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Which is Better

  • Chicken Little

    Votes: 433 27.5%

  • Hunchback 2

    Votes: 57 3.6%

  • A slow death

    Votes: 1,087 68.9%
  • Total voters
    1,577
toilet_rainbow said:
This was discussed in the Fat Acceptance Thread recently. It's a form of Golfer's vasculitis or heat rash that is common among morbidly obese people at the park (hence the name). Yes, it has a WebMD page
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In addition to the whole fat-as-fuck thing I wouldn’t be surprised if none of those land-blubbers also avoided sunblock, apparently the condition is also exacerbated by being out in the sun.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
These women were obviously not gay or ever thought about being gay in high school. They got brainwashed by Tumblr so hard they literally gaslit themselves into believing they were always "qweer" since childhood, and now it's their life's mission to try and convince children they're gay.
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So in your opinion, gay people don't exist? It's just mental brainwashing to meme yourself as one? Idk man, I'd believe someone likes the same sex unless proven otherwise. I may doubt on Dana since she never talks about actually eating pussy or being with women but noelle was always gay.
 
weirdMcGee said:
So in your opinion, gay people don't exist? It's just mental brainwashing to meme yourself as one? Idk man, I'd believe someone likes the same sex unless proven otherwise. I may doubt on Dana since she never talks about actually eating pussy or being with women but noelle was always gay.
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Wasnt Luz probably based on some woman Dana was into and Amity based on her? Then again, with the whole tumblr thing you got a whole subset of women who like the idea of being with women (or the idea of no patriarchy/toxic masculinity/OMGWTFBBQ) more than the like actually being with them.
 
Xerxes IX said:
Wasnt Luz probably based on some woman Dana was into and Amity based on her? Then again, with the whole tumblr thing you got a whole subset of women who like the idea of being with women (or the idea of no patriarchy/toxic masculinity/OMGWTFBBQ) more than the like actually being with them.
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So it's not even genuine at this rate? Damn...
 
The hubby and I saw the 30th anniversary screening of Toy Story last night--nothing spectacular to report about it tbh there was only a small handful of other people in the theater and they were relatively quiet. But I don't believe I've ever gotten to see the movie in theaters like the hubs had (like I dunno if my parents took toddler me to see it), so there was some interest in how to experience it as intended.

It hit me this morning that there's actually something... kinda charming about it after all these years. Not just the characters, the writing, the music, the art direction, what looked like odd jankiness in the animation sometimes, how surprising they implemented the weather dynamics and some textures like dirt smears and dark circles under the eyes and that you could feel the weight of objects (I still cringe when the bowling ball lands on Woody). No, it was because it was a CGI cartoon, and it didn't try to hide it.

That's really weird to say these days because no-fucking-duh they weren't hiding it back then that it was a cartoon. But even back then, CG effects could still have a sense of "realism" if at least for the textures for lighting. So to have an entire movie just be a CGI cartoon instead of having some elements of it here and there... it was refreshing. And I think that's why, even with the uncanny valley facial expressions, human models and Scud himself (worst model of the whole movie next to Molly), it still works and looks great animated. After being bombarded with "realistic animation" for so long, to just see the first CGI animated movie on the big screen as God intended felt so nice.

Seriously, what was the last 3D-animated movie that wasn't ashamed to show it was just unashamedly a 3D cartoon? Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, right? Or fuck, How to Train Your Dragon? The first Wreck-It Ralph? Should we even count Zootopia because even though it was walking, talking animals, it just wasn't very cartoony? I just want cartoony 3D movies again, I don't want it to be flashy or try to be realistic as possible to show how far we've come visually, just do cartoony things with it.

(I'm refusing to count the 3D SpongeBob movies fyi, like Sponge Out of Water was only partially-3D.)
 
the wife and I are seriously thinking about going to Tokyo Disney
we saw a video of the prices and holy shit it's like 1993 WDW prices, even putting aside the weak yen
it really drove home how insane the prices are that we live close enough to Disney World that she WORKED at Disney Springs and rough guesstimate numbers are looking like it's about equal or cheaper even factoring in traveling across the planet instead of down I-4
 
Kari Kamiya said:
That's really weird to say these days because no-fucking-duh they weren't hiding it back then that it was a cartoon. But even back then, CG effects could still have a sense of "realism" if at least for the textures for lighting. So to have an entire movie just be a CGI cartoon instead of having some elements of it here and there... it was refreshing. And I think that's why, even with the uncanny valley facial expressions, human models and Scud himself (worst model of the whole movie next to Molly), it still works and looks great animated. After being bombarded with "realistic animation" for so long, to just see the first CGI animated movie on the big screen as God intended felt so nice.
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Well it's either that or because they hadn't succumbed to the CGI equivalent of the beanmouth then.

