#minimapping

[mappinglasirena]

Upper Deck Under Construction

I have spent the last few weeks amassing a new set of screenshots for season one of Star Trek: Picard, to replace the lower quality ones I had somehow managed to pry off of Amazon Prime back in the day. And as I'm staring lovingly at images of anything and everything La Sirena, occasionally, I notice things I've never noticed before. Usually those are very small things, but every now and again, I discover something absolutely delightful.

So, I thought I'd drop in to share one of my latest observations!

I've probably mentioned before, and many others have, too, that when Admiral Picard (retired) first arrives on La Sirena, the ship is undergoing a bit of a refit or possibly some repairs.

For one, the transporter console is nowhere to be found:

The console is clearly mobile, we see it move around the deck on other occasions.

But apparently, when Picard arrived, it had been taken somewhere else entirely for a while.

Similarly, the chairs on the bridge undergo a lot of transformations throughout season 1 (so many, in fact, they deserve their own post), but one of the most stark ones is from episode 3, "The End is the Beginning" to episode 4, "Absolute Candor":

Clearly, while in orbit over earth, someone on Sirena decided it was a good time to reupholster all the bridge chairs.

Now, if you wanted to, you could find explanations that fit the canon for all of these changes -- the removed transporter console, the reupholstered bridge chairs, the amount of cargo that increases drastically between eps 3 and 4, all of it could have a perfectly logical reason.

However, as I was looking through my screenshots today, trying to find an image of one particular section of the port wall for my 3D model, I noticed another refit, one that had never caught my attention before. And this change, I think, even the most dedicated canon-wrangler will have a hard time explaining (not that we won't try).

Let's go back to Picard's very first arrival on the ship for a second.

I have, on occasion, wondered how they managed to film this shot. I've never thought about it too deeply, but it has always seemed vaguely off in my mind. The thing is: this shot should be impossible, because this is the port side of the upper deck, and there are quarters where the camera man is standing right now.

Of course, this is a film set, so many of the walls are wild and can be moved around to allow for all kinds of equipment and setup. Maybe that's what I subconsciously assumed happened with the shot of Picard's dramatic entrance.

Today, however, I realized the walls had not just been moved aside temporarily to allow access for the camera crew. Rather, when they were filming the ep 3 scenes taking place on the open upper deck, the quarters on the port side of the ship weren't actually there yet!

It's subtle and a little difficult to see, which is probably why I never noticed it until today, even though I've been staring at every inch of this ship for the better part of three years now. But if you look closely at the middle section of the port wall and zoom in (especially on the second image, right next to Agnes's right arm), you can tell that there is open space where the quarters would be built in later.

(Especially compared to the same section of the deck in later episodes.)

(See how much of the beams and the space in between them is blocked here?)

Now, I'm as happy to wrangle the canon into submission as the next detail-obsessed nerd, but I in this case, I have yet to come up with a fitting, canon-compliant explanation for the discrepancy between episodes. I think, in the end, I'll probably file it under: "these things can happen on a tv set" and move on. (Although if one of you wants to try their hand at a headcanon, I would be thrilled to read all about it!)

For now, let's pour one out for the production team, who must have been stressed out of their minds, getting this monumental set ready for shooting while significant parts of it were still under construction.

#star trek picard #la sirena #upper deck #captain's quarters #raffi's quarters #inconsistencies #minimapping #mappening is happening #long post

[videogeist]

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[hellsite-detective]

Hello!! I saw a screenshot of THIS

post recently and realized I've seen it added to posts a whole bunch, but never the original... is there a chance you could crack this case???

findin' this one proved to be a bit more complicated than i thought. see, my client handed me a case that included a screenshot of the post. so, i went to the address listed and snooped around, filterin' for "jpegs..." but nothin' showed up. so i tried "dolls." still nothin'. i tried "tumblr" and still nothin'. so, i went into the archives to snoop around. after a few minutes of scrollin' with no results i gave up and went down to the Search Bar to ask Don Google for help. they managed to give me the exact post rather quickly, but i was surprised by the rest of the post.

here you are! enjoy this lovely Skyrim wedding between two fluffy lovers! have a great day!

