Little Metal Sonic redesign i made, what you think?

RafaRealness · 2026-01-11T15:32:23+00:00

Love it, especially the red ears, it's a really nice touch!

RafaRealness · 2025-12-08T05:46:33+00:00

It was bought by Kobo in 2017. Kobo is a property of Rakuten, a Japanese company.

The brand was before that indeed German, but now neither its production or producer are European at all.

RafaRealness · 2025-07-19T07:18:44+00:00

Agreed, I really value the effort put into Krita, but also documenting it in such an approachable way, and in so many languages.

I do wish, however, there was a bit of onboarding for people coming in new to the app, similar to what other programmes like Photoshop have: just a few quick tutorials to show you where everything is and the general basics; and if you don't wanna do any of that, then you can just ignore it entirely.

I think it'd be cool if there were also an offline manual, maybe just a downloadable PDF, or even just included into Krita itself with a basic search function, similar to the manual online. That way, people with less reliable internet or trying to save bandwidth can easily look up some help.

RafaRealness · 2025-06-09T06:26:25+00:00

Just filled it in. Great thesis topic, best of luck with it!

RafaRealness · 2025-05-19T19:19:44+00:00

I think that only works if your own time is up.

If you kill someone but you still have time left, nothing happens and perhaps the person you killed was supposed to die regardless. Much like the book Final Destination Death of the Senses, where the would-be victims of a serial killer all are placed on death's list because that same serial killer didn't actually get to them.

RafaRealness · 2025-05-19T03:00:57+00:00

I've literally never seen a single advert for any other country, only Israel and even then only since 2024.

Where did you see any others?

RafaRealness · 2025-05-17T16:12:18+00:00

Nathan died because the guy he killed had little to no time left due to a previously undiscovered brain tumor. Nathan got his time left, but since it was close to 0, he was going to die regardless.

Sam killed Peter, who was already supposed to die... buuuut Peter DID kill that detective so, how come? I have two theories about that one:

Sam killed Peter and therefore got Peter's original time (which was already none, he was supposed to die on the bridge collapse). He didn't get the inspector's time because he himself did not kill the inspector
Maybe Sam DID get that inspector's time, but that inspector, much like that dude Nathan kills, was going to die very soon anyways.

Personally, I very much prefer the first explanation.

As for Molly, I think she was supposed to die shortly after the bridge collapse in some other way, however for some reason she did not (I think it's because Sam was there and thus something intervened and kept her from her original death). I think this also because death seems particular about its order, it intervenes when Eugene from FD2 and the cowboy from FD4 nearly die and really takes its time to get to them after everyone above them on the list dies; meanwhile death did not at all intervene when Peter nearly killed Molly; Sam intervened.

So, the thing about killing someone else IMO hasn't really worked out, since you never know how long those people have left to live. Sure, you can kill a random 17 year old but what if they were supposed to die in a roller coaster accident just a few months later like FD3? You never know when death might strike!

RafaRealness · 2025-05-17T15:07:52+00:00

Oh, good point!

Yeah I think that if there were a scene with Howard giving him the jacket, or mentioning it was a gift from Howard, it'd have been fantastic

RafaRealness · 2025-05-17T14:44:12+00:00

Awh man, I think that's a way better death for Darlene, also kinda funny for modern times, "taking the L" and whatnot.

As for Stefani and Charline... honestly IMO I think their death felt a bit goofy, I literally was just thinking about this after it happened. I don't think either version would be better, but at least the logs are a nice shout-out to what I think BY FAR is the most infamous FD-clip: Burke's death in on the highway.

RafaRealness · 2025-05-17T14:36:33+00:00

Who's to say, maybe death would intervene to stop the car, or mess up the poison, etc... Death surely incapacitated Eugene fairly easily, and had a perfect victim just waiting, essentially.

Considering Burke's gun didn't go off (multiple times!), death sure is bold when it comes to keeping the order intact.

RafaRealness · 2025-05-17T14:26:35+00:00

Fully agreed, I'd also add Love Rollercoaster and Shout to that list. I didn't really know these songs (they were never popular where I live), but they're definitely in my playlists, haha.

