#hairdrier

[windfighter]

Wonder if Kouji does the towel-twirl to dry his hair... *-)

[autistickaitovocaloid]

Bed is still damp :/

[coffee-without-anesthetics]

alert rcb wasn't lying when they said those porywy wiatru will be silne

[xxweyussyenjoyerxx]

i got paid money to draw pregnant housewife weyoun and you know what. Carpe diem, seize that dollar.

[ceiling-karasu]

Watched Black Cat Detective and started thinking about Squirrel and Hedgehog as well.

It's been a few days so I have lots of thoughts and rambling. I'll start off by saying that since the main villain of Black Cat Detective is named the 'one eared mouse,' and we already have one of those in this fandom, I'll be calling him Lǎobǎn (no idea if there is already a fan nickname for this guy).

Putting these two together in a room would be fun, but I think Oegwipali is way smarter, to be honest, especially since he is a trained soldier. I'm not sure they would get along.

I would not do a Squirrel and Hedgehog and Black Cat Detective crossover in The Rod That Blocks the Lightning, though, since on is a North Korean cartoon and the other is strictly Chinese. I would be interested in doing a cross over in another, less serious, AU, though, since it is pretty similar with the violence and some other themes.

I watched the original series, then the reboot, and then the movie. Animation wise it does have that 'these kinds of thing happen in the first few episodes' issues, but it is only five episodes so they don't get ironed out. Still entertaining! It was pretty interesting, although I think the movie takes place in a different continuity. The series takes place in a forest with its own 'Forest Law,' and the movie is set in a massive futuristic city with space faring technology.

(I think the giant hairdrier is a leg section of what is a science museum of futuristic space vehicles).

It is about as violent as people say it is, especially for the time period and the fact that it was made for children. I thought it really could not be that bad, that the FH spike impalement scene was wild, but no, an eagle really does beat a bunch of children and eat one alive on screen. Said child is never seen again. The police even know what is going to happen.

Also, are the 'rats that eat cats' supposed to be vampires? Those are some wet slurping sounds, and then the talk of drinking blood later...

I really wish that had been expanded upon. It would make for a fun murder mystery AU.

Definitely a police propaganda cartoon, but maybe (maybe?) not as much racism as we previously thought. The cats in the first episode do not jump to the assumption that the mice stole all the food immediately, and actual detective work is shown throughout the series. I think I saw a mouse living in a village normally in a later episode, and the cats don't even blink an eye at her presence. But when they do figure out who committed the crimes, they do not hesitate to brutally beat the mice half to death and shoot limbs off, if not shoot them dead, with absolutely no mercy. They are overly enthusiastic in sprinting forwards with their batons to beat criminals unconscious in general. At one point there's a stun baton, and they deliberately use it in sensitive areas for extra effect.

Then again, later, a criminal elephant trying to murder a group of cops later is simply tranquilized, so make of that what you will. Although, honestly, the elephant is referred to as a citizen of the forest, and the mice are not. Which would actually rival Flower Hill's xenophobia on the matter, and they don't even have a war going on. Maybe. They have tanks in the forest in the reboot outro?

We noticed a weird issue with the clinking of shackles and chains on arrested prisoners being one of the loudest and crispest sounds in the audio.

There's also the fact that Black Cat will reveal to the public that a prisoner committed a terrible crime, but declare them innocent based on the fact that the crime was 'only in their nature' and they couldn't help it. Which is a very strange thing to say, feels weird, and also suggests that the mice trying to steal and kill everyone were making a choice which is why (according to whatever lesson is being taught here) they 'need' to be punished so brutally and killed without mercy (the elephant and company needed a mineral in the laterite bricks they were stealing, so they were 'only ' sentenced to heavy labor so to speak).

They start talking about using interpol to track down Lǎobǎn at one point.

