March 2012
58 posts
Mass Effect Fun Facts!
wigmund:
sqbr:
girltaku:
Here’s a little fun fact for you Mass Effect fans out there: did you know that many of the places you can travel to in the Normandy are based off of actual locations in our galaxy? Obviously, everyone knows that the system Sol within the Local Cluster is an exact copy of our Solar System.
[Mass Effect screenshot of the Sol solar system]
But here’s a few that you...
aishahugs:
ok, so: the non-environment-concerned villain in the original Lorax book/film is turned into the protagonist in the movie. he’s made more attractive, likeable, and gormless. i really, really don’t think that was a happy coincidence. i don’t think it’s just a badly put together film. i don’t think it’s harmless. i think it was a deliberate attempt to soften viewers to the idea of going...
So let's just get this straight...
eruditechick:
Hunger Games has the 3rd biggest opening in movie history.
An action flick starring a girl.
Who isn’t an emaciated stick.
Who isn’t a princess.
Whose journey is motivated by her sister, not a man.
Who is not sexually used, abused, active or even objectified much.
3rd biggest opening in movie history. Spawning a franchise.
Let’s just… let’s just think about that.
Let’s just...
Watchcitritus:
qualapec:
necromancatrix:
thesanityclause:
missnk:
isnarniainyournose:
slimmeroo:
catbountry:
nightmareloki:
gnarrgnarrmotherfuckers:
YES. Thank you.
IDGAF if you liked The Lorax movie, I really don’t. I just never want to see it, and this is exactly why.
Also I totally have a crush on this chick, holy crap, she is awesome.
One of my favorite reviewers! And I...
Trayvon Martin’s Psychological Killer: Why We See... →
jtotheizzoe:
Melanie Tannenbaum writes over at SciAm about the psychology behind split-second decisions like the one George Zimmerman made when he shot Trayvon Martin.
A 2002 study put college students in a similar situation and measured their ability to make snap judgements of whether to shoot:
Groups of college students were told that a series of people would come on the screen in front of...
Hedy Lamarr: Hollywood's secret weapon inventor →
wigmund:
Hedy Lamarr played much more than “the most beautiful woman in the world” as an Austrian-American actress during Hollywood’s Golden Age. The mathematically-minded inventor first learned about military technology from dinner party conversations between her arms-manufacturer husband and Nazi German generals, before escaping to America where she eventually invented a new torpedo...
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Stream’s started! Umineko itself’ll start no earlier than 12:30 Eastern, no later than 12:50, so come on in when you can :D
http://www.livestream.com/idran
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A reminder after having had to skip last week; I will be streaming Umineko today at the usual time, 12:30 PM Eastern/5:30 PM GMT! Hope to see people there for it :D
There's something called "sourcing"
semebay:
Sourcing is good.
Sourcing benefits everyone.
Recently, everyone became aware that artists on 2chan were getting really fucking pissed because people were reposting their art everywhere. I’ll put aside my opinion of 2chan for the moment because something good came out of it: people either sourced items, or they stopped reblogging items that the artists may not have wanted posted.
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There's something called "sourcing"
ademisk:
semebay:
WHY TO SOURCE
People want to find the artist
The artist gets proper credit
The artist doesn’t get pissed and delete their pixiv in retaliation
People can find similar artwork, and potentially get the artist to make more because of positive feedback
So you don’t look like a massive douchebag
Reason number 3 is basically the reason people want you to do it. Its also the...
