This is basically what my physical therapist had me do for my back problems last year and it helped with the pain so much! Also walk for at least thirty minutes a day, even if it's just in small chunks throughout the day.
people used to make genuine posts imploring and begging tumblr users not to vote for Deez Nuts for president
A new category of takes that are almost correct but don't really make sense because they forget two important things about the George W Bush era:
- That Islamophobia was wildly popular at all levels of American culture from jokes on sitcoms to NYT Opinion Thinkpieces about how Muslims were inherently violent, inferior, un-American, etc or pondering the many, many morally justified reasons to humiliate or (oftern literally) strip women who wear hijab.
- That an obsession with virginity was incredibly powerful and had seeded the culture with a wide variety of sick little rituals. It was common to see "purity rings" given to girls by their father's displayed in dorm rooms and most pop stars from Brittany Spears to Jessica Simpson were publically proclaiming their virgin-until-marriage beliefs.
And like, is it contradictory that the culture was both obsessed with patriotic, secular, girl-power tits-on-the-face of the Taliban AND with telling young women to stay virgins until marriage? Is it not contradictory that you had the Sam Harris/Christopher Hitchens/Richard Dawkins set insisting that there was a war between the Englightened West and the barbaric Muslim religious fundamentalists AND with the likes of George W Bush, Rick Santorum, John Ashcroft insisting that this was a war between the Godly "Judeo-Christian" culture and the satanic Muslims? That the Heritage Foundation was paying Ayan Hirsi-Ali and also supporting the Evangelical-led gay marriage bans? Yes. But can you also see how the messy concept of "culturally christian atheism" was useful in this context?
Remember when Trump was attempting to 'register' Muslim Americans and people where outraged but/and he was "just" reviving a Bush-era rule that only wackadoos like myself protested at the time?
Or, on a lighter note, have you noticed that horror movies between roughly 1996 and 2012 were obsessed with both virgins and torture? Have you noticed that people over, say, 50-something have a totally different way of thinking about Bill Maher than people under, say, 30? What the fuck was up with the politics of South Park?
Finally, I'd like to give a shout-out to Jia Tolentino, who presents the iconic experience of youth in the Bush years as being about robotripping in the parking lot of a teen abstinence rally.
I feel like maybe the whole "he reached for my gun" thing would fall apart if more civilians knew that cops use holsters with a one-way locking mechanism specifically to prevent other people from stealing their guns
[Tweet by @Phil_Lewis_: "A colorado sheriff's deputy shot and killed an unarmed man at point-black range in a middle school pick-up line, newly released video shows. He "died on the ground outside the school as kids wearing backpacks walked past."" with a link to an article at denverpost.com and timestam: 10:36, 23 feb 23. Reply by @syphophorus: "Per the article, the Da said the cops had reasonable fear of death in this situation because the cops had deadly weapons and the guy could have grabbed them. So unarmed people aren't unarmed if the cops have guns."]
We’re so lucky they filmed Lord of the Rings when they did. Twenty years later, they would’ve had Viggo Mortensen riding a green bike that they CGI into a horse because that’s better for some reason.
This simple feeling… is beyond Disney’s comprehension.
Kids, kids. Are you telling me you think they didn’t use CGI in Lord of the Rings? One of the characters is entirely mo-cap and CGI! It has dragons and mammoths, and I promise they didn’t really build gigantic statues to sail boats through.
no, people are not saying they didn’t cgi the dragons they’re saying lotr used real horses unlike the above example of editing in a dog where they might have held an actual dog.
Exactly. LOTR was a masterpiece in balancing CG and practical effects, they didn’t overuse CG. That didn’t mean they didn’t use it, it means that when practical was better, they used practical. When LOTR used CG, it was because it could not be done at the time with practical effects; you just can’t make someone look like Gollum without making their suit and prosthetics impossible to act in. This was before motion capture, they had to animate Gollum BY HAND using Andy Serkis as a reference. Four tusked elephants with tiny people walking around on them aren’t exactly on sale, nor are fell beasts.
Isengard and Orthanc? Bigature (miniature but like, the size of a tennis court). Minas Tirith? Bigature. Helm’s Deep, the Black Gate, Barad-dur, Minas Morgul, Osgiliath, even elements of Lothlorien, Moria, and the Grey Havens? BIGATURES. Hobbits and Gandalf in one shot? Almost always tricks of perspective with, for example, a table set that was made in 3 pieces to move and make you think Tiny Elijah Wood™ was sitting at the same table as Giant Ian McKellan™, not greenscreen. They literally went so far as to make the Hobbits’ clothes (on the taller actors, not their little stunt doubles) with thicker thread to make their smallness look real.
Those statues, the Gates of Argonath? CG. The gorge and the boats? Real.
But the thing about the top example with the dog? They’re doing it because CG is less expensive because animal handlers have unions, while CG artists don’t and work in sweatshop conditions.
Regarding the “giant statues to sail boats through” especially, it was such a clever work of blending bigatures and real river exteriors filmed near Queenstown with actors/stunt doubles/scale doubles in the boats.
This is Richard Taylor with the bigature for a sense of scale from the behind the scenes special features (ngl, I want them to frame my front door) :
And this is what it looked like with all the lighting and framing put in place, with bluescreens to add background and foreground digitally:
And the gorge they transposed it over:
And the final result with the transposed river and sky and matched up colour-grading:
There is so much detail on the bigatures as well, that they incorporated the concept that the statues were only carved out of the cliffsides to a point, but that they constructed a quarry and cut the rock to build the rest. The bigatures actually include the worn down and aged remains of the quarry.
Definitely not the same as pasting on a dog for budget reasons.
jokes aside i think it’s amazing and heartwarming to see like 4chan incel bros perform the miracle of crawling out of that hole and becoming real human beings and chronicling their journey to realizing that they can be well adjusted happy normal dudes
Where’s the post about the guy who turned his life around bc of his shrimp? Bc that’s very relevant here
This guy. This makes me so happy
Just a reminder that if you earned < 73k last year, you qualify for FREE tax filing through IRS Free File.
You don’t have to give $ to TurboTax et al. (literally self-named “non-free file alliance”) who lobby the government to prevent free filing!
Asserting dominance over my cat by slapping the red dot and turning off the laser pointer. I can kill it just fine, sounds like a skill issue little buddy.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN THIS IS WHAT MODOK LOOKS LIKE IN THE NEW ANT MAN MOVIE
"They call you Ant-Man...? Like an exterminator? Sorry, but I don't have any picnic problems. I actually think it's kinda fun to zap little...bugs that annoy me..."
