#off-brand

[chronivore]

Off-Brand, 1978

#Off-Brand #1978 #not #star wars #pulp sci fi #ai

[15tarlit5kyline]

#Vinny #Vinesauce #bootleg #knock-off #off-brand #YouTube #video #weird #kooky #odd #strange #showcase #mood #atmosphere #aesthetic #cool #awesome #interesting #Youtube

[cryptidjeepers]

I hope random brands turn their logo rainbow for no goddamn reason. I hope they do it even if its a desperate bid to seem supportive. I dont fucking care if its shallow. Bud light made a limited edition rainbow can and white men with big trucks took machine guns on them. Target runs a line of admittedly cringe rainbow merchandise and is the subject of domestic terrorism. A random company going rainbow for a month is shallow but its showing the people that want to kill us that they can't win. The pride flag will be everywhere and itll piss them off and theres nothing they can do about it. No matter how much violence and hatred they dish out, they'll be too many goddamn companies to boycott, to threaten. You dont have to buy shit from them, just use rainbow capitalism against them.

#pride month #sorry this is a bit stream of conscious i am just angry #and laughing at how many pissed off people are going to wake up tomorrow to their favourite brand having a rainbow logo

[sucka99]

#honda #honder #off-brand

[davidtennantgenderenvy]

some people: ughhh the bigeneration totally undermined Ncuti’s entrance!!!

Ncuti, probably: teehee I get to call David Tennant honey

#doctor who #david tennant #ncuti gatwa #listen guys regardless of your opinion on David coming back Ncuti has literally said that he was one of his biggest acting inspirations #So I can’t imagine him being anything less than absolutely thrilled to get to play off him #It’s a privelege no other brand new doctor has had! I think it showcases Russell’s faith in him more than anything wlse

[welcometogrouchland]

ANOTHER SKETCH DUMP! Featuring more of me playing with lineless art. Batman reborn era trio (dick, damian and steph) I miss you...when will you return from war. Also featuring Steph designs bc I've seen ppl dissatisfied w/ her current look, some good mom Talia, and Jason Todd poetry club. Duke is confused not that Jason would start a poetry club but that he'd have such mid poetry opinions. (ID in Alt)

#dc comics #batfamily #damian wayne #stephanie brown #dick grayson #talia al ghul #duke thomas #cassandra cain #mine #woo new art tag. please god let me keep this up all year #uhh anyway yeah! still a big backlog of sketches but i got burnt out which means i had time to collect some #i feel like my art looks. extremely different w/o lines compared to with? idk i worry that's it weird/off-putting #but hey at the end of the day I'm hardly worrying about my brand integrity on tumblr dot com #duke and cass being at poetry club is based on them canonically being into poetry and for a good while duke and jason got along well #Steph is there for both jason and cass' emotional support (unfortunately there's a design flaw. she can't do both simultaneously) #(which is fine bc cass is fleeing the scene at the idea of having to casually hang out with jason) #(they're the exact amount of similar and more importantly different that it's like putting two firecrackers together. bad) #i really like the steph mask designs... it'd be fun to do something with them but idk what y'know? #I'm just like. if we're assuming that her mask has to be different from both babs and cass then this is what I've got as alternatives #i mostly wanted to practice character interaction with the talia and damian one... and also i love them #looking at james gunns batman movie proposal. you keep your hands OFF HER MR GUNN #please if shes evil in a movie they're never gonna let her be good in the comics again 😭 #dc when you inevitably cave and do your next big reboot let the ppl finally have the son of the demon origin (w/ tweaks of course) #idk it's canon in my heart. heartcanon if you will <3 #anyway yeah uhhhhhh enjoy?

[welivefast-dieyoung]

Some of y'all trying to encourage empathy for these unethically wealthy people, who agreed to be bolted in to a metal tube, that was unapproved, unsafe and was controlled by a fucking off brand playstation controller from 2011 just for a cute lil death tourism trip is why we as a society will never be free.

