Mothra

@Mothra@mander.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the colour blonde apparently only exist in human hair?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You may want to give a bit more context. When reading the headline I thought you meant in humans as opposed to in other animals. When reading the text, I got confused. Very. I don’t know whether to answer from a biology or artistic framework.

  What is blonde? As a hair color in humans, you could say we are all pretty much similar in hair color, the difference being the amount of melanin in the hair strands. You have the red melanin type, and the brown melanin type. Typically most people have a combination of both. The more melanin, the darker it gets. Blondes would be those with a medium to low concentration of melanin in their hair.

  You will also find the idea of what consists of a blonde shade or not is also subject to cultural standards. But just to play it safe let’s agree we are talking about the paler shades of blonde. It doesn’t really matter. It’s always a light ochre shade, sometimes slightly more or less red (leaning more towards orange, otherwise to white).

  Lots of animals have hair in a similar tone, see golden labradors or palomino horses for example.

  Artists have been accurately depicting blonde hair in a somewhat realistic manner for centuries, I am sure you have seen paintings with people of blonde hair in them that are centuries old.

  When it comes to cartoons, you can’t afford to paint every frame like an oil painting. The time and cost would go through the roof. This is one reason cartoons are not realistic. (3D rendering can recreate blonde shading realistically at an affordable rate though).

  Another reason, and probably the main reason I would argue, is that cartoons are not meant to be realistic. Stylization is on purpose. Stylization and abstraction open up a universe of possibilities for artists to express themselves and make visual gags and things impossibly beautiful, ugly, interesting.

  So either because of stylization or simplification or both, artists have narrowed down hair color to a single tone (sometimes two tones or three if with highlights and shadows like some animes do) per character, and so for blondes they choose tints and shades of yellows and ochres. It’s the same really, just reduced to its essence.

  Now as to what makes it impossible to create a blonde marker or pen: the same reason you can’t create a marker that automatically shades to perfection whatever you are painting.

  Say you have a white sphere. You will never see it as flat white, you will see greys where the environment casts a shadow over it. The shadows will depending on the light conditions. To make it worse, you will see any color in the environment reflected indirectly on the sphere as light bounces and spills everywhere. If the sky is blue, your sphere now has traces of blue in it. If the ground is red, you now also have traces of red added. And so on.

  The same happens to hair. To make it more complicated, hair is somewhat translucent so you now have to take into account how the light travels through and reflects and refracts when it hits every strand of hair. Plus, not every single strand of hair is exactly the same shade. So it’s impossible to make a “blonde” paint. You can paint an approximation of blonde the same way you can paint an approximation of light, shade, reflection, translucency, etc on any object. You mix different pigments and recreate the illusion, but you can’t create a pigment that automatically adjusts to arbitrary and unpredictable standards, if that makes any sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LEARN THE TRUTH⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I love this truth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did carrier pigeons know who to deliver letters to?⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You would raise the pigeon and the pigeon would know how to fly back there always. They weren’t sent to addresses, rather, to one particular spot.

  Say you have five pigeons. You put a ring on them that says the town and owner. You send them in a cage via cart or boat etc. to five different towns, to people you know can also keep pigeons. Those people receive your pigeon, as well as pigeons from other locations.

  When they need to send a message to you or your town, they find your pigeon and attach a message. Then they release it. The pigeon flies back to you. If you want to reply, you need to have a pigeon raised in that particular town. Tough luck otherwise.

  You keep your pigeon for a while again, then you cage it and send it elsewhere - the cycle repeats.

  Bear in mind pigeons can’t carry very long messages. The paper scroll can’t be too large or the pigeon won’t fly properly/the wind drag will tear the scroll away if too large. Think of them as a primitive telegram of sorts. Messages longer than a telegram of course, but nowhere near anything like a regular letter. So they were usually reserved for stuff like “we’re under siege, help”, “this important person passed away”, “we got the plague, keep out”, or any other short messages of importance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will I get notifications if lemmy users comment on my post?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you mean push notifications or in app notifications? Check your settings. By default you should at least have the in app one. If you don’t use an app you will also find a notification that you got replies too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it predatory if (hypothetically) a 35 year old woman is dating a 25 year old guy because she was in a coma for 10 years so she's mentally about 25, and she hangs around with people in their 20s?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it predatory if an adult of consenting age dates another adult of consenting age, there is no information about one causing damage to the other, it’s just that people don’t like it?

