Enormous and Terrifying

Good for them

The lens flare in the top shot makes Billy look like an anime villain.

started my leverage rewatch and never has a pilot episode piloted so hard. it genuinely feels like walking into a room of old friends you haven't seen in about a year. they work alone, they always work alone. parker? she's insane. what're you gonna do when she finds out you live with your mom? age of the geek, baby! twenty pounds of crazy in a five pound bag. boys are on their way. what is it that you do? that's what i do. are we gonna talk about how hard we rocked last night? one show only, no encores. it was kinda cool being on the same side for once. i don't like guns. my money is not in my account that makes me cry inside in my special angry place. eleventy million dollars. that's a computer thing i told her to say that. so this time you really are inside my head. i'm just very good at what i do. somebody kiss this man so i don't have to (🤨). bad guys have money. we work on an alternative revenue stream. we provide... leverage

It's also interesting what didn't make it across from the pilot. Parker gets less scary and Eliot gets scarier; Hardison relaxes a bit from cold/haughty geek to easy confidence; Sophie turns down the ravening thirst for Nate just a tiny bit.

Also, the pilot is extremely Shot In Chicago. If memory serves the bulk of S1 was shot in LA, and the rest in Portland.

one of my fav AI interior tells is when there's stuff that's not by any means impossible but is just like, not something a human being would ever do.

for example: bowl of lemons on the stove

there's also a lot of images w weird little loft bed set ups and occasionally you'll get one where the AI has got very confused about how stairs work:

A lotta people mentioning the stove tap up there. I agree that the AI has got confused but stove faucets are real!!

It's called a pot filler. They seem to be universally of the adjustable/extendable variety and don't look like what the AI has produced.

They are expensive, seem to be of limited usefulness, and I have no idea what happens if it breaks and you can't get it to turn off lmao

I really hope they don't put them above GAS stoves though.

New theory: AI is trying to kill us by convincing us its design ideas are normal and safe.

Like a cunning, evil toddler that thinks it can fool us.

Rip they go above all kinds of stoves :(

I do regret to inform you that random bowls of lemons are very much a thing used in staging, including on stoves to cover/hide stuff. But all of the above is very good.

My favorite tell is how badly AI mangles text and any other pattern (note both the text on the oven in the first image and the grates on the second). It's also extremely bad at analog clocks (these are all for the same reason it is famously bad at fingers and teeth - like the toddler trying to spell "banana.")

Academics and students of Tumblr:

I present you with an academic source from 2016.

Reblog with the field you're in!

One of the fun things about working in IP law is that we have to revisit supposedly settled law when new modes of communication, commerce, or manufacture come around. You regularly see cases where the meaningful cite chain goes 202x->199x->191x (give or take a decade), because every opinion in between just quotes the earlier one in the chain and treats the issue as resolved.

on the one hand, tumblr, i do need to congratulate you for getting a single ad correct, instead of just constantly giving me ads about weight loss or magic spells (neither of which i believe in)

however. on the other hand.

if theres ONE PRODUCT you don't need to advertise to ME of all people

its magic the gathering

AS IF I WOULDN'T ALREADY KNOW ABOUT MY OWN DAUGHTER

Foundations is, as a Core Set, "out of time," narratively. So, unfortunately, this is not evidence she's gotten better. Though, given the givens, getting better remains a possibility if we ever go back to (New) Capenna.

