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I asked my boyfriend in Canada once, how he deals with polar bears because I was curious about what to do and he was like, just be calm, let them know you’re there, and give them space and they’ll usually just go away.
In Finland on the other hand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7_pVrIshxA
Lmao Finland Man ain’t taking shit from bears.
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I feel exfoliated at least.
This adorable little robot is designed to make sure its photosynthesising passenger is well taken care of. It moves towards brighter light if it needs, or hides in the shade to keep cool. When in the light, it rotates to make sure the plant gets plenty of light. It even likes to play with humans.
Oh, and apparently, it gets antsy when it’s thirsty.
The robot is actually an art project called “Sharing Human Technology with Plants” by a roboticist named Sun Tianqi. It’s made from a modified version of a Vincross HEXA robot, and in his own words, it’s purpose is “to explore the relationship between living beings and robots.”
I don’t care if it’s silly. I want one.
One?
I WANT TWENTY!
I'm onto you
my inability to make this video go viral was certainly my biggest failure of 2017
Horizon Zero Dawn and Cultural appropriation: A very different view.
For the first time EVER, I’m sitting on the other side of a discussion about appropriating native culture. Why? Well, let me lay the framework.
First off, I’m not a guy who “knows a Native American” or has a “Native friend” I am a 100% Anishinabe (Ojibway) dude who lives on reserve and has fought racism, stereotypes, pan-Indianism, and cultural appropriation fiercely for as long as I can remember. I’ve been the victim of horrendous racial violence as a child, adolescent, and adult, and I’m also a gamer.
I am the first to point out anything that smacks of any of the above and after I saw the Dia Lacina essay on “Horizon: Zero Dawn” being culturally insensitive and appropriating Native culture, I felt for the first time in a situation like this that I had to say something in rebuttal.
Lacina takes issue with the use of the words Tribal, Primitive, Braves, and Savage being used in the game (fyi they’re used to describe predominantly white people in game and they’re White words we didn’t use to describe ourselves thus I claim no ownership of, nor want to, anymore than I want to be a redskin, Indian or Wahoo)
It seems (IMO) that most of her beef comes from an apparent belief that numerous aspects of generic tribal culture that appear in the game (making clothing from skins, hunting with spears and bows, living in a Matriarchal society, etc) are the sole domain of the Native American and just to be safe and cleverly keep her POV less subject to scrutiny, she applies it even more broadly to indigenous people world wide (I will just refer to us in particular as NA cuz I’m lazy and I also don’t refer to myself as a Native American) and basically that anything that is remotely “tribal” shouldn’t be used in gaming without our or someone else’s permission.
In fairness, I don’t know if she’s actually played the game but as someone who is currently in the midst of doing exactly that, I can tell you that I have a pretty good idea of what stuff triggered her being upset and why, and while I absolutely respect her right to get offended by whatever she likes, and she makes excellent points about some other games, I am going to point out that there are flaws with this logic.
First of all, the basics: HZD is set in a post-post-apocalyptic future where people are living in tribal groups in a very destroyed world. Machines exist but as hybrid animal/dinosaur type creatures and technology is pretty much non-existent in day to day human life.
The heroine of the story is a red haired, white girl named Aloy who lives as an outcast with her adopted father, Rost. Without giving a lot away, they are fiercely shunned by the local tribe for something Rost did and also the fact that Aloy is motherless.
Impressively and rightly, though somewhat dismissively remarked upon by Lacina, is the way women and especially women of color are portrayed so positively in-game as this particular tribe is a total Matriarchy run by elders of various ethnicity. African, Asian, White, and a variety of undefined people of color are common everywhere in the game. (The leader of one band of warriors is a very fierce, commanding, intelligently portrayed black woman with a powerful presence.) It reflects a fairly global society from a “skin color” perspective without any horrible accents or broken speech.
They worship an “All-Mother” goddess and their culture is (at least how I saw a lot of it) fairly heavy on European i.e. Celtic, Germanic, Scandinavian, etc type symbolism and the rest is filled in with mostly generic tribal-ish stuff that you could find in countless cultures around the world.
