Musings of the Artshifter

Uma Musume style horsegirls introduced to the Forgotten Realms; setting's lore revised so that they've always been there.

Advancement rules now stipulate per-session XP bonus based on lifetime D&D Beyond purchase history.

Compendium of exclusive feat trees for specific gender and sexual identities. Bisexuality receives no feats of its own, being mechanically implemented as "half gay"; the resulting synergies are disgusting.

Editorial error in revised Dungeon Master's Guide accidentally refers to Dungeon Masters as Hasbro's employees.

"Noble savage" coding of barbarian class walked back, refocused on European folkloric touchstones such as the Ulster Cycle; all barbarian characters become Irish stereotypes.

AI-based DM service trained exclusively on work of Ed Greenwood launched; withdrawn a week later citing "guiderail issues".

Expanded discussion of navigating player expectations frames "not showing up at all" as a valid playstyle.

a) physical shops are important for those who don’t have access to a computer/ internet/ ect

b) those “weird” and “niche” shops I love so much don’t have the same vibe online, they turn into just another website

If you can spare a few bucks to help me get my car back so I can keep my kid and my trailer, id appreciate it more than you know!!!

there is a definitive answer to this, i feel like i've answered it a dozen times or reblogged posts with commentary to help dispel this myth.

likes absolutely help, even more than reblogs in some cases. the argument that "reblogs are better than likes" rests on a few assumptions, but one of them is that every one of your followers will see your reblog. that's simply untrue: most people using tumblr do not catch up with every post on their dashboard. they look at some of them, and maybe come back the next day to a whole new set of posts in their feed.

this is why "Best Stuff First" / "the algorithm" was created: to optimize what those first-seen posts are. the way we "rank" those posts via the algorithm (not just for the dashboard, but for "For You", for recommendations, etc) uses a number of signals. the loudest ones are reblogs and likes! i don't have the exact weights, but i'm fairly certain a like is more or equal weight as a reblog.

i think a lot of this misconception stems from the fact that we've never made "what do likes do" clear in the tumblr interface until recently. the only way you'd ever see "what a like does" is via the notes view or via your own Likes list -- so it makes sense people won't know that their likes were used for so much more.

but now we have "Based on your likes" and "Liked by..." recommendations on tumblr, so you can directly see the result of people using likes. but it's actually always worked that way! we just didn't make it clear.

Folks who grew up in Canada – or certain American states near the Canadian border – during the 1990s may recognise the re-scored version from YTV’s “Short Circuitz” segment, which drew heavily from the various Mind’s Eye anthologies; that version of the short can be viewed below (skip to 2:22).

• Treadmill, produced by Geoff Campbell

• Best Idea in the World, produced by Cranston/Csuri Productions

• Gillette Video Show, produced by Cal Ltd.

• Manage, Produced by Digital Productions

• Entrepreneur, produced by Digital Productions

• Movietime Radio I.D., Produced by Movietime

• Integration, produced by R/Greenberg Associates

• Balance, produced by Digital Productions

The second section with the deforming gears doing interesting and complicated things is also by Cranston/Csuri Productions but appears to be an untitled series of several very short, aesthetically similar excerpts from various demo reels they did in the early to mid 1980s; the credit went to the production company but there was no title associated with that section.

A not insignificant portion of the Mind's Eye series was material from TV commercials, network bumpers, and advertising demo reels, etc.

Here's an example:

Above we have an example credit from Beyond The Mind's Eye, a series of clips from various CGI material edited together into short videos set to music by Jan Hammer.

"Power" shows a stone cat on a pedestal coming to life, taking a running leap through a large flame, and turning into gold. If you search YouTube for it, you probably won't find it because "Power" is pretty vague.

But if you've seen it before in its original context you can search for that and you end up with a 30 second TV spot for a cigarette company.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdBoKOpctp4&t=59s

(That specific animation was at some point reused for an ad for KTWV FM in Los Angeles, but I think the ending might have been chopped.)

What I'm implying here is that in many cases where you have an early 1990s CGI showcase, you're not just hunting for excerpts from long films or short films; you're very likely hunting for excerpts from mid-1980s 30-second or 60-second TV ads whose titles are internal to the production company and/or the ad agency, meaning one title might be "Power" and another might be "Hitachi" or "Motorola".

Folks who grew up in Canada – or certain American states near the Canadian border – during the 1990s may recognise the re-scored version from YTV’s “Short Circuitz” segment, which drew heavily from the various Mind’s Eye anthologies; that version of the short can be viewed below (skip to 2:22).

• Treadmill, produced by Geoff Campbell

• Best Idea in the World, produced by Cranston/Csuri Productions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvICw-8WaGk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8TYobTi234&t=226s

• Gillette Video Show, produced by Cal Ltd.

• Manage, Produced by Digital Productions

• Entrepreneur, produced by Digital Productions

• Movietime Radio I.D., Produced by Movietime

• Integration, produced by R/Greenberg Associates

• Balance, produced by Digital Productions

mushroom: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters

I don’t know how she does it. I don’t know how she reads my intent so clearly.

When I walk to the kitchen to get a popsicle or thaw a slice of banana bread or warm up some mango slices, she doesn’t care. She stays on her chair and waits patiently.

But when I walk to the kitchen to scoop myself a bowl of ice cream, she’s at my heels SHRIEKING by the time I turn on the light. She knows. She’s not smelling it, she’s not hearing me say ‘ice cream’, she’s not accustomed to some predictable pattern because I rarely eat ice cream.

I got up to make myself a cup of tea, thought Tea Thoughts, and then at the last moment I filled my tea cup with ice cream instead of tea.

My cat didn’t even notice. She didn’t smell it, or pester me while I was eating, or come running and yodeling her need when I opened the freezer.

…But it only wants ice cream.

So, for a while, English used the term "Lesbian" to describe people from the island of Lesbos, and "Sapphist" to describe women who were into other women. 

Somewhere around the late 1800s (the 1870s I think) there were some works (medical stuff, prose, poetry) written by old white dudes who spoke English, and those works used both terms in such a way that “Lesbian” could be conflated with “Sapphist” by an average reader. 

As it turns out, there were a lot of average readers. 

So, by the turn of the 20th century, “Lesbian” had become a synonym for “Sapphist” as far as English was concerned—and eventually “Sapphism” sort of dropped out of the lexicon and we were left with “Lesbianism.”