#this is fascinating to me

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

the thing about Dune 2 is that it made my mom deeply, genuinely angry for fascinating reasons, the worldbuilding and plotline and historical significance of the story gives me chills, but the only two characters I actively cared about both die in the first film and so who do I have to care about?

[yvain]

In 1975, Ursula Le Guin published a paper, “The Child and the Shadow,” that addresses children’s capacity for darkness within themselves and the function of fantasy stories. One of her main points was that while critics often read fantasy in terms of good versus evil, these forces are really opposite instincts, parts of a single character split in two—Gollum and Smeagol, the Elves and the Orcs. And kids are less tainted by the psychic effects of this darkness, she said, quoting Jolande Jacobi: “A child has no real shadow, but his shadow becomes more pronounced as his ego grows in stability and range.” We reckon with our shadows in middle-age, according to the literature of psychoanalysis, a time when we may find ourselves ensconced in the children’s literature scene. Picture a middle-aged author wrestling their own existential fear of death while writing a bedtime story about bunnies: Writing good children’s fiction as an adult is hard. “It’s hard not to get entangled in the collective consciousness, in simplistic moralism, in projections of various kinds, so that you end up with your baddies and goodies all over again,” wrote Le Guin. We toggle between confronting children with the reality of the world (note the bleak realm of climate fiction for young readers) and with blanketing them in fluffy chickens. “The young creature does need projection. But it also needs the truth,” LeGuin wrote.

[moonlitdark]

The Guardian (03 /31 /2017)

Jamie Campbell Bower as Christopher Marlowe (Will 2017) (x)

[bioshockblueprint]

BioShock Infinite Observatory cut content

Here we can take a look at a super early stage blockout of an observatory environment within a snowy mountain. It is accesed through the ending sequence where Elizabeth takes Booker through the infinite universes.

We can see the same skybox that is used during the rocket sequence and in some places in Columbia when the ground below is visible. Perhaps the sky would have been used and the ground hidden or this was simply a place holder.

I can't be certain but given how early in development this scene seems to be, i'll wager a guess that those rocks are the same used for the lighthouse at the beginning of the game but they have a snow texture on. I assume it's using a texture based on the ambient occlusion of the mesh. Another less likely option would be vertex painting or mesh proximity based texture but it's also possible that this is a completely unique repeating texture for the rocks.

There is a snow storm wind effect applied in key places in the scene. It has a very simple rolling texture with an offset and panner applied to make it appear like it's rolling over the stones. It's intensity is increased at a bridge that is facing the observatory where the player character has to go across to reach the building.

The bridge, I believe, is made of the same jetty and wooden fence that surrounds the lighthouse at the beginning of the game. A clever way to reuse asset for concept proofing.

Finally, the observatory is super simple, a white cylinder and sphere on top with an untextured door which crashes the game if interacted with.

[butchdonne]

i was the cheese & nutella ask. we are enemies in all things food

i want to study you like a scientific specimen.

[crusheswhimsandfancies]

[ensnchekov-a]

I WRITE LIKE

Arthur Clarke ⸺ 2001: A Space Odyssey Leo Tolstoy ⸺ The Death of Ivan Illych, War and Peace

tagging: i can't tag the entire dash but please, please do this and tag me

[goldensunset]

did you know? if you do your laundry you can get your clothes back

[notherpuppet]

How the old timey prick got his pet

[smallphoenix13]

every single word of this feels like it was pulled out of a bingo machine

[enixamyram]

I'm so fascinated with the background posters in Vee tower.

(Didn't include the ones in Val's room. Those ones make me super uncomfortable! XD Plus I do not want "sexy" Val pictures saved onto my computer for even a moment!)

[forecast0ctopus]

concussion does not negate bitchiness…..this must be known

[purgetrooperfox]

surely this says something about something. rb for reach and if you didn't romance anyone gg sorry I ran out of space. if you play bg3 I have one of these for that too

[pizzaronipasta]

neat

[rqg179]

the way brennan lee mulligan plays single mothers needs to be studied because i have been thinking about the delivery of "maybe we could bump up the priority on de-cursing the old ... my only daughter in the world" for 4 days now

[marzipanandminutiae]

quotes by Victorians about the 1920s view of their generation's women

"We are frequently told that the Victorian woman...generally behaved like a pampered and neurotic infant. This is all moonshine. I do not think that I ever saw a woman faint before I came to London in 1869, and not often after then...they enjoyed a hearty laugh, and a good many of them a contest of wits with any man." -Nineteenth Century, a Monthly Review, 1927 (written by a man born in 1850)

"What queer ideas the girl of 1929 has about the Victorian period- they are not a bit true...Marriage was by no means the end and aim of our existence. Oxford and Cambridge claimed quite a few of us after school days were over. We had great ideas about 'life' and what it all might mean to us." -St. Petersburg Times, 1929 (written by a woman born in 1853)

"True, debutantes were chaperoned at balls. But that fact did not prevent them from dancing as frequently as they chose with their favorite partners. The idea that girls in the Victorian era spent their days sewing seams and practicing scales is another fallacy." -Gettysburg Times, July 1, 1927 (quote from the Dowager Lady Raglan, Ethel Jemima Somerset, who lived from 1857 to 1940)