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Strom Cuzewon posted:Also the assassin leaping up the side of the boat at Rick is a wonderful demonstration of Every Frame a Painting's claim that "things entering the frame is funny" Edit: oh, er... "I need scissors! 61!" is a quote signifying a sign of the breakdown of the AI manipulating the main character (and by extension the player) in Metal Gear Solid 2. Small Strange Bird fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Oct 6, 2019 |
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Pesky Splinter posted:https://twitter.com/Lokinash06/status/1180925310793064448 What is it about that hairstyle that you know anyone who has it is an absolute dickweed?
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Pochoclo posted:I should clarify that as an immigrant from the misty unknowable Pampas I cannot cross water and therefore was transported here in a stone coffin adorned with heathen runes to guard me, also I can transform into a swarm of hamsters at will. As a Londoner now living in São Paulo, it’s good to know that what my Brazilian colleagues tell me about Argentinians is all true.
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Tenebrais posted:What is it about that hairstyle that you know anyone who has it is an absolute dickweed? Jimmy Page and Michio Kaku are not absolute dickweeds
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thespaceinvader posted:The Hobbit should have been 2 2-hour standard fantasy movies, broken at the point where they find Smaug, not 3 3 hour movies broken at incoherent points because of... well... this
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What strange timing.... https://twitter.com/standardnews/status/1180962483265257472
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Good evening, Is Jeremy Corbyn going to become Prime Minister this week?
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Chuka Umana posted:Good evening, Parliament isn't open at the moment, and I don't think anyone will open it up in the next 49 minutes cause it's a sunday evening but you never know
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Darth Walrus posted:Eh, their speed is more misogyny when it comes to evil supernatural aristocrats. Daji and other fox spirits are basically 'this is why women shouldn't be given leadership roles' stories. Bro do you even Liaozhai Zhiyi? Those stories are not warnings of allowing women into leadership they are horny fantasies of aristocratic guys.
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gh0stpinballa posted:probably in a minority here but i think jess phillips has done some good work around the issue of child sexual abuse. it's a massive, massive problem in this country and it's weird leftists don't seem to discuss it much. especially given something like rotherham where there was clearly an organized and systemic operation to exploit working class girls which the local government and police were protecting and participating in. idk she's annoying af and she's a complete liability, but i respect what she does there tbh, and also her confrontational approach to the anti-lgbt parents at that school. I disagree that Jess Phillips has done good work around that particular issue, she's been textbook adequate. But yeah the left has absolutely failed in it's response to Rotherham and the widespread, still spreading issue. The actual left response should be obvious, there is a hateful sub-culture using religion to justify racially targeting vulnerable young women and girls, but it's all been hosed up by woke neoliberalism and the liberal left just refuse to engage with it. There is a core of, my guess, 4% of British voters that quite rightly were politically awoken by the disgusting poo poo that happened in Rotherham and all we have as a response is these idiots that that don't consider 'hey weird coincidence the EDL arose there of all places eh?'. All we have is shitheads calling them facists and wanking off over milkshakes but ignoring working class girls being plied with heroin and gang raped. It's disgusting and makes me hate these cunts that call themselves the left.
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Vitamin P posted:textbook adequate. At least I got one sale!
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Chuka Umana posted:Good evening, He's already the Prime Minister of my heart.
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Everything that needs to be said about the Hobbit movies can be summed up with this picture:
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How do you film an orc against a green screen? Must have been a nightmare.
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Blue screen, they couldn't use that in LoTR because of Elijah Wood's beautiful big blue eyes its why they had to get a child of equal height to play him when there was an orc in the same shot.
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When Bilbo said that thing about butter he was actually describing his own film trilogy.
