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"1 star. I didn't have any Adder's fork so I just used a copper one instead, I don't like wool of bat or lizard's leg so I didn't include them, I used tongue of Doge Loredán instead of dog, and I subbed eye of frog for toe. Did not curse future king of England, just made a big mess and there are frog everywhere now."
Ive seen people be like in modern fantasy like "oh the pritagonists can just look up spells on their phone how do you solve that"
Imma be honest most people who go on recipe websites and book every recipe they see don't even use them lmao why would with be different
It's actually really bad for you to sleep with the lights on. Your body uses the presence of light and lack thereof to regulate its sleep cycles.* It's harder to get to sleep and stay asleep if you're constantly stimulating your eyes with light. Sleeping with blackout curtains shut is the ideal, but just having all the lights off is good enough for the majority of people.
Of course, I say this while having a little nightlight in my room because my overactive imagination will convince me I'm about to get murdered by the Shadow People if it's dark indoors lol. The most important thing is that you're able to sleep!
*Before somebody asks: This absolutely does have an impact on blind people! Statistically, blind people are far more likely to develop sleep disorders than seeing people, because blind people don't experience light stimulus in the ways the human body is hardwired to schedule periods of rest around.
Chat what's the opposite of "aged like milk"?
I know that we as a fandom tends to focus more on the BoB drunk karaoke page more than the one right before it, but there I got to admit the lead into that page is absolutely hilarious to me. Just... Ford being like "oh I'm not a drinker - he's not gonna talk me into it" and then BAM- smash cut to the absolute drunkest Ford has ever been in his life.
But it's also fascinating because it actually really subtly shows just how much Ford was willing to do out-of-character things due to Bill's influence. It's small admittedly, but it's still a little foot in the door gesture that showed that Bill was willing to push Ford's boundaries for his own interests in ways that Ford just... Never noticed until it was too late.
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SPOILERS FOR THE SIMS 4 STRANGERVILLE
Currently debating if I should have my Sim Stanford Pines eat the Bizarre Fruit.
On one hand, it'll get him possessed by the Mother Plant and I'm worried that'll be annoying to deal with. On the other hand, it is 10000% in character for this man to take one look at the "seriously don't eat this it's weird and dangerous" fruit and put it in his mouth. But on the other other hand, you'd think he'd have learned something from his experiences with Bill. (Well, I do, anyway.) But on the other other other hand, the story can be pre-character development.
So I'm going to let the good people of Tumblr decide! I'm sure I won't regret this at all!
SPOILERS FOR THE SIMS 4 STRANGERVILLE
Currently debating if I should have my Sim Stanford Pines eat the Bizarre Fruit.
On one hand, it'll get him possessed by the Mother Plant and I'm worried that'll be annoying to deal with. On the other hand, it is 10000% in character for this man to take one look at the "seriously don't eat this it's weird and dangerous" fruit and put it in his mouth. But on the other other hand, you'd think he'd have learned something from his experiences with Bill. (Well, I do, anyway.) But on the other other other hand, the story can be pre-character development.
So I'm going to let the good people of Tumblr decide! I'm sure I won't regret this at all!
I just had a thought: Everybody seems to be assuming that the Society of the Blind Eye (SBE) Dippers and Mabels in the Book of Bill were created during that summer. But what if they actually were what happened had Dipper taken that internship with Ford? I got the idea because the guys in the hoods look a good deal taller than the other Dippers and Mabels. I mean, it could just be the perspective, but I thought they looked like they might've gotten the chance to grow a bit more than the others. If you assume Left Hood is Mabel, (based off of their nose possibly being the same color as the rest of their face), it's also possible that she's lasted long enough in one timeline to get her braces off.
Alex Hirsch has said that Ford would've made the same mistakes with Dipper that he did with Fiddleford McGucket, so Dipper the Intern would've eventually ended up going insane like McGucket did. And McGucket originally founded the SBE as a direct consequence of Ford's bullshit. (Sorry Ford baby, I do love you-- but you are completely unfit to raise a technically-teenage boy full-time!)
I wouldn't put it past a traumatized older Dipper to figure out how to rebuild the memory gun (or maybe it never got destroyed in the first place?). At first he was just hoping to be able to sleep again but it takes its toll on his mind after awhile and he unwittingly ends up recreating the SBE (perhaps because he doesn't remember it-- or doesn't remember how bad it really was for people). Or alternatively, Ford, having been enabled for years by somebody who either can't or won't tell him no, proposes a truly horrible idea that even Dipper can't go along with. Dipper resorts to trying to wipe Ford's memory of the idea to ensure he never acts on it, but it fails and permanently ruins the relationship. Dipper is ashamed, alone, and afraid, so he uses the gun on himself so those bad memories of failure don't stop him from stopping Ford. It snowballs into repeated uses of the gun (turns out that forgetting what you're afraid of means forgetting why you don't use the gun more often!) until the poor guy can't bring himself to do anything in public without it. Dipper has enough perfectionist tendencies that, if something caused him to go off the rails, I could see him constantly using the memory gun to redo his interactions with people until they go exactly the way he's decided they're supposed to.