Post Case: Closed

#i love how the image is made to look like you're fighting the man depicted #but actually youre not #thats the player character! #because theres no npc that looks like that in whiterun #and especially not jorrvaskr #and even if there was hes holding dawnbreaker and wearing dawnguard armor #something npcs dont tend to do #also the health bar says “whiterun guard” which that clearly is not #although it may be modded because the minimap in the upper left isnt the default design in skyrim #ask #hellsite detective #post case closed

[ezioauditore-s]

adewale watching edward escape 5 templar ships, outrun a storm and claim himself captain of a torn up ship only to then 0.05 seconds later jump into the ocean to swim over to a tiny desert island to chase after a golden sparkle in the air

#nat plays black flag #he's morosexual and i support his life choices #adewale could have mutined but he's also like #i wanna study this crazed white blonde man like a bug #ac black flag #assassin's creed #Edward kenway #adewale #adewale is chatting but all i see are chests and fragments on my minimap

[tropiyas]

i can't be the only one who imagines the end of a gta/rdr2 mission whenever you're done hanging out with your friends and you start walking back to your car

#like 1/3 of the time i feel like i should be in third person after saying goodbye. or a minimap will pop up

[yeehawbvby]

just encountered my first guardian in botw during my first ever attempt at a no-hit run

#asshole? clenched #eyes? wet #hands? shakign #i'm also trying to only use minimap this time #i think? i can navigate hyrule on my own atp #never done a botw challenge before but i guess we're going all out for this babyyyyyyy #dude. i wanna mod my switch just so i can play this as ethie. SO badly #i still have to finish that comic with her and link i started when totk first came out...... #shut up crisa #botw

[t4tails]

HOW ARE YOU LIKING BATMAN AA its one of my favorite games

im really liking it so far ^_^ my only problem gameplay wise is that the camera is addicted to batmans head and its kind of annoying. i wish i could zoom out

#og post #ask #werewolfclaws #batposting #also kinda wish i had a minimap just bc i like minimaps

[thecedarchronicle]

maybe its just me but i would mind the global store/a global horse store like, 40% less if it didn't ,,, look like that ,,,

im aware it's a bigger conversation about the state of the updated UI as a whole, but MAN do i think they look ugly. it's not even me being all "old good, new bad" half of the user interfaces in recent updates just look dragged straight out of a default gradient text color out of microsoft word. or like, debug menus with placeholder text in a game's beta testing build. does that make any sense ??

everything else about the game aside, the way the UI looks right now is the #1 thing that makes me feel like i'm playing a low budget appstore copycat.

#like dont get me wrong the old ui had issues too but literally *just* the horseshoe shape minimap elevates it above what we have now #even just that made it feel like there was a sense of identity inside the game #SOMETHING tying the menus together to make you feel like ur playing Star Stable and not Horse Ranch Life Adventure #sso leaks

[snaziestbean]

worlds tiniest cherry grove

it is one trees big

#minecraft #mineblr #just. ignore the dragon. and my armor and tools. and the minimap #i am mods #meandering

[darth-bagel]

the new map tho. sorry for shoddy screens but just... the mini-map. this has no right to be so exciting as it is to me and yet.

#swtor #swtor 7.2 #this minimap option just sparks joy

[pagingdoctorbedlam]

Just finished Il Siracusano, and...oh dang. That is some GOOD SHIT.

I won’t get into a full reviewing ramble, but: damn great story with powerful moments that nearly brought me to tears, top tier lesbians everywhere, made me absolutely fall for all the characters (including bringing Texas from “eh I don’t care” to “she is my dear and perfect blorbo”), and had some pretty fun stages. Which were either also easy, or I’m finally Good Enough at Arknights that I was able to 3* all but one of the stages on my first try.

Now...I just need Penance to come home, since I got double Texas. (And W while she’s available. C’mon you roach, get over here...)

#bedlam rambles #arknights #i now understand the power of the penguin logistics polycule... #which is funny because I was ambivalent toward them after Code of Brawl? but then I read this and now I LOVE THEM #another reason that these stages were maybe easy: massive Arts weaknesses mean Goat Explosion Time Galore #oh also the minimap bits with all the characters is super fun? #especially davebrown and ben. fascinating insights. ben being Incredibly Meta especially.

[mappinglasirena]

Rios’s Mystery Furniture

A couple of days ago, I discovered a new piece of furniture in Captain Rios’s quarters!!

