every time I think about Dilbert I think about this comic and how the question being asked is Not Stupid and its answer is genuinely interesting and arguably very important information anyone using a computer should know
For decades, Greebles have been used as stimuli in psychological studies testing the brain’s facial recognition process. Greebles come in five families (Samar, Galli, Osmit, Radok and Tasio) and two genders (plok and glip).
Though nobody is sure where they come from or how they survive, science owes these odd creatures an enormous debt.
Greebles can vary quite a lot within their established parameters!
Greebles have no face, no eyes, no mouth, no hands. Do not be fooled by our constrained view of organisms! Greebles merely have two boges, one quiff and one dunth. Please remember these terms!
There is a second breed of Greebles, though they are less common. These ones are asymmetrical, and have one boge and quiff next to each other, and two dunths. They’re like the cursed mutated siblings of Greebles, and they are pitied by all.
If you make a greeblesona, please post it as a reblog or otherwise tag me so I don’t miss it! (also tag as #greeblesona)
Guys I made my greeblesona, glips name is Zobo.
Glip has experienced violence at the dunths of another greeble and has been scarred by it. But Zobo lives and thrives off of pure spite. Zobo is stronger.
Now, close your eyes, concentrate on the face recognition area of your brain and visualise your mind greeble. Draw it. Only your hand can pull it out if the cruel clutches of your fusiform gyrus.
this is gwep. it knows only spite and whimsy. i love it in the same way you’d love a diseased and violent stray chihuahua- with both gross fascination and vague pity. I will never draw it again but that’s ok. releasing it into the world.
now go. be free. draw a fucked up greeble
Hello Gwep! I love you Gwep
This is geenp
They got bullied in school for looking weird
Hello Geenp! Everyone say hi to Geenp and be nice to plok
I love animation history and one of the things that always baffled me was how did animators draw the cars in 101 Dalmatians before the advent of computer graphics?
Any rigid solid object is extremely challenging for 2D artists to animate because if one stray line isn’t kept perfectly in check, the object will seem to wobble and shift unnaturally.
Even as early as the mid 80’s Disney was using a technique where they would animate a 3D object and then apply a 2D filter to it. This practice could be applied to any solid object a character interacts with: from lanterns a character is holding, to a book (like in Atlantis), or in the most extreme cases Cybernetic parts (like in Treasure Planet).
But 101 Dalmatians was made WAY before the advent of this technology. So how did they do the Cruella car chase sequence at the end of the film?
The answer is so simple I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me sooner:
They just BUILT the models and painted them white with black outlines ????
That was the trick. They’re not actually 2D animated, they’re stop motion. They were physical models painted white and filmed on a white background. The black outlines become the lineart lines and they just xeroxed the frame onto an animation cel and painted it like any other 2D animated frame.
That’s how they did it! Isn’t that amazing? It’s such a simple low tech solution but it looks so cool in the final product.
Hey! Can anyone plz tell me what font is this?? My friend uses it on their display name on TikTok and I like it-
This font -> ????????????
I really wanna use it on my toyhouse profile so bad but Google isn’t helping me find it so.. I have to turn to Tumblr for help.
It’s not actually a font.
Normal characters change appearance depending on what font you display them in. The characters “abcde” could look like anything – though if you’re viewing this on Tumblr, it’s probably using Tumblr’s custom font, Favorit-Tumblr.
“????????????????????” are special characters that always look like that no matter what font the rest of the text is in. (They’re kind of like emojis in that way.) These characters are only intended to be used as mathematical symbols, specifically for Lie algebras*.
You’re not supposed to use characters like “????????????????????” to spell words, because it messes with screen readers and with searching. Software doesn’t recognize “????????????????????” as letters, only as mathematical symbols.
The style that the characters are in is called Fraktur. There’s a lot of different Fraktur fonts available which display the characters of the regular alphabet in Fraktur style, in a way that doesn’t mess with screen readers. UnifrakturMaguntia is a free one.
Unfortunately many apps/websites (including Tumblr) don’t let you choose your own fonts, which is why people resort to misusing mathematical symbols to get their text to look a certain way instead.
You can see the Unicode charts for a complete list of mathematical symbols, including other styles besides Fraktur.
People: I know that you want tattoos but you shouldn’t get them as soon as you’re eighteen!! You need to be sure that you’ll still want them when you’re grown up!!!! You might like a tattoo now but you can’t be sure you’ll still like it in your forties or fifties!!!!!!!!
