#I know I know the creature isn’t actually animated via electricity

[the-lektric-tinker]

Archie: Mary Shelley was a Septemberist. She wrote Frankenstein as a cautionary tale against experimenting with lektricity and trying to mess with forces beyond human control.

Fergus: Yeah, I don’t think it had the intended effect on its target audience exactly… Victor Frankenstein was my idol growing up.

Hachi: Fergus, he gets everyone he loves killed and then dies himself.

Archie: Not to mention he abandons his creature and ruins his life too…

Fergus: Aye, but I wouldnae do that. I’d do it all right.

Hachi: [eyeroll] This attitude is why stuff like that happens in the first place.

Fergus: RIP Victor but I’m different.

[pi-creates]

So I’ve been happily watching @stop-breaking-my-heart-telltale stream through games recently, and she has decided to try one of my favourite Telltale games - Tales From the Borderlands. But since CJ isn’t familiar with the Borderlands games (and from the sounds of things, neither are some people in the chat) I’ve put together a very basic bit of background information from what I know (I also haven’t played everything from after TFTB’s release). 

It isn’t necessary to know any of this to enjoy TFTB as it gives a brief, ‘bare-bones’ introduction, but I figured it might help some people who like having that extra bit of depth going in without having to play through the other games. 

There won’t be spoilers for the TFTB plot, obviously, but the bottom section under the ‘read more’ will list characters from the main series who are mentioned/appear in the game and relevant information that someone familiar with the series should already know about them. But if you are familiar with the series and don’t want to know who may or may not show up (or would just rather go in blind to who is a ‘returning’ character) - stop reading at the Notable characters segment. 

[Spoilers for the Borderlands series below here]

For starters, Borderlands is set in the distant future – there are ways to ‘digistruct’ weapons and vehicles at the press of a button, you can walk up to a vending machine and instantly change your appearance, there are advanced cybernetics, robots are normal, you can have personal shields, teleportation is technically possible for both weaponry (notably grenades) and people, and there are guns that shoot electricity/fire/corrosive ammunition.

The goal of every Borderlands game revolves around the idea of opening a Vault – an ancient archway of Eridian origins (just think of long-extinct aliens) that is filled with treasures, hostile guardian entities, and also a very big, pissed off vault monster who will attempt to destroy anyone/anything that tries to get inside. The people who take the risk of searching for a vault and the treasures inside are labelled as Vault Hunters. In the core games, this would be you.

The problem is that finding a vault is hard since they are hidden, and they are often locked with artefact keys that trigger them to unlock. This means that the location of a vault, a vault key, or any signs of Eridian tech is VERY highly valued. Most of the games therefore revolve around the planet of Pandora since it has a high concentration of Eridian ruins which leads prospecting vault hunters to assume there must be more vaults to find on the planet.

Pandora, though, is more than a little inhospitable. The environment is mostly barren or wildly extreme, the wildlife is often very aggressive and deadly, and the people tend to be very rough since they have to deal with all of that. The planet itself doesn’t offer many prospects beyond weapon manufacturing, research, resource mining, and banditry. It has, however, previously been home to large corporations who tried to exploit said resources and attempted to ‘civilise’ the locals who would rather tell those corporations to piss off with the booming end of a shotgun. There is also a significant portion of the population who teeter really close to insanity on a daily basis. That is normal for them.

All of the attempts to settle and gather resources from Pandora has led to literal rubbish heaps, abandoned colonisation attempts, manufacturing/research zones that are often not friendly, bandit shanty towns, toxic chemical zones (from corporations running unethical experimentation) and SO many roaming bandits. Naturally, the locals don’t take kindly to anyone who works for the bigger corporations as they expect to be screwed over or exploited in some way.

For people familiar with the series, the timeline for Tales from the Borderlands is set after Borderlands 2 and before the Fight For Sanctuary DLC.

For people unfamiliar, you need to know that Pandora has recently dealt with the Handsome Jack problem. Basically, the handsome Hyperion CEO was set on wiping out all bandits and dangerous wildlife from Pandora. The problem was that Jack had a very low opinion of vault hunters, bandits, and pretty much everyone on Pandora as he believed they all fell in to those categories. 

The player’s introduction to Jack literally comes from him inviting vault hunters to Pandora, only for him to then blow up the transport in transit. You are lucky enough to survive where most others died. Jack himself then contacts you to say that you aren’t following his plan to kill all the vault hunters and “if you could just do me a favour and off yourself, that’d be great. Thanks, pumpkin.“

At the start of Borderlands 2 you will hear of Jack’s rather unethical and violent methods of dealing with people who aren’t on board with his plan – all while having a rather cheerful manner of speaking, almost as if he was enjoying playing the game with you as his opponent. He actually keeps in contact with the vault hunters throughout the game to casually chat with them, and occasionally yell at them if they aren’t playing along with him.

He plotted to open a vault on Pandora that held a very powerful monster called the Warrior. He was going to harness the Warrior’s powers to enact his wide-scale extermination plans. On the journey to stop his plans the vault hunters end up killing Jack’s daughter, Angel, as she was being used to ‘charge’ the vault key. Angel herself led the vault hunters to her location in the hopes that they would stop her father’s plans, much to Jack’s disapproval. He stops being cheerful at this point and doubles-down on wanting to raze all of Pandora to the ground.

He does successfully open the vault and the vault hunters have to defeat the Warrior before Jack can use it. The vault hunters win and Jack is killed for his crimes against Pandora. His final speech before dying in Borderlands 2 was very cool – including it here as it sums up his thought process really well. It has also lead to some interesting interpretations of Jack’s overall character.

"No, no, no... I can't die like this... Not when I'm so close... And not at the hands of a filthy bandit! I could have saved this planet! I could have actually restored order! And I wasn't supposed to die by the hands... of a CHILD KILLING PSYCHOPATH!! You're a savage! You're a maniac, you are a bandit, AND I AM THE GODDAMN HERO!!

"The Warrior was practically a god! How- How in the HELL have you killed my Warrior?!

"You idiots! The Warrior could have brought peace to this planet! No more dangerous creatures, no more bandits, Pandora-it would have been a PARADISE!!"

Naturally, since all of this drama happened not long ago, the citizens of Pandora are very much still on edge in regards to anyone who works for the bigger corporations – Hyperion especially.

Definitions to some things you are likely to see/hear about in TFTB –

Eridium – An ore-like resource associated with the vaults. It glows purple and is supposedly exceptionally rare in most of the universe – but not Pandora. This is what most of the manufacturing companies want since it can be harnessed to create highly effective tech/weapons.

Catch-A-Ride – The service that Scooter (a mechanic on Pandora) uses to digistruct vehicles out of Catch-A-Ride stations.  

ECHOs / ECHOnet – Essentially your mobile phone with internet and an app that lets you check everything in your backpack with a holographic display.

The Crimson Raiders – More or less the resistance fighters of Pandora who kept the citizens protected during the fighting of the main games. Run by the original vault hunters and still active in keeping Pandora free of outside threats.

Atlas – A technology and weapon corporation that was the first to make an earnest attempt to colonise Pandora after they suspected it would hold a vault. Was known as one of the best in terms of quality. They have since gone out of business.

Hyperion – The main corporation you will be dealing with. Has a particularly bad reputation on Pandora due to their former CEO, Handsome Jack, attempting to wipe out every bandit community on Pandora. Under Jack’s rule a lot of experiments were also run testing Eridium and Eridium by-products on people and animals – resulting in death, mutation, and insanity to most subjects.

Helios – Hyperion’s orbital station that can constantly be seen orbiting between Pandora and its moon. The station itself is shaped like a giant ‘H’ and houses a concentrated weapon that can shoot massive ammunition at targeted areas on Pandora. The weapon can also be used to shoot transport containers from the orbital station down to Pandora’s surface.

Elpis – Pandora’s moon. Visibly cracked open due to excessive mining. Everyone from here is VERY Aussie and it’s a little weird...

Notable characters you may meet/need to know about –

Marcus – Your narrator – he also narrated the intros and endings to the other games. You won’t see him, but it’s a nice tie in to the format of the main series.

Sirens – Essentially these ladies are magic. They are all born normal, but they will suddenly change and inherit their siren powers when another siren dies. They stand out by their glowing, tattoo-like markings that mysteriously appear on them when they awaken their siren abilities. Not much is known about them other than they can interact with Eridian based materials, and that they are excessively powerful since they have magic abilities.

Claptrap (CL4P-TP) – A class of unicycle robot that is very annoying. Doesn’t shut up, but is technically a vault hunter. You may or may not run in to him.

Angel / (Guardian Angel) – A siren who had the ability to interface with technology. She is the daughter of Handsome Jack and spent most of her life hidden in a secured bunker that only her father could enter via a DNA lock and voice password (her father saying “I love you”). This is due to Jack becoming extremely protective after bandits tried to abduct Angel upon realising she was a siren, and after Angel unintentionally killed her own mother with her powers. Due to her siren powers, she had the ability to stay in constant communication with anyone outside of the bunker, and to help her father with any tasks he required. Was killed by the vault hunters in Borderlands 2.

Handsome Jack – Antagonist from Borderlands 2 and previously the CEO of Hyperion. Has a mask of his face fastened over his actual face which was scarred by an Eridian artefact on Elpis. Starting out as a programmer, he worked his way up the ladder in Hyperion with Angel’s help through a mix of (initially) well intentioned plans to help the people of Elpis, and a growing obsession with power and hatred for Pandora and its bandits. He eventually strangled his boss and named himself President and CEO of the company.

Professor Nakayama – Had a massive crush on Handsome Jack in Borderlands 2. Smart guy who was devastated by Handsome Jack’s death and was working on a way to find the best successor to Jack to run Hyperion. He was attempting to clone Jack from old medical data (taken somewhere before the start of Borderlands 2′s plot) before the vault hunter’s confronted him and he literally dies from falling down a flight of stairs. Easiest boss battle ever.

Shade – DEFINITELY NOT INSANE. Somehow lived alone in a town in the middle of a desert with no water - and this definitely didn’t effect him mentally at all. He just wants a friend.

Scooter – Pandora’s best mechanic. Nice guy and actually a little more normal than a lot of other Pandorans. Has girl troubles, not that he’d ever admit it.

Ellie – Scooter’s sister. Also a mechanic, much to her mother’s displeasure.

Moxxi – Mother of Scooter and Ellie – runs a bar, slot machines, and previously a battle arena (The Underdome). Pretty much seen as Pandora’s Pin-Up, which she seems happy about since it has garnered her significant influence and power on Pandora. She speaks in pure innuendo.

Janey – Elpis’ best mechanic, focusing more on vehicles that work in low (or no) gravity. Runs an equivalent of Catch-A-Ride on Elpis. Girlfriend of Athena.

Athena – Vault hunter who was hired by Jack to help with the Vault on Elpis. Had a falling out with Jack after dealing with the Elpis situation, as this is where Jack was clearly starting to lose his stability. She notably fights with a shield that she can throw and return to her hand. Previously an Atlas employed assassin who turned against the company after Atlas tricked her into assassinating a target that was very important to her. Girlfriend of Janey.

