#to some extend 🤦

[nguyetdahuong]

Me sad when people mean to bellini and forget about tremblay ☹️ me read og book for more juicy facts 👀👅 justice for my two tall diva(s) 🙏

you guys are too mean to aldo bellini, aldo bellini is my friend

[selamat-linting]

not to be an obvious hater who will always find ways to take potshots on mr woke cowboy but i really think its cute of him to cut a promo on worker's rights that drive away the company's biggest draw to their "supposed" competition yet kept quiet when talents like ricky, fenix, slim j, sonny, nyla, abadon, danhausen, and many many others had their careers fucked with from incompetence at best to horrible pettiness at worst. and dont even mention ppl like big swole who complained about the lack of diversity only to get passive aggressively bitched at on the way out. workers' rights is only for your cliq of incestuous trump loving twins and their stooges i guess 🥴

and before anyone come at me and say what about the fed... they never claimed theyre a moral alternative or say theyre gonna make everyone an employee with health insurance only to backtrack later on by saying its only for the handful of grifters who nepo'd their way to backstage jobs. but as bad as the fed is, nowadays they release people when they asked them to, and they actually set people up with good doctors and rehab and help pay it upfront instead of letting talent figure it out for themselves and pay for it first.

anyway, i hope after the fenix thing, tk messaged hangman and tell him its his turn to do the rah-rah restore the feeling speeches

[acourtofthought]

WHY is Azriel, canonically, the most problematic out of the four people involved in the shipwar yet he gets the least hate? Everyone keeps eating his ass and asking for seconds and I can’t understand it. He doesn’t need a personality upgrade, he needs a personality, period.

I refuse to accept any criticism of Gwyn and Elain. Both of them have been recently traumatized and they’re trying to get better without bothering anyone. All the hate I see for them is from the mouths of obnoxious shippers. Sentences that start with “Azriel deserves” are not acceptable unless they end with “a punch to the throat”.

"Sentences that start with “Azriel deserves” are not acceptable unless they end with “a punch to the throat”."

😂😂😂😂

It is strange, isn't it?

E/riels hate Lucien. They claim he's aggressive and pushy and makes Elain uncomfortable (first off, he's neither aggressive nor pushy and second, while Elain is uncomfortable we don't know exactly why that is. It's likely that it's not Lucien himself that makes her uncomfortable but the thoughts Lucien's presence causes her to have that make her uncomfortable).

But somehow it gets ignored that Azriel actually makes Mor uncomfortable which is confirmed in Mor's POV as well as when she explains to Feyre why she acts the way she does. Somehow it gets ignored that every time Azriel has an opening to communicate his feelings about something important we get "Azriel said nothing" or "Azriel left the rest unsaid." He's the one who disrespects Rhys and Feyre's orders half the time while still choosing to hide Feyre's pregnancy concern and the swords Nesta made even though he felt Nesta should be told (so basically he does what he wants when it's not the right thing but won't fight for something when it is). In SF, he's the one who is in love with one female, got fixated on another only because she represents what he wants most (mating bond), all while showing admiration for a third, deciding to give Gwyn a gift he originally got for Elain while being jealous of Helion asking after Mor. 🤦

To me he's no prize. He's fine, he'll be better after his book but I'm not quite sure where the appeal lies with Az and really both Elain and Gwyn deserve a better love story.

He's sometimes funny but no funnier than any of the others. He sometimes says something insightful, but no more insightful than we've seen from any of the others. He's brave but no less brave then the others who are a combination of brave and prudent while Az leans towards reckless.

Maybe because he's the "prettiest" of the brothers and is "kinky" in bed? Maybe because he's what in real life would be the "broody bad boy" that girls hope they can tame and be the one to bring out the soft and gentle side of him? Maybe because we don't actually know Az all that much and some are filling in the blanks with what they'd like to see?

A lot were up in arms over his POV saying it was out of character but....what if that IS Az's character? What if his default mode is rage and self loathing and fixation? SJM has said on a few occasions that Az scares her so I imagine when she writes his story, she'll be writing with that in her mind.

But it is weird how E/riels will trash talk both Gwyn and Lucien, some Gwynriels and even Elucien's will tear apart Elain yet Az is the most unscathed of all even though there is nothing "better" about him.

It's fine to like Az despite his flaws but shouldn't the courtesy of looking past ones flaws also be extended to the others? Lucien, Gwyn and Elain have never purposely set out to hurt anyone. They make mistakes but they're trying to learn from them. They're no more selfish than anyone else. So what exactly makes their "crimes" so unforgiveable while Az reigns supreme despite his? It's not that anyone has to love a character but it would at least be nice if it wasn't a pot calling the kettle black scenario.

