Garbage ala Zeich

I accidentally deleted the og commission post 👽 so here I go again djdnfndms……..

- depression

- At least one tumblr mutual whose real life adult job is gay erotica

Did I create a human John Hancock (as close to the source material as possible) just to ghoulify him?

Yes.

Did I have someone write a mod for me, so I could get my hands on Hancock's iconic red frock in game?

Oh yes.

Did I record a bunch of FO76 emotes since they simply don't exist in FO4 (so I've never seen Hancock do them)?

Weird, but also, yes.

Did it take me way too fucking long?

Yes, and I need help.

Did I want to share them with you guys?

Oh yes lol.

(I am very sorry about the quality of some of those - Tumblr's rule of not allowing several mp4s is just mind boggling. Also, I do own way too many atom store items.)

The movie team hired a Finnish melodic death metal band Mors Subita to compose songs for the movie.

You can watch Heavy Trip with subtitles for free here. Subtitles; Dutch, English, French, German, Italian and Russian.

The sequel for this movie (which is a really good mood comedy) called Heavier Trip will premier in USA November 29th and in Japan December 20th. Baby Metal is featured in the movie!

Do y’all remember that time that someone discovered facial recognition cameras couldn't see through Juggalo makeup, then Facebook had a fun “see what you'd look like with Juggalo makeup” thing, and then facial recognition cameras could suddenly see through Juggalo makeup?

Do y’all remember how, on Twitter, Elon started a tirade against artists who ask for credit when their art is reposted, and he suddenly he created one of the first big art AI programs?

Do y’all remember how AI destroyed the field of freelance translation, despite the inferiority of the machine translations, because companies didn’t care about the quality of the translations? They just wanted it done for free?

Do y’all know how companies will see a lot of money going into a New Tech Thing (like, say, AI art apps) and will jump to try and implement that New Tech Thing into their tech? For example, how it felt like every big company and celebrity had an NFT to sell?

After the United States entered World War II at the end of 1941 and Germany subsequently declared war upon it, Great Britain recommended several steps the United States should take in order to safeguard their ships from Nazi u-boats. Recommendations included sailing ships in convoy (preferably with escort, but records proved ships in convoy without escort were still safer than ships sailing alone), if a ship had to sail on its own, it should avoid known navigation routes and markers, and towns and cities along the East Coast should adhere to strict blackouts at night. These recommendations came from the previous two years of experience in which u-boats absolutely ran wild in the North Atlantic and North Sea, obliterating British shipping. This period of time was referred to by Nazi u-boat captains as “The First Happy Time”. 

Despite British warnings, the United States was slow to follow them and impose restrictions. Ships continued to sail along marked navigation routes and run standard navigation lights at night. Boardwalk communities along the coast were only requested they turn off their lights at night and the cities weren’t even asked that because they didn’t want to offend the tourism, recreation, and business sectors. 

Blacking out coastal communities would have made it infinitely harder for Nazi submarines to find and sink targets. A ship running with no lights is still visible against the backdrop of a lit city.

Conversely, a dark ship running against a dark coast is virtually invisible.

But because citizens living on the coast refused to adhere to wartime suggestions for amenity reasons, merchant ships sailing up and down the East Coast became sitting ducks of u-boats. The US government did not begin strictly enforcing blackouts until roughly August 1942. By then, the Nazis had been given 8 months to run rampant along American shores. This time period was referred to by u-boat captains as “The Second Happy Time” or “American Shooting Season”. 

By August, Nazi u-boats had sunk 609 merchant vessels, totaling 3.1 million tons and costing thousands of lives, mostly of merchant mariners performing their essential jobs. 

By comparison, only 22 u-boats were sunk.

really helpful technique ^ once you know how to divide by halves and thirds it makes drawing evenly spaced things in perspective waaay easier: