I watched the “hyper realistic” version of “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” on Youtube and I was not ready for the utter lack of emotions from the CGI animals.
Nala looking concerned about Simba hiding something about his past, a comparison:
Also, in the CGI version this song called “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” does not take place at night.
Remember that the entire reason the internet forced you to fill in Captchas for the past 14 years is because they were using your answers to train AI in image and text recognition.
Of course the AI can read the text because the entire human race has been unable to use the internet without being forced to train it for over a decade.
The fact that they are still trying to keep up the facade so they can keep charging for their captcha services is laughable since they have made the service useless by using it this way.
not to be that bitch, but the original captcha project was used to train computers to read badly printed words in newspapers and books that were being digitized. this changed in like 2014, about 5 years after captcha was bought by google
saw a guy at uni today wearing this hoodie. i couldnt see the text on the back but i could see there was definitely text and images THERE. i can only conclude that this guy was genuinely walking around campus wearing meth instructions
TiL (click to go to the thread, which probably has more interesting tidbits I missed).
Bonus:
These are my people.
Betting I’ve reblogged this before. Betting I’ll reblog it when it turns up again.
In addition to the print terminology stuff: the visual shorthand icons and ad graphics for something about writing are still often pen-nibs, fountain pens and typewriters…
…while graphics of a monitor, keyboard and mouse remain visual shorthand for computing…
…even though most writers now use monitor / keyboard / mouse or even laptop / touchpad.
In addition, headers for “this blog / website is about writing” are often in one of the many imitation typewriter fonts complete with smudges, or just Courier.
The start and end call icons on most / all smartphones is still the handset of a classic desk telephone, and sometimes the open-app icon is a complete phone.
The term “hang up” for “end the call” refers to something even older - one of these…
And of course the Save icon
is indeed a 3½ inch floppy disc.
Why it wasn’t a
5¼
floppy is a mystery. The icon version is just as distinctive.
Also, why various OP updates never changed “Save” to the graphic of a CD / DVD or flash drive is another mystery, and nowadays a Save icon should probably be a cartoon cloud.
Graphics and terminology are funny things.
reblogging this again for EVEN MORE information.
I’m mostly entertained by the guy who thinks you need to know that “case” means “box” in French as though that’s not what it means in English.
skeumorphism my beloved
It’s fascinating. This post alternately made me feel old and taught me something. Tumblr is amazing.
And because we continue to use signs of ancient hardware, youngsters come up with questions like “why is the icon for ‘save’ a vending machine with a can of soda?” (One day I’ll find that post and link it)
A tip for excellent writing I just learned: Don’t introduce a character with their Dramatic Backstory. It makes readers go “oh alright this is the Dramatic Background Story Character” and establishes a baseline of Tragic, either for the story as a whole or this character in particular. With no contrast of light and dark, pure darkness isn’t impactful, it just looks like the absence of anything to look at.
If you really want someone’s dramatic backstory to hit the audience like a gut punch, let them get to know the character first. That way the dark backstory doesn’t come off as a description of who they are, but an explanation to why they are the way they are. Bonus points for connecting it to something that’s already been established as a part of the character - what a devastating blow to suddenly put together that hold on, that funny quirky thing that they always do is a fucking trauma response.
so matt’s absolutely giving scorched earth orders behind the scenes right. Not only are publically visible transfems dropping like flies, but every third person who musters up the audacity to comment negatively on Staff or Matt about this vanishes fucking instantly
Wuhoh this is quickly catching on. If I’m deactivated anytime soon, it’s cuz I got nuked. I’m not going down without a fight. Y'all remember that.
someone reblog this version for posterity. If the only copy is on my blog, that vanishes with me. I honestly doubt i’ll get smote but better safe than sorry yeah? I’ll be fine, but if I’m not, I’m making sure the crime scene is as damning as it gets.
If you live in the EU are or an EU citizen and your account gets deleted for any reason you think isn’t justified, please consider doing the following:
1. Make sure to collect evidence of what happened on your end.
2. Contact Tumblr support and tell them you are requesting your data under the GDPR and that as part of the request you want them to state what specific personal data they collected justified the deletion of your account. If they refuse to do either, state that they are under a legal obligation to provide this data to you, that they should forward your request to and put you in contact with their “Data Protections Officer”, and that if they do not comply, you will alert the relevant “Data Protection Authority”.
3. If in step 2 they showed evidence of some kind of discrimination or did not furnish reasonable information, or you suspect they are lying, do the following: Find either the data protection authority (DPA) of your country of residence or that of Ireland (may be a better choice if your government discriminates against queer people) on the EU website, on the website of the DPA you should be able to find guidance on how to submit a complaint. Try to follow their guidelines but also make sure that in your complaint you state that: your account was unjustifiably deleted, what measures you took under step 2, and what Tumblr responded with.
Basically your goal with the above should be to get Tumblr to show that they either had no reason to delete your account or discriminated against you when deleting it. With substantiated claims, the DPA can essentially force the company to fix their behaviour (reinstate your account) and if there is a pattern, the DPA may fine the company. You can also usually claim monetary compensation (including for e.g emotional damage) for such discrimination or other violations of the GDPR in small claims or similar court (contact a lawyer in your jurisdiction, there are quite a few that offer consumers advice who don’t charge fees unless you win compensation).
ttrpg player pro tip- just tell your GM when you have a plot in mind for your character. Ask for events to happen. Walk up and say “I want my evil brother to show up and be a huge fight and I try to save him from himself.” Your GM will ADORE having a whole encounter outlined for her, you’ll get to have an awesome scene play out, you’ll be invested, your GM will be invested, it’ll be memorable. Hopefully, just don’t be foreceful.
The idea that you and your GM will be able to like, psychically intuit each other’s ideas for character arcs is bullshit. This is a collaborative relationship; communicate!!
