![]() AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME…SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED. YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE. REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. You’re saying humans need… fantasies to make life bearable.” And let’s not forget this brilliant discussion from Hogfather, about why “small lies” (i.e., the ones we tell our kids all the time) are a thing: Sure, I was ten at the time this book came out, but upon reading, it nudged me towards a certain mindset that absolutely influenced how I handled being the father of a female human. One of his earliest Discworld works, Equal Rites, deals with gender roles (the eighth son of an eighth son is a wizard… but what if it’s a girl?). He strongly influenced my own writing 1.īut more importantly, Sir Terry Pratchett made me a better father. ![]() While he’s often thought of as a humorist, his work can also make you cry I read Wee Free Men not long after my own grandmother passed, and there’s one passage about the protagonist’s grandmother that had me curled up in a tiny ball. I’ve watched his work metamorphose from simple (but great!) parody ( The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic) to biting satire ( Small Gods, The Fifth Elephant, to just powerful novels ( The Night Watch). It has to deal with the male one.”Īll tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.I’ve been a Terry Pratchett fan for a long time, ever since a friend sent me a copy of Mort (my grandfather’s nickname for me, you see). Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. ![]() “The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord.” ― Men at Arms: The Play Do you think it’s possible for an entire nation to be insane? This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socioeconomic unfairness A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. ![]() Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.īut the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they’ve found it. If cats looked like frogs we’d realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don’t apply to you. In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded. It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. Give a man a fire and he’s warm for a day, but set fire to him and he’s warm for the rest of his life. Here are some of my favourite Terry Pratchett quotes to get you through the Friday… So, really, that’s all the pretence I need. Time turned the evil bastards into rogues, and rogue was a word with a twinkle in its eye and nothing to be ashamed of.” Funny, that: a brigand for a father was something you kept quiet about, but a slave-taking pirate for a great-great-great-grandfather was something to boast of over the port. Yesterday, some words of his bubbled back to me, unbidden, as they have a wont to do, and they made me both sad and happy at the same time: “They were indeed what was known as ‘old money’, which meant that it had been made so long ago that the black deeds which had originally filled the coffers were now historically irrelevant. His humor, his humanism, his skill with words it all added up to this wonderful attitude to the insanity that is life, the prism through which he viewed things and reported back on them acting almost as a guide for millions of people. The phrase ‘one of a kind’ is often bandied about, but Pratchett really was exactly that. Even after he died, over two years ago, on 12th March 2015, he remains just that, with his words and his ideals continuing to resonate throughout the collective consciousness. While alive, Terry Pratchett was a singular gift to the world.
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Changing Times and Changing Prioritiesįast forward to 2018 and suddenly there it was! This had become such a frequent occurence that we had to add it to our Discord server FAQ.ĭo you plan on making an Android app? No, not at this moment.įrom the users’ perspective, it seemed as if the devs disliked the idea of an Android app.īut for the developers, it was just the abundance of many other features and improvements that took higher priority.Īnd given the huge amount of effort for an Android version, we simply did not have enough time for it. Users began requesting a portable version of it.īeing an emulator for the 3DS, a handheld console, they wanted something they could carry everywhere and play games anywhere, and it came in the form of an Android app.ĭuring the glory days of Citra development, users would ask almost daily if we had an Android app or if we planned to make one. That’s right, you can finally play 3DS games on the go! Users and Devs - A Tale of Perspectives!Ĭitra has great game compatibility and performance (provided you have the hardware), cross-platform support, multiplayer support, and much more.īut ever since Citra Desktop achieved a stable state, the most requested feature has been something entirely unrelated to the core emulation. and Mario Kart 7 hacking.Today we are unveiling the most requested addition for Citra: Android Support! * I'm unsure if this step is required as it is solely based of my knowledge of New Super Mario Bros Wii. If you run into any complications or make any new discoveries, feel free to post about them here. Open the Mario.arc in EFE and replace the Mario.bcmdl with the one you just made.Repeat steps 10-19 until you are content with your rig.Look at the quality of your rig by viewing the animations.In the animations tab click import and open the MarioAnimation.bcmdl you exported earlier.Open your new Mario.bcmdl in Ohana Rebirth.Import these files (the same way you opened the model)(these are material/color/visibility