#Blogging industry

[hamoodmood]

Another man another disappoinment

[girlwiththegreenhat]

team fortress 2 finally getting rid of the bots after 5 years

work on the team fortress 2 comic continuing after 7+ years

half life 3 development looking more likely than ever with legitimate code, file, and voicework leaks referencing a new non-VR single-player game from valve featuring a HEV suit wearing protagonist and Xen creatures and concepts

shoutout to the valve fan that found the genie lamp. you a real one

[theslimeologist]

Its viscerally upsetting that our preferences are apparently respected but we’re all automatically opted in for tumblr’s AI 3rd party “partners” to supposedly scrape our posts and content? L O L

BLOG SETTINGS -> VISIBILITY -> ENABLE “PREVENT 3RD PARTY SHARING��

If you’re on mobile *you must first update the tumblr app*

THIS MUST BE DONE FOR EVERY INDIVIDUAL PUBLIC BLOG YOU HAVE

[girlbloggen]

༄ " faith, love, hope " italian bracelet charms [cred: @petalsinfall ]

[needycatboy]

it would be so nice if i had my hands bound behind my back. a collar around my neck. hickies trailing up my body. a dom above me while i wait patiently on my knees, a lit candle in his hand.

[novy2sirius]

Hey babe,

What placements, aspects or degrees in your natal chart can indicate getting fame from your beauty?

The main indications of fame from your beauty

— personally from what i’ve seen it’s mostly venusian, martian, and neptunian energy which also makes sense astrologically speaking

the most common ones i’ve seen

• | aries/taurus/libra/pisces sun

• | sun in 1h/7h

• | aries/taurus/leo/libra/pisces ascendant

• | aries/taurus/libra/pisces midheaven

• | black moon lilith in 1h

• | lots of 1°/5°/9°/25° in chart (especially if it’s the sun/venus/neptune)

placements

• | sun in 1h/2h/7h/12h

• | aries/taurus/libra/pisces midheaven

• | aries/taurus/libra/pisces ascendant

• | venus/mars/neptune in the 1h/5h/10h

• | aries/leo/pisces venus

• | chart ruler in aries/taurus/libra/pisces

• | chart ruler in 1h/10h/11h

aspects

• | mars/venus/neptune to sun

• | mars/venus/neptune to midheaven

• | mars/venus/neptune to ascendant

• | venus to neptune

• | venus to mars

degrees

— in my personal opinion i think the numerology degrees are more accurate but it’s up to personal interpretation

• | aries degrees (1°/13°/25°)

• | taurus degrees (2°/14°/26°)

• | libra degrees (7°/19°)

• | pisces degrees (12°/24°)

• | 1°/10° - according to numerology

• | 5°/14°/23° - according to numerology

• | 9°/18°/27° - according to numerology

other

• | black moon lilith in 1h/7h/10h

• | venus/mars/neptune dominant

• | aries/taurus/libra/pisces dominant

• | born under the goat/tiger/dragon vietnamese zodiac

• | born on a tuesday or friday

astrology behind this

• | sun = how we can gain fame

• | venus = beauty/attractiveness

• | mars = sex appeal (which most models have)

• | neptune = higher octave of venus/ethereal beauty

• | ascendant = what we’re known for in general

• | 2h = face (some astrologers disagree)

• | 7h = attractiveness

• | 10h = fame/what we’re known by the public for

• | 12h = ethereal beauty

• | lilith = related to sex appeal

honorable mentions

• | moon/pluto in the 1h/10h

• | sun/moon/uranus dominance

• | aphrodite asteroid in 10h/12h - code: 1388

• | poseidon asteroid in 10h/12h - code: 4341

• | leo/pisces aphrodite asteroid

• | leo/pisces poseidon asteroid

- novy2sirius - plz don’t copy me word for word

[arc-hus]

Maison de Verre, Paris - Bernard Bijvoet & Pierre Chareau

[devsgames]

I'm sorry but for people who cheer on mass game industry layoffs because they think it's some kind of upheaval that is going to "topple the AAA industry" or "teach them a lesson": I hate to break it to you but AAA studios have a metric shitload of money and despite what their press releases say, they really aren't hurting as much as they'd have you think right now. Thousands of jobs lost is a temporary setback to them; if it was actually a last resort move they wouldn't have all simultaneously put themselves in a position where they had to do it in the first place. These studios have been around for decades and will continue to be around, and they will continue to operate just as they have for the last thirty years because they have huge vaults and no morals. They aren't learning a lesson from this because most of them saw it coming but would never admit that.

Know who is being permanently impacted by games layoffs?

