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I miss technoblade :(

They De-Tumblrized Ms. Frizzle

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#how do yall whitewash a white woman 

why would you leave this in the tags lmao

Allow me to explain:

Everyone dropping this pic

And talking about how the new frizz her is her niece, allow me to do a direct side by side instead

These are STILL not the same woman. Where is the icon fashion, the earrings (the chameleon, which might be in the new show idk I haven't watched it), the prominent hooked nose, the broader shoulders, the volume to her hair, the LIFE IN HER EYES

This frizzle looks like she's been called into the school board for inappropriate behavior and dress one too many times and has been broken.

Also others have said it before me but I couldn't find it in the scroll backs but they whitewashed all the kids too. They same face syndromed everyone to either be easier to draw or be more ambiguous so as not to offend or both or something, and it just makes me sad

Fuck it I did the digging cause I'm still mad

And that’s not even to mention what they did to the bus itself.

The old bus had a personality and life and fun and now it’s just… a bus.

HOW DO Y’ALL WHITEWASH A BUS?!

It's gives "anti abortion Jehova's Witness cartoon" now

Vector puppet animation and a shocking drop off in investment in kidvid is largely at fault, but international marketing is also to blame.

What's important to remember is that the whitewashy approach to character design in kidvid is a backslide.

Representation in cartoons had generally been on an upswing since the 1980s, even though efforts were often minimal, clumsy, or badly executed. Diversity helped sell action figures in the lucrative US/Canadian market and it was recognized as a prosocial value on the production side.

"Prosocial messages" are a major part of kidvid TV pitches and development, nearly every show has specific prosocial lessons the narrative themes are intended to work around, even if its an action-figure ad. These range from sincere expressions of the creator's intent (Gargoyles, OG Magic Schoolbus, OG He-Man (no, for real)) to the entertainment equivalent of carbon credits.

Slight aside. Actual ink-and-paint animation tended to lock characters down into more distinct tones because there were only so many standard paint colors. Which is why Kwame from Captain Planet, Roadblock from GI-Joe, and Tim from OG magic schoolbus all use essentially the same pantone.

Ralphie gets skinny because not only fatphobia, but I suspect because he would need slightly different rigging and would add just a teensy bit to the budget adjusting his animations when they could just copy-paste from one of the other identically built kids. If they need to put them all in spacesuits or diving suits or whatever, they just make the one body and slap the heads on, eazy-pezy.

Decals on the schoolbus mean they have to be tracked, they have to use different versions of the bus in flipped shots, same with Mrs. Frizzle's clothing patterns. Wouldn't want to spend time flipping Ralphie's "R' around.

And with the marketing for everything now being global, there's an impulse to average everything down to appeal to all markets to a general degree. Making stories oversimple makes them easy to translate. Humor varies culture to culture, keep it slapstick or quick quips that can be localized easily. Everything that makes the Chinese censor boards happy also makes US reactionaries less likely to kick up a protest, the incentive is to keep everything:

ALSO: These characters have the same face. They probably use the same eye and mouth parts for character animations.

It's all to do it as cheap and broadly appealing as possible, as determined by business weirdos who know nothing about art and care nothing about kids, and they're more than willing to leverage racism (or just ignore that its happening) for the promise of a tenth of a percent more profit.

And what's galling is that this kind of animation software doesn't have to make crap. It can be used to make amazing stuff and still be vastly cheaper than traditional hand-drawn, but the same quality at 60% of the cost is never going to beat 1/2 the quality at 5% of the cost for the money-men.

The path of least resistance rolls over a lot of people.

Reblogging for "the path of least resistance rolls over a lot of people"

thinking about picking flowers with him and putting the prettiest ones in his hair while he lays his head in my lap

how do i deserve someone who’s so wonderful? why do i deserve someone who makes me feel at home? what did i do???

yearning is all fun and games until none of the stuffed animals or pillows i have match the feeling of holding him and being held by him

Actually insane that we actually won this. Our entire run was so scuffed.

Our forensics team was in there tasting the samples to determine what they were. Our geologic mapping team forgot their calculator and approximated every value on the test. They got second and first respectively

She was TASTING THE SAMPLES. she ate BORAX and got SECOND PLACE

Our ecology team (myself included) didn’t have a notes sheet and never has. We got second as well

In microbe mission we didn’t realize that goggles were required and my teammate had to run a half mile in four minutes to prevent us from getting disqualified.

My goggles fogged up the whole time and I could barely see, but the instructor said if I took them off inside the room our test would be voided

One of the questions asked how something should be stored to prevent metabolism or something, and I said “carefully”

5th place.

