Harry D. Cox

He/Him/His, Cisgender. Happily married husband. Proud American, NFL fan, and cuckhold.

[Joshwelt @weltszznn]

Hotel ACs are the McDonalds sprite of air conditioning

[Harry D. Cox @HarryDCox1]

@813b0ssman @ShowcaseWishes Definitely seems like it, huge Scientology community in that area. Bunch of bozos

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

You're watching a $248 million film and not a single green or blue screen was used. The alien is a handmade puppet. The cockpit physically rotates to simulate gravity. I looked at the production tech behind this 95% score, and the engineering is wild.

Phil Lord and Chris Miller, directing their first live-action movie in 12 years, built the entire Hail Mary spacecraft as a real set at Shepperton Studios in England. Not a miniature. Not a digital model. A full-size ship interior you can walk through. Production designer Charlie Wood studied the International Space Station, Russia's Mir station, and the Boeing 747 cockpit to get the look right. He deliberately made the panels mismatched, because real spacecraft are assembled from parts made by different companies. Nothing matches perfectly. That's what makes it feel real.

The cockpit is only about 8 feet wide. It sits on a mechanical platform that can tilt, spin, and shake, so when the ship changes direction or enters different gravity conditions, the whole set moves. Chairs end up on walls. Ladders flip direction. Gosling was suspended inside a spinning ring so he could float and move through the ship for real, reacting to actual hardware around him. No guessing where a wall might be added later.

Then there's Rocky. He's the alien co-lead, and he's not CGI. Neal Scanlan, the creature designer who built the Porgs for Star Wars, spent a full year on this character. Over 300 designs before they landed on the final look. Rocky is a thin, hollow shell, 3D-printed from a digital sculpture, then hand-painted in see-through layers so light passes through him like skin. His arms pop off and swap out depending on the scene: one set has a closed fist for walking, another has tiny motorized fingers strong enough to pick up objects. Five puppeteers (nicknamed the "Rockyteers") operated him in every scene. James Ortiz, an award-winning puppet designer from New York theater, voiced Rocky and controlled him on set. When Scanlan met him, he told Ortiz, "You're Frank Oz, and I'm making Yoda for you." Every reaction Gosling gives to the alien is to something physically in front of him.

Greig Fraser, who won the Oscar for shooting Dune, filmed the space scenes in the larger IMAX format (that taller image you see in IMAX theaters) and the Earth flashbacks in regular widescreen. Then the team did something unusual: they took the digital footage and printed it onto real film strips, twice, using two different types of film stock. Then they scanned those strips back into digital. It sounds redundant, but it adds a texture and warmth that you can only get from physical film. Fraser used the same technique on Dune and The Batman.

Drew Goddard spent six years writing this screenplay. His last adaptation of Andy Weir's novel, The Martian, earned him an Oscar nomination. He described the challenge this way: a screenplay gets about 5% of a novel's word count. The lead is alone for most of the runtime. When he finally gets a co-star, that co-star doesn't speak English, communicates through sounds closer to whale song, and has no face. Goddard called it a screenwriter's nightmare, then said that difficulty was the whole point. He and the directors fought studio pushback to keep Weir's original ending intact.

95% from 212 critics. 98% from over 2,500 audience ratings. And the lead isn't a superhero, a cop, or a soldier. He's just an ordinary middle school science teacher.

[dustin @DJ_DoesSports]

I don’t care what team you’re a fan of,

It’s Jameis Winston catching a TD.

[Harry D. Cox @HarryDCox1]

@austinabbott E Wilson, Slayton or C Watson?

[Albert Breer @AlbertBreer]

Imagine if you bought season tickets for your favorite NFL team. And then, suddenly, they told you that you couldn't have your tickets for this week's game, and they were uncertain about future games too, but here's a link to download the Ticketmaster app, so go buy some there.

[Nick @NQuatrocky]

@nflmemes Refs absolutely bailed the Jags out all game. The narrative that KC gets the calls has been dead for multiple seasons.

[Nat Eliason @nateliason]

Waymo is a godsend for working parents.

Need to hand off the baby between meetings?

Put them in a Waymo and send them to your partner across town.

Impossible before now. Really grateful we have this technology 🙏

[Harry D. Cox @HarryDCox1]

@barstoolsports @SpinninBackfist Lucky fella gets 🙌uppies🙌 whenever he wants:/

[Chargers⚡️Union @Chargers_Union]

Oh wow the LT moved a nanosecond before the ball was snapped & everyone is going to blame the refs instead of blaming the sorry ass fucking state the rest of the league has been in during the Mahomes era, these other 31 teams are sorry ass bitch made losers, stop blaming the refs

[The PropFather @The_PropFather]

“isiah pacheco to the 10, to the 5, touchdown!!!!”

[Kansas City Chiefs @Chiefs]

The only way we get this thing done is together.

New episode out now: https://t.co/UqC5PGzx1f

[Harry D. Cox @HarryDCox1]

@jordanbpeterson Put the players down Jordan, everything’s gonna be fine! Hahaha just kidding🤪 I know you wouldn’t do anything crazy, you’re a really cool. Guy. Love you !

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

The 2023 NFL Draft in Kansas City had a total unduplicated audience in the United States of 54.4 million viewers for the three-day event, per the NFL.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

The Chiefs got Andy Reid the perfect present for Christmas

[Harry D. Cox @HarryDCox1]

@TruthPasture @NickForVA So we just keep mandating and freezing bank accounts and lockdowns forever? Stinky hippie

[Harry D. Cox @HarryDCox1]

@woo_wild @bubble_invader @NeneHilarious @DDRev4 @MooseAwad @splice Maybe rehabilitating the guy for the 8th time will be the charm

[Harry D. Cox @HarryDCox1]

#CancelBusinessInsider

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

This touchdown celebration would land you 5 years in jail today

[Harry D. Cox @HarryDCox1]

@IanMoreno77 @NorthKoreaBad @neiltyson What a nice guy you are Ian! Could’ve hurt Neil’s feelings if you weren’t careful