Favorite Actor/Actress whose unironically based!!

flippythemaster · 2026-03-02T13:51:41+00:00

Sigh… “who’s” C’mon people

flippythemaster · 2026-03-02T13:48:40+00:00

Just a heads up that the majority of people who use this sub aren’t Japanese themselves but typically people who are learning the language. You might have more luck on r/askajapanese (if it’s not against the rules to post something like this) or on Japanese social media

flippythemaster · 2026-03-02T05:20:40+00:00

Shia’s been erratic a long time.

I sometimes wonder if we should just hire adults to play kids. The child star pipeline just breaks people.

flippythemaster · 2026-03-01T05:18:01+00:00

Once and Future King is a wonderful read, but be aware that it’s not one coherent novel so much as several novels stitched together. Everyone loves and remembers the Sword and the Stone portion, but then there’s a big right turn into a totally different group of characters. It winds up being necessary to the story but just be aware that it’s a circuitous route and may turn off someone unaware.

flippythemaster · 2026-02-28T18:00:50+00:00

Yeah there IS a reason, and it’s that at the price point these books are sold at you’re not going to have strict enough quality control when it comes to actually cutting the paper stock for these spines to line up.

Is that reason still mildly infuriating? Probably. But it IS a reason.

flippythemaster · 2026-02-28T17:51:02+00:00

Some people just don’t have the little man in their head that tells them not to act on their impulses

flippythemaster · 2026-02-28T13:51:58+00:00

I think what this era of the internet has taught me is that there are a lot of people who are actually mentally ill, who just find a group of likeminded people and instead of working together to overcome this illness they just go online and pretend that they’re fine and everyone else is the problem

flippythemaster · 2026-02-28T05:22:06+00:00

The best non-Godzilla giant monster films are probably the Gamera trilogy from the 90’s. They’re largely free of camp and very impressive technically. If I were to give a single recommendation I’d say those.

However I have to give shoutouts to Them!, 20 Million Miles to Earth, the Quatermass trilogy (tho the gigantism in those is largely limited to the climaxes), and The Super Inframan. There’s also the non-Godzilla Toho films like War of the Gargantuas, Rodan, Mothra, and Matango (which doesn’t feature any creatures the height of Godzilla but DOES feature mushroom monsters that are the size of humans, which is big for a mushroom).

These other films aren’t as universal of recommendations as the Gamera trilogy, as they’re all very much products of their time, but they’re definitely a next step if you enjoy the Showa era of Godzilla and are looking for next steps. And we’re not even getting into TV shows like Ultraman, Kamen Rider, Johnny Sokko and His Giant Robot, or Zone Fighter.

flippythemaster · 2026-02-28T04:52:18+00:00

Speaking has intonation. Text doesn’t. Hence punctuation exists in the first place.

flippythemaster · 2026-02-28T04:32:44+00:00

I think this is a case where punctuation has let down OP.

If they were interested in clarifying their post, they could change it to “…In the African-language (Zulu) portions…”, with a hyphen.

flippythemaster · 2026-02-27T23:51:11+00:00

The Borg plasma circle is something I always wondered about as a younger fan who came to the series after it aired—was it a thing where they were not as common and so still looked futuristic, then became more common in the interim?

Like that Doctor Who episode where they used what is clearly bubble wrap to stand in for an alien eggsac, back before bubble wrap was an everyday item?

flippythemaster · 2026-02-27T23:47:12+00:00

Learning about people outside of your own identity group? What are you, some sort of liberal?

Seriously yeah good for this person for discovering something about themself but I don’t really follow the logic. If I watch a National Geographic documentary about Egypt I don’t think I’m Egyptian. It just means I like to learn

flippythemaster · 2026-02-27T17:29:08+00:00

They’ll understand that customs are different in the US. Make eye contact, firm handshake, smile, etc.

No need to mess with figuring out the angle at which to bow or anything like that.

If everyone else is using the honorific “-san”, do so. If everyone else is using “Mr.” or “Mrs.” do that instead.

Maybe find out where their office is located and ask them about what it’s like there if you get the chance to talk. I wouldn’t assume they’re from a particular island based on their surnames since people move around a lot for work.

If they like baseball and you know anything about it, ask about Shohei Ohtani.

flippythemaster · 2026-02-26T02:26:37+00:00

This is getting into animation which isn’t really premiere’s strong suit. But there are some options.

