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Here’s the final painting from yesterday’s episode starring my drone and Milo! This one was quite challenging and turned out to be one of my favorites. Hope you guys enjoy it! 🚀🐾
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“ That what we perceive isn’t the real world at all, but just our mind’s best guess? That all we really have is a garbled reality, a fuzzy picture we will never truly make out?”
As said by /u/Quakeout on Reddit:
Of course this is really depressing, but there's a soul-killing story behind that. 76 is outliving her. He's old, he's weathered, he's beaten and bruised and has been fighting longer than D.Va's been alive twice over. But she's the one that died. The kid full of life and joy and optimism is the one who died. Even if he's more effective, influential, and important than her, he probably wishes that she outlived him, even if it meant he died that night.
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Why Pokemon is still awesome and what Nintendo is doing wrong
So, the other day I picked up a new 3DS XL in black. Purely on a whim. I had a couple of trips planned so I was looking for something to entertain me on the plane and at the fantastically depressing Stansted Airport. Of course, the game I picked up with it was Pokemon X. I haven't played Pokemon since I was a child, Pokemon Blue. So thats 20 years since I last challenged the Elite Four, the last time I rode on my bike through Saffron City, and the last time I gave my Pokemon ridiculous swear-word based names.
Nintendo has always has a foot in the past, playing off nostalgia, and Jesus did this work on me. Gamefreaks have created a wonderful game which is both familiar enough to be welcoming and different enough to be challenging. Gone is the familiar grandfather figure and the irritating rival dynamic, gone is the usual Pokemon starter trope and in comes a much more interesting and dynamic world. More of an RPG in my opinion thant the original ever was. Hordes of wild Pokemon can attack you at once, turning what usually is a one sided conquest to a genuine battle. Dual Pokemon trainer battles are interesting and add depth, pinpointing any weaknesses in your party and moves selection.
My favourite thing by far is how I have no idea what any of these Pokemon are. It's so fun trying to guess these Pokemon types and trying to learn how to bring their HP to as close to 0 without annihilating them, it turns the usual trainer battles into a little bit of trial and error. No different to how I first played Pokemon Blue. They say you can't lose your virginity twice, and yet I totally feel like I'm playing Pokemon for the very first time.
Gamefreaks has recently announced Sun and Moon launching this November, I hope I can complete Pokemon X before then. But I am super excited to lose every commute, lunch break and evening to this game in preparation. Also announced this week was a recent brief to Nintendo investors about the future of the company.
Nintendo are putting it up for a vote on how they will deal with future challenges, whether they can pursue new avenues, such as PC software and hospital equipment. Nintendo has been infamous as an inward looking company. Issuing DCMA takedowns on fan footage, suing fans hosting Pokemon parties, shutting down fan art and merchandise. Which is as alien as one can get from the increasingly open western game companies. Even giants like Ubisoft are taking communication from their fans with The Division and Rainbow Six: Siege subreddits providing direct influence over tweaks, bug fixes and even content from the people who play their game. They're as afraid of the internet as your right-wing grandfather, with even less tact.
Which is strange. Nintendo continue to play off the nostalgia of those born in the 80s and 90s, but there is so little effort to capture the imagination of a new generation. A generation which lives on Tumblr and YouTube. Who would sooner watch Vines for their news than pick up a newspaper. My cousin who is 5, knows how to use an iPad better than most adults, and his childhood will never know the joys of running around as Link, or racing silly race tracks as Bowser. What is Nintendo doing to capture their imagination? I know plenty of people who would absolute love the game had no idea that Pokemon X was even a thing. And because it's impossible to get gameplay footage directly from the 3DS, everything on YouTube is filming the screen. Which isn't how people who play the game and enjoy it are actually experiencing it. It's not selling itself as an experience. That's if their video stays up or if they're able to maintain a YouTube presence with half their normal revenue.
Is Nintendo going to PC the right way to go? Some would see it as an admission of defeat, that they can't create and maintain a business ecosystem they themselves pioneered. I disagree wholeheartedly. It needs to evolve to thrive. I am an avid PC gamer, and have been enjoying Pokemon Trading Card game as much as anyone really can. But they need to think bigger. In my opinion, Pokemon Go will be an absolute flop in the West. The style of gameplay requires people make rather unusual changes to their lifestyle and actually go outside to play video games. Mobile devices are almost always a second screen, I know I'm not willing to play Pokemon Go for an extended session if it required me burning through my battery that I'd use to watch GIFs, especially if I can't sit on my couch and do it.