animations, these are nessecary)(these files can be created and edited in 3DEditor).Export your model as Mario.cmdl (NW4C Export With Settings).Turn Fragment lighting off in the NW4C Material Attributes*.Not sure if texture names are needed but if your import freezes then try using them (player_dw01_MarioBody_diff, player_dw01_MarioEye_diff.0, player_dw01_MarioHead_diff)* Your model must make use of these 5 Materials (MarioBody, MarioHand, MarioEye, MarioHairHead, MarioCapHead).Rig your model (tutorial for model rigging Part 1 / Part 2) (you may be able to resize the bones if needed*).Delete the OBJ and import the bones (from the DAE you made in brawl box).Scale your model up nicely to match the original (It hepls to freeze the Mario model | Left Click > Right click > Freeze Selection).Import the OBJ into 3DS Max as well as your model.Delete the polygons then extract the model as a DAE (so you have just only the bones) (I did this because the raw DAE from Ohana crashed in 3DSMax for me).Open the DAE in BrawlBox (New > Archives > BRRES Resource Pack | Right click Brres > New > Model | Right click model > Replace > Mario.DAE)*. ![]() Export the DAE and OBJ of the original model.Open the exported bcmdl in Ohana Rebirth.Export the Mario.bcmdl (do the same for MarioAnimation.arc).Open the Mario.arc in EFE (\ObjectData\Mario.arc).I will update this tutorial as I find out how to extract Mario's bones properlyĭelete the bones of your model and export it as an OBJ (if needed) ![]() This tutorial is not final, it is more than likely that your rig will turn out messed up. 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Rosin consists mainly of abietic acid, and combines with caustic alkalis to form salts (rosinates or pinates) that are known as rosin soaps. It is soluble in alcohol, ether, benzene and chloroform. ![]() What kind of alcohol is used to make DABS?. ![]() Thus, you will be ready when an opportunity arises for all or some part of that line-up to become playable somewhere as the game progresses. If you do not draw a domino with a playable end that matches the engine tile, you can begin the line-up in your hand with any domino that will make up the longest line of end-matching tiles and the fewest “extras” possible. When you are no longer able to line up your tiles in a matching series, the leftover tiles are considered your “extras” and will be used on the “Mexican Train” or on other players’ “personal trains” during the game. The ends of the tiles in your hand must match and form a line to be ready to play onto the engine as your “personal train” after the game starts (example: 12-5, 5-7, 7-8, 8-11 and so on). The players then organize the tiles in their hands in a playable progression beginning with the same denomination number as the engine. The remaining tiles are set aside in “bone piles” to be drawn as needed in the game. This is not critical to the game and it will balance itself as the game is played. For double-9, 15 or 18 sets, adjustments can be made so that the number of tiles drawn in each player’s hand and the bone pile are reasonable. Additional players can play by adjusting this numerical arrangement to fit. Number of tiles drawn using a double 12 set: 2 players - 16 tiles each 3 players – 15 4 players - 14 5 players - 12 6 players - 11 7 players – 10 8 players - 9. Shuffle the remaining dominoes face down. Place the engine in the center of the table or in the centerpiece. This domino is called the “engine” and will be the starter domino for this game. To start, pull out the 12-12 (double-12) if playing with a double-12 set (or the 9-9 if playing with a double-9 set, 15-15 for a double-15 set, 18-18 for a double 18 set) from the deck. The other players then must total the pips or numbers remaining in their hands and keep a running total for their score. Object of the game: To rid your hand of as many dominoes as possible and to be the first to do this. Conventional dominoes with pips (dots) or Number Dominoes™ can be used.Īdditional equipment: A score sheet and one train marker per player. Adaptations can be easily made should your players/sets not exactly fit this guideline. ![]() Number of players/domino set: 2 to 4 players using a double-9 set 2 to 8 players using a double-12 set and 9-12 players, or more, using a double-15 or 18 set. ![]() See the edges of objects wobble, come in and out of focus, flowing one into another, all in this strong graphic field that releases dopamine rushes of pleasure. “The more ways you can put together in a picture … the richer it becomes, the more like life.” He is most widely known for his juicy pictures of voluptuous confectionary in shop displays and on countertops. There’s peripheral vision, the myopic close-up sensation, focused seeing,” and went on to list the glance, stare, squint, and closed-eye daydreaming. He told the New York Times, “I don’t agree with Duchamp that the eye is a dumb organ … I think the eye has a mind of its own and there are different ways we see. He asked if I would like to play tennis with him (he played his whole life). Afterward, he told me he felt this work in his nerves and muscles. I showed slides of emerging artists like Matthew Barney, Janine Antoni, Chris Ofili, Kara Walker, Robert Gober, and Jeff Koons, and he was rapt. But it felt off to one side, not as edgy or relevant to the moment as someone around his age, who also painted in California, and in his own colorful idiom: David Hockney. Until that moment, however, I’d never really thought about his work much. I met him, once, when I lectured in the 1990s at UC Davis. He told students who didn’t want to learn these, “It would be great if you could make a brilliant end run around all that stuff, but with