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My red flag is this is how I want to spend l my night-
“….. and then, after 6 books, you find out the whole thing isn’t about Paul, but his son! Babe? Are you ok? I’m only three hours in edging you and info dumping”
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puppetboysx3 · 3 days
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South Park Games (Info Post)
this is a blog post about the official South park games , this will include some general info on the games , plus where you can play/buy them , some of these are not games you can play on their original platform so ill include emulators for what I can
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South park ( December 21, 1998 ) 
Developed by Iguana Entertainment/Appaloosa Interactive
Published by Acclaim Entertainment
Distributed by Comedy Central 
came out for Nintendo 64 in 1998 
came out for Windows and PlayStation in 1999
first-person shooter , it has both a single player and multiplayer mode 
 N64 emulator 
 PlayStation emulator
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South park : Chef's Luv Shack  (October 12, 1999)
Developed by Acclaim Studios AustinPublished by Acclaim EntertainmentDistributed by Comedy Central
came out for N64 , Dreamcast , PlayStation , and Windows in 1999 
Game show style party game 
N64 emulator
PlayStation emulator
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South Park Rally (January 5 , 2000)
Developed by Tantalus Interactive
Published by Acclaim Entertainment
Distributed by Comedy Central 
came out for N64 , Dreamcast , PlayStation and windows in 2000 
Simple Racing game 
N64 emulator
PlayStation emulator
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 South park Lets go Tower Defense Play (October 7 , 2009) 
Developed by Doublesix, in collaboration with South Park Digital Studios and Xbox Live Productions
Published by Xbox Game Studios
came out only for the Xbox Live Arcade which was a service on Xbox 360
Tower Defense game 
very little info of this game exists online 
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South park : Tenorman's Revenge (March 30 , 2012) 
 Developed by Other Ocean Interactive, in collaboration with South Park Digital Studios
 Published by Xbox Game Studios 
came out for Xbox Live Arcade 
Platformer 
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South park : The Stick of Truth (March 4 , 2014) 
Developed by Obsidian Entertainment, in collaboration with South Park Digital Studios
Publishing rights purchased by Ubisoft due to THQ filing for bankruptcy, resulting in the game's release being delayed 
Came out for Windows , Playstation 3 , Xbox 360 in 2014
came out for Nintendo switch, Playstation 4, Xbox one in 2018
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South park : The Fractured But Whole( October 17 , 2017 ) 
 Developed by Ubisoft San Francisco, in collaboration with South Park Digital Studios, Ubisoft Osaka, Massive Entertainment, Ubisoft Annecy, Ubisoft Reflections, Blue Byte, and Ubisoft Quebec. 
came out for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One in 2017 . came out for Nintendo Switch in 2018
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South park : Phone Destroyer (November 9 , 2017) 
Developed by Ubisoft RedLynx, in collaboration with Ubisoft Pune and South Park Digital Studios 
Came out for IOS and Android in 2017 
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South park : Snow Day (March 26 ,2024) 
Developed by Question, published by THQ Nordic, in collaboration with South Park Digital Studios 
Comes out for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch , PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S 
and an honorable mention to
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South park : pinball (1999?)
this is an add-on/DLC to PinballFX 2 & Zen Pinball 2 . also made into a stand only phone game during somewhere around 2014 but was removed due to legal issues 
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elmuvahva · 4 months
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i wish we got to see more donnie in close combat because that boy was KILLING IT
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like YOURE KIDDING?? BRO IS INSANE I LOVE HIM SM
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LIKE HES MAINLY ON THE DEFENSIVE BUT BRO USES THE SURROUNDING ELEMENTS AT HIS DISPOSAL. LIKE HE’LL COMBINE HIS AND MIKEYS WEAPONS TOGETHER, HE’LL USE HIS ATTACKERS’ WEAPONS AGAINST THEM AND AHHHHH HES JUST SO COOOLLLL
HE DEFENDS UNTIL THEYVE WORN THEMSELVES OUT AND THEN HE GETS THE CHANCE TO ATTACK LIKE WAHHHHHHH
LIKE BRO PLEASEEEEE I WANT MOREEEE
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New Millipede!!! Sphaerobelum turcosa is a newly discovers species of pill millipede that was recently discovered in the Loei province of Thailand. A team of researchers were doing field work in the Phu Pha Lom Forest when they discovered fourteen of these brightly colored millipedes. Due to their stunning coloration these pill millipedes were nicknamed “The Jewel of The Forest”.