The dark path for Mabel would be worse in some ways. Imagine that this is a world where Mabel encouraged Dipper to take the internship instead of getting upset about it. Maybe she even unwittingly pressured him into accepting it when he was going to turn it down, because she thought it would be awesome for him, only to get hit with the horrible reality when the next summer rolls around and he's obviously Not Okay. She feels partially responsible and wishes he never had to experience any of the terrible stuff he alludes to, and that leads her to remaking/refinding the memory gun as the next best thing to making the bad things unhappen. Of course Ford figures out what she's done quickly, so she tried to use it on him to make him forget that internships and memory guns exist. It doesn't work and they get into a big nasty fight. Later Soos pops in to ask how things are going after some horrible event that Dipper no longer remembers, causing Dipper to regain his memory of the incident, so Mabel uses the gun on Soos and Dipper. Ford is angry, so Mabel bolts and hides from him, using the gun to prevent other people from reporting her whereabouts to him (and later McGucket, because you can bet Ford told him all about this).
It all spirals from there-- the key being that Mabel never uses the gun on herself because she's fully aware of how bad it is for people. She knows the SBE was bad, but reasons that it was bad because it was lead astray by the selfishness of people like Bud Gleeful rather than the fact that it existed to control people and dodge taking responsibility for anything. She self-rationalizes that PTSD and people actively seeking out monsters would be worse than the effects of the gun. Later she adds the rationalization that she's done it so often that there's no point in stopping because it would only mean that her targets would have to deal with both their trauma and the bad effects of the gun.
Either way, Gravity Falls ends up becoming like Lovecraft town where it's all nice-looking and stuff but you don't linger, go off the beaten path, or ask questions, lest you end up getting stuck there permanently like the Pines family. Just deliver the packages and go the fuck home before the sun comes down.
(Fuck, I forgot about the metal plate in Ford's head. Edited to account for that.)
My headcanon is that the effect on the eyes is actually pretty subtle-- it's just made unsubtle for the sake of the audience. If you looked closely, you'd see that the eye proportions were off and maaaaybe notice a bit of jaundice. But you'd have to look closely (or be some kind of retina scanner or something).
The biggest tell is Bill's behavior, which I still consider a pretty large plot hole. Nobody was even a little bit weirded out when "Dipper" dumped soda all over his face? Or offered to tell Soos the exact time of his death? I guess it all happened off-screen? (Apparently the writers were going to add stuff but ran out of time in the episode. Personally, I think Sock Opera should've been a multi-part episode, but I don't know what it would take for Disney to approve that or whatever.)
the reason no one noticed dipper was possessed in the puppet episode was because the only physical thing that changed were his eyes and the entire pines family are autistic and dont like eye contact
Ma'am that is way more than one shot of olive oil put the bottle down
Ford's dreams of getting a pop quiz on what he's attracted reminds me of Mabel's Guide to Dating, where Mabel springs a 9000-question quiz on Soos, Dipper, and Stan to determine their dateability.
I mean, these two are on a similar wavelength, clearly.
I think that Ford tried weed ONCE and never again bc he greened out so hard he started crying and then sung here comes the sun to himself in the bathtub (based off of personal experience)
Desperate spam texts from a desperate triangle... and one conversation from a healthy, loving relationship!
I've discovered that if I take a bunch of quotes from @the-haiku-bot and put them on PD/CC0 images with the right font, they can look downright profound. Or amusing.
@the-haiku-bot posts used:
immediately
no bro esto es
why are you taking
when listening, you
there is a difference
idk about
you lost her and did
my ancestors are
"I'm not going to therapy!" -Bill
I've had this silly idea in my head for awhile and I feel like I need to get it out.
I've been speculating on what Ford's impact on the other dimensions he visited would be, and I can't help but feel like he'd end up on some other dimension's version of Cops at some point. Probably blasting triangles off the side of a building at 2 in the morning with a weapon that's illegal in seven sectors.
The police order him to stop and he calmly, but sternly explains that he can't because the triangle symbols are access points for an evil greater than all of them. The police are unimpressed, but he keeps arguing with them. They end up having to space-taser and tackle him to arrest him. Somebody photoshops a screencap of the footage so it looks like he's blasting a pretentious sculpture by Knish Karich (no relation to Anish Kapoor we swear!) instead. It goes viral and becomes a meme to photoshop "the suspect" blasting things the photoshopper dislikes. The meme gains some controversy because some netizens think it glorifies police brutality and mocks somebody who is obviously mentally ill. Other netizens think "the suspect" is awesome, and quote catchphrases from the footage ("you can't shoot me, I'm right!" in particular).
