(Source: lewky, via chloeisstrange)
Yeah, shut upI care
notice how the british way of spelling those words are underlined in red!!!
america: 1
britain: 0
notice how every other country in the world hates you
what about canada
canada doesnt hate us
nobody cares what canada thinks
megcanadalol it’s called ENGLISH & it’s our language.. therefore you’re completely & utterly wrong.
Britain: 1
America: -584691
suckas
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Alarmed at the Targaryens sweeping success, King Loren Lannister of the Rock and King Mern IX of the Reach made an alliance and assembled their armies to face the invader. Their army, dubbed by historians ‘The Host of the Two Kings’, numbered 55,000; five thousand of them mounted knights, while the Targaryens had only 10,000 men, many of uncertain loyalty and reliability. The battle went badly for the Targaryens, with their smaller force severely weakened and in danger of routing. Aegon and his sisters deployed all three dragons at once, the only time this happened in the war. Their combined fires scoured the battlefield, immolating more than four thousand men (including King Mern himself) and giving the battle its name: The Field of Fire.
King Loren bent the knee and was allowed to remain Lord of Casterly Rock. With Mern dead, Aegon accepted the surrender of Harlen Tyrell, Mern’s steward, and appointed him overlord of the Reach. Aegon accepted their oaths of fealty, naming Loren as Lord of Casterly Rock and the Westerlands and Harlen as Lord of Highgarden and the Reach. This infuriated House Florent, who had a superior blood-claim to the Gardener line, but Aegon dismissed this
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What speed do you read at? (Remember, it’s not a race!)
“You read 371 words per minute. That makes you 48% faster than the national average.”
You read 445 words per minute.
That makes you 78% faster than the national averageYou read 444 words per minute. That makes you 78% faster than the national average.
You read 237 words per minute.
That makes you 5% slower than the national average.
Oh god, I’m about the same speed as a 7th/8th grader….. /sobs
You read 419 words per minute.
That makes you 68% faster than the national average.
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You read 656 words per minute.
That makes you 162% faster than the national average.
Oh, okay.
You read 646 words per minute.
That makes you 158% faster than the national average.holy shit.
You read 436 words per minute.
That makes you 74% faster than the national average.You read 732 words per minute.
That makes you 193% faster than the national average.oh cool apparently Im p fast
You read 526 words per minute.
That makes you 110% faster than the national average.I’m slow
You read 1,712 words per minute.
That makes you 585% faster than the national average.oh ok
666 wpm… ooPS 166% faster than avg…. wow why does 666 keep popping up in my life??!??!
You read 352 words per minute.
That makes you 41% faster than the national average.weh
You read 433 words per minute.
That makes you 73% faster than the national average.Aw yeah
You read 848 words per minute.
That makes you 239% faster than the national average.
You read 238 words per minute.
That makes you 5% slower than the national average.
Oh, dear.
You read 477 words per minute.
That makes you 91% faster than the national average.You read 889 words per minute.
That makes you 256% faster than the national average.
ok541 words per minute.
That makes you 116% faster than the national average.So I’m a college student? And I’m in like 7th grade…
You read 347 words per minute.
That makes you 39% faster than the national averageoh
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Behind Brave: The Pixar Process - Merida’s Hair #pixar
There’s volume. There’s, there’s length. There’s different size curls.
One of the biggest challenges was animating Merida’s hair. In fact, it was so difficult that Merida’s hair was actually considered to be its own character and the Pixar team created a new process to make the hairdo, um, do. From Claudia:
The curls themselves are really tightly wound curls, but the movement of her overall curl is nice and soft. And there’s also these hairs that break away from her silhouette to show her wildness, her adventurousness, and that’s kind of the key look for Merida’s hair that we had to hit when we designed her. So, as a groomer, this is what I would see in the computer… I would take her scalp and basically grow curls off of her head and detail exactly how those curls grow.
The groomer who actually worked on Merida developed a new technique because she was like, “How do I get these curls that look the way the art director wants or the director wants?” She’s like, “I really need a curling iron.” So she actually built in the computer a curling iron where she could change the sizes of the cylinder, the length and stuff, so she could curl the curves around that.
The length of her curl, if you were to pull it straight, will measure out 4 feet long. Merida herself is only five four, so she has really long hair. It’s fifteen hundred hand-placed, sculpted curves. So that’s a lot of time in the wig-making process… all of these different colors (below) actually represent different layers of her hair, kind of like you would in Photoshop… in the end it’s a 111,000 curves that get rendered on her head.(via CGMeetUp)
This is why I shall always have respect for 3D Modellers and Animators. Absolutely so time intensive and as time goes by everything just starts looking that bit better, I can’t wait for 5-10 years time when an animation is so realistic you can’t tell it’s animated no matter how hard you look for the faults.
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Compared to Jupiter’s moon Europa, our planet is practically a desert, as this NASA image shows.
(Details at APOD: 2012 May 24 - All the Water on Europa)
Wow. I’ve seen the Earth droplet many times, but never next to Europa. Perspective, you haz it.
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