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Pill millipedes have convergently evolved a body structure similar to that of isopods (aka roly polies) and have comparatively shorter bodies than other species of millipedes, and like roly polies they will roll themselves into a ball when they feel threatened.
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The bright turquoise color of Sphaerobelum turcosa helps warn predators that they are poisonous and not to eat them. This millipede also has tan markings on its exoskeleton that form a mask-like marking that helps to scare off potential predators.
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the-sound-of-progress · 8 months
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This is one of my favorite bits of incredibly clever fuckery that goes on behind the scenes of 3D modeling, and I have an intense compulsion to talk about it right now.
If you've never seen the true geometry of the merc models, you're probably wondering what the hell is going on with the one on the left. Minecraft Steve 3D-printed looking motherfucker.
Believe it or not, it's the exact same model as the one on the right. The light is just being instructed to interact differently with its polygons! The one on the left is being given flat shading, while the one on the right is being given smooth shading.
The mercs have far fewer polygons than you probably think they do. And that's not just because the game was made in 2007! Most stylized faces probably aren't going to have many more polygons than this, especially faces designed for video games. Thanks to the magic of smooth shading, they don't need more than that.
So how the hell is this possible?
I'M GLAD YOU ASKED! Class is now in session!
For our example, let's focus on this area of his ear.
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On the left, with the flat shading, you can see that there's a pretty stark difference in the perceived color between those surfaces. But on the right, with the smooth shading, it's... well... smooth!
To understand how smooth shading works, first you have to understand what a 'surface normal' is. They are also just called 'normals'.
See, a single polygon can only ever be perfectly flat no matter how you arrange the vertexes. If you have three vertexes making up a triangle, and you fill in the space between those vertexes to make a face, that face is completely flat. It doesn't matter whether the vertexes are 2 millimeters or 2 miles apart from each other; the plane that intersects all 3 points can never be curved.
In simple terms, the normal of a polygon is defined as the direction in which the face is pointed. Because the face is perfectly flat, this direction can always be expressed with a single line.
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On the left is a simple example of the surface normals of a cube. Each blue line represents the direction that its face is pointing.
On the right, the red arrows are pointing to the normals of these ear polygons. In these two clusters of two polygons, you can see there's a pretty big difference between the angle of the normals. This means that there's going to be a big difference in the way light bounces off of them - and that's why it looks so blocky when we just let it be flat shading.
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On the left, I've illustrated how light is going to bounce off of each polygon the same way, all the way across that polygon.
If we GREATLY increased the number of polygons, we could make it look a lot smoother, but we don't want to do that. More polygons equals significantly more work for the computer, so the solution is a little concept called 'interpolation', which I've crudely illustrated on the right. See how the angle of each light bounce is ever so slightly different as we move from one normal to the other?
Instead of just calculating the light the exact same way across a whole polygon, smooth shading also looks at the normals of the polygons around it. The rendering engine then pretends that the surface is curved, based on some very complex math.
I don't fully understand it myself. But I imagine that it is probably grossly oversimplifying it to say that it's taking the average of the two normals. Hopefully that description kind of gives you an idea of what it's doing, though.
Imagine if you took a sheet of paper and lightly pressed it over the two angled polygons to try to give it a bit more of a curved surface for light to bounce off of. That's what smooth shading does, but instead of using a piece of paper, it uses whatever material is defined for those polygons.
