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curlicuecal:

hopeology:

andreajmars:

hopeology:

thebuttkingpost:

wheel-skellington:

crocutalupus:

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why this dog look like an nvidia tech demo

High spec animal

Oh, I KNOW WHY! Rare video game tech knowledge to the rescue!

Animation of fur is really really hard, it’s effectively trying to animate, in real time, a few billion little strings. Noone can do that. Most consumer gaming computers would just burst into flame so that isn’t something people will do when modeling fur or hair. Instead, what animators and 3D modelers do in order to get around this is they form the fur into many layers of sheets or interlocking flexible bodies. Notice this animal has stiff fur, matted maybe from sweat or water. So when we watch the fur move our eyes and brains notice something we don’t notice on purpose. The fur isn’t moving individually, it’s moving in sheets and flexible bodies. There’s some slight movement and flexing, but it’s not “fur” like our brains want it to be, it’s “fur” in the way that fur is commonly animated! layers and flexible sheets! Also, light angles like this are common in animation to show the light being calculated across the body when it moves, so it looks familiar in the angle of the light too!

BLESS YOU

I don’t think I’ve ever gotten such an excited happy reply to an info dump hehehe

oh cool i found someone explaining the thing

joyfulboi1979:

earthpodd:

tinkdw:

60r3d0m:

made the mistake of reading up about Alexander the Great’s relationship with his best friend Hephaestion and learnt that he was kind of a drama queen because

  • after Hephaestion died, he spent maybe 1.5 billion dollars on his funeral which is a conservative estimate 
  • spent all night weeping over the body until they dragged him away
  • extinguished a light only reserved to signify the death of the king (i.e. himself, Alexander the Great)
  • went to the oracle and petitioned to have Hephaestion granted the status of a god but was denied
  • nine months later, was still planning expensive monuments dedicated to his pal, except then he died, so what can you do
  • people say the only thing that ever defeated Alexander the Great was Hephaestion’s thighs
  • there’s so much more
  • w   o   w

“Best Friend”

History trying to tune down the gay be like “This friendship lasted throughout their lives, and was compared, by others as well as themselves, to that of Achilles and Patroclus.” without realising that’s the gayest comparison they could make.

“Live in” bro

toadprince:

Gamer guy: isn’t it weird that the richer a video game company gets the lower quality their products become? Like, every studio that made good high quality games when they were small now makes shitty boring soulless games only made to appeal to the lowest common denominator? I think feminism is causing this.