mr beast partnering with the lds church to help bring in younger people so they can marry off said younger people was not in my 2026 bingo

Always adored the New Vegas billboards

it’ll never not be funny to me how intentionally dirty Vault Tech did Bud Askins with that brain setup. they put his obnoxious ass on a roomba and called it a fuckin day fr.

for context for those who haven’t played the games, there is, in fact, a standard model for robobrains, and it’s not the one that Vault Tech gave Bud.

it’s this:

like fully almost-human-sized, durable and sturdy treads for motion, two working arms with a variety of possible attachments including but not limited to hand-like claws, the works. and it’s not even like a Synth situation where the tech improved after the bombs dropped, we know they fully had the tech for this pre-war because there’s an entire vault in Fallout 4 full of pre-war celebrities in the above full-body robobrain chassis.

like. i cannot stress enough that the Vault Tech higher ups had other objectively better options and literally chose to mount him on a fuckin roomba and call it a day.

playing fallout 4 for the millionth time...

As I gaze at the structural column in Copley Station, cracked nearly in two and held together with zip ties that have been carefully painted over to match the column underneath, I feel my soul intertwined with that of a small Italian boy of days gone by, who also stopped to look up at a large, groaning, newly painted tank full of molasses

I feel that some non-Boston people think I may have been exaggerating this. While I did not snap a photo as I was on the train, someone else did several months ago. I do want to stress that this column is now freshly painted and therefore completely structurally sound and in absolutely no danger of causing the entire tunnel to collapse. And yes, it did in fact never cross my mind that the original post was nearly 105 years to the day of the Molassacre

This is so safe this is the safest I’ve ever felt good job mbta gold star

Happy Molassacre Day everybody I'm still alive

Because it's been a while, I must share with you the important update that the column is now hidden behind plywood, because the mbta believes in peekaboo rules of engineering

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I love animation history and one of the things that always baffled me was how did animators draw the cars in 101 Dalmatians before the advent of computer graphics?

Originally posted by madeleineengland

Any rigid solid object is extremely challenging for 2D artists to animate because if one stray line isn’t kept perfectly in check, the object will seem to wobble and shift unnaturally.

Even as early as the mid 80’s Disney was using a technique where they would animate a 3D object and then apply a 2D filter to it. This practice could be applied to any solid object a character interacts with: from lanterns a character is holding, to a book (like in Atlantis), or in the most extreme cases Cybernetic parts (like in Treasure Planet).

But 101 Dalmatians was made WAY before the advent of this technology. So how did they do the Cruella car chase sequence at the end of the film?

The answer is so simple I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me sooner:

They just BUILT the models and painted them white with black outlines 🤣

That was the trick. They’re not actually 2D animated, they’re stop motion. They were physical models painted white and filmed on a white background. The black outlines become the lineart lines and they just xeroxed the frame onto an animation cel and painted it like any other 2D animated frame.

That’s how they did it! Isn’t that amazing? It’s such a simple low tech solution but it looks so cool in the final product.

Originally posted by madeleineengland

you want a hit off this? *hands you a spider*