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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2019 11:01 pm
by Mechanical Ape
DaikatunaRevengeance wrote:
Sun Jul 07, 2019 4:57 pm
pokemon uranium is a piece of shit game, but i can't help but love daikatuna

a angry fish with a katana on its head named after a famous mess of a game

it's too good for this game
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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2019 4:27 am
by DaikatunaRevengeance
good

Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2019 4:09 pm
by Adiwan
I came to this sudden realization:
Funko Pop figures are today's form of garden gnomes in essence.

Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2019 6:00 pm
by Perrydotto
except worse because you can't even put them in the garden

I mean you can but they will look shittier than even the most kitsch of garden gnomes

Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2019 6:24 pm
by DaikatunaRevengeance
i wonder if they'd melt in the sun

Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2019 6:38 pm
by Pocket
I wish I understood why Funko Pops are even a thing. Like, early on I assumed it was a way to cheap out on the overhead involved in making figurines: Just make one mold, and paint features onto it and you can say it's such-and-such a character even though they're all just identical shapes. But then I actually saw a bunch of them together and realized, no, it's not even that; the molds really are all unique, they actually look like cookie-cutter bobbleheads for aesthetic reasons.

Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2019 7:45 pm
by DaikatunaRevengeance
same

Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2019 7:53 pm
by Perrydotto
they're cheap to make, largely harmless and make a lot of people go "hey I recognize that thing"

plus as far as I've been told it's a thing so inoffensive that you can easily make it an alibi gift or a harmless cubicle decoration

the blandness is part of the appeal

Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2019 3:34 am
by Adiwan
Yeah. That's why I think that they are on the same level of garden gnomes.
They are small and tacky and somewhat ugly and don't provide any real substantial benefit on its environment.
And yet they are produced and get thousands of different looks based on a simple template,
the Funko Pop blocky button-eyed monstrosities, the gnome standard red cap and beard.
And yet they are everywhere and bought by people.

Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2019 4:28 am
by Pocket
I suppose there is one advantage they have over more on-model figurines: You could put any combination of characters from any IPs on the same shelf and they'd look like they belong together.

Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2019 9:15 am
by Logicgate
Every Funko Pop I own (all four of them) is of a real person, and they fit a nice middle space of being a physical object to represent someone I'm a fan of without being a creepy doll.

Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2019 7:50 pm
by Vivianinatoga
THAT ALWAYS FOLLOWS YOU (follows you)
IT'S GOT A BROKEN EYE (broken eye)
THAT'S ALWAYS. OPEN.

Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2019 2:14 pm
by Madeline
I have a Prince Funko Pop, courtesy of my Secret Celestia

That’s my Funko Pop story, thanks for reading

Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2019 10:17 pm
by minty
All I know is the Doraemon Funko is terrifying, and there's about a million cute plastic toys of him. He's probably the easiest thing to make a cute toy of, and YET

Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2019 2:11 pm
by Pocket
"Fuzzy Dice" would be a good name for a furry RPG comic.

Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2019 5:08 pm
by Mr. Big
Does anyone ever see somebody commenting on something, and saying things like "why do the characters have landlines? and why are they doing this? Nobody does this anymore?" and you just wanna shake them and say "Dude, it's just aesthetics. Who cares?"

Or at least repeat the MST3K mantra "It's just a show, don't worry about it"

I dunno. I think I just don't care too much if a story doesn't 100% reflect reality

(and going with the phone example, I've seen cartoons continue to use candlestick phones up until the 1970s; in real life, they went obsolete in the 1930s)

Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2019 5:09 pm
by Mr. Big
Also, I kinda want to draw my characters use rotary phones just because they're visually pleasing. The only reason I draw smartphones is because they're easier to draw than old-school phones.

Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2019 5:22 pm
by SlateSlabrock
Save a file using this mysterious pictogram. What could it represent? Nobody knows.

Image

Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2019 5:29 pm
by Orange Fluffy Sheep
instead of landlines, or phones at all, it's messengers with fatal wounds, who die just after sending their missives.

Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2019 5:45 pm
by diribigal
SlateSlabrock wrote:
Wed Jul 24, 2019 5:22 pm
Save a file using this mysterious pictogram. What could it represent? Nobody knows.

Image
That's clearly a filing cabinet.
"A what?"

Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2019 6:00 pm
by Mr. Big
diribigal wrote:
Wed Jul 24, 2019 5:45 pm
That's clearly a filing cabinet.
"A what?"
Image

Checks out

Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2019 7:00 pm
by Perrydotto
bwaha

Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2019 7:04 pm
by Vivianinatoga
The perfect 15-minute sketch retort

Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2019 4:58 am
by ToastGhost
I thought today that I see on average 3 deer a night since I usually drive about .5 miles at near 1-2 AM when no one is out on the road or anywhere so the deer feel safe to roam.