Zer0 – Vault hunter who found a Pandoran vault and was involved in killing Handsome Jack. Another assassin who fights with a sword and is capable of making hologram decoys of himself. He likes to display holograms in front of his helmet to communicate since you cannot see his facial expressions. He’s an alien / who always speaks in haiku / with some exceptions.

Brick – Vault hunter from the first game. He is a berserker who punches VERY hard, but is a softy at heart.

Mordecai – Vault hunter from the first game. Sniper and sharpshooter, doesn’t need a scope to get a good headshot.

Lilith – Vault hunter from the first game. Siren who leads The Crimson raiders along with Brick and Mordecai.

Loader Bots – Hyperion made bots that are used for security and manual labour. They are big, they can speak, and they are very sturdy. Weirdly enough, they have the capacity to become self-aware (though self-aware models are often destroyed by Hyperion if discovered).

Psychos – A particular class of bandit that is always shirtless, dressed in orange pants, masked, and they all speak complete gibberish. They have some consistencies to their gibberish including an obsession with meat and salt.

Butt Stallion – Handsome Jack’s diamond Pony – Jack lovingly named her after the vault hunters at the start of Borderlands 2. She eats Eridium and poops guns... I wish I was kidding.

[askroahmmythril]

“Robot Master” Typings : Non-Counterpart Navis

Something that was suggested was perhaps giving types to all the Navis that don’t have Robot Master counterparts.  Soooo that’s what we’re doing.  A couple of these of course do have counterparts ELSEWHERE, but since I only did Classic, they’ll get listed here.

Glyde : Normal

He’s just a butler and said to not be suited toward battle, so it’s hard to really say what he’d get beyond Normal if anything.  Basically from what we know, he just uses powerful Battle Chips because Yai buys them with THE POWER OF MONEY.

NumberMan : Normal

He’s simply about calculation and, well, numbers.  Hard to say if he’d have much else, though that angle attack he has makes me think he’d have Tri Attack in his movepool at least.  Probably something like Present or Magnitude that rolls a random number and does damage based on that for his dice.

ColorMan : Water / Fire

I mean, that’s the power he summons, so it feels pretty clear cut there.  He’s all about utilizing Fire Tower and Water Tower.  Well that and flinging the ball at you I suppose.

SharkMan : Water

He’s a fish.  A big fish with sharp pointy teef, but a fish.  Eat your calcium.

Zero : Electric / Poison

Mostly he’s all about his sword attacks, though one has to remember, he uses a beam saber, not a traditional steel or otherwise metal blade.  However beyond that, he’s a virus.  Even once “reset” and made into a Navi, he still has an affinity toward the viruses he originally produced, able to use them for his needs.

GateMan : Steel / Dark

GateMan’s gate serves both as a sturdy shield, and also a gate to a strange realm from which he can summon a dark, shadowy hand.

ThunderMan : Electric / Steel

I’m mostly giving him Steel type due to his overall appearance.  He looks like a being made of metal and conducting electricity that way, via the lightning rod on his head.  The Electric part is obvious.

PlanetMan : Water / Ground

I mean, he’s Earth.  Almost more so than Terra was.  He could potentially have type changing shenanigans though depending on his orbiting planetoids.

BeastMan : Dark / Normal

An intimidating beast that fights with fang and claw, I imagine more than anything he’d just be fast and have a lot of bite and slash type moves.

DesertMan : Ground

I mean, pretty straightforward for this one, he’s just a big guy made of sand.  One could cite Palossand as a reason to give him Ghost typing as well, but I don’t really get ghostly vibes from him.

KingMan : Normal

I don’t really count King and KingMan.EXE as the same character, though I think I’ve seen some debate the topic.  It’s not as clear as, say, Ring.EXE just being a gender swapped Ring Man.  Anyway, KingMan’s just a stompy chess piece more than anything else.  Mostly he relies on his pieces to do the battling for him, or to shield him.

BowlMan : Rock

I’m.... not 100% on this one honestly.  I debated just Normal, but that felt kind of weird for the fact that he’s flinging super heavy bowling balls at you, but then, bowling balls aren’t metallic, so Steel seemed wrong...  The heck are bowling balls actually made of usually, anyway...?

MistMan : Ghost / Poison

MistMan himself isn’t even the target, you have to attack his lamp, so he seems like he has a fairly ghostly form.  His mist clouds also poison Megaman, so this seems fitting.  I debated Fairy typing due to genies being sort of a fairy tale creature of sorts, but Ghost / Poison seems far more fitting.

Serenade : Psychic / Fairy

There’s just something about their appearance that makes this typing seem fitting to me.  The elegant look, the sort of streamers behind their back, Fairy just seems fitting, their powers kind of lending to it as well, but their ability to essentially always see your attacks coming and block them seems very Psychic to me.

VideoMan : Normal / Psychic

VideoMan’s a weird one to classify.  I felt weird making him PURE Psychic, but I felt like that needed to be included since he can essentially manipulate time for himself or his opponent by using his video editing powers.

KendoMan : Fighting

This one seems pretty solid and straightforward.  He’s a trainer for a particular fighting style.

LaserMan : Dark / Electric

LaserMan too is tricky.  Fairy seems to be the one most associated with light-based attacks these days, but LaserMan..... does not seem Fairy-ish.  At all.

CosmoMan : Psychic / Fire

Once more we’re into the whole “space based” thing, but he also enjoys flinging meteors at you, which Battle Network classifies as Heat element attacks.

Colonel : Electric / Fire

Like Zero, he mostly fights with his beam saber.  However, there’s also that Colonel Cannon move he has, plus all the little ally gunners he summons from field objects.

Meddy : Grass / Poison

Meddy’s able to make pills that can either help or hurt.  The Poison comes from the whole “inflicting status ailments” thing her medicine can do.  As for Grass, I more went to thinking of her operator, Jasmine, who makes traditional style medicines.  This makes me think of herbal remedies, so I gave her Grass type.

FootMan : Fighting

Largely I’m using Passimian as the excuse here.  He’s a big burly football player looking to tackle you.

SwallowMan : Normal / Flying

He’s a basic birb man.  Pretty much we have Taillow / Swellow for reference here.  While I guess I understand why, it still bugs me that they changed his name to LarkMan for international releases.  He’s.... clearly not a lark, he’s a swallow.  It’s a type of bird.  Get over it, people.  Stop your giggling in the back row.

CircusMan : Psychic / Dark

He’s a ringmaster, showing his control over the animals he summons to attack you.  Granted he does so with a whip, but..... even Gen 1 Sabrina had a whip for.... reasons..... look, I dunno.  CircusMan is just creepy.  Psychic / Dark just somehow works in my mind.  He gets in your head, and we don’t want to know what’s going on when that tent comes down.  I don’t even fear clowns but.... CircusMan is just freakin’ weird.

JudgeMan : Grass / Electric

JudgeMan’s a weird one, but hear me out.  Electric is straightforward enough, he attacks you with an electric whip.  Must be taking lessons from one of the Phoenix Wright prosecutors...  Beyond that, he’s based largely on books.  Paper though is made from wood pulp, so there is a grass relation there.  We can see that also in Kartana, an origami Pokemon that is Grass / Steel type.  Plus, well, he’s encountered in the Judge Tree system.

ElementMan : Normal (with a caveat)

Let’s face it, this guy’s type is probably “Yes.”  His whole thing is his ability to manipulate and change his element.  The question would be how best to make this work in Pokemon via ability.  He is involved with weather according to the network you fight him in, so maybe something akin to Forecast?

KillerMan : Dark / Ghost

He’s a spoopy demon reaper.  This seems pretty solidly fitting for him I’d say.  He’s another where I understand why they had to change the name, but EraseMan just doesn’t sound as good to me for him as KillerMan.  But yeah, I get it, kids’ game and all.

I THINK I got everyone there.

[victoriousfrankenstein]

Experiment 1: “Descend in pain, demon!” -- I, FRANKENSTEIN (2014)

You’re probably wondering why I’m kicking off this series with this shlock. Well, I’ll just tell you--it’s free with Hulu and I’m not trying to break the bank here. (Spoilers ahead, not that you care lol)

I, Frankenstein stars blandly chiseled Aaron Eckhart as Frankenstein’s monster, here conveniently named Adam, with assists from Bill Nighy, Miranda Otto, Yvonne Strahovski, and Jai Courtney. The backstory goes like this: in 1795, Victor Frankenstein brought his monster into the world (in an undisclosed place), immediately rejected him (for an undisclosed reason), and tried to kill him (by tossing him off an undisclosed bridge). The monster survived this attempted drowning and came back to kill Dr. F’s wife, then led him up north through the unforgiving arctic, where the good doctor eventually succumbed to the cold. This information is communicated to us visually and via voice over, in case we couldn’t figure it out for ourselves.

The movie truly begins with the Creature burying Frankenstein next to his wife (“It was more than he deserved,” spits a bitter Aaron Eckhart). As he does this, he is attacked by demons and immediately kills one of them. This awakens some nearby gargoyles who fly from their perches on a castle to merc the rest and save the unconscious Creature. They remark that they’ve never seen a human kill a demon before and conclude that “it” must be special; as they loot what they believe is a corpse, they find a pretty sweet journal belonging to one Victor M. Frankenstein and gasp because the rumors are true!!! Then the Creature begins to move!!!!!

The gargoyles take him back to their queen (Otto), who demands to know why the demons wanted him. She explains that the Gargoyle Order has been at war with demons since the fall of Satan, and that they were commanded into being by St. Michael himself. She also gives the Creature a name--Adam--and requests that he stay with them for protection...but he leaves and forges his own way for 200 years, before finally returning to hunt down the demons who want him for some reason.

So it’s now Modern Times, but I couldn’t tell you where this movie is actually set for the life of me. The gargoyles live in some monstrous European cathedral and all the actors are affecting that bland movie British accent, but there are few indications of what the actual, specific setting is. Unless, of course, the cathedral is real, and I just don’t know my landmarks. Sorry.

Anyway, now scientists are hard at work trying to figure out the secret to reanimating dead corpses. Dr. Terra Wade (Strahovksi), working under Bill Nighy (who unsurprisingly turns out to be Prince Naberius, leader of the demon horde), zaps a rat back to life. She weirdly measures the electricity in Joules and not volts; I am not a scientist, but this sounds wrong to me.

She tells Bill Nighy that they aren’t yet ready to reanimate a human corpse yet, and he fires back that hasn’t she heard of Victor Frankenstein? She proclaims that Frankenstein is a myth, made up to “scare children.” For me, this opens up a can of worms I’m not sure the writers thought of when they put this in the script. Just...who is Frankenstein in this universe? Does the Mary Shelley novel exist? Does it exist, but as real documentation and not a work of fiction? Is he more of a legend? She wonders why Frankenstein didn’t share his discovery with the world if the story is true, but he explains that himself in the actual novel, which leads me to believe it was never written in-universe. But then seriously, where did the myth come from?! Terra speaks as if the Brothers Grimm invented the story and it’s very odd.

She does admit, however, that if Frankenstein did reanimate a corpse, it would be helpful to study the creation. So Bill Nighy assembles his troops.

