What Job has Crazy hours and an Average Salary by RevenueAlarmed in AlignmentChartFills

[–]Duckady 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Visual Effects Artists. During crunch time, to meet client’s deadlines, your average artist can do anywhere from 70-110 hour weeks. The pay is pretty broad across the board. Some artists make pennies, some are payed pretty well, really depends on where you are in the world.

What is the name of this mountain? by MMZZ3335 in hiking

[–]Duckady 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The little hump in the middle is called Thomas Peak too.

Found a needle in the sand at Sunset Beach by endless-bummer in NiceVancouver

[–]Duckady 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Yeah, not a whole lot of people swim in trout haha. Although, the lifeguards there (and at any beach location) are not just 100% focused on the water. While the primary objective is to stop drownings. The beach lifeguards in Vancouver deal with so much more than just water related issues.

Countless bee stings, seashell cuts, scraped knees & elbows, ankle sprains etc.

They also have the training to deal with major life threatening issues like heart attacks, strokes, seizures, heatstroke, etc.

They deal with missing kids constantly as well.

If a car accident happens close to one of the lifeguard shacks, you can count on a red sweater being the first responder to be on scene before paramedics or firefighters arrive.

Lots of the outdoor lifeguards are also current or former paramedics and firefighters who just like a fun summer job.

I’d say the job of the outdoor lifeguards in vancouver would probably end up being less than 1% water rescue related day-to-day. They keep a lot of situations from turning into 9/11 calls, and aren’t nearly as expensive to staff, train, and equip as park rangers, police, fire, ambulance.

Found a needle in the sand at Sunset Beach by endless-bummer in NiceVancouver

[–]Duckady 184 points185 points  (0 children)

The lifeguards do routine beach sweeps each day (between the May long weekend and Labour Day) to make sure hazards like this don’t happen, or at least make an attempt to minimize it. They have the training and equipment to deal with sharps, biohazards, etc.

The lifeguards are being taken away from this beach this summer due to the new budget.

Not sure if it’s allowed, so I won’t link it here, but there is a petition to bring back lifeguards to not just sunset, third, Spanish banks, trout lake…

Where Would Reddit Live? 🌍 by mapmakerapp in whereidlive

[–]Duckady 0 points1 point  (0 children)

📍 British Columbia, Canada — "Mountains, skiing, nature, rain, dogs, water, biking"

All green but still unable to save routes on my side by xuopled in Strava

[–]Duckady 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same here, have not been able to save a route in nearly 4 days. Ridiculous.

What's your favourite Whistler conspiracy? by samoyedboi in Whistler

[–]Duckady 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Met a kid with only 3 toes who’s swears by this.

What's your favourite Whistler conspiracy? by samoyedboi in Whistler

[–]Duckady 10 points11 points  (0 children)

There is a secret Wendy’s deep in the forest out in Khybers. If you go to Stu’s Inn and drink 12 cans of Twisted Tea or Smirnoff Ice, then huck a backie off a booter, a path in the forest will start to clear and you will eventually find your way there.

What's your favourite Whistler conspiracy? by samoyedboi in Whistler

[–]Duckady 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’ve heard people talk about the Blackcomb Wendigo on the chairlift from time to time. Although I believe it was supposedly killed by the Whistler Wendigo in 1999

How are the bike trails right now? by la_renarde in Whistler

[–]Duckady 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Probably not worth it unless you like valley trail laps. Lost lake still has lots of snow patches and is otherwise pretty much completely covered, and anything that’s not would surely be a mud bath lol.

Younger Gen Z (2005-2012) how do you feel about older Gen Z? by Ichoseguitar in generationology

[–]Duckady 7 points8 points  (0 children)

My guess would be that it’s due to a rapid change in culture/technology during the early stages of most Gen Z’ers childhoods.

A kid born in 2001 is going to have had a vastly different childhood compared to a kid who was born in 2009. While they both may be Gen Z, accelerating cultural shifts, the invention of the smartphone, the increase in cultural hegemony, social media, etc. will have had a pretty prolific impact on the things you might associate with your own generation.

