Nicole ⛄️

AI is garbage ✨ 28 ✨ 5 years into my art journey ✨

[𝗟𝗘𝗡𝗡𝗦𝗘𝗡 @Lennyficate]

Warum heißt es eigentlich Kingdom Hearts 4 und nicht Kingdom Bürgergeld?

[Nicole ⛄️ @MayorSquish]

@metroadlib This makes numbers like 200+ more understandable. 30+ is low to normal for me personally and I don't skip anything.

I cannot fathom why these people even read. Watch a TV show instead, it's basically the same at that point.

[Nicole ⛄️ @MayorSquish]

@tyomateee2 "Stray cat with no money" implies that domesticated cats have money

[Nicole ⛄️ @MayorSquish]

Everyone needs to see this.

[Manoco @Moonlighhy]

Kiwi also enjoys being petted...

[B 🧡 @iambri_97]

why is there actually, legitimately, discourse around reading speed right now “8 hours to read a book is slow” “you should be able to read a book in 3-5 hours”

bro we are in a literacy CRISIS, i do not care how fast or slow you read a book, just pick one up and read it

[Nicole ⛄️ @MayorSquish]

@Arkieologen My husband does the same thing 😂

[Brian J. Karem @BrianKarem]

A very odd way to resign. But we should take it.

[whalefact @awhalefact]

the whales will not be watching the new hbo harry potter show. you might think this is because very few whales watch any television at all, but it is actually because jk rowling is a terf ass bitch

[Praise @tufpraise]

Gender is truly a prison because literally nothing stops you from buying your daughter a PS5.

[mount bellyache @mountbellyache]

how it feels to be a leftist AI hater on this app

[Nicole ⛄️ @MayorSquish]

@ThePetsX Can we stop with the fucking AI slop?

[Nicole ⛄️ @MayorSquish]

Whoever's in charge of marketing for this movie is fucking killing it

[Project Hail Mary @projecthailmary]

Rocky's feeling rested. Now it's time for Ryan to catch some Z's 😴 #ProjectHailMary

[Stormslayer -HD Remasters/Gamedev @StormslayerDev]

POP THE BUBBLE!
POP THE BUBBLE!
POP THE BUBBLE!
POP THE BUBBLE!
POP THE BUBBLE!

[Nicole ⛄️ @MayorSquish]

@ContextBirds How about crediting the original post? This is from @/fathenfarms on IG (maybe TikTok too)

[bisexual hoop earrings lee seokminᢉ𐭩 @patisoorie]

when they bring up chatgpt around me so now i have to hit them with the face

[Severin⁷🍊 @Severinlee1]

"Living without ai is an impossible utopia" bruh we were living it like 5 years ago and we were doing just fine without that shit. You're letting your brain be cooked on slow heat. And your planet too. In exchange for wrong answers and shitty pics.

[Nicole ⛄️ @MayorSquish]

@Flunny6975 @Rothmus It drives me wild because where are they getting the info that this is a championship event? Who told them? WHO STARTED THIS??

[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.

[Nicole ⛄️ @MayorSquish]

@erjohnjordan @alphafox More like under 20

[Nicole ⛄️ @MayorSquish]

@maddenifico