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Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

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There’s is that Old Sun telling stories to his lady friend

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After many hours of grinding here’s my Black myth Wukong entry for a gaming art contest 🥹

Seriously this game is amazing. It’s actually how I also found about lego monkey kid and thats also so fire?

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OF COURSE I WOULD’T MISS THIS SUN WUKONG !

I love rubberhose cartoons so much, it was nice to grt back into the style (Bendy and Cuphead had left me some practice haha) Of course I added Jade Rabbit 🖤

I had a ton of screenshots because I wanted to get a proper reference on how to draw him. I been kinda figuring how to his eyes, face and hat and with Jade I already had her design done so yeah—

1940s cartoon !!

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Mous-fer-RATu.

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🐁🐀🎨

:3c

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Me after rewatching TGMD: prof. Ratigan????? PFFF. I hate him ;/////////

Also me: draw him everyday, 24/7, because he’s my new fav character and my new fav villain. 

Thanks Disney. 

Here’re some of my the oldest and the newest sketches of him.

Enjoy!

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The Great Mouse Detective doodles!

Gosh, I love this movie :u:

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Rough sketches of Olivia’s doll 

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Wait. Whaat? What are these? Are these…

Yup. My old doodles of Ratigan, because I adore this fat angy rat so much. I love drawing him. Some of the drawings are even 2 years old. The last one was in made in 2022 :3c

Enjoy! 

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Nosferatu Ratigan quick doodles

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Sun Wukong: I'm a firm believer in "if you're going to fail, you might as well fail spectacularly."

He's a professional at that.

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Fashionnn

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I know the original novel describes Wukong as being 4 feet tall, which would be the size of a child; however, there are two passages in the book about Wukong's clothing: the first one was when he left Mt. Huaguo and first met the humans and he took clothing from a human man, and the second was when Tripitaka gave Wukong some of his clothing.

I think Wukong is likely the size of a child compared to the gods (who I imagined being 6 feet or taller), so he's really the same height (if not shorter than the mortal man) which would be around 5 foot 5 inches..

Sun Wukong Height:

Here’s my PERSONAL take on Monkey King Height for some universes. I was going to wait for the figures for BMW to be released but they take FOREVER. And we were talking about it in my server so here goes!

****GAME SPOILERS BELOW****

(IN FEET.INCHES)

BMW is decently tall - 5.8-5.11 - genuinely appears about average human height in the game.

JTTW Shorter depending 3-4ft ish give or take (I think pretty short though)

Monkey King Reborn - Shortish 5-5.5 he is almost average person height I think here as Master is fairly tall (almost as tall as Wujing) & Comparing Wujing next to a village human then Wujing next to Wukong, Wukong give or take is the same height as a human. Also, Pigsy is just shy of Masters height and Wukong is almost the same height as Pigsy but a liiiittle but shorter. (This was annoying because both Wukong and Pigsy slouch almost the entire movie and there are a LOT of angles and visual trickery with background and foreground stuff. I even tried comparing to doors but it’s inconsistent.)

Nezha Reborn - Tall 5.8-5.11

I think PERSONALLY, he’d be tall in BMW specially. I know in JTTW he’s fairly small - they saw him more as a monkey at the time right? So somewhere between an actual monkey and probably short adult human 3-4ft something? Where as modern times we see him as “anthropomorphic” but human leaning. So it makes sense for us to scale him up and change some features. He is a “demon” after all as well. *Plus I’m bias on the idea that I want him at least human sized - idc if he’s a short king or a tall king necessarily.*

ANYWAY! *see under the cut*

In BMW we see at the beginning Wukong is shorter than Erlang (not as big of a difference during cut scenes though) during the first fight of the game, but in some clips I was watching recently (modded game lol) the Broken Shell of Wukong stands at the same height ish as Erlang. So while I was already fairly certain this was a “design” choice by the devs to make it easier to see the broken shell when you fight him, this confirms it for me too. Broken shell is MUCH taller than DO during the battle.

When in cut scenes during that fight they are the same height, build, etc:

Basically what I was getting at is this, it’s clear bosses are scaled up in the game to make them easier to see as well as make them more intimidating to the player (which I think is pretty universally understood). So in a way, it’s deceptive of actual height. Untrustworthy.