  No it’s not predatory have a nice day

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do "rich" superheroes have to be rich in order for the story to work?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Batman rocking up on a black Toyota Camry… Gadgets in his belt bought on Amazon. No Alfred. No mansion. No true cave, but let’s say he calls his basement the bat cave. I mean regular people already call their basements “man-cave” so I guess this gets a pass. Oh he probably has a day job too. I don’t know. The plot could work, but it’d be very different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia responds to Donald Trump's 'get your own oil' tirade⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Asshole

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pass me some⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What? Who needs synthesis. Hakuna Matata

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pass me some⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not joking I’m curious

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The era of invincibility is over’: the week big tech was brought to heel⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed, unfortunately I think this will only fuel further age and ID verification enforcements. And of course change nothing in the design of the platforms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨get zapped, idiot⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Excuse me, would you please be so kind to point me in the direction of all these sauropod hypothetical natural disaster posts? Which comm? This is the first I see, but, granted, I’ve been busy lately

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steve Wozniak says he's "disappointed a lot" by AI and rarely uses it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Never heard of this guy before, he sounds cool, if he was just the co-founder of apple but parted ways I wonder why is he still relevant? I guess he must have been doing something else during all this time and now I have to dig up his Wikipedia to learn, bye

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people call Fiji and Voss Water “Rich People” Water?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You either live in an airport where everything is ridiculously expensive and you don’t see the difference, OR

  you are buying knockoff bottled water, someone’s selling imitation bottles filled with tap water in your area.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨whats the political message of Spongebob?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why /s? I get that you are exaggerating for humor, but you are hitting the nail. It may not be the main intention of the show, but it does show these things, since it reflects our society. You came up with a pretty solid answer for a question that forced a political framework of analysis onto something that clearly wasn’t about showcasing politics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is trying weed edibles worth it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whether or not it is worth it depends on what you consider ‘worth’. For sure, if it’s nagging the back of your head then give it a go just to know what it is. Personally, I was disappointed. It pays if you try thinking why you want to do the things you want to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do Superheroes or villians get their suits on is there like a magical zipper or something? Or how do they do it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Old school wonder woman used to show how on tv

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With regards to cutlery, do you prefer a spoon or a fork for eating cake?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll show this to the staff in the places I frequent next time they give me a spoon with my cake order, thanks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With regards to cutlery, do you prefer a spoon or a fork for eating cake?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t fall, unless we are talking about something extremely crumbly such as thousand layer cake. Which to be fair is also a pain to eat with a spoon, or any kind of cutlery. I find the flat profile of the fork is excellent to cut a small portion of the cake away without upsetting the rest of the cake structure. I can’t say the same about the curve of the spoon, which forces a scooping motion that often messes up the cake. I also find that the curved edge of the spoon makes it difficult to lift any crumbs from a flat plate surface. If I can’t lift crumbs with the fork’s edge, I can always press them down flat between the prongs and lift them. The curved shape of the spoon doesn’t allow for this. Finally, I prefer how the fork feels in my mouth as opposed to the spoon.

  So, these are my reasons for preferring a fork over a spoon when eating cake. Interesting to see people making a case for the opposite, but hey that’s exactly what I wanted to know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is AI so bad at coming up with dialogue?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you asking why a device with no feelings or personal life experience can’t create realistic dialogue when prompted to create something based on dialogue from comics and fanfic? Comics which barely explain context with words (since they use images)? Have you noticed how over the top, melodramatic, stylized and unrealistic dialogues are in so many comics, superhero ones in particular? Fanfic isn’t that much better. Of course there are some with good writing but the vast majority is mediocre at best and cringe at worst.

  I’m surprised the LLM could come up with something narratively cohesive to begin with

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With regards to cutlery, do you prefer a spoon or a fork for eating cake?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the opposite of my experience. I find usually, not always, cake comes with a spoon. I prefer a fork.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With regards to cutlery, do you prefer a spoon or a fork for eating cake?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve read the cake is a lie in many places, I wouldn’t be so sure

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With regards to cutlery, do you prefer a spoon or a fork for eating cake?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup and the deeper the spoon the worse it is! Agreed

• With regards to cutlery, do you prefer a spoon or a fork for eating cake?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a way out of an NDA after signing? It just seems people are so affraid of breaking it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If the shit she sees is legal, she has to keep quiet. If this shit is illegal, ie., trafficking of some sort, embezzlement, abuse, theft, fraud, assault, etc. then she can (and should) speak up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 8th⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Still on Baldurs Gate 3, but this is my second run and the first time as Durge. Made some different choices, recruited different companions, and it’s crazy how different it feels.

  I thought I was going to be satisfied with two playthroughs but I’m already planning my third

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can one use someone's previous argument against themselves in a different legal case?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the beauty of these places. I’ll see what crops up in the replies. So far it seems pretty consistent with “yes it’s possible”, but I’m also interested to read about any “no you can’t where I live”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can one use someone's previous argument against themselves in a different legal case?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll take it as a compliment? I don’t see the perfection though, the only manual breaks there were for the paragraphs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can one use someone's previous argument against themselves in a different legal case?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see, it’s possible but YMMV

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can one use someone's previous argument against themselves in a different legal case?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you, I appreciate the fleshed out explanation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can to many hits to the head make a person the R word in animals? My bc loves to run around the house and hits his head constantly but shakes it off. He acts normal and everything exceept4 zoomies?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank the gods you commented this, I had to read this far to understand bc meant border collie. The post title is so confusing and the body doesn’t explain much