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Europeans, I get that it’s annoying when Americans are like, “I’m French”

But here’s the thing: you’re the ones who wanted to make the rest of the world into Europe. You swept native people aside, erased their culture, and called your colonies “New [European City]”

Having to hear a drunken douchebag in a green foam hat bellow “I’m Irish!” is poetic—if lenient—justice

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Something that I honestly mourn the lack of is that twisted and skewed surrealist perspective from 90s cartoons and games. There aren’t too many examples of it either before or after the period. In golden age cartoons, perspective could be exaggerated, but it was usually still rectilinear.

This type of perspective, on the other hand, is like the warping of space time or a funhouse mirror. Something about it just makes me happy. It’s how I would choose to design the universe.

I know a few artists that work in this style sometimes but it’s still incredibly difficult to find.

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The important thing now is to unite in our efforts to assign increasingly complex chains of blame within our own hopelessly splintered factions.

Because at least we agree on this: someone fucked up, it wasn’t me, and the resistance is on hold until we figure out who it was

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Inspirational wisecrackers

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Lemme get two weddings with just grooms, two weddings with another wedding, three large funerals, six medium funerals, one large funeral and a pizza place and a pizza place and a pizza place

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Waldo 1.0 basically came together in a single shot. Design, laser cut, assemble, flap mouth. It only allowed me to move my thumb and wrist, and it wasn’t very good at letting me isolate motion, but functioned basically immediately.

Getting the Waldo to this stage, on the other hand, where I can articulate more than just the thumb, and minimize unwanted secondary motion (aka move my fingers without the whole head jerking around) required a complete rebuild of the gimbal frame just to start. I then had to learn 3D printing and surface modeling in CAD, and do maybe 40 prints producing about a hundred parts. I had to radically re-evaluate the entire approach to the hand control design, including the basic premise that a Waldo hand control should be shaped like the interior of a puppet head.

The Henson approach is undoubtedly superior but much much more difficult to pull off. It basically involves placing all the rotary sensors at the exact axis of rotation for all the digits of the hand. Pulling this off has benefits in terms of one-to-one control, but I discovered that it requires incredibly precise placement or else tons of secondary motion is created.

Frustrated, I thought about trackball mice and game controllers and musical instruments. All of these things let you isolate motion by enabling the hand to move the way it wants to. The sensor doesn’t have to care where your joints are and how they move, you just have to be able to reach them.

I re-designed the hand controls to be shaped more like an ergonomic mouse instead of like a puppet mouth, and although it has created a new learning curve for controlling the character, it’s immediately obvious that this approach is worth pursuing and may very well be the winning form.

Edit: the character model is a wip by an artist named Cramble who is a genius

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Waldo 1.0 basically came together in a single shot. Design, laser cut, assemble, flap mouth. It only allowed me to move my thumb and wrist, and it wasn’t very good at letting me isolate motion, but functioned basically immediately.

Getting the Waldo to this stage, on the other hand, where I can articulate more than just the thumb, and minimize unwanted secondary motion (aka move my fingers without the whole head jerking around) required a complete rebuild of the gimbal frame just to start. I then had to learn 3D printing and surface modeling in CAD, and do maybe 40 prints producing about a hundred parts. I had to radically re-evaluate the entire approach to the hand control design, including the basic premise that a Waldo hand control should be shaped like the interior of a puppet head.

The Henson approach is undoubtedly superior but much much more difficult to pull off. It basically involves placing all the rotary sensors at the exact axis of rotation for all the digits of the hand. Pulling this off has benefits in terms of one-to-one control, but I discovered that it requires incredibly precise placement or else tons of secondary motion is created.

Frustrated, I thought about trackball mice and game controllers and musical instruments. All of these things let you isolate motion by enabling the hand to move the way it wants to. The sensor doesn’t have to care where your joints are and how they move, you just have to be able to reach them.

I re-designed the hand controls to be shaped more like an ergonomic mouse instead of like a puppet mouth, and although it has created a new learning curve for controlling the character, it’s immediately obvious that this approach is worth pursuing and may very well be the winning form.

Edit: the character model is a wip by an artist named Cramble who is a genius

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All I know is, if I were trying to neutralize the progressive movement, I would try to convince its members to demand absolute perfection from each other at all times. I would insist that any transgressions, however minor, should mean permanent expulsion from the side of righteousness. I would spread the idea that all transgressions are equal in nature, and that the person who benignly uses the outdated term is equally dangerous as the hate-criminal. I would make sure that these transgressions are never forgotten, and even if the immediate fury around one misstep subsides because the context behind it rises to the surface or a sufficient apology is made, I would make sure that the past transgressions keep being listed each time some new misstep takes place, thus establishing a “pattern of behavior” ensuring permanent exile.

I would make sure that the movement becomes so paranoid about secret bigots among its own ranks that they have no energy left over to combat true power. If I were successful, they wouldn’t even notice that while their dwindling but pure movement had achieved absolutely nothing for decades, their opponents, who worship the living embodiment of all they claim to hate, are getting everything they want. I would smile slowly as the vulnerable are yanked back to the depths by their cohorts while the powerful crash yachts into each other for fun.

I would even teach them how to carry on my work for me. I’d seed the movement with phrases like, “oh, so we’re just supposed to coddle them?” I’d let them believe their rights are safe so that they never stop focusing on comfort. The freedoms they have now— the freedoms their elders died for— will be lost because of an unwillingness to have difficult conversations.

That’s how I’d do it though.

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THIS IS A GOOD POST

Werk upon my Gays(tm) ye mighty and despair

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Werk upon my Gays(tm) ye mighty and despair

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Unoriginal

But making it look so original

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More iteration on Waldo 3.0, still concentrating on honing the palm rest, straps, and thumb lever. I’m hoping that the gimbal section will be mostly the same

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Restarting my Waldo from absolute scuhRATCH

This is not a functional part, this is just an ergonomic test

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37 - 35 short commissions about Spooky Weaselbones

By Chupacabra over on insta a.k.a Corrupt3no

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Stores of the Year 6 (1991) Martin M. Pegler Hanna Barbera Shop Westside Pavilion, W. Los Angeles, CA Design: Space Design International

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The way to know if you’re a freak or a normie is, do you get high to tolerate a David Lynch movie or do you get high to tolerate Friends?