I really didn’t get a “Native American” vibe off the game. Of course, I don’t automatically presume to claim sole ownership of things like tribal life, hunting with bows and spears, and worshiping spirits of various elements solely for my own. Random fact: Because there are over 500 distinct First Nations in N. America, we, believe it or not, didn’t all ride horses, live in tipis, use bows and arrows, tobacco and sage, and worship Eagles and Wolves. Why? Well…use your brain. Tobacco and Sage don’t grow EVERYWHERE, horses came over with the Europeans (and if you saw where I live you couldn’t have and cant for the most part get a horse through the bush if you tried) Eagles and Wolves don’t live EVERYWHERE….get the point? Anyways….
If you examine Rost, he like most of the men has a braided beard and other seemingly Viking/Middle Ages inspired features, is white, speaks clear, unbroken English, and is a loving, protective and very positive role model for the girl. Aloy for her part, is also fairly Viking-esque (to the point of looking incredibly like Lagaertha from the show Vikings but with red hair) also Egrit from GoT, and is no damsel in distress who needs men to save her. NOWHERE in the game have I encountered any Tipis, wigwams, Sweatlodges, or Non-White people speaking in stereotypical “Me smoke-um peace pipe, He go dat-a way” fashion.
The opening cinematic is very touching (and long) as we see the orphaned Aloy as a baby in Rost’s care being carried around in a bundle on his back (which pretty much every culture did in one form or another at some point in time) and him ultimately taking her to the spot where a child of the tribe receives it’s name.
I really liked this idea as it isn’t often portrayed in a lot of mediums outside of stereotypical “Dances With Wolves” bullshit. Also, naming ceremonies are not the sole domain of NA people and what occurs bears zero resemblance to any NA ceremony I know of. (It was actually a little Lion King at one point lol) But it’s a powerful moment in the beginning with much more that occurs during it but I won’t spoil that either.
Aloy herself is a pretty complex character. She’s extremely independent, defiant, and questions pretty much everything about why things are the way they are and wants to do something about it. You actually begin playing her as a 6 year old which is pretty unique and even then she’s tough and fearless and determined to explore her world.
She is in no way hyper-sexualized (I’m looking your way Overwatch) Her clothing and everyone else’s, is utilitarian and appropriate for the environments she lives in, and so far, I have not encountered anything with her or any other character that made me go “WTF?”and trust me, my radar for that shit is HIGHLY SENSITIVE. This isn’t Avatar, people. It’s not John Smith. It’s not The Great Wall or Pocahontas. This isn’t white dude shows up and saves the helpless non-white people while helpless native woman falls in love with him stuff. It’s a fictitious future where we maniacs blew it up, damn us all to hell!
But here’s the more annoying thing for me as an actual Anishinabe. I don’t need people speaking for me or getting offended on my behalf. I am very capable of doing that myself. I am also in no way writing this claiming to be speaking for any other NA people or persons. It’s based on my observations from actually playing HZD and examining the various fictional “cultural” elements in the game.
If you see a skin tied inside a hoop and automatically assume it’s a dreamcatcher” ripping off “our culture” (FYI Dreamcatchers are a 20th century thing whose popularity was a result of pan-Indianism that exploded in the 70s.) or if you see feathers on a spear or as part of a costume (nowhere is anyone wearing a single eagle feather in the back of a beaded headband or a Dakota looking headdress either) and automatically presume it to be ripping off NA culture, you’re REEEEEEEEEEALY reaching. If you think caring for the environment, obeying matriarchs, worshipping elemental spirits, or making your own clothes is solely the property of NA culture, see previous statement.
By all means get offended. Get offended by Chief Wahoo. Get offended by the Washington Redskins. Get offended that thousands of Native women have been murdered or gone missing and nothing’s been done about it. Get offended by Johnny Depp or Robert Beltran playing Native people instead of actual Native people getting those roles. Get offended by shit like Adam Sandler’s “Ridiculous 6” where a native woman is called a “hot piece of red prairie meat” or Depp’s “Lone Ranger” movie.