@dilfza-discourse

As in they gave her five white powders to identify and she put them in her mouth. I can’t argue with the results because we literally won state but oh my god how even.

the new dj crazytimes song … now that’s what I call music!

Humans can speak it too, albeit slowly, by using an instrument called an Asciiboard (beeping ascii keyboard with a translation screen). An app version of it comes pre-installed on most phones.

The girls in elementary school who turn out to be boys later on and played Warriors Cats during recess should unionize

Explained Minecraft weight to someone today

I hate to say it, but Minecraft operates very much the same way as a JJ Abrams mystery box. I'm not talking about the Minecraft movie, I mean the game itself. The developers suggest a ton of deep lore questions that they have zero interest in ever actually answering, because Mystery Box, speculating at the possibilties is more fun than knowing for sure!

Who dug the abandoned mineshafts? Dunno, doesn't matter. Who built the strongholds? Dunno, doesn't matter. Do the endermen worship the dragon? Will the egg ever hatch? Who captained the flying ships with the elytra? What happened to the ancient cities in the deep dark? What is sculk and what is the Warden wardening over? Where did ancient debris come from? Who built the nether fortresses? Who built the bastions, how long ago, and why are they now just crumbling remnants? Why are there ruined nether portals strewn across the overworld? Jungle temples? Desert temples? Trail ruins? Ocean monuments? Sunken ships? Buried treasure? Dunno, dunno, dunno, dunno, none of it matters at all!

So many hints towards multiple different ancient civilizations, and all of it's just set dressing. They all exist for the Doylist reason of introducing, teaching, and encouraging the use of new game mechanics, but there are no Watsonian explanations and there likely never will be. Why is there a portal frame in the ancient city? Because it looks cool and the redstone underneath it lets new players know that the glowing dust they've been collecting has logical functionality (and even that's just a rudimentary hint; the game has no tutorials, no built-in instructions, everything important is learned via the Wiki).

I love Minecraft, it's my favorite video game of all time, but I think I play it for a very different reason than most people.

cling to me

I know I said I was going to distance myself from this piece of media because of all of its terrible connections, but these two characters seem to have taken root in a permanent place in my heart, and I can't let them go.

Anyway, here's some character design notes below the cut for the one person out there who's obsessed with these characters as much as me.

you are fucking died. game oval.

You might be frustrated by the library never having a complete manga collection on its shelves at any given time, but the 12 year old checking out 14 volumes of One Piece at once is vital to the library ecosystem. He's like the sea otter keeping the kelp forest from being devastated by an excess of sea urchins.

To those curious some other keystone library species include:

—the retirees who’ve read more murder mysteries than I’ve had hot meals

—the paperback romance girlies (gender neutral) who check out every single bodice ripper the second it hits the shelves

—the dads very slowly making their way through a ‘1001 movies to see before you die’ list

—the one-man criterion collection who checks out like, three movies per day and brings them back the next. (TV series are only a minor roadblock.)

—kids who like Minecraft

---The new parents checking out 47 picture books for their 7 month old baby who clearly has nothing going on in their head except the Wii Sports Resort theme song

--The one elderly woman with coke bottle glasses and zero reservations about asking the librarians to get the large print version of everything

-teens who would rather die than talk to staff and can be seen devouring several graphic novels at once in their signature booth/chair of choice

-millenials and gen Zs "trying to get back into reading" by checking out a dozen books at once that they're definitely not gonna get around to reading (help me)

-that one lady who knits shawls and exclusively checks out the same 5-10 historical dramas over and over

May I add:

--the kid who plants themself in the j comics section for two hours, blissfully ignoring everyone trying to get around them

Sharecropping.

FYI if your employer does this, if they have done it for a long time especially, you and your coworkers could be owed huge amounts of unpaid wages and it would be an easy suit if there is a paper trail like this and your employer is placing strict requirements on your behavior while not at work. Employment lawyers generally work on contingency. Just food for thought.

A national park I worked at had all the permanent rangers (I was seasonal) basically on stand by for call outs 24-7 or they were penalized on their reviews.

They got tired of it, sued, won, and the nps had to pay back YEARS of back wages for stand by time. Now they are all scheduled and if* you get called out its time and a half.

ONLY because some rangers stood up.

If your employer does this: document document document, then find an attorney

You can also report your employer to the Department of Labor

Good news! You can do this retroactively as long as your old employer still exists! And you might get some money out of it if you're owed back pay!

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"You could just use ai" yeah well I could also just kill you.