u/One_Planche_Man

This current heatwave got me thinking about just how hot all these asphalt savannahs are. They really heat up the surrounding area. They're also ugly af and are a waste of space. But above ground parking garages are also ugly brutalist boxes, ao why don't we just use underground garages?

Boston has the right idea. Boston Common garage is a huge underground garage with Boston Common sitting atop at ground level, a nice green park with grass and trees. It's the best setup, with many landmarks within walking distance.

Your attention please. I know you guys all have your big choppers and bowie knives and you wave them around saying "that's not a knoife! THIS is a knoife!" Everyone says it like that, but just like the Darth Vader quote, that's not what he actually says. He doesn't say it like that.

He says "that's not a knife" pulls out the bowie "that's a knife." And there's no emphasis on any particular word, he says it pretty casually, which actually makes the scene a lot better. However, everyone who quotes Crocodile Dundee says in a grandiose fashion "THIS is a knife!" which is innaccurate.

Thank you for your attention on this matter, of which I am sure is a critical issue.

Don't get me wrong, most of the time, the theater needs to be silent. We want the audience to be respectful and not disruptive. However, for a fun thrill ride movie, like a superhero movie, you kinda need that audience reaction noise to gauge how people enjoyed it. You expect to hear people making comments to their friends/family, laughing at the jokes, just reacting in general to what's going on, and clapping at the end. In a way, it sorta elevates the experience. This is what I've generally seen with fun popcorn flicks.

But not with Supergirl. Oddly enough, the theater was packed and yet, I barely heard any kind of audience reaction noise. Maybe I can vaguely remember a couple guys going "ha" at a joke one time, but that's it. Overall the vibe was just meh. Everyone seemed bored. No one said anything at the end, either. Once the credits rolled, people just started milling out of the theater. I didn't even hear anyone talking about it while walking out. Usually you'd hear people, especially kids, excitedly talking about their favorite scenes. It just seemed like a "whatever" experience.

It involves a group of friends being hunted down by a hungry creature in the desert. I can kinda compare it to *Animal*, with the creature even resembling the creature from *Animal*, except it takes place in a scrub desert setting instead of a forest.

The characters hole up in a wooden shack and fend off the creature, noting that it has an awful smell. That is, until one of them realizes it actually smells really good, and some of the others even admit they like the smell, and it causes some sort of intoxicating effect on them. They then realize the shack was built by some kind of drug addict who would seek out the creature and stay there so he could safely huff the fumes and get his fix.

Crazy turn of events, but that's all I remember from it.

It's a 2000s to early 2010s movie involving a group of friends being hunted down by a hungry creature in the desert. I can kinda compare it to Animal, with the creature even resembling the creature from Animal, except it takes place in a scrub desert setting instead of a forest.

The characters hole up in a wooden shack and fend off the creature, noting that it has an awful smell. That is, until one of them realizes it actually smells really good, and some of the others even admit they like the smell, and it causes some sort of intoxicating effect on them. They then realize the shack was built by some kind of drug addict who would seek out the creature and stay there so he could safely huff the fumes and get high.

Crazy turn of events, but that's all I remember from it.

When using keyboards, hunt and peck with one finger on each hand. Using phones, instead of the dual-thumb method, a lot tend to use one finger.

I don't exactly remember when this trend started but it must be well over 10 years old and it has to stop. It sort of made sense when used with Marvel movies back then, but now it's in everything. It's so cliche that it makes the movie seem like a joke, like the trend is poking fun of itself now, and takes me completely out of it.

What I'm left with is the feeling of "wow, how original" and I'm baffled as to why they chose the song they did, given how the lyrics and/or themes don't match the movie or the tone they're trying to convey. The lyrics of the song also distract from what the characters in the snippets are saying. They only draw further attention to the dichotomy between the song.

Don't even get me started on how goofy some of these songs sound when remixed in this way. A lot of them just don't translate well into an orchestral mix.

Most of the world's problems stem from flaws in the human condition, but also lack of communication or poor communication. The Drift is literally a communication and empathy machine. Nevermind the idea of Drift compatibility, it only applies to piloting Jaegers. But for this case, we're talking strictly person-to-person.

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Imagine if this technology could be developed to where it's readily available and can have many people hooked in at once. It would fundamentally change not only human culture, but probably the human condition as well. You would be able to not only understand others, but FEEL them. You wouldn't need to find a way to put your thoughts into words, or to interpret someone else's words, and possibly lose context and nuance. People would just share a single mind and understand every idea they need to convey.

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If it's someone you don't like, you'd instantly know everything that shaped them to be the person they are. If you have psychological flaws and biases due to how your life has shaped you, you can probably work through those and cure yourself by just living in other people's minds. Seeing the world through other people's eyes, that kinda corny stuff.

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The movie never touches on any of these implications, because it's just supposed to be a very fun thrill ride, but it's worth considering.

These are super-powered beings. Every supe, regardless of their powers, has a baseline increase in strength and durability above a normal human. Yet when they're depicted doing hand-to-hand combat (because the show has no budget for superpowers), they look like normal people fist-fighting. Their hits are slow af and have no weight behind them, the choreography is so bad.

There are ways to depict superstrength and durability with editting, camera tricks, and effects. At least use some camera wobble, add some shockwaves behind hits, add more bass to the impact sounds, have the characters fly back more often, do SOMETHING. Why does Butcher with no powers have more energy behind his punches than Starlight and the Deep?

Captain America: The Winter Soldier knew how to do this right. Every hit between Steve and Buckey looked like it had weight, they were moving with speed and explosiveness. The setpiece used the environment around them to indicate how powerful they were, such as Buckey stabbing through and unzipping the body of the car, or punching the pavement and cracking it. We also see Steve flipping Buckey and causing him to almost appear to float in the air. All these just help show the viewer that these are not normal people.

Grinds my gears when people reference the David vs Goliath story, for any reason in any context, and say "slingshot" instead of sling. They did not have slingshots back then! They did, however, make deadly effective use of the humble sling. People need to put some respect on this incredible weapon that domed adversaries left and right long before gunpowder was invented.

How is 300 gsm equal to 140 lb, but 150 gsm is 93 lb? What is exactly is the conversion rate?

I've tried the Prismacolor blender marker, and it's really good, but it runs dry so quickly. It makes colored pencil look like a painting, but at $10 apiece, it's just painful to use. The Tombow blender brushes just don't blend as well and also dry out quick. Blender pencils don't blend as well either and require so much pressure. Any recommendations are blender markers?

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.