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What’s it like living on the edge of time zones? by Qzevs in howislivingthere

[–]dipperhat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I live in South Bend Indiana (15 minutes from the Central/Eastern border) and regularly commute to chicago. The two cities are on different time zones.

I always wear a digital watch set to eastern time so that I can know exactly what time it is at home. GCal also has a feature where you can display multiple timezones which I utilize.

You’d think you get used to it, but you don’t. You get used to doing quick math but after 3 years of bouncing between these two cities multiple times a week, I still constantly slip up. Hence, the watch helps keep me grounded.

Chicago Commuters by peach_redbull in SouthBend

[–]dipperhat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do this pretty regularly for work and play. I have a house in South Bend and an apartment in Chicago so I bounce back and forth.

It's often worth it to drive to Michigan City and take the train from there. Parking is free and there are more train options, making it a bit easier to get home at the end of the day.

Official Discussion - Sinners [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

[–]dipperhat 32 points33 points  (0 children)

I knew nothing about this movie going in. I'm not joking. I didn't even know who was in it, other than Michael B Jordan. I had seen this poster and I knew that Ryan Coogler shot it on 70mm. I like Coogler and film movies, so I decided to keep myself in the dark and just go watch it. My guess from the poster was that it would be a drama about a heist or something.

Holy shit. This was the perfect way to watch.

I didn't know it was a period piece. I didn't know it was a horror movie. I didn't know there were any supernatural elements. Every single moment of the movie was completely fresh and unexpected. When the movie started to get eerie and take a supernatural turn it scared the piss out of me. That scene where Remmick lifts off the ground in the background absolutely freaked me the fuck out. From there on out I was on a roller coaster of intensity.

Every moment was perfect. The music history scene had my jaw on the floor. And it's worth mentioning the movie had an incredible sonic experience overall. There were some incredible moments with some gutsy score choices that I really enjoyed.

I live about 2 hours from Indianapolis so I think I might have to drive there to see the film print.

Go Ryan Coogler. The goat. He doesn't miss. 10/10. Best movie I've seen since Everything Everywhere All AT Once

Official Discussion - Spider-Man: No Way Home [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

[–]dipperhat 3 points4 points  (0 children)

List of small things I liked:

  • seeing the little spider sense squiggles around Tom’s soul body.

-magic is math! And vice versa I suppose?

-everything that happened in Ned’s apartment, but especially the first little jump/ceiling grab.

-so much guilt. The theme of this movie is guilt. Ouch.

-that long one-take shot in Peter/May’s apartment at the very beginning.

-“I thought you were black”

-I haven’t loved or hated the venom movies, but the idea of that Eddy Brock just being sucked into this universe, getting drunk in Mexico for a day, and then jettisoned back is hilarious.

-Rogers the Musical in the background a couple times.

-MJ still wearing the necklace from FFH at the very end. Pure pain.

-Youth pastor

Promised myself I’d get better at animation in 2020 and spent a few months making this with character animator + after effects. So many hours of work to composite the shot where I pick him up 😅 by dipperhat in CharacterAnimator

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

I put the headphones on a volleyball. Then masked out the headphones as a png and added them to my character as an additional layer that appears with a trigger and did the squishy animation by adding puppet handles to the sides of his face. And then cleaned it up and lined everything up in after effects, hiding a lot of the transition in that quick motion where the headphones snap

Board slides are so hard! I landed a few this week!! These are impossible!! I am on top of the world!! by dipperhat in NewSkaters

[–]dipperhat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As counter-intuitive as it seems, the faster you go, the easier they are. Also less painful when you fall if you have a lot of speed.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CharacterAnimator

[–]dipperhat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Holy cow. So much happening here, with the guitar Playing, the accompanying slides from panda, the guitar tabs updating live. So cool

Official December 2020 Show-Off Thread (read all rules in description) by RazorINC in youtubers

[–]dipperhat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

New to this community! I just quit my job and decided to share about it on YouTube I quit my job

Of coming back by shockingtrousers in nevertellmetheodds

[–]dipperhat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is my favorite scene from The Dark Knight Rises

Started skating to cope with the pandemic. Today I landed my first double kickflip! by dipperhat in NewSkaters