Gravity Falls is a nexus for the weird, and sometimes TVs there pick up signals from other worlds. Stan's TV happens to catch a documentary series about the other dimension's version of Cops. Stan initially is only watching the series because changing the channel would require him to Get Up and he's not doing that. Plus he shouted for Ford to change the channel and Ford refused. But then it starts talking about the series's biggest contribution to pop culture in that dimension and Stan realizes that he recognizes "the suspect." He shouts for Ford again, this time telling him that he's got a really, really good reason change the channel for him.
Ford had no idea they were even recording him for a TV show. Stan, being a typical brother, is teasing him mercilessly about it. Ford is horrified yet morbidly curious about what kinds of reality TV exist in other realities.
Ford's lucky Stan only got the other dimension's version of Cops, though. There's at least one Law and Disorder villain based on him in a dimension that conflated his actions with those of a glass-armonica-loving serial killer. He was also featured on Geonaz's Least Wanted, the true crime dating show that captures fugitives and their hearts.
Please, if the budget was 5000 bucks, they would've just shot it in the game and it'd look ten-thousand times better.
super bowl commercial-lookin ass movie
I think it's important to add that a documented issue with the art protection software Glaze (particularly early versions) is that, on simpler styles like line art, the software leaves noticeable swirls. I wonder if the weird swirls are an artifact of AIs learning from glazed pictures.
If so, I think I can glean a few things from this:
Programs like Glaze absolutely do have an impact on AI outputs, and that impact is noticeable to humans and negative. While it's true that the effects can be edited out, that requires an additional effort that many (dare I say most) lazy art thieves aren't going to make.
AI bros, contrary to their own claims, are training their AIs on works that artists clearly do not wish to be used for training. If they were only using public domain works and works that they have the rights to, they would not be affected by software like Glaze because artists only use software like Glaze when they are trying to protect their works from AI plagiarism.
The existence of programs like Glaze is not deterring AI bros from training AIs on art they aren't supposed to be using. Unfortunately, I suspect nothing short of legal action will.
how do you recognize AI art?
it's surprisingly easy.
-generic looking art
-weird proportions
-strokes that make no sense
-backgrounds that lack detail or make zero sense
Ace Sweater Designs by artsymeeshee in the Sims 4
I saw this Gravity Falls fanart by @artsymeeshee that featured Ford discovering that he's asexual and asking Mabel if she can make him sweaters themed around that. So he ends up wearing three cute Mabel sweaters themed around asexuality. I liked the designs that @artsymeeshee came up with so much that I decided that I wanted to put them in the Sims 4, so here we go! Look at (my terrible attempt at recreating) Ford and Mabel go!
There are two versions of the sweaters with words on them-- one is in English, the other is in Simlish. The green sweater says "NO ROMO" in English (Helvetica font) and "NEIB ROMO" in Simlish (Nootrasim font-- I think "neib" is Simlish for no but don't quote me on it). The purple sweater says "SPACE ACE" in English (RaveParty Bold font) and "SPACE ACE" in Simlish (also Nootrasim font, because Blender was being a jerk about the other Simlish fonts I tried).
There is also a blank sweater with three swatches-- these are just the sweaters without any icons or funny sayings on them.
I made separate versions for the male and female models in the Sims 4. The ones for the male models are labeled "mal" whereas the ones for the female models are labeled "fem." You need to download both the male and female models if you want the sweater to be available for all genders.
Note: You will need the Holiday Celebrations DLC to see the sweaters in the game. This is because the sweater model is from a turtleneck in that DLC. The DLC is available from EA for free.
I hope I did an okay job at least! Thanks again to @artsymeeshee for letting me use her designs and for making an awesome comic! Here's the spread:
DOWNLOAD LINK: http://simfileshare.net/folder/227645/
That one is not that much of a stretch. Texas Instruments is first and foremost a semiconductor company. That means its main product is microchips (which TI made commercially viable and was instrumental in proliferating) and things that can be made from microchips like vocal synthesizers (like the Speak and Spell). Built from the ashes of the defunct Geophysical Service Incorporated in 1951, it actually did work for the seismology part of the oil industry and military defense before it invented the handheld calculator in 1967. Thematically, missiles aren't that far off from military submarine navigation systems and covert monitoring of Soviet nuclear tests.
Plus, the underlying math for calculating points in multidimensional space is basically the same regardless of what the space is or what the points represent. A calculator is highly generalized in functionality. So even if TI did start out as a calculator company, it really wouldn't be that hard from an engineering standpoint to take the basic calculation hardware (or more likely, multiple calculators' worth of hardware) and affix it to a missile rather than a dot-matrix screen.
