People often talk about being talented or gifted, vs hard work. How much can we attribute to each? And I'm not referring to physical ability, like having a steady hand or dexterity, because I don't think that's quite as relevant for artistic ability. I'm referring to the ability to capture and recreate what you see from observation or imagination onto an artistic medium.
I've always been using Google or Duckduckgo image search and Pinterest but if you're looking up something where photos are difficult or impossible, 90% of the results are AI. Like not even artistic renditions or recreations of the thing I'm looking for, just straight up AI slop.
Ink and color pencil
Pretty much every mainstream depiction of dinosaurs and humans intermingling involves the theropod dinosaurs being ravenously hungry for human flesh, but why? Yes, I understand we need movie monsters and dinosaurs make for convenient movie monsters. But think about it, why would they immediately see us as food?
First of all, we would be extremely strange and bizarre creatures to them, something they've never seen, heard, or smelled before and have not evolved to deal with. We would unnerve them at the very least. That would make them defensive and territorial, which would bring about violence on its own, but not in the same way.
Second, what are the odds they're hungry at that moment? What if they're just not in the mood to eat?
For large theropods like T Rex, would we even be appetizing? Theropods evolved to hunt large prey, and they themselves are large animals. Their size alone makes them slower to accelerate and less maneuverable. It would be like if a human wanted to chase after a Snickers bar that was dodging around like a chicken. In Jurassic Park 3, in a baffling turn of events, the characters encounter a T Rex happily feasting on a carcass. Instead of minding its own business, the T Rex leaves its perfectly good meal and starts chasing after the characters. WHAT?? Imaging you're sitting down for a Chili's Triple Dipper and all of a sudden a chicken nugget rolls by and you decide to abandon your plate to chase the nugget.
And last, predatory animals today typically don't have a taste for long pig, and they evolved with us! Big cats are prolific hunters, but the ones they gain maneater status tend to be injured in some way that makes it hard for them to hunt their usual prey.
So yeah, the T Rex has no business hunting us.
I know it's not entirely accurate, but it's an illustration of a scene from a book I'm planning.
I've just been taking pictures. I tried using an office xerox but it looks terrible and the resolution is awful.
Absolutely bizarre, like why would you do this? Is it some sort of self-promotion strategy? Who would want this??
Exactly what the the title says. After the first giant drop, the track ramps up and cuts off, launching the coaster into the air. A downward sloping track resumes on the other side, catching the coaster and continuing its path. We can put something in the middle, like a pool full of sharks, or a giant dragon animatronic with snapping jaws, where the jaws open to allow the coaster to fly through, then close when the coaster passes. All for the thrillz!
"I couldn't save anyone" like yeah dude it doesn't help when the script goes dummy mode and nerfs your reaction time at inopportune moments.
Take the nurse at the beginning of Rhodes Hills. The zombie chainsaw doctor walks right up to her and procedes to perform a highly invasive lumbar corpectomy procedure, all while Leon just stands there and watches, waiting for his cue to drop a one-liner. My guy had eons to react to that. As soon as Dr Sandord here stepped into view, Leon's extensive experience would have told him "this guy doesn't look right" and he would have at least told the nurse to step back. Especially given the fact he had a chainsaw in hand. Leon even had the courtesy of letting the guy finish the operation before jumping into action.
A little bit later, we have the scene with the Girl, Grace, and the iron gate. From Grace's POV, we see her crawl through the gate, get grabbed by the Girl who is burning in the light, struggle for A WHILE, then gets pulled back into the East Wing, struggles again, then pulled further back in the hallway. The entire scene last 40 seconds. So naturally you would think Leon heard the struggle, came running, entered the East Wing, saw the Girl pulling Grace, then fired.
But no. Immediately after that scene, we see Leon's POV, where he's running over to the gate, still down, which triggers the cutscene where we see it raising and Grace crawling through. Meaning, that entire exchange where the Girl was burning in the light and Grace was kicking her off happened right in front of Leon and he did nothing. He waited for Grace to get pulled back into the East Wing before pursuing and crossing the distance.
You're telling me he can parry bullets but doesn't have the reaction speed to respond to an immediate threat?
"I couldn't save anyone" like yeah dude it doesn't help when the script goes dummy mode and nerfs your reaction time at inopportune moments.
Take the nurse at the beginning of Rhodes Hill. The zombie chainsaw doctor walks right up to her and procedes to perform a highly invasive lumbar corpectomy procedure, all while Leon just stands there and watches, waiting for his cue to drop a one-liner. My guy had eons to react to that. As soon as Dr Sanford here stepped into view, Leon's extensive experience would have told him "this guy doesn't look right" and he would have at least told the nurse to step back. Especially given the fact he had a chainsaw in hand. Leon even had the courtesy of letting the guy finish the operation before jumping into action.
A little bit later, we have the scene with the Girl, Grace, and the iron gate. From Grace's POV, we see her crawl through the gate, get grabbed by the Girl who is burning in the light, struggle for A WHILE, then gets pulled back into the East Wing, struggles again, then pulled further back in the hallway. The entire scene last 40 seconds. So naturally you would think Leon heard the struggle, came running, entered the East Wing, saw the Girl pulling Grace, then fired.
But no. Immediately after that scene, we see Leon's POV, where he's running over to the gate, still down, which triggers the cutscene where we see it raising and Grace crawling through. Meaning, that entire exchange where the Girl was burning in the light and Grace was kicking her off happened right in front of Leon and he did nothing. He waited for Grace to get pulled back into the East Wing before pursuing and crossing the distance.
You're telling me he can parry anything but doesn't have the reaction speed in these instances?
Anyone have experience with Winchester brown box 115gr "high pressure" ammo? I've fired about 750 rounds of it across multiple handguns and a handful of times, particularly with my Beretta and my Glock, the slide will lock back while there are still a couple rounds left in the mag. I was using OEM magazines each time. Anyone else had this happen?
I also noticed that after chambering a round, if I remove the magazine, the next round in line is slightly pushed forward. This also doesn't usually happen with other ammo types.
I really like my Beretta 85 but every time I shoot it, the spot just past my first thumb knuckle gets wickedly irritated. So much so that I can't shoot more than 100-150 rounds in one session without it getting rubbed raw. One time it even broke the skin.
It's not the slide, I don't ride my thumb on the safety. It's not the safety either, so I figure it's gotta be the beavertail, but how? Does this happen to anyone else?