And that's just a little bit of the magic of shaders in 3D rendering! It is shocking just how much of a render's quality depends entirely on the way light works. There is a whole bunch of stuff happening that honestly has very little to do with the quality or poly count of the model's geometry - it's the shaders and the light simulation that are doing the REALLY heavy lifting, and that's why RTX technology in particular is such a huge fucking deal!
Thank you for coming to my TED talk. Class dismissed!
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infohazardouz · 11 months
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DEMON WALLY DESIGNS! im still working out his design but here’s a general vibe hehehahe as well as some thought provoking sketches... HUUUGE infodump about the design & demon wally au below!
below i explain my choice of representing hindu designs as opposed to christian ones! if you want to skip to the relevant information pertaining to the actual au, jump to the big bold JUMP HERE paragraph!
alright, to address the elephant in the room: no, this isn’t the typical demon/devil design you may be used to! i was originally going to keep within the red-horned pointed tail kind of mythos that generally stems from christianity/christianity aligned concepts, but then i realized i honestly don’t know much about that stuff and don’t really feel qualified to handle it in a narrative. i also know that, especially within the welcome home fandom itself, a lot of people have religious trauma that generally tends to be from various branches of christianity, so i thought this would be an interesting solution: seeing as i know a fair amount about hinduism, wally’s design is inspired by concepts about demons in hindusim in general! that way, it’s easy to write and hopefully refreshing/non-triggering to the audience! also it’s fun!
JUMP HERE: Wally’s design in the demon AU is inspired by Asura in hindu mythology! That’s why he’s got like a billion hands- I’m looking at adding jewellery/a tail/other stuff, but it’ll fall in that general theme. in terms of lore relevancy: asura in hindusim were not strictly evil, which you will find reflected in my story. wally isn’t evil per say; the neighbourhood is his turf, and he will protect it from outside threats. that being said- he is generally self-serving for now and may not always have the best intentions for his fellow neighbours. what his overarching goal is and who exactly his enemy is (as well as Home’s relevancy to the story) is being left to you to discover as the comic goes on! themes of puppetry, where wally darling ends and the asura begins, and stuff like that is left ambiguous for now! puppetry will also play a role in the story, as well as self-awareness and meta themes. hinduism and religion WILL NOT play a role in the story itself. anything i think might need contextualizing will be contextualized in the description of every update; honestly im just pulling the asura elements for Wally’s design and part of his character! this will still be a very accessible comic to people of all backgrounds. if you have any questions or concerns please don’t hesitate to send them to my askbox or leave them in the comments!
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abbiistabbii · 3 months
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I don't think people realize how absolutely wild Linux is.
Here we have an Operating system that now has 100 different varieties, all of them with their own little features and markets that are also so customizable that you can literally choose what desktop environment you want. Alongside that it is the OS of choice for Supercomputers, most Web servers, and even tiny little toy computers that hackers and gadget makers use. It is the Operating System running on most of the world's smartphones. That's right. Android is a version of Linux.
It can run on literally anything up to and including a potato, and as of now desktop Linux Distros like Ubuntu and Mint are so easily to use and user friendly that technological novices can use them. This Operating system has had App stores since the 90s.
Oh, and what's more, this operating system was fuckin' built by volunteers and users alongside businesses and universities because they needed an all purpose operating system so they built one themselves and released it for free. If you know how to, you can add to this.
Oh, and it's founder wasn't some corporate hotshot. It's an introverted Swedish-speaking Finn who, while he was a student, started making his own Operating system after playing around with someone else's OS. He was going to call it Freax but the guy he got server space from named the folder of his project "Linux" (Linus Unix) and the name stuck. He operates this project from his Home office which is painted in a colour used in asylums. Man's so fucking introverted he developed the world's biggest code repo, Git, so he didn't have to deal with drama and email.
Steam adopted it meaning a LOT of games now natively run in Linux and what cannot be run natively can be adapted to run. It's now the OS used on their consoles (Steam Deck) and to this, a lot of people have found games run better on Linux than on Windows. More computers run Steam on Linux than MacOS.
