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  1. They revealed some of the actors that will be on the new Percy Jackson series on Disney+ and and Hephaestus in particular will be played by! Drumroll please? 

    Detective Carlton Lassiter! Yep they got Timothy Omundson to play the Greek God of the forge.

  2.  

    By the power of the inside joke of @Stone Cold Steve Jobs and @Totally Lyra — you are hereby BANISHED to the moon! Because… uhh… pizza arrived late. Or.. or something… Y-yeah! That was it! <3

    (I hesitated to make this private inside joke banter on a public platform since it may seem like an act of hostility to any onlooker from the outside, just a quick caveat here that @EpicEnergyis dearly loved by his friends and he loves when we pretend to ban him over any little nonsense he has no actual fault over)

    BUT STILL!! YOU ARE HEREBY BANISHED >:000

    1. Stone Cold Steve Jobs

      Stone Cold Steve Jobs

      Muahahahahahahahahahaha

      It’s all going exactly according to plan.

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  3. :blue_baloon:H a p p y   B i r t h d a y :balloon:

    I hope you have a great day!

  4. Happy birthday Steve! Hope you enjoy your special day!

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  5. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, @Stone Cold Steve Jobs

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    I'll use one've my gif edits instead...

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  6. *poke poke*

    1. Stone Cold Steve Jobs

      Stone Cold Steve Jobs

      I’m doing okay, how are you? You heard about Pluto? It’s messed up, right?

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  7. Hi Steve! Not sure you remember me from way back when, but it's good to see you still around. Hope you've been keeping well. :)

    1. Stone Cold Steve Jobs

      Stone Cold Steve Jobs

      I sure do remember you! Doing okay at the moment. How are you?

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    I am curious.

    1. Stone Cold Steve Jobs

      Stone Cold Steve Jobs

      Update: They're  basically just cracker jacks. Nothing special.

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  9. A little fun with blue screen (color keying) in Photoshop:

     

     

    In many of the Star Wars prequels documentaries (accessible from YouTube), especially Episode II and III, you'll have multiple blue and green screen scenes to train and test your color keying skills.
    When I eventually bought a green screen cloth myself, it turned out to be very difficult to do anything professionally (having to work with terrible lighting, and wrinkles), and I think that Star Wars, even at that extreme budget, had many of the same issues that had to be manually tweaked for hours on end.

    Let's take this cutout screen shot of the documentary from Episode III, where you can see George Lucas face having a lot of "blue spill" around his face, beard and glasses:

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    A lot of light from the blue screen is reflected onto details of the characters, which can't just be magically removed without implication.
    Photoshop's Selection menu had the "Color range..." option where you just select the blue color, and it will select/cut a range of the blue automatically for you. This is a standard tool that is quite useful for photo editing, and works with any colors, not just blue and green.
    By selecting a nice range so some details are left of George's face, and deleting said selection, placing a completely red background behind, this is what it will look like:

    blues2.thumb.png.80e3c289f291a3f2c717cc8bb8fd53f6.png

    Now you start to realize the problem with this color key technology. The blue edges are still visible. Also, the more you remove of the blue, the more of the edge details you will lose. Those edges are real, they are blue because the light bounces from the blue cloth behind the actors and hits the side of their face, and into the camera. George is no longer wearing glasses, or maybe he is, but the only information is a slight blurry blue edge. The white dot in the center is for tracking a moving camera when they replace the background with a 3D scene. I will delete that and the camera stuff above George to make the scene more realistic.

     

    Now, let's put in an ice cave from Hoth (Empire Strikes Back). It is mainly whitish which is a nightmare for blue color keying, and even worse for green color keying, since white is brighter, the edges will stand out:

    blues3.thumb.png.515c88d63436b69b4e7925b858110d4b.png

    This could have been the final product, and would definitely have been in the original Star Wars from the end of 70s. But Photoshop has color adjustment tools that can change colors, brightness, and saturation, only from anything "blue", "green" or "red", so with a quick little adjustment of the foreground, we can get something that would pass a low budget film for sure:

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    And that all of this took less time than typing up this status. I hope you enjoyed this!