Which means I think it would be pretty interesting if Lǎobǎn managed to escape to Flower Hill or something like that, and the cats were the Special Forces of the Rabbit Village police. Or the surviving mice could end up with the Weasel Unit and used a propaganda tools of 'this is why we hate Flower Hill, look what they did to your fellows' type thing.

Now as for the movie:

I'll be honest, there was no English release of the movie, so I watched it raw in Chinese while discussing it with rei-does-stuff and sah-headcanons. Maybe we can make a post of our live-blogging with each other later.

There's a Tumblr user named ernestelm who made a review on it, but it is one of those things where none of us would have bothered getting into Squirrel and Hedgehog if we listened without taking a look ourselves.

I'll have to rewatch the movie frame by frame with a deepl translator, but what I get is that a gorilla gets betrayed and floats off into space, and comes back with telekinesis and fireball magic he learned out there and wants revenge.

Either way, he needs some sort of special green star gravity device so he can kidnap people in a museum, and enlists the help of Lǎobǎn for some reason (in case he gets captured or because he might be a local?). Except a pig kid sees this all happening, and Black Cat realizes that this kid has seen too much, and takes him into police custody for his own safety. Amazingly, he tells the parents he has to take the kid with him, from what I can tell.

It makes sense that the police would have Black Cat take care of the kid, since he has apparently always had a way with children.

Side note: What is this character? We think it's a fennec fox? The ears don't look right enough to be a cat. I'm not even sure it's a living person, it might be a computer program. Black Cat sure does give commands into an electronic watch a lot.

ernestelm is completely right about the duck/goose, though. I watched one of the most entertaining animations I've ever seen with meteors damaging a prison complex for six minutes, and then got hit with THAT voice. Maybe he is actually useful, I don't know yet, I'll need the translator. Not one of the police officers hesitates to follow his orders and start a musical number, which turns out of be a legitimate distraction, which means the singing was police protocol intended to confuse a target. Everyone keeps forgetting he can fly at crucial moments?

And why do unimportant characters have a different animation style near the end?

(What is this? Why is it like this it looks like The Amazing World of Gumball?? Also reminds me of Pleasant Goat but these are not goats)

Black Cat Detective is just a slight bit expressionless as well. It would have been nice to see him actually in trouble or in distress like the original, instead of the calm to cocky attitude the whole time. Oh no, he's falling from very high up. Luckily the kid who hero worships the police enough to have studied their flying bikes, and whose father is a pilot, has been hanging around on said bike for just such an occasion. No peril at all.

The real question in the movie is this;

They just casually happen to have a containment unit for the gorilla? Are superpowers and magic just a thing in the Black Cat Detective movie universe, and common enough that they have protocols for this? So many questions.

The city, plus the casual power containment unit, reminds me of Loonatics Unleashed, honestly. Someone could easily make a crossover out of this.

Funny enough, the three of us found that this cat police officer looks a lot like Geumsaegi or Commander Darami.

There's always the idea that Black Cat Detective takes place in the same universe as Squirrel and Hedgehog. The amount of firepower these police officers have is far too much if they are not expecting a war to happen, even if they are referenced as a more elite unit. The implication is very interesting.

Now, if I get to writing the Clever Raccoon Dog PSA fun series, which I headcanon as taking place in Flower Hill because it might be canon (they are both SEK anyway), I would most definitely have the main characters visit and do a ride along with Black Cat Detective (preferably in the cartoon series universe. They are fine with criminals being beaten up, heck they do it themselves!) for a chapter or two. It sounds like it would be fun!

The other one would take place in the movie universe. Maybe a kind of Jimmy Olsen situation with a mouse reporter who keeps getting into trouble, and Black Cat or other people in the police force have to keep saving him. Although, we still have that pig kid who wants to be a police officer, if I understand correctly. It actually sounds better if I just used the pig child continuously getting into situations and needing to be rescued by the police, all the while trying to balance school into the equation. Maybe he becomes a young deputy.