[la-principessa-nuova]

sometimes i do just pause and realize what i’ve said, and out of context it is truly so wild:

“ok but what if they added a fourth gender, and it was cartoon”

i was talking about emoji btw

i was thinking whether it would be plausible to add memoji or something like it (customizable avatar so that an emoji appears as a specific person) into the unicode standard

and as part of that i was thinking i would want it to include all the smiley-type emoji like ☺️🥸😎🤓😕 on top of the ones that already use people and gender and skin tone like 🙎‍♀️💁‍♀️🙆‍♀️🙋‍♀️🤷‍♀️, but like i wouldn’t want it to get rid of the smiley style, in fact i think it would be fun to extend that style out to the ones that currently look like people

so instead of just 🤦+♂=🤦‍♂️ and 🤦+♀=🤦‍♀️ and a lack of a gender marker makes 🤦, for backwards compatibility it would need to do the current behavior for that symbol when nothing is present, but then new implementations would add some other symbols which i’ll represent as 🜬 to get 🤦 and ♅ to get the smiley version

and then rather than just skin tones and hair color comes along (which personally has lead me to just never use skin tones in emoji bc none of them feel like me), there would be separate symbols for hair color, eye color, head shape, hair style, shirt color, accessories, etc

look, i know this is ridiculous, and i don’t think it’s something they’d ever do. i just think it’s something i’d like to have.

so i could go as wild with emoji as i occasionally do but with them looking like me

and it would just be so fun to see the individuality expressed in other people’s posts and messages when they use their own emoji that look like them

honestly it really is just that apple adding the ability to do it within their apps makes me really want to be able to do it universally and see other people doing it

but it’s a lot of effort to even just put them into a tumblr post as transparent images right now so even i’m only doing it when i want to emoji-bomb a post and be ironically or facetiously irreverent.

[suenitos]

about that primos show, i mostly got pissed at the crew's reaction to the hate: "spanish is not even your language, it was forced upon you"/"it's difficult when you're carrying other people's dreams"/"shithole country". Sure, the show is filled with stereotypes and people have the right to be annoyed at that, but them being defensive is for sure not helping their case likeee

i agree and thank you for your perspective h. i saw someone say they couldve avoided a lot of the backlash to the grammatical error HAD THEY SAID canonically the mc is still learning spanish. honestly watching the pilot it wouldve made sense to say that but :/

im pretty sure the "shithole country" thing was meant to be sarcastic and in RESPONSE to that trump comment (given the #ImmigrantsMakeAmericaGreat in the tags of that post) but it DEFINITELY did not come across that way (and tone is hard to decipher on the internet for sure). what annoyed me more about that post was the implication that people in latam "shithole countries" dont and cant have big dreams the way the creator does in the us which contributes TO the propaganda that the US is better and civilized and full of opportunity or whatever (hhhhhhhh.) LOT of thoughts on that. kinda reminds me of those corny posts US latinos who graduate make about their parents crossing the border so they can cross the stage like HELLO??? the fuck they did 💀 you probably weren't even a concept then and THEY probably had shit they wanted to accomplish in their home country too but couldnt! but anyway

the carrying other people's dreams thing is :/// too. i understand feeling fortunate to be in the position you're in as a marginalized creator and also feeling the pressure to deliver a good product FOR your community but what you yourself are accomplishing are not the dreams of other people they're your OWN. or they should be at least. this also kind of extends to the fact that we dont have representation behind the scenes in these projects so i get WHY she said that but it comes across as a bit insulting (see: crossing the stage)

the colonizer language thing... on one hand, factually correct and trying to restrict how language changes over time with culture (nonbinary visibility- latine/x) and how it may collide with others in other countries (spanish + american english-> spanglish) is not good. on the other, spanish has become a fundamental aspect of most latin american cultures and because of that you gotta respect the grammar rule of singular vs plural if youre speaking it 🤦 the fact that mistake got PAST the songwriting phase the recording phase the animating phase and got GREENLIT with NO ONE catching it is ultimately bonkers and like nunki said its a bit lazy given the resources disney has on hand 😒 not even mentioning the irony that the sentence was typed in english but alright

biggest takeaway i got really is that we are an insanely diverse group of people but for some reason we as US-born latinos have a tendency to make it all about us without recognizing our privilege or blind spots as a result of being a citizen in the US. which DOES come with its own set of challenges, but we are not gods gift to earth for being latino and born in the US come on

[whattheabcxyz]

2024-03-26

Singapore

Man who took drunk women home & sexually assaulted 1 of them sentenced to jail & caning

Man acquitted of 1 molestation charge because victim thought it might have been a spirit & not him who molested her - some people are soooo goddamn stupid it's unbelievable... 🤦 thankfully, the perpetrator was convicted of a 2nd molestation charge against the victim, after CCTV caught him in the act!