     

    Idea from your post found here:

     

     

    1. Stone Cold Steve Jobs

      Stone Cold Steve Jobs

      I’ve so far gotten away with using things like canva for my posters, but I think photoshop or gimp is coming soon. 
      here’s some

      of what we have:

       

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  10. A little fun with blue screen (color keying) in Photoshop:

     

     

    In many of the Star Wars prequels documentaries (accessible from YouTube), especially Episode II and III, you'll have multiple blue and green screen scenes to train and test your color keying skills.
    When I eventually bought a green screen cloth myself, it turned out to be very difficult to do anything professionally (having to work with terrible lighting, and wrinkles), and I think that Star Wars, even at that extreme budget, had many of the same issues that had to be manually tweaked for hours on end.

    Let's take this cutout screen shot of the documentary from Episode III, where you can see George Lucas face having a lot of "blue spill" around his face, beard and glasses:

    blues.thumb.png.6f1ef2c58d3f388c98265be906c500f6.png

    A lot of light from the blue screen is reflected onto details of the characters, which can't just be magically removed without implication.
    Photoshop's Selection menu had the "Color range..." option where you just select the blue color, and it will select/cut a range of the blue automatically for you. This is a standard tool that is quite useful for photo editing, and works with any colors, not just blue and green.
    By selecting a nice range so some details are left of George's face, and deleting said selection, placing a completely red background behind, this is what it will look like:

    blues2.thumb.png.80e3c289f291a3f2c717cc8bb8fd53f6.png

    Now you start to realize the problem with this color key technology. The blue edges are still visible. Also, the more you remove of the blue, the more of the edge details you will lose. Those edges are real, they are blue because the light bounces from the blue cloth behind the actors and hits the side of their face, and into the camera. George is no longer wearing glasses, or maybe he is, but the only information is a slight blurry blue edge. The white dot in the center is for tracking a moving camera when they replace the background with a 3D scene. I will delete that and the camera stuff above George to make the scene more realistic.

     

    Now, let's put in an ice cave from Hoth (Empire Strikes Back). It is mainly whitish which is a nightmare for blue color keying, and even worse for green color keying, since white is brighter, the edges will stand out:

    blues3.thumb.png.515c88d63436b69b4e7925b858110d4b.png

    This could have been the final product, and would definitely have been in the original Star Wars from the end of 70s. But Photoshop has color adjustment tools that can change colors, brightness, and saturation, only from anything "blue", "green" or "red", so with a quick little adjustment of the foreground, we can get something that would pass a low budget film for sure:

    blues4.thumb.png.ac3524d23e167edb51c8a6baff76df5c.png

     

    And that all of this took less time than typing up this status. I hope you enjoyed this!

     

    Idea from your post found here:

     

     

  11.  -

    Drop the mic, my crowd!
    It's time to Finish That Pony Lyric! :yay:

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    🎵 Friends, you are in my life
        And you can count on me to be there by your side
    And when the music comes alive
    We sing our songs to lift us up so we can shine
     ___________________

    Correct answers only, please! What is the missing lyric?

    A. Shine like rainbows
    B. And the light that ignites in the dark
    C. And the sound that we hear in our hearts
    D. As the rain begins to fall

    The holidays are over, so let's back into the game!
    Bonus points are a thing too~! Where does the song come from? Where does the picture come from? Post a funny gif. Ask my how my day was. Give a compliment, as long as it's genuine. Share a random fact. Try ANYTHING you can think of! It might work. :catface:

    Good luck, my crowd. B)

  12. Does anybody else ever get the urge to touch fire with their hooves? Just me?! I should create a spell that protects my body from harm so i can bathe in fire the same way we can bathe in water, every other element is safe for use, fire should really get more love if you think about it!
    No? Just me?

    BLEH, i should really get some sleep. 

    - MoonBunny

    1. Stone Cold Steve Jobs

      Stone Cold Steve Jobs

      My buddy can make a fireball with his hand if you give him a lighter and he's fast enough.

      Sleep well!

  13. stone cold steve buscemi! :P love that guy 

    1. Stone Cold Steve Jobs

      Stone Cold Steve Jobs

      Stone Cold Stevie Wonder XD

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    “I thought of you with love today, but that is nothing new.