[what-yadoking-likes]

My partner is away for a few days. So, aside from eating lamb that I ended up not enjoying, what have I done?

Paintings. I made paintings.

I paint whilst my partner is at home, of course, but usually I am confined to the spare bedroom, which is a mess of boxes and things and I cannot sit whilst I paint - so painting becomes less enjoyable and more frustrating, you see.

So I painted in the living room for the first time in ages, regretting the lamb (maybe I have gone so long without eating it that it's simply too greasy?), hoping the heat breaks soon. Wondering whether I can keep my hair in braids in perpetuity to avoid washing it (I am already on day 4 of not washing my hair. I am not especially depressed this time - it's simply too hot in the evenings to contemplate using the hairdrier).

[hebrideansky]

if it makes you feel any better I showered 5hrs ago and my hair is still damp (UK humidity, microfibre turban for like the first 2hrs).

I showered THREE AND A HALF HOURS AGO, why is my hair STILL WET! 😤

(It always does this. This isn’t unusual for me. It’s an ANNOYINGLY LONGGGG PERIOD but I’m not pissed enough to fuck around with hair driers on any regular basis. I’m also grumpy bc it’s my fault I lost track of time and didn’t shower til more than an hour after I usually try to. Even after wearing a microfiber turban it doesn’t seem to dry any quicker. Fucking CURLS)

[mahi-does-some-art]

Lily and Belkia are gonna find ways to be petty against eachother that no one thought possible

Lily throws out all of Belkia's hair products. Beru breaks the very expensive, very hightech, veey loved hairdrier Misono had gotten him as a gift for his birthday and it goes to hell so fast after that. Because it was a gift from Misono.

[roll-a-troll]

You're Wyerum Goboom. You're lime. You masquerade as Olive; Lesces is okay enough to hide as. At 26 sweeps, you've made a life for yourself. Sylph suits you. You're The exact opposite sexuality of yours, you use they/them . Fuck it, you ball. Your jaguarpa raised you decent enough. Would you trade your life for anything else? Yes. You're tired of hiding You wish loved a few more trolls. When you had the time, you did pool, and you loved it, and it kept the time moving.. You've been training very hard at the hairdrier, and it's begun to pay off.. You use the handle trustworthyCradle on discord. When you type, you don't use emotes, out of trained habit. via roll-a-troll https://ift.tt/a3BqVkp, do as you please

[risu5waffles]

Hark! The Rains SofTEN, or something.

One of these days i'm going to have to bite the bullet and stop trying to work TEN into my titles. But not today.

These levels took me _all_ the way back, no lie. The cream of the (at least English speaking-side) LBP crop putting together a set of levels to teach folx how to get logic to work in LBP1, back when everything had to be done wiv physical objects. A lot of these techniques still work fine, even if they can be a little fiddly to set up, and have been completely obviated by the addition of microchips and logic gates in 2. i think the only one i couldn't get working was the non-dissolve permanent switch from the Advanced Pack. i built it just like the object from the copyable level, same tweaks, but it just wasn't staying on. Everything else tho', it all works just like it says on the tin. i played a lot of these tutorial how to logic/build a level levels, and the way they made this one into an actual environment, wiv nods at a story, really made it stand out. Most times it'd be an empty create mode environment; which, to its credit, that style _did_ allow for more to be put in a level. There were some Jside levels i've played that did, at least, make a level-level to play as you learn. i wonder what happened to all the tutorial levels. i mean, you still see a few in the wild, and they were never the most heavily represented level-type, but even still, it feels like i barely run into them any more. To come back to these levels, and there's a break in the Intermediate Pack, so you can't see how they carry the framing device from it to the Advanced, and that just gets my goat. i wanna know why we've gone from this nice office/factory in the woods to getting airlifted into what looks like a warzone.