As I mentioned in my last post, after I finished taking screenshots of every La Sirena scene in season 2, I decided it was time to go through season 1 again and retake all my screenshots. I have much higher-quality videos now and can go frame by frame rather than relying on my pause-button reflexes on Amazon Prime.

So, I started with S1E3, “The End is the Beginning”, and I noticed something I had never noticed before: THERE IS A CLOSET OR WARDROBE IN THE CAPTAIN’S QUARTERS!!!!

It never shows up properly on screen, but when going frame by frame, I discovered this:

See that structure at the very left edge of the image? That is the typical frame of a piece of La Sirena’s furniture!

Now, from the furniture reference we got to see on the blu-ray extras, we know that the production department planned to build several styles of full-length wardrobe:

(Ignore the measurements on this, please, they are Very Wrong 😅). It’s impossible to tell from this scene how broad this particular piece of furniture is. It could be the Large Armoire (No. 4, bottom left), or the Compact Armoire (No. 6, bottom right).

For a moment I considered whether it could be the same closet Raffi has in her quarters, but that one is a shorter closet section on top of a set of drawers.

It’s not 100% certain from the image above, but in context, it looks like the frame of the wardrobe in Rios’s quarters goes all the way to the floor. (Once again, the image for context:

This would speak to a full-length "armoire”.

Since this still didn’t tell me much about the size of the wardrobe, I took context into account. In season 2, we see a slightly modified version of the large armoire in the quarters-turned-squad-bunks. The doors have been replaced (and become a lot hole-ier), but it’s definitely the same style of furniture.

This made me wonder if the production people built it from scratch or reused and modified an existing piece of furniture. If it was the latter, that might be a clue that the wardrobe in Rios’s quarters was indeed the full-width “Large Armoire”.

However, when looking for any other hint of this piece of furniture, this frame caught my eye:

Again, at the very far left, there is a hint of some piece of furniture there. It is extremely warped because it’s so close to the camera lense, so it’s difficult to tell what exactly is going on. But there can be no doubt that the piece of furniture is divided horizontally.

This doesn’t look like a full-length closet, it looks much more like it’s actually the two-part “bar unit” that Raffi has in her quarters, i.e. a set of drawers and a closet on top.

Now, if that were the case, what might be going on here is that Rios does, in fact, have two different pieces of furniture right next to each other. Something like this:

You can soooooort of see it when you hold the screenshot next to my model of the furniture.

It’s not super clear, but I’m going to stick with this interpretation for now.

I think it’s time to update my floor plan of the captain’s quarters! With this new information added, it probably should look something like this:

WE HAVE NEW FURNITURE!!! :D

#star trek picard #la sirena #cristobal rios #aramis in space #upper deck #captain's quarters #furniture #mappening is happening #minimapping #sketchup #3d model #i should probably space these out more 🙈 #no idea if and when the next post is happening #BUT I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS I NEED TO SHARE!!!

[videogeist]

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[novustrad]

Oooh I don't think the Switch likes the combination of an enemy swarm and Grimoire. Crashed again but during the Netracell mission.

And where the hell is the little necramite I'm supposed to kill?

#warframe #a needle in a haystack with all the red arrows on the minimap #whispers in the walls spoilers #whispers in the walls

[roguemonsterfucker]

Gamers can be the most casually ableist people you come across on the internet. 😂 "I have a disability that makes precise mouse movements difficult so I can't do this gameplay feature." "It's not that hard, just practice!"

"I get easily lost, even in small game worlds, if I don't have a minimap." "The map isn't that complicated! It's easy to find your way around!"

*sigh*

#just made the bad choice of making a recommendation in a discord about a game in progress #where they're asking for suggestions #people were talking about mini maps #and many of them were anti-minimap #and only one person was arguing for it #so i added my perspective #my brain has no sense of direction without a map in front of me #and i can't constantly be opening and closing the map

[pumakaji64]

It’s so fucking over boys…

#FUCK THE FLYING REINFORCEMENTS ARGHHHHHGGHHHHHH… LOOK AT ALL THE RED DOTS ON THE MINIMAP #this is all my fault fly being Silly in the first half and wasting 2 of my rewinds FAWK! #and missing an 80% twice in a row… I don’t wannaaaaa do this map all over again noooooooooo!