happy birthday to gay people omg

It's June 1. It's time.

Go be gay.

I think about this a lot

the world is not scary plus im strong as hell

i……..

had……

the slime of my life

and I’ve never felt this way before

and I swear

It’s the truth

this is to the guy in the electronics department at walmart who when I approached and said “game” because it was the only word that would come to me, went “yeah” and walked me straight to tears of the kingdom, no questions asked

You know how lo-fi likes to sprinkle in random audio clips from old anime or whatever? I’m on a conference call regarding a major livesite issue, but where someone only speaks every couple minutes for a status update, and I also have the Lofi Girl station on at the same time, and it works *perfectly*. Like, you’ll just have these chill beats, and every few minutes someone says “rack 17 is energized, but networking is still down” or something.

I’ll stop after this, but someone said “Alejandro, how are you coming with that TOR switch?” just before the beat dropped, and then a few seconds later muttered “Alejandro, you are still muted”. Absolutely sublime.

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During the pandemic I found that layering lo-fi over my lecture videos improved them a Lot

Meaningwave has an entire Audiobook of the first Dune Novel set to lofi and it's low key ruined all other audiobooks for me

I think that one of the reasons The Lord of the Rings still holds up, in my mind at least, is that it still used the whole “make a miniature version of the set piece” school of filming.

Like Isengard:

Minas Tirith:

Helm’s Deep:

Osgiliath:

Like… that’s shit is just cool.

“Miniature”

They are technically miniatures because they aren’t the full 1:1 scale.

Although I’d be impressed if anyone could make a 1:1 scale replica of Orthanc at 500 feet high.

Practical effects add value to movies and tv shows that often goes unappreciated until years later.

Very true. I think my roommate and I have determined that the best way to do things was to have practical effects mixed with CGI. You get it close with the practical and then finish it with CGI. Looks better than regular CGI that’s for sure.

Even the best CGI will look dated in ten years. But a good practical effect will always look good.

These very large miniatures actually have a classification in Hollywood special effects: Bigatures.

I’m a massive proponent of bigature and miniature cinematography. They aren’t often used anymore because CGI is seen as “cheaper” except that it fucking well is not by the end of the production, even if you’re ripping off your CG arists. It’s just less hassle to insure an artist at a desk.

Over 21,000 notes… and everyone agrees that bigatures should be used again.

ambiguity be damned, they WILL be giants by the time I'm through with them

Pros of having a brain that makes very fast associations: Good comebacks and jokes.

Cons of having a brain that makes very fast associations: that story about how you broke your foot reminded me of a fun fact about lizards.

MEEEEEE

in conversation about white people who go to Japan and expect their knowledge of anime to culturally carry them, I was once posed with “it’s like if there was a Japanese guy who was obsessed with spongebob and came over here and thought he could get by just communicating in spongebob quotes.” This is a false equivalence because if such a man existed we would crown him king. We’d love him. Americans would fucking love that. sometimes I get sad that this isn’t a real guy I can invite to a party.

evanescence bring me to life and britney spears toxic are sisters to me

do you see

honestly this is so much nicer than red

this is coca-cola i can feel calm drinking. no bright screaming red. no anger. no hatred. just a nice sky blue. this is a soda i can feel relaxed with.

Is everyone on this site a fucking bull?

If you log into the labyrinth, you can’t complain if you see a minotaur