Arioch

#PortfolioDay I'm Jim Francis (a.k.a. Arioch), comic artist and illustrator.

@dailycatsclips Sing it together with me: "Albania Albania You border on the Adriatic Your lands are mostly mountainous And your main export is chrome!"

Kind man helps kitten drink water from a cup while on air

@futarch @100YearsAgoLive I don't think the folks in Iran whose slogan you're parroting agree with you.

@AriochIV @100YearsAgoLive i think women can dress however the fuck they want

“The Difficulty of [Hiring] a Plain Girl,” from the Daily Mirror.

@take_no_fushi Screw Hokkaido, eh? 😅

明石市に120cm対地対空両用磁気火薬複合加速方式半自動固定砲を設置すれば札幌から那覇までの日本の主要都市全てを防衛することができる

@dallascampbell @NASAMoonBase if only

NASA’s Moon base looks beautifully familiar @NASAMoonBase

@futarch @100YearsAgoLive It's curious that someone with "Death to America" in Arabic script as part of his or her nameplate doesn't understand the concept of women dressing appropriately in the workplace.

@AriochIV @100YearsAgoLive has he considered getting an orchiectomy if he can't control his boners?

@DungeonNoir Colbert does really love Tolkien... but he's also one of the most political and TDS-afflicted personages in Hollywood, and I don't know that he has ever written anything other than politically-infused comedy. So I hope rather than believe he will succeed at this.

You could not ask for a fan that loves the source more

Kurtzman Trek is awful for all kinds of reasons that have nothing to do with its politics. If it stops being objectively terrible, then we can argue about how woke it should be. Star Trek was always progressive, but in an optimistic way. It was explicitly not tribal in the way that modern identity politics are. It was Roddenberry's rule that interpersonal conflict was not allowed -- the optimistic assumption was that humanity had worked out our problems and was beyond that. Kurtzman Trek is the exact opposite: it's nothing but interpersonal conflict and social grievance. It's possible for a show to have a political point of view without ramming it down the viewer's throat. The first season of Arcane checked all the woke boxes that exist, but it was also very well made and very entertaining. Star Trek could be like that... but it's not.

I've watched all of "Nu-Trek," as it's called today. I'll be blunt, being too "woke" isn't the problem for the Kurtzman era -- that's always been there. There has been hate for every iteration of Trek for a variety of reasons, including Earth being a socialist utopia. TNG was a carbon copy of TOS in season 1, and season 2 wasn't much better -- DS9 was really dark, and I didn't enjoy it as much in its first run as I do today The real reason they lost the fan base wasn't a gay Klingon in a skirt; it was lazy writing. One Trek Hill had the same baggage as Disco. The premise of The Burn was weak and poorly explained. Starfleet protocol was nonexistent, and at times the show felt like Lower Decks meets Police Academy 7—if that's the story you want to tell, bill it that way, and they will come. As long as the showrunners want blockbuster effects more than they want compelling stories, any new version of Trek is going to fail. I think we have reached Trek Fatigue again, and it may be time to shelve it until people who understand the universe are put back in charge.

@MadScribeGames and he probably has an East End London accent

@futarch @100YearsAgoLive Peterson said that it's problematic when women dress sexy in the workplace. He never said that women don't belong in the workplace.

@100YearsAgoLive and today you still got jordan peterson types talking about how women don't belong at the workplace because they're too sexy

@futarch @ws_cun @100YearsAgoLive Imagine that -- people object when you say something that's false.

@ws_cun @100YearsAgoLive oh great, here they come

@MAXIMUM_ODEN It's a clever and stylish commercial, but a car commercial that hides the car for 90% of its run length is a red flag.

FIAT 500 Abarthの2012年スーパーボウルCM。センスがいい。気の強い美女の首に蠍の刺青、そう、舐めてかかると怖い。そして現実に戻される。FIAT 500「私だ」。

@hollywoodscifi I didn't until this moment even know that it existed...

Even die hard fans of STARGATE don't like this one.

@Kaizokuman @ThomasonTown Yes, of course. I believe the original poster was talking about live action superhero movies.

@AriochIV @ThomasonTown It can in animation.

Art like this proves to me that superhero movies can be grounded and take themselves seriously while still keeping classic costumes. That’s not to say modernized costumes are bad at all, but just that I think we don’t need them as much as people think.

@nerd_cookies This is a curious drumbeat that we're hearing from all over mass media entertainment: that it's the fans' responsibility to support whatever they produce. The level of entitlement is galling, but not surprising. They're finding out the hard way that this is not how it works.

It's not fans' job to make every new Star Trek series get good ratings, it's Paramount's job to produce things that make it worth tuning in.

@dtv20 @ThomasonTown In the image put forth by the OP as an example that this suit design can work, you basically can't see the suit. I don't think it's possible to sustain a feature-length film in which you can't see the main character's iconic costume, but if you disagree, you're welcome to try.

@AriochIV @ThomasonTown Why can't a skilled director and cinematographer do the same? And all movies (especially superhero ones), purposefully hide their flaws. So don't act like having to work around the flaws of a suit is something new. Imagine Roger Deakins working on a Batman film?

@kentbanishearl I'm not sure exactly how old the children were supposed to be, but Michael seems like the only one of the three young enough to need a babysitter, and Wendy seems plenty old enough to babysit.

One of the most striking scenes in Peter Pan is the parents leaving the young kids at home in bed while they go out

@BradRTorgersen If Kurtzman's team at Paramount had tried to continue Enterprise, it would have been just as bad as Starfleet Academy. It's not the subject matter, it's the team making it. They don't know the first thing about storytelling; Star Trek to them is just a vehicle for messaging.

I agree 100% with everyone saying it's a tragedy they now waste $10M per episode on SFA when ENT didn't get a proper crescendo and finish. IIRC they were spending $2M per episode of ENT at its (rushed) finale. For the price of both seasons of SFA they could have funded ENT through a 7th and final season, with plenty of cash to spare. ENT really did deserve better than it got.

@simongerman600 "geology" 🫥

Another great XKCD comic! This time we are treated to a quick geology lesson about the US. The bit on California made me laugh 😉

@CJames1602 @ThomasonTown It doesn't make sense to use a costume design that you have to constantly work to hide.

@AriochIV @ThomasonTown Eh that's debatable. With the right lighting and color pallet movies can do that too

@Tuna__draws @sujian_1983 More distant objects are usually lighter, because of accumulated atmosphere between the object and the viewer, especially if there is smoke or fog. Lighting can change this, but in a uniformly lit scene the eye is wired to see darker objects as closer.

@sujian_1983 Do u make foreground always darker than middle and background? Or does it change based on lighting or external factors?