You've heard DreamWorks How to Train your Dragon.... now get ready for the next best thing...
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INTERFACING - You fuck it up. Your juvenile glee at finding a slide leads you to swing down into the pipe far too fast.
INLAND EMPIRE - Like the child you used to be.
AUTHORITY - But you are not a child any more.
ELECTRO-CHEMISTRY - Fuck that shit, bomb it down there and scream the whole time!
PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT - We can take it. We can always take it. PAIN THRESHOLD - Pain, radiant and sharp, jolts through you. You can not, in fact, take it.
[Health -1]
REACTION SPEED - You fly out of the slide, propelled by your weight and your enthusiasm.
ENDURANCE - The metal jars against you, then you're sliding over the harsh ground instead.
COMPOSURE - You land heavily at Kim's feet, and begin to whine like a child with a scraped knee.
ESPRIT DE CORPS - His infinitesimal regard for you as a normal human being is so dead at this point he's not even surprised.
KIM KITSURAGI - "Normal people, when they go down a slide, they're fine."
AUTHORITY - He's questioning your authority!
VOLITION - Sitting on the floor and crying after being beaten up by a slide, you have precious little authority to question.
[Morale -1]
Y’all in the American SW and west Mexico better check the national hurricane center and your weather for this weekend and next week.
Hurricane Hilary is about to make landfall and that whole desert area is supposed to get a years worth of rain or more. Death Valley is supposed to get twice the annual rainfall. Severe winds, massive flooding, and landslides are all strong possibilities.
This is gonna get ugly. Please spread the word. This is a majorly anomalous event and people may be unaware of the threat headed their way.
Flash floods are definitely gonna kill people, so here’s your regularly scheduled PSA:
Desert soil does not absorb a significant amount of water. It reaches maximum saturation very very quickly, and all the rest of the water rushes downhill. Even if you can’t tell that the ground is not perfectly flat, the water can. And it will move. Quickly. No, faster than that. Nope, still faster. If you try to cross moving floodwater, you will get swept downstream and probably die.
Do not try to wade in/cross flood water that is any deeper than the thickness of the sole of an average athletic shoe, no I am not kidding, the water will get deeper literally while you’re standing in it.
This goes for cars, too. I’ve seen entire vehicles getting swept downstream in flash floods because the driver thought they could cross the “puddle” and Found Out.
Stay safe, y’all.
also if you're going into water intentionally (cleanup, obviously as things RECEDE), PROTECT YOUR EYES. Flood water is NASTY AS HELL and you will be getting a tetanus booster right off the bat if you end up in the ER for any reason.
Part of climate change is that Southern California is starting to get the summer monsoons that used to only happen in Arizona and Nevada. Los Angeles was not a desert until the last 15 years — it was a Mediterranean climate. Summer monsoons = desert.
damn those s’mores Girl Scout cookies are so tasty
In the middle of a strike.
If you need context, earlier this year, CorridorDigital put out an "AI-made anime," where an AI filter was used to convert live action footage into "animation" (for the record, this is NOT animation. Animation is not a look, it's a process. By this logic, anyone using that Pixar Snapchat face filter is a Pixar animator). They touted themselves as "revolutionizing animation."
They were met with considerable backlash and criticism from the animation community. For one, they were taking frames from the real anime Vampire Hunter D to feed the AI. For another, the video was essentially a proof-of-concept for how "easy" and "inexpensive" it is to reduce animation to an automate-able process.
Well, Corridor did not learn anything, because they released a sequel... In the middle of a strike against the use of AI to replace/exploit/profit off of the labor of workers in the film industry. Corridor assured they hired their own artist to train the AI, but remember that industry discourse like this is interconnected. They may not be stealing art, but any studio that sees this and goes 'wow, it's that easy' will. Corridor's also boasting about AI democratizing animation-making. Now anyone can make animation in their bedroom with nothing but a camera and a free software! Except, anyone could already make animation in their bedroom with nothing but a camera and a free software. I made animation in my bedroom with nothing but a camera and a free stop-motion software when I was 10 years old.
Anyways, work like this is exactly what studios hellbent on exploiting workers want to see. It doesn't matter if it's cool or fun. Remember that AI discourse is currently the frontlines of the labor crisis in the film industry. Corridor putting out this video as "fun education" in the middle of an strike is so incredibly irresponsible and disrespectful.
*microwaves ramen with sink water*
Did we just revolutionize COOKING..... AGAIN?!?!?! 😱🤯
that post about kim kitsuragi only looking cool because he's standing next to harry seriously changed my read of his entire character. like he actually is just a weird nerd who finally gets to experience being cool because his partner is the most fucked up guy alive
your nerdy pilot cosplay starts looking a whole lot cooler when you're walking around with a guy whose pants have visibly been pissed in at least once
kim on his own: quiet nerdy glasses guy who wears old clothes and only cares about his car
kim when he's with harry: distinguished gentleman with an impressive knowledge of history and mechanics. also a master of personal hygiene
