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Seedot! Enjoying an acorn pile 🌰

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Photographers all know about polarizing filters. They remove reflections off the surfaces of objects. We use them to see into water or windows that are obscured by those reflections. But anything with an even slightly glossy surface has a layer of reflection on top. So if you have a shiny green plant, it can remove the shiny and reveal a very saturated green underneath. Polarizers also remove a lot of scattered and reflected light from the sky. Which reveals a deep blue color you didn't even know was there.

Here is a photo I took of my circular polarizer.

And the first thing I noticed when walking outside during the eclipse was the color of everything was more saturated, just like in that circle. Apparently, an eclipse significantly reduces polarized light and I got this creepy feeling because I was only ever used to seeing the world like that through the viewfinder of my camera.

The other thing I noticed was my outdoor lights. I leave them on all the time because I never remember to turn them on at night. And usually the sun will render them barely visible during the day. On a very sunny day they almost look like they are off.

But you can clearly see they are shining and even flaring the camera during the eclipse.

Our eyes adjust to lighting changes very well so it was hard to tell how much dimmer things were, but that is a good indication. I took this photo a few minutes ago and you can see how dim the lights appear after the moon has fucked off.

I did a calculation using the exposure settings between these two photos. The non-eclipse photo has 7 f-stops more light. That is 128 times or 12,700% more light.

A partial Pringle eclipse cut the sun's light by 99.2% and somehow our eyes adjusted to make it seem like a normal sunny day (with weird ass saturated colors).

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Phione -- AKIRA EGAWA

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Every Persona game has at least one Weird Art Person associated with the party. Persona 3 has two, even- the protagonist for SEES and Chidori for Strega.

P4 is a bit of an outlier in that Marie, local Tsundere Poet Goddess, is a Velvet Room person rather than an actual party member, but she absolutely counts.

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Machop -- Shibuzoh.

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Digimon Survive trying to emulate the different anime series is great because it understands the aesthetics of having small, cute things follow you around versus WarGreymon.

Digimon Story kinda got it, in that you can theoretically grind up a super-rookie, but it's not quite the same.

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The scientific name 'Oddium Wanderus' implies the existence of at least one related species that is just a plant.

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Do you ever think that maybe the lambs are just a bit too tiny?

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Wooloo-Uber

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Rattata -- sowsow

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I can never decide whether my roommates treat me like shit because I'm a different race from them, or if they're just garden variety assholes.

They responded to 'hey, tone it down, it's midnight and I'm trying to sleep,' by loudly shit-talking me for an entire hour after, so they're scum either way, but being able to sort different kinds of shit people from each other is an important skill to have!

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Sometimes, I wonder if there are any other games that took an ordinary mechanic and invested in it to an unhealthy degree the way 7th Dragon did with damage tiles.

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Took the EO2U food sketches from my last post and decided to colour them because I've always wanted to learn how to draw/paint food that looks like something I would want to eat.

Hopefully I did the dishes justice? They look juicy, at least, which was my goal.

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A late post for Pokemon day

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The worst thing is, if you haven't got enough points to advance the Social Link, you can only hang out with him to gain points during the day. Even during the portion that where you advance it at night. So you go at night to check up on him, and if he says he's busy, you'd better hope you have a recent save because he wanted to use your daytime slot.

And then you can't hang out with him that night, because you already interacted during the day.

I think I know why only five ranks are advanced manually.

To whoever decided Adachi's availability in P4G: Why?

I'm not even trying to complete every Social Link, I just thought that one that only needs to be manually advanced in the first half would be a fairly easy one to get out of the way.

And then I saw this monstrosity: