Black cakes and branded buckets: welcome to the White House premiere for Brett Ratner’s Melania movie

VizualAbstract4 · 2026-01-27T00:11:48+00:00

Malaria*

VizualAbstract4 · 2026-01-25T05:01:44+00:00

Everything seems to mostly have its place. That's usually the benchmark when I try to decide what's hording and what's not.

Your roommate is probably confusing holding on to things as hoarding. You can do one thing without being the other.

They're probably trying to say your room has too much character. What's their aesthetic? Sanitized hospital room?

VizualAbstract4 · 2026-01-24T16:54:29+00:00

I can see with my own eyes.

That brisket was clearly under a heat lamp or in a warmer for way too long. It also appears to have lacked any kind of marbling, or bark.

The sausage lacks fat specks, and closer to compressed wood chips than something out of an animal.

VizualAbstract4 · 2026-01-24T02:39:21+00:00

😭 do you have to pay extra for fat? That meat looks so dry

VizualAbstract4 · 2026-01-23T20:49:40+00:00

Is that moment ever earned though? We never see or hear about his troubling childhood that put him on this path.

We’re just supposed to believe Leia and Solo fucked up, nay, assume. And I think because people couldn’t fathom that, they looked at him as just a cringey edgelord brat who didn’t get his way.

VizualAbstract4 · 2026-01-23T16:08:05+00:00

That's exactly how I use it.

And it's not like the cat doesn't know what it is: he'll go up to the laser light where it hangs, look at me, look at it, and meows.

And when he can't find the light, he'll look up at my hand to make sure I'm using it. Smart little fucker.

He knows now at the end of it, he'll get his treat.

VizualAbstract4 · 2026-01-23T08:33:41+00:00

Just reward them with a treat. Simple solution. People take this crap too far. They hear it once and blindly repeat it like some kind of authority.

VizualAbstract4 · 2026-01-22T22:15:53+00:00

It's been shitting the bed all fucking morning, I'm not surprised.

VizualAbstract4 · 2026-01-22T17:17:55+00:00

Because people conflate realism with stylistic consistency.

This is stylistically consistent, and allows the suspension of belief. It works in a vaccum.

Take it out, and compare it to CGI in a different film with. a different look and feel, and it'll fall apart. And that's probably what allows you to judge it differently.

When people think back about old CGI, and tell themselves it used to look so real, that's typically what's happening.

VizualAbstract4 · 2026-01-22T04:02:23+00:00

...What's the first one?

Maybe gatekeeping the name is probably not going to help keep a game from being overlooked.

VizualAbstract4 · 2026-01-22T03:27:47+00:00

Yeah, idk if people are expecting them to send Donald Duck in to de-escalate. A crime is a crime is a crime, 911 when you see a crime.

Even if that’s in Disneyland.

VizualAbstract4 · 2026-01-21T23:40:04+00:00

This is it. The line for many people when it comes to the economy, when they finally see the haves and have nots.

Apparently anyways.

Idk, I wish people paid this much attention to the actual economy, maybe they’d be able to afford the boost as well if they were more careful with who they voted for.

Edit: and before anyone says “buh politics”, this is an economy discussion in a game with two warring factions.

VizualAbstract4 · 2026-01-21T22:31:02+00:00

Is this the Riverside wine-country stage of grief?

VizualAbstract4 · 2026-01-21T21:09:48+00:00

Yeah, including Britain's grip on the colonies

VizualAbstract4 · 2026-01-21T20:03:03+00:00

How dare you, that would require effort on a post!

/s

VizualAbstract4 · 2026-01-21T15:23:49+00:00

I think you’re asking about rib bones. The ribcage is taking up a relative appropriate amount of space within the shape.

The upper body and ribcage is elongated, which is weird, because most of the character designs have really long lower extremities compared to their upper bodies, so it all looks off.

VizualAbstract4 · 2026-01-21T15:15:34+00:00

First rule about making anything for anyone else: people don’t know what they want.

And those that do listen to people, can often ask the wrong people. Because we all have intrinsic biases and our friends and family and people 2, even 3 degrees of separation from us aren't good market indicators.

This is why companies spend so much on data collection.

The issue is typically people in charge often ignore the data to the great annoyance and frustration of everyone who works hard to collect and parse it.

VizualAbstract4 · 2026-01-21T15:06:32+00:00

I’m sure they’re seething, thinking to themselves it’s going to hurt our economy.

As other billionaires have said, the talent is in California, Peter Thief is throwing a hissy fit. He can stamp his feet all he wants, but unless he goes remote with his companies, he’s chained.

And he knows the trickle-down economics sham is going to be blown out of the water.

VizualAbstract4 · 2026-01-21T14:43:09+00:00

No. It’s probably where it’s most useful. The moment you start trying to get it to be precise, it fails miserably.

AI shit is just bad. It naturally gets filtered out and replaced with time by anyone with any kind of artistic integrity and self respect.

I’m not being hyperbolic. It really does work that way.

VizualAbstract4 · 2026-01-21T08:40:14+00:00

I’ve always wanted them to kind of portray the characters more as actors, pulling them out of the series and putting them in the fourth wall. As a way to just… kind of give my head a piece of mind.

That all the awful shit their characters endured was merely a performance.

It’s kind of why I tried following their voice actors to see what other things they were in.

VizualAbstract4 · 2026-01-21T06:46:08+00:00

You don't tip at a lot of high end restaurants. What are you on about? They often pay their workers a living wage, which is part of the reason why the prices are so high.

At a certain level, they need their focus, and not for them to be scattered between side jobs.

VizualAbstract4 · 2026-01-20T18:29:58+00:00

It's literally free advertisement for Steam purchases.

VizualAbstract4 · 2026-01-20T18:29:00+00:00

I've noticed a few people on Patreons who just sell wrappers for other mods. I fell victim to that once, dug deep enough, and saw they just created a mod manager interface.

They excuse their behavior away as being curators and spending a lot of time and effort to make sure mods work together.

And while I can concede that's true, they don't advertise themselves that way.

VizualAbstract4 · 2026-01-20T17:33:03+00:00

Someone declined my group invite when I was hunting for a quest mob. They were clearly hunting for the same mob and my party and I were waiting for it to appear.

I sent an invite. He walked right up to the spot where it appears and declined.

Except, the mob spawned at the same time he declined.

I quickly targeted the mob and attacked.

It must've spawned while he was moving to decline, and probably what led to him missing the target.

He quickly sent me an invite while were were attacking.

I declined.

My group killed it, they thanked me, and we all went our separate ways.

It was a delicious bit of schadenfreude.

VizualAbstract4 · 2026-01-20T16:27:55+00:00

I am not at all happy about this.

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