Didn't have "see your political action philosophy expressed by Jorts the cat" on my 2025 bingo card.
All cats are anarchists.
Probably like 80% of cat owners are also anarchists.
Fill ever drawer in the U.S. Treasury with glitter and a note that says Go to Hell.
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 A lot of the time these get written off as low quality or outdated, but they still hold so much effort and imagination that they deserve a better look.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
freaky little scavenger
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:
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.
I don't care what official translations say, I chose to believe "Et tu, Brute?" translates to "What the FUCK, Brutus?"
Actually, it was proven to be Ploob
Have you seen the new show? It's on Tubu. It's literally on Heebee. It's on Poodee with ads. It's literally on Dippy. You can probably find it on Weeno. Dude it's on Gumpy. It's a Pheebo original. It's on Poob. You can watch it on Poob. You can go to Poob and watch it. Log onto Poob right now. Go to Poob. Dive into Poob. You can Poob it. It's on Poob. Poob has it for you. Poob has it for you.
Thoughts tossed into the void for your perusal and my relief
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