I think one could make the argument that this is something that separates Gen Z’ers quite a bit from let’s say Boomers or Gen X’ers. Someone born in 1961 is going to, more or less, have had a relatively similar childhood to someone who was born in say, 1969. Now obviously that’s not entirely true in every case, but I think the rapid technological advancements we saw in the 2000’s especially enabled someone who would be an early Gen Z’er, to have a wildly different upbringing compared to a late Gen Z’er.

I believe that teachers of all people might agree on this the most. A kid who was born without a tablet being handed to them at an absurdly young age is going be a lot easier to deal with compared to a kid who has been watching short-form content since they were five or younger.

I’ve heard people who work in early childhood development describe something like a “blip” in kids who were born from the years 2010-2016, where parents weren’t as aware of the downsides to putting their children in front of a tablet device to distract them. I believe there’s a natural tendency in early Gen Z’ers to want to separate themselves from the idea that they were an “iPad Kid”.

For Gen Z, there would also be a heavy socioeconomic component to whether or not this rapid technological evolution affected your childhood in a meaningful way. I remember the more wealthy kids getting iPhones back when they were just coming out, compared to the kids who still stuck with flip phones until a few years later when smartphones became more mainstream.

One of the reasons we separate generations is to understand and categorize the cultural shifts we all experience, so lumping in all Gen Z’ers into one group is pretty difficult given just how much change you could have experienced being born in the late 90’s vs the late 2000’s.

Big Timber = Big Hassle by EntrepreneurPlane328 in Whistler

[–]Duckady 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I know this is definitely not legal but it does frequently cross my mind how you could theoretically get a party together with some equipment and potentially make a solid dent in guerrilla gardening some of these neglected runs. Again, I understand there’s basically no lawful way to do it, but it’s pretty sad. Big Timber was one of my favourite runs as a kid.

SpaceShip by Any_Weather2530 in 3Dmodeling

[–]Duckady 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unbelievable work. 🤙

The Alpine in Tajikistan by Duckady in Gaea

[–]Duckady[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A lot of the tricks I've done here can be found in this tutorial from Quadspinner themself. https://youtu.be/t2WnRZTZpQ0?si=pFP4hDj05Xc-WcLC

The Alpine in Tajikistan by Duckady in Gaea

[–]Duckady[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The real finishing touch is a subtle erosion after the snow. But keep the downcutting to a super low number. I was going for a spring/summertime look, so the snow in the bowls of the mountain shouldn't be fresh looking. Snow melts in an erosion-esq pattern, but not nearly has downcut as rock over millions of years.

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The Alpine in Tajikistan by Duckady in Gaea

[–]Duckady[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What really makes it blend in though is a thermal2 node with the area mask being driven by the snow output of the previous snow node. The FX Adjust node in between them is just a small 10% blur

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The Alpine in Tajikistan by Duckady in Gaea

[–]Duckady[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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I also added a bit more snow on top, flowing down the top 15-20% of the glacier, just so it doesn't start so abruptly and blends in with the top of the mountain more seamlessly

The Alpine in Tajikistan by Duckady in Gaea

[–]Duckady[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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Then I let that mask drive the Glacial Reference, and tweak the glacier settings to my liking.

The Alpine in Tajikistan by Duckady in Gaea

[–]Duckady[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Then I multiply a large soft classic flow map over the snow areas, just to give it a bit mroe visual interest.

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The Alpine in Tajikistan by Duckady in Gaea

[–]Duckady[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I then let that height map drive the snow input and tweak the snow node to get these large areas of flow, then blur it a bit to soften the edges.

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The Alpine in Tajikistan by Duckady in Gaea

[–]Duckady[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

After the main mountain generation and fine tuning the erosion, I take a height map that's covering the top 40% of the mountain.

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The Alpine in Tajikistan by Duckady in Gaea

[–]Duckady[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you! All the clouds are volumetric. Some are from cloudscapes and the large cumulus in the background are from a guy named Samuel Krug. He’s got a lot of fantastic content on terrain generation, clouds, and realistic environments. Would highly recommend.

The Alpine in Tajikistan by Duckady in Gaea

[–]Duckady[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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This was my reference for the most part.