I mean, fuck, I like bed. I like sleep. I like cozy blankies I like napping, I like to eep. I like Z catching and wink catching and counting sheep. I like doing beddie bye shit. Snooze it? Honk mimi
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I know i've said it before, but if you are concerned it could be real and not a scam, the best way to avoid getting scammed is to return contact separately.
Here's how that works:
say you get a text from your internet provider, let's say it's Comcast (whom i hate). So you have this text that says it's from Comcast about your bill with a contact number and a clickable link -- could be real, could be a scam.
Don't touch anything about this text. Open a web browser and look up the customer service number for Comcast. Or get the number from the bill they send you. However you do it, get the contact info for Comcast from a trusted source, like an official phone directory or the Comcast website itself.
Get in touch with them using that information.
So. Let's run the example both ways it could go.
If it IS a scam: you reach out to Comcast and tell them you were contacted about a problem with your bill, they look you up in their customer database, and they tell you there is no problem with your bill.
If it's NOT a scam, you do the same thing, they look you up, and they explain the problem. In this case, neither Comcast nor the employees involved give a single shit whether or not you clicked the link in the text vs. going through their official website.
This works the same for the your bank, the IRS, Amazon, political causes, charities, everything.
By handling any questionable incoming calls to action this way, you significantly protect yourself from scams and malware and shit
Just imagining Phantump Conan in all the bonkers situations actual conan ends up in is hilarious to me. Like Ran, why does your pokemon know how to disarm a bomb???
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Did the production crew on the Truman Show train him to respond a certain way to the paid advertisements. Because I have to imagine maybe it wouldn't go over well for a brand re: advertisement if Truman himself seemed bored/disinterested during the ad. So when he was a small child, did they Pavlov him into enjoying the experience of having an ad delivered at his face. Did they slip him a treat or pair the ads with events like Christmas or his birthday every time they did an ad, so that he would subconsciously want to pay attention to an ad, because his brain subconsciously associated being advertised to with only good things/rewards? How about the brands with the more subtle advertising? How many millions if not billions were spent on Truman to be fed a certain brand of pasta or soft drink, to enjoy toys from a particular brand? Truman hypothetically only knowing the toy store as the Fischer Price store. "Come on, Nestle is your favorite!" How much of his life and particularly his childhood was constructed around selling advertisements to people watching his life on TV, who were influenced by his being influenced? Can you imagine a fond childhood memory like "hot dog lunch Tuesday" at your school where you remember being hyped up by your teachers to enjoy getting to go outside and eat hot dogs, only to learn that this was engineered entirely as a product placement for Oscar Meyer? How much despair might you feel if your entire existence, your most cherished experiences, your childhood nostalgia, everything you had, was centered around using you to sell someone else you didn't even know existed a brand of toothpaste? That your entire life, even if you didn't know it, was an extraction of labor, starting from your very birth? What would you do then? What would you do?
Oh hey, an actual recently-made artwork that I just finished on this account!!
Anyways, I've seen those videos where people used the new Sulfur Cubes as some sort of boost thing to make the boats go faster, maybe even making them fly (with a slow falling potion)...
Update was announced not too long ago and we're already making use of these harmless creatures unethically, the Minecraft community is just amazing.
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So as I rewatch the early episodes, I've been thinking a lot about the visual designs for the characters and settings that we see immediately. I'll hopefully knuckle down and do some posts talking about the principal character designs, because there's a lot of really great stuff in there regarding what they say and how they work, but I was considering Harrow and... well, there's something kind of weird about Harrow's design.
It's Pip. Pip is weird.
Now, Pip is presumably meant to be at least a little weird... or rather, exotic. He's a Xadian bird, so they're deliberately not following any real-world bird species too closely. (Though admittedly I don't know birds super well.) What's interesting is that, while they probably exist, I have never seen any color exploration concepts for Pip beyond green. I checked my concept art collection, and I've got nothing beyond what's in the artbook, which is extremely minimal:
Like, compare with Berto, who is actually based on real-world macaws or parrots:
Now, I'll grant that Berto gets more screentime than Pip does, but it's still strange to see three color variations for him and only the final version for Pip. Green is also kind of a strange (or at least deliberate) color for Pip to be, for some reasons I'm about to explain in great detail.
So why is he green?
Well, the most important thing to know about visual design (in this context) is that the eye is drawn to contrast, particularly color contrast. Color contrast can take three primary forms: light/dark, saturation (intensity), and hue (placement on the spectrum/color wheel). Congratulations, you now know 90% of color theory.
Pip has a very high-contrast color design: a light, intense yellow-green and black. Obviously a relatively light color is going to contrast strongly with black, but another color theory thing is that the closer a color gets to white or black, the less saturated it becomes. (In general. There's some nuance to this.) For science-y reasons I don't know in depth, this kind of yellow-green is also more high contrast with black than an equally light/saturated red or blue would be. Basically, Pip inherently has both high light/dark contrast and high saturation contrast.