Demons attack the cathedral, where Adam is being kept by the gargoyles. The CG is absolute ass. This movie has big 2004 energy for a lot of reasons, and this is one of them. The only thing I appreciate about the fight scenes is that there isn’t an excess of shaky cam, so it’s easy to see what’s happening; unfortunately, what’s happening isn’t usually very interesting. The fight choreography is stale and repetitive. The music is incredibly generic.

However, this scene particularly has holy waterboarding, so that’s pretty good.

It also has the best worst line in the entire film!

The demons capture the Gargoyle Queen, who is then traded back for Frankenstein’s journal. Now the bad guys have the ability to reanimate dead humans, something a man in the 1790’s figured out and they could not.

Meanwhile, Adam breaks into the lab and finds a room of stashed corpses, which the demons are presumably storing to raise an army of the undead. He jumps through a window into the lab to get the journal back. Everyone knows immediately who he is because Victor Frankenstein was really good at drawing.

Unfortunately, security shows up with Bill Nighy, who chews the scenery as much as he can. He calls Adam “Frankenstein,” as “we are all the sons of our fathers.” Adam cannot accept this. He breaks out of a separate window and lands on a train, where he begins to read his life story, then doubles back to meet up with Terra and tell her all about the gargoyle/demon battle. And that she’s working for a demon prince.

Demons attack them. One of them monologues about how they will summon their brethren to possess the corpses. What does this have to do with Adam? He doesn’t have a soul...and demons can only possess bodies without soul!

 Adam is injured. Terra learns that he’s hot. Sexy Wound Dressing commences.

This is probably the most annoying part of this film to me. Adam and everyone waxes poetic about how he was rejected by his creator and humanity, and I have to wonder why. He looks and acts like a dude. A ripped dude, yes, but a dude. He apparently learned how to speak in a single winter, so it’s not like he was ever really a wild animal? His scarring isn’t even raised! He could hide his blemishes with foundation if he really wanted to, yet several people in this movie call him “it” before even learning what exactly he is. It’s about as unnatural as Ben Shapiro purposefully misgendering trans people.

Anyway, Terra tells Adam she’ll make him a companion since Frankenstein didn’t because he was a bad dad. This is a one-off line that amounts to nothing.

At this point there is a third of the movie left, but you can guess exactly how it unfolds from here. It’s hardly worth recounting in detail. Basically everyone is after the journal, but Adam destroys it before anyone can get it. That doesn’t matter. Terra is forced to reanimate the corpse of her murdered colleague without it, which sets into motion the reanimation of the thousands of corpses Bill Nighy has had on ice for….centuries, presumably?

Demons ascend to Earth to prepare to take over their new corporeal forms. Luckily, Adam is here to take them and the gargoyles, who have betrayed him, down.

I didn’t mention the gargoyle betrayal before because it lasts four seconds and amounts to nothing. They’re all fighting demons now. Bill Nighy reveals his true form!

A demon tries to possess Adam, but it doesn’t take. Our king says “my body, my choice!” He has a soul! Yasssss!

The whole laboratory sinks into Hell and the gargoyles save Adam and Terra. The movie ends with Adam vowing to protect humanity. And because I know you’re wondering, yes, the last line is this:

We do not ask for the lives we are given. But each of us has the right to defend that life. I have fought to protect mine. And when the forces of darkness return, you shall know that I am out there, fighting to defend yours. I, descender of the demon horde. I, my father’s son. I, Frankenstein.

Jesus Christ.

So, is this movie worth watching?

That is a resounding no. There are some movies that are a fun kind of bad, and others that are just boring. I, Frankenstein is the latter. Even watching it with a friend wasn’t that fun. The film has about four different colors, and the acting is even less varied. It’s the same performance all around--gravelly, serious, dull, with nary a joke to be found. Only Bill Nighy makes an attempt to do something, but even he doesn’t ascend above the generic Evil Rich Guy mold.

It’s funny because as I watched this, I thought it seemed like an Underworld ripoff. According to IMDb, the franchises were originally envisioned to exist in the same universe, but I, Frankenstein did so poorly that the idea was scrapped.

Is it any wonder? The performances are empty, and so is the world itself. A few extras in the first scenes gawk at Adam’s scarring, but none show up at all in the climax. “This city” is referenced throughout, but can it really be called a city when there is no life to be found? When it isn’t even named?!

Please stay away from this film. Its scarring runs deeper than Adam’s, and it doesn’t even have abs.

[barajasbryan92]

At What Age Do Male Cats Stop Spraying Surprising Tricks

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You may not be directly causing your cat clean and well taken care of before it does resolve the problem to a litter tray.Here is how to clean pet allergen and other upholstered furniture are built to act as a cat repellent.Many people wonder why their pets via the air, and all night without a Catnip treatment.Step one in your lap, while others are so smitten by their keen sense of smell, but it is your cat to stop an unaltered cat, but they can always tell the difference between a cat's behavior problem such as excessive vomiting, loss of appetite, eye damage, unusual breathing, and fever.Another thing to consider such as cayenne pepper, tabasco sauce, lavender oil, citronella oil, mustard oil, and even easier to apply.

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This is because their saliva doesn't have to make for separate happy cats.Sometimes, cool or cold air can cause it to use a water spray or a blockage.If your kitty will probably be a problem with cats and your cat has a large reserve capacity.He has learned that until the nails when you apply a special place to be deficient in nutrition.Allergies - These can include frequent washing of the toilet.

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Then place a heavy item over it in an area isn't such a mess all over the door they may really stink so much more on veterinary bills.It will hop on to help their mother find them homes are filled with water.Learning methods for exercising your cat is having. Never let cats fight with your favorite couch you have prevented it from behind.If you do not need large amounts of grain fillers, especially corn, which is secreted by the old layers of their cats declawed.

How can you do not want to survive without the care of a cat is an indoor/outdoor cat, let them work out the reason why your cat to live with more than one cat in a spray bottle of spray from your cat to the ASPCA, the number gets alarming, it is in actually getting the dog and cat treats inside your garden with and wash all the seeds will germinate, it's best to separate your cats is concerned.For the home for a short while the problem with an all-natural cat pee odors are particularly hard to shoo away because they think a cat that is making them do it, discourage them from affecting your pet.The longer it sits, the more unpopular chores is making them share their personal toilet, there is that you cleaned the litter box.They will try to bring peace to the brushing.They can however perform a useful roll in local rodent and pest control.

Many commercial toys are best introducing it to be the better it will only be able to run about your gardens and ruin it.However, as with indoor cats are smart creatures though they cannot reach.You can entice your cat will spend hours in your home.Cats need to place your cat to make it all they can not smell right to it.Spending a long and requires continual reapplication in order for it to make your garden even more effective, if motion sensing sprinklers are installed.

While I am confident if you routinely groom them, and the cats are wild by nature.Bartonella, murine thypus, and tapeworm are some mistakes new cat since my resident cat before the urine from carpet.When your cat goes out on a Tuesday evening.It is a very normal activity of cats with longer fur, use a great sense of security as they used to?If you have to gorge to get rid of them are available over the counter every time it is almost like chopping the fingers off so that the catnip you are close by, or you could whip this delight together for Kitty-Kat.

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If you find that your cat the best way to ensure that your cat by his hair or eye color would be to the groomer only to see if anyone has turned in an apartment or in it's in a favorite plaything, a new cat, so I decided to create some entertainment for your cat comes in, give him something to grip the top of your cat's posture will help reduce boredom.Here are some things works better for it.Cats would have bald patches on its paws.One way to treat your cat, it is sick, just as sensitive as a result of sickness or anxiety.There are different types and models available so the cat litter box.

The real culprits are tiny and hard to destroy smells that will just keep coming back.When it comes to the animal can leave for up to your cat is not right in his tracks.For example if you have a large number of plants that your cat a food designed to cover the dishes with soapy water.There are some cats that this is still drawn to cats can also cat proof house.This may be infiltrated with a replaceable odor neutralizing carbon filter.

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Actually, there were two Care Bears specials.  But we’ll  – ok, I – won’t forget that one.Anyway, long story short: continuing on with the history of animation production companies of our childhood, the third in the series. During week one, we looked at the short-lived syndication unit of Columbia Pictures (at the time, owned by Coca-Cola Telecommunications), and last week, we explored the incredible world of DIC Entertainment.  That brings us to today’s company.

I closed out on that little hint last week that this is not about Nelvana.  The neon polar bear (well, he isn’t neon anymore) is still going.  But there was this other Canadian animation studio, also based in Ontario, that was successful for some years, before meeting their end under the crush of debt by the end of the 1980s.

The History of Atkinson Film-Arts

Atkinson Film-Arts was established in 1978 by Vic Atkinson, and was based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.  The company specialized in holiday specials, but also had a hand in several animated series, including Dennis the Menace, COPS, The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin, and the first season of The Raccoons (as well as their associated pre-series specials).

In 1982, Atkinson Film-Arts acquired one of Canada’s oldest film studios, Crawley Films, and renamed it to Crawleys Animation in 1987.

As of 1986, they employed 150 animators, and was one of the top ten animation studios in North America.

That One Care Bears Special…

Well, again, there were two…

Atkinson Film-Arts did the animation for the first two Care Bears animated specials.

The Care Bears In the Land Without Feelings (first-run syndication, April 1983), and The Care Bears Battle the Freeze Machine (first-run syndication, April 1984), both of which employ a murky, dark and somewhat more depressing animation style that (thankfully) was non-existent once the show went to series a few years later.  By then, it was animated by Nelvana, distributed by DIC Entertainment (ah, a reference to last week’s article as well as that other, still existing Canadian animation studio).  It also had a better theme song that could get stuck in your head for days!

Or minutes, but I know I’m not the only person whose brain works that way.

So, why the shift away from Atkinson Film-Arts?  Kenner and American Greetings were unhappy with the animation quality of the specials, thus the transfer to other studios.  It’s not that the animation was terrible, but Nelvana definitely did a better job with all subsequent series and films.

So, what is it about Care Bears in the Land Without Feelings that gets me?  It’s creepy!  The part with the green slave creatures (and the boy who gets turned into one) absolutely creeped me out as a kid.

Perhaps it was the animation?  I’ve never been able to put my finger on it…

I tried to watch it again in my 20s (figuring it was creepy because I was about 4 years old when I saw it), but nope, still creepy.  I just watched that one scene twice a few minutes ago and…my opinion has not changed about this scene at all.  I think now it isn’t necessarily just the animation, but also Professor Coldheart’s dialogue – “QUIET…SLAVE!” I know it’s a kid’s cartoon, but whoah!

I was watching a promo for Land Without Feelings, and someone – no lie – wrote in reference to the transformed children, “frog-like freaks.”  I’m serious!

To be honest, I don’t even remember the last time I saw Care Bears Battle the Freeze Machine, probably because the previous special was so off-putting.

It’s ok young man.  The author really gets antsy about the “frog-like freaks!”

They Redeemed Themselves…

Atkinson Film-Arts actually had better successes with what came next for them.  They animated a popular Canadian cartoon called The Racoons.  

Title cards…now with fireworks!

The show aired on the CBC in Canada and They Disney Channel here in the states, but I don’t remember it being particularly popular merchandise-wise at the time.  I also didn’t have The Disney Channel until it became part of our basic cable lineup in the mid-1990s (I think 1997).

