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yesterday my grandma found a penny on the floor and said to my grandpa âthereâs that penny again, pa!â and i absolutely lost my mind because i couldnât shelve the thought of a single panel Far Side comic of two old people on the front porch in the middle of nowhere and a giant penny angrily and inexplicably rolling through the wastes
âthereâs that penny again, pa!â
this is hands down my single favorite post ive ever made that got notes
I remember when I was younger, anytime I watched a movie where the characters have to kill a scary monster/alien, I always thought the act of killing it was intended to be part of the horror. Like thereâs this amazing creature that weâve never seen before, and maybe under different circumstances we couldâve coexisted with it, but itâs trying to attack you and you have to defend yourself, but by destroying it you also destroy the ability to ever understand it and thatâs sad and is supposed to make you feel conflicted.
It was not until well into my adulthood that I realized most people do not have complicated feelings about movies where people have to kill a scary alien monster, nor is that necessarily meant to be part of the narrative (unless it very obviously is). They just want the scary thing to die because itâs scary. I donât have a real conclusion to this I just started thinking about it for some reason.
I always felt I couldn't possibly be upset about dying to an alien monster because proof of otherwordly life is exactly what it'd take for me to die happy
Just watched a Youtube essay about the 'Alien' franchise ("Why Weyland-Yutani Wanted the Xenomorph So Badly") that argues that Ripley's quest is not just against Evil or Capitalism, but ultimately against the very impulse to Get The Alien.
She might be "morally correct" through and through, but the uncomfortable truth is that her goodness is about closing a door forever. She wants to kill the predatory alien body horror pregnancy brood parasite and for humanity to keep it as far away as fucking possible. She doesn't care about what secrets it holds or whatever could be gained or learned from capturing it, she cares about the immediate and horrific harm it does to human beings.
And again, as the essay argues, that IS objectively good of her. But if we accept that, we also have to accept that there is such a thing as a categorical No when it comes to exploring the universe and other lifeforms in particular. You don't capture the alien, you don't study it, you don't even LOOK at it, you JUST kill it, is the idea. Can you agree with the hero, and disagree with the evil corporation, as HARD as you should? And if you can, can you appreciate the tragedy of having to close that door forever?
ok this looks ultra mega based, are you kidding me? can you imagine the bullshit i could get up to with this bad boy? fuck yes i want ten
Wait are iPhone bros coping because Apple has to be more universal? Lol.
Boo hoo i'll be able to add more physical storage to my phone and be able to change out batteries if they degrade as well as all these other optional features I won't have to touch
Continuing in the trend of political cartoons depicting milquetoast moderate positions seem so much cooler and more badass than they are
I love how they add totally absurd things no one is asking for to make the idea look crazy. And still, I must emphasize, failing to make this look like a bad idea.
"Is this what you want? Is this ugly stupid bullcrap what you want??" the biggest loudest idiot in the room asks, holding up a picture of the hottest looking shit I've ever seen
We should fix this and start saying "stupible"
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I chibified an assortment of AH characters!
You know what, I feel I really made up my mind. You guys can do World History without me, I'll just try to survive whatever you come up with
I kinda worked on the implicit hypothesis that the world would be a better place if everyone tried to keep every angle of every issue in mind at all times and simultaneously and with good faith, but part of my Growing Up is that nobody can fucking do that and you're best off sticking to a handful of things in front of you. Like you actively got to make yourself dumber in some ways to not go crazy or die of exhaustion. That explains a lot about WHY the world is as it is, by the way. You pick a lane and/or try to stay out of trouble and I am starting to think that's the only way to live as an adult at all
i know its good to expose yourself to different perspectives but sometimes i see a take so bad i just unfollow whoever put it on my dash. in this case there was just so much nuance this person was missing, and they were being callously cruel about a group of people i donât think they really understand or care about, and also fundamentally misunderstanding their detractorsâ points⊠and itâs like yeah, i could construct a strong rebuttal, but i donât want to. for one i donât feel like it, for another i know they wonât be capable to taking in what iâm saying and will just double down and itâll turn into a fight. iâd rather do puzzles and take walks and pet a cat. frankly i would rather bedrot. if youâre so certain this is a correct take then thatâs fine but byeeeeeeeee
You have to admire how all the worst people in the world are destroying civilization in a way that is juuuust gradual and business-as-usual enough that there will be no fucking reckoning
On my worst days I daydream of, say, Trump, doing something to the American people that is abrupt and horrible enough that everyone goes Shit we need new Nuremberg Trials and maybe some polished international projects and reconsider some things in general
But the "strongmen" of our age have truly perfected the art of enshittification. Might still get the same number of people killed, probably more, but it doesn't slip into that oh so crucial "we REALLY gotta do something about them" slot.
Generally speaking sometimes with people making RTS and RTS mods it might be a handicap if they're too good at the game. They are proud of their craft and/or feel self-conscious vis Ă vis the esports superclick champions so they feel they must make everything fast and punishing.
When you start a game, you start slow and educational, you don't pick folks up at champions level.
That's what classic rts games almost always did, up to teaching you how to click with a mouse. Experienced players might find it embarrasing, like "I'm not a baaaaby anymore", but they forget that this is not a "I'm a big serious grown-up gamer" contest. This is about getting to know a game and dive into its world. All your great classics probably were not enjoyable to you because they yelled "You are in E-SPORTS now, maggot" at you as soon as you booted it up .
As a designer, you might be proud of beautiful elaborate tech trees, but campaigns and such are an excellent occasion to make almost each unit and structure meaningful and interesting by devoting *time* and breathing space to try it out and learn its place in gameplay and lore. Not give you a million options on a 2 minute time sensitive mission.
'Twisted Insurrection Mod' is such a beautiful piece of fanwork, like the sheer mass of labor and creativity and time that went into it and how it looks and sounds is gorgeous
But man, design-wise I really struggle to play it. I started the campaign missions and it's like, crucial exposition and dialogue rushes by in a wall of text, sometimes tiny in a corner of the screen, and suddenly everyone is running around on your screen like barely visible panicked ants and shooting and you click like crazy and the whole mission is over in about 3 minutes and you have NO idea what happened (you are informed that you won at "27% efficiency"; ok cool but what did I do exactly).
Design-wise, even if you mod a well-known game, my angle would always be to make the first missions slooooooooow. Get folks used to the interface, let them absorb the exposition. I always hate it when strategy games make it all about click reflexes, and right off the bat is brutal.
Maybe the later missons have better pacing but getting into it feels a bit like a chore
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Ummm she's literally sensitive :/
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Based off hit tumblr post:
My partner @revretch developed their own blender shading system to create the effect of "cartoonish" fur and hair shading but they're also able to use it to generate a lifelike insect pseudopupil that changes with the angle EXACTLY like the real thing, like even where the shadow distorts in shape or "breaks" here at certain angles is precisely what an actual pseudopupil will do?! You can see examples on real mantises if you look carefully:
They're not using tumblr much anymore because it didn't seem to drive much traffic to their series but they update their patreon every single week with progress on their series include these kinds of original Blender processes and experiments:
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have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.
they are sexually mature at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD.
their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.
longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years
toxic flesh
has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.
lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion
largest genome of any shark
eats everything including moose and polar bears
ma'am you are delightfully strange and I'm privileged to share a planet with you
this post prompted me to refresh my memory on Greenland Shark Facts and this detail about how they feed goes so hard
just vacuuming up their unsuspecting prey. whole !
Good news good news good news! Recent research suggests the eye parasites do NOT blind them!
Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," says the UC Ir
I <3 you a normal amount Greenland sharks