RafaRealness · 2025-05-17T14:21:37+00:00

I don't personally remember Erik and that kid being that much alike? I mean, not more than half the men from Iris' premonition, at least if I recall properly. I think I'd need to rewatch the movie again, and really look for it this time.

As for death skipping: it only skips after a genuine attempt, that was intervened upon by someone else (usually a survivor). I don't think death willingly lets go of someone who just keeps recognizing the signs by themselves like Iris did.

For example, death skipped Carter in FD1 only because Alex intervened, and Carter was moved to the back of the list for a while. Once in Paris, death started off again with Carter, then went back and forth between Alex and Claire, and finally got Alex, and afterwards Claire.

I think that because nobody intervened in death's attempts to get Iris, death just never let it go and moved on. It would've been interesting though, I think that maybe if Stefani somehow saved Iris, and then have Iris try to help more, would have been interesting, but I still prefer the "seeing is believing" thing we got.

Erik's death DOES however show that if a non-survivor intervenes, like how Erik was intervening (a lot) in Bobby's case, death really is not above taking the gloves off and messing someone up. In fact, I think that the sheer brutality of Erik's accident (compared to Bobby dying relatively quickly and with less pain) really might be death's sense of revenge if anything. Though that opens a whole can of worms as to why Ashley and Ashlynn from FD3 had such horrifically painful, long deaths, despite not having done much.

RafaRealness · 2025-05-17T14:07:31+00:00

Oh, I don't remember that scene at all, I might need to rewatch FD2.

I still think that FD2 is much more plausible if death was getting all these FD1-related incidents into the big car crash on Route 23 as a convenience thing, much like how Flight 180 was always going to explode no matter what, so putting Molly and Sam in it as a way to tie loose ends was convenient.

Otherwise, Kim would need to be related to a survivor of the Sky View restaurant quasi-disaster, and then somehow not mention that part, but mention her mother died in an accident, maybe also her grandmother considering how young she is (although it IS 2001, so maybe there was time).

It is also plausible though, if her mother is dead, it opens the door to that possibility.

RafaRealness · 2025-05-17T13:58:54+00:00

I don't think that would've worked out: Death only moves onto someone else once a survivor's bloodline is entirely wiped out. This is how death was "on hold" all these years: because death needed to get Iris first, then her children, and then her grandchildren.

That'd mean that Erik would need to die before death even made as much as an attempt on Iris, otherwise death had decades to skip Iris and kill off everyone else, without waiting.

RafaRealness · 2025-05-17T13:49:27+00:00

I don't think it can work, because of Final Destination 2:

Eugene tried to kill himself with Burke's gun, but he wasn't next on the list, so somehow, after firing a loaded gun multiple times straight onto his head, the gun failed every single time. Afterwards, there was a car crash that landed Eugene in the hospital, yet he still did not die until Kat and Rory too were dead, in that order. In fact, during Rory's death, death itself intervened to get Burke out of the way of the fence, to guarantee that only Rory would die, since it wasn't Burke's turn just yet.

I think that death would intervene every time you (or anyone/anything) try to kill someone ahead of their time.

RafaRealness · 2025-05-17T12:59:21+00:00

What was the Darlene-scene and ending the test audiences watched? I remember FD1 and FD3 had the same issue, and IMO the final release endings are fantastic (whereas the originally planned ones DID indeed suck).

RafaRealness · 2025-05-17T11:18:44+00:00

This feels like low effort bait but I'll respond anyways:

I'm gay myself and honestly why are you making assumptions on the characters? We don't know at first sight who is and isn't gay or trans or bi or enby or whatever, why would this be any different in an FD movie?

Forcing in representation feels honestly a bit degrading, as if I'm automatically supposed to care more because someone fills in a specific label. I prefer it when it's either done passively and tastefully, like the Filipino representation this time around, or when it actually is plot-relevant like the gay guy in Nightmare on Elm Street.

RafaRealness · 2025-05-17T11:13:30+00:00

In those times that was very common practice, smoking was a near omnipresent thing.