There's a mom and two fauns that live close, I see them often. :allears:

Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2019 11:51 pm
by Pocket
Pocket wrote:
Fri Aug 31, 2018 4:19 am
I could swear I've already posted this here before but maybe I'm just going mad. Someone ought to invent digital audio and video codecs whose compression artifacts manifest as a grainy picture and scratchy, lo-fi sound, so they'd be ideal for recreating old-timey media. I'm picturing them being used primarily in video games, for stuff like the kinetoscopes in BioShock. Current mainstream compression methods are especially bad at preserving things like film grain or TV snow.
Just thought I'd mention, turns out the emerging AV1 codec has something kind of like this:
Wikipedia wrote:Film grain synthesis (film_grain) improves coding of noisy signals using a parametric video coding approach. Due to the randomness inherent to film grain noise, this signal component is traditionally either very expensive to code or prone to get damaged or lost, possibly leaving serious coding artefacts as residue. This tool circumvents these problems using analysis and synthesis, replacing parts of the signal with a visually similar synthetic texture, based solely on subjective visual impression instead of objective similarity. It removes the grain component from the signal, analyzes its non-random characteristics, and instead transmits only descriptive parameters to the decoder, which adds back a synthetic, pseudorandom noise signal that's shaped after the original component.
Neat. :good:

Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2019 12:24 am
by Bigdog
Do you think that the Imperium of Man has a popular song that's identical to "Tequila" except that the call is "Aquila" instead

Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2019 12:26 pm
by Mr. Big
Jack Kirby once said "comics will break your heart". He wasn't kidding :-I

(EDIT: Just so this post isn't entirely gloomy, you do still need your heart into it to do them, though. Sometimes it's worth enduring it)

Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2019 12:20 am
by Mechanical Ape
You know that trope you see in movies, where a person gets shot by a tranquilizer dart and they keel over, dart sticking out of their neck?

I always get anxious, because what if the person falls on the dart and seriously injures themself? :flutterdear:

Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2019 10:15 pm
by Quanta
Every time I see Factory Factory's avatar, I feel like Scoots is spitting out eggs, like Birdo.

Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2019 6:57 am
by DaikatunaRevengeance
same

Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2019 5:36 pm
by Madeline
I’m watching a Chip & Ironicus LP I remember following when it was new

It’s 9 years old :-I

I’ve finally gotten to the point where I think “everything since 2005 = recent history” so pardon me while I crumble into dust, like a mummy

Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2019 5:55 pm
by Mr. Big
Madeline wrote:
Sun Aug 04, 2019 5:36 pm
I’m watching a Chip & Ironicus LP I remember following when it was new

It’s 9 years old :-I

I’ve finally gotten to the point where I think “everything since 2005 = recent history” so pardon me while I crumble into dust, like a mummy
Same with me. I was shocked when I realized "Chowder" and "Flapjack", both of which I watched religiously when they were airing, are now over a decade old.

Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2019 6:47 pm
by DaikatunaRevengeance
which lp?

Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2019 11:16 pm
by Madeline
DaikatunaRevengeance wrote:
Sun Aug 04, 2019 6:47 pm
which lp?
LEGO Star Wars. Aside from using the r-word a couple of times it’s aged better than I would’ve expected from 2010-era goon content

Chip yelling “I WANT TO MEDITATE AT HIM” during the Darth Maul stage is the highlight for me so far

Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2019 11:17 pm
by Madeline
Mr. Big wrote:
Sun Aug 04, 2019 5:55 pm
Same with me. I was shocked when I realized "Chowder" and "Flapjack", both of which I watched religiously when they were airing, are now over a decade old.
Holy shit, you’re right :starity:

Entropy gets us all in the end

Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2019 3:01 am
by Madeline
Madeline wrote:
Sun Aug 04, 2019 11:16 pm
LEGO Star Wars. Aside from using the r-word a couple of times it’s aged better than I would’ve expected from 2010-era goon content

Chip yelling “I WANT TO MEDITATE AT HIM” during the Darth Maul stage is the highlight for me so far
Update: episode 15 is where it all falls apart, casual homophobia and sexism for humor :notthisshitagain:

Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2019 3:06 am
by DaikatunaRevengeance
oh no

Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2019 9:42 pm
by Orange Fluffy Sheep
I don't think I did things like that








did I?

Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2019 5:08 pm
by DaikatunaRevengeance
there's something deeply ironic about reading a article on add and getting distracted by something else

Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2019 11:44 pm
by Madeline
Orange Fluffy Sheep wrote:
Mon Aug 05, 2019 9:42 pm
I don't think I did things like that








did I?
Not that I remember.

People can change a lot over a decade, anyway.