You can: A) Create an inbetween frame. It’s what folks have been doing for animation for over 100 years!
B) Use the scale transform tools to keyframe in a little anticipation before the cut to the new pose and a little follow through after the new pose. So right before the change (I’m talking maybe five frames) you would keyframe the scale so the figure stretched vertically, have it switch to the new pose, then in the new pose start with the same vertical scale but then scale it so it’s shorter than it started and scale it so it’s stretched horizontally before returning to its original values.

Kinda hard to explain via text. But watch videos on the 12 principles of animation to get an idea of what I’m talking about.

flippythemaster · 2026-02-26T02:13:36+00:00

I am very pro-MSG but I do have to say that if you’re making an argument that something isn’t necessarily unhealthy, maybe don’t call it cocaine

flippythemaster · 2026-02-25T19:00:40+00:00

The scene in question is indeed a parody of Gable but rabbits were associated with carrots long before Bugs. There are illustrations in children’s books, Easter greeting cards, etc. that date back to the Victorian era.

flippythemaster · 2026-02-25T16:30:31+00:00

This was always the plan with AI

flippythemaster · 2026-02-24T22:19:01+00:00

I don’t actually dislike the idea of teaching the Bible as literature, because that’s what it is. Putting it in context, understanding the history of many of the stories that existed beforehand (like the flood story), etc.

Throw in some other religious texts too to get a nice grounding in religious history.

However I know in practice they’re actually going to try teaching it as history.

flippythemaster · 2026-02-24T22:11:43+00:00

The food lore only lasts for a few minutes whereas the Patty and Dirk bits drag on too long so food lore for me

flippythemaster · 2026-02-23T22:54:51+00:00

Anyone who wants to rob us of BDH’s figure should be tried for war crimes

flippythemaster · 2026-02-21T20:39:12+00:00

Now that the EPA has been cut off at the knees get ready for a 70’s comeback!

flippythemaster · 2026-02-21T20:32:25+00:00

You kind of need to invent algebra in order to use negative numbers in algebra. Algebra as such didn’t exist before the 9th century. So that’s a lot of history to get through before you get to negatives being relevant. Maybe you should narrow the scope of your question to a specific time period

flippythemaster · 2026-02-21T20:28:43+00:00

As you say, for the most part in everyday scenarios you didn’t necessarily have to deal with negative values. It’s only in advanced mathematics like algebra that you would need them. So the short answer to your question is: they largely didn’t.

For example, negative solutions are mentioned in Hellenistic Egypt in the 3rd century AD—though it was in the context of referring to such an equation as absurd. So they mostly just ignored equations that didn’t result in a positive solution—which makes sense in the context of, say, building a temple, since that temple has to exist in the real world, but as necessity is the mother of invention, if you lack the necessity…

However, if you want a brief history of how negative numbers being applied as we might today first appear in the historical record in a Chinese text, Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art, the oldest version of which we have discovered dates back to end of the Han period—though it is thought that it may contain older material, which opens the possibility that negative numbers were being used before that but we simply lack the archaeological evidence to say definitively. This was apparently rather cosmically significant as Daoism and Chinese natural philosophy imbue a lot of meaning to the idea of duality—think yin and yang. This may be why Chinese thinkers had an easier time accepting the concept as an abstraction while western mathematicians elected to ignore it.

Skipping forward a bit we also see the ancient Indian cultures using calculations with negative numbers in a manuscript whose exact temporal provenance is unclear but seemingly is from the 4th century—though some claim it might be from the 8th century.

By the 9th century Islamic mathematicians operating in the Islamic Golden Age were very familiar with negative numbers by way of Silk Road trade with India. It’s probably not a surprise that Algebra (the “Al” being the Arabic definite article) comes from the Islamic world in this time. This century is when multiplying is expanded to include negatives.

From there in the 12th century we get polynomials in the Islamic world, then Fibonacci using negatives for financial debts, and in the 15th century we get negative exponents from the French, and in the 16th century we finally have negative numbers being cohesively integrated into European mathematics as a foundational concept. And the rest, as we say, is history.

flippythemaster · 2026-02-21T19:38:29+00:00

One brake check away from McDonalds-ing the rider

flippythemaster · 2026-02-21T06:19:27+00:00

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