painting there’s no such thing …” To this he added the formalism and oddity of Morandi’s still lifes, the intimacies of Chardin, and techniques of the old masters. He combined this with the painterly West Coast figuration of his peers like David Park, the abstraction of Richard Diebenkorn, and the materiality of ceramicists like Peter Voulkos and Robert Arneson. (Bruce Nauman was his student.) At this distance from New York, sifting through a raft of influences and art history with one of the most distinctive optical styles in all of American painting, Thiebaud synthesized Pop Art’s everyday commodity culture, strong color, ironies, and commercial realism. He spent nearly the entirety of his 101 years in California, specifically in Sacramento. That both were younger than him tells you he wasn’t stuck in any ideological aesthetic rut. Thiebaud was born in Arizona and lived for a time in New York, where he tried to shop his illustrations and commercial art knew de Kooning, Kline, Guston, and Barnett Newman and was taken by the new energies in artists like Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. Following brushstrokes, lulled from surface to surface, you experience a release of internal rapture from form. His hallucinatory surfaces, uncanny perceptual intelligence, thick buildups of rich color, hard light, luminosity, tonal control, and Hopperesque remove create eye-worms that make you meld with the paintings, participate in how they were made. Wayne Thiebaud’s paintings of cakes, bathers, landscapes, paint cans, pastries, and cityscapes represent a luscious American sublime.Ĭalling him a “California painter,” as many do, would be like calling Albert Pinkham Ryder a “New York painter.” Thiebaud’s work is universal. While the sincerity of his statement is admittedly suspect since he was a professional gigolo hired by a member of the H.I.V.E. Hey, if glasses can work for Clark Kent, they can work for you. Moreover, since Starfire simply finds clothing restrictive and doesn’t attach a sexual component to her physical exposure, that makes her a more of a nudist than an exhibitionist. Tamaraneans don’t have the same hangups about nudity that humans do. Again, this is more of a reflection on the accuser than the accused.ģ. In a related vein, many people consider premarital sex – something which she and Nightwing indulged in in spades – to be on par with promiscuity. There a lot of individuals out there who equate an enjoyment of sex with loose morals and promiscuity (which really says more about the finger pointers than it does about Starfire).Ģ. I’m really not sure how this misconception about her being promiscuous became so widespread, but I can certainly make a couple of educated guesses:ġ. So, clearly, she has standards and prerequisites when it comes to men and won’t hop into bed with just anyone, which makes her behavior in Red Hood and the Outlaws seem all the more jarring and out of character. The coldest and loneliest place on Earth ISN’T Antarctica. And even she suggests that what happened between them was the exception rather than the norm. The “odd man out” in this case is Captain Comet, with whom she was strictly friends with benefits. ![]() In fact, since her introduction in 1980, she’s had exactly four confirmed sexual partners – Nightwing, Prince Karras, General Ph’yzzon, and Captain Comet – and was either married to or in long term relationships with three of them when intercourse occurred. ![]() So unless your definition of casual sex includes (statutory) rape and sexual slavery – and if it does, you need some serious help – then she wasn’t promiscuous in any sense of the word. ![]() While she spared us the gross details, it’s not unreasonable to assume that at least some of her owners used her for their own sexual gratification. While it may be hard to believe, the above statement is an outright lie and could only be considered even remotely true if you’re incredibly cynical, extremely sexist, or ridiculously moralizing.Īs mentioned previously, Starfire was sold into slavery multiple times over a six-year-period before escaping to Earth. While it’s true that Starfire was condemned to death for murdering her fifth master and sent to a prison planet, she escaped while en route and never made it to her intended destination.Ĭlaim: “Starfire has always been promiscuous.” Besides, I think he’s kind of sweet on her.Īnd you thought that YOUR childhood was rough. Since he was not only her co-creator but also wrote pretty much every comic book she ever appeared in for an unprecedented sixteen years, I think he undoubtedly has the best grasp of who and what the character is supposed to be. In fact, since the number of things that were done wrong far exceeds the number of things that were done right, I thought it might be more useful to dispense with the usual format and instead directly address claims being made by message board posters, writer Scott Lobdell, and the comic book itself in order to see if any of them hold water.īefore we begin, I’d like to emphasize that I’m deferring to Marv Wolfman for the most part when it comes to providing evidence for all of my counterarguments. Next to Amanda Waller and Barbara Gordon, Starfire is one of the biggest elephants in the room when it comes to the post- Flashpoint DC Universe due to her massive character derailment. Take a long hard look at some of the only accurate information about Starfire to be found in this issue.Īlso, since we already went over her initial encounter with Jason Todd last time and will be reviewing how she first met Roy Harper next time, that also reduces the number of potential discussion topics this time around. |
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