Josh Url he/him

I've decided to try Bluesky. Follow me there bsky.app/profile/2redju…

For the "they don't play defense" crowd. NBA defense is more complicated than you probably notice in real time, and these guys oftentimes nail every single decision. Great job here by the Hawks forcing the 24 second violation.

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@theeSNYDERVERSE Yes

Spent the entire movie saying “I need that shirt”

You're watching a $248 million film and not a single green or blue screen was used. The alien is a handmade puppet. The cockpit physically rotates to simulate gravity. I looked at the production tech behind this 95% score, and the engineering is wild. Phil Lord and Chris Miller, directing their first live-action movie in 12 years, built the entire Hail Mary spacecraft as a real set at Shepperton Studios in England. Not a miniature. Not a digital model. A full-size ship interior you can walk through. Production designer Charlie Wood studied the International Space Station, Russia's Mir station, and the Boeing 747 cockpit to get the look right. He deliberately made the panels mismatched, because real spacecraft are assembled from parts made by different companies. Nothing matches perfectly. That's what makes it feel real. The cockpit is only about 8 feet wide. It sits on a mechanical platform that can tilt, spin, and shake, so when the ship changes direction or enters different gravity conditions, the whole set moves. Chairs end up on walls. Ladders flip direction. Gosling was suspended inside a spinning ring so he could float and move through the ship for real, reacting to actual hardware around him. No guessing where a wall might be added later. Then there's Rocky. He's the alien co-lead, and he's not CGI. Neal Scanlan, the creature designer who built the Porgs for Star Wars, spent a full year on this character. Over 300 designs before they landed on the final look. Rocky is a thin, hollow shell, 3D-printed from a digital sculpture, then hand-painted in see-through layers so light passes through him like skin. His arms pop off and swap out depending on the scene: one set has a closed fist for walking, another has tiny motorized fingers strong enough to pick up objects. Five puppeteers (nicknamed the "Rockyteers") operated him in every scene. James Ortiz, an award-winning puppet designer from New York theater, voiced Rocky and controlled him on set. When Scanlan met him, he told Ortiz, "You're Frank Oz, and I'm making Yoda for you." Every reaction Gosling gives to the alien is to something physically in front of him. Greig Fraser, who won the Oscar for shooting Dune, filmed the space scenes in the larger IMAX format (that taller image you see in IMAX theaters) and the Earth flashbacks in regular widescreen. Then the team did something unusual: they took the digital footage and printed it onto real film strips, twice, using two different types of film stock. Then they scanned those strips back into digital. It sounds redundant, but it adds a texture and warmth that you can only get from physical film. Fraser used the same technique on Dune and The Batman. Drew Goddard spent six years writing this screenplay. His last adaptation of Andy Weir's novel, The Martian, earned him an Oscar nomination. He described the challenge this way: a screenplay gets about 5% of a novel's word count. The lead is alone for most of the runtime. When he finally gets a co-star, that co-star doesn't speak English, communicates through sounds closer to whale song, and has no face. Goddard called it a screenwriter's nightmare, then said that difficulty was the whole point. He and the directors fought studio pushback to keep Weir's original ending intact. 95% from 212 critics. 98% from over 2,500 audience ratings. And the lead isn't a superhero, a cop, or a soldier. He's just an ordinary middle school science teacher.

Netflix doing physical media for their flagship show, and through an INDEPENDENT distributor, is truly miraculous. I hope a bunch of people buy this so that Netflix knows this is a good thing to do.

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That said, I do think draft twitter can use some more positivity & wholesomeness. Just not fake & boring. For example, we can stand together as a community more and try to have respect for another instead of name calling & running. Or discuss things in a passionate but civil way.

Favorite OKC player of all time?

Trans safe / welcoming account. 🏳️‍⚧️🤗

@ThunderFilmRoom Having two off-ball advantage creators on the court alongside an on-ball advantage creator like Shai or Ajay plus quality screeners like Hartenstein or Jaylin is a recipe for a beautiful offense.

Isaiah Joe & Jared McCain on the floor together is such an aesthetically pleasing style of basketball.

Jared McCain tonight: 26 Points 2 Assists 3 Rebounds 2 Blocks 9-16 FG 5-9 3P FG Sold High.

Jared McCain 26 PTS, 3 REB, 2 AST, 2 BLK, 9/16 FG, 5/9 3FG, 73.2% TS vs Nets

The United States Postal Service, USPS, doesn’t “lose” money. It costs money. It’s a public service. Don’t fall for the privatization propaganda.

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@thewinterdollx If they are qualified for the role why the hell not?!

PEOPLE : Are you OK with a trans woman as teacher, president or caregiver ? 🏳️‍⚧️

@Hazelkeech0918 Congratulations!

lol we can disagree about movies or music or sports or whatever we can’t disagree about whether or not black lives matter or if a woman should have the right to choose what to do with her body or if immigrants should be treated like humans this shit really ain’t that hard

@PranavSriraman I have zero problem with another person's subjective perspective on the draft class, especially if they have a reasoned rationale behind it.

The draft in any sport is too much of a crapshoot to get triggered about anyone else’s opinions. As long as one’s method for eval is consistent I can’t hate on any opinion.