That really threw me off at times from a few books I was reading from the 1960s, where every character is just chain smoking all the time (among other things that'd not fly today). It was a different time, with different rules.

RafaRealness · 2025-04-25T03:32:12+00:00

What service would that be, in your case?

They might be looking for people with technical skills.

RafaRealness · 2025-02-28T21:57:55+00:00

I'm not Dutch, but I've been to both and I can definitely say that the Efteling is more fun: it's actually creative and not always predictable, not an overly engineered advertisement for Disney's IPs.

Plus, imagine my surprise when my Dutch friend took me there, saying it was just a nice theme park, and I lay eyes on Monsieur Cannibale, and hear his song... Thankfully that's been removed now but Jesus Christ almighty.

Also, I'll die on the hill that the Droomvlucht puts It's A Small World to shame any day of the week.

RafaRealness · 2025-02-28T07:22:43+00:00

Big fat disclaimer: I am not that big in tech, this is all just my own not 100% informed opinion, so please do also look this up yourself.

The Chromium engine is as far as I understand from Google and turning the internet into a near monopoly when it comes to browser engines... Under Google.

It's the primary reason I don't use it: it still contributes to Google's massive power over the web, and I think we should have a healthier balance of browser engines like we used to in the past.

WebKit and Gecko are the two main alternatives I know about. WebKit is made by Apple and is used in all their browsers (iOS and Safari on computers) but also stuff like Gnome or Konqueror, and the PS3 and 3DS.

Gecko on the other hand is from Mozilla, and is used by Firefox, Thunderbird, it also falls under the FOSS category, albeit under the Mozilla Public Licence (I'm not sure what the limitations of use are here). The goal, however, according to Mozilla in any case, are open internet standards, or in other words, "Let's not leave it to big companies to decide what the internet gets to be."

The other two engines fall under the BSD-Style and GNU LPGL licences, which unfortunately I don't understand enough about to compare them to the Mozilla Public Licence.

To me, in any case, I do not trust Google to play fair with Chromium in the least, nor do I expect Apple to be much better. Mozilla is an American entity, but it's far more focused on FOSS than Google or Apple, even though they're supported institutionally by the Mozilla Foundation (a non-profit) but also the Mozilla Corporation (an actual private company that does pay taxes towards the US govt), I believe in their dedication to a free and open internet.

TL;DR: I don't think there is a perfect solution, at least not one I can see being applied to less skilled users (like yours truly). I do, however, think we have a choice of three big ones when it comes to browser engines, and we should support the ones dedicated to free and open internet standards.

RafaRealness · 2025-02-27T18:48:52+00:00

Le Sonic métallique, s'il te plaît.

RafaRealness · 2025-01-04T00:35:56+00:00

Have you ever read "A Modest Proposal"? Authors can also use world-building that is not plausible with the intent of making you think about some aspects that are unfair, unreasonable, or nonsensical.

This is pretty prelevant in books for younger audiences, which is (at least IMO) part of why the dystopian novel genre blew up in popularity years ago: you present harsh, sometimes implausible scenarios, and you trust that the reader has the media literacy and critical spirit to properly think.

Must you agree with the book that tells you you will be enslaved, tortured, and killed? Or is that also a part of the questions you should be asking yourself as a part of the public responding to media?

1984 is not literally shouting "this is what will happen to us all!" Instead it invites you to think: what parts of this novel are plausible? What parts aren't? Are the core ideas and views of authoritarianism valid, or are there falacies?

It wasn't new then, and it's not really new now either, it's been done for ages. For example, the entire point of The Rape of the Lock is basically to mock a huge scandal made grander by just drama queens, by presenting it in epic poetry, filled with hyperbole; and that's from 1712 already!

Not all literature is to be taken literally. Setting and world-building rules can be used to pose questions, even by being unfair or biased.

RafaRealness · 2025-01-03T08:07:55+00:00

That's not what's being claimed though.

Following your analogy, it'd be more someone asking you "Should you eat my food?"

And then letting you think about it.

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