On top of that the Arctic World Archive (basically the Svalbard Seed bank, but for Data) have this OS saved in their databanks so if the world ends the survivors are going to be using it.
On top of this? It's Free! No "Freemium" bullshit, no "pay to unlock" shit, no licenses, no tracking or data harvesting. If you have an old laptop that still works and a 16GB USB drive, you can go get it and install it and have a functioning computer because it uses less fucking resources than Windows. Got a shit PC? Linux Mint XFCE or Xubuntu is lightweight af. This shit is stopping eWaste.
What's more, it doesn't even scrimp on style. KDE, XFCE, Gnome, Cinnamon, all look pretty and are functional and there's even a load of people who try make their installs look pretty AF as a hobby called "ricing" with a subreddit (/r/unixporn) dedicated to it.
Linux is fucking wild.
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fleshdyke · 2 years
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i wish so fucking bad that schools would teach even the most basic nature and wildlife literacy. bc what they teach now is how we get these godawful lawns and monocultures and an endlessly growing list of extinct animal species. like i can’t even count how many times i’ve been trying to explain to people why mosquitoes/moths/bats/flies/wasps/etc are so important and people have gone “but that’s what bees are for (pollination)” or “birds can just eat other things” or “things decompose on their own”. it has to be in the dozens. nothing makes me as upset as when people simply cannot wrap their heads around the fact (fact, fact, fact) that every single organism has its purpose in nature and there is *nothing* that is “pointless”. ignorance like this is what leads to barren monoculture lawns and deforestation and “pest control” and devastating invasive species and expanding extinction/endangerment lists. i just wish schools would teach that every animal and plant has its place, and *nothing* needs to be exterminated as a whole, *especially* native wildlife. but of course capitalism can’t thrive on proper environmentalism so i guess we’ll just have to deal with this.
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psiirockin · 15 days
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Some thoughts on Nightmare Fredbear + Nightmare!
+ bonus lore with Michael.
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Okay I'm now home from watching the Barbie movie, so I have to bestow some knowledge upon you fuckers (aka me infodumping actual Barbie lore because there were a lot of references there).
So, first and foremost, in one scene, we see "Earring Ken" and "Growing up Skipper" (very short scene, don't worry if you missed it). But these were actual Barbie dolls released by Mattel way back whenever (See pictures below)
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So, "Earring Ken" was actually "Earring Magic Ken". His whole thing was Mattel wanted to be cool and hip with the kids or whatever, so they created him. Except their idea of going out and finding inspiration and information as to what was "hip with the kids", was gay bars. And raves. As you can imagine, Earring Magic Ken did not stay on shelves too long (about 6 months) (though he did sell actually really well and I believe is still one of their most sold despite only being available for such a short time). I'm pretty sure his necklace charm could be swapped out too and also worn as actual earrings. HOWEVER, the part about Earring Magic Ken that kills me, is that because they went to gay bars, not only did they give him a mesh shirt and shit (as seen above), but the charm on his necklace? Is a cock ring. Did Mattel realize this? Probably the fuck not, but that's what it was💕
Growing up Skipper was also an actual doll, and just like in the movie, if you twisted her arm, she grew boobs. She also grew like an inch taller or something. I'm pretty sure she also was not on the shelf long, but she was introduced in the 1970s. So that's fun
Next up, Midge and Allan (who both play slightly bigger roles in the film but here's pictures anyways)
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So Midge was Barbie's best friend, and was released specifically because Mattel found themselves faced with high demand for a pregnant Barbie doll. But of course, Barbie can never get married or be pregnant or have kids, because it ages her, and obviously seeming a little older means Barbie is suddenly worthless and unappealing (Woo patriarchy!). So their solution was Midge, who, ironically, ended up being everything Barbie couldn't (which is kind of funny since she's supposed to be able to be any and everything ever). So, them making her only personality trait in the movie her pregnancy, is kind of spot on. She did have actual dolls initially but then seemed to disappear for a while, having been replaced with other "Barbie's best friend!"'s. Actually they also replaced Barbie's siblings several times but that's another post. Midge did eventually return though in Life in the Dreamhouse (See below)
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One thing they never mentioned in the movie, however, is that Allan was actually Midge's boyfriend. I don't have too much on him besides that but I think it's worth mentioning.