Ratalsoni1 has been a really nice creator to stumble across this late in the game's life cycle. We looked at Climbing the Mountain a couple(?) weeks back on LittleBite-sizedPlanet, and that was a real winner. This as a follow up is, like, yeah, this kid's not just a flash in the pan. Using the hairdrier is a bit fiddlier, and it does make the first run through a bit to get used to; but i found when i gave it a few plays to really get familiar wiv it that it really is an enjoyable level. And dang, but does it look nice. The environment, in general, is spot on, but there's also a really solid set of material choices here, and the use of layers really gives things a sense of depth. The whole thing manages to avoid that sense of emptiness in LBP3 levels that we talked about in the last TEN spot. The only fly in the ointment is dealing wiv those springbolts. It's more an on me thing, but i have _never_ not struggled at least a little navigating them, and adding the hairdrier to the mix... the first time through was _just a bit_ of a pain in the arse.

Why is Hillary Clinton in this level, tho'? Like, when the aliens are all "let's distract them wiv an attractive human female" and they put a picture of Hillary Clinton on the screen, and it's just... i mean, i get the dig, only weirdo aliens would find her attractive kind of thing, but... it's such an odd little joke to find at random in an LBP level. i should look up where she was in the public consciousness in 2009. Otherwise, this is a really neat level. Setting it up as a simple "shoot down these waves of enemies" style level, and then elaborating it out into an escape the base type of deal where the level would typically end was super cool. It's chonky (a little bit to its detriment, really. i was pretty ready for it to be over by the time it was over), and there's a pretty solid set of things to do along the way. You can see some of the LBP2 specifics added in the repub, but most of this was just straight-forward LBP1 building, and this one really shows just how big some of those levels could get.

i want to go back and thank past me for hearting Sci-Fi World 2 back in the day, 'cause i probably never would have run into it again otherwise. Also i want to tell her things will be ok, 'cause she was dealing wiv a lot. i love how you can see the progress in level design and presentation over the course of these levels. Like, just in presentation, you've got an environment in 4 that is much more of itself than the one we see in 1. i do have to say i cottoned to the setting in 1 a little more, but that's very much a me thing. The downside of that progress is the techniques mdaj learns and employs are very much dependent on the fiddly physics of LBP1, and, well, that just leaves 4 broken. 3 isn't even up on their planet anymore, so i have to imagine something went sideways wiv it after an update, and it just never got repaired/repubbed. Shame that. Still, what we have left is an absolute hoot.

Another mdaj jam here, and unfortunately another that's not been well served by changes to LBP's engine. The lighting is just **so** bright in some places, like glaringly so. Also the bit at the end that's just broke so you can't progress. Hate that. Watching the video and i was, like, bitch you can just drop down and forward a layer and get out that way. i felt like such a goober, i went and played it again, and thankfully, no, you can't actually get out that way, it just looks like you can. Even wiv the level being broken, it's still worth a quick play just to see mdaj's sculpting and presentation skills. Those dragon-y dinosaur-y things are super cool looking.

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Dang, that is just a really solid set of levels there. Not a one of them is crummy. Spoilers: this trend will not, unfortunately, continue.

i'm feeling really torn over all this bullshite going on wiv YouTube recently. Like, if it works out that adblocker is rendered non-functional, i _can_ just stop watching videos. i'll be pissed that i can't directly support other archivists like @soupum and Myravrax, but aside from the LBP side of things, and @alicerulerofwater 's Gemini podcast, YouTube videos haven't been more than bgm for me for awhile now. But, like, how i can continue to put up my own videos on a site that i'm not willing to watch? That feels sketchy as heck. i honestly don't know, what things are going to look like going forward, and this puts a lot more on my mental plate than i really needed at the moment. i guess all i can do is keep an eye on the situation, and hope that uOrigins can manage to get things to a point where i don't need to be changing my filters and fucking around wiv things every twelve hours. What a fucking mess this whole thing is.

