hello. this is a thread where we make really shitty image macros as if we are technologically illiterate moms on facebook who are also sloshing churning biological monstrosities. i'll start
not sure if this is actually funny but it doesn't need to be
>>3mrjd7dk4xc2c
>saying no to mommy
are you insane?
> Sakuga (作画) (lit., "drawing pictures") is a term used in anime to describe moments in a show or movie when the quality of the animation improves drastically, typically for the sake of making a dramatic point or enlivening the action....
sakugabooru a useful resource to find interesting sequences, tagged by keyword: https://www.sakugabooru.com/
do you have a favorite animation sequence or animator?
ping pong (2014) is one of my favorite anime overall with plenty of memorable and unique animation. this was directed by masaaki yuasa (kaiba, mind game, tatami galaxy, crayon shin-chan) with many famous episode directors putting their own spin on this amazing adaptation. yuasa's trademark style is for characters to warp and deform, and his influence can be seen here as well
ping pong portrays movement so beautifully and stylishly - its a hard hitter on all fronts for me https://www.sakugabooru.com/post/show/308787
one of my favorite cuts of animation period - from gurren lagann. that mother fucker just walks out of his mech and across to end their stalemate of a battle to personally beat the shit out of simon. what is there to not like about that?
presumed by the legendary yoh yoshinari who was key animator on neon genesis evangelion, dead leaves mahoromantic, flcl, diebuster, kill la kill. too many to list really...
>>3mrj4g5mzxr22
genga for this cut
Discussing the Beautiful Game
>Play Online:
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>Resources:
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https://repo.riichi.moe/
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i play irl in my local club. you get to know all kinds of poorly adjusted and beautiful women alike and try not to appear as mad as you are when they luckshit you.
pic is recent dealer mangan.
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Let's start the thread off with some problems,
what would you discard?
7p. you have a 34567 sanmenchan + 567 for iipeikou if you draw 2p or 5p
5p. the 14 wait is slightly better and it's east 1 so winning takes priority over value from tanyao
8p. you have dora 3 and it gives iipeikou chance for a haneman with riichi
im trying to get better.. i've been enjoying senba's strategy book. what are your fav learning resources?
her book can be found here. i bought it cos i wanna support, tho im sure its on archive.org as well :-) https://mahjongpros.com/products/136-mahjong-strategy-and-tactics
i liked this article - good resource for where to go next with strategy https://gamesoftrobo.ghost.io/you-probably-arent-good-at-riichi-yet-these-pro-books-offer-a-glimpse-of-a-tall-mountain/
post you're favorite 2hu
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I like Ichirin, and I like Wriggle and Yuuka as a little pair, and I like Medicine Melancholy a lot, but none of them have anything on the raw visual appeal of Mizuhashi Parsee...
too many to choose from, but Fujiwara no Mokou has been one i've felt a strong personal connection to. a real "she's literally me" kind of character for me.
its resien because rabbits are from the moon
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This was excellent - thank you.
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after 28 years of being alive i finally cracked the secret to soft skin. what they were saying about skincare products really does work. i feel like i look to most of the cosmetics industry with scorn? it's a little too much effort all told and it's best to not overwhelm yourself with tasks.(´ー`)
what is your routine? do you consider yourself pretty? do you bother with the make ups? how do you make it easy for yourself if so?
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>>3mqwicb3mt22x
this was my experience for sure - i consider myself relatively diligent with hygiene. i wash my bed sheets regularly and do most of the things 'beauty influencers' say will give you glowing but in reality but it took some very specific incantations for my skin to not be perpetually irritated. so much of it is genetics...
>>3mrdvyyrkiq22
v true. it is a perpetual effort to craft one's appearance and even if u can learn to be comfy presenting a certain way it's a lot of effort. i think there is somewhere a nice middle ground in terms of effort v result, but i have yet to reach it.
>>3mrdvyyrkiq22
not saying it's necessarily the same for you, that discomfort might very well be due to a genuine discordance you feel with that kind of femininity. but nothing feels immediately natural to anyone, it always takes time and work for a way to be to become one's normal and discomfort in the intervening period is totally normal.
personally, i was using this sort of "this is not for me" reasoning as a way to cope with my anxiety with going through that period for a long time and it's set my personal development back by several years. but it's just how i am now and im very glad i was eventually able to make it through that.
