southsamurai

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This southern man approves wholeheartedly

Jfc, I love that song. Pure fucking absurdity in musical form

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Alas, he's had a rough road health wise (looked him up because not in the mood for a video). Brain cancer in the nineties, a stroke in 2005. I hadn't really thought to look him up before, despite being a fan.

The stroke essentially ended his on camera and stunt/fight coordinator career. What little I could find shows him mostly doing conventions and advocating for stunt professionals.

Dude is fucking legendary though, if you have more than a passive interest in action and martial arts movies. On and off camera, he was a mainstay. Pretty much had a hand in choreographing at least a little of the fights in every movie he was in afaik.

Him and Bolo Yeung were (imo) two best known action stars that nobody could name. You remembered them, and there was nobody else really like them, but since they weren't the stars, it would take multiple movies before you remembered their names.

Consciousness is the echoes of the universe's birth scream bouncing off of each other

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 13 points 5 days ago

I kinda get wanting a restricted space for privacy, but unisex bathrooms with multiple stalls exist. The key is making them peek proof and reasonably secure. Once that's out of the way, the difference between a line inside the bathroom and one outside it becomes moot. At that point, it really isn't about having privacy any more since a public restroom is inherently impossible to make fully privacy centric what with sound proofing being cost prohibitive.

If anything, it would be better to have the same space set up unisex (or unigender if you prefer) since it would cost less to make the now bigger bathroom, and improve some of the waiting times for a place to excrete. Well, with the flaw that you would lose the availability of urinals in the real world, so that would end up being a major drawback for space and use management. Point still remains that public restrooms don't have to be segregated to be safe and useful.

Of course, at least under normal circumstances.

Like humans or wild animals, a pet is going to have their full sensory array available. Even a blind and deaf animal can pick up vibrations as someone approaches then, feel changes in air movement, etc.

Since hands are different sizes, even if they were asleep at the moment of contact, it wouldn't take long to figure out whose hand was on them. Obviously , that might be negated if the hands are similar enough, but I would suspect that even then the differences in how a person pets them would be useful.

You could likely create a situation to bypass everything and "fool" a pet, but that's what you'd have to do.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Jfc, that's a wild fucking rabbit hole

Oh damn! That was a fun ride lol

I've ordered my atlatl, now who's going to sell me their rpg?

Ngl, I had to look stuff up to get this meme.

And it was depressing to find it accurate

This is the first I'd heard of skype a scientist, but holy shit am I in love with the project. Fucking brilliant!

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 20 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The "wook" thing? What is that, a typo?

 

Like kickstart my heart, it's about adrenaline and speed

 

So, I only recently started my first run through. Didn't give a flying fig about the romance stuff, it was just something to click through to get back to story and combat.

Annnnd then act 3 hits, and Lae'zel wants to talk one morning and gives a dialogue that actually brought a tear to my eye. Ffs, she's one of the least likable characters at the beginning of the game. More an annoyance than anything else, story wise.

And then she rejects her queen, finds love and there's this beautiful moment. Definitely not the writing I expected for her, but damned if it didn't work.

Makes me want to actually pay attention to the romance arcs now, see what the rest are like.

 

Ahhh, that sweet, sweet Viking brutality.

 

Not that anyone but other comic geeks are likely to care, but I knew from one thing that the show would flop.

This one thing showed very clearly that it was a show being pushed by executives that didn't understand the source material in the hopes of wringing an little cash out of the Inhumans since the X-Men were out of the running. At the time, that was Marvel's big push, to make the Inhumans popular so that they could take the place of the X-Men in fandom. Which was doomed to fail to begin with just like the show.

But, that one thing. Medusa. The second she was bald, it was obvious that the entire show was half-assed. Making her hair, the super power she has, disappear could be a decision made only by someone that didn't want to spend money on the character.

Which showed blatantly that the show would be low quality in every other way too. If you aren't willing to invest in your main characters, any show is fucked from day one. Anyone trying to make an Inhumans show, seeing Medusa and thinking "Damn, that hair is going to be a major CGI expense. I know! Lets shave the hair off! That'll fix it!" Is about as uncreative and stupid as it gets, and needed to find a job outside of tv and movies.

It's a freaking super-being show. And they went out of their way to make said beings as un-super as possible.

At some point in that process, someone with some authority didn't just scrap out as a bad idea and wasted a shit ton of money and time. It was doomed before it ever got the first scene filmed because the people running it were idiots

 

Yet again they manage to surprise the hell out of me

 

Not a typo, not a mistake, just a perfect cover

 

Do they ever release anything that isn't balls out excellent?

 

So, there's this video all about evolution and our growing understanding of flight and feathers.

Me? I'm watching it going "oh, who's a cute little chicken?" And "awwww, baby birdy!"

I'm a fucking chicken simp now.

 

I freaking love that they do videos like this on top of very enjoyable music

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