#also. subtitles aren't mine and i can't help it but:

[detailtilted]

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Have you ever watched those really old J2 convention videos and alternated between laughing and groaning because they're so funny, but half the time you can't understand what they're saying and the video is so grainy?

I decided to make an attempt at creating an "Enhanced Edition" of the old CHICON 2007 J2 Breakfast videos. The original videos aren't mine; credit and links are provided in the video description on YouTube.

The video description on YouTube has more details about the "enhancements", but here's a shorter summary:

Somewhat improved video quality. It looks a little weird at the beginning, but it gets better. The video thumbnail seen above is an actual frame from the video.

Added small and (mostly) subtle content to explain some of their references, some of which are way more funny when you understand the context.

Added good English subtitles, which can be turned on or off using the CC button. They're color-coded by speaker, which is especially helpful since they often talk at the same time.

I'd love to hear what you think. If you enjoy this, I'd also really appreciate it if you gave me a like or a reblog. This will let me know if people thought it was worth watching. If it seems to be generating some positive interest, I'd like to do more of them. It was fun, but it also took a LOT of time.

[tuber-tastic]

Live Blogging ATOMIC HEART

First off, Slava Ukraini. As an American I'm pleased my tax dollars are helping support your defense.

I don't really play games, I watch them for their stories. Atomic Heart seemed like it had a good story, so I jumped on Gamer's Little Playground's Walkthough. I chose that one because I can trust that it will make an effort to listen to smaller things like audio diaries, and my preferred Let's Players weren't playing.

If you are like me and in it for the story, the first 30 minutes are not good. The entrance to this story is incredibly abrupt. PC is in a boat, in a canal, and suddenly his glove is talking. Exposition is given by overhearing NPCs, and if your hearing is shit like mine, good luck reading the subtitles.

Yes, the subtitles are less than useful. I suppose the devs thought that anchoring then to the speaker would be clever. Their size is tiny, which it needs to be. But since it's so far away I can't read jack.

I digress. So we are dropped in this world and what can the PC do? Nothing. You're locked in the boat being drip-fed exposition via looking around in a slow canal ride, overhearing dialog, getting directions "over the phone". After 5 minutes in the PC gets the opportunity to interact with an NPC for more than a second and there are some nice teasers of a mystery. But there is something... both slow and rushed about it all.

This is an alternative history, and establishing the world is very important. Does Atomic Heart do this well?

Well, the game is easy on the eyes here, and we overhear from a tour robot within the first minute that we're in the clouds. It does not look or feel like we are in the clouds, like Bioshock's Columbia. You must carefully read the walls of the war memorial if you want to establish the alternative timeline in your head. The aesthetic is, to my American Eyes, on point. The abundance of robots, their interactions with people, and finally the full robot parade, also do well to flesh out the setting.

I believe our biggest problem right now is that our PC has repeatedly demonstrated that he is incurious, dismissing information as stuff he already knows. To be fair, information is regularly dumped on him, such as the tutorial scene with the Tereshkova. He stands mute while she lectures then bluntly dismisses her.

I know they wanted to establish Dr. Sechenov's office for some foreshadowing, but oh my god was it a waste of time. The car to your mission is outside the building, but you have to go in to get the key from the sexy bodyguards people are thirsting over. You go up, the bodyguards give you the key and BLOCK YOU from exploring this giant office, then you have to IMMEDIATELY go back down. Who thought that was a good idea???? The exposition in the lift ride down is leagues better than the regurgitation of the brain device on the ride up, but doesn't make up for the absolute waste of time.

I will end with our PC in the car. I liked the use of the radio, and finally revealing the cloud platforms and the land below. I can't say that I enjoy the antagonistic banter between our PC and his glove. The tour guide exposition is back, and I don't hate it, especially since it seems to be spelling out our future levels.

Facility 3826, our setting, is incredibly confusing. Why is half of the facility in the clouds and why is the rest on the ground?

The inciting incident occurs when hostile robots cause our PC's car to crash. What is confounding is that we are met by a friendly Tereshkova unit, who mentions all the other robots aren't hostile. Girl, aren't YOU a robot???

By the time we get to the title screen, It has been roughly 31 minutes, we are falling from the sky, and the story only has THE MOST tenuous grip on me. I'm watching to see if our PC is a robot.

If you're interested in playing Atomic Heart and want to jump straight into the action, I feel so badly for you. If you're like me and in it for the story, let us see if it gets any better.

[candysims4]

Hi I think tumblr ate my ask so I've been trying to recolor in your palette and no matter what I do the colors just aren't coming out right so I was wondering did you change some of the colors or change how you do them because I can't get it like how they are in your hairs any help at all would be really appreciated because I really like your palette and really want to use it and I know you probably won't see this till monday but I hope you have a really happy birthday

Hi sweetheart, IDK what happened with your ask, maybe tumblr are eating my asks again or I have deleted without read; my inbox was pretty full some days ago with a lot of hate anon messages, so for avoid feeling worse than I felt reading the first ones I just deleted almost all the anon asks from the last few days, I’m really sorry about it honey, wasn’t my intention make you wait this long.

Well, about the color palette, some weeks ago I did a video showing how I use it. I changed a lil bit how I use until that time I made the first tutorial, so probably that’s why it aren’t looking similar to mine new hairs. And also my old tutorial are really poorly explained, I’m terrible explaining things, principally in english. The video aren’t a very explained tutorial, but is possible to see all the steps I do. I have done a basic subtitle for the video, it aren’t the most well writen and explained tutorial of the world but may help.  And also this video/tutorial are just how I use, you can use in your own way.

YOU CAN SEE THE VIDEO HERE! (It’s hosted on YouTube)

I wasn’t answering asks today, but when I read your I felt so bad for probally have deleted it that I feel would be wrong let you wait more for the answer.  I’m really sorry honey, and I hope the video helps you. XOXO <33

[ashes-0f-phoenix]

I don't have the energy to properly articulate my point but building a dictatorship in a country like mine whose language isn't spoken anywhere else is so much easier than taking away the rights of people in countries with internationally widely spoken languages. I know this is a way more complex issue but...

Something something heinous propaganda posters that don't go viral online because foreigners can't read them, politicans saying dehumanizing things and straight up lying in interviews and press conferences but the world doesn't hear it because nobody cares to translate it and add subtitles, petitions against inhumane laws that don't spread to large audiences because they aren't in english... but also anti-government signs at protests in english so foreigners potentially seeing us in the news can understand our cries for help...