Random Musings

fun fact: these are actual vocal warm ups he would do, and used this as a way to interact with the audience while being able to stretch while performing .

This performance at Live Aid literally was unlike anything anyone had seen. No one, and I mean, NO ONE has ever owned a crowd like this.

adding the green day crowd singing bohemian rhapsody video for reasons.

“It’s troubling to me that the perpetrators of the violent acts are the good guys, because that communicates the idea that aggression is justifiable as long as it’s committed by a good guy,”

This article is 110% correct. My 3-years old isn’t allowed to regularly watch superhero films or cartoons, and when he incidentally sees art of them he thinks heroes like Superman are “bad guys” or “demons” because of their incredibly aggressive body language and infinite amount of toxic masculine coding.

I think my favorite part in any video game I’ve ever played is that bit in Portal 2 that essentially goes:

Theory: Nobody who writes a physics textbook gives any fucks

Update: Legolas’ pupils are about 3.5 cm wide each. Now drawing kawaii Legolas on physics assignment.

Legolas’s pupil size isn’t the problem here, though. 5 leagues is 17.262 miles. The curvature of the Earth means that for a person of average height, the visual horizon is less than three miles away. Even if your vision is telescopic and the atmosphere is perfectly clear, you can’t see around the planet. If they were standing on a hill, it would have to be at LEAST 198 feet above sea level in order to see the horizon at 17.2 miles away, with nothing tall in between. Which, knowing Rohan, isn’t impossible.

you mean like

I shall never find peace.

Yeah there is.  The Silmarillion states that the world was curved after the fall of Numenor (I believe), preventing access to Valinor.  But Elves (among others) can travel the straight path across it.