They went to a part of the ocean that is so deep, more people have been to space than that far down. With a man who said safety shouldn't be a concern. Oceangate literally fired someone for saying that the window wasn't going to be able to withstand those depths. They'd lost another vessel before for 5 hours. Like plllsss the self preservation left the room. This whole situation is absurd.

Even this man's own stepson doesn't give a FUCK and you want me to? Nuh uh you have the wrong one I'm afraid😭😭

#scribblesbyc #titanic #the way I was hooting and hollering as soon as I saw what they paid a quarter of a million to get stuck inside😭😭😭 #this entire situation is fucking ridiculous so imma laugh #oceangate #yeah i know its a Logitech controller but its still an off brand playstation controller hence why i called it that 😭 dw guys 😂 #sometimes a girl likes to add a bit of pizzazz when I'm on a rant pls don't come for me 😭

[pencilscratchins]

when you think about it uptown girl is really quite a lesbian song. no further questions at this time

#delete later #billy joel #is in a brand of dad rock which is ultimately #lesbian adjacent #queer femme prelude if you will #if lucy dacus is bruce springsteen #billy joel is chappell roan #i’ll take any questions off the air thank you #not art #just thinking thoughts

[grison-in-space]

Listening to Artificial Condition again, it strikes me how much Murderbot uses empathy reflexively as a survival skill. Look at this bit.

Upon meeting it, ART allows it on board and then announces that it knows that Murderbot is rogue. Then ART threatens to destroy it if it hacks ART's own systems. Murderbot is immediately terrified and shuts down all inputs, gives serious thought to spending the entire three month journey unconscious, and then considers the potential avenues of damage from ART's drones. ART, not realizing why Murderbot had suddenly gone silent, tells it to quit sulking, which understandably pisses off the still-terrified Murderbot. It dumps a bunch of memories of coercive treatment into ART's feed, and ART goes silent.

Then this happens:

Then it said, I’m sorry I frightened you. Okay, well. If you think I trusted that apology, you don’t know Murderbot. Most likely it was playing a game with me. I said, “I don’t want anything from you. I just want to ride to your next destination.” I’d explained that earlier, before it opened the hatch for me, but it was worth repeating. I felt it withdraw back behind its wall. I waited, and let my circulatory system purge the fear-generated chemicals. More time crawled by, and I started to get bored. Sitting here like this was too much like waiting in a cubicle after I’d been activated, waiting for the new clients to take delivery, for the next boring contract. If it was going to destroy me, at least I could get some media in before that happened. I started the new show again, but I was still too upset to enjoy it, so I stopped it and started rewatching an old episode of Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon. After three episodes, I was calmer and reluctantly beginning to see the transport’s perspective. A SecUnit could cause it a lot of internal damage if it wasn’t careful, and rogue SecUnits were not exactly known for lying low and avoiding trouble. I hadn’t hurt the last transport I had taken a ride on, but it didn’t know that. I didn’t understand why it had let me aboard, if it really didn’t want to hurt me. I wouldn’t have trusted me, if I was a transport. Maybe it was like me, and it had taken an opportunity because it was there, not because it knew what it wanted.

The thing about Murderbot's survival is that it clearly involves quite a bit of negotiating with other constructs and bots. That's how it talks its way onto cargo hauler bots in the first place. It uses empathy--envisioning the emotional and cognitive context of the individuals it encounters--to work out what different kinds of people want, so that it can offer them fair trades. It also uses empathy to consider what humans might be looking for, so it can practice blending in and hide.

Murderbot would never have survived so long if it wasn't capable of assessing the individual desires of the people--human, bot, and construct--around it. It thinks about ART's probable fears and motivations so that it can consider whether ART is inherently an ongoing threat or a potential ally.

When your survival depends on evading detection, you get really good at assessing perceptual biases so that you can shape yourself to fit into them. People talk about murderbot being radically empathetic as a choice it makes, or as a feature of its personality that makes it a good person. But I think murderbot would be the the first person to tell you that this empathy is part of its threat assessment suite, a skill that was developed out of necessity in order to allow you to survive.

