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I SCREAMED ALOUD

LIVE WALLPAPER: wallpaper engine. only thing on here that costs any money (its like 5 bucks on steam). im sure theres free alternatives but this one has a lot of presets and stuff so its less hassle and its what i use. might be a bad idea for lower end pcs tho

CUSTOM TASKBAR: retrobar on github (lots of different options)

CUSTOM CURSOR: theres a lot of places to find these, but rw-designer open cursor library is a good place to start

DISCORD: betterdiscord, im using the clearvision v7 theme with a custom background

EXTENSIONS (these are for firefox, might or might not exist on other browsers):

tabliss for the new tab theme

stylus for tumblr -> specifically the 'tumblr - custom dashboard pallette' theme for colors + bg, and this for the pre-twitterifcation layout

enhancer for youtube for custom youtube colors

Lots of companies have Room Temperature Rooms? Like, literally any company whose products have an expiry date has to have ( or outsorce) a Room Temp Room in their R&D department. Else how would you know that this great new toothpaste flavor doesn’t accidentally turn into poison in two years.

But you can’t just have ONE RTR. Because what if you sell your toothpaste in Antarctica? Or the Amazon? What if the toothpaste turns evil when frozen? Or melts? Or gets dropped 500 feet off the back of a truck in the Himalayas?

So picture, if you will, a wing of an R&D department full of little rooms, each set to a certain temperature and humidity, each with a rack of toothpaste. Every year or so, a scientist comes in an takes out a tube, and does SCIENCE to make sure it won’t kill someone. Or look gross, or taste weird. Or explode. A lot of toothpaste explodes if, for example, you pretend you flew it across the artic circle (froze) then dropped if off in an Indian street market (melt), then sat in someone’s cabinet for three years (at Room Temperature).

And that’s how they make expiry dates. And why developing a new flavor of toothpaste can take ten years.

The PHM book and movie are both good for different reasons. Theyre the same story, but the movie truly feels like a creature of its own, it feels like a movie telling a story, not like a retelling of a book that told a story. The microcosm of this is the karaoke scene in the movie. It’s quite possibly one of my favorite parts of the movie, and it has no analogue in the book. It was created for the movie because movies are audio/visual storytelling. The book leans into the plot, the science, the characters. Things a book can portray very well. However, the movie isn’t as scientifically dense, and instead leans into the visual grandeur and spectacle, the music, color language.