Passing reminder that Goro Miyazaki is an architect who never wanted to make movies. He was brought on as an architecture advisor, and the studio kept pushing him to take more and more responsibility because he’s his father’s son, and his father encouraged it. The movie sucks because he’s not a director and he didn’t want to make it.
(Side note: I actually rather like Tales from Earthsea, so when I say it sucks I’m referring to general public reception and not my own opinion.)
To be fair though, speaking as a fan of toki pona, it’s important to point out that it is far from a list of essential words, it’s intentionally not designed to be able to communicate a majority of essential concepts clearly. It’s designed to be able to communicate simple, positive concepts easily, but to require thought and ambiguity to communicate negative or complex concepts. It’s literally meant to make you have to think more positively.
Radiate, recognize one silent call
I like how your pronouns are “equipped”. Got you a pocket full of pronouns. DOn’t you drop them, or nobody will be allowed to talk about you!
And if you shave your head, you don’t have to brush your hair.
There are people in PR thread explaining it’s a reference to this screenshot. Which is fake, for the record.
“I am annoyed when people correct me for using casual language. Doing so is stupid. Language isn’t static. The purpose of language is to be understood, so as long as you understood me, I did it ‘correctly’. Here is an analogy using plants.”
I translate:
be a biologist
research clovers
everyone says “clovers have 3 leaves”
its a law of nature
go outside
find 4-leaf clover
i better take it to court for violating laws of nature
This is obviously stupid. Discovering something that violates a descriptive ‘law’ means the law was wrong. And yet, people do this in conversation all the time.
Sometimes casual conversation begins with a “But”. E.g., someone might say “But anyway, have you seen that new movie Oppenheimer?”
Grammar nazis react to this by saying “You can’t say ‘but’ at the start of a sentence if that sentence isn’t a rebuttal of the previous sentence! It’s a law of english!”
‘Laws’ of english are meant to be descriptive, not prescriptive. But alas, we live in a society 😔
I would hazard a guess that
this is just a picture of a “telephone with a handset”, not the specific thing they’re talking about, and
their phone has a removable “hook” that was removed and lost sometime in the past and they’re seeing the slot where it went
The “shoe” is the mount. “Hot” means powered, for things like flashes. “Cold” means unpowered, for things like tripods.
This is adorable
I’ve only known tiny vintage communicator for 5 minutes, but if anything happened to him, I’d torpedo the planet
I mean, yeah, when one party wants to put Jesus in the government, make being gay illegal, and deport nonwhite people, I’m not interested in being friends with anyone who supports that mission statement. I’m intolerant of intolerance.
I am paying a to-my-door delivery service to deliver things, to my door. I shouldn’t have to specify that I expect people to do the entire job and not just the easy part of it. If they don’t want to do the entire job, that too is a conversation for them to have with the company, not me.
Wowww, they have borg cubes! Two kinds! Good consolation prize!
What the heeeey? This looks awesome, where did you get that!
Personally, I’m crippled, so even getting to the front door is a process. If a driver calls me and says I need to come down, I tell them no shot, I paid you to bring it to my door, so either bring it to my door or refund it.
If drivers are not getting paid enough to bring deliveries to people’s doors? That’s a conversation for the drivers to have with the company. The company says they’ll bring it to me, and I expect the service I pay for.
Prison workers are not paid enough to care. If Bernie Madoff says “I’ll give you $20 to not stop me from monopolizing the hot chocolate powder”, well, $20 is $20.
Is it a bit vague?
Ultimately, ray tracing was used for most graphics elements, allowing for more realistic lighting.
[Reviewers cited] its use of ray tracing
Source article: “Ray tracing is so crucial to Teardown that the world goes black if you turn it off”
I think it’s pretty clear, tbh.
Sure is