     I thought about you yesterday, and days before that too.

    I think of you in silence, 

    I often speak your name. 
    All I have are memories, 

    And your picture in a frame.

    Your memory is my keepsake, with which I’ll never part.

    God has you in His keeping, 

    I have you in my heart.”


    I love you, Smokey.

  15. Hello there, my crowd! Welcome to my Weekly Musings: Red Edition. :mellow:

    [I ❤ JAPAN] -- [I ❤ THE COLOR RED] -- [I ❤ CELESTIA]

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    *Yawn* Should have posted this much sooner, my crowd. But last minute developments kept me up longer than I should have been. 352845.gif Shall I get into it?

    bmc.png.dead4df5641294b1d1c51b1da6cdaeeb.png First of all, please send all your prayers and good wishes to @Stone Cold Steve Jobs. He really needs a friend right now. I'll let him explain why, if he feels like it. Just know, he's going through the roughest, saddest time right now.

    cel.png.932df6a068796c2120797b896cfae033.png As for me, it's been a mostly slow, uneventful week. :adorkable: The biggest thing that happened was Halloween. Ate too much candy, despite trying to take it easy. Tried Swedish Fish for the first time. It's okay. Not spectacular, but not bad either. Tried to mow the lawn, but it rained again. At least it's getting cooler here and there. We're on the eve of Sonic Frontiers, and so we got an AWESOME animated short for it! Hope we get more of those. Also, it seems there's going to be a sequel to Avatar (the blue aliens movie) after all. Let's hope this doesn't go down as well as Duke Nukem Forever. If this franchise wants any hope for survival, they better nail it with a great story, because they don't have 3D or any other gimmicks to hide behind anymore.

    bmc.png.dead4df5641294b1d1c51b1da6cdaeeb.png DonBrothers 35: Those We Couldn't Save... osnb5Gt.png Wow. Does anyone even care about the main story when the side story is this good? Does anyone even care that the MOTW is loosely based on Liveman? The real show-stealer is the triangle between Kiji Brother, Inu Brother, and Natsumi. Turns out, she is a Beastial after all, and it seems that these Beastials share at least SOME memories of the people they are copying. Surprisingly in this episode, Kiji isn't in it as much he should be, just enough to show he is turning into a complete wreck without his wife. He should see all these plot developments. This episode just left me wanting more in the worst kind of way.

    cel.png.932df6a068796c2120797b896cfae033.png Geats 09: The First Ending? ypGkU4g.png So the first “season” of Geats ends here, and what do we have to show for it? Not much. Ace's predictions came true, he won after all. We don't know what he wished for, nor did we get to see it. We never saw the truth of what Buffa witnessed that faithful night. We don't know if Na-Go's personal life changed in any way. We have a hint about Ace's desire, something about his mother perhaps. We have foreshadowing. If Punk Jack is still around, then has the game truly concluded? Everyone is talking like this is not the first time Ace has won the Grand Prix, and I assumed as much earlier. I'm REALLY hoping Ace himself is not the one wishing for the Grand Prix to keep starting over. Moreover, I hope we see the original Na-Go, Buffa, and Tycoon return.

    bmc.png.dead4df5641294b1d1c51b1da6cdaeeb.png Black Sun 01: Creating an Eclipse! eclipse-icon-32.png This episode is so polarizing compared to the original Showa Era series it is based on, yet the similarities are there. And with each episode being an hour long, there is so much more to take in! Kotaro and Nobuhiko were genetically altered at a young age instead of as young adults. The show is really leaning on how Mutant is a possible translation for Kaijin (they even acknowledge this in one of the translated trailers). The battle to become the next Creation King is still a thing here. And in his first transformation, Kamen Rider Black has a more primitive form before he achieves a more refined form. However, so many differences too! We see the leaders and the general of Gorgom before they become full Kaijin. We get to see the original Creation King himself! We actually get an explanation for why Nobuhiko looks so young in this show. We see what might have become of Kotaro if he had never grown up around a family that loves him. It's a darker reimagining, but it's so good in so many ways. And for better or worse, there was a moment when the humans who rejected Kaijins looked a lot like real Japanese people that don't like Gaijins. Thankfully just as it was beginning to hit close to home, the first fight scene happened, and the metaphor vanished. I think we're in for a treat!