this may or may not be the case for you, and it's totally fine if it isn't, but i want to make sure that seed is planted in ur head so that in the event that you are going through something similar to me my experience can serve you. (ftr im far from hyperfeminine and there are a lot of traditionally feminine things i dont do, it doesnt mean one has to go "all the way" so to speak)
>>3mqwicb3mt22x
i know what u mean i just see people do like a million products sometimes and i think basic stuff works better for some people
like obviously if that doesn't work it doesn't but i worry some people are overdoing it
>>3mrftz7ws7m2j
oh absolutely, even in the case that you have specific skincare needs (and that is most people, i dont know the actual stats there but neutral skintype is definitely less than half of people), they will be served by a couple things that best cater to your needs and u dont rly need anything more than that + moisturising + a healthy lifestyle.
skincare brands are kind of a problem here though (and it's even worse for haircare) because they dont do anything to dispel all the common myths around skincare and will even use them as marketing tactics (common one for haircare is advertising a product as moisturising when that is precisely what a haircare product shouldnt do unless it's for ur scalp, none of those products actually moisturise but they still say they do).
so for the average person that thought process that should work of trying a product that is advertised as targeting your problems, seeing it doesnt work as well as you expected, piling on another such product hoping itll do more, and so on and so on, doesnt actually end up working at all lol
it's only when u know exactly what active ingredient you need that you can really achieve that
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i became a regular user of obsidian the past week or so - i prefer it over focuswriter now. Altho, I prob wont dip toes into the depth it has to offer - it has been nice to just let me make notes and i feel I can be a bit messy. I like hydrus/obsidian for similar reasons - guis over a designated area of yum
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I've been using Allusion (https://github.com/RafaUC/Allusion), which means doing all the tagging manually... my tags definitely aren't comprehensive but going through the process has illuminated my thought processes behind saving pictures, and come up with a structured way of analysing pictures. I'm kind of proud of this so I'm taking this opportunity to talk about it.
The parent categories I use for tagging: Genre & Aesthetics, Subject matter, Medium, Layout, Reference, IP.
Genre & Aesthetics: this is the most abstract category, grouping things by iconography and semiotics associated with a particular style or feeling. Eg, "Sword & Sorcery" includes both photos of replica armors, and illustrations of fantasy
Subject Matter: particular articles that can be identified. Images with blood & gore, character design/specific costumes, animes, architecture and vehicles.
Medium: materials & context used to create the image, whether it is photography, physical paints, plastic models or screenshots from movies & shows.
Layout: compositional tools used in the image - diagrams, posters, collages, comic pages, or "Mise-en-scène"
Reference: Similar to subject matter, this category contains specific things like anatomy and "for study" images
IP: tags for source works being referenced
Often I'll try and trawl my library and tag things instead of wasting time on less productive pastimes... but it is very time consuming, and I'm constantly revising the way I tag things anyway, meaning I have to go over the same stuff and revise it...
>>3mqqoxeuh7s2v
its a unique challenge since tagging is likely taste driven on some level - you have to make it fit you like a glove working locally - ive been mostly thinking abt it like this - if I add something to my 'library' i just need to tag it in a way that A) lets me quickly bring up cleanly and B) be able to review the set if it was from a set - but recently, since im going thru the labor of adding lots of shit - im starting to question if I really need all the shit - so im starting to filter more strictly what I let in - so becomes more scrutinized curation to inform my art practice. Im also using this local borrur tagging system just to archive my own art cuz i am so fucking bad at that since forever.
Parabolic has been a huge help with downloading stuff ever since Cobalt now consistently throws errors for youtube downloads. https://github.com/nickvisionapps/parabolic
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big database of bird observations: https://ebird.org/home
learn to identify birds: https://punteney.com/bird-id/
post your bird pics and share nerd facts about birds！！
enjoy this (i think) egret from earlier this month.
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from a year or two ago but I like this photo I got of a mallard on Ektar 100, Nikon F100
yay!! a thread that's hyper-targeted at my interests lmfao
i started birding back in winter 2024 and nowadays, my life list is very nearly at 250 species (and that's without ever leaving the continental US).
i unfortunately don't have many good pics bcuz i can't afford a camera, but the best time i ever had birding was a trip to the sagebrush steppe to see a greater sage-grouse lek (!!!!) plus a bunch of new sagebrush-endemic species. like this gorgeous sage thrasher!
and this non-descript but adorable sagebrush sparrow!!
it amazes me honestly how many birds there are like this. tiny greyish-brown songbirds living exclusively in very remote areas that would easily be overlooked by almost anyone who didn't know how special they are, especially as their ranges and populations are shrinking more every day. it makes me all the more appreciative getting to see them with my own eyes.
I also started birding in the winter of 24/25 and have nearly 250 birds on my life list!
The latest bird on my list was a Scaly-breasted Munia. I saw a little flock of them in some reeds in Echo Park Lake.