In hindsight it's very insulting to be told that flunking out of college due to adhd is actually "quite common"

just like, if there's a history at your institution of disabled kids not being able to make it you realise that's your fault right. like why don't you fucking do something about it. i guess they tried to do something about it with me and it failed so they let me go. crazy. nice work. why should we try to do any better.

only 5% of people with adhd who go to college finish a degree. FUCKING. FIVE!!! PERCENT!!!!!!!!!!!

that should disgust and enrage you.

if any other demographic of students had a 95% failure rate, we would be demanding reform and studies to understand why that’s happening

when i was at my first university, trying to get accommodations for my ADHD, they just kept asking me what accommodations i wanted, and refused to answer when i would ask what was available to me. how the Hell am i supposed to know what i can have? what’s available???? also, i don’t know!!!! i’m an adhd sufferer, not a fucking disability expert for the fucking college, unlike you, DISABILITY EXPERT WHO WORKS FOR THE COLLEGE.

but because the us is OBSESSED with making sure no one gets anything “”for free””, she literally would not tell me what my options were until i broke down in tears and asked her why she was refusing to help me. and then she did a big sigh, like i was fucking up her entire career by *checks notes* asking the disability center in my university to help me, a disabled student

at the second uni i went to, i tried to explain to a dean that i was literally two gen eds that had nothing to do with my degree away from graduating and that i was burnt out and broke and exhausted and suicidal and i just needed to be able to finish my degree without the gen eds. and this. fucking. guy. looked me right in my face and said in the most patronizing tone he could muster “if you can’t handle it, then maybe college just isn’t for you.” keep in mind that up until that semester, i had been an honor student who made Dean’s List every semester and didn’t get below Bs. if it hadn’t been for my mental breakdown, i would have graduated cum laude, maybe even summa cum laude.

but this dean of students looked a disabled person right in the face and said well i guess you just can’t do it, short bus

Pulled these from a couple articles really quick but yeah the statistics are not kind. I remember writing a scathing essay about my issues with ADHD and college as part of an assignment for academic probation. I got back an email calling me entitled and lazy. Somehow, this thread helps me feel a lot better. I still have about a semester of school unfinished that I’m unsure if I’ll finish but… yeah. Makes me feel better to know it’s not just me.

I never took time off from college, because I knew if I did, it would be a decade before I got my degree. I'm frankly shook to learn this statistic because holy shit.

I knew there was a demographic of AFAB ADHDers whose lives fall apart after college because all the externally imposed structures keeping them on-track disappear after graduation. But that 95% of all people with ADHD drop out? Fuck.

I'm deeply, deeply skeptical of that number, actually, because of the number of people I know who were diagnosed with ADHD in their 30s and 40s (myself included) who managed not just college but advanced degrees as well. I'm guessing it's based on students who were diagnosed before going to college (or during it), the ones most severely impacted by ADHD and least supported by the school system before that. I don't have academic research access to look up Hechtman et al; but I'm certain their methodology didn't involve tracking down the sizable percentage of college graduates who didn't know they had ADHD and just made it through on hard mode.

Or those of us who had it and knew it, but had gotten treatment, so even though College was unmedicated, we had ways to manage it.

Law school and early-career I needed to go back on the meds though.

yes I requested Isolated from the Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines soundtrack to be added to the playlist at my local bdsm dungeon I want to feel like a kindred at The Asylum when I’m getting whipped okay

Hey come to think of it Vampire the Masquerade (or Requiem) LARP would probably be a really solid basis for BDSM. Somebody should get on that, there's gotta be *some* overlap between those interests.

The Vampire: The Masquerade tabletop sessions were overfilled with sign-ups at the kink convention I went to in the spring.

... and thinking about it, I should propose a Vampire orgy next time. That'll get crowds.

"Geeky 90's Teens' Intro to the BDSM Aesthetic Popular Among Those Teens Who Wound Up Kinky Adults."

This is my surprised face.

