i think i could be trusted with The Book That Kills People from the classic manga series “No One Can Be Trusted With Power Of The Book That Kills People” imho
Today I learned 3D animation is a horror show outside the camera’s field of view.
Just to add context, the director wanted the scene to use an 85mm lens which is slightly telephoto. Telephoto lenses give a very intimate feel because they compress the scene. Background and foreground objects can appear larger at longer focal lengths.
But that compression can also make objects look the wrong size in context with the subject depending on the framing.
This is done in live action as well using another person’s hands in front of the camera.
Or sometimes they create giant fake hands like in Hellboy.
“In the main menu of Mario Power Tennis, Toad is present to explain the selection options. It appears as though Toad is close to the background and roughly the same size as the icons. However, moving the viewpoint reveals that Toad is actually extremely tiny and extremely close to the camera (note Toad near the left edge of the screen in the bottom image).”
What Jesus Wants: for humans to be considered better than dogs?? better than RATS?? better than snails?!!??
What Satan Wants: all life forms are good, wonderful; perfect
I’m sorry, but the idea that humans are above snails is a goddamn fallacy.
Why does god hate his eggs sunny side up
How is everything above octopi
To be fair, it’s not talking about which creatures are “better” than which other creatures. The theological concept it’s referring to is natural dominion, i.e., which creatures naturally have authority over which other creatures.
Thus, the infographic on the left implies a natural order in which - among other things - sharks have dominion over trees. How often is that actually going to come up? That seems like poor planning on God’s part.
As someone who is into pen and paper RPGs, I would’ve thought you’d understand the danger that unforeseen rules interactions could pose to a proper working order.
Okay, now you’ve got me trying to imagine the bizarre edge case that obliged God-the-GM to issue an official ruling that sharks have dominion over trees. That feels like the sort of rule with a story behind it.
I have no trouble believing that someone went through the bible and used various verses to create a ranked order of dominion, BUT… How on earth would said order be related to these verses???
1 Timothy 4 (NIV)
4 The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. 2Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. 3They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth. 4For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, 5because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.
The first rule of Evangelical Christianity is that if you can’t think of a verse that actually supports whatever point you’re trying to make, just cite one of the verses about not being led astray by false teachers and call it a day.
“When I was young there were beatniks. Hippies. Punks. Gangsters. Now you’re a hacktivist. Which I would probably be if I was 20. Shuttin’ down MasterCard. But there’s no look to that lifestyle! Besides just wearing a bad outfit with bad posture. Has WikiLeaks caused a look? No! I’m mad about that. If your kid comes out of the bedroom and says he just shut down the government, it seems to me he should at least have an outfit for that.”
In New Zealand, there is a man legally known as ‘The Wizard’ who is an educator, comedian, magician and politician. Some of his political ideas include:
Abolishing old-fashioned gender roles
Travelling to find the “center of the universe”
Replacing God and the Church with Wizardry and the World Wide Web
“Wizard, The”
This is The Wizard, reblog in 35 seconds to reveal the secrets of the center of the universe and abolish old fashioned gender roles.
The Wizard of New Zealand is not just legally named “The Wizard” so he can appear on his driver’s licence that way. He is actually, literally, officially, the Wizard of New Zealand and was appointed to that role by Prime Minister Mike Moore in 1990.
Knowing almost zero about celebrities is fun because then you live in a world where movie reviews just arbitrarily say things like “that’s right folks….this character was played by none other than gabooble dooble himself” “it has zippo zappo as the villain….what more do I need to say???” “Five words for you: wibbly flimflim plays a cowboy.” Wow!
