music jon bois plays before revealing the Arizona Cardinals didn't make the playoffs
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I'd rather be in outer space 🛸

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trying on a metaphor

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noise dept.
Today's Document
i don't do bad sauce passes
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
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oozey mess
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
Sweet Seals For You, Always

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Misplaced Lens Cap

Product Placement

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music jon bois plays before revealing the Arizona Cardinals didn't make the playoffs
hello cowboy can you please say the line (white woman)
Good Bones, by Maggie Smith / Witch Hat Atelier, by Kamome Shirahama
Inner Universe Kingdom Hearts
April 25, 2006
luvpugz
AMV
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luvpugz? More like luvedmz
Today I learned 3D animation is a horror show outside the camera's field of view.
Just to add context, the director wanted the scene to use an 85mm lens which is slightly telephoto. Telephoto lenses give a very intimate feel because they compress the scene. Background and foreground objects can appear larger at longer focal lengths.
But that compression can also make objects look the wrong size in context with the subject depending on the framing.
This is done in live action as well using another person's hands in front of the camera.
Or sometimes they create giant fake hands like in Hellboy.
they did this in lord of the rings too!
via @suppermariobroth :
“In the main menu of Mario Power Tennis, Toad is present to explain the selection options. It appears as though Toad is close to the background and roughly the same size as the icons. However, moving the viewpoint reveals that Toad is actually extremely tiny and extremely close to the camera (note Toad near the left edge of the screen in the bottom image).”
TOAD IN THE VOID
so how bout that chainsaw man ending huh
He can't keep getting away with this 😮💨😮💨😮💨😮💨
If people don't stop suggesting this stuff he's going to accidentally become a wizard
...Given the song's conclusion, I feel like there's something there in the fact that he died on what would be Mr Roger's 98th birthday.
I don't know what there is, but there sure is something.
It was foretold in the ancient texts (Neil Cicierega song)
They should adapt Dune into a shonen anime
A young transfer student, Paul Atreides, is sent to Arrakis, where he has to deal with bullying from the local Harkonnen gang, his love triangle with the tomboy tsundere Chani and the ojou-sama Irulan, and learning how to tame sandworms (the sandworm has a name and is a pet). In this he has the help of his cool mentor Duncan Idaho, his embarrassingly weird mom Jessica and his creepy annoying little sister Alia. They will help Paul learn how to use 「The Voice」 and lead Arrakis to its destiny. Every single attack is named and shouted.
This is a joke but for real, except for the school thing, you could absolutely adapt it straight like that. Even the latter arcs where Paul becomes the evil emperor fit perfectly.
The Monday Period: Part 1 of 6
Part 1: you are here
Part 2
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kids these days don't even know how good they have it. they don't even know about the final fantasy 14 artificial housing crisis
the final fantasy 14 artificial housing crisis. did i stutter.
TLDR; ffxiv has had player housing for years. it's a very popular feature, and it's one of the most popular ways to personalize your account in the endgame.
it's also an expensive trainwreck built on RNG, artificial scarcity, and subscription retention metrics.
see, final fantasy 14 works on a residential district system. this means every single player-owned house actually exists as a physical location in the world. all you need to do is tell someone your in-game address and they can go there and see your house, no instancing required.
in many ways, this is really convenient! you don't need to be online to host house parties! you can guarantee people coming around to see your decor! you can have a bunch of neighbors and match houses with them (or wildly contrast houses, for comedy's sake) as much as you please!
the problem is that because every housing plot is a real physical location players can claim, open plots become extremely scarce extremely quickly. everyone wants a house, and everyone wants a good house. but because there's a set number of plots in each district, not everyone is able to have one. you want that spiffy grade mansion in ward #16? too bad, someone already owns it. unless they decide to pack up their bags and leave, you will never get an opportunity to roleplay as a landowner. housing is first come first serve, and if you didn't come first, tough luck to you.
and before you ask, yes, this means a vast majority of ffxiv characters are homeless.
so what happens when a housing plot does go on sale? well, first and foremost, you need to have the money to buy it in the first place;
and then. you need to enter a lottery.
lotteries are usually extremely competitive, and extremely costly. you get your money back if you lose, but there is never a guarantee that you'll win. you can camp out at an open plot for ages, saving up money across hundreds of hard-earned hours, just to have everything snatched out of your grasp at the last possible moment because the random number god said it hates you in particular.
and then- assuming you do find an empty plot, and do win it, and do own it- then you have to retain it. monthly. with real world cash. to the tune of approximately 15 US dollars.
aka, the standard ffxiv subscription fee.
you see, if someone owns a house without logging in at least once a month, that house will be automatically demolished and their ownership will be automatically revoked. all of that gil, luck, blood sweat and tears, all of it is wiped away in an instant if you don't keep track of your monthly housing timer. this means- unless they want to lose everything they worked to achieve- in-game landowners are categorically unable to take breaks from the game.
there's been many, many, many a tale of people growing disillusioned with ffxiv and only keeping their subscription to keep their house. this is a common occurrence. it's a predatory tactic used by square enix to keep people paying for as long as possible, no matter what, just so they don't put all of their time and effort to waste.
which is where we are now. houses are always in demand, but there's never enough open plots. houses are also always locked behind insane amounts of money and RNG, meaning it's very very difficult to buy one even if the plot is suddenly on sale. even then, you must constantly retain your house, else all of your work will be pointless.
to put it another way; housing is an artificially scarce RNG system that taxes you $15 per month so you don't lose everything you own. square enix holds your house hostage even if you're lucky enough to own one in the first place.
TLDR^2; buying a house in final fantasy 14 is a scam. don't do it. save yourself while you still can.
saw this video of a production of the nutcracker that has tony hawk skateboarding in it today. btw.
likely place for tony hawk to be
“Sometimes you just have to say yes to things way outside your comfort zone, especially when your daughter thinks it’s funny,” Hawk wrote on Instagram.
my English prof teaching abt cover letters today and me trying not to bring up the luke skywalker cover letter post:
@serialreblogger here you go:
I will be 70 years old and I still will never have gotten over the time the Mythbusters used a rocket powered steel wall to - and I use this word as literally as possible - vaporize an entire car into red mist
https://youtu.be/Nl8xTqTUGCY
If you haven’t seen this episode of Mythbusters I feel so bad for you because “What car?” remains to this day as a defining moment of my adolescence and my entire life
That was a near-religious experience
I made a gif of it for those of you who cant watch the video in your country. Or if you know you just want to stare at it mesmerized like me
Oh wow they sure did vaporise that car into red mist
@identifying-cars-in-posts?
1994-1996 Ford Aspire
(formerly)
I’m partial to the “Can a Snowplow Split a Car in Two” one. The answer was “No”, so they naturally ramped it up. Which led to this
A rocket powered, sharpened steel wedge slicing a car (with its engine!) in two, right down the middle
@identifying-cars-in-posts what’s this one?
1988-1989 Honda Civic
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