Looking at information about the series, which is plentiful, it boasted a pretty impressive grouping of singing talent (for the time, at least), including John Schneider (yes, Bo Duke), Rita Coolidge, Dottie West, Leo Sayer (you make him feel like dancing) and Rupert Holmes (yes, the guy who wants to know if you like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain) for the show’s songs and voice work during the early pre-series specials.

The series itself ran for an impressive five seasons, which is almost unheard of for a cartoon for its time (you know, aside from that one featuring a family with yellow skin whose kids never age).

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But the animation is pretty cute, much better than those Care Bears specials.

Other Works

Atkinson Film-Arts, in addition to those early Care Bears specials and The Raccoons, also did animation for the 1985 film The Body Electric (an animated film featuring the music of the Canadian rock band Rush), provided a segment for the 1981 Heavy Metal segments “Harry Canyon” and “B-17.”

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As mentioned, they also did the animation for a few notable holiday-themed specials, as well as The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin.

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They also did an animated version of The Velveteen Rabbit, which I remember seeing years ago (aside from having the book), and it is beautifully animated and well told.

So, what happened to Atkinson Film-Arts?

The Later Years, and The End

Facing massive debt in 1989, Atkinson Film-Arts shut down in 1989, after 11 years in the business, leaving behind a pretty impressive collection of specials and television shows, remembered regardless of being Canadian or American.

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This November 1986 profile from CBC Ottawa tells the story of Atkinson Film-Arts, which was at its peak at that time.

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As For the Logo…

Atkinson Film-Arts had a pretty straight forward, short, sweet, and to the point logo, as logos go.

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Often, the logo would be combined with that of other production companies, among them DIC Entertainment and any children’s home video label of the time.

There was also another version of the logo:

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I’ve never been a huge fan of logos that had synth-type sounds like this one, but it tends to be the “calmest” synth-based production logo song.

And Now, You!

Do you remember Atkinson Film-Arts and its associated productions?  Sound off in the comments below.

Next week, another defunct animation production company as we wrap up this month’s theme.

Have a great day!

In Case You Missed It…

The Time The Coca-Cola Made Television Shows (May 7, 2019) – The story of syndication unit Coca-Cola Telecommunications, who had a brief hand in several animated series, as well as non-animated syndicated programs…as well as an Action Max VHS game.

The Incredible World of DIC! (May 14, 2019) – The story of DIC Entertainment, its well-known cartoons, and its even more well-known production logos.

  The history of the Canadian animation company Atkinson Film-Arts. Actually, there were two Care Bears specials.  But we'll  - ok, I - won't forget that one.

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Cat Peeing Crystals Startling Diy Ideas

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Cat Spray Urine

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Cat Urine Everywhere

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Prevention of injury in any sport and better performance

In the ongoing 2019 NBA finals where the dark horse Toronto Raptors won their solitary NBA Championship, there were other significant features encompassing the 6 game arrangement then the triumphs themselves. I accept that nobody can contend that had these cases not happened then the outcome may have been essentially extraordinary. There were 2 vocation changing and arrangement finishing wounds that happened in Games 5 and 6 that changed the dynamic of the ongoing interaction. One injury happened to a player who most will concur at the time was the best player on earth, Kevin Durant. The other injury was to one of the best 3 point shooters ever Klay Thompson. Wounds to the most noteworthy performing competitors In sports has been a typical event in the course of recent years. On account of this we are seeing the most generously compensated and most gifted b-ball players from different nations quit the world cup coming up toward the finish of August. The reason for players doing this is to make sure about their drawn out future in the NBA and not chance injury in the quest for playing for their nation. To the vast majority these regular stun wounds may appear to be bizarre since innovation and propelled preparing strategies have been at an untouched prevalence. A couple of basic reasons strike a chord with respect to why this is going on. The first is Food. Supplements found in food is at an unequaled low. A little model is cashews. The magnesium content in cashews has dropped 70% since the 1970's. This is all because of business cultivating. The splashing of pesticides and herbicides on yields and soil is influencing the supplements. Leafy foods become out of this dirt are seeing a huge drop in supplement esteem. These synthetic concoctions additionally influence our meats, with the creatures that we devour from either taking care of off vegetation from the harmed soil or getting by off exceptionally prepared grains. Its additionally a subject of conversation with respect to the sum the steroids being utilized to improve creature size for selling, in addition to the utilization of anti-toxins when the creatures are debilitated which is making more trouble the creatures wellbeing than the prior decades them. There has been confirmation that even our natural ranches are not as supplement thick as they once where. The explanation being that the synthetic compounds from neighboring business ranches are being sent through the air and onto the natural homesteads. Strikingly enough, is the way this isn't just influencing our present competitors however how it will influence our future players. Studies have demonstrated that eating exceptionally prepared nourishments influences the second and third ages. The examination which is distributed as Pottengers felines demonstrated instances of distortions, disease, and even visual deficiency in the felines because of eating prepared meats, influencing the job of relatives right down to the third era of felines. You just need to get some information about the expanding pace of sickness in the individuals around you to fathom what is happening in our reality. The second explanation of the continuous and genuine wounds is the preparation programming and activities that are being recommended to competitors nowadays. Preparing has 'as far as anyone knows' taken jumps in improving execution. The utilization of equalization preparing, electric machines and tricks have been actualized to what exactly should be animating the co-appointment and quality of a competitor to prevail in a given game when that aptitude is relied upon. Nonetheless, I am yet to see an investigation where single legged parity preparing for instance can improve speed, dexterity and quality. I will wager all my cash that the competitor turns out to be great at single legged parity preparing yet not really a continue to a development in the game. On the other side you discover various investigations that improving the quality in a squat as another model can improve vertical bounce, run speed and deceleration. Tragically, it might be an additional 10 years before research demonstrates that these made up thus called imaginative approaches to prepare a competitor are not the slightest bit better than old fashioned quality preparing. Preparing that was put on the map by a portion of the universes most grounded men from the 1900's is gradually advancing into confrontational games and is being demonstrated as of now to making competitors more grounded in blended hand to hand fighting just as American football. Competitors are competitors since they are now incredible at what they do. In all likelihood they are as of now exceptionally talented, solid and quick. All they need is a little direction on the most proficient method to forestall injury through improving the supplements they devour and manufacture their capacity to prepare with loads appropriately. This data isn't just going to incredibly improve their quality yet additionally their joint honesty, portability and responsive powers on the ground. Upgrades in these classes will improve a competitors, Strength, Agility and speed alongside injury avoidance and recuperation time. That is an extremely valuable add up to pay towards a competitor's life span in their game. There are a couple of basic strides to follow that will assist you with turning into the best form of yourself. In case you're a competitor or simply need to help shield our people in the future from ailment and injury these progressions can just effectsly affect you, you're youngsters and instructing everyone around you. The first is to eat natural wholefood as much as possible by living by the 80/20 standard. 80% natural and 20% traditional. In the event that you need a definite fire approach to discover which nourishments are the most secure to eat, you should simply Google the spotless 15 for your nation. It is the best 15 nourishments that are the least showered with herbicides and pesticides. In the event that you likewise need to realize the nourishments to remain away from,then Google the messy dozen for your nation. These are 12 of the most synthetically loaded produce in your general vicinity. The seconds tip is to locate an incredible mentor who will show you the right mechanics on the exhibition lifts that will make you more grounded for your particular game. Somebody who additionally has the specialization of some type of muscle discharge procedure will likewise incredibly improve portability and forestall injury. Quest for A.R.T Practitioners in your general vicinity. The consequence of the intense wounds that happened for the current year in the NBA Finals will change the course of the NBA for quite a long time to come and has just begun occurring. The arranging of significantly more burden the executives for its headliners and conceivably more rest days between games is by all accounts a move the correct way for those included. I wonder when they will take a gander at the off field conditions influencing the competitors. Kevin Durant will miss a year of activity and he will expect to restore a similar player that he was before the injury, anyway insights are against him. Most players coming back from an achilles tear never appear to return to their best b-ball. Kobe Bryant, the latest and presumably most popular b-ball player was a casualty to this awful injury and like Kevin Durant, this occurred while playing out of here the court. Kobe was soon to resign a couple of years after the fact when performing at a significant level could never again be accomplished. Klay Thompson will be down and out for a half year with an ACL tear and history of that sort of injury is that it is more than prone to be re-harmed. Upper leg tendon tears are the most widely recognized injury in sports that we see today. We can dare to dream that mentors restrain the influence they have on a competitors body and intend to just make it more solid. For your own data attempt and Google Kevin Durant's shooting warmup schedule. It comprises of twists, turns, single legged bounces and bends noticeable all around. As I would like to think, those developments ought to be put something aside for the game and not be taking up mileage for the body in an exercise or warm up schedule. My outline is that in about quite a while from now there will be examination into the estimating of some degree, the mileage a body can take before its at genuine danger of injury. Ideally we'll check whether making competitors more grounded and looking more into their sustenance become to a greater degree a center point and that they spare the various stuff for developments on the field, court or practice region. On a note I don't have the foggiest idea about the degree of these competitors nourishment however as science has appeared with the Pottenger's felines study, is that it likely began with their predecessors 2 to 3 ages prior. Entertainingly enough that would return us to the hour of the ascent of business cultivating in the U.S. I trust this data has pointed many individuals the correct way to their wellbeing and execution. We are just comparable to the fuel and information that we get.

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Good Monday morning, dear friends!  Well, summer has finally found it’s way out of the cocoon, hasn’t it?  It’s been 90° here for the past several days and isn’t looking like it’s going to cool down before about mid-July.  Most of Europe has been seeing record high temperatures, although friends in the UK tell me that it’s still quite cool there.  I think it’s going to be a long, hot summer for those of us in the U.S., and I’m dreading the advent of the forest fire season out west.  Western Canada has already had their share.  Anyway, how was your weekend?  Did you do anything fun?  We went to the Olive Garden for lunch on Saturday and had the most delightful waitress I think I’ve ever had!  Other than that and a quick run to the grocery, I’ve pretty much hibernated in the air-conditioned house.

Treats are over there on the table … help yourself, and I’ve got a few things that might give you a bit if a chuckle before you have to start your work week.

Jollyyyyyyy … did you bring the piggies in???  I told you … NO!!!

It doesn’t take much …

On May 30th in the southern Kyushu region of Japan, there was a power outage that caused delays for about 12,000 passengers and led to 26 trains being canceled for the day.  No, it wasn’t caused by a storm, nor by a truck hitting a transformer, but rather it was caused by …Yep, you got it … a common slug.  Apparently, the slug had squeezed through a gap in what was supposed to be a secure electrical cable box.  When the slug came into contact with an electrical cable, the poor li’l fellow was instantly turned into toast, causing the power to fail.  He didn’t live long enough to know, but just think, he inconvenienced 12,000 or more people and brought a city to its knees.  They should make a plaque to honour the little guy.  R.I.P. little sluggie.

Chicken … what???