Here's a RTHA eating a squirrel.
>>3mrddd7ec7s2c
the word echopark has been stuck in my head for like the last year b.cus i keep mixing up echospace and clarence park im so glad thats actually a real place now i manifested =^w^=
post cool plants.
tentacle flower
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old picture, used to find ghost pipes (monotropa uniflora) growing behind where i lived when I was in virginia
they're a parasitic plant so they don't photosynthesize or produce chlorophyll
this thread is inspiring me to look at plants more i should look around for interesting ones, anyone know cool stuff that grows in minnesota?
>>3mrao6jcye42u
If there's any nearby: Fireweed, Northern Gooseberry, Prairie Smoke and Wild Lupine
Daucus Carota. The dark red floret at the center of the umbel is very visible. It made identifying these ones easy. They can be forraged for food, but these ones were roadside and likely contaminated with polutants.
scarlet beebalm :)
any ttrpg heads here? campaigns/one-shots you're in/have ran recently? systems you like? im planning to run a one-shot sometime in the near future and cant decide if i wanna stick with 5e or try something new
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When I lived in Kanegawa, my friend Jesse had put together a table. Jesse hated worldbuilding because they were a perfectionist and felt jaded when they cared about part of the world and the party clearly didn't — so they cooked up this system wherein they neatly divided a deck of card between the players as a sort of pre-game thing, and informed us all developments would cost one card.
Jesse split worldbuilding into three time periods — Premordial, Historical, and Recent history.
In the Premordial stuff, we could turn in cards to create whole landfeatures and put stuff on maps. We could also create cities and put species into play and these would be understood to be "Old".
In the Historical Era, we were not able to place land-features. We could create natural disasters that were effectively modifying them though. We could add more species into play, and more cities, as well as religious movements and stuff. People could establish militaries and go to war (Jesse just did a dice roll on any military encounter and the person with the bigger army rolled twice and took the higher number). Trade routes. Alliances. He let us expand cities into like, metropolises and such. Lots of empire building and natural disaster and trade in this era.
In the "Recent History" era all we could do was political and societal stuff — recent scientific developments, religious movements, political assassinations, treaties... that sort of thing.
By the time it was all done, we had a homebrew setting full of only stuff people cared about, and it had a rich history because aggressive players were basically playing Risk with the DM during the worldbuilding session while everyone else was sort of playing Harvest Moon and making perfect little settlements with complex relationships to eachother.
We knew what the politics and culture was like because we built is collaboratively.
I thought it was a really good, low-effort way to world-build and keep everyone invested without draining the DM.
a lot of my irls have gotten little fatigued of 5e recently so we've been trying other games. We've been trying stuff out through one shots when possible.
Maid RPG is really cute and pretty easy to get up and running. I mostly like the character creation in this, its straightforward and quick. The amount of prep you need to do for this is pretty minimal for a basic session.
Call of Cthulhu uses percent dice which I hadn't tried before. It takes a lot more time to get a character together compared to Maid RPG but once you get the hang of it I think it's pretty intuitive.
I've heard a lot of good things about ryuutama but i haven't tried it yet.
I think even simple changes to 5e mechanics can feel really refreshing though, which is why I enjoyed these others during the one shots I've played so far.
>>3mqxxoa72gh25
i went thru a dnd phase and homebrewed but didn't like dnd mechanics - so I moved over to solo ttrpg with easier/simpler rules / dice - and that sorta carried me when I had the itch - at first I was using a variant on the caltrop system - last time I was dicing and headspacing was mostly not really caring for strong rules so much but using playing cards and improvisation - just whatever got me into the headspace and would journal it - not track hp. etc.
I ran Mausritter last month as a oneshot for my group of 5e-heads as a substitute to our regular weekly game. The game's rules were free and they had fun looking printouts.
Our DM was exhausted and we were missing a few players so it was pared down from 8 to a merciful 5 players (excluding myself).
I ran a slightly modified/slightly improvised session of Honey in the Rafters and began with random character generation per player. There's still a d20 for skill checks, but it's a roll-under system so I felt like I was feeding these players non-Dnd gameplay under a slice of cheese. Call of Cthulhu is the next step of the master plan...
A couple players brought premade 5e character sheets (don't recall what level) in anticipation, but any dejection was soothed by the allure of random item tables and offputting traits rolled for their respective mice. We ended up with a group including trash-picking mice and violent mice and pampered royal sibling-mice.
I haven't ran anything in several years, but it was fun to shake the rust off and figure out how tabletop works with different players. The module's random encounter tables and some amateur voicework were enough to set the stage and lead to a decently-realized cast of NPCs and crossed interests. Every few moments I'd remind the players they were mice, as if they didn't have little self-drawn mice on their sheets, by playing with the sense of scale and environment or straight up just telling them.