Anywho, there's my rant on some of the characters in the Barbie movie, if you made it this far, thanks :))
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brofisting · 2 years
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MY FRIEND, I ABSOLUTELY CAN!!!! 🥰 Starting from the beginning...
PART ONE: ORIGINAL FILMANIA PRODUCTION & FATE
It’s 2019-20, you’re Mile Phakphum Romsaithong, a very rich socialite who plays guitar. You’re bored and you’ve been thinking about getting into acting, and have been offered misc. BL casting opportunities before (1), but never really felt like any of them were For You, so you turned them down. 
Then, one day, you find out that there is a BL currently casting from the studio Filmania, where the male lead is based on you (2), at least your public persona/physically/whatever. Being a puppy of a man, you are delighted, and go read the script, and then the books, and decide you’ll go to the casting call for it.
At casting call, you re-meet Apo Nattawin Wattanagitiphat (3), who you went to college with and had a giant crush on (4). You guys hit it off IMMEDIATELY, chemistry unhinged, and get cast as Kinn and Porsche. Apo takes it, even though he has historically had a bad experience with the Thai acting industry (5). You are delighted by this incidence of FATE!!!!!!
PART TWO: IF YOU DON’T HAVE FATE ON YOUR SIDE STORE-BOUGHT IS FINE
The show gets dropped (6) Something something the authors, something something the company, whatever. I assume, if you are Mile, you are very sad! And if you’re Apo you’re also pretty sad, because it seemed like for once even with all the industry BS you had a cool dude on your side who you hit it off with, and it was gonna be a cool show. On the heels of that, if you are Mile, and have stacks of money, and see your college crush who is an unbelievable actor about to re-give up on acting and call it a wash, you are like, “wait, I have stacks of money and know everyone”.
So you, Mile, call up the head of the small talent agency you’re signed with, Be On Cloud, which is really just your buddy Pond Krisda Witthayakhajorndet in a fake mustache and a trench coat, and go, hey! So! Have you ever wanted to make television? I have a man here I CANNOT allow to be sad under any circumstances, and also, we’re really good at this and there’s an audience here.
PART THREE: BE ON CLOUD, KINNPORSCHE TAKE TWO!!!!
Pond, being just as unhinged as Mile, thinks about it for a second, and is like. Well. How different can making television be from running an event planning company, which is my real job (7). It’s just calling up a bunch of different guys who are good at their jobs and putting them in one place. And I know so many different guys! Let’s do it!
They get the rights (handwaves this I don’t know anything about it) and jump into production. They get their shit together UNREALISTICALLY quickly (6), and on top of that, since they’re starting from scratch and they’re just A Bunch Of Guys led by Pond and Mile, they decide that their priorities are #1 making art and #2 making Apo happy. With regards to #1, they rework the script (8), hire the best acting coaches money can afford, and put the cast through character-building and intimacy workshops. With regards to #2, they toss out all the industry bullshit that has sucked for him in the past -- no more crew/cast hierarchy (9), no more homophobia on-set (10), no more fake fanservice (11).
FINALE: MIRACLES IF U BELIEVE ETC.
Magically, it turns out, when you create a great working environment, you get really, really good TV!!!!! Which means that their unhinged plan succeeded beyond their wildest dreams, and now Mile & Apo are internationally famous superstars who hang out 24/7 with their squad of 16 close friends, and we get to watch them do it. And it has been, genuinely, a fucking privilege. 
To end this tale with a personal note, one of the reasons I allowed myself to get so invested in KinnPorsche so fast is because it was evident from every aspect of it -- the show itself, the BTS, the actors interviews -- that the people working on this show both really cared about the show and were genuinely having a great time. There is nothing like seeing art made by people who are passionate about making it! 
