thelittleblackfox:

i-am-loki-locked:

dajo42:

proposed new holiday: valoween. combination valentines and halloween. take a monster on a date

Guillermo Del Toro we know that’s you

Wait, let him speak

euripidesredux:

lunulata:

raptorific:

lunulata:

I think my favorite panic-fueled response to a petitioner was when someone came up to me in Union Square and said “Hi, would you care to sign our petition for LGBT rights?” and I just blurted out “I’m already gay” and the person, taken aback, said “Well, that’s… nice.” and I said “It really is. Goodbye.” and just walked into the closest store to escape.

one time I was on my way to a final and this clipboard person was aggressively trying to stand in my way and saying “excuse me sir, can you take just one minute?” and I was like “I’m sorry I’m on my way to a final” and they said “just takes a minute to save a mountain” and I panicked because clearly the truth of why I had to go wasn’t working so I just said the first thing that came to mind which was “Sorry I hate mountains”

This is maybe my favorite response to this post, holy shit.

My favorite of these from the other side of the clipboard—back when I was canvassing for GreenPeace, I had a co-worker that would switch back and forth between “Hey, you want to help save a whale?” and “Hey, you want to help fight global warming?” – and at the end of a very long, hard day on the Magnificent Mile in Chicago, he blurted out to someone “Hey, you want to help me fight a whale?”

legoguy9875:

mageknight14:

These are, quite possibly, some of the worst takes I’ve ever seen.

A lot of people seem to underestimate how hard pixel-sprites are to do in games, or really most 2D games in general. Cuphead and Hollow Knight are probably the most extreme examples of just how hard animating 2D images are for games. On top of making them work with the game’s intended pace, you have to redraw the subject multiple times with slightly different poses for each redraw to create the intended motion, and you have to ensure that the motion closely matches the framerate of the game so that it doesn’t throw the player off. And if you have characters with minor details, like scarves, long hair, loose clothing, or for female characters, bouncing breasts, You also have to account for the physics of those details as well. You can’t just put jigglebones on them and call it a day.

Meanwhile, with 3D models, while it is true that models are more difficult to make compared to drawings, you only have to make the model ONCE. You don’t have to make a new model of the same character for a different frame of motion. Once you have a model that’s fully rigged, a massive chunk of the work is done, leaving only the matter of animating it. Hell, nowadays you don’t even have to fully animate it yourself. Technology these days allows people to capture both motion and facial features in a real life studio and adapt it to a model, and it’s not too expensive to do so either. SFM, for example, has support for motion capture cameras like the Kinect, allowing animators to act out their own motion and apply it to compatible models (here is a good example of that in action). If anything, 3D games, visually at least, are even more lazy than those in 2D, since animating a 3D model, especially with the tech we have now, is far easier to do than 2D sprites.

dadmondmiles:

bigsphinxofquartz:

passionpeachy:

Something about Rebecca Sugar coming out as a nonbinary woman is a huge surprise but it also makes so much sense in retrospect. The Gems aren’t nonbinary because they’re aliens or because she wanted to look Woke or whatever….she was literally just representing her own gender identity this whole time, even if she admittedly did make it subtle (except Stevonnie, she said the fandom knows they’re very obviously nb) but I think making subtle representation for a group you belong to is very very different from a cis creator who just wants to throw the nb community a bone but not quite commit to it, if that makes sense

since this post doesn’t link to it, here’s the interview where she discusses this; that part of the discussion starts at about 10 minutes in.

Transcript of the relevant segment:

Rebecca Sugar: One of the things that’s very important to me about the show is that the Gems are all nonbinary women. […] They’re coded female, which is very important […] I was really excited […] to make a show about a young boy who is looking up to these female-coded characters.

Interviewer: I’m sorry, when you say they’re “coded female” what do you mean by that “coded”?

Rebecca Sugar: They appear to be female. They’re a little more representative of nonbinary women. They wouldn’t think of themselves as women, but they’re fine with being interpreted that way amongst humans. And I am also a nonbinary woman, which, it’s been really great to express myself through these characters, because it’s very much how I have felt throughout my life.