Miitomo has illustrated that only those hardcore Nintendo fans or fans of Japanese culture will really latch onto this style of mobile apps. But will that be enough to sustain it? I know plenty of people who enjoy this style of mobile interaction, I'm just not one of them. I want to be able to play a fully fledged and exciting game like Pokemon X on an iPad, on the tube to work. Not run around a park in the rain, chasing imaginary Bidoofs and shouting. I hope Nintendo brings it's eco system into the 21st Century, that they embrace the internet and they inspire a new generation of gamers. But the window of opportunity for that is slowly shrinking.
And don't get me started on inspector Pikachu and his weird Boston accent.
Artwork by Reddit user /u/ ill_be_Frank_wit_you. Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/4vva8h/what_if_the_starters_had_different_types/
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Pulse Club, Orlando. Sunday June 12th, 2:02AM.
I am speechless, I’m saddened. The events in Orlando our very worst nightmares wrought true. To hear reports and gunfire and have calls to loved ones’ ring empty. The last message you recieve is “I love you Mommy” and then “He’s coming”. My heart is broken in two. So many innocent and beautiful lives snuffed out by cruelty and madness. I can’t imagine the fear and the sorrow. My love goes out to those who lost their lives. My love goes out to those who have lost loved ones. My love goes out to those who risked their lives and those who are working tirelessly to save the survivors. We grieve with you. How do we build a society that stops this from happening. Please world, I beg of you.
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How I made myself awesome
I just had one glorious Twitter rant. Unfortunately it doesn't address any of the world's issues. I'm not venting my anger at politicians. I'm not drawing attention to the needy and forgotten. It's actually just about me. On Wednesday I posted two things simultaneously. The trailer to an art documentary I colour graded and a photograph of me with Hollyoaks actress Anna Passey. Not to diminish her achievements but I admit, I was kind of disappointed that the picture got 11 likes and the trailer got none. It's always a bad idea to measure yourself by social media interactions but this time, I couldn't help myself. In one post, I just happened to stumble across a talented and beautiful actress in the street at the same time as being in a brave and talkative mood. The other, I spent probably four days working on with a super talented director tweaking the edit, balancing colour, adding mood and energy into the film. Three years ago I said I wanted to become a video editor, and now that career pays for the roof over my head and the alcohol I spill. I wanted to become a colourist, and thanks to a huge amount of guidance and resources from Dan Moran and Mixing Light, I have actual credits with my name underneath that very title. No one has been there to watch my progress but me. No one has been there at the end to congratulate me with any notion of how many late nights I've had. But I know. And I'm giving myself a massive high five this evening for focusing my life for me. For putting blood, sweat and coffee behind dreams and making them happen.
Deadpool, a superhero movie for the Reddit generation
R rated movies are so on trend right now! Deadpool is now the highest grossing R rated movie to date, hanging Passion of the Christ out to dry. It influenced Zack Snyder to first cobble together an R rated Batman vs Superman trailer, then announce a R rated version coming for the home release. There are now talks of more R rated and mature themed superhero movies coming from Marvel in the future.
Woo! R rated! It's like tagging a post as NSFW on Reddit. It just tempts more people to click on it. Inviting the possibility of seeing nudity, sex stuff or naked people on their daily commute or post work laze.
In fact, for me, Deadpool is identical to Reddit. I'm not familiar with the comic books or the character. I came to it with completely virgin eyes. And like new-comers to Reddit, I found it broadly humourous, and chuckled at several pop culture references. But most of the meta-jokes and self deprecation was completely lost on me. Without a second viewing I couldn't tell you what those moments were. But I was surrounded, more often than I'd like to admit, by laughter during sections I just didn't understand. We all have a friend like Simon, he knows those sorts of references. He's read all the comics and knows all the lore. He jokes about whispering explanations to you throughout the movie, but perhaps during a home viewing of it you might let him do that.
Would I recommend the film? It's quite difficult to recommend something you openly don't fully comprehend. The film itself has engaging action sequences but they're consciously short and relatively succinct. Deadpool is essentially immortal, you know how every sequence is going to end so the film doesn't linger on them too long. The dialogue sequences aren't as jam packed full of humour as you would have thought, and they don't have the pace of Guardians of the Galaxy's which is surprising for a wisecracking superhero.
Morena Baccarin plays an altogether two dimensional damsel in distress with enough wit and writing to be likeable enough to save. Naturally, the pillar that holds this movie together is Ryan Reynolds. Unsurprisingly, the character is incredibly likeable, funny and engaging to watch and if you enjoyed the marketing, this film would totally meet your expectations. If you already knew of the comic book character, how wrong do you think I am? Upvoted. 5/7.
Artwork by Jo Painter. http://jp-designs.tumblr.com/post/139478535709/jumped-on-the-deadpool-band-wagon-hes-such-a