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people don't talk very often at all about the influence of the Monty Python and the Holy Grail cd rom adventure game on Undertale and Deltarune, probably because it wasn't an influence at all.

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Edwin George Lutz (1868-1951), “What To Draw and How To Draw It”, 1913 Source

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you can be anything you want to be regardless of what society says, unless i think what you want to be is icky and gross in which case DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE

I grew up with all these really great empowering stories about how a girl could be anything she wanted to be, that you shouldn't let your gender hold you back from your dreams, and now I'm like "I want to be a girl with a dick" and people are like noooo can't you be a Feminine Male instead :(

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true scotsman has never been tried

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“kill them with kindness” Wrong. CURSE OF RA 𓀀 𓀁 𓀂 𓀃 𓀄 𓀅 𓀆 𓀇 𓀈 𓀉 𓀊 𓀋 𓀌 𓀍 𓀎 𓀏 𓀐 𓀑 𓀒 𓀓 𓀔 𓀕 𓀖 𓀗 𓀘 𓀙 𓀚 𓀛 𓀜 𓀝 𓀞 𓀟 𓀠 𓀡 𓀢 𓀣 𓀤 𓀥 𓀦 𓀧 𓀨 𓀩 𓀪 𓀫 𓀬 𓀭 𓀮 𓀯 𓀰 𓀱 𓀲 𓀳 𓀴 𓀵 𓀶 𓀷 𓀸 𓀹 𓀺 𓀻 𓀼 𓀽 𓀾 𓀿 𓁀 𓁁 𓁂 𓁃 𓁄 𓁅 𓁆 𓁇 𓁈 𓁉 𓁊 𓁋 𓁌 𓁍 𓁎 𓁏 𓁐 𓁑 𓀄 𓀅 𓀆

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Two of my friends are getting evicted right after one of them got fired; they're in dire need of financial support and ANYTHING helps

Links to boost:

On mastodon:

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sinkdog

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can we test it on a few more phones first just to make sure. can you test it on mine. and everyone else's also too maybe.

For sale: one iPhone. Some cosmetic damage. Sold as seen.

My old Nokia brick wouldn’t do me like this…

Anyway, this feels like a good time to plug my Patreon!

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This could've been a yuri

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so i went to track down the source of this image to see if there might be a before/after, and instead what i found was... a similar but different image???

this is the original, as reported in the june 29th 2022 edition of the moorefield examiner, linked here and also here. supposedly this still was taken from an iphone video, which makes sense. notice the motion blur on the lightning strike, and how the red/orange tones in the tree are blown out. the version shared by OP is comparatively much more evenly exposed. at first i thought it might be a separate still from the same video, but the closer you look the more conspicuous differences you notice.

for instance, this is NOT the same bush:

note as well that OP's version has the tree utterly unaffected by wind, where the original is clearly experiencing a strong gust:

there's also the fact that OP's version has more space on the bottom of the frame, which creates a more visually pleasing and balanced composition. but then, what about all that other stuff in the foreground at the bottom right? it's nowhere to be seen:

so, clearly OP's version has been shopped, probably with AI ("set extension" tools were some of the earliest functional implementations of generative image tech to hit the adobe suite iirc). stare at the doctored version long enough and you start noticing all sorts of weirdnesses. like what's going on here exactly?

why are these some of the only tree branches that occlude the path of the lightning bolt? it kind of looks like the tree only has branches on one side, the side facing away from the camera, in order to maximize the photographer's visibility.

but here's what gets me. OP's post still credits the original photographer, which is how i was able to track down the source image in the first place. if not for that credit, i'd have just assumed this was a real photo and moved on like everyone else. to be clear, i don't think OP is responsible for the modification. virtually all popular nature photography is already heavily doctored within acceptable limits, and anyway it's such an innocuous picture, so it's easy to imagine how something like this might slip under the radar. but it is a shocking example to stumble upon of how easy it can be for a real thing to have its sharpest edges sanded off without anyone noticing. i don't know what if any conclusions to draw from it (this is hardly a new phenomenon, the picture itself isn't particularly important, and again they still credited the original photographer) besides, i guess, to do a little digging on sources when the image in question DOES matter.

Photographer Debbie Parker captured this lightning strike in West Virginia. - Author: sco-go

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it's literally a judge telling the city "you need to come up with a plan to prevent legal activity. you need to show us how you intend to stop something that isn't happening. you need to find an excuse to put cops on this beach or it's illegitimate." fucking clown shoes, man

man am I gonna have to get arrested doing nude civil disobedience simply because the court system believes it's illegal to make a rich person uncomfortable? this sucks so fucking much.

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