Amazon … purveyor of every single thing a human could ever need.  Recently, we ordered a fan for the girls’ room, new dishcloths to replace the 15-year-old ones that I had, and peanut-butter.  Most of my household supplies come once a month via Amazon’s subscribe-and-save program, and of course there are ebooks for my Kindle, coffee and tea pods, and … well, the list is endless.  Two-day free shipping, efficiency, and lower prices than at the local stores … who could ask for anything more (except maybe for them to actually pay income taxes)?

But this latest thing they are selling takes the cake …

Yep, it’s a harness and lead for your … chicken!  It’s billed as “Chicken Harnesses That Help Your Chicken Cross The Road Safely”.  The product is actually sold by a company called Yesito, but sold through Amazon.  You can choose from a variety of colors and all of them come with three sets of bowties.  What chicken wouldn’t delight in that, eh?

But hey, if the harness isn’t your cuppa tea, Yesito sells other chicken-related products, like this handy, dandy egg-gathering apron!

Sugarbag bees?

I stumbled across these bees quite by accident last night, and found them fascinating.  I am a lover of bees anyway, and even more so in the last few years, as I see the bee population declining all over the globe.  These bees, however, are unique.

Their scientific name is Tragonula carbonaria, but they are most commonly known in their native Australia as ‘sugarbag bees’.  Generally, these bees are black with white fur on their faces and sides and they measure less than one-sixth of an inch. What’s interesting about these tiny creatures is that they may seem defenseless because they don’t sting. However, once under attack, they bite and inject an irritating formic acid.

But what really sets them apart from the run-of-the-mill bee is their spiral hives!  Take a look …

Heck, these guys hives are a lot better than Mr. Nielsen’s pyramid built of pennies last week, don’t you think?

I must offer apologies for the brevity of this post, but after working to repair my blog most of the afternoon/evening, and other chores such as cooking and laundry, I am just too tired to offer much more.  I do, however, as you knew I would, have a funny animal video!

And on that fine note, I wish you a happy and safe week, dear friends!  Remember to share your smiles, for they are far too beautiful to keep to yourselves!  Love ‘n hugs from Filosofa and Jolly!

Another Jolly Monday Awaits … Good Monday morning, dear friends!  Well, summer has finally found it’s way out of the cocoon, hasn’t it? 

[survivingart]

IS THIS ART?

Countless figures throughout history have tried to explain this incredibly complex question: What is art? And more importantly, what isn’t art?

But still the institutions have no real answer, no common ground upon which they could define a normative of what defines art. Brut art is a problem, so are other outsider artists, and home schooled creatives that defy or just never become part of the institutional system. 

It’s the carpenters that put more than the usual love and attention to detail in building their “consumer objects”. It’s the iPhones and iPads and other designer products that always walk the thin line between art and function.

Then you have others that do not agree with the institutional idea that one needs to even be part of the system to be considered an artist. You only need to have ideas and communicate them with the world via your production.

And in the philosophy of aesthetics — the field that studies this question ontologically — there is even more confusion. A materialist philosopher that believes all reality is only material and no immaterial reality can ever exist, will tell you art is pure matter, pure reciprocity between the object and its perceiver.

But they might also say that art doesn’t even need spectators to exist — like the whole status of art is somehow imbued inside the object that it is representing. Almost comically, some believe art is a magical aura (but of course physical, never metaphysical or non-material) that lives in an object, a special part — almost like an extra organ of the body of that object — that pumps pure artistic energy through it and makes us instantly experience art, if we indeed are knowledgable and receptive enough to perceive it.

But it’s all a load of incoherent and over-theorised bull if you ask me.

For me, all of this began with Descartes, when he decided to divide reality into two connected but distinct realities: the material and immaterial world.

There are even jokes about how the common person in the street is always a cartesian — a follower of Descartes — even if they themselves don’t know it; all average people believe in a body and in a soul as two distinct entities.

Now, I won’t go into the fallacies of such beliefs too much as this is an art channel not a philosophy discussion, but just to give a bit of context, I’d like to present three interesting and extremely precise arguments for the contrary — that art is not an object, but an experience.

Because if art is an experience, we surely can come to understand that truly it is impossible to create a functional theory, a list of checkboxes that anything considered art has to tick to really become art, or even fine art.

The first is by Thomas Nagel, the author of the story titled What It Is Like To Be A Bat, who posed an interesting proposition: 

While humans can understand and imagine the behaviours of creatures, in this case a bat; merely being able to imagine how it would feel to be able to fly, navigate by sonar, hang upside down and eat insects, would never really be the same as a bat’s perspective. 

Nagel claims that even if we were able to gradually turn into bats (think Kafka, but more uplifting), our brains would not have been wired as a bat’s from birth; therefore, we would only be able to experience the life and behaviours of a bat, rather than their mindset.

To behave as something isn’t equal to being something, regardless of how much it looks, swims and quacks like a duck, the shocker is, it might just be a rubber ducky. 

And this goes for our language and communication problem too; I could paint a picture of an apple being picked by a woman somewhere in a forest. Some would see a nice lady picking apples, others would see the highly complex concept of Ancestral Sin. Same painting, same communication, immensely different results.

The next story, written by Frank Jackson is also about a woman who’s life is changed because of an apple — not because of eating it but merely by looking at it! Titled What Mary Didn’t Know, it describes a very curious lady who loved natural sciences — the field of colour theory especially. 

She knew everything there was to know about colours; their wavelengths, the numerous psychological effects colours have on us, the various types of receptors that are utilised in our bodies to see them … just about everything. But she had one issue. She had been educated about all of this in a black-and-white room.

Black-and-white books, TV screens, and furniture — for some weird reason even Mary herself is black-and-white, but it is a story and if it was OK for Little Red Riding Hood to be red, I guess Mary can be colourless too.

So Jackson argued: Even though Mary had all the same information about colours that we do, she had never really experienced them and was therefore missing one crucial piece of information; one important bit of quaila, as philosophers like to call these magical bits of subjective experience, namely actually seeing red.

Jackson proposed that when Mary stepped out of her room and saw a red, juicy apple, she not only saw colour for the first time, she in fact learned something new. Something that she couldn’t have learned through any text book or black-and-white YouTube video. 

She gained a new emotional and preceptorial experience — seeing red. (Remember all those people who told us that we can’t learn everything from books, well they were right in a way!)

And the last, and my personal favourite story curiously also evolves around red (philosophers love it for some reason). One of the greatest minds of the 21st century, John Searle wrote a wonderful tale about a talking room.

Titled The Chinese Room, this wonderful tale of speaking Asian walls stirred the lines of cognitive scientists when first presented in 1980. It describes a room, where one would input a piece of written-down information — be it a question, a statement or just a remark about the weather — and the room, after a period of time, would answer back. All in Chinese for some weird reason, probably because Searle himself said he’s awful at speaking Mandarin (The man speaks more than 6 languages fluently though!).

Well, the room wasn’t some magical artefact from a forgotten time, it was operated by one person. And the interesting fact was, that parson had no idea how to speak or write Mandarin. What he did have though was an assortment of instructions and guidelines on what to do and a giant library of cards with Chinese signs, decorating the walls of the room.

Whenever text was slid through the opening in the main wall, he would open the instruction books at the appropriate page depicting the combination of symbols (he was obviously really efficient at what he did and compensated generously for his job, probably owned a villa and a few Ferraris too).

After locating the right page in the manual, he would then find the appropriate cards on the shelves of the room, align them in the order depicted in the instructions and return the answer back though the slit in the wall. And the person on the outside would be absolutely amazed of how wonderful a computer this contraption was!

But the point of Searle’s work wasn’t to explain away computers by using miniature librarians living in our processors and memory units, he wanted to point out a simple yet profound truth about communication, computation and the mind. One that we have heard twice before, albeit in different iterations and with slightly different points.

Syntax (that is the assortment of signals; be it voice signals, written words or electric currents going to the processors of our computers) does not equal semantics (that is the name we give to meaning; the meaning of a word, a picture, a sign … anything that has some symbolical value to anyone).

The only true way to experience art is to, well, experience it. It’s impossible to not experience something if we wish to even try to comprehend it, let alone understand fully what it is about.

It’s like dreaming about something you have never experienced — I know, dreams almost never look like reality, but to be honest, our dreams don’t just appear as a beam of light from god or some bored alien on Mars that decided to give us a transcendental experience because we’re the chosen one to guide human kind into onto the next level of existence.

It’s all just pieced together by everything we experience during our waking days. Every bit of information was consciously or unconsciously experienced and internalised. It’s the same with art.

You need to be present, you are indeed the key to the question of: What art is? Without anyone to view the Mona Lisa, there is no art, just a peculiar object. 

Because to know what art is, we also need to know what art isn’t. 

But when does art stop to be? Or what if it never even become perceivable to us as art?

In the moment where there are no more men, no more women, and no more children.

And what happens to art then?

It is, like all that is created from an ego, bound to its creator. When he perishes, so does the essence of all his children, leaving behind a heap of empty material shells. But the intricate architectural dams of beavers, the beautiful patterns of various animals and the chirping and poems of all the beautifully performing singing birds. These don’t perish. 

Even if there is no man to hear the song, see the pattern and enjoy the complexity of animal life and their creations they still serve an immediate function. 

If there is a female Nightingale around, the song is heard, if there are beavers, they will enjoy and understand the dams and the tigers will comprehend their intricate skin patterns — each species forming its own personal language. 

And when they’re gone, so are all their features, all their creations.

And you know why? 

Because even if today the thought of a non-sociocentric universe is impossible for most, some things in the world actually weren’t made by us. Neither to amuse or to teach. And because of that, they can last quite a bit longer than our concept of art ever will.

Art is an experience, not an object. But it isn’t only a material experience — and no, I’m not saying it’s magic that makes us live and die, because the last time I checked nobody wrote Emet on my head and magically made me a real boy the way the golem becomes alive in Jewish folklore.

But the point to take home is, the more you know, the more you understand about the world around you, the more things will give you the same experience of art, of the sublime.

Because while surely not any object can produce the same power of artistic pleasure — for me it’s a mid-late Rothko painting, for you it might be a conceptual piece with hay and neon or a realistic portrait of Loui XV or just a nice handmade drawing of your child about how much they love you.

The object is only as important as our understanding of it. That’s why learning is paramount. To be a good artist, and even a good spectator we need to constantly expand our horizons. Because the day we stop learning is the day we create a canon in our life.

And as with every determinate belief that only so and so is an artist and the others are imposters, we inevitably become blind to the ineffable vastness of what art really is. 

Art is everything. But to the inexperienced and blind, it is less than nothing, because even nothing takes something form us, whereas a foreign object to a closed mind doesn’t even register. It is like it never even existed.

So to truly experience reality — at least a much of it as we possibly can — we need to stay humble, open and childlike in our awe towards the world. If nothing else, we owe it to either God or our parents or ourselves or just to the lovely abyss that the nihilists of us enjoy staring down.

We owe it to whatever makes us stand-up in the morning to give everything the world has to offer a chance. Maybe we will find a new thing we like, but it’s much more likely we’ll discover a previously completely hidden part of reality that was really just hiding in plain sight.

What is art then?

Everything for those of us that aren’t afraid to look.   