I had a dream that I went to heaven and heaven had its own heaven-exclusive tv shows that were written and produced there in heaven and they showed me the most popular show in heaven and it was this really beautiful drama and, at the end of the episode, the credits said “Created by Mike Ehrmantraut” and they were like “oh yeah. fictional characters who die in earth media go to real heaven” and I’m like “sure but mike did some pretty fucked up stuff, wouldn’t he go to hell?” and they’re like “no, all the fucked up things he did were fictional. people only get judged for the real things they do and the only thing mike really did was bring joy to millions of viewers” and i think that’s beautiful
Knowing almost zero about celebrities is fun because then you live in a world where movie reviews just arbitrarily say things like “that’s right folks….this character was played by none other than gabooble dooble himself” “it has zippo zappo as the villain….what more do I need to say???” “Five words for you: wibbly flimflim plays a cowboy.” Wow!
actually everyone making fun of these and writing about how they bully other drivers on the road by tailgating and driving aggressively in their 2 ton death machines is a cunt. if your response to someone admitting they’re nervous to be operating a massive dangerous machine they usually require to lead a normal life is to make their life even scarier and potentially cause an accident you have problems straight up
Lots of grown-ass adults in the world who think it’s cute or cool to be like “if you display any sign of weakness or vulnerability where I can see it I will pounce on it and savage it like a starving coyote”
actually everyone making fun of these and writing about how they bully other drivers on the road by tailgating and driving aggressively in their 2 ton death machines is a cunt. if your response to someone admitting they’re nervous to be operating a massive dangerous machine they usually require to lead a normal life is to make their life even scarier and potentially cause an accident you have problems straight up
Lots of grown-ass adults in the world who think it’s cute or cool to be like “if you display any sign of weakness or vulnerability where I can see it I will pounce on it and savage it like a starving coyote”
actually everyone making fun of these and writing about how they bully other drivers on the road by tailgating and driving aggressively in their 2 ton death machines is a cunt. if your response to someone admitting they’re nervous to be operating a massive dangerous machine they usually require to lead a normal life is to make their life even scarier and potentially cause an accident you have problems straight up
Lots of grown-ass adults in the world who think it’s cute or cool to be like “if you display any sign of weakness or vulnerability where I can see it I will pounce on it and savage it like a starving coyote”
actually everyone making fun of these and writing about how they bully other drivers on the road by tailgating and driving aggressively in their 2 ton death machines is a cunt. if your response to someone admitting they’re nervous to be operating a massive dangerous machine they usually require to lead a normal life is to make their life even scarier and potentially cause an accident you have problems straight up
Lots of grown-ass adults in the world who think it’s cute or cool to be like “if you display any sign of weakness or vulnerability where I can see it I will pounce on it and savage it like a starving coyote”
You aren’t “behind” in life. But it’s valid to feel that way and it’s valid to grieve the years you lost to trauma, mental illness, or just general surviving.
i just got an $800 medical bill i thought i already paid off in the mail. im in between paychecks after not working for weeks, so if you could share i would appreciate it. :^)
1) Put four pills on each side. The heavier side has the pill. Take the four pills from the heavier side.
2) Put two of the potential pills on each side of the scale. The heavier side has the poison pill.
3) Take the two potential pills. Swallow one. If you survive, you are holding the poison pill. If you die, you have eaten the poisoned pill. Either way you will find out which one it is for sure
1) Weigh 6 of them, 3 on each side
2a) If both sides are equal, weigh the 2 you didn’t use before.
2b) If one side was heavier, pick 2 of the 3 and weigh them. Heavier one is poisoned. If they’re even, it’s the 3rd.
Well, all I can say is that we all have our methods and some of us are more willing to take a risk in the name of science
joking that an adult character who acts childish doesnt know what sex is will never be as funny as saying the same thing about a big tough murderman videogame protag
“papyrus doesnt know what sex is” is nothing “solid snake doesnt know what sex is” is an instant killer
nothing but respect for my ace king
Technically speaking according to Doom lore, Doomguy is qualified to become the Pope.
i appreciate the content warnings and understand their importance but i can’t help but giggle a little bit when i click on a fnaf fic and half the chapters have child death warnings in their notes. sir this is the Child Death Game i think i know what i’m signing up for
*entering the child death and murder fandom* why the fuck is this place so full of child murder
are you in the right headspace to receive information that can possibly hurt you right now.