All in all it felt like a success, but I still want to run the weirder (read: further from 5e) stuff I've read like Troika! or Ryuutama. Not sure if I'll run something like Lancer unless half the group's gone again and the remainder feels like playing a tactics RPG.
>>3mr3f64xua52m
That whole process reminds me of a game called Downfall that an internet acquaintance ran a few times. Loved that system. I'd like to try and hack together something similar to what you described, it sounds great for a larger group.
Does anyone have any experience with "Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine"?
I have always been a little curious about it — It seems very concerned with characters gaining levels for being played true to their artist's intention for storytelling to level-up in lieu of conventional leveling. Very story-driven.
I also remember the permissable powers afforded to a character being immense and fascinating, but everyone starts out as bad with it so it doesn't matter. Someone showed me the entry for "Character who Turns Into a Kaiju" and at level one it was like, "You got really big and transformed. Your body feels alien and everyone around you is inconvenienced by your new size" which I thought was kind of neat...
>what is anthropeum?
anthropeum is a daily game where you guess the (rough) location and age of ten artifacts pulled from the Met collections.
you can play the game at https://anthropeum.com/
this is a thread to discuss today's game, post your scores, or talk about anything related to historical artifacts, treasures etc..!
History / anthropology links (ill add more l8r,,)
>Statues also Die, Dir. Renais, Marker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GR8KprsNng
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Spoilers below, make sure to play todays game b4 reading! V.V
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looking at todays spanish-inca poncho I was wondering if it could even have been central american, cause I didnt think camelids went up that north, apparently i was right..
the question i have now is what did the central americans use for textiles ??? salish wooly dogs??
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macuahuitl
ok so time for a bit of a conspiracy.. so like u guys know the macuahuitl right? that super iconic serated club design.. the wikipedia says its so well known and wide spread, so how come there are litterally only 3 known examples of them in history, all of them having burnt down in the 1800s?? isn t this so weird??
todays selection was incredibly good.. rlly rlly loved the azerbaijani carpet..
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time to study...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksz8TLlKGWA
rly wanna watch this film sometime!
im feeling pretty inspired by this artist as well - ive already seen midori but im growing interested in his other work now- will watch death lullabye soon.
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limitless paradise (harada's first movie I think?) was restored and uploaded to the web a couple years ago. I haven't watched it yet though.
>>3mr6adyoq4k2d
thx. I'm rly in love with him past few days even tho I first saw midori so long ago... his lullabye bullying film is gnar
this is sick af.. cant upload its over limit https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_t948auAySK1zkp0l7.mp4
>>3mr6tne57bp22
thx for sharing that segment - i found many of the stills for this BOO(?) chara so im so happy to see the animation parts too - this artist has me by the balls - ive already known since midori I saw when younger - but i connected to their political nature this past two days... his work has strong messages, and he's brave to stand strong and be resistant to what he perceives as nefarious forces in the world - rejecting censorship and downvoting fascism - in my books honorable causes with tangible sacrifice -
im copy pasting this from one of his websites that resonates with me
Harada draws on thin paper. He outlines the paper with a pigmented water-based pen and then colors it with paint or design markers. This has been his consistent approach since his first work, "Weak Dinosaur-chan" (1976), when he was 14 years old, to the present.
Thin paper curves when colored.
When he was a lecturer at an art university, a student asked him, "How do I film curved paper?"
In commercial animation, the paper is held down from above with a transparent, non-reflective glass.
However, this increases the filming effort.
He also read an interview with an American cinematographer who said, "Placing a filter or something between the camera lens and the subject will, technically, blur the image."
To that end, Harada places weights of about 10 books on the warped paper for a day.
However, the paper still sometimes warps. Paper is as tough as a weed.
For this reason, the Kiryukan filming stand has low-adhesion double-sided tape attached to all four corners.
But even so, the paper is still warped.
However, this results in natural textures, noise and shadows, which leads to the assertion that the images were drawn by hand and photographed by a human being, not a machine.
The act of actually creating something with your hands has a positive psychological effect and has long been used in cognitive therapy and other methods.