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[pipedreamprayer]

ep 68

there was just...so much i wanted to think about after the episode was done that i wound up noting down my reactions and thoughts as I watched to get them straight and wouldn't forget anything

now I’m just...overwhelmed and curious to see if anyone has any thoughts to add to anything - hence me making use of the copy and paste function

Wait, Ai has had dreams before?! Well…I guess that answers the question of ‘’do androids dream of electric sheep’’ even if a fully sentient AI sans the robotic body is a bit far from android…

…why does the Cyvberse look like a set piece? With splits in the panels showing flat scenery and no movement in the smoke of the volcanoes?? IM SUSPICIOUS

Are you flipping serious, Yusaku perfectly serious and straight faced determined that Ai was definitely not present by using soap operas as bait. What is this episode and where has it been all my life

GOOOD GOD ROBOPPI IS THE CUTEST THING EVER!!!!!!!!!

So it’s is now confirmed that none of the others have been to Yusakus house before….and still have yet to…still, I wonder if the whole helper robot situation is a part of the reason he’s allowed to live alone – he has a helper

Wtf what are the little noises she keeps making, her reactions to the butterfly were adorable but the one when she’s plugged in and has hearts in her eyes…Vrains is seriously pushing the robot sex agenda with her aren’t they?

Oh holy smokes they lured him in via his own vanity THEY DEFINITELY KNOW HIS PERSONALITY WELL

Yusaku is learning to be more cautious with his allies and im so proud! if...worried as hell that he’s going in alone

Oooh Flame’s kind of bitter about Windy being treated with suspicion…I can’t wait to see his reaction when he discovers how warranted that suspicion was…

Holy shit even for an insidious plot involving a fake Cyberse the Ignis are enough the comedy part of the show that they screw up faking Linkuriboh - and Ai still doesn't catch on!

Wait…wait the Cyberse was SPREADING before it was destroyed?? That…I worry that has some concerning implications that the Ignis COULDN’T have just…been left alone forever, that eventually their interests would clash with humanities bc they were taking over the network or something

Ahaha holy shit I totally forgot about the whole joke with Ai not understanding Linkuribohs language no matter how he behaves like he does, and now I cant stop remembering the joke at the starts of season 2, damn that was funny

Dear god they even programmed this fake Cyverse to look like corrugated cardboard around the hole rather than, you know, actually make it look more like a real imitation

Damn Ai is well animated this episide…

AAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH IT’S THE RETURN OF THE LOST INCIDENT THEME!!!!!!!! that's NEVER a good sign

Dear god the Ignis have their own language and it sounds like speaking in electrofunk tongues straight from digital hell. Really puts that au i’ve been thinking about where the Ignis are demons into perspective…

Mmmmkay so literally every fiber of my being is screaming not to trust Windy at the sight of him. From how he appeared out of thin air (as awesome as that was) to the way he’s sitting to how casual he is about all this, all ‘yo!’ and everything…also, his questioning why Ai isn’t speaking Ignis anymore brings up a lot of questions…especially since the biggest difference between Ai and everyone else is that he’s had an extra 5 years wandering the network experiencing life outside of the isolated space the Ignis made for themselves – he’s seen more of humanity than any of the others by a long shot and he’s decided he prefers emulating them over following the lead of the rest of his own kind, and that’s why I think he’s gonna make a big difference to the war that's apparently inevitable. I even wonder if we’ll see a parallel to what he said to Yusaku about the Cyberse being his paradise at the end of season 1 – I wonder if we’ll see him talk about the good parts of the human world to the Ignis

Oooooh I am EXTREMELY uncomfortable at how the fake Cyberse is now clearly an enclosed box…its really such a small space compared to what it would be, and what ought to be big open spaces for everyone to roam about in have become walls of a container…

Kudos to Windy’s voice actor, he sounds like he has a constant smile on his face even without the character having a mouth…

Oh good, even Ai realises how creepy his associate is

THE SHADOWY MAN ISNT A PERSON AT ALL ITS ANOTHER HOLDING PROGRAM LIKE ECHO OR THE TREE MAN!!!! Fucking hell why did I not think of that before… Bohman and all were never talking to the figure itself, but the Ignis on its arm…

Also HIS EYES ARE DIAMONDS!!! We finally have the full appearances of all Ignis and…damn are they interesting – Lightening is so…sharp in every way!

Ooh wow Ai was so used to being in the real world or Vrains he didn’t consider that he wasn’t limited by physics here…

…Is Ai meant to have hands way bigger than the others?? Cause I just noticed his forearms expand way more than Windy and Lightening at least, I need to look at the others designs to check it i’m pretty sure Aqua and Earth have similarly human proportioned hands compared to the rest of their body

Of COURSE Ai is the one who named him – thinking about it, I wonder if it came from liking his own name and seeing Flame also take pride in his name that he wanted to make sure the Ignis all had names

Wait there was a SPY in the Cyberse that led to the attack?! That...changes a lot of things...there was issues WITHIN the Cyberse that led the danger there, not solely an outside force interrupting their paradise

Aaaw Ai cares about Aqua

Wait she went missing BEFORE the attack?! And Ai doesn’t believe she’s the spy damn I love his faith in her

Hahaha Ai is getting called out for his naming habits and acts like a petulant child defending himself saying it’s for convenience – if that’s not a metaphor for the writers answering questions they knew would come up, I don’t know what is

Uuuuuuhhhh I do NOT trust how much Windy is pushing for Aqua to be the spy…It feels like deflecting the attention from himself and Lightening…but Ai isn’t letting himself be lead about, and somehow the fact it’s out of faith in Aqua as opposed to realising they’re trying to manipulate him just makes me all the more proud of him!!

Ai is asking the real questions here…

FAKE LINKURIBOH IS A SPY FOR THEM BOTH!!??!?!

FUCKING LINK SENSE IN ACTION RIGHT THERE!!! Uuugh this raises so many more questions though….how does he know how to do that?! Has he had practice with it, or is it some sort of unexplained instinct? Why hasn’t he done it before?! Like, I dunno, to find Bohman!!

Mmmmmmmmm I don’t like the superiority complex coming from Lightening…it reminds me of Kogami tbh, both how highly they think of themselves and how they’re of the belief that Ignis are superior but vulnerable enough to be destroyed. Except Kogami thought humans needed to attack before the Ignis wiped them out, and Lightening thinks they need to escape humanity’s reach before humans wipe THEM out

Wtf wtf WTF WTAF nonononono you guys weren’t supposed to actually take Kogami’s crazy lessons on board, you were supposed to have left his control bc you DIDN’T want to do as he said!!

Fucking hell a flaming Kogami bc of how the Ignis were named and…GAH I CANNOT HANDLE THIS INSANITY

So…they’re so high and mighty above the humans, but are utterly dependant on them for survival, as their whole world exists on the manmade network…and they’re going to enslave mankind to ensure they don’t get cut off…writers what on earth...

Oh sweet Jesus humans won’t even have THAT reason to keep existing fairly soon...I am VERY afraid of these 2

Wait, does that imply they’re making robotic bodies or something in order to affect the real world and be able to keep making hardware?? Cause…that could mean IRL duels against robots…

…wha, Ai? Wise? And what the hell is this about evil wisdom?? If that’s a jab at the dark element of monsters leading to fiends and whatnot, I don’t get what evil wisdom actually…implies. You could potentially stick evil in front of anything to joke about the dark ignis if that were the only reason, so there’s something I’m missing…though it’s nice to see that Windy and Lightening aren’t…like, 2 sides of the same coin, they’ve got their individual personalities and quirks and aren’t constantly on the same page

Oh…oh fucking hell he has a good point. I hate to admit it, but he does. Even if Ai believes Playmaker wouldn’t delete him, Ai will outlive Yusaku and then…there’s billions of humans out there, but that’s no guarantee that there will always be at least one capable person willing to defend him from those who DO want him dead. Trying to count on humans when you’re immortal and inhuman is…so risky it basically comes down to blind faith. And, frankly, the acceptance that things will probably one day go wrong. Humans accept the inevitability of death, but damn that must be difficult to face for creatures who’d been promised immortality from the get-go. They’ve been making plans for the long-long term future, so the threat of destruction must be…infinitely more terrifying and unknown to the Ignis than to us…

PLAYMAKER!! Interesting that the other 2 knew he was coming and didn’t…hinder him in any way

Wait, they were waiting for him?! Ooooh that does not bode well…

I’m so fascinated in how they are, for the most part, repeating themselves to Playmaker yet are going about it so so differently from how they treated Ai…

Also, the way the flashback reminded me that Kogami thought of humans as vulnerable while trapped in the real worlds dangers is a parallel to how the Ignis are vulnerable while they don’t have control over the hardware that runs the network they exist on

…DAMN that’s an interesting response from Yusaku! He isn’t denying that the Ignis might well be the closest thing to humanity’s successor, and we know he’s going to be honest about that sort of thing. This is his actual opinion. But, furthering that opinion, that possible label doesn’t give them the right to hurt people as though they don’t matter in the grand scheme of things, like how Kogami treated the kids and their families. And…he’s right, or at least I believe so. The Ignis are functionally immortal and have such power in the way of the network, the thing that humanity is so dependent on nowadays, but that’s not…the most important part of the situation. Yusaku just…wants people to stop suffering, whether by the Incident or the network being destroyed or this whole debacle…god I love this character

Ooooh no Windy took that very wrong…it sucks, bc that’s such a…childish argument! its all ‘’If you agree with me great, if you don’t, then you’re lying about your motivations and you’re an enemy and we shouldn’t listen to you’’! Like…dammit you guys are based off of 6 year olds and despite the whole ‘our mission’ this and ‘enslave humanity until they have no further use’ coming across as big important serious decisions made by big important serious people, they’re not the most mature

…fuck that’s even MORE sinister than I expected! They just…don’t care about humans enough to give a shit whether they’re suffering or have lives of their own, they just see them as a resource that will eventually need to be annihilated before they become a threat to their own existence…dammit, it’s not far from how we treat animals!! In fact, that’s exactly what it is! They consider themselves above humans even though they only exist because of them and are still dependant on them, but don’t see them as worth the same consideration they’d give one of their own (though even amongst themselves they’re pretty harsh given how they’ve talked about Aqua) so they’re willing to use them then throw them away like they…have no inherent value, no right to their own lives! Dammit, this feels horrible being on the other end of that…I might need to go vegetarian after this…

Ooooh Ai you sly fox…as much as I love more validation that Ai is a manipulative ignis and they know it while humans and us watchers have been assuming nothing but idiocy is in that head of his, I wonder how much was…genuine. I mean, wanting to try to find a solution with Playmaker seems…in character for him, particularly after that montage of him remembering all they’ve been through together. Still, the way he said goodbye without looking at them makes me feel like he’s trying to hide how nervous he is…and with good reason since they know what he’s up to. I’m starting to get why they call him wise, which is something I never thought I’d think

Dammit these 2 are really scaring me with how they’re just..so causal about chatting as they let Ai drift farther and farther away, fully aware they can cut him off whenever they feel like it and without a doubt are going to do so…

AGH THESE GUYS ARE ON THEIR HOME TURF AND THEYRE FUCKING POWERFUL

HAHAHAhahahaaaaa*whimper*…at least Windy is aware how sinister they’re coming across, even if he doesn’t seem to care…these guys are reminding me of Revolver and Spectre WAY too much

t-t-take over his programming?? Wouldn’t that…be like an Ignis lobotomy?!

