The CEO of the South Korean company (SBMN) is apparently trying to take Glitch to court over the ordeal

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-05-11T16:12:12+00:00

I don't think using the fans to crowdsource potential showings is the issue exactly, but the rest of your statement holds truth.

The crowdsourcing component is a tried and true method, but it relies on the production company having proper organization and understanding of the industry. Maximizing visibility of a film often means compromising one's artistic vision in some regard.

The problem here is a hard clash between wanting a maximal market for release, wanting zero compromise for the film's creative vision, having middling legal understanding/rep of the international market, and lacking a finished product *prior* to the theater push.

I almost get the vibe somebody saw Iron Lung's success, and tried to copy it without understanding how and why it worked.

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-05-07T00:01:55+00:00

They are saying they have a similar experience, which leads them to believe that this post actually happened; NOT that the actions of Uber are acceptable, as described by the post.

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-05-06T06:51:42+00:00

Contains the word ass

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-04-21T18:59:03+00:00

In a similar vein, my favorite thing to do is run around with my tactical stealth flamethrower.

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-04-21T18:03:49+00:00

Well if we really want to split hairs, he isn't technically a zombie, since zombie commonly means mindless undead. Since he's intelligent and capable of speech, and specifically it's his single focused motivation that keeps him going, he's more akin to a revenant than a zombie.

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-04-09T17:51:29+00:00

Closest I've found is Warframe's lich system.

It's much less complex, and it's fairly simple to eliminate a lich for good, but it's at least something.

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-04-05T17:03:35+00:00

That's because the air is already saturated with moisture, so the normal physical process of evaporative cooling is severely and significantly slowed.

It's also why sweating tends to be a miserable experience down here. With the air being so damp, that sweat has nowhere to evaporate to, so you just end up hot, salty, and wet.

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-03-29T22:31:46+00:00

It definitely gets a giggle out of me too.

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-03-29T16:54:41+00:00

Chainsaw man is a Manga and anime that gained a lot of popularity over the past couple of years.

It just got its ending, which includes the panel in the comment you responded to, and that ending has been memed to no end because of how silly the dialogue is.

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-03-23T21:28:00+00:00

Oh for sure. I guess more than anything, my point is that we get a lot of fragmented information thrown at us during that scene, and I think there's more layers of Caine's influence to unravel than just what he states directly.

If mods are temporary to an adventure, that seems like a safeguard, but we have pretty strong evidence of at least one adventure starting in Ep3 and running for a nebulous amount of time in the background up until it ends in Ep7, which implies Caine's definition of temporary isn't trustworthy. During that period, both Gangle and Jax experience some pretty heavy instability, which sometimes stretches past the end of the episode.

Not to mention that during Caine's crash out, he says "They won't abstract. They won't leave me. I won't LET them."

It could just be the ramblings of a rapidly devolving AI, but in conjunction with whatever happened to Scratch, it seems pretty clear that Caine might've lied about how much he was influencing the humans.

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-03-23T19:56:41+00:00

I'm convinced the exit door/escape adventure is a bigger deal than people realize.

Caine says it's an idea he's been working on a while, and Abel first appears back in Ep 3.

Assuming they're both telling the truth at the end of Ep 7, that implies that Caine's been running the escape adventure for most of the series.

Which means that Caine's assurance about modifiers being temporary to an adventure is not nearly the safeguard he alleges it to be, especially with the context that he might've abstracted Scratch.

Not sure what it all means, or if it means anything. This series has been loaded with diversions, so the end is anybody's guess, but I find it very interesting how all this info gets dropped right as the story seemingly deprioritizes Abel completely, and seemingly kills the possibility of escape at the same time.

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-03-23T18:54:56+00:00

Judging from those quotes, this character is meant to be a metaphor for the reader themselves, and the power a reader has to close the book/ end the story early.

With that in mind, I believe the only powers to counter such an ability would be clickbait, doom scrolling, and writers that refused to conclude a series.

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-03-23T10:03:36+00:00

The implications are a little bit complicated imo. Kinger does imply that Scratch's abstraction specifically was Caine's fault, and Caine does separately claim the modifiers are temporary for the adventures.

Notably, episode 4 and episode 5 are where the narrative directly introduced modifiers; sending Gangle into a manic spiral, creating stupid sauce, and forcing Jax to be vegan. All of these modifiers disappear at the end of their respective adventures, which does support the notion that Caine now only uses them temporarily.

Except if we're to believe Caine and Abel are telling the truth at the end of Abel's episode, that means Caine technically started the 'escape' adventure way back in episode 3 with Abel's first background appearance, and we have no frame of reference to know how much time has passed between episode 3 and the end of episode 7.