It's the indie studio making sick ass games you'll never get to play because they laid everyone off when a publisher tried to save money by pulling all their funding. The hundreds of workers who woke up one morning and found out they suddenly have no job to put food on the table for their children. The international workers who were let go from the job that supplies their visa that helps them stay in the country. The thousands of students who now have to compete over a pool of a dozen job openings, who will work in studios where all the senior staff and leadership who would normally be there to help mentor them into their roles were fired. The disabled workers who now no longer have health or insurance coverage for their survival. The workers who didn't get laid off but survived to see all their friends and coworkers lose their livelihoods for completely arbitrary reasons and whose morale has all but been completely obliterated. The workers in the Global South working for outsourcing companies who were relying on cancelled projects from AAA studios to put food on their tables.

So whenever you're inclined to assume that the suffering of workers is somehow teaching rich people a lesson, remember that no, it doesn't actually and almost never will. All it does is teach thousands of talented workers in the video game industry that games were never - and will never - be worth it.

[anghraine]

While I'm on my disruptive Tolkien opinions kick:

Yes, obviously, he was a conservative Catholic and this was really important to his understanding of the world and pervades his work and so on and so forth.

But I'm a bit "..." about reducing everything he thought and felt about the world to that. Like, yeah, there's a tradition of conservative pastoralism that meant the context of his environmental opinions was not inherently progressive in the way it can mistakenly seem in 2024. Do I think he was Like That about trees because of conservative pastoralism, or his Catholicism, or that the particular form taken by his TREES TREES TREES #OLDMANWILLOWDIDNOTHINGWRONG TREEEEEEEEES ethos much resembles most of his contemporaries' feelings?

Not really.

I mean, he would never have said it, but I kind of doubt whether his very sincere and deeply felt veneration of the actual figures of his religion was truly comparable to how he felt about things like That One Oak on the Corner That I Liked Got Chopped Down by Evildoers. I've read other conservative British writers of this era who have their own forms of pastoralism and most of them are way less intense about it. I truly don't think Tolkien loved trees the way he did Because Catholicism or whatnot. I genuinely think he just really loved trees.

Basically, I can imagine some alternate universe in which alternate Tolkien ends up with really different beliefs about religion, about politics, about all sorts of things. But I can absolutely not imagine a universe in which any version of Tolkien did not take the part of trees against all their enemies.

[honeycakelion]

my favorite type of tags is "not [something this user is obsessed about and dedicated a blog to]".

today one of my drawings was reblogged with a "not industrial machinery" tag. blows you a kiss. i love you

[a113cowgirl]

A major player in the production of the Cars Franchise, especially as Lightning McQueen’s lead animator in Cars 3, Cat Hicks, has unfortunately been laid off after 15+ years of service at Pixar.

This week’s devastating layoffs at Pixar are yet another symptom of chaos and uncertainty in the animation industry. Many of those familiar with it, myself included, agree that this is the worst state the industry has ever been in in its history… due to corporate greed, and profit-over-creativity.

Please be vocal in your support for animators and creatives. It’s likely going to get a lot worse before it gets better.

[modelsof-color]

not saying to throw shade at the model ( I won't credit them for this exact reason) it's a simple question : is this wig helping the model to tell a story? NO ! it's just there

( this editorial don't even have a concept plus look terrible)

the only reason the wig is there it's cause they consider the afro textured hair a fashion element just like clothes ,bags and shoes . it is what it is

many black models , facing this tremendous amount of concern and apprehension about it... ( wearing wigs or box braids bc hairstylists dont do black hair at fashion shows )

it's fucking 2024 , you got countless black models out there willing to empower others by proudly showing their natural hair

so what is the excuse???

I don't even like when people say " it's a magazine no one cares about magazine nowadays" no baby , it's on internet, Once you post a picture online it is public forever.

[phasmotid]

eric choosing to dress as king henry VIII on the children's charity day is of course extremely funny ("it's for the kids," holding a decapitated head) but also the obvious implications of this are killing me.

DVD's quote from season 2: "He gets validated by the idea of creating people in his image. Until they become him, but younger. And he can't fucking live with it." and this episode's "I used to see what my daughters could become and achieve in every successful young woman I came across. / Now you wanna come across every successful young woman?" All of his relationships he's killed for these simple crimes. Daria, DVD, Kenny, Harper, and now Rob and Yasmin underway... something sooo sinister going on here. His siblingchildwives. But it makes sense, if this is all you're taught. Eric has been at Pierpoint his whole life. Which is rare, seeing how many of our core intern cast we've lost along the seasons. Killing opposition must be the only way he learned to survive. It makes me wonder how his relationship with his mentor, Newman, was. It makes me wonder how it ended, as well.

Also with Yasmin dressing herself as Diana -- all these costumes are related to these characters' perceptions of themselves or who they'd rather be. It's so interesting to push that Eric is aware of this pattern? He's a character with historically a strange amount of emotional awareness in this job and in comparison with Harper, though he has a shield up against this, which is beginning to falter post-divorce, and the evilness he's learned from Pierpoint is becoming all there is to him

[aesthetic-otd]

Today's aesthetic is industrial

[arc-hus]

AB House, Barwon Heads, Australia - Office MI-JI

[is-the-bug-video-cute]

Please appreciate these gay beetles I found in a 1986 paper