w. what the fuck is the incest fandom
ohmygodtheymeantgameofthrones
now are you in the right headspace to receive information that can possibly hurt you right now.
i appreciate the content warnings and understand their importance but i can’t help but giggle a little bit when i click on a fnaf fic and half the chapters have child death warnings in their notes. sir this is the Child Death Game i think i know what i’m signing up for
*entering the child death and murder fandom* why the fuck is this place so full of child murder
are you in the right headspace to receive information that can possibly hurt you right now.
w. what the fuck is the incest fandom
ohmygodtheymeantgameofthrones
now are you in the right headspace to receive information that can possibly hurt you right now.
i love the concept of divorce lawyers. the only things in the world that have the power to undo your marriage are death itself or a special little boy with a law degree.
Man in an office is holding a stunt safe foam rubber cinder block: This is a prop foam rubber cinder block, that way we can smack an actor with it, and it won’t kill him. [man throws the prop at his coworker’s head]. But if it DID kill him, I’d still get off scot-free
Coworker [off-screen]: How would you do that, Scott?
Scott: Because there’d be no concrete evidence.
Coworker: [throws foam rubber cinder-block at Scott’s head]
please note that for both impacts someone did foley work to make the foam brick go ‘bang!’
love seeing revisionism in the wild “free the nipple never meant you can walk around topless every where that’s still sexual harassment it just meant for like breastfeeding and stuff”no it literally means you should be able to walk around topless anywhere because get this. breasts aren’t fucking sexual organs.
I remember when I was about 12, I watched a show on TLC that followed people as they got somewhat uncommon medical procedures.
There was one episode with a trans woman getting different gender-affirming operations, including breast implants. It showed the procedure, and (what I found so fascinating that it’s stuck with me for decades), as soon as the doctor put the implant in, a censor blur popped up on the nipple.
And you just know there was a meeting between the TLC lawyers and the editors and producers of the show to discuss what the difference was between a “man nipple” (can be shown) and a “woman nipple” (no no must obscure, ‘tis naughty). And they decided that as soon as the implant goes in and the nipple has more mass behind it, that’s the moment when it becomes a woman’s nipple and must be hidden to comply with TV rules.
But it’s the same nipple. On the same person. I know what it looks like; I just saw it. But TV and obscenity rules are rules, and the rules say woman nipple = sexual and therefore explicit, but man nipple = neutral, just fine.
“Free the Nipple” was calling out arbitrary bullshit like that, because someone just existing with their body parts should not be considered obscene, and the double standard that men can be topless but women can’t is so blatantly ridiculous. All nipples are just nipples. If you get turned on or bothered by them, that’s on you.
The grapevine is saying that Matt Mullenweg has just announced to his automattic employees that starting today, any resignation will be effective immediately to try to prevent leaks.
I’m sure this will prevent the leaks and no one will tell anyone what it’s internally announced anymore.
You should look a gift horse in the mouth though. Just because it was free doesn’t mean it isn’t your responsibility to make sure it’s healthy.
Not to mention all horse medicine is expensive, including dentistry, so for all you know they could just be passing off vet costs to you
Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth. Don’t look at a gift horse. Don’t accept a horse as a gift. Be extremely skeptical of anyone trying to bind you to the ownership of a horse.
Climb upon the back of your gift horse and allow it to walk you to the river
somehow, I only just put together that a “gift horse” means a horse that is gifted to you, and not some kind of strange horse themed deity of generosity that is dropping goodies into your gullible hands from their giant horse maw.
The sheer number of people in the notes who thought this is amazing. There is love and light and beauty in the world.
For those confused, this saying is about being given a horse for free. You check a horse’s teeth to estimate its age and check for certain health conditions; when buying a random horse from a random guy in Old Timey Times (horses tend to have pretty thorough paperwork these days), it was expected that you’d check the horse’s teeth to make sure the seller wasn’t lying to you about the horse’s age and quality. The idea is that if someone is giving the horse to you for free, it’d be rude and entitled to check its age.
“Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth” essentially means “don’t criticise or second-guess your blessings”. Similar (but not identical) to “beggars can’t be choosers”. A modern version of the same saying could be “don’t check the mileage on a free car”.
You guys have some very complicated horse mythology
As someone who grew up around horses I got a couple things to add,
One
even with the paperwork I have never ever seen someone buy a horse without driving out and looking every inch of the horse over then setting a time to come back with the trailer and a brand inspector
B
If you are being gifted a horse?
It’s a murder horse it has tasted blood and longs to taste it again
Do not except gifted horse, who knows how hands have touched them, and whose blood that lays upon the hoof,
One last thing have we as a society learned nothing from Troy
#ok 1 people DO buy horses without paperwork or having them vetted all the time #these people are the biggest idiots on the planet #unless you are paying $500 for a horse in that case u look at it and go #it’s got 4 legs and is still breathing #and 2 free horses come in 3 distinct models #A) someone needs to get rid of it fast and that horse has gotta disappear #B) horse is so fucking evil and hates humans so much they literally can’t sell it and don’t want any questions #C) horse is being re-homed to a beloved trainer or horse retirement situation where it’s going to be a lesson pony forever or #a pasture ornament for the rest of its life
“I promise I won’t stay up late” is the biggest lie a trans girl can tell you. Never believe her. She’ll still be texting you at 2am about the Gundam figures she’s been building instead of sleeping.
Recently had to talk to someone who had perfection paralysis (or, in the words of Adam Savage, hamstrung by possibilities).
I’ve been doing artistic work for myself and others for nearly two decades now so here’s my advice.
It’ll never be perfect. And even if it *is*, you will come to nitpick and dislike things about it in time. You have to learn to sit with that discomfort, know that everything is flawed, and that artistic growth is an infinite path. So do the thing.
Ik this is probably the fifteenth time you’ve seen someone say this but we need more qprs in fandom space. Instead of shipping we’ll call it canoeing and we’ll make it just as popular. Please I need this ok
Apparently in China peach wood (Along with the rest of the plant) is believed to have properties that repel evil spirits, a little similar to silver in European legends or iron for both European fae and West Asian/Middle eastern Jinn. Taoists sometimes keep swords made of peach wood because of this. This made me realize something. If you took a peach wood stick, and attached studs to it of both silver and iron you’d end up with a club or staff (or mace, flail etc.) that would have the weaknesses of many kinds of supernatural creatures while still retaining effectiveness as a normal weapon (peach is a hardwood and silver’s poor edge retention doesn’t matter for studs). You could even keep adding new stud materials to get something ridiculous that affects over 120 catalogued folkloric monsters. Since you just need a few little studs you could even get some really expensive materials like meteoric iron (a thumb tip sized meteorite can still cost like 10-20 bucks I think). I could somewhat feasibly make a weapon that affects every monster ever thought to walk the earth, from vampires and werewolves to jinn and jiangshi and even mankind.
Club of Fuck That Supernatural Shit And Also Everything Else
Apparently in China peach wood (Along with the rest of the plant) is believed to have properties that repel evil spirits, a little similar to silver in European legends or iron for both European fae and West Asian/Middle eastern Jinn. Taoists sometimes keep swords made of peach wood because of this. This made me realize something. If you took a peach wood stick, and attached studs to it of both silver and iron you’d end up with a club or staff (or mace, flail etc.) that would have the weaknesses of many kinds of supernatural creatures while still retaining effectiveness as a normal weapon (peach is a hardwood and silver’s poor edge retention doesn’t matter for studs). You could even keep adding new stud materials to get something ridiculous that affects over 120 catalogued folkloric monsters. Since you just need a few little studs you could even get some really expensive materials like meteoric iron (a thumb tip sized meteorite can still cost like 10-20 bucks I think). I could somewhat feasibly make a weapon that affects every monster ever thought to walk the earth, from vampires and werewolves to jinn and jiangshi and even mankind.
Club of Fuck That Supernatural Shit And Also Everything Else
