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Ofc no, tianlang jun said, go on i dont mind, what a carefree father

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Since we keep getting "live action" CGI remakes of already perfectly adequate animated movies, and because people need to understand that animation is a medium and not a genre, I have prepared this primer about the importance of Visual Language for Conveying Information.

Can you tell what the personalities of these two mice are?

Can you tell now?

Which of these two tigers feels safer to be around?

Which of these three dogs is the funniest one?

If you can answer these questions, then you already have experience with the idea of visual language and stylistic choices being used to impart narrative meaning. If you can understand why these choices were made to impart meaning, then you can understand why animation is a medium for telling stories that has its own inherent value, and is not merely a "placeholder" for the eventual implementation of photorealistic presentation (aka "Live Action" CGI). Animation does not need to be "corrected" or "legitimized" by remaking it into the most representational simulation of observable reality.

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oh nononononoo miss piggy wouldn't make it look like an accident. no she would turn you into an example a long drawn out example

ok but give me one good reason why you wouldn’t date Kermit the frog besides that he is a puppet and a frog

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bro your whimsy. you forgot your fucking whimsy. your solemn and somber attitude is scaring the hoes

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so sick of soulless conveyer belt movie remakes. all that money on a bad movie when they could have put the muppets in it smh

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Well those are allllmost done

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the voice of the devil

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The muppet archives

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The "are superheroes cops" discourse annoys me because a lot of the discoursers show zero understanding of the difference between statist and non statist violence.

The state is the institution that has a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence in a given territory. State violence is so normalized it often ceases to be seen as violence, e.g if a civilian takes someone off the street by force, throws them in a car and holds them hostage in a secondary location that's kidnapping, if a cop does it it's arresting.

Cops are not simply "people who do violence" they are people who hold a monopoly on the legitimate use of it and commit statist violence to uphold the power of companies and the government. In contrast, vigilantism is non-state violence that challenges this monopoly, at least in theory, but in practice it depends on who vigilantes target and what methods they use.

If vigilantes work with cops, target only people who the state targets and send them to jail then they are functionally state operatives and are acting as a paramilitary wing for the police.

This is why so many heroes seem unaware of their status as criminals. They lecture their enemies of the evil of crime while committing the crime of vigilantism because while they might be law breakers on paper, they aren't in practice. They are implicitly authorised by the cops they work with.

If they instead target people not on the basis of whether or not the state likes them but based on their own independent morality and do not collaborate with the state at all then they are non-state, and if they actively defend people against state violence then they are anti-state.

Of course, most vigilantes don't fit 100% into one of these categories, like most things in life, this is a spectrum and where they're placed can change over time. This is more of a framework that you can use to figure out how much of a cop a vigilante is being at any given time.

I say this because too often I see people say that all vigilantes are cops and equivocate all violence as one in the same or draw the line based on whether or not the vigilante kills when it actually has no bearing on whether or not they're a cop. A cop who hasn't killed (yet) is still a cop and an anti-state anarchist doesn't become a cop if they kill one.

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The filter relies on manually curated open-source blocklists, including the ‘nuclear’ list, provided by uBlockOrigin and uBlacklist Huge AI Blocklist,” DuckDuckGo said in a post on X. “While it won’t catch 100% of AI-generated results, it will greatly reduce the number of AI-generated images you see.

Left: AI filter is off Right: AI filter is on

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I made this comic in very early covid lockdown

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something that came to me in a dream