Random-Rambling

Most people who put their mental health disorders in their bios are unlikely to take the proper steps to get better. They more often than not wield them as weapons and/or excuses and/or objects for attention. I don't even believe half those people have been properly diagnosed.

“Your daughter only needs one doll, not two” “Just eat a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, and corn tortilla” “Make less trips” After promising to lower prices on day one, no taxes, stimulus checks coming soon, $5000 checks on the way, now MAGA wants you to live in poverty and scarcity. Incredible

I know some people are roasting him for this, but I feel like this is the direction we need to start having games take again. A game does not need to be massive, available to every possible person, and making obscene, increasing mounts of money every quarter. If it can support itself and the developers who maintain it to enjoy a comfy lifestyle, and it entertains the people who enjoy it, I think it's a win and we need more of that!

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.

They only think that because they never got to meet Magni "There's a lot of dudes coming in me" Dezmond and Vesper "I need to go have a rage fap" Noir

So essentially what I've gathered from all the Crimson Desert reviews is its got a fairly long tutorial at the start of the game, much like a Persona game. And a lot of journos were trying to speedrun the story, hitting bosses and getting mogged because they were not prepared.

This is forever controversial but IMO Spider-Man should have organic web-shooters. It's always seemed silly to me that his backstory is that a spider bit him and gave him Spider-Powers™ ... except for his most famous spider-power, which he made in a lab. For branding, you know.

There’s nobody in the room, no cameras clicking, no laughter, no chuckling, nothing. Silence. Where tf are witnesses?????? He is dead guys

Finding out game journalists HATE Crimson Desert is probably the best news I’ve gotten today. Now I know it’ll be good.

Cool thing in the comics is how most of the surviving Viltrumites living on earth got a taste of having an actual community and dumped that Hitler shit real quick

I really like that this is happening now.

Who would you go on a Big Furniture Store outing with? 🤔

ISRAEL DISCLOSES NO JOURNALISTS WERE ACTUALLY PRESENT FOR NETANYAHU CONFERENCE DUDE IS DEAD

@JesssCR3 thats right

Weird that @YairNetanyahu took a perfectly timed break from posting that matches the mourning period when one loses a loved one in Judaism.

Hard to overstate how right the left was about all of this

Ok Netanyahu is dead. Or severely wounded. This AI shit’s getting ridiculous. And the best proof for it is how all mainstream media outlets are just completely ignoring all the awkward videos and obvious glitches despite literally everyone on the internet talking about it.

Valve is about to spit in Blizzard's face