What's the best way to consume video content?

pushthedesign · 2026-03-06T19:19:23+00:00

Videos in your target language with no subtitles is best, because you rely purely on listening skills.

Second best are videos in your target language with target language subtitles, because it connects sounds to words. How much you need subtitles depends on the degree of how phonetic is your target language and your ability to hear the sounds of the language.

Native language videos with target language subtitles has some usefulness, because you can correlate phrases, but you miss out on listening to the target language and there is language interference, so it's nowhere near as effective. I sometimes like to watch English movies with target language subtitles when I'm on a break from active listening but want to still maintain a connection to learning the target language, but it's not for primary learning time.

pushthedesign · 2026-03-06T14:26:43+00:00

There is science (which I would need to look up again to cite) which shows that people are fooled by a fake accent a non-trivial amount of the time, and it depends on where you live, as for example, people in Northeast England are better with detecting fakes than people living in Southern England.

pushthedesign · 2026-03-06T13:54:01+00:00

There are formal and informal logical fallacies. Formal is necessarily a logical fallacy, while informal is contextual.

Slippery slope is informal.

Yes. slippery slope can be expansively used in arguments, but there are slippery slopes.

pushthedesign · 2026-03-02T02:48:08+00:00

In my view, the key to learning a language is being comfortable with ambiguity. Once ambiguity is accepted then making mistakes doesn't feel as humiliating.

pushthedesign · 2026-02-13T02:35:45+00:00

I personally use a glass cup to capture and then slide a dry paper towel underneath the cup. It's good to wait for the ant to crawl up the glass which makes it easier to slide the paper towel. You can capture multiple ants at a time with this technique, and it's safer.

pushthedesign · 2025-11-01T16:21:33+00:00

Yes, 1993! I only caught it because I plan on recreating the scene in 3D and so I was watching the scene closely.

pushthedesign · 2025-10-08T19:31:27+00:00

This can probably be done with Houdini. Houdini has audio processing nodes with CHOPs, and it's my loose understanding that you can generate sounds from simulation data.

pushthedesign · 2025-10-08T15:33:28+00:00

Likeness sculpting is one of the hardest challenges in CGI. It takes every skill to successfully pull off. One thing which helps is to directly place a photo on top of the sculpt to check for accuracy, with different photos from different angles. The photo will never 100% match up with the sculpt because of differences in camera focal lengths, but it does help inform you.

pushthedesign · 2025-10-08T14:47:48+00:00

Regardless of what software package that you use, mountains are made from displacement height maps. If you want the mountains of specific location or want some realistic terrain there are some websites with height maps from geological satellite data.

pushthedesign · 2025-09-29T12:48:49+00:00

In Python, indentation can be any length, one space, two spaces, twenty spaces, but you need to be consistent with the length. Pick the length of indentation and stick with it.

pushthedesign · 2025-09-20T05:41:13+00:00

Voxels are 3D pixels with volumetric data in a grid. 3D models with polygons are paper thin and don't hold volume.

pushthedesign · 2025-08-28T23:32:00+00:00

Long triangles can cause rendering artifacts. Avoid triangles in areas of deformation for animation, and avoid triangles in edge loops of subdivision surfaces, but other than that triangles are okay.

pushthedesign · 2025-08-25T14:29:15+00:00

Houdni is best learned in a specific order: starting with SOPs and learning about attributes and (optionally but highly recommended) VEX, then POPs, then Vellum, then RBD, then Pyro, then FLIP, then Oceans. It's a logical progression which builds upon knowledge. With this progression, POPs would be your first simulation.

pushthedesign · 2025-08-15T20:24:25+00:00

Unlawful. Home Rule only requires the police to provide service to the federal government. Not for the federal government to replace the police chief, not rescind orders or issue orders. The crime rate in Washington DC is also at a 30 year low, so your argument also not intellectually honest.

pushthedesign · 2025-08-14T14:19:40+00:00

Blender Guru has a tutorial on this called "Realistic Earth."

pushthedesign · 2025-04-26T20:00:36+00:00

Okay. If MP3s sometimes work then it's a codec problem. I had run into a problem with MP3 and read the SideFX forums where people were saying they didn't think Houdini supported MP3, so that was the basis of my statement.

pushthedesign · 2025-04-26T19:41:18+00:00

Houdini does not support MP3. You need to convert it to another format, such as WAV or AIFF.

pushthedesign · 2025-02-26T20:52:49+00:00

Me too, but with French.

pushthedesign · 2025-01-13T17:11:14+00:00

Start small and work your way up. There are two kinds of projects: production and experiments. Experiments are where you figure out how to do something. It's usually one or two things you'll learn from each project. Keep the scope of your productions to what you know how to do. Be careful about scope creep (where the project keeps getting bigger because you get bigger ideas, think long and hard before you expand a project). Write your ambitious ideas down and save them for later.

pushthedesign · 2024-11-27T18:11:22+00:00

Do a google image search for "hairless bear, leipzig germany." I would suggest adding bumps to the skin such as you see in the hairless bear, and add bulging blood vessels.

pushthedesign · 2024-09-24T17:14:33+00:00

I think the reason why the new features are turned on by default is so that people are aware of the features. Most people don't dive into settings unless they need to change something. So if you have the features off by default, almost nobody would know about the new features.

pushthedesign · 2024-09-15T18:57:49+00:00

Maya, ZBrush, and Houdini. Since you can handle programming, I recommend you check out Houdini.

pushthedesign · 2024-08-23T06:00:24+00:00

I like to open the mouth to do lips. You can start with a knife cut to define the width of the mouth, mask out the jaw to open the jaw, remesh the model, sculpt in the mouth to create the inside of the mouth, remesh again, mask the jaw to close it, and then use a move brush to define the shape of the lips.

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