Look at the mess I've made.

Have you ever looked closely at a car windshield?

The edge of the glass is painted where it is glued to the car but it has these small dots between the clear and painted glass.

These are there for a reason. When the sun hits the glass the painted areas and the clear areas will absorb heat at different rates. This causes the glass to expand and contract differently putting stress on the glass.

These dots help the glass to warm up more evenly over a larger area so the glass does not suffer stress that could cause it to spontaneously explode.

Fun fact: the Tesla cybertruck doesn’t have these.

Yes, the glass will spontaneously crack or explode in the sun.

As an alternative to 'sugar, spice, and everything nice'

I present: 'salt, vinegar, and everything sinister'

no it does not, I am perfectly happy with my obscurity

We’re no strangers to love

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES 2023, dir. Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Dale

LIVE ACTION PRACTICAL EFFECTS TABAXI

I recently watched this and was blown away by this entire scene. This was a one off pair of characters with no names and no lines. They exist entirely to demonstrate the paladin being a Good Person by saving a baby. After he does this, he goes and gives money to a beggar - who is a dragonborn. He is one of two dragonborn in the film, and neither one needs to be a dragonborn. It would have been so easy to make the tabaxi and dragonborn characters humans, or slap some ears on them to make them elves, and they didn’t. They really went out of their way, building practical effects for the tabaxi and dragonborn when they didn’t need to… this is a movie that loves its source material and it also loves being a movie. People working on this movie cared.

I really missed that.

#and the birdman#don’t forget the birdman YES! AND the birdman! Now the birdman couldn’t be human because Plot Reasons demanded he have wings, but he was also almost entirely practical effects!

This movie was so much fun, loved how lovingly made all of the creatures and effects were

I love Jarnathan

Oh! Oh, I have the artbook for this movie!!

Can confirm, Jarnathan (the aarakocra, or “birdman” as some people here call him) was all practical effects! His face was an animatronic mask, his feet were articulated high-heel shoes, and he had three fully-functional talon-like fingers on each hand too!

The directors Daley and Goldstein could have made him entirely CG, but they instead went to Legacy Effects, who specialize in prosthetics and animatronics and puppeteering, because they REALLY wanted Jarnathan to look and feel authentic.

According to the artbook, the wings on him were a backpack, a self-contained mechanism that weighed around 60 pounds. The wings extended open to about ten or eleven feet!

I love this movie! :D

And this is why D&D is one of my all-time favorite films. Practical effects are amazing in this. There needs to be more love for Legacy Effects and more use of Practical effects in general.

love these tags kissing you on the mouth

Kitty masterpost

PIE AND HER BABIES!

pumpkin says hand over the churu right meow

Having a boyfriend is literally free

I’m stuck in my room because i have a fresh arm tattoo that’s not exactly fun to drive with and my little sister and her friends are hanging out in the kitchen so instead of doomscrolling or agonizing over creative projects i’m sending him pictures of various car parts and asking him to name them

wheeel……

I think he likes it?

They’re scared because they know that the public is with Luigi.

They’re violating his rights because they need to maintain capitalism.

Keep talking about Luigi.

“The dossier adds that the public ‘may view the ensuing manhunt and subsequent arrest of Mangione as NYPD, and largely policing as a whole, as a tool that is willing to expend massive resources to protect the wealthy, while the average citizen is left to their own means for personal security.’”

its kind of really awesome to be a huge fan of ur friends art because then they become famous to you. its not exactly the same as making friends with an artist u already look up to its like if michaelangelo was relatively unknown and posted his art to 1 discord server and his tumblr blog. and you just have to sit there like i need people to understand how cool you are. why aren't you being asked for autographs yet

'fairies dont exist' WRONG❗❗cyerce elegans

These guys are much prettier than their Caenorhabditis cousins I used to dissect.

One of the rare times where a comment section is delightful the moment I open it

Appropriate move

Transcript?

Audio Transcript:

REPORTER: "...gonna go... This is gonna go right over... Uh, right over my house. So, very close to my house, uh, which again is in the Chevy Chase area, Bethesda area, uh, this is along Wisconsin Avenue as well, so heads up if you live along Massachusetts or Wisconsin Avenue."

REPORTER (into phone): "Ken, you there, buddy?"

KEN: "Yeah?"

REPORTER: "Uh, hey man, I want you to, uh, get down in the– in the basement. We got a tornado warning. Alright, so I wanna make sure you and– you and Kyle get downstairs as soon as you can, okay?"

(he pauses as his son responds)

REPORTER: "Yeah, get down there now, get in the, get in the, in that bath– in that bed– uh, in the bedroom down there. And just kinda wait for, like, 10 to 15 minutes, okay? Do it now. Alright, thanks buddy."

REPORTER (to camera): "Alright, so, that was, uh, just, y'know, gotta warn my kids, because I know what my kids are doing right now, they're probably online gaming and they're not seeing this, so we have a tornado warning, hopefully they saw it on their phones. Many of us got it on our phones, in the news room, I heard the phones go off–"

End Transcript

makes it really clear to other viewers under the tornado warning what the stakes are and what the appropriate response is

When I was in my teens, I used to make an entire magic system with 360+ unique spells, ordered in magic schools and categories, and it boggles my mind that I basically reinvented DnD mechanics, even down to metamagic.

I wanted to make a wiki about it but I don't have time for it.

The point was to try to encompass every "superpower" I could think of into a magic system.

I even got lore related to it all, I'm pretty sure I'm gonna simply reuse it all for OC worldbuilding. Ngl the fun part was naming all the spells, symbols and coming up with the logic of it all.