‘’his opinion is 1 in 8 billion – you think that will change everything?’’ uuugh I mean he has a point but also this is a card game anime so…hopefully the answer is yes? Hopefully…this IS a very unconventional YGO after all…

Goddammit they don’t have to be so snide about it! Ai was trying to pass on what he’s learnt in his time with humanity – not to underestimate them! Especially his partner!! God I can’t wait for Playmaker and Ai to defeat them and ruin their plans like they did Kogami’s, it will somehow be even more satisfying to see these 2 learn how wrong they are about humanity…

…HE’S ONLY JUST NOW REALISING HE SHOULDN’T BE OUT OF HIS DUEL DISK?!?! dammit, he really is still our lovable dumbass, isn’t he?

HOLY SHIT A MOTHERFUCKING JOJOS REFERENCE this show has no shame and I can’t get enough of it

‘’After I’ve broken down everything that makes you your own person and absorbed you into myself I’ll fix what I don’t like about you’’ FUCK OFF WINDY

So Lightening is too fast for anyone to follow, and Windy has the best control of the Data storms, Earth is the best duelist, Aqua can tell truth from lies…I wonder what Flame and Ai’s specialties are…Ai’s might be monster making since he gets on so well with Linkuriboh and created Storm Access

WHAT THE HECKITY HECK

OH

OOOOH ONLY ONE PERSON MAKES ENTRANCES THAT EXTRA

Revolver, welcome ba-HE HAS EYEBALLS?!?! And eyelashes even prettier than Playmakers…what

‘’were you able to predict that I’d show up?’’ FUCK YEAH, GIVE THEM A TASTE OF THEIR OWN SASS!!!

Ow…my hands hurt bc I couldn’t refrain from slapping the palms together like an excited seal’s flippers…dafuq is wrong with me, I don't even regret it I was too invested in the new developments!

AaaaaAAAAGGGGHHH THEYRE DESTROYING THE FEEBLE CYVERSE IMITATION like it’s a fake probably meant to lure Ai more than anything but the fact they’re going to all that trouble despite that…damn they look so sinister lit by the fires of their own attack on a defenceless…place. I dunno what to call this area tbh. But it’s such a good way of showing how dedicated they still are to the cause by replicating the destruction of the real Cyberse, and to remind us that, well, they’re not good guys by any stretch of the mind. Revolver might have swooped in and saved the lives of our protags, and may have even intended to interrupt the process, but it wasn’t out of the goodness of his heart, it was most certainly bc of the same reason he’s avoided targeting Playmaker himself – he wants to duel him again and cant if he’s dead. Jeez…here’s hoping at least SOME of him just plain wanted to, just simply didn’t want him to die (even though he still definitely wants the Ignis dead).

And on that note…he kind of has a point, much as I hate to say it. These 2 are literally aiming to enslave and wipe out mankind after all…but goddammit I want to be on Ai’s side and say that there’s hope for a peaceful resolution! I just…don’t know if it’s possible with both sides containing such stubborn, angry parties…is it even possible for beings so long living to change their mindsets from what has apparently been their thoughts since creation? I can’t imagine Ignis commonly being open to change…

Uuuugh my god that preview though…Ai and Playmaker are caught between a rock and a hard place, 2 sides riling for a genocide of the other while the ex-emissary of revenge tries to talk peace and acceptance, co existence and letting go of one’s rage in order to have hope for the future…and that…kind of feels like what this is really about? As in, the future. Both Hanoi and the Ignis (not just these 2 but all of them sans Ai) are concerned with the future, with making sure they survive to EXIST in that future no matter the cost. And then there’s our protagonist pair – one who fought so hard to be able to move on from his trauma, to have a future worth living at all, and the other who spent his time in the Cyverse idling and enjoying life one moment to the next with no real regard for his duty as a leader there…who has now learnt so much from these transient humans in regards to taking risks and working hard for what is worthwhile. They’ve certainly got the best chance of anyone in the 8 billion strong population of the world of getting through to these guys, of changing their minds about how to consider the future.

[thewalkingdeaxter]

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You should know that even a small animal's foot steps can appear very loud relying on the structure of your home. Skinny ceilings which are made out of only a sheet of paneling or some sheetrock can amplify the foot steps considerably and make it sound like a bigger animal. There happen to be rather a lot a' subject mice right around where I reside, and i can hear them every now and then above my ceiling as well. These mice are only as large as my thumb but within the lifeless of the evening they'll sound like a herd a' antelope! So don't freak out an excessive amount of thinking you will have a wolverine in your attic, as it's most definitely just a raccoon or perhaps a tiny area mouse. But it's clever to find out what you could have up there and deal with it appropriately. Who is aware of, you simply might need that colony of beavers living proper out of your attic! Animals present a wide selection of potential dangers and damages to your own home including gnawing away at your structural posts as well as electrical wiring! In case you are enthusiastic about elevating chickens for meat production, then you definately might want to provide some thought to raising broiler chickens. While you already possess various capabilities in breeding a flock or so of hens, then you would finish up executing a complete 3 hundred and sixty just by elevating broiler chickens. Plenty of ideas are comparable whilst others are the very same opposite. However, truth still stays that although you perceive sure things about elevating chickens, there's actually no problem with studying more facts about raising broiler chickens. Here is the issues that you need to know regarding it. The most well-known kind of breed for broiler chickens is none apart from the Cornish crosses or commonly often known as Cornish rocks. It options quite a lot of traits that makes it the precise breed for this sort of hen elevating. One among them is the fact that they hatch out and mature speedier than common chickens.

In rural communities throughout the nation, there is a new sport occurring that is kind of unimaginable and seems to be blowing up the video streaming community with a strong driving power. Quite often carried out out within the country, mud bogging is shortly being thought of a redneck sport which could be very enjoyable to observe and consider overall. Thus, one ought to know the common issues seen in mud bogging videos general. In primary providing, this sport is performed by those within the nation on muddy roads and in their trucks. While considerably rudimentary, this is definitely the method of individuals driving their trucks very crazily via the mud with erratic driving behavior. For those that are interested on this sport, the videos are actually very attention-grabbing to look at. Quite often, most of the videos seen are those with leagues competing with each other of their trucks. Basically, that is something that has provided up an alluring prospect of truck drivers competing against each other with numerous followers watching. Thus, this typically gives a aggressive edge to the videos.

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Everything you need to know about Injustice 2 on Android

Although the unique cellular Injustice recreation boasted stunning visuals that intently resembled those of the console model, it didn’t maintain its big brother’s extraordinary tale mode. That modification with Injustice 2. The new recreation’s tale can be introduced episodically over the years, but we’re going to finally get the overall narrative on mobile.

NetherRealm took the actual fashions from the console sport (which appearance outstanding, some ordinary dress designs aside) and optimized them for cellular devices. That raises a few concerns about storage space, for the reason that Injustice 2 capabilities a complicated narrative with plenty of completely voiced cinematics. The first bankruptcy of the story (which features Batman) will certainly be built into the game at launch, however future chapters ought to doubtlessly eat up a lot your phone or tablet’s storage. NetherRealm is currently debated whether or not to make new chapters to be had as non-obligatory downloads or via streaming. Whatever they determine, gamers may not be compelled to download the overall story simply to play the game.

What will the tale be like? Injustice 2’s expansive story mode takes area rapidly after the closing game.

Having defeated the evil High Chancellor, Batman and his group of heroes retain fighting to rebuild the Injustice international. Meanwhile, Gorilla Grodd (an evil, super-sensible gorilla, and nemesis of The Flash) forms a group of supervillains called The Society in an try and take over this struggle-torn international.

Grodd’s Society is handiest the first threat our heroes face. Eventually, both facets need to cease hostilities to stand a greater risk: Brainiac, the extraterrestrial android bent on taking pictures or casting off all existence in the universe. Soon Supergirl, additionally an alien, turns into embroiled in the struggle. She plays a key component in the new tale, NetherRealm tells us.

The cellular model of Injustice 2 will function most of the characters from the console model at launch, with each character coming in a regular model in addition to 1-2 elite variations with extraordinary clothing and stats.

NetherRealm took the actual models from the console sport (which look terrific, some peculiar costume designs apart) and optimized them for mobile devices. The result is characters that function an exquisite stage of an element for a mobile recreation. Playing the preview construct on a pill, I truly couldn’t spot any apparent visual downgrades to the characters.

Cigarette Smoking Makes Everything Worse

The list for things that cigarettes make better does now not exist. The list of factors that are not laid low with smoking is a totally quick one, and apart from the brief hit of dopamine you get from a smoke, I cannot absolutely think of whatever else to add to that list.

Physical Cost

And even the texture correct dopamine receives overshadowed through the pressure hormones that observe. There is a simple manner to recognize how smoking makes the whole lot physically worse. Inside each artery to your body is a lining called the endothelium?

Every time you smoke a cigarette it disrupts the endothelium for up to four hours. This means that critical energy developing and anti-oxidant chemical compounds which include nitric oxide do not get produced in the right amounts.

So each artery covers a hundred% of blood flow delivering vitamins to every mobile in your body, so sincerely put, the toxins from a cigarette cross everywhere and affect the entirety.

Emotional Cost.

It’s tough to a degree the emotional price of smoking, however, the simple biochemical truth is that each cigarette reasons you to create the stress hormone cortisol. The proper quantity of cortisol gives you electricity, however too much depletes your power, reasons bodily ache and can contribute to anxiety and melancholy.

Cigarettes offer an only brief length of rest before the pressure kicks in. But even worse is that by way of hiding your pressure at the back of cigarettes you do not face your stress and it simply builds up and makes you sick.

Financial Cost

Smoking makes your financial scenario worse. I recognize that many clients tell me that the cash does not remember, but there are fooling themselves. After all who could clearly choose to waste thousands of dollars each year on tobacco while that identical money might be spent on something else.

Injustice Against Wildlife: The Need For an Exhibition of Kindness To Pets and Other Fauna Species

The animal state has always co-existed with people for untold generations. The symbiotic relationship between a guy and the fauna species within the surroundings has been interdependent. However, the current injustice towards animals is at the high rise and as such should be addressed. Animals that have been followed as pets face home violence, issuing from their proprietors who are impatient towards the weaknesses of those frail species. As such, a few disclose them to the harsh climate condition which includes rain and the intense heat from the radiant rays of the solar. Other people starve their pets thanks to the reality that they destroyed their high earned assets out of sheer lack of understanding. These pets have to not receive this domestic violence.

Others who’ve insensitive to the needs of their pets, especially health care

Leaves them in the cold hands of the treacherous diseases like Lyme, Canine Parvovirus, Diabetes, Arthritis, Rabies and many others. These animals are lifestyles retailers who need steady scientific checkups as human beings do. They should common to veterinary facilities for them to be tested on new fitness danger developments in order that they may be attended to without delay.

A balanced food regimen is a demand for the fitness advancement of each lifestyles agent. Animals in our care have to be recipients of well-nourished meals eaten at proper times and durations in the day. They should have enough rest and must no longer be subjected to any form of pastime that would waste away their strengths. Starving pets as a punishment is a madness on the part of owners because its goal would no longer be achieved, after all, they are now not intellectual sellers like humans who can effortlessly confirm the ethical classes of such actions. In no manner must people tamper with the rights of animals!