Get offended that my family was destroyed by the Residential Schools and that the 60s scoop took babies away from their families and people, that forced sterilizations took place and mass graves of dead Native children exist at former Residential School sites.
Don’t just jump on the I’m offended bandwagon because you saw some feathers or skins or spears or bows in a game and immediately grew indignant and wanted to claim them as OUR culture. They’re not. They’re almost globally universal in numerous cultures at various points in time. Get offended, as she rightly mentioned, when the game Overwatch sexualizes the shit out of almost every female character and takes West Coast tribal art and makes a costume out of it.
THAT is appropriation. White people holding powwows in Europe (powwows are also pretty much not traditional and are extremely pan-Indian, not to mention full of us appropriating each other’s Native cultures ie. Dakotas wearing Jingle Dresses, Ojibway wearing Dakota regalia, etc) is appropriation.
This game……I’m just not seeing it the same way. And I’m nobody. I have no ties to Guerilla or anybody other than myself and my community.
WATCH: The Oregon Zoo in Portland was closed to the public today due to heavy snow – but the zoo’s residents had a blast.
Oh my GODD THE POLAR BEAR GOT SOME SNOW HE MUST FEEL SO REFRESHED
relatable seals at the end there
“Hey Joe! Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe look!!! It’s snow!”
I need more of this shit!
Those happy elephant sounds cleared my skin and watered my crops.
Hey guys! I made this for Asexual Awareness week (I know, it’s a little late…but I did my best.) If you see something wrong, tell me! I’ll fix it!
Happy Asexual Awareness Week!!!
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Remember in 1993 when Jurassic Park was like…the end all, be all of special effects?
not gonna lie that still looks intimately real
I’m still somewhat convinced that someone sold their soul to create the special effects in Jurassic Park because that shit is over 20 years old and it still really, really holds up, better than the stuff in a lot of current movies, even.
Fucking witchcraft, man.
fucking look at this shit though
Literally see this post flying around with a few different responses added to the bottom each time so I’ll say it for this one myself:
THEY ACTUALLY BUILT A GIANT MASSIVELY DETAILED FUCKING ANIMATRONIC T-REX FOR ALL OF THIS THAT’S WHY THE EFFECTS ARE SO GOOD. CAUSE IT AIN’T CGI. AND IT AIN’T GUY IN A COSTUME. IT’S A BIG FUCKING ROBOT DINOSAUR. AND EVERY PART IS DESIGNED TO MOVE. IT COST LIKE HALF THE BUDGET OF THE FILM.
amazing
And they had the film it in small increments, especially in the outdoor scenes, because the rain fall kept soaking into the ‘skin’ of the rex and would slow down and mess up its movements. So they would stop filming and have a crew out there drying off this massive, fake dinosaur, and then they’d start filming again until it was too wet. Repeat until the end of the scene.
They used animatronics and detailed costumes for most if not all of the dinosaurs in the first movie.
The triceratops for instance, was also animatronic.
And the raptors were dudes in suits. I shit you not.
One of my favorite anecdotes I’ve read on tumblr is how the t-rex robot from Jurassic park would malfunction while it was drying out. How did it malfunction, you might wonder?
Motherfucker randomly started moving.
So apparently if you were on the jp set you would sometimes hear people screaming bloody murder even though they were all well aware that it was a giant animatronic puppet and wouldn’t actually, you know, eat them.
(link to said post about malfunctioning t-rex)
Did not know this, had to reblog for awesome movie history insights.
So, I knew about the animatronics bit but I did not know the raptors were guys in suits and the malfunctioning t-rex sounds terrifying.
And i just googled malfunctioning t-rex and was not disappointed. Apparently in order to put the skin on over the steel frame a guy had to crawl inside the t-rex while it was turned on and glue the skin down. And if somebody turned the t-rex off or the power went out the guy in the t-rex stood a very real chance of getting mangled and killed by the hydraulics.