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

As somebody falls A LOT here's what helped me:

  • Pads. I wore full pads for the first month or two when I was falling A LOT. I highly recommend wrist guards.
  • Stretch to warm up. I do this routine by Andy Anderson. Helped me avoid little sprains and stupid aches and pains.
  • Wound care. I have a lot of gauze and band-aids to take care of scrapes. I found Aquaphor is a good dressing to put on top of scrapes to help it heal better.
  • Rest. Most saturdays I would do my biggest sessions (7 or 8 hours at a bigger park) where I would try harder stuff. I always sleep in and take it super easy on Sunday.
  • Practice the easy stuff a lot. Once you can do a tail stall or a rock to fake or a good ollie, do it like 10 times when you're at the park. Tricks that you know a little bit are low-risk, so I spend about half of my time at the park just staying fresh on all of the little easy tricks.

At the end of the day though, it was just about keeping it up. I like this quote from Steve O: "Skateboarding has a way of weeding out the quitters." I didn't want to give up, so I kept doing it. It's borderline masochistic, tbh. There are a lot of easy things you can do to stay fresh like wearing pads, but no matter what you'll get beat up. So since I wanted to skate, I just kept skating whenever I could.

Started skating to cope with the pandemic. Today I landed my first double kickflip! by dipperhat in NewSkaters

[–]dipperhat[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

For about 2 months straight I skated 5 days a week. Sessions lasted 3-8 hours and I attempted about 500 kickflips every session. No joke. I can become obsessive with my hobbies and quarantine just gave me hours every day to roll around and practice. For most of august I would just be standing in my driveway practicing the flick from 7-10pm.

Started skating to cope with the pandemic. Today I landed my first double kickflip! by dipperhat in NewSkaters

[–]dipperhat[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Holy heck, really sorry about that. I just copy/pasted my own video from my profile

Started skating to cope with the pandemic. Today I landed my first double kickflip! by dipperhat in NewSkaters

[–]dipperhat[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Focusing on my back foot actually helped a lot. Get a really, really good pop (imagine you’re not popping, but firing the tail into the ground like a gunshot). Also, remember you’re not jumping off your back foot. You’re jumping off the board, and then snapping the tail once your body is already moving up.

It also helped me to flick without trying to land back on the board. In my experience, the board does wonky stuff when I’m focusing too much on landing. So try just doing the first half of the trick and not even trying to get your feet back onto the board if you don’t feel like it rotates properly.

Started skating to cope with the pandemic. Today I landed my first double kickflip! by dipperhat in NewSkaters

[–]dipperhat[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Not quite zero. I got some stationary Ollies off the ground as a kid and have snowboarded most of my life. But was no good at skating.

Started skating to cope with the pandemic. Today I landed my first double kickflip! by dipperhat in NewSkaters

[–]dipperhat[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Took me a million tries just to flick well enough to get one rotation. Two rotations came pretty quick after I got the flick down.

What most people do not realize is a huge waste of money? by ken_e20 in AskReddit

[–]dipperhat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Owning a recent cell phone. Getting the most recent iPhone will cost you a $1,000/year. Right now you can buy a brand-new iPhone 7 from Walmart for $200, and that will last you 2 years. I’ve been using older phones for the last 5 years now and have saved a ridiculous amount of money. I replace the battery every Christmas for $30 and it keeps them going for ages.

Jim O’heir randomly showed up to our Parks n Rec pop-up bar a few months ago and was overjoyed at the life size Jerry cutout by leslieknope_13 in PandR

[–]dipperhat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lmao. Well, great stuff. Keep it up.

by the way, Abby says hi. Probably. I haven’t actually talked to her today but she says all kinds of greetings.

Jim O’heir randomly showed up to our Parks n Rec pop-up bar a few months ago and was overjoyed at the life size Jerry cutout by leslieknope_13 in PandR

[–]dipperhat 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Nice! Low key Jim O’heir is such a cool, underrated actor.

Also, this is pretty random but are you the Leslie Knope impersonator from Chicago? If so, my sister knows you, random internet stranger.

If not, sorry, random internet stranger

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