I would like to see some of your 3D CGI. Old or new... works in progress... I wish to connect with more modellers and renderers
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>>3mqvgz2kv7k2x
a lifetime study and practice no doubt (anatomy/gesture) -
i like rigging models
>>3mqxx2sxy5f2j
ohhh that's sick
>>3mqzvw3ehzk2g
tyyyy it's for a vrchat experiment i'm doing with a friend
i made this environment for an animation project, but i mismanaged it and ended up scrapping it. the renders i did make for it tho are some of my favorites with this one being my wallpaper (￣ー￣)
wanted to start a read thread that isn't focused on academic topics.
ive been reading Crash by J.G. Ballard, im a huge fan of the 1996 Cronenberg film adaptation, im about half-way through and so far the book is very much living up to expectations. after looking for similar movies i couldn't find anything that lived up to the eroticism and portrayal of bdsm dynamics, so im glad the book had ended up being very similar in that regard.
cover is spoilered for bare titties
Cronenberg's own book Consumed is also a great read. death, disease, cannibalism, peyronies...
my most recent attempted read was Aron Beauregard's Playground but once it pivoted from familial trauma to saw traps i got bored really fast
We don't read terribly often, mostly on-and-off, but but been enjoying Absolution by Jeff Vandermeer. We got a signed copy of it when it came out a couple years and only recently finished our reread of the preceding 3 books. We love the series a lot.
Really liking it so far. The first section of it is such a morbid creeping slow-burn nightmare. The imagery of (spoilers) a horde of rabbits feasting together on crabs and the blackened flesh of their burnt-alive brethren was really good and horrible.
when i was a kid, i remember being asked what i wanted to be when i grew up, and what my favorite color was. to the former i would answer "accountant", to the latter i would say "nothing" or "manila". they were the most generic answers i could think of, which was kind of a joke to me but definitely also some kind of performative (though sincere) ennui, with also some sense of resentment towards my environment. i think i was often frustrated and upset but too cowardly to face the adults in my life with outright hostility, so i'd just try to do things that would make them feel bad. later in high school i'd end up taking an accounting class, so i suppose at some point it stopped being a joke as i started believing my own non-answers in search of an identity. according to my mom, i used to be very rowdy as a child (eg my mom recalls one day where she was sitting in the living room watching tv and i stood in front of the tv with a lightbulb in each hand and smashed them together) but after the first day of kindergarten i became the quiet child i would be for the rest of my life. i often wonder what happened that day, but i have no clue. i think it's possible it was just a normal first interaction with becoming a social being (though, i was in preschool before and had a sister) and i decided or made the indecision to internalize and perform
do you still feel a pressure to conform or have you found a way out
>>3mr2j2dqu2c22
i still struggle with avoidant behavior but i've felt like less of a husk within the past few months. when i was 18/19 i thought i was going to escape my malaise with prescription drugs but none of that really turned out, i'm getting therapeutic treatment for borderline now which i think has helped. i also think pursuing irl relationships has helped me in some ways, as it's less feasible to maintain a persona that's contradictory with your mannerisms and relationship to your body and whatnot compared to online where you get to be an avatar that produces text, though obviously this doesn't mean there's no masks we wear in social situations, in fact they can be more subtle and insidious. but yes i think i've been getting better ＼(＾o＾)／
>>3mr2o6axeuv2o
you still have a lot ahead of you but it never gets harder when you've lived through your 20s. that was the hardest time for me looking back i feel like i didn't know how to do anything and i was just bumbling around and getting hurt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7xEbT7haCI
ill get this one rolling too. SONIC THREAD! recently, withermin did a killer speedrun of SADC...... im pretty much exclusively a fan of sonic thru sa but - whatever any sonic . when im a child, gamma's story (the ending) was the second time a game made me cry.
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first sonic game i ever played was sonic classic collection on the DS so i was destined to be a 2d sonic chudling... but that speedrun looks fun enough that it makes me want to give sadc another try
>>3mqnqm7gf4c23
im also a 2chuD, i think the first sonic i ever played was sonic 1 on my ipod nano, i was like 9 or 10 and wouldnt find out about emulation till the following year
did any of u play the master system games
used to play sonic 2 all the time
>>3mqnr54kids2q
i've actually played the shit out of the game gear sonics which are very similar, way way more than the genesis games because these were unlockable in sonic adventure dx lol. the 8-bit sonics are very quaint in a way i find adorable and they're fun little tasty snack games. master system in general goes off
>>3mqnr54kids2q
i really love the 8bit sonics, i played 1 and 2 and Chaos and Blast earlier this year. 1 and 2 are very cute and squishy games. Chaos and Blast are kind of evil. Blast is exactly what you'd expect from a brazil exclusive 8 bit sonic with pre-rendered graphics. also all of these games have a stupid pipe/teleporter maze section and evil water levels. but i love how messed up they generally are.
i gotta get on the game gear games soon cuz tails is the cutest ever and he has 2!! games on there