So of course, the power goes out.
And this guy is still in there gluing the skin down.
Apparently the way to survive getting sheered to death by huge sheets of metal while you’re inside a giant t-rex robot is to curl into a ball and hope for the best.
And this guy hoped for the best and got it.
Some other people on stage pried open the t-rex jaws and glue guy crawled out of its mouth and was totally okay.
This is getting better and better.
I think they only had like 6 minutes of CGI
I’m just waiting for the T-Rex to come to life and leave its stand.
@spinosaurus-the-fisher is this the kind of content you love?
Realism comes at a cost, it seems.
i mean ok but why has nobody posted this:
It’s a three piece raptor suit.
Old movies had the best special effects
The thing about this that gets my special effects nerd going is the fact that EVERY single dinosaur was sculpted by artists based on the current existent archeological evidence of the time.
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Even better than that, this movie ADVANCED our best understanding of dinosaurs at the time. They were blowing out a budget bigger than anything Hollywood had ever seen, and along with employing almost the last hurrah of incredible physical FX, they had a bank of those newfangled digital SFX computers. Nobody’d ever really created convincing dinosaurs in a movie before. It’d all been stop-motion animation, and even when the models were exquisitely crafted, you could just tell there was something OFF about them. Spielberg wanted THE BEST DINOSAURS EVER, and he figured on using the cutting edge of digital modeling and animation technology to build them for him.
So they got hold of some of the best paleontologists they could find and said, “We want you guys to take this tech that your labs could pretty much never afford and use it to build us the most realistic, accurate dinosaur models the world has ever seen.”
The paleontologists knew an opportunity when it bit them in the ass. They plugged in everything they knew about dinosaurs, all the skeletons and their best guesses about soft tissue and all that. And when they’d created those dinosaur models, they had the computer start moving them as they realistically would with anatomy like that. One guy took a look at those walking t-rexes and velociraptors (really utahraptors, but whatevs, fam), and he said, “Wait a minute, I’ve seen movement like that before.”
He called up film of a chicken walking. Everyone in the room said, “Holy shit.”
Prior to 1989, the idea that birds were descended from dinosaurs existed–we knew about archaeopteryx, we knew there was some minor connection there–but the idea that DINOSAURS LIVE IN THE MODERN WORLD AND THEY ARE CALLED BIRDS was not pre-eminent. Jurassic Park changed our scientific understanding of dinosaurs.
That paleontologists’d be Kevin Padian. Who is awesome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Padian
This post just gets better and better with time
There are SO many awesome SFX in this movie and they’re all so clever! I love it!
Like the iconic scene in the jeep where you see the vibrations in the water as you hear the footsteps of the approaching T-rex: this was done by plucking a taut piano wire (or maybe a bass’ string iirc) beneath the prop to get the cool centric circle vibrations/waves.
The scene shown in the first gif, where the eye dilates and constricts, was made with an inflatable insert to stretch and constrict the seperate prop pieces, to mimic the pupil’s natural reactions to light.
I’m sure @somebadrolljoe can add some more because he a nerd 😍
K, so I dont know how much more I can add to any conversation about the SFX used that hasnt already been said.. but I will say that a LOT of the tech used in the CGI shots was created specifically for this film. and went on to become (effectively) industry standard.
Also, look up 'Go-Motion' if you want to find out more about how the animals were given such realistic movements.
What I can talk about though, that isnt THAT well known, regards the Raptors in JP. IRL, the Velociraptor wouldve been around the size of a turkey, or large chicken. In the movie, theyre like 6ft.
Artistic licence, right?
During production of Jurassic Park, paleontologists found a theropod dinosaur roughly equivalent to an upscaled Velociraptor, very similar in appearence to what the JP Raptors ended up looking like. A joke at the time was that Stan Winston made the Raptor, then Paleontologists went out and found it!
well supposedly its asexual awareness week. I’m chronically unaware of most things since I live in a media vacuum and dont look at the internet often, but I’m glad I caught this.
I’m a 31 year old man and I’m asexual. I have been my whole life, but its only in the past couple of years that I’ve really become aware enough of it to be able to call it what it is.
thankfully my wonderful partner, @athenanuu is much more well versed in the proper nomenclature of all things of this nature and suggested to my psychiatrist that perhaps its something I needed to discuss. from the same discussions, they agreed that I display an awful lot of indicative symptoms of someone on the autistic spectrum. obviously thats another lifelong condition, one I’m becoming more and more aware of in myself (I have an appointment with a local adult assessment team at the end of the month).
I dont tell people about these conditions often, largely because I dont have many people in my life to tell, but in my experience they assume its a self diagnosis and I couldnt possibly be serious. they think maybe I’m just exaggerating or attention seeking. sadly I’ve seen actual medical health care professionals with similar opinions (“autism is a childrens disease” being the pick of the bunch). in school or at previous jobs I’ve found myself surrounded by typical dude-bros who talk about who they boned at the weekend, with me unable to offer any thought on the matter beyond bewilderment.. if my facade falls however, I’m faced with being ostracised, labelled a weirdo..
Athena and I have been together almost 5 years now and she has endured my idiosyncracies with patience few would have. needless to say, we dont have sexual relations often. this is something I’m sure she wishes would change, but she accepts that I’m simply unable to, not assuming I’m merely unwilling, not attracted to her, or am ‘getting it on the side’ as has been suggested in previous relationships.
including athena, I’ve only ever been with 4 people, all of which were fairly long term relationships, ranging from 1 year to 4. all broke down because of reasons listed above. I was much younger and unable to explain how I felt at the time. I allowed myself to be pushed around and bullied because I felt I would never find anyone else who would tolerate my behaviour. the relationship I was in prior to meeting athena, was abusive, physically, sexually and emotionally. it ended with her being unfaithful, assuming I was doing the same.
thankfully, these are not things I have to contend with anymore. athena is a wonderfully patient and understanding person, although not without her own flaws, she understands that sometimes being touched is so nauseating to me that I must leave the room. but certain days I’ll grab her butt as I walk by and it doesnt mean I want to hump on the kitchen worktop..
I love this woman. I dont tell her enough and I certainly dont show it enough. but she understands regardless.
the point though, I think I’m trying to make, is; no, maybe its not normal, but who gives a crap. you can have a long term, loving relationship with someone and not be physical. you can have all that and go hambone crazy in bed for a week solid then nothing for the rest of the year. its all ok. just accept that its who you are. if you’re with someone who cannot, or will not accept this, perhaps they are not the person you should be with. but talk, explain, articulate as best as you possibly can that, no, I kinda dont want to be touched right now, yes I still love you, please be patient..
for anyone out there reading this, particularly young people, struggling to come to terms with their sexuality, whatever form that it may take, remember that somewhere out there, theres always someone else who has been through the hardships and come out a stronger person, more able to understand themselves and you will too. I made it this far, and I’m a bumbling idiot who forgets to eat for days on end, cant tell the tine and can barely tie his own shoelaces.
I hope what I’m trying to say comes across. and apologies for being rambly..
I’ll not spam online resources, links to support groups and the like, chances are you can find all that on tumblr within seconds anyway. but make use of it if you need to.
@athenanuu, please tag (or add) anything you think is relevant cause the internet goes too fast for my old man brain.
33 now. feels like the right time to share again. maybe I'll add to this at some point this week.
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I FINALLY FINISHED IT
…is Dark Souls even relevant anymore?
This is my personal farewell to a game series that has managed to captivate and move me like no other. Perhaps you will find a few of your own experiences reflected within it, too. If you’ve found this comic, I’m glad we could undertake a small part of this journey together. Enjoy!
(I would have liked to include so many more things but ajksdkflkanc I’m just glad it is done)
If anyone can get in touch with Chestnut, let me know. Would love to pay homage to this piece in a video.
Reminds me of what we did with the Prepare to Cry trailer..4 years ago! https://youtu.be/vBJDBtn2MbQ
