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Can't draw that well but can paint . @ksam_cant_draw on IG 2001 RJ

the main thing I’ve gathered from the Pacific Rim director’s commentary is that, even though a lot more of PacRim was done with CGI than I had realized, it still holds up almost 10 years later because of how intentional Guillermo Del Toro was with building in details, flaws, weathering and environmental factors, and, primarily, love and respect into every single model.

He helped animate every single creature and robot by hand on his tablet, he praised the animators for every single shot and talks about how brilliant they are, how hard they worked on every detail, he treats all of them like human beings, like geniuses, just as integral to the film as himself and the actors. The animators themselves talk about how intentional and detailed his ideas were, how helpful and insightful he was when he spoke to them about changes, when he came to them with new ideas.

There’s also a hell of a lot of practical effects woven in, which add to the believability, but the CGI holds up first and foremost because he saw it as an art form to be cultivated and loved just as fiercely as everything else, not a ‘wow’ effect to be slapped in for budget cuts.

Riz Ahmed UNDERSTOOD THE ASSIGNMENT.

He’s in 4SDesigns by Salvadoran-American designer Angelo Urrutia. “The fabric is heavy silk/wool faille inspired by noble immigrant workers,” says Urrutia of the look.

Riz Ahmed: “This is an homage to the immigrant workers who kept the Gilded Age going.”

Leverage had a lot of well-researched things to say about the real world, but the one I always come back to, from The Double Blind Job:

Sophie: These are not small fines. Last year, my department handled a case where the company had to pay out $2.5 billion.

Hoffman: Oh, yeah. Everybody heard about that. But what the news didn’t tell you is that that company made $16 billion on the same drug. That fine was 14% of the profit. 14%. That’s like tipping your waiter.

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i wish i could see this picture for the first time again

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Every time I see some gamerbro edit of a female video game character to make her 'prettier', I always see something I have mentally dubbed Cockroach Wife Syndrome (in honor of the guy who accidentally conditioned himself to only be aroused by a fantasy of his cockroach wife Ogtha).

That is to say, there is a certain subset of gamerbro who interacts so rarely with real women, that his primary touchstone for how women look is fiction: often video games and anime. So when a video game woman looks too realistic--too close to having traits that one might find in real flesh and blood women--this is foreign to them. This is unattractive. They have been jacking it to hentai and blender animation porn for too many years, and have inadvertently conditioned themselves to only be sexually aroused by the exaggerated cartoonish traits of animated women.

So now every time I see one such edit, I can't help but think. My. What a coincidence you've made her look more like an anime waifu. Truly dedicated to your cockroach wife.

You can’t just breeze over something like “the guy who accidentally conditioned himself to only be aroused by a fantasy of his cockroach wife Ogtha” without at least linking a 20 minute video breakdown of this man’s descent into madness.

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Oh is Ogtha not common knowledge? Eight years ago this was posted on reddit:

Two years ago, we got this update on the life of this roachfucker:

TLDR it's a guy who became obsessed with human-sized roaches with human intelligence after reading Kafka in high school, an obsession which eventually came to monopolize his romantic interests (and has sporadically had catastrophic impacts on his life ever since).

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This guy is being body snatched by roach succubi and you’re fucking laughing

My man got so horny that he accidentally did the creation stage of god contemplation. I'm genuinely impressed.

The human mind is a beautiful and complex thing

The earliest example of someone chewing on the end of their pencil that I know of

Bone styluses from a 5th century BC grave at Acharnai, outside of Athens. Now in archaeological museum at Acharnai. My photo.

Go forth and gnaw on your pencils, future archaeologists will love it. #DailyArchaeology

I love seeing "self-care" posts that are full of great ideas like drinking water and eating food and generally meeting your bodily needs, and they also say something like "go to bed at 9:00 pm"

My life experiences have shown me that if I feel like going to bed before 11:00 pm, this means one of a few things:

  • I'm getting the flu
  • I'm off my meds
  • I'm about to have a total mental breakdown from stress and exhaustion

Right but these are all times when you're doing it as a natural response to other stressors. Go to bed at 9pm to take care of yourself, when you're not at your worst. Then you might not have that break down or at least you'll have the energy to handle it better

You're missing what I'm trying to say here.

If I went to bed at 9pm it would accomplish nothing but giving me a miserable 4 hours of lying in bed vibrating with restlessness.