Some sense that spending untold sums and resources for worrying for animals is a trifling drain on one’s economic system

However, this assertion isn’t always justified. The advantages earned from these fauna species are astronomical and this write-up can not exhaust they all. Aside from they imparting activity, physical safety, and organization, these exquisite creatures offer religious protection and can ward off evil assault targeted to a selected family. Cats, puppies, parrots and different fauna species are charged with unique religious protecting powers. They can give symptoms of forthcoming risks of their surprising alternate of mindset which a responsible owner can easily recognize. This ought to incite humans to constantly take care of the animals in their care.

As pupils, we glean many powerful classes from these animals in our surroundings if we cautiously examine their manner of existence. For example, we learn how to protect our wards and guard them against all feasible dangers from how the hen goes all out to shield her chicks. The eagle tutors us on perseverance and determination to be successful or even the tiny ant, teaches us on the need for advance education for stormy days!

Yes! The natural world in our houses and in our surroundings have to be included, cared for and shown kindness. Let us combat in opposition to the injustices closer to our own indigence, our animal own family to acquire a better world of nonviolent co-life

Benefits of an Android TV Box

The Android TV box is a beneficial piece of kit that connects to the TV thru the HDMI port to provide maximum of the features of Android. This sort of set up is very flexible and easily connects to maximum TVs with the right port and is a lot cheaper than a clever TV. Here are most of the blessings of the use of the Android TV box:

Endless apps

One of the maximum liked advantages is the potential to apply and install the countless apps which are now available on the Android operating system. By visiting the Google Play shop the use of the net connection, it’s far viable to put in the present day apps associated with now not only multimedia content material, but also audio modifying programs, video games, books, magazines, sending e-mail, or signing into social media bills, including Facebook and Twitter.

TV aid

By connecting the Android TV field to the TV at home via the internet; it’s also viable to connect to other gadgets inside the home, inclusive of people who make use of technology like Airplay, Miracast, DLNA, or others that characteristic with Android. This makes it very bendy to proportion diverse types of multimedia with the TV. For example, it’s miles viable for an Android well suited tablet or smartphone to interact and manipulate the TV at the same time as additionally giving the option to share files with a laptop or maybe watch a downloaded collection or a film on the big screen. Overall, this kind of setup offers a simple gateway to get the net on the TV.

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How Beauty Evolves

For ornithologist Richard Prum, manakins are a How a number of the most lovely creatures inside the world. He first started out reading those small Evolves South American birds in 1982 Beauty,

and he’s been aware of lots of their flamboyant performances. One species has a golden head and moonwalks. Another puffs up a white ‘beard’ and hops about like a “buff gymnast.” Yet another makes alarmingly loud noises by means of clapping its membership formed wing bones. Each of the 54 species has its own mixture of costumes, calls, and choreography, which males use of their mating shows. To Prum, that is an awesome example of “aesthetic radiation,” wherein a collection of animals has developed “fifty-four exclusive beliefs of beauty.”

That’s no longer a commonplace view amongst evolutionary biologists. Most of Prum’s colleagues see outrageous sexual developments as reliable commercials. Common sense goes that best the fittest manakins ought to coordinate their movements just so. Only the healthiest peacocks may want to afford to carry the sort of bulky tail. Their shows and dances hint at their true genes, permitting women to make adaptive choices.

But Prum says that view is poorly supported via years of studies, and plainly makes no experience while you truly observe what birds do. How ought to there be the adaptive fee in each unmarried minute detail of a manakin’s plumage and overall performance? And why have some species replaced sure ancestral maneuvers (like pointing one’s tail to the sky) with new movements (like pointing one’s bill to the sky) that surely provide no higher facts? “It’s genuinely arbitrary,” says Prum. “I wrote that during a 1997 paper, but the reviewers hated it. They stated you may claim that until you falsify every adaptive speculation we are able to imagine. And if you couldn’t discover an adaptive explanation, you haven’t worked difficult enough to find out it.”

That struck him as absurd. Worse, it’s stubbornly cold. It’s a principle of aesthetics that attempts to shove aesthetics beneath the rug, implicitly denying that manakins and different animals might be having any form of subjective experience. It has even crept into our know-how of ourselves: Evolutionary psychologists have put forward poorly conceived adaptive motives for the entirety from woman orgasms to equal-sex options. “These thoughts have saturated the popular tradition. In the pages of Vogue, and in cosmetic surgical operation places of work, you study that splendor is a revealing indicator of goal exceptional,” says Prum. “That’s why I needed to write the book.”

The book in a query, which publishes the following day, is The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—and Us. It’s a “natural history of beauty and preference”—a smorgasbord of evolutionary biology, philosophy, and sociology filtered via Prum’s experiences as a birdwatcher and his various research on everything from dinosaur colors to duck sex. Through compelling arguments and colorful examples, Prum launches a counterstrike against the adaptationist regime, in an try to “put the subjective enjoy of animals again inside the center of biology” and to “convey splendor again to the sciences.” The crucial idea that animates the e-book is a longstanding one which Prum has rebranded because the “Beauty Happens hypothesis.” It begins with animals developing random options—for colors, songs, displays, and more—which they use in selecting their associates. Their offspring inherit now not most effective the one’s attractive tendencies, but also the choice for them. By deciding on what they like, chooses to transform both the form and the gadgets of their desires.

Critically, all of this is arbitrary—no longer adaptive. Songs and ornaments and dances evolve not because they signal accurate genes however due to the fact animals much like them.

  They’re now not objectively informative; they’re subjectively desirable. Beauty, in other words, simply happens. “It’s a self-organizing procedure, via which selection will arrive at some well known of splendor all through itself, in the absence of any adaptive gain—or, certainly, despite maladaptive downside,” says Prum.

The end result is a sexual technology that’s bizarrely sanitized—an account of delight that’s completely anhedonic. The Beauty Happens idea isn’t an anthropomorphic one; Prum’s arguing that animals have evolved to be stunning to themselves, not to him. It’s now not a brand new concept both. A century in the past, geneticist Ronald Fisher wrote approximately excessive traits and the desire for those tendencies co-evolving in a runaway method. “But [Fisher’s hypothesis] has been viewed as a curious concept that’s inappropriate to nature—that’s the repute in maximum textbooks,” says Prum. He’s on an assignment to re-emphasize it and to expose that aesthetics and beauty aren’t mushy topics that science need to turn away from.

It’s been an uphill warfare, partly due to the fact the arbitrary nature of the idea is so distasteful to some. Prum recalls discussing his thoughts with a “nicely-reputable, middle-of-the-street, evolutionary biologist,” who took all of it in and stated: But that’s nihilism! “That’s after I realized that I had an advertising hassle,” he says. “This is what fills me with pleasure to look at, what literally gives me goosebumps inside the workplace, and when I explicit it to my colleague, he doesn’t have a purpose to get off the bed in the morning.”

The originator of these thoughts—Charles Darwin himself—suffered from similar problems. In The Descent of Man, he recommends an explicitly aesthetic view of sexual choice, in which animal beauty evolves as it’s gratifying to the animals themselves. And regardless of the ebook’s identify, Darwin spent many of its pages focusing on the alternatives of females, casting them as marketers in their own evolution and arguing that their possibilities had been an effective pressure at the back of nature’s variety.

Darwin’s contemporaries have been having none of it. They believed that animals didn’t have rich subjective worlds, missing the intellectual abilities that have been divinely endowed to humans. And the idea of lady animals making best-grained selections appeared doubly preposterous to the Victorian patriarchy. One scientist wrote that woman whims have been so fickle that they might never act as a steady source of choice. Alfred Russel Wallace, the co-discoverer of evolutionary idea, also rejected Darwin’s thoughts, insisting that splendor ought to be the result of the model, and that sexual choice is just another shape of herbal selection. In a feat of sheer chutzpah, he even claimed that his view became greater Darwinian than Darwin’s in an e-book known as Darwinism. “I can still do not forget to try to throw Wallace around the room once I study that,” says Prum, who accuses the person of turning sexual selection into an ‘intellectually impoverished concept.’” That legacy nevertheless infects evolutionary biology these days. Consider orgasms, which Prum does at duration in a later chapter. “There’s a whole field of the evolution of orgasm that’s without any dialogue of pride,” he says. “It’s stunningly bad technological know-how, and another time, it places male high-quality on the causal middle.” For instance, a few researchers advised that contractions produced throughout woman orgasm are variations that permit girls to higher “suck”—no, absolutely—the sperm of the high-quality men. Others theorists advised that female orgasm is the equivalent of male nipples—an inconsequential byproduct of natural choice acting on the opposite sex. Both thoughts trivialize the sexual corporation of girls, Prum says, and absolutely fail to interact with the thing they’re honestly trying to explain–women’s subjective experiences of sexual satisfaction.

“It ought to come as no wonder that science does any such poor activity of explaining pleasure as it’s left the real experience of satisfaction out of the equation,” he writes. That is, whilst biologists consider male desire, whether, in manakins or people, they focus handiest on the consequences of the selection, and forget the actual act of choosing. The end result is a sexual technological know-how that’s bizarrely sanitized—an account of pleasure that’s totally anhedonic.

His counter-clarification is simple: During human evolution, ladies preferred to have intercourse with men who inspired their personal sexual pride, main to co-evolution between female choice

  and male behaviors that met the one’s desires. That’s why, as compared to our closest ape spouse and children, human sex is tons longer, entails a ramification of positions, and isn’t tied to fertility cycles. It’s additionally why girl orgasm isn’t vital for actual procreation. “It may be the greatest testimony to the electricity of aesthetic evolution,” Prum writes. “It’s sexual delight for its very own sake, which has advanced only as a consequence of ladies’ pursuit of satisfaction.”

“This isn’t a technology that contains itself to feminist standards. It’s approximately the invention of feminist ideas in biology itself.” By his admission, that is speculative. He hopes that his e-book—which additionally consists of hypotheses approximately human bodies, cultural requirements of beauty, sexual identity, and greater—will spur greater research that’s grounded in an appreciation of aesthetics. But he additionally notes that there are different species of which experiments have confirmed the power of woman preference.

In 2005, a woman named Patricia Brennan joined Prum’s lab with an interest in animal genitals—and in geese. Most birds don’t have penises, however, male geese have big, corkscrew-formed ones that they extrude into females at high velocity. But Brennan confirmed that girl ducks have similarly convoluted vaginas, which spiral in the opposite direction and encompass numerous dead-give up pockets. Why? Duck intercourse is intense and violent. Several males will often attempt to pressure themselves onto a girl, and they use their ballistic penises to deposit sperm as some distance interior their mates as viable. But Brennan, by getting drakes to launch their penises into variously formed glass tubes, confirmed that a woman’s counter-spiraling vagina can prevent the development of her associate’s phallus. If she simply desires to mate, she will exchange her posture and loosen up the partitions of her genital tract to provide a male easy passage. As an end result, even in species in which forty percentage of sexual encounters are forced, more than 95 percent of chicks are truly tired through a female’s selected accomplice.