I rather fall then soar

Someone over on bluesky posted this and I figured I'd better repost it here. It's the pre-RFK 2025 vaccination schedule for babies and young children, ya know, just in case it mysteriously disappears. Save this and give it to your child's pediatrician; tell them this is the schedule you want your child on.

they are going to be CLOSED OVER THE HOLIDAYS and so will the DOCTORS WHO SIGN YOUR PRESCRIPTIONS.

One time after she was sick and we missed Saturday breakfast I called on Sunday evening to see if they would still do pancakes and the hostess said "oh my god is this Penny's mom yes she can have pancakes whenever we'll see you soon"

From the article (which I believe was written before Trick changed their pronouns):

"Late 2009. I'm on Mass Effect 2," Weekes says. "Given that we're only a few months from ship, Mass Effect 2 is also on me. I'm one of a few writers left on the project, tackling bugs. A bug comes in saying that there's a lack of clarity around the opt-in to Thane's romance -- you only get one chance to choose to romance him, and they're missing it, and therefore missing a bunch of content. And some folks are opting in by accident, too. Thane's writer has left the team, so I look at the conversation. It's a great conversation! But I can also see how you could look at the dialogue options and not realize that one of them is you saying, "Let's start a relationship." So, yes, needs to be fixed. "2020 Brain: Wouldn't the big heart icon make that clear? Aha, but this is 2009. ME2 (and even ME3) didn't use icons to indicate that you were entering a relationship. No hover text on big choices, either! (See also, "How people accidentally ended up showering with Traynor.")

"2020 Brain: Okay, so let's rewrite the end of the scene, touching the original writer's lines as lightly as possible, to add a clean chance to opt into a romance with Thane. "Aha, but this is LATE 2009. This scene is LOCKED. No dialogue changes possible. Game DONE, yo. Thane is talking about how his wife died. He's never told anyone. A Shepard who wants to romance Thane tells him she's there for Thane to lean on, whatever he needs. "Original paraphase was something like, "I'm here for you." The writer (Chris L'Etoile) did an amazing job. "But players who wanted to romance Thane didn't understand that this dialogue choice was their one and only chance to get onto a romance path with him. "And players who DIDN'T want to romance Thane didn't like stumbling onto it by accident. "2009 Me: So I have no heart icon, I can't change the dialogue at all. Literally I can do is change the paraphrase, and I have to change it so nobody has any doubt about what this line indicates. "2009 Me: Nailed it."

So one time I was hanging out on a public park bench, chilling on my lunch break, and a guy sits at the next bench over and starts rolling a joint. He's kind of disheveled in the way that its a 50/50 shot whether he's a homeless vagabond or a rich eccentric artist that dresses like a vagabond. He rolls the joint, offers me a hit (nah because I got work in a bit) and we start chatting.

His topic of choice was the lack of crediting an artist for their work, and how IPs and creative ideas are so often stolen, or works shared without credit to the creators. He says that he's a chandelier artist by trade, and that everyone should know who he is, but they don't because it's so easy for a creator to be overlooked in favor of what they create.

Nonetheless his advice to me was, that you don't want to be rich and famous. That's a curse. But, you want to be famous to other famous people-- that when a newly minted celebrity or whoever is in need of a chandelier for their mansion, the other already-rich-and-famous people will say "Oh yeah, you need David the chandelier guy" and that's how you stay in business, through word of mouth among people who can afford what you create.

In addition to basically saying animation as a craft isn’t taken seriously and isn’t a good enough medium to tell a good story…

Live action remakes also imply that live action filmmakers aren’t good enough storytellers on their own and need to use animated works as a jumping point to make anything iconic…which just…sucks bro

I’m an animator and I’m super out of the loop on iconic live action films, but live action film is a really cool medium! And forcing it to just be a soulless copy of animated films is quite frankly insulting to live action filmmakers, who could probably make new and something super interesting that would utilize the medium better.

And like I know that as a whole live action film is taken more seriously than animation, and that to some extent live action filmmakers might be allowed more freedom than animators yadda yadda but like

My point is

I also had never seen them walking before; I thought they kind of, I don't know, floated?

So TIL.