Võ Thi Thang smiling after being sentenced to 20 years hard labor in a prison camp by the US puppet government in Saigon. After being sentenced she reportedly smiled at the judge and said “20 years? Your government won’t last that long.” – 1968
Our son Sam has told us that the D&D art file we use for a screensaver on various devices bothers him.
Because it makes him frustrated that he can’t look at some of them longer. He wants to know what is happening in some of them.
I told him that is one of the reasons we play Dungeons & Dragons, so we can go find out together, in our collective imagination.
Not really D&D related- but I feel compelled to add to this that not only are these GORGEOUS pixel arts- they are also in fact not animated. There are no frames used. There’s no extra pieces of art. Just one layer.
These pieces are so old that they stem from a time where animating cost way too much memory and/or only 256 colors could be used at one time, so the motion is achieved by ‘color cycling’. Half the available colors would be reserved for that very color cycling. It’s mchecking bonkers, please go watch this video if you feel like learning the technical details of how these artworks were made! They were screensavers that would match the actual time of day that you were in. Somehow. Just by cycling color palettes. Wild shit.
(Especially relevant time stamps for color cycling: 5:50, 9:55, 37:26, at 49:54 he gets into the technical side of HOW this even works)
Yup.
I’ve always enjoyed how they depicted some of the landscapes at different times of the day/weather/season.
Like these two areas. Daytime and nighttime at the village by the waterfalls.
And the high mountains hidden by rain in one and visible in the other.
yall r gonna post a man’s entire portfolio of art and not give credit?
anyways these images are by mark ferrari, a color cycling pixel art master, you can check them out in their html color cycling forms, with sound effects and ability to change the time of day of the image, here and here
Desperately in need of some good old-fashioned escapism, I randomly clicked on The Ottoman Lieutenant on Netflix, but despite the beautiful landscapes and suitably strong-willed heroine, I started to feel like something was off? There seemed to be a lot of focus on the evil Armenians and the eviler Christian doctor, while the roguish and handsome title character, a paragon of virtue, was slowly conquering more and more emotional ground. Halfway through, I finally looked it up and yeah – this is Turkish propaganda, shot and edited so cancel out a recent movie about the Armenian genocide (which Turkey still doesn’t recognize).
As it becomes easier and easier to access foreign movies and TV shows, please remember all countries have an agenda.
When it comes to history o politics, never buy anything a movie’s selling without doing some independant research first.
documentation of the atrocities committed by the ottomans in 1915 against armenians. they can deny all they want. we have more than enough proof of what happened.
By the way, even if it were true, “the Ottoman government didn’t intend to kill hundreds of thousands of Armenians” still constitutes genocidal violence. Peace and love.
How the f*** are people still so blind when there’s sources everywhere? We live in an age where information of just about everything is at our fingertips and the push of some buttons. Denial like this has to be intentional.
