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A blog for anything I feel like posting. Also I should update this with about me info since mobile can't access my about page | J | queer | They/She/He (but that last one’s more out of convenience I’m some sort of nonbinary transfemme girlboy manwoman) | March 27 1991 currently 35 | <3 moveslikebucky | fixate on a lot of things but they're all pretty constant throughout just sometimes bomb tags | lichrally just stuck with this url the past nine decade plus change because "Great Vest Bro Han Solo shrugging gif" is my biggest most impactful online joke and I wasn't OP on the original post I made the joke on so I'm kinda stuck with this to link myself to it | Hi this is actually a little bit longer than my actual about page that I haven’t touched in years so thank's for sticking with it this far have a lovely day

[cryptic-curation]

This sick bleach shirt I made. Something to showcase my undying love for prehistoric cave art.

Some of the bleach burned thru the shirt bc this was my first time bleaching anything ever, but it kinda adds to it.

[elderscrollsconceptart]

So basically after Microsoft laid off tons of employees at id software and Obsidian, they've likely turned those studios into "sub studios" to explicitly aid the development of the fallout and elder scrolls franchises.

If this cruel experiment from Microsoft fails, it may be lights out for id, Obsidian, and maybe even and Bethesda within the next ten years.

God fucking dammit Microsoft, yes we want Fallout and TES games to come out faster but not at the cost of thousands of people's jobs and their financial safety and well being.

Im sure Microsoft is very pleased with themselves of course and is looking forward to showing a big fancy "money go up!" graph to a bunch of slack jawed investors

[elderscrollsconceptart]

in a neutral environment id be beyond hyped at Obsidian making a new Fallout. I mean come on, Josh Sawyer is the lead and Tim Cain(!) works with Obsidian as well. Two amazing devs (among others) and I cant wait to see what they do with this game.

The issue of course is Microsoft/Xbox will 110% be breathing down the necks of Obsidian in the absolute worst way.

Its very likely Obsidian's future/continued existance will determined by the potential success of this game and that is far too much pressure to place that team under. Not saying they cant handle it, they are professionals after all, but is that fair? Fuck no

Let them develop their game on a healthy timeline and treat it like any other game that company could be making. I pray to god that im wrong but every instinct I have tells me that Obsidian will be under ungodly pressure from Microsoft during the development of this game

Trust Obsidian to do a good job and give them sufficient time and the resources they need to get it done right. Thats all you need to do, but of course this is Microsoft we're talking about so...yeah

[vintage-every-day]

The first female gardeners employed at London's Kew Gardens. Eleanor Morland, Gertrude Cope and Alice Hutchings. Photographed in 1896.

[falloutconceptart]

Microsoft laid off Ray Lederer.

He and Adam Adamowicz were the two primary concept artists for Skyrim and Ray did extensive concept work for Fallout 4 and Starfield and did work on Fallout 76 as well.

Ilya Nazarov (primary Fallout 4 concept artist) made a very good decision when he decided to move to a different company a while back.

I wish Ray the literal absolute best and I hope he quickly finds work with an employer who respects him (unlike Microsoft)

[falloutconceptart]

You can hand waive the firing of some middle managers as "increasing efficiency" but there is literally no reason to fire such an unbelievable and tenured artist like Ray Lederer other than Microsoft deciding he was too expensive to keep paying.

An even more insidious interpretation is that the concept work on TES VI is done (we know Ray was working on it as of early last year) and now that the concept art is finished Microsoft has no need of him anymore...

If they even replace his position they'll probably probably just contract a young, talented, and naïve artist who doesn't know their worth and will get grossly under-paid by Microsoft

[romanceyourdemons]

doing research in the field of humanities is interesting because there isn’t necessary this paradigm of the most recently published studies are by definition the best that you get in the hard sciences, like sometimes that book published in 1909 really continues to be the best foundational text about 1590s amsterdam, but then again sometimes i’m reading a text published in the 60s and it starts describing italian culture as “oriental” with no further discussion and i’m like hmmm maybe i should find something a little more current

[soraka-in-warhammer40k]

Diverting from the 90s movie aesthetic for a new attempt at Ghost in the Shell sure is a bold move. Given it is done by Science Saru I am confident they can pull it off, but that early decision must have been controversial even for them.

That old movie's pure aesthetic has for a lot of the audience completly overwritten the style of the original manga - and it was a tremendously well made movie too. One could even go so far to say the the movie is one of the most influental anime movies ever made.

The thing is, the new series' "cartoony" style is a lot closer to the original manga that a lot of people have never read. I have seen people say that the scene of the politican getting his body hacked and being made to punch himself in the face by Kusanagi was "too silly" but...

... this is exactly how it happened in the original.

It is funny just how that changes the perspective on the original movie that cut out ALL "cartoony" elements for a super-serious sci-fi look. Like, why did they make that choice back in the day? What were they afraid of? What media were they trying to be like? How did the perception of the style change over the last decades?

[johaverabies]

Clarice ✨

[cookiethebirddoll]

bus is my friend. shes no train but shes trying her hardest in a world that hates her

[cyberpunkpavlichenko]

Speaking as a childhood Harry Potter fan, the enduring persistence of its popularity including amongst adults is 100% because it is slop without substance.

It flirts with the idea of rebellion and emancipation from slavery but ultimately discredits those notions by having the rebel leader become a lead cop in the institution that was repressing him and by making emancipation seem silly.

It reflects the chauvinisms of a British aristocrat who offers an impossible narrative of an abused child escaping abuse through the purity of their Aryan magic blood. It’s a fantasy that doesn’t even pretend to offer catharsis or self-actualization, merely hundreds of pages of occasionally racist drivel about a special little boy who joins the SS after reforming them from the inside.

That’s why it has maintained such reverence - because it doesn’t actually offer a subversive story but the aesthetic of one while reflecting the conservative biases of the author. It speaks to a certain liberal perspective that is progressive only so far as the oppressed don’t hurt their feelings.

[captain-price-returns]

Soviet military advisor in Angola posing with an old colonial era Portuguese Mauser-Vergueiro M1904 rifle on his shoulder, 1980s

[totallynotagentphilcoulson]

Not to quibble but that’s pretty clearly either a percussion cap or a hammer fired single shot and not a bolt action. Honestly to my eye it looks most like one of the Snider-Enfields Portugal ordered in the 1870s which would be wild

[castlerobin]

i love lemon key face it's the best thing from the high rage comic era besides bad luck brian

[spore-carrier]

obsessed

[meoware]

This one is for the robotfuckers in my audience. And for me, the robot in question.

[scribefindegil]

I'm still thinking about the guy who saw me realize my wheelchair wouldn't fit in the elevator because he (also a wheelchair user) was already inside it and immediately quipped, "This elevator ain't accessible enough for the both of us."

[omegaversereloaded]

such a good reaction image

[omegaversereloaded]

[deadpowol]

[nerdsorrow]

theres a painting I like by a soviet painter of an enemy pilot falling out of the sky - his fate is sealed hes head down midair with a bunch of rebar below if hes not dead already - but in the moment of falling he has his arms up around his head peacefully like a sleeping kid

To me it shows a paradox - one can have compassion for this enemy as a human being only in the moment after there is no chance for him any more, if there was a chance for him hed be using it to try to destroy you

[balaclava-trismegistus]

Huh. Yeah I kinda see what you mean. That's beautiful.

[ouroborosorder]

Shoutouts to the time I had a severe fever and took benedryl and wanted to listen to feel good inc but couldn’t remember the name. I think I was crying over this

[mcbitchtits]

Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out

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