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pleased to announce my new unscripted podcast, "Trying To Make Small Talk In A Discord Voice Chat Where 3 People Are Playing Slay The Spire 2 Co-Op And The Rest Are Trying To Start A Terraria Server". it's about how we're more connected yet more isolated from each other than ever

miss valentine!🌹 #REBHFun #jillvalentine

the thing that gets people on transit isn’t free fares it’s not having to check a schedule. a bus that costs $2 and comes every 6 minutes will outperform a free bus that comes every 30 minutes every single time. frequency is the product. the fare is a rounding error

The psychological damage the tank top Grace Ashcroft mod has done to lesbians everywhere can be felt through the screen.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: If we could whip up a flightless bumblebee the size of a small dog it'd be an insanely popular pet

tall girlfriend shenanigans ft. caitvi #caitvi #arcane #piltoversfinest

Unfortunately, the tone of your voice was a bit different, and perhaps you even seemed more distant that usual. Fret not, for I will take initiative and exile myself for you, saving you the trouble of doing so.

city elf is very special to me but the dwarf commoner and dwarf noble origins are FANTASTIC and so underrated

Surprise, surprise — after the coordinated shutdowns of beef plants by Tyson, Cargill, and JBS in January and February, beefpacker profit margins have staged “the most impressive post-pandemic rally.”

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.

@hoodiepledge @OHitchborn @PancreasNo The Dragonborn could also wear Ulfric’s head as a hat. What’s your point? Nations have to be bigger than one person. There’s a reason the first Empire imploded so quickly

@ProgressDeath @OHitchborn @PancreasNo I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or not, but the DB could leave the stormcloaks in Windhelm and handle all of that by himself lol there is no worthy opposition

The Nords aren’t racist enough for me and a united Empire will lead to more dead Elves

@hoodiepledge @OHitchborn @PancreasNo Skyrim is one of the poorest provinces! You absolutely have to bend the knee. What, do you think you can survive on your own against Cyrodiil, High Rock, and Morrowind? They’ll eat you alive. Not to mention the orcs!

@OHitchborn @ProgressDeath @PancreasNo Nobody who backs the Imperials has a legitimate reason. It’s always just “Ulfric bad” even though he’d be a fine leader bc he has the damn Dragonborn. We don’t need to bend the knee to anyone.

Tryna flirt with her and she's telling me fun fish facts okay let's just get married I guess

@JonathanCohn Most are frontliners. Still bad decision, of course, but I get the reasoning. Magaziner and Keating must go

These 20 Democrats joined the GOP yesterday in voting to gut due process convictions and say that people should be deported for crimes they have not even been convicted of.

@_fat_ugly_rat_ We really should move Inauguration Day to something like December 27th

It really sucks that our lame duck period is so long here. Imagine how much damage Trump could do in 3 months if a Dem wins the presidency in 2028, not to mention how bad it could get if dems don't win the House/Senate this year.

Eid Mubarak!

@CooperFrye @StatisticUrban Collins will walk away from this again. I don’t know how she does it, but she will.

@ProgressDeath @StatisticUrban One state is conspicuously missing from this lineup 👀

If Democrats manage to win 6/8 of these races, they win the Senate. If they don't, it's lights out and two more years of unlimited Trump judges and cabinet picks.

drew another tiny laura, this time with an accompanying tiny kate!!! they’re so cute #laurakinney #katebishop

@OHitchborn @PancreasNo According to me. The whole difference between the Aedra and Daedra is that the Aedra gave themselves up to create the Mundus and the Daedra didn’t

@ProgressDeath @PancreasNo According to who?