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Darth Walrus posted:A remarkable number of European mythological monsters seem to be derived from Jewish people - dwarves and goblins are as well. We do actually have a racist fictional monster that emerged quite recently, though - orcs as stand-ins for black people date back to the 1970s, although they also draw on a fair amount of inspiration from interbellum fantasy. As well as being incredibly cute, this is a good compromise, and a lot of goblin RPers have taken to the idea that it is the shininess and not the value - a goblin would happily trade a dull gold bar for a Claire's accessories tiara, for example. Games Workshop neatly sidestepped the racism / orcs thing by making them football hooligans. Sloth Life posted:I loved the Misty Mountains song, so haunting and sad. Strom Cuzewon posted:Also the assassin leaping up the side of the boat at Rick is a wonderful demonstration of Every Frame a Painting's claim that "things entering the frame is funny" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FOzD4Sfgag AceOfFlames posted:Everything that needs to be said about the Hobbit movies can be summed up in this picture: A whole bunch of Marvel actors weren't even aware they were in the Portals sequence of Endgame because they filmed it during other schedules. Gwyneth Paltrow had no goddamn idea she was in Spiderman: Homecoming because they overlapped it with other stuff to save money. Surprise surprise, Capitalism ruins loving everything.
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Also you never actually see Benedict Cumberbatch's body as Dr. Strange in the Avengers movies, it's just a stunt double with his face superimposed on it. I wish I was joking.
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Chuka Umana posted:Also you never actually see Benedict Cumberbatch's body as Dr. Strange in the Avengers movies, it's just a stunt double with his face superimposed on it. I wish I was joking. You can’t tell, so who cares?
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Christ BBC, bith sides are bad indeed BBC News - How death threats spread in pro- and anti-Brexit Facebook groups The example of Brexiteer threats? Rope and talk of traitors. Sole anti-brexiteer example? 4 posts about "dead in the ditch". Yeah I certainly don't see any difference between the two. And yes I am aware that this thread does come close sometimes too, but I'd think there's more of a dark comedy aspect to it here.
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Private Speech posted:Christ BBC, bith sides are bad indeed Is this the same BBC that said that both sides created the circumstances of Jo Coxs death?
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When other people do it its definitely bad. When we do it I feel like there's more of a dark comedy aspect to it.
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Comrade Fakename posted:You can’t tell, so who cares? I think it shows the level of contempt these actors have for their own films.
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But like I said about Paltrow above, it's rarely the actors, it's the filmmakers. I doubt Cumberbatch would have refused if he had been asked to suit up. E: For example, a lot of Marvel actors have complained that everyone is working under insane nondisclosure agreements, so they turn up to a greenscreen set with only the barest instruction (its alien and they should look scared), given a page or so of script so they can't work out the plot and leak it online. Then a year, year and a half later they turn up to the premiere thinking "Wait, is that what that was?" and realising that if they'd known, they would have made completely different acting choices. Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 02:59 on Oct 7, 2019 |
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I don't think the Cumberbatch thing is true anyway. Just read up on it - they shot his scenes for Infinity War with a body double because he wasn't available due to scheduling, and then for any where you see his face they reshot. So yeah a lot of the scenes where you don't see his face will be his stunt guy, but that's probably true for lots of the actors in these kinds of films anyway. They used body-doubles for ScarJo for some of them because she was pregnant. They haven't superimposed anyone's face onto a double's body though I don't think - I mean for one thing that'd be super hard because the two people would have to track movements so precisely.
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Liberal Democrats? Demand Better!
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WhatEvil posted:I don't think the Cumberbatch thing is true anyway. Just read up on it - they shot his scenes for Infinity War with a body double because he wasn't available due to scheduling, and then for any where you see his face they reshot. So yeah a lot of the scenes where you don't see his face will be his stunt guy, but that's probably true for lots of the actors in these kinds of films anyway. A common trick with Marvel films has been to film a scene with a stunt double, recreate it in CG, and film it with the big name actors. They then cut bits from each version to create the final film. There was a bunch of YouTube videos about Black Panther's filming process and they showed how the scenes that got a bigger budget and more time turned out great but the bad scene like the ending fight were rushed and they didn't include all the layering and lighting FX because everyone was so overworked. Also the car chase in civil war actually had them running on top of moving cars at 40kph. They dragged rugs behind the cars and had the stunt doubles practice jogging on them at low speed, in heavy rubber suits until they could sprint flat out without losing balance as the car hit 40kph.