I'm a sucker for oldschool computer animation and I kind of consider Toy Story to be sort of, if not an endcap, then at least the beginning of the end for that style of computer animation; when technological limitations meant they couldn't really recreate realistic scenery, so they had to go with something more abstract. Toy Story does attempt to create a real world, but it still looks very much like an early 90s computer animation world. However, technology kept getting better and I just don't find making photo-realistic environments anywhere as interesting from an artistic standpoint as I find the scenery and characters in something like High Fidelity (1984) or Quest: A Long Ray's Journey Into Light (1986).
 
Oh right, I forgot to post my review of my first Disney visit in ~7 years.
  • Entering the park was surprisingly easy, I just had to make a reservation and I could walk into the park.
  • You have to use the Disneyland app to access your Magic Key or pair your Magic Key to a MagicBand+ and tap it at the gate, no physical card is given and using a print-out of your pass can lead to issues. You used to be able to get your pass printed on a ticket but apparently this caused issues with renewals and buy single-day tickets using your guest profile and was silently discontinued.
  • The lines weren’t too bad when went, I’m actually saw wait times that were less than an hour for even the more popular rides. Some rides did go over an hour but it wasn’t as bad a Super Nintendo Word’s +200 minute wait time for Mario Kart: Bowser’s Challenge.
  • I went on a handful of rides (Space Mountain, Mickey’s Runaway Railway, Guardians of the Galaxy: Monsters After Dark, and Rise of the Resistance). I would’ve gone on more but I got there at around noon and had to get back home.
  • The food was middling at best. I got a slice of pizza, some garlic bread, and a soda. Thankfully the 10% discount provided by my pass and Anaheim’s low 8.75% sales tax made it less wallet-rapey than Universal’s in-park food. I did play the role of “Star Wars geek” and buy a souvenir sipper filled with blue milk (which I remembered from my last visit, I liked the taste back then and I still like it today). A friend of mine also mentioned a “hack” that involves the generic tumblers sold at Disneyland’s restaurants and refills but I’m not too sure if it’s genuine.
TL;DR - I enjoyed and I’ll try to do more on my next trip.

Oh, and Disney had its annual (or semi-annual, it seems to vary depending on certain factors) Disneyland Lost and Found sale (ARCHIVE) on Saturday. I decided to go check it out and I picked up some stuff (the most notable being some MagicBands for $10, with each band being sold new for $35-$55 depending on the design).

EDIT: noticed a typo and I forgot to add MSRP prices for the Magicbands.
XYZpdq Jr. said:
the wife and I are seriously thinking about going to Tokyo Disney
we saw a video of the prices and holy shit it's like 1993 WDW prices, even putting aside the weak yen
it really drove home how insane the prices are that we live close enough to Disney World that she WORKED at Disney Springs and rough guesstimate numbers are looking like it's about equal or cheaper even factoring in traveling across the planet instead of down I-4
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I think the price thing is a combination of TDL (and DisneySea) being owned and managed by the Oriental Land Company rather than Disney proper, not wanting to price out locals, and attract tourists.
 
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I hate to double-post (I'd normally edit my previous post but the ability to is locked) but I'll be going to Disneyland and California Adventure tomorrow, if you guys want me to keep tabs on anything let me know.
 
The whole plot of Zootopia 2 was allegedly leaked a couple weeks ago, as well as the scene boards from an employee a couple days ago, and the details seems to coincide with the final trailer that was released today.
The scene boards were deleted at lightning speed, but archive sites thankfully managed to grab the screenshots that the poster linked.
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I may be the only one here excited to see Tron.
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It looks fun.
 
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Activelo said:
The whole plot of Zootopia 2 was allegedly leaked a couple weeks ago, as well as the scene boards from an employee a couple days ago, and the details seems to coincide with the final trailer that was released today.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5AwtptT8X8kThe scene boards were deleted at lightning speed, but archive sites thankfully managed to grab the screenshots that the poster linked.
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Eh, I know that the original film’s directors said that sapient reptiles (and birds IIRC) were canon to Zootopia’s wider mythology but introducing them into the series in this way makes it feel a bit ham-fisted.

I’ll probably change my tune when I eventually see the film but I’m not hopeful.
Michael Wade said:
I may be the only one here excited to see Tron.
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It looks fun.
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It looks interesting but the whole “programs coming into the ‘real world’ and used as a combat tool” plot point was used by KH2’s Tron world for its second story. I’ll more than likely end up seeing it because I’m a sucker for cheesy sci-fi films.
 
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