#there's a name for this!#it's called a ''familect'' and it evolves in every relationship type!#often dropping out of familect elicits the ''are you mad at me?'' response#because it makes your brain think ''something is wrong but I can't put my finger on it''#it's usually the lack of familect use (tags via @deesarrachi)

ok, no joke, i have been googling the wrong things for years apparently, all "an idiolect but like for. a group or a family" looking for what this fucking word is, so thank you

Embarrassing? Nah, just incomprehensible. It's all Darmok and Jalad in this house.

major elements of our present familect:

ghost hunting team that keep a nonbeliever named steve around as an emergency supernatural suppressant

he waits in the car with a walkie talkie while they investigate and if things break bad they call him in. as soon as he enters everything stops floating around/trying to kill the hunters and he rolls his eyes and goes back to the car.

he’s not bluffing. i can’t emphasize that enough. he 100% believes that the hunters calling him in is either a prank, to make him feel useful, or because they’re spookable cowards who panicked when a book fell.

he stays because the money is good and he can play his gameboy in the car.

i fucking love this so much. it’s like having a service animal but instead it’s a guy named steve who owns more cargo shorts than the Gap continuously baffled by why he keeps getting befriended by goths.

"Look, I know he's a bit of a dork, but as long as he's looking directly at me, I can lay out at noon. Do you know how long it's been since I've had a proper tan, Csilos?"

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Funny enough, I was thinking about this a few months back. Everytime we see his adamantium skeleton it has teeth, but his teeth aren’t adamantium.

I also considered maybe his healing factor grows enamel over the teeth.

I was going to say "maybe he has a row of adamantium teeth behind his normal teeth" but I checked and it's not hard to find an image of him with his mouth open at an angle that shows the tops of the teeth.

@schmeatdavidson replied:

Metroidvania which demands that you prove you deserve to play it.

Metroidvania that calls you a bad girl.

This is just Other M, but not terrible.

Re: Black in last:

Honestly, to distinguish from Ixalan, I'd like to see some leaning into the other things pre-history did really well, like Big Weird Bugs.

Big Weird Bugs typal time! Also "screw the square cube law" time--things were bigger then because the makeup of the atmosphere was different.

At high enough oxygen levels, we need to make sure Chandra never goes there.

in case you ever doubted the importance of basic computer opsec, a game freak employee fell for a phishing email today which led to people accessing and releasing over a terabyte of confidential data spanning over 20 years, including but not limited to prototype pokemon designs, concept art, design documents, photos taken on company location scouting trips, and the source code for multiple games

oh, and he used his work email to sign up for multiple porn sites

Location scouting? They did location scouting for the game about little cartoon animals beating each other up?

Famously! Every gen after the first couple (based on Japanese islands) they went and did location research for the locale the new region is riffing on. So, yes. B&W included a trip to NYC, X&Y to France, etc.

Everyone gives Sherlock Holmes a hard time about being mean about Watson's writing, but honestly imagine you told your roommate "sure, you can write up an account of my work for the newspaper," thinking it would be like, about the murder, but then he publishes it and it's 90% about you, as a person, and it's a huge hit and now everyone in London knows that you hoard newspapers and do cocoaine when you're depressed. Because I think you'd be little miffed too.

people are so hard on him but the poor man lives with an influencer who shoots two vlogs a day

I love Elementary and kind of liked BBCLock before it went so aggressively off the rails, but this is the most brilliant idea I've ever heard.

"hey everybody it's your boy, Doc W, here with the afternoon update on You-Know-Who"

("Sherl," as he's called, can be seen intermittently behind Watson's head as he paces back and forth.)

"Not much today, but you'll never guess who didn't know the earth orbits the sun."

Offscreen, Sherl can be heard shouting "it's simply not relevant! I'm quite familiar with the dynamics of the Earth-Moon system, as the position of various satellites and their transit of the moon has proven relevant in a number of cases.."

(Watson makes the blah-blah-blah motion with his free hand, and adjusts his phone so Sherl is in frame over his shoulder.)

"...and, should any crime ever occur beyond circumlunar space I shall promptly acquaint myself with the entire system, without the need for any pronouncement about your mother's luncheon-table!"

"Anyway folks, we're off to dinner, don't forget tomorrow is the subathon and show-and-tell from his coat closet. Content warning: BONES! Cya!"

Where are my "harley quinn and two face split color gang" posts