XP/98 remix
aloe-jelly
ok what the fuck
pumpkinnqueenn
It sounds like some digital boss theme
I had to draw this.
Look, the reason Star Trek aliens are just humans with funny foreheads isn’t because they’re lazy, it’s because Star Trek as a franchise pre-dates both CGI and The Muppet Show, and by the time the technology existed to routinely depict non-humanoid aliens on a TV show budget, it was too late – forehead aliens had already been established as part of Star Trek’s defining aesthetic.
People don’t understand how expensive this shit is.
We look at Spock and that looks like the bare minimum… But at the time, his ear prosthetics were insanely expensive. Episodes with multiple Romulans ended up with romulans wearing helmets because that many ear prosthetics were prohibitively expensive for their miniscule budget.
Their budget was so tight that they accidentally broke the Romulan Bird of Prey model, and couldn’t afford to replace it.
But on their tiny budget, they tried very hard to do things that were truly alien and imaginative. And these are the very aliens everyone uses to make fun of Trek.
(The “Salt Vampire,” Tholians, Horta, and Gorn).
Meanwhile, they also occasionally pushed the prosthetics aliens as far as they could
(Andorians, tellerite, talosian)
You got to admit, that talosian is amazing work, especially for the 1960s.
Budget continues to be the limiting factor up to and including Discovery and Picard. While those two have access to make up techniques and SFX tools that didn’t exist yet even as recently as went Enterprise went off the air, they’re still very much limited by budget and how much suffering the actors can handle.
And these actors absolutely do suffer:
This is a Hirogen. When they were created they were to be Trek’s answer to The Predator. They were to be huge. Beyond human limitations, into special effects huge. They cast actors who were already pushibg sasquatch size, bulked them up, then used perspective tricks to make them look ten feet tall. They made two sets- one normal sized with normal sized props for the hirogen actors, and one that was oversized, with oversized props for Tuvok and Seven.
These suits were giant solid pieces of rubber. Tim Russ said that every second they weren’t filming, Tiny Ron (one of the hirogen actors in this episode, better known as The Grand Nagus’ body guard) needed to be sitting so he wouldn’t die. Russ said that sweat would flowing down his gloves because that was the only escape from the suit. It would be pulling in his boots and pants.
Everything about the Hirogen was untenable. The costumes were made easier, and their size was reduced back to normal human. The cost was too high, both on the budget, and on the actors.
Voyager also tried a completely CGI aliens:
Species 8472, who came from outside the universe. The result was a mixed bag. Great in concept, but realistically was beyond the abilities of a television budget from the late nineties/early two thousands. They didn’t age as well as other aspects of that era of Trek.
Now into Modern Trek, we have Saru. He goes a step beyond most prosthetic aliens, but imagine what Doug Jones goes through to bring him to life? Not just how many hours in the make-up chair, but also his suit, hands, shoes. Imagine how sore he must be at the end of each day!
Behind every “forehead alien” in Trek is an actor who’s had to indure many many hours in the make-up chair, and tens of thousands of dollars to make those prosthetics. And it’s only been extremely recently that the technology has been affordably practical enough that they won’t get made fun of for trying non-humanoid aliens.
I saw that picture of Joe Biden finding two coins on the ground again today. His face in it is so haunting man I have no idea what emotion he’s experiencing
Just pure rapture
what now, son? what are you going to do now? im here to tell you that ive taken your tokens. i have both of your tokens, boy, and you know where im going to take them? two words: skee ball. you don’t even know how powerful i am, you don’t even know the powers i possess with this two piece of silver. ancient magic, son. ancient magic- don’t mess with ancient magic, or you’ll get the horns. just an old phrase from back in scranton. jill get in the car
May his memory be a blessing.
Willem Arondéus (22 August 1894 – 1 July 1943) was a Dutch artist and author who joined the Dutch anti-Nazi resistance movement during World War II. He participated in the bombing of the Amsterdam public records office to hinder the Nazi German effort to identify Dutch Jews and others wanted by the Gestapo. Arondéus was caught and executed soon after his arrest. Yad Vashem recognized Arondéus as Righteous Among the Nations.
Their attack, which took place on 27 March 1943, was partially successful, and they managed to destroy 800,000 identity cards, and retrieve 600 blank cards and 50,000 guilders. The building was blown up and no one was caught on the night of the attack. However, due to an unknown betrayer, Arondéus was arrested on 1 April 1943. Arondéus refused to give up the rest of his team.
Arondéus was openly gay before the war and defiantly asserted his sexuality before his execution. His final words were:
"Tell the people that homosexuals are not by definition weak."
From Wikipedia
He was also a pretty great artist
Reblog to include his artwork!
I love trans voices. I love pre-HRT and “started HRT a month ago” and sore voices lowering and carefully trained voices and I love trans laughter and trans singing and I love the in-between androgyny of some voices and I love MY voice and I love my friends’ voices. I love husky voices and medium voices and high pitched voices and gravely voices. I love range changes and I love the expressiveness. I love trans voices.
