’re supposed to and we need to do a locator spell; and would you like a dagger, magic wand, animal companion, or bow and arrows?”

“I only get one?”

“You can combine the animal companion with another option if you fill out form 37-J -”

“I’ll just take the magic wand.”

“There’s a bin of them by the door; take one and then recite this fairy-summoning chant to call a guide fairy and be led to your destination.”  Stamp, check, peeling of carbon paper.  “This is your copy.  Next!”

[little-brisk-archive]

@elucubrare i believe this is your department

[dukeofbookingham-deactivated202]

I would read this

[petermorwood]

So would I.

[catchymemes]

[beginagain]

hi big heads up ben and jerry’s is recalling a couple of their ice cream flavors because they forgot to list that there were nuts in them… this can be deadly for people so please help spread it

[one-true-houselight]

Article from 17 April 2019

[blackarachnya]

I will never get over people trying to villainise lando for his actions in ESB. he’s in charge of an entire city and the fuckin fascist empire that could obliterate them instantly shows up and threatens everyone if he doesn’t give them han. the fuck is he supposed to do, he literally had no choice he either let his people die or give up a tiny handful of rebels, all but one of which escaped, and everyone lived anyway. he didn’t do anything wrong, he didn’t make any mistakes, he was just doing all he could to protect his people against an impossible threat

[blackarachnya]

stephen colbert at friday’s panel saying straight to billy dee williams “lando is not entirely a bad guy, but he’s not entirely a good guy either” made me so unreasonably mad like lando fucking destroyed the death star, how does that not make him a hero

[iamnotlanuk]

New one in the saga of Tony Hawk trying to live life as Tony Hawk

[greatghuleh]

this fandom still out here falling over all these military mcu heroes but still acting like Rhodey don’t outrank most if not all of them outside of Nick Fury. 

[ableleggedoverachiever-deactiva]

I honestly forgot what his rank was so I just looked it up and FUCKing lieutenant colonel. He’s nearly a god damned fullbird. In what universe would he take orders from a fake captain holy shit

[shitposting-hobbits-to-gallifrey]

Don’t quote me on this but I’m pretty sure that rhodey DOESN’T outrank Steve cause Steve’s army and rhodey’s air force

[scrollgirl]

No, that is incorrect. USAF Colonel (pay grade O-6) outranks an Army Captain (pay grade O-3) by 3 ranks. You might be thinking of a US Navy Captain (pay grade O-6), which has a rank equivalent to an Army, Marine, or USAF Colonel. (A captain in the US Army, Marines, or Air Force has the rank equivalent of a US Navy lieutenant. Both are pay grade O-3.)

Steve, Sam, and Bucky aren’t US military any more. I won’t talk about Carol or Maria to avoid spoilers. Again, Rhodey (active or retired) and Fury (retired) are the only characters entitled to be addressed by their ranks.

Apologies to OP for hijacking, but to reiterate their original point about the total lack of respect Rhodey gets from fandom: 

(1) Rhodey is a goddamn full bird Colonel.

(2) Rhodey was promoted from Lt. Colonel to Colonel at the end of IM3. He’s been a full bird Colonel for nearly 6 years, but fandom still gets his rank wrong. (Props failure in Age of Ultron is partly to blame. But this is the same fandom that tried to figure out every ribbon on Steve’s WWII uniform, so props failure as an excuse doesn’t really fly, imho.)

(3) Rhodey outranks everybody except Fury, who is also a full bird Colonel, Retired (and so goddamn tired).

[firelightmystic]

Okay, but also? Fandom doesn’t understand the POWER Rhodey wields.

Colonels are the highest ranking field officers.

Next stop are the General Officer ranks, at which point Rhodey is fast tracked to running the damn Air Force in a couple more years, or become the Chief of Staff. Or, he could aim low and preside over a treaty organization.

Like NATO.

But that’s if he gets promoted. The US only allows a low percentage of the Air Force to hit General, so they stop a soldier at Colonel and groom them for taking over those massive positions.

