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the explanation, for those who want it, is that technodad later elaborated and said the family lived around a lot of brazilians as techno was growing up, and thus most likely picked it up from family friends and their children. its still very funny that technodad basically had to theorize he knew the language at all and had to trick him into confirming his hypothesis like he was studying him
Despite being a bladder-shattering 23.5 ounces, cans of AriZona iced tea have never wavered from the 99-cent price point introduced shortly after the drink debuted in 1992. It’s even printed on the label as a way of warding off sugar-water price gouging by retailers.
The fact that AriZona has been able to resist inflation for nearly a quarter-century is impressive. The fact that the cans usually wind up being cheaper than smaller soft drinks is also impressive, until you begin to realize how strange it is that a vat of iced tea and its accompanying ingredients somehow manages to be less expensive than plain water.
In a recent interview with Thrillist, AriZona chief marketing officer and co-owner Spencer Vultaggio shed some light on this convenience store mystery.
Unlike water titans Coke (which distributes Dasani), Evian, or Fiji, AriZona has virtually no advertising dollars invested in their teas. “We feel like it’s more important to spend money on something that our customer really cares about, instead of buying billboards or putting our cans in the hands of some celebrity for a few minutes,” Vultaggio said.
Even with a frugal approach to ads, AriZona still has to deal with rising production costs. To help resist increasing prices to compensate, the company has pursued alternative manufacturing methods, using 40 percent less aluminum in cans and having enough factories dotting the country to make transportation more efficient. Bottled water, in contrast, is sometimes sourced from abroad, making for exorbitant shipping costs.
In the end, it’s not the iced tea that’s more economical than the water; it’s that the container it comes in is simply cheaper to produce and transport. And while AriZona isn’t above charging a premium for fancier drinks—like a tea brewed with oak chips that sells for twice the price—their branding depends heavily on those familiar rows of 99-cent cans and the loyal consumers who keep reaching for them.
Interesting!
Do you ever hear a song and just go "This is it. This is the song that would play if I was a villain"
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I bought Clip Studio Paint EX because of its raster animation features, so I’ve been doodling random stuff, testing it out.
Side Note:
I’ve been using Sai as my paint program for like 6 years now. When I make my art/animations I juggle between Sai, Photoshop and Toon Boom. But after taking a look at Clip Studio, it just seemed to be the lovely baby of all those programs along with 3D models. So right now, I’m trying to transition to Clip Studio.
Terry Crews of Brooklyn 99 gives the best advice on physical fitness.
Seriously, his Reddit AMA is the most genuinely upbeat, positive actor interview ever. Another great bit:
To be honest, this was the healthiest advice for getting into working out I’ve ever read, and it really was the inspiration for me to start running and going to the gym. No judgement, no “you need to be doing this” mess. Just a simple “do what you can. and feel comfortable”
Need a high schooler to edit your dystopian flash fanfic?
Or a published poet to review your queer epic?
How about an English major to review the syntax in your personal essay?
On Yeah Write’s Workshoppers page, you’ll find hundreds of Tumblr users who have volunteered to peer edit other people’s writing. But what you may not have noticed is that each post is excessively tagged with everything that particular workshopper likes to read and edit. Click on a tag to see more workshoppers who, for example, like to edit screenplays, or scifi, or for characterization, or who are in college.
Ok but why do men always talk to you like they’re trying to teach you something?
i learned about this in my comm theory class!!!
basically when men speak they tend to prove status/higher intelligence but when women speak we tend to seek connections! so like for example: when asking questions- women ask questions to know more about their conversation partner, while men see asking questions as showing no knowledge on the topic. So a man would rather talk about something that makes him more comfortable and makes him seem smarter rather than something that makes him look inferior.
ALSO!!! when women are communicating with each other, we often have cooperative/positive “interruptions” like asking questions or saying “oh yeah thats happened to me” or “i know how you feel” to show interest in the conversation/build a connection, but men see these kinds of “interruptions” as hijacking the conversation/making them lose their “status”
Each of the vampires in Stakes is based on (and mostly named after) a Tarot Card
The Fool - Beginnings, Innocence. The Fool is Marceline’s first major vampire kill and her first vampire soul sucked.
The Empress - Fertility, Nature. The Empress seduces Simon and craves blood and sating her natural urges.
The Hierophant - Tradition, Religion. The Hierophant wants to go back to the old ways of vampires.
The Moon - Fear, Mystery. The Moon intentionally terrifies her prey. She messes with them, and her motives are unknown.
Strength - Patience, Courage. The Vampire King was patient for the time to come for the ressurection of his species. He faces the future with bravery and welcomes the challenges that a new era presents.