Furthermore, the Katolis scenes in general are done in very warm colors (reds, oranges, and yellows), both to establish a color association and to contrast with the cool colors (greens, blues, and purples) of the Moonshadow elf forest scenes:
There are exceptions, of course: the high mage's office and secret dungeon are overall cool-colored, which is fun. Harrow's scenes, however, trend toward warm. Harrow himself is also warm-colored, with his primary color being red. So it's a little strange that Pip acts as such a strong pop of a cool color in those scenes. A red color scheme* would associate him more with Harrow and Katolis, but... well, look at how these just hit different:
Not only is green a cool color (though color temperature is very relative, and Pip's yellow-green is on the warmer end of green), red and green specifically are complementary colors: they are at opposite points on the color wheel, meaning they have very high hue contrast. Combined with Pip's inherent high-contrast design, we have a situation where he attracts a lot of visual attention in any scene where he appears, particularly with Harrow. We notice Pip, and we are meant to notice Pip, for reasons that become clear 59 episodes later.
But there are other important reasons for Pip to be green, related to both overall and contextual color associations. Fortunately, one of my favorite YouTubers just did a video about green:
(She's fantastic, by the way. I love her. I have played exactly 1.25 Persona games and have zero (0) investment in the series, but I watch all her content with utter delight.)
The gist of it is that green is a color with profoundly dualistic associations: it can strongly reference both the natural and the unnatural. Green is growth, green is nourishment, green is paradise, green is life. At the same time, green is poison, green is sickness, green is (digital) technology, green is the slow but persistent death of the natural.
Pip's black-and-green leans much more to the "unnatural" side of that dichotomy. Compare with Rayla, the main "green" character:
Rayla is entirely cool greens, and her green and black (actually a very dark blue, compared to Pip's very dark brown) is relatively low-contrast. I'll definitely do a Rayla design analysis at some point, because she's really cool. (As in awesome, not color temperature. But also color temperature.)
Pip's vibrant yellow-green is a color we see very rarely in the series, particularly in Arc 1, but we do see it. And when we see it... boy, do we see it:
Lore-wise, we think of dark magic as purple... but in Arc 1, it gets a lot of that "unnatural" green. Pip is essentially done up in the secondary color scheme of dark magic. I wonder why.
Along those same lines, Pip's design has a couple other interesting features:
First, the slit pupil eyes. There is a bird species with vertical slit pupils like that, but it's an extreme outlier—slit pupils are just not a useful adaptation for the ways birds use vision. This means that they are a very deliberate design choice for Pip. Slit pupils generally evoke cats... or snakes. (I actually think of snakes, first. I actually forgot cats have them until I was looking up whether any birds do.)
Needless to say, there are some strong associations between dark magic and snakes, as seen above. Also this, obviously:
I assume they didn't make the soulfang green because it would be a little too on-the-nose. They do have a green version in the artbook, and it's honestly pretty meh:
Ultimately I think they made a great choice in going with the design that adds the stripe of pink on the head, evoking the snake's mouth/tongue even when you can't directly see it. (That's not really related, but I think it's very cool and wanted to point it out. Back to Pip.)
Secondly, there's the double-oval shape on Pip's crest. Given we just looked at slit pupils, you could call this an eye, or just straight-up point out that it's rather... yonic. Not going to go too deep on that, except to point out its similarity to another rather yonic design:
However, what it really resembles is the same crest/forehead marking on another black-and-brightly-colored "creature":
So to recap: Pip's design is associated with dark magic in like... at least three distinct ways. Pip is ultimately representative of Harrow's relationship with dark magic, which has begun to haunt him throughout s1e2/s1e3. A relationship that was once positive or indulgent, but he now (as death closes in) feels trapped by.
Hmmmmm. Good question.
So yeah, put this in the "Hindsight is 20/20" column opposite my previous "no, they've been committed to the Bird!Harrow thing the entire time" essay.
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*There's also a possible reason for Pip to not be red, specifically, which is the shadowhawk arrow. In the artbook, they describe the shadowhawk arrow's visual effect as having to be "appropriately sinister, but visually distinct from dark magic," which... I don't know that they were super successful with that in the context of Arc 1, but given everything we later know about the Blood Moon and such, it's not completely out of line with Moon magic.
That being said, the visual similarity between the shadowhawk and Pip is definitely intentional, because they're maniacs. Also I guess technically it means they probably didn't need to craft an entire separate "bird" model and animation rig from scratch.
If they wanted Pip to be red and not explicitly associated with Harrow's "death," they could easily have designed around that and done something different for the message arrow.
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If Vlad Masters was like 5% better at anything but being a wrecking ball he could have everything he wants. Ironically this IS a trait he and Danny share. But bc the things Danny wants don't tend to require manipulating children it isn't actually thet big a deal he's bad at forethought.
Vlad Masters: Right im 95% of the way done with my evil plot. Im so powerful everything always goes my way time to fuck it up in the home stretch bc im too used to just always getting my way through possession or intimidation but this plan requires delicate manipulation. A thing that has only ever worked once. And it was on a 14 year old who'd just had her life ruined and now help a deep ass grudge.
Danny: I've never heard of the concept of a plan in my life. The worlds about to end time to go punch thet guy really hard and its going to work because it historically works and im not misapplying skills.
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Tl:dr they're both bruisers but Vlad wants to think hes some suave mastermind.
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