It is also a trait that makes murderbot a good person, of course: it chooses very carefully to try to survive by doing as little harm as possible and by offering things, like media, that buy it access to things it needs. But it started as a survival skill. It's part of hypervigilance.

I think one of the strengths of this series is that so many of the things we love about SecUnit are traits developed for survival in an inherently threatening world. The shape of its mind and heart have been changed by the trauma of its origin--but they don't make murderbot less good for being altered, even if that skill was developed in a traumatic context.

I like that.

#murderbot #empathy as a tool #note that this is not necessarily natural empathy #it's cognitive and only happens when the adrenaline eases off #going to work my way though the existing published series before I dig into my brand new copy of the new one

[notsomeloncholy]

Gave Uvee a redesign-she's like a chameleon...togruta. now. ✨️

#art #artists on tumblr #illustration #illustrators on tumblr #star wars #swocs #togruta #melonography #melons ocs #uvee #still a watermelon tog #cant be caught goin off brand can we

[herdingnerfs]

Bo-Katan, on a throne, looking menacing and gay: MY MORTAL ENEMY, DIN DJARIN, WIELDER OF THE DARKSABER

Din, a mess, just picked his son up from boarding school and immediately got scammed by a mechanic: hi again, can u pls help me with directions

#the mandalorian #the mandalorian spoilers #din djarin #bo katan kryze #mlm wlw hostility #dusting off this tumblr to make Star Wars shitposts is absolutely my brand

[spooksier]

dont get a creative writing degree. go play sports instead.

#art zone #botw #totk #zelink #MY brand of zelink (platonic soulmates) #btw this thought really kicked off this loz hyperfix. i <3 healing #i <3 doomed cycles

[campcampkirbykirbykirby]

Alongside the commentaries, the guy who ripped the Camp Camp Blu-Ray ripped just about everything else, including the most adorable Blu-Ray menu I have ever seen, and I saw no harm in sharing it with you all.

#camp camp #cc max #cc david #cc gwen #cc kevin #i really do like that they not only took the time to create brand new menus instead of just a static image with a song playing over it #but that they made them so atmospheric and chill #this is the perfect menu to fall asleep to #or to wake up to after falling asleep binging the show #bonus points for basing each season's menu off a scene from its respective finale #that is a really nice touch #kinda wonder what scenes they would have used if they made a seasons 3 & 4 blu-ray

[fashionsfromhistory]

Evening Dress

Jeanne Hallée

1901-1905

The MET (Accession Number: C.I.50.40.4a, b)

#evening dress #fashion history #historical fashion #jeanne hallee #1900s #1901 #1905 #turn of the century #belle epoque #20th century #france #off white #beading #gold #up close #silk #the met #popular #this is a stunningly beautiful dress now #i can't imagine how glorious it was brand new

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Pontiac Pegasus Concept, 1971. Designed under the direction of Bill Mitchell, GM Design Vice President, based on a 1970 second generation Pontiac Firebird. The prototype was built in collaboration with Enzo Ferrari so the styling was modified and the car was fitted with Ferrari 4.4 litre Tipo 251 Colombo V12 engine, 5 speed gearbox and exhaust system. The instrument panel gauges were also from Ferrari, the wire wheels were from Borrani. There was a GM posi-traction rear axle with 4-wheel disc brakes from a Corvette. It remained a one-off and is part of the GM Heritage Collection

#Pontiac #Pontiac Pegasus Concept #Pontiac Pegasus #Pontiac Firebird #concept #prototype #one-off #design study #Bill Mitchell #Ferrari engine #Colombo V12 #1971 #1970s #dead brands #GM #GM Heritage Collection

[auraaurelis]

a redraw of my old comic from august of 2020

since Yuria is a self-insert, it is based on real events

old comic is under the cut

came to find out, i actually deleted it from my computer entirely. can't blame past me for this one lol

#twisted wonderland #twst mc #yuria temnotsvet #twst oc #deuce spade #twst deuce #twst grim #also while we are here #can anyone give me some tips on drawing grim? #i think i make him look like an off-brand garfield T-T #yuusona #twst yume