- leslie feinberg, stone butch blues
["She spoke more softly. "It's a beautiful night, isn't it?" The shades of gender in her voice were intricate, like mine."]
its absurd that trio is four letters long and not three
are there no rules on this damned earth? are we just here to suffer?
there are rays of sunshine in this dark world
This is such an important and genuinely terrifying post. I could completely go off on the rise of anti-science, but for now I’ll just add: it isn’t just boomers that get deceived. This is a warning to all of us.
Pay ATTENTION to what you are being told. If you think you cannot be deceived, you leave yourself open to deception. Question, doubt, research research research. Learn about your personal biases, dig up any subconscious cognitive dissonance. Keep an eye on your mind.
It needs to be stressed that biases, not a lack of intelligence, is very much the issue here. Being aware of the need to fact check yourself is key: Intelligence won’t protect you from bad or unhealthy mental states, or keep you safe from cults of any sort. Intelligence will just make it easier for you to rationalize and attempt to justify the malformed tools you’ve taken/been given to yourself and others. You need to be wise enough to challenge yourself.
As a cult survivor, this is lethally accurate.
Mobility aids and sensory aids aren’t a “worst case scenario”
Stop acting like it’s a tragedy when someone starts using a cane or wheelchair, and stop acting like it’s someone admitting defeat if they need ear defenders or stim toys.
Aids are a good thing. They allow us to live better than we could before, and that’s something to celebrate, not demean and be doom and gloom about.
‘bread is bad for you’ ‘rice is bad for you’ sorry im not subscribing to the idea that staple grains that have been integral to cultures for centuries are evil. i love you carbs
I see an animol I name it
Guess who’s reblogging turble again
Guess who's smiling about somebody reblogging turble again :3
My bf studied japanese in high school and often says "gambate!" (not sure of spelling) to be like. encouraging. I think it means roughly "let's get this bread." However, as someone who took spanish in high school, it always sounds like a command to me. And as near as I can tell, in spanish it would mean "go shrimp yourself."
I'm definitely not a fluent speaker, so I could be wrong, but here's how I got there:
In Spanish, some (informal, I think?) commands are formed by dropping the "r" from the end of an infinitive verb. (Every infinitive verb in Spanish ends in r.) For example, "to run" is "correr." If you want to tell someone to run, it's "corre." If you want to tell someone to do something to something/someone, you append a little pronoun thing to the end. From "besar" (to kiss) we get "bésame" (kiss me). From "cocinar" (to cook) we get "cocínalo" (cook it). From "callar" (to silence) we get "cállate" (silence yourself/shut up).
So, "gambate" immediately reminds me of "cállate," which is a rude command. It would be formed from the verb "gambar" and the second person object "te" for "you/yourself." But "gambar" isn't a word in Spanish. However, "gamba" is a word. It means "shrimp." So while it isn't technically grammatically correct, in the same way we "verb" nouns in English, the noun "gamba" is being used in the place of a verb here. "Gambate" (or more properly "gámbate" to maintain the correct stress for both the Spanish and Japanese). "Go shrimp yourself."
Native spanish speaker. You're quite right about your linguistics here, and spanish speakers love to make up new words by conjugating existing words (at the very least, my parents do)
My confusion stemmed from never having heard the word gamba before. To my knowledge the word for shrimp is camarón
So i looked it up and apparently gamba actually means prawn. So it's actually go prawn yourself
After sex you see me roll over and go to balcony. You think ive gone for smoke due to my melancholic nature but I’ve opened sudoku.com evil level
Steve: 1
Secret Service: 0
For those who don’t know, Steve Jackson Games was raided by the Secret Service in 1990, and all copies of the then-upcoming GURPS Cyberpunk were confiscated. Though this was bad for the company financially (they were set back months on a major project, and had to do layoffs), it did lend a certain air of pizazz to their product.
They ended up suing the government, and won. This was the first high-profile case for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which successfully sued on behalf of the company, winning around $300,000 in the case.
The full story is here: http://www.sjgames.com/SS/
GURPS Cyberpunk still bears a proud label on the cover that this is "The book that was seized by the US Secret Service!"
My favourite thing about Netflix mobile is that every so often it glitches and—
people are fighting over tipping culture in america on twitter and so many europeans are trying to explain why stiffing your server is praxis, actually
and it reminded me of the time I was working outside the 9/11 memorial and a european tourist came up to yell in my face at like 8am that we should all be ashamed of ourselves for charging admission to a museum of a national tragedy and when I said we depended on the money to stay open he screamed some more in my face about what a shameful disgusting government I had that wouldn’t subsidize the museum as though I personally set it up that way, and I had to eventually respond “sir, I haven’t been able to afford to see a doctor in 10 years you think I like this system???” and he just stomped away still yelling me I was a shameful person for this, the ticketing system I had no say in and also thought was outrageously expensive
anyways, just want to throw out there that if your only means of protesting an unjust system is to shit on the victims of that system then you’re not a moral crusader you’re just an asshole dressing up your assholery, pretending your cruelty is for a greater good. Tip 20% (or more!) when you eat out in america, it’s really that simple.