Their enthusiasm, their hard work, and their obvious enjoyment of the process & each other’s company are what made me feel like I could trust what they were making, because you could tell no matter what else it was, it was from the heart. And that’s really something special! Especially in this day and age!! 
And even though they could pull it off this time because of the circumstances (financial and social), I hope that it shows BL television CAN be made in a way that keeps the actors comfortable and safe and happy, and encourages change for the better across the industry as a whole. KinnPorsche shouldn’t be the last wild BL passion project; it should be the first one of a new wave. (bangs gavel) Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
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trigun-manga-overhaul · 5 months
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TRIGUN RED - RELEASE IN A WEEK!
Trigun Red is a more recent but very rare booklet. It was released hand-in-hand with a second booklet called Trigun Black, both with similar content.
Trigun Red contains 56 pages of unreleased sketches by Yasuhiro Nightow himself. These sketches are of various art pieces he made over time for magazine covers, merch, volume covers, and pages within the manga itself. There are also sketches of art that never came to be, giving us a glimpse into the creative process.
The booklet also includes various handwritten notes on some of the sketches. We haven't translated these, but it's something we might look at in the future.
We're still looking for another copy of Trigun Black that we can scan. I personally already own one but our scanner doesn't, and it might get damaged in the scanning process.
We're happy to be able to be the first to offer full scans of the entire book! As per usual, we have not added any watermarks to our pages, as we'd rather not put any claim to content belonging to Nightow. Because of this we ask you to always leave credit when posting our scans, and to not repost the link to the files outside the release post we'll be posting next Friday.
See you guys next week!
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one-time-i-dreamt · 6 months
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I was in the audience of a comedy show and I was sitting next to Papyrus and he was info dumping to me about the Splatoon lore?? The person doing comedy was Pearl from Splatoon.
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catgirl-kaiju · 17 days
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FUN FACT!
the first ever hydrogen bomb detonated (Operation Ivy: Shot Mike) completely vaporized the island it was detonated on, leaving a giant undersea crater in its place. there was an island there, and now it's just fucking gone.
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The island was Elugelab in the Enewetak Atoll
Before the Ivy Mike test:
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After the Ivy Mike test:
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the thing about the Ivy Mike test, though, is that the bomb was too big, impractical, and heavy to carry in an airplane, afix to a rocket, or fire from a canon. still, the blast had a yield of 10.4 megatons, rivaled only by the infamous Castle Bravo test (US 15 megatons), the B-41/ Mk-41 Bomb ( US 25 megatons), and the Tsar Bomba test (USSR 50 megatons).
The rest of these bombs can be dropped from airplanes. The Tsar Bomba design was, however, never put into production as a practical weapon and was simply intended to be a one-off exercise with the goal of creating the largest yeild atomic weapon in history. (it succeeded)
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itsaspectrumcomic · 8 days
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This is an excuse for you to talk about literally anything you thing is interesting
Go wild :D
This has been in my inbox for a while because I love it but I didn't know what I wanted to talk about, but then I realised my version of infodumping is showing people my art so here's some non-comic stuff I've made recently:
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the-sound-of-progress · 10 months
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It feels like every time I re-watch this, I find something new again! At this part, right after he says 'it's filthy in there,' I never really caught just how offended Misha looks.
I don't think that this is him still being mad about Archimedes being in there in the first place. He's already over that. A couple of seconds prior to this frame, we can see him looking vaguely bemused as Archimedes flies away:
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But then when Ludwig says 'it's filthy in there', Misha gets real pissy looking.
And that's when Ludwig's face does this.
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Then he quickly pivots by making his little joke, "Birds!"
The whole interaction goes by so fast that it skimmed right under my notice for years. My god, the creators of these videos are brilliant. When you slow it down enough to catch all the micro-expressions and little mannerisms, it's almost like you're watching an entirely different video.
I think this is why these characters are so popular - the creators managed to pack an unbelievable amount of life and depth into them within the space of just a few videos. With so much detail in the expressions from frame to frame, they really manage to make you feel like you know the guys personally.
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