    cel.png.932df6a068796c2120797b896cfae033.png MLP TYT 34: Sunset Wants Her Job Back. Hello recycled animation! :baconmane: What I want to know is if Zephyr Heights has the right to exercise legal control over Maretime Bay like that. There has to be some kind of international law being broken here. Not even the previous princesses pulled something like this. Did Maretime Bay surrender government control to the royal family when we weren't looking? Am I making a big deal over a dumb comedy episode? Maybe! But I honestly don't have much else to talk about. Honestly, this whole episode was just average outside of that one legally questionable scene.

    That's all for now, my crowd. B) Take care, and make time for those you care about.

    Some of my friends here have been sharing some awesome brony songs that I never would have noticed otherwise! Like this an original, funk-rock, vocal, awesome song about Twilight Sparkle. Good music is good music no matter where you go. This is "Funkship Express - Twilight Funkle [Funk] [Music Video]" by Ponies at Dawn.

     

  16.  Hello there, my crowd! Welcome to my Weekly Musings: Red Edition. :mellow:

    [I ❤ JAPAN] -- [I ❤ THE COLOR RED] -- [I ❤ CELESTIA]

    Police STOP - Emoticon Point Right Feel free to leave a song request. Your song will eventually be featured in a future Weekly Musings entry! Point Left STOP - Emoticon Police

    Another week, another dollar. 250632.gif Shall we talk about it, my crowd?

    bmc.png.dead4df5641294b1d1c51b1da6cdaeeb.png Can't say anything super huge happened for me this week. Just been very casual. :derp: But to follow up on something from last week, I have ultimately made my choice on which Internet/Phone provider I'll be switching to. Don't know if I'll go cable or not. Depends on how things go. The service I am switching too is slightly higher than the first one I considered, but the benefit is that they won't increase their prices over time. They should stay consistent; so wish me luck everyone!

    cel.png.932df6a068796c2120797b896cfae033.png I'd also like to take a moment to ask everyone to please send some love and support to @Stone Cold Steve Jobs. He's going through a very rough time right now, and he needs all the friends and support that he can get. I won't go into too much detail; I'll let him decide if he wants to share or not. In fact, I might delete this whole mention if he wants me to. I just want my bro to know that he's never alone, and he has more friends and loved ones than he realizes.

    bmc.png.dead4df5641294b1d1c51b1da6cdaeeb.png Despite being kind of slow, this has actually been a pretty big week! :D The biggest thing that deserves talking about all on its own is Tokusatsu News! ReVice aired its series finale this week (and the first two episodes were officially uploaded on YouTube as well). But more then that, there has been some EPIC announcements! There is going to be a Gridman anime movie, which will finally give us the long awaited crossover between SSSS Gridman and SSSS Dynazenon! And if that wasn't enough, we've been blind sided by some Power Rangers news. The new season is going to be called Cosmic Fury. I see they are starting a new naming tradition in honor of Dino Fury. It seems like they might be adapting KyuRanger? I mean, they might surprise us be adapting Kiramager instead, but I doubt they'd be going for something like ToQGer or Zyuohger, and it seems too soon to adapt Zenkaiger. I just hope Hasbro can keep up. They had trouble keeping up with the merch demand for Beast Morphers and Dino Fury. But the even bigger part of the news is that the cast of Dino Fury will be returning for Cosmic Fury! Really?! Merging two unrelated shows again?! Well, I at least hope they can pull it off better than Megaforce/Super Megaforce. If they can do it as good as (if not better than) the Zordon era, this might be interesting. I honestly feel like Hasbro did this for the sake of maintaining some interest in the brand. I hope Hasbro isn't hemorrhaging profits after purchasing the rights to Power Rangers.

