Adropintheether - A Drop In The Ether

A gay awakening

My laptop ran an update while I was sleeping last night which would've been fine except that the fan pad it sits on has rgb lights that fire up whenever the the computer first powers on, so in the middle of the night my computer finished its restart sequence and this happened:

your unreliable narrator fucking bit me

Would the plural of Brudi be Brüdi?

Wenn, dann Brüdis

I’m at the BDSM club painting tunnels on the wall for my sub to run into

This is not how I remember "I am Spartacus"

Onna no Sono no Hoshi, Yama Wayama

happy Thursday the 20th

when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. when all you have is a paintbrush, everything looks like a canvas. when all you have is a cock, everything looks like the exhaust pipe of a 2014 honda civic. so yes, to answer your question, i am stuck. please call the emergency services

There's a charm to older animation due to the limits of the time. Everything from limitations on the color pallette to characters' collars being used to isolate head animations to that one rock that you can tell is definitely gonna move in the next scene. Limitations impact aesthetics, and then those aesthetics live past the limitations as people remember them fondly.

It's a bit less visible in animation (although there are examples like Megalobox), but you see it a lot in indie gaming. Pixelart is still prominently represented despite all of which modern graphics are capable, PS1/2-era graphics have seen a resurgence, and even the CDI Zeldas have a new game that inherits their look.

There's so much to love about old media, the ways limits were pushed, and the jank that resulted. A lot of the time these get written off as low quality or outdated, but they still hold so much effort and imagination that they deserve a better look.

I love the gif because there’s an incredible number of mistakes crammed into just a couple of seconds. 

1. how the hole starts in the wall but it keeps moving forward

2. then magically heals itself

3. the triceratops walks right through the wall

4. the table blinking before the dinosaurs appear

5. both tables disappear

6. so suddenly appear again as they are toppling over

7. two people clipping into running without any transition 

8. the table outline hides a man’s legs but there is no table

9. the triceratops horns aren’t white in the second clip

10. tables changing both color and material in the second clip

11. a carnivorous dinosaur’s first instinct is to go and eat a whole plate with salad