They placed him over the Avengers, a now international special-ops pseudo-military organization with the heaviest hitters in Earth. Rhodey has to negotiate with heads of state, heads of various militaries and government agencies, and treaty organizations. Rhodey wields more power than any other US colonel, and has more functional authority than a freaking CHIEF OF STAFF in case of metahuman/extraterrestrial emergency.

You can damn well bet that James Rhodes, Warmachine, Iron Patriot, and legendary military fucking rockstar, is getting custom tailored to take over NATO–or primed to track to a Chief of Staff. Running the fucking entire Air Force and a chunk of the combined US military will be a cakewalk to what he already does.

Might even be a step down. Afterall?

He Can Pull Rank On Anybody In Any Military.

Any.

Military.

Even ignoring that, Colonels oversee battalions, with about 4 to 5 THOUSAND people reporting to him.

Rhodey commands a mini-fucking-army all on his lonesome as a regular Colonel in the USAF.

Tony is filthy rich and has economic might, but he doesn’t have the raw extent of power Rhodey does.

Steve and Sam would be his minions, and too far down the chain to even directly report to him.

None of the other Avengers rank Steve, who is so far down the chain he’d be “Sir”-ing Rhodey or addressing him by rank every damn sentence, so I won’t even waste my words on them.

It’s like this: James Rhodes runs house, even over his superiors.

He is the embodiment of the Colonel Badass trope.

Boom.

Dropped a tank at your feet.

[mdwhite101-official]

I’ve been gone for a while and like. Everyone is angry at everything? Like, c’mon, not everything is meant to be Commentary On An Issue, not everyone needs to be explaining and justifying everything they say and do, just be happy and move on with your life. I used to come here for nerds and memes and entertainment and even those blogs are just filled with people complaining about something....smh

[sjw-dipper]

[shingojira]

the director of god of war 2 and god of war 2018 really just has a tiny horse in his bed

[do-you-have-a-flag]

EXCUSE ME??????

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoLU3-dhoY0

[bophtelophti]

The most hilarious thing about She-ra and the Princesses of Power is this: it’s a sophisticated and critically-acclaimed 2010s cartoon, with characters who have complex, multi-dimensional relationships and well-developed personalities with interesting character arcs… and they’re all saddled with these ridiculously on-the-nose 1980s toy commercial cartoon names. So there’s the snow princess Frosta and the mermaid princess Mermista; the archer is named Bow and the sorceress is named Castaspella. The leader of the Horde is Hordak, and Catra is a cat. It’s like a version of Avatar where everything’s the same except Katara, Sokka, and Zuko are named Waterella, Boomer, and Hotman.

[spacecowboybriony]

When you know something is satire but it could so easily be real

[lennythereviewer]

I posted this on Twitter awhile ago (I might even make a full video on this) and I think it’s worth posting here The core difference between the Sonic movie and Detective Pikachu and why everyone hates Sonic but loves Pikachu is this: Detective Pikachu didn’t sacrifice the game design for the sake of realism

They didn’t try and make all of the Pokemon resemble ‘real’ animals, they all look like themselves; lifted straight out of the games.

And it would have been EASY for them to just include Pokemon that only look like animals, but they’re also including the Pokemon with weirder designs, like Mr. Mime above, and Golurk, which is literally a rock golem

Now compare this to Sonic…

Sonic went too far in trying to make him a ‘real’ animal, resulting in him looking like a hairy little gremlin. He looks like a human wearing a costume…

Like, look at how Detective Pikachu designed Charmander

This comes from the D. Pikachu line of Pokemon cards btw

Now, what if they tried to make him a “real” animal, he’d end up looking something like..

You see the problem?

You made him a real animal, but he only looks like an approximation of what he’s supposed to look like… that’s why people hate the Sonic movie design so much and why you see so many people trying to fix it online.

There’s this weird fear that a distinctly cartoony design can’t work when you’re trying to put a CG character next to real people and that it HAS to look realistic… and that’s simply not true. it’s been PROVEN not true!

Detective Pikachu gets this, their designs are a perfect middle-ground between realistic and cartoon

Let cartoon characters BE cartoon characters