[nairanorica]

I am equal parts delighted and concerned that the hairdrier gets hot enough to easily heat shape eva foam. Extra fluff just pinned for a visual now, I'll attach it at the end when everything's covered in fur. Now off to pattern the tail!

[glorioustidalwavedefendor]

I mean I am all forlying but time and place

Like someone with a bad haircut tha they clearly hate asks me howI likeit?

I am gonna say I like it, becasue this is obviously not about the truth, they just wanted to feel better about the horrible cut

But there are times and places where the truth is needed

Like wenn we where mapping and staying in a place that was only for summer tourists

It was february

The quarters where cold and wet

But the two people I worked with roomed with a lot of girls every last of them had brought a hairdrier and they kept them running

So their quarters where warm and wet

I went over to finish some work with my colleagues and we weren't finished at dinner time

So one of the girls was like, you can come back later

And I was like, I really don't mind sitting quietlyin a corner while you eat.

And she was like

But that will be so akward for YOU

And I was like, nope. I am fine with that. Your place is much warmer then my quarters

And so she was like. I don't like to have you around. Go away.

-> We remeber our quarters are cold and wet and miserable and we all know that becasue we have all been jocking about that

She was so angry at me that I made her sa yit out loud. That I made her face what a massive bitch she is. That she would literaly kick me out of warm rooms simply becasue she doesn't liek me XD

Btw no one asked me to stay regardles everyone else was happy she took teh fall XD

And that is the reason people don't communicate openly

Becasue that measn they would have to face that they are garbage XD

are you ever like damn why is literally everyone else scared of openly communicating and being direct and truthful and honest

[kidfur]

how does a wearable hairdrier work? it sounds very neat, but looking it up I couldn't really find anything relevant

i think its actually called a bonnet hairdryer? its got a shower cap like thingy that you put on and that connects with a tube to either a normal hairdryer or some (like mine) have a ... rectangle thing that's got hairdryer parts inside so you can just set it on a table or something and chill while it dries ur hair!

this is the one my mom got me, by a brand called andis. its a bit of an investment 50-60 usd but its saved me and my parents So much headache since i dont need them to dry my hair for me anymore!

[sophiafzzz]

Project 1 - 3D scanning

Location: Bedroom

Concept: Stress, mental health

Key words: Safe, warm and comfortable (bed & table lamp) - Stress, tears depression and sad (desk covered by phone, computer, pens, notebooks and papers)

Audio: Car running on the street outside the window. Noise from neighbor. Computer's fan. Typing. Dehumidifier / air-conditioning.

Voice-over: directly tell audiences what I was thinking at that time

Test result: Too big - had to walk around to scan more spaces, but there are still spaces that could not be scanned and the scanned space may be multi-overplayed on each other, because the same space has been scanned multi-times

Location: Bathroom

Concept: Violence in family

Key words: Normal and calm - fear and depression

Audio: Hairdrier. Water. Fans. Hit. Bottle / Cup drops. Cry. Sobbing. Horror background music.

Location: Elevator or / and corridor

Key words: Horror, Special texture (e.g. metal → glasses)

Audio: Horror background music. Breath. Whisper.

[roll-a-troll]

Your name is Jaalbo Roixmr, Mir. You use it/its pronouns, and your blood runs Blue; Scorpio is your sign. For reasons you cannot define, you feel something of an affinity to the idea of being a Lord. You are 23 sweeps old, and you've an interest in knife collecting, and dabble in troll lapel pin- At least, when the mood allows. You were brought up by your annoying lusus, ground hogdad, and you have never heard of your ancestor, The Coverage. If forced to describe your sexuality, you would say thank you, and leave it at that.. You like to think you're pretty good at hairdrier.. You use the handle tastefulChrysophilist on pesterchum. When you type, you capitalize every other letter, it's fun. via roll-a-troll https://ift.tt/fzlGUth, do as you please

[thegeniusidiotnstikmerchantreart]

Anybody got a hairdrier I can borrow?