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WhatEvil posted:I mean for one thing that'd be super hard because the two people would have to track movements so precisely. This was true up until about 2-3 years ago, then the type of software the does deepfakes turned up and face replacement/tracking became something you could do on a mid-tier home PC, I'm trying to find them now but I guy i know played around with it a while back and managed to do some passable face tracking using only 2 sample vids and about 6 hours render on an i7, which is just nothing compared to the rendering/computing power someone like disney can throw at it
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Ratjaculation posted:Is this the same BBC that said that both sides created the circumstances of Jo Coxs death?
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Not to do with any current thread issue but I wanted to share this because it's a good video about why plastic straw bans are real bad for some disabled people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRy_0IEwxMw
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Ms Adequate posted:Not to do with any current thread issue but I wanted to share this because it's a good video about why plastic straw bans are real bad for some disabled people. Even in my rants about how terrible paper straws are, the accessibility uses of bendy straws are one of the things I always forget about. The cleaning difficulties of reusable straws is another one I haven't thought of before but does make sense given how anyone who has to clean small piping knows how horrible those things can get over time no matter how thorough you are with cleaning it. njsykora fucked around with this message at 05:59 on Oct 7, 2019 |
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Not that plastic straw bans would have anything but a symbolic effect on plastic consumption, never mind plastic ending up in nature. Bottle deposit schemes and paying for plastic bags have impact. Getting fishermen to clean up their gear would have a far bigger impact.
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Paper straws are crap they get all soggy You could say they... suck
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Hentai Jihadist posted:Paper straws are crap they get all soggy Maybe you could. I demand a better level of awful pun.
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For anyone interested in the intersection of tech / systems design, economics, and socialism, I haven't seen this posted - an NLR article from Evgeny Morozov about a potential socialist response to problems of information discovery and social coordination. For a change, he actually makes suggestions for directions to go, rather than just taking a constantly grumpy poo poo on the target (here, a book called Reinventing Capitalism, or Das Digital in the German edition, lol) https://newleftreview.org/issues/II116/articles/evgeny-morozov-digital-socialism
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Last night I learned: - NHS 111 has a handy website that asks all the questions - an emergency dental appointment costs about £30 - an abscess can form VERY quickly - I might get the day off work today, but it won't be worth it
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 Are you at least getting a tub of opioids?Ms Adequate posted:Not to do with any current thread issue but I wanted to share this because it's a good video about why plastic straw bans are real bad for some disabled people. That might be stigmatizing in the same way that having a crutch or a blue badge or a hearing aid is stigmatizing, but in all of those cases we accept the solution is "stop being cunts to people using a crutch or a blue badge or a hearing aid, if you see anyone being a oval office to someone using a crutch or a blue badge or a hearing aid then call them out" rather than us all using assistive tech that we don't need. Reducing plastic straw use to a few percent of present while still not being a dick about it would be good, in the same way that doing that with personal cars would be good. (Although yeah, I agree with the theme of the video, that blanket prohibition is a bad idea. That's usually the case with blanket prohibitions.)
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The issue with plastic straws was the sheer number of people who used them, and the crazy number of places who just included them for no reason. Most people don't need a straw to drink, it shouldn't be the default to include them. Everyone and their gran jumped on board to start refusing them, which is good because single use non-residential items shouldn't be the norm. But that wasn't why most people were doing it, they were largely doing it to stop marine plastic pollution and save turtles, despite the fact the overwhelming amount of non-recyclable plastic in the UK is put to landfill (probably recyclable plastic too). There is nothing inherently wrong with people refusing them, but many of the same people seem to be unwilling to educate themselves on ways to make a bigger impact to marine plastics, such as not eating fish - discarded fishing nets account for the source of as much as 50% of marine plastic in many studies. I've not thought much of the the issue with disabled people, so thanks Ms Adequate. It would irresponsible to stop using a lot of single use plastics (medical packaging, items for people who need assistance, phones, etc). But also lol that people aren't outraged that McDonald's put a paper straw through their plastic lids, literally the dimmest mitigation ever achieved imo. E; sorry for the rant
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