Me, a person who has trouble visualising the future and literally cannot imagine themself living past about 25: okay…
Hey op did you ever get the tattoo? Do you still like it?
Fuck this is a wild one to see again, especially as someone now about 3 weeks away from officially making it past 25:
– I remember 2016 as being the worst year of my fucking life, in ways it’s gonna be hard to beat and the universe better not fuckin try
– since 2016, I’ve gotten a degree in a field that I love, been in a toxic relationship, had a toxic relationship end, been in a kind but ultimately not what we wanted relationship, had that end too, been single for a while, learned I’m trans, started hrt, gotten in a different lovely proudly queer relationship which I’m very happy in, made friends, lost friends, mourned friends, made new friends, gotten a job I liked, made manager, quit, got another job that lets me do a bit of good in the world, gotten top surgery, travelled, swam shirtless in the warm sea, written half a dozen zines and a poetry chapbook, performed poetry, accepted I’m probably never gonna make a career out of poetry alone, gone on and off and on again various mental health treatments and hopeful that this one will stick for as long as it needs to, walked probably a thousand or more cumulative miles wearing through the soles of half a dozen or more boots, laughed, cried, rested, collapsed from fatigue, crawled back out again
– if I could reach back to the kid making this post… buddy, I’m not gonna say it’ll all be alright, because that’s pat and trite and diminishes the very real struggles of growing. But we cut our hair and change our name and grow a beard and we’re not Quite out of the shitty little hometown but we’re getting there. I think you’d like the jumper I’m wearing. I saw mcr live and I know you’d kill me with jealousy for it. I took you with me, as much as I could. I still think you’ve got great taste in movies, and I’ve got some new recs for you.
– I now have 4 tattoos! None of them are the ones I thought I’d have, but that’s okay. The first one is not an art style I’d choose today but the design holds a ton of meaning for me, and always will, and I don’t regret it. The other 3 are a more cohesive art style – maybe I could have changed the placement or tweaked some details, but I don’t need to, they’re part of me now and they’re beautiful for it. I’m excited to get more and to live long enough to reflect on them like this again and again and again
– 25 felt impossibly old to you. Right now it feels both impossibly old and impossibly young. I’m glad I got to see what it brought me, even the shit parts
– I’ll put aside a slice of cake next month in your honour
I’m glad I asked. I’m glad you’ve made it this far. I hope we both make it another 10 years and it keeps being worth it.
at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, “hm, this doesn’t look thick enough. maybe i’ll let it go for another 10 minutes.” this is the devil speaking. it’s only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you
at some point in your life you will be making a sauce or a stew in which you need to add cornstarch to thicken it. and you will prepare a slurry of starch in cold water and think “this looks like way too little starch to thicken this amount of liquid.” this is the devil speaking. cornstarch instantly polymerizes at 95°C and if you add too much it will turn into an impossibly thick goop.
it’s crazy that you used to be able to look up specific clips from a tv show on youtube. now regardless of your search terms you get 6 unrelated promo reels from the show’s official account, 6 unrelated clips of literally anything else youtube thinks you might click on, 6 unrelated promo reels from the network’s official account, 6 more completely arbitrary recommendations, 6 show trailers and publicity videos of the actors by content mills called ‘pop glutton’ and ‘comedy chunk’ and finally raw gameplay footage of a mobile freemium slots game and a video essay called Liberals Can’t Belive It: 10 Times Hitler Was Shockingly Woke
you know the internet is dying when you can’t even search glup shitto funniest moments and find a single relevant result
our data wizards crunched the numbers, and they discovered something truly incredible: users spend up to 10x longer on the website when they can’t find what the fuck they came looking for
you joke but this is literally what google realised and changed with google search and youtube.
profit projections looked like it wasn’t going to be infinite growth for a quarter, and so the head of ads ousted one of the founders and implemented drastic measures to increase search queries. these measures were: making their services worse. this is NOT an exaggeration. it’s actually crazy how anti-consumer google is as a company now.
The blogpost linked above is made by Ed Zitron, who is a tech writer and pr specialist. The blogpost itself sources and links to emails released as part of court records, hosted on justice.gov. I have read these emails, and in my opinion the blogpost explains these correctly.
Do read the article, and maybe even the emails as well though they are formatted in a way which makes them harder to follow (chronologically bottom-up with no visible distinction between adress line and body).
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