Jail & fine for businessman linked to ruse enabling bus to travel above speed limit

Former MAS chief Ravi Menon appointed Singapore’s 1st climate action ambassador

Lau Pa Sat to hold week-long Bruno Mars celebration in early April

Man charged over bomb threats he allegedly sent to 2 Taiwanese politicians

Transport

Singapore: SBS Transit bus & train services to be extended on eve of Hari Raya

Food

2 die & 100 hospitalised after consuming Japan drugmaker's supplements

Bibigo mandu prawn dumplings recalled over undeclared egg allergen

Science

In our sun conscious? - 1 biologist thinks so

ChatGPT use linked to memory loss & procrastination in students

Maritime

Baltimore bridge collapses after Singapore-flagged ship crashes into it - some people have a lot of explaining to do!

Nature

^ Spiral heart of Comet 12P captured by photographer

Politics

UN Security Council demands immediate ceasefire in Gaza after US abstains - without the US' backing, nothing will be done 🤷‍♀️

Shopping

Singapore: Snaking queue outside Ion Orchard on launch day of Snoopy-themed MoonSwatch - can't understand why people would want that low quality piece of plastic... I owned several new Swatches back in the day & none of them lasted past a year!

[a1291762]

So I'm making this game, and things have world coordinates, which need to be translated to canvas coordinates for drawing. The camera is fixed on the player, so the player's world coordinates provide the reference point for this mapping.

For perhaps reasons of stupidity, the world extends up, while the canvas extends down. I knew I'd done something wrong when expressing the offset from the player position to the top left of the canvas because I had to add half the player's height rather than removing half the player's height or things looked wrong. I looked and looked and couldn't figure out the bug so I shrugged and kept on going.

Yesterday I implemented pixel-based collision detection, replacing the simple bounds rect detection I'd thrown in as a placeholder. But something was wrong and the collisions weren't registering right. After a long debugging session I had the bright idea to draw the collisions and they were weirdly offset... Then I drew the bounds rects on the canvas along with the sprites. They did not line up 🤦

It turns out that drawing a bitmap to the canvas draws down, but the position mapped to the bottom of where the sprite should go. Welp, here was a symptom of the bug I had failed to find before. It also affected text. It's the reason my fixed offset had to be wrong.

So now I have to go through all the code and evaluate assumptions about direction. Sprites and text were easy (draw at the bottom of the bounds rect) but there is some other world drawing code that is still wonky and some other issues remain. Sigh.

No doubt I would have avoided all this using an existing game engine. Bite me. This is more fun 😀

[khiphop-discussions]

It is not the whole khiphop community he invited. Ffs aomg, h1ghr, pnation, feel ghood — these people are the pop of khiphop lol

It’s not really a business card he handed out, they already had a connection card to begin with 🤦

HW >>> JITB btw. JITB sounds/translates personal to j-hope but music wise, HW was better for me

I think that person was making a joke when they said that. Basically a more comical way to say "He invited a bunch of people from khiphop"

I'm not really sure what you mean when you talk about the business card/connection card? Are you saying he already knew the people he invited as opposed to extending an invite to new connections? If so maybe. Since we're here I'm just gonna admit it, I WAS wondering why he invited multiple people from khiphop. I kinda took it as him trying to build authenticity in the Khiphop scene by being like "Hey everybody! See all my hip-hop friends? I can run in these circles too!" Cause it's like...oh so now that you're releasing an album you wanna be all in pictures with these people but never really mentioned, interacted, or anything with them before in public?

But I didn't wanna throw any rain on the parade cause a lot of people seemed excited so I kinda just took it for what it was and just enjoyed the moment of all of these artists being in the same place especially since it was this star studded type of event. We HAVE seen Cream and Kid Milli kicking it recently which was cool cause I didn't know they were running in the same circles until then. But never DPR Live. I remember a few years ago during a live, Live said that he (or maybe many people from DPR) doesn't know that many people in Khiphop (or maybe k-music in general) so it was interesting to see him around all these people all of a sudden in his "off time" cause usually the only time you'd see them in the same vicinity is during festivals.

Anyway, I gave him (Hope) the benefit of the doubt and was like "Well, maybe he just invited some artists that he really liked as opposed to just using them as a prop. Maybe he wants to get to know them better or collab."

BUT if you're saying he knew them beforehand with that comment you made, then I guess that makes a lot of sense too. I honestly never came to that conclusion.

I haven't heard the jitb album. Honestly didn't plan on it and for some reason I thought it was just a single w/ 1 or 2 songs on it. I guess it makes sense why he had a whole release party for it. I think the strong suit for "Hope World" is the melodies and instrumentals. I'm definitely more interested in listening to JITB now and will check it out eventually to see if I agree with your assessment.