As a child and a young teenager I had persistent, incurable insomnia. I would lie in bed every night for hours unable to sleep and it was awful. I also woke up in the middle of the night sometimes multiple times.

Then, around the time I was 15-16 or so, I started staying up later (going to bed around 12:30) and my insomnia magically disappeared. I started falling asleep within 15 minutes of getting in bed.

ironically when my abusive roommate in college tried to "fix" my sleep schedule, for a couple months afterward I struggled to sleep and was regularly awake until 5am after lying in bed for hours

(this was partly because I had to wait for her to fall asleep to be able to eat, but still.)

So a free tool called GLAZE has been developed that allows artists to cloak their artwork so it can't be mimicked by AI art tools.

AI art bros are big mad about it.

i just want to say that dental dam is a fucking awful term. who the fuck wants to go down on someone and think “this is like being a pussy dentist”. in iceland we call them töfrateppi which means magic carpet and is so much better. thanks for coming to my ted talk

Meme news: The Brazilian actress Renata Sorrah came out as bisexual at the age of 76

That's her, btw

She's an icon and also very talented. We Stan.

her figuring out she's bisexual

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I cannot put into words how much I Fucking Loathe the fact that when you search something on youtube now it will randomly intersperse blocks of "people also watched" and "for you" into the results. That's not what I searched for, youtube. I typed in a search query because I wanted to see search results, not random unrelated garbage you have placed in my way apparently to either inconvenience me or force me to scroll further for actual results. I despise your wretched little games and every time I see it I can only instantly close the tab as I am overcome with the urge to burn something down.

"I despise your wretched little games" perfectly conveys how I feel about the entire algorithm/attention economy

God the entire idea of an "attention economy" is so fucking dystopian, but that's exactly what it is and it pains me

Yall do NOT hop on a cosmetic surgery hate train during an ongoing campaign against trans Healthcare I am fucking begging

My tits didn't smaller themselves, fuckos. Either you believe in bodily autonomy or you fucking don't.

The sacred bond between trans people who've had plastics and cis people who have had plastics is fucking sacred and I will not tolerate anybody in the queer community trash-talking plastics no matter what it is and who is getting them and for what reason!!!

I want there to not be a line between 'costmetic' and 'necessary'. If there's a line, then insurance companies and whoever-the-fuck-else will decide everything is 'cosmetic'. That happened to me with getting my jaw rebuilt when I was A CHILD. 'oh it's cosmetic' My insurance wrangler lady and the surgeon had to write SEVERAL LETTERS to the damn insurance company detailing out just how graphically I would DIE if I did not get my face rebuilt before I was 18! If 'we won't pay for cosmetic plastics only necessary ones' wasn't a thing, that wouldn't have had to fucking happen!

So you know what? I don't want to hear the word 'cosmetic' out of anyone's mouth. it's ALL just plastics. And all plastics are still 100% the person's choice to get, I don't care what the reason is, all reasons are your business and should be honoured and that's as it should be. As Sweaterkittens said, you either believe in bodily autonomy or you fucking don't.

Signed,

A Transman who has had exclusively plastics for all FOUR major surgeries throughout his life.

Listen here my friends and listen well.

If you’re not a fat girl I don’t wanna hear your opinions on the polin smut scenes. I REALLY don’t. When we get them if you’re not one of us your opinion means nothing. This is the first time we won’t be the butt of the joke. Instead we get to see one of our own be the sexy, desirable girl on the screen. Not to be superficial but I’m gonna anyway, never have we truly gotten to see ourselves on the screen being desired by the hot guy, and NEVER have we gotten scenes like the ones we’re about to be graced with. The internet is already gonna rake Nicola and any other fat woman who dares to find themselves sexy over smoldering goddamn coals, don’t y’all on here start doing it to, or I start swinging.

So when these smut scenes come out I don’t want to hear SHIT. Let us big girls enjoy the one time we aren’t the laughing stock when it comes to sex on TV. Just once.

Y’all don’t know how much I’ve waited for a moment like this!!! Let fat AFAB people have this!!! Nicola Coughlan is fine as fuck, and I’m READY!!!

netflix’s the bastard son & the devil himself took a book with an insufferable racism allegory & consistently under-developed female characters and turned it into an epic vaguely polyamorous love story with a queer black lead???? I miss this show