So, let’s factor this instead: Wukong is an anthropomorphic monkey. Let’s say he’s between 5’ and 5’11 give or take to give him some wiggle room.

Erlang, isn’t a regular “human” by any means so him being taller than average makes sense. The other demons? Same thing. Especially creatures that are actually bigger than a monkey - like a tiger. Some other creatures we see SHOULDNT be that big though. For example insect demons. Yet they are when they should be smaller than Wukong if you’re going by “scale up based on a specific average”.

So again, deception. Height doesn’t follow natural normal rules for everyone (magic). Yes sizes can change based on certain lore & magic things and Wukong can adjust his size as to be bigger or smaller.

I don’t think Wukong is super tall or anything by any means though, that’s why I said give or take in the “head canon” estimate earlier. He’s basically a compact power house - think like how ants can lift 10-50 times their body weight. He’s agile and lithe with muscles designed to be swift and quick, he’s a monkey so he’s all energetic. Hes not meant to be a body builder (like some *Tiger 👀*……YES he is strong as fuck - this isn’t about his abilities. *Also I’m not saying any of you dudes that aren’t 6ft aren’t ‘tall’ but I’m 5.5 and “tall” to me is 6ft and up.*

Anyway, I’m getting at that Destined One is a near carbon copy of Wukong and no matter how you SEE the ending of BMW be it DO just gains Wukongs memory or Wukong is made whole again and absorbs DO and takes his memories of his short life/journey for the artifacts - the two Monkeys are the same height.

So Monkey is fairly tall also based on in game things like surroundings etc. Hes not tiny. The game devs have deceived us throughout the game regarding height in several ways since it’s not consistent.

(Funny side note, if you add an inch or two to DO and feel they are separate beings - Wukong being offended by that would kill me with laughter and be hilarious - or if they are the same and Wukong realizes it after he “awakens”)

So basically, imagine him as tall as you want 🤣 I HC as mentioned above give or take for a specific AU I make. No joke depending on what AU I have I make him as tall or short as I need. So no one is wrong, okay?

Last note: this is before figures come out (yes there was the one but idk its actual metrics and while it can help to figure out size it won’t necessarily be an end game as everything surrounding bmw and height is genuinely inconsistent as hell.

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They are so cute! I would love to know how they met and how the jade rabbit would appear in the movie.

Elderly in love (?) 🐇🐒

Found this cute image that serve as a reference ! ❤️

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This is a fantastic depiction of the Destined One and Bajie. It won the Player's Choice Award, which should've been as great as the Game of the Year. Black Myth: Wukong is a game for gamers made by gamers.

So excited to play the updated version!

"And the Game of The Year award goes to.... Black Myth: Wukong!!!"

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Gotta draw them earning the award cuz they deserve better 😔🫶

Another bg version!!

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I completely agree with you. While I'm disappointed that Black Myth Wukong didn't win, I'm not surprised. I haven't played Astro Bot, but I know you can't compare it to Black Myth Wukong, just like you can't compare apples with oranges.

We, players, need to say this when reviewing the game Black Myth Wukong won the Player's Choice Award. It's a game with superb storytelling, characters, graphics, soundtracks, and so on. Made by developers who are passionate about their work and want to make a game that gamers want to replay repeatedly.

I'm so excited about the update and the rumored DLC, which I believe Game Science may reveal next month for the Chinese New Year.

BMW not getting Game Of The Year doesn’t surprise me. (I personally think it should have not just for my “bias” but because it truly has so much that qualifies for GOTY from gameplay, to story, to audio/music, to level design, general art design etc.)

It won Players Choice so that says something because PLAYERS chose it as their Game of the Year. Not whatever sponsors chose Astro Bot.

I loved Astro Bot and it was fun and creative. Genuinely treasured the game. But it didn’t have what the other games had. No story substance. It was just mindless puzzles and play forming with nostalgia which is perfect and I had FUN. But it lacked so much compared to the other games.

Not to mention a DLC as a contender….i mean I love Elden Ring but really? It’s DLC? It was cool and fun but…that’s not Game Of The Year.