Judgement - Judgement, Inner Calling, Rebirth. Marceline’s feelings and her desire to grow up is what drives her to start hunting vampires and make herself mortal. She judges them for their attacks and making it her goal to eradicate them. And her decisions mark a rebirth and new beginning for herself, vampire kind, and the world.
Bonus:
Hermit - Guidance, Being Alone. Simon was Marceline’s guidance and her support. After he left, Marceline was completely alone for the first time.
Death - Endings, Transition, Life Cycle. The Dark Cloud is the final battle in the miniseries. It’s also the last battle she fights as a mortal before becoming a vampire once again, but more mature and grown. The decision to fight it was her transition to adulthood after a millennium of adolescence.
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I know you've been getting a lot of drawing questions but I'm in a rut. I can't seem to draw in color well. Only in black and white and I was wondering if you had any tips for coloring and stuff because I truly suck at it. :'-) Like, how do you make your color schemes and coloring so unbelievably pretty and well chosen?
i recently wrote something about my color picking process here!
i think it’s really important to practice working in color but a method i’ve been using to go right to color from black and white with minimal effort is this:
-you got your black and white thing
-create a curves adjustment layer
-adjust a channel (or multiple channels)
-bam. magic.
-some other possible adjustments
i personally try to avoid making really extreme curves so the edits look more subtle, but that’s just me! overediting is a really easy thing to fall into and it takes practice to know when to stop and tone things down
-basically just experiment a lot and see what you can do, what works, and what doesn’t
my recent kaneki fanart was also colored using this method, and i use curves to color edit a lot of my colored work too! editing something that’s already colored can be a bit trickier, but i think it really makes a difference when it’s done right
I wanted to announce that my game with mammonmachinezeal and datenighto, WE KNOW THE DEVIL, has finally been released!
WE KNOW THE DEVIL is a short horror visual novel about relationship dynamics, growing pains, queer isolation, summer camp, and The Devil.
It’s something like an OTP simulator: instead of playing as one character, you pick which two you want to see pair off for different tasks and watch them bond and learn about themselves. Maybe you want to see what happens when popular tomboy Jupiter deals with shy Venus’s bullies, or which one plays truth or dare with meangirl Neptune. But this also comes at the cost of the third person, unless there’s somehow a way to keep everyone safe?
There are no routes to lock yourself out of, only endings determined by the sum of your choices.
This game does not have jump scares or gore. It does feature themes of isolation and alienation of queer youth in a religious rural setting, abstract psychological horror, some body horror, and possibly alarming music. As in: it uses horror themes and is Not Unscary, but scaring or shocking the player is not the primary goal.
I was the lead artist and creative director on this project and I could not be more proud of what we’ve made. I hope you enjoy it!
OUR GAME IS FINALLY RELEASED. Please check it out, it’s very special to me!
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Me: Is there a specific trigger (or set of them) for Lavellans figuring out that Solas is Fen'Harel on their own?
PW: Not elf-specific. There’s a hard-to-find codex in elf ruin, deep roads, library, Darvaarad. Find them all to unlock dialogue.
Me: I KNEW IT. I knew it had to be codex entries. Thank you from the bottom of my cold and broken heart. <3
The option unlocked is this one: http://tsyele.tumblr.com/post/128775731942.
And now you know.
I’m having a sale on sketchbooks. For a week (1 September - 7 September) you can buy each one for 1$! I’d be very grateful if you do! You can purchase them here - Gumroad.
Just a reminder that you still have time till 7 September to purchase them! Also thanks a lot to people, who bought it! It helps me a lot :D I hope you enjoyed them *3* <3
A long ass beginner level tutorial for all of you comic folks who want to start using sketchup for your backgrounds but don’t know how to get started.
This is thorough, easy to follow, and funny as hell. If you don’t know where to start on Sketchup and want to use it for comics or illustration, READ THIS.
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all i’m saying is if an all-girls school crashed on the island in lord of the flies then they would’ve been off the island in a week
lord of the flies doesnt show the base human condition, it shows the base privileged straight white male condition, incredibly when i point this out people get kind of annoyed
Might I direct you to Beauty Queens by Libba Bray, a YA novel in which a plane full of teen beauty pageant contestants crashes on a deserted island. Instead of descending into violent savagery, the girls are able to work together and become more truly themselves than they could in the patriarchal world outside. They repurpose the tools of beauty into tools of survival (and some of them work to keep up their appearances too, because that’s what makes them feel happy, while others decide they’re done with all the pressure to be a certain sort of beautiful.) They fight against evil corporations. Beauty Queens is enthusiastically feminist. (Never fear, the feminism is intersectional, exploring issues of race and sexuality as well as gender.) Also, this book is HILARIOUS, not to mention surprisingly exciting!
Oh, look at this thing I’m going to add to my reading list.
srsly read Beauty Queens, one of the girls is trans!!!