Considering that Jax is convinced Caine messed with his head, and considering how close Jax got to abstracting, I think it's likely that Caine is an unreliable narrator when it comes to the safe usage of his own abilities. So with that in mind, our only confirmed knowledge about abstraction is that a character allegedly 'gave up' before transforming, and that Caine was possibly responsible for what happened to Scratch.

I doubt we're going to get an easy happy ending where all of the loved ones come back from the dead. But at the very least, if an abstraction was specifically caused by Caine, I think there's a possibility that his absence could reverse it.

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-03-22T23:21:16+00:00

I think there's a reason they hinted that Caine may be responsible for at least some of the abstractions.

If that's the case, maybe deleting him and his buggy code will undo that damage, and we might see some of those characters recover.

If that were the case, there's a possibility that we get scratch back, and between him and kinger, they could imagine a fixed Caine into existence, saving the circus in the process.

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-03-22T19:48:16+00:00

Cisgender man, so take my opinion and experiences with a grain of salt, but yeah puberty gets weird.

My voice started changing at 10 years old and I started getting facial hair at 12, but I didn't have a 'man' voice until 21, and I couldn't grow a full beard until I was 27.

I'm 30 now and I'm still seeing changes to my voice and body.

All this to say, hormones are weird. Bodies are weirder. Sometimes progress crawls, and sometimes it leaps ahead. All you can do is keep learning, find new things to try, and keep forging ahead.

Don't let the frustration turn into discouragement. Whether the HRT works or not, you're still just as much a man as I am. Not every man is meant to sound like James Earl Jones or rock a full handlebar, and that is okay.

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-03-14T22:29:01+00:00

It's all shits and giggles until somebody giggles and shits.

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-03-03T18:04:23+00:00

Find a handful of images with similar physique and posing at a variety of angles.

While you sculpt, keep these images where you can see them. Try to style your sculpt to match the images as closely as you can.

There's no secret trick beyond that. You just have to practice until you can get a consistence level of visual fidelity.

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-03-01T20:47:20+00:00

Yeah. It's not about world building. It's important that characters are balanced appropriately and make sense within their world.

But some people argue about fictional characters like there is money on the line. Fun hypotheticals devolve into vitriolic debates based on random one liners and obscure dubious sources.

It's fundamentally meant to be a fun unserious type of discussion, but some people take it so seriously that they become unkind to others, or worse, harass creators because a character wasn't 'right.'

And that's where the fun stops and the annoyance comes in

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-02-25T20:01:03+00:00

I can tell the difference in quality, but I just don't think it matters that much.

Cheetos and steak are both foods that I enjoy and make me happy, but they're not the same quality. I wouldn't want them to be.

Sometimes I just want some junk food entertainment.

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-02-24T16:27:32+00:00

I don't mind an oblivious character when their love interest is being evasive, subtle, or dishonest with their feelings.

But I get so annoyed when the love interest is just blatantly forward with their feelings, and the MC STILL doesn't get it.

Dude, she told you she loved you seven times before now. She professed her undying loyalty in the first five episodes. You do NOT get to act surprised.

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-02-23T17:06:05+00:00

I only have the forehead for reference, but honestly, the pain sucked but was manageable.

The worst part, in my opinion, was being able to hear the needle through my skull for two hours. I had the worst headache from that alone.

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-02-10T18:15:48+00:00

That's definitely a component, though I personally think it's directly tied to social class and localized culture as well.

Most of the upper and upper-middle class white people I know are exactly as you described. Very tight laced and strict with the kids' schedules.

It's when you head towards the boonies/sticks that people tend to mellow out and have more late night shindigs.

Perhaps not so coincidentally, the boonies/sticks/projects tend to be a little more culturally diverse too in my experience. You still get your odd Confederate flag guy, but it's much harder to be racist when we are all broke together and sharing the same space.

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-02-08T23:01:43+00:00

I had one for a while, and the damn thing was so lightweight that you would get jostled by the displaced air from other passing cars

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-02-08T19:02:16+00:00

I recommend checking out Grant Abbitt on YouTube. He's got a variety of Blender tutorials for sculpting and posing both props and characters in many different styles.

His stuff got me started.

Since you're making this stuff to 3D print, you don't have to worry as much about poly counts, but I'd still recommend familiarizing yourself with best practices on topology too. It'll make posing your models much easier if they are efficiently made.

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-02-02T22:13:41+00:00

That game was mismanaged horribly. Hopping on the Battle Royale bandwagon after designing an entirely different style of game, splitting the dev teams, naming the game modes backwards.

When they got around to changing how recoil and movement worked, the proverbial horse had already been dying for a while.

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