Also get comfortable undoing shit if you’re the DM. If you made an off-hand comment that didn’t fit the world you want to weave or if you realized an event would have long-term consequences you don’t want. You can just pause and tell everyone “wait I changed my mind, forget I said that! it didn’t happen.” and go back to the previous scene.
Ultimately ttrpgs should be a fun play time; ask yourself if you’re following invisible rules, and if those rules help or hinder your game experience.
the way people without allergies treat allergies is so infuriating. your workplace asking you not to bring mushrooms to work for lunch because your coworker has a deadly allergy is not a violation of your American liberties, it is the smallest sacrifice imaginable to keep someone from literally dying.
as a completely cis dude, I would press this button immediately, without question. There are a lot of things I would do for money, but shit I’d do this for like 20 bucks… maybe less?
Update us when you realize you were indeed not cis
While we’re at the subject of re-interpreting ancient greek myths, has anyone made one of Pandora’s box, where all the ailments and evils in the world were already in the world while sealed in the box, and all that was really sealed away was peoples’ awareness of them, and the ability to see what causes the harm that they already do?
So by opening the box she was told to never open, poor Pandora didn’t release the evil into the world, but only made the unseen into something that could be seen? From an outsider’s perspective, the outcome looks just the same - the box was opened and now everything’s awful. But the last thing to come out of the box was hope. Now that we know what the evils are, where they are and what they do and have done, there is hope of doing something about them.
Hey guys? I could really use some help paying rent this month. My court date to be evicted is on the 21st of June. My boyfriend lost his job recently, and his workplace is refusing to pay him
I… really need help. I don’t have much food. My blood sugar is always out of wack because I’m not eating.I’m… running out of options. I need help. Please. Even a share helps.
I can’t work because my back is really messed up but the disability process where I live can take YEARS.
Another thing: I have an emotional support cat and I really don’t want to give her up but I’m not gonna make her live out of a car. I’m really scared of losing her.
The leftism/anticapitalism leaving people’s bodies the zeptosecond you imply that disabled people who aren’t “productive” still matter in society and need to be treated like intrinsic equals who have a place in this world:
the talk about art as something divine and mystical runs completely counter to reality: anyone can do it if they wanted to. its not a super power, its a skill. like handling a knife or power tools. anyone can do it.
this is a better conception of it and does more to properly value the creation art as a skill.
If you consider art to be the work of “genius” or “the divine” you inherently assume that the work involved in making art is inconsequential. as art is then viewed as something that happened via magic as opposed to something that happened through effort.
I’m going to be disabled my entire life. And it isn’t because I haven’t done enough or tried hard enough to get better.
This seems to make a lot of abled people uncomfortable because they say things like “oh don’t give in! Don’t let it hold you back!
Me accepting my disability as a reality is how I learn to cope with it and make the adjustments I need. My disabilities do hold me back and acknowledging that isn’t a bad thing.
following this dude on insta who only has 5k of 35k on his sons evac fund and im so confused cuz he has multiple microinfluencers making videos abt him, hes been consistently posting and asking for donations for at least two months, hes DMing everyone he sees, he’s even got ppl printing his story out and pasting it up apparently. yet only at 5k? after all that time and effort?
was reminded of that youtube channel that records footage of that bridge that scalps trucks today. one of the fascinating developments that’s happened since i last heard about it is that, in one of their many attempts to stop the trucks from being can-opened, they installed a traffic light that detects when a vehicle that’s over the allowed height is coming and turns red so the driver can stop and hopefully notice the signage all around that’s screaming “YOUR VEHICLE IS OVERHEIGHT TURN AROUND” and avoid an accident. However as a result sometimes drivers see the light turning yellow and IMMEDIATELY start flooring it to avoid having to stop, ensuring that the roof of their truck just gets fucking annihilated instantly. Really beautiful stuff you should check it out
a bunch of pissed off vampires stuck in Venice because they can’t go over moving water
Not to victim blame, but you’d have to be a pretty bad Italian to even get turned into a vampire in the first place.
the only two places practically immune to vampires are texas and italy
Let me tell you of A Thing.
Lithuania has no vampires, I guarantee it.
Lithuania has one vampire, and let me tell you, she’s gonna be FURY UNLEASHED once someone gets her out of the centre of that crossterfuck of a burial point.
comics as an art form make me insane. they’re so difficult to do well. there’s so many different ways to make sequential art work and most of them are deeply unintuitive. onomatopoeia that feels completely ridiculous to put down often reads seamlessly. panels on a page become a fractally nested image composition challenge that’s only possible to lose because if you do a good job no one will notice. you have to direct the readers’ eyes on a specific path across the page but also account for the fact that they won’t follow it. comic time isn’t linear. if the order of events isn’t crystal clear the story becomes incomprehensible. sometimes you need to do this on purpose. all this for a medium almost universally considered less effective than animation and less respectable than plain text. even its own name doesn’t take it seriously
an acquaintance told me i had the subtle guardedness of someone who “learned social skills the hard way” and i’d honestly have much preferred they took out a gun and shot me
as a knitter, you start to notice how rare it is for characters in tv shows and movies to knit correctly. from worst to best, it ranges from:
- laughably incorrect, just flinging yarn around
- knitting the most basic scarf incredibly slowly because the actor Learned How To Do It For The Role
- old lady actresses casually knitting an intricate lace pattern while doing a monologue
- gromit from wallace and gromit
1. that’s a garter stitch, which you can clearly see despite it being made of clay
2. they took the time to animate a modified continental style of knitting, including showing how his working yarn is wrapped around his pinky, and that he’s flicking with his index on his right hand
3. he only has four fingers and yet this is better than the vast majority of knitting on tv
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