    cel.png.932df6a068796c2120797b896cfae033.png In other news, Sonic Frontiers dropped a new epic trailer and a release date. We'll be seeing it appear in November, and if Netflix still plans to go through with it, we can expect Sonic Prime in December! :pinkie: Hyped. I also saw the newest trailer for the live action Pinnochio. I am glad that they kept his design exactly the same as his animated design. Makes it easier to accept the other things creatively changed in this movie. I am hoping beyond hope that Disney has learned their lesson and is finally giving audiences the movie experience they WANT to see, but let's not forget that it will be competing against Del Toro's Pinocchio. The competition is gonna be fierce. Also, I've been watching anime. Mostly One Piece.

    bmc.png.dead4df5641294b1d1c51b1da6cdaeeb.png MOVIE TIME! icon?1379626399 This time, I saw the Kamen Rider ReVice Web Movie: BIRTH OF CHIMERAnynjRij.png So here's the update. I'm not watching ReVice this week because I wanted to catch up on anything important I may have missed (I'll watch the two-part finale next week). I knew this movie had been subbed, but I didn't realize it was only half of a movie. The other half, Battle Familia, has not been subbed yet. I don't feel right reviewing this just yet since it's not a complete experience. However, I am interested. I want to know if there is a reason why Kamen Rider Chimera was given that name. It's nice to see Ninja Black's actor, Kane Kosugi, in the tokusatsu scene once more. It's also a little confusing to have two Riders with similar names, Demons and Daimon. I hope the conclusion has a good pay off, but more then that, I hope it is released soon. I'm also waiting for the final episode of Girls Remix, so if they aren't released soon, I'll have to finish ReVice first. My advice to anyone interested: Wait 'til Battle Familia is released before watching this. I got my hopes up and jumped the gun. I don't mind seeing movies and other extras out of intended order, but it would have been nice to see the movie sooner rather than later.

    cel.png.932df6a068796c2120797b896cfae033.png DonBrother 25: Not Enough Goggles. osnb5Gt.png This episode really had me thinking about the nature of this show again. The main story is Kiji Brother losing his job, which turned out to be temporary. On top of that, Oni Sister is still accused of plagiarizing. The law is still chasing Inu Brother. So far, Saru Brother has not had any known misfortune, unless his inability to find work/accept money is his misfortune. But just when it seems like fate is trying to rob the DonBrothers of their personal lives, they all pitch in to help, and it turns things around for Kiji Brother! Is the value of teamwork the message all along? Will it take their combined efforts to help improve Oni Sister's life or Inu Brother's life? Is this why it was necessary for Oni Sister to submit herself to serving Don Momotaro? Hard to say. MOTW was based on Goggle V, but the host doesn't seem to have any connection to that show. You'd think with how the show focuses on the DonBrothers' helmet visors, the Goggle V episode would be a bit more noteworthy.

    bmc.png.dead4df5641294b1d1c51b1da6cdaeeb.png MLP TYT 24: From the Tapestry. :wau: I feel like I should say something about the combined rug having the images of our our mane 5, but the previous generation had a stained glass window of the mane 6 before they became heroes, so why not this as well? Over all, it was a great episode with some moments that pull on the heartstrings! Also, did anyone catch the continuity error? You're getting lazy, writers. Baby Sunny shouldn't have that rainbow streak in her mane.

    That's all for now, my crowd. B) Take care, and don't forget to give hugs.

    ...I wonder how many people will recognize this song. Might have to see some pony fan animations to get this. :Daydreaming: This "Get Ya Hands Up (Mash-Up)" by TheFunkyFr34k.

     

  17. Fact or crap; the visible universe is shrinking :wacko: .

    Meaning we will see less of the universe because it’s becoming far away

    1. Stone Cold Steve Jobs

      Stone Cold Steve Jobs

      This is a long process, not something to occur in a lifetime. In an accelerating universe, for instance, information can leave from one place and reach us after however much time, but in the far future, information can leave from that same place but never reach us. As I understand it, it’s because the accelerating universe model suggests that the universe’s expansion is speeding up. However, I don’t think it’s the current prevailing hypothesis for the ultimate fate of the universe. People are even calling the Big Bang into question.

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  18. Fact or crap; the visible universe is shrinking :wacko: .

    Meaning we will see less of the universe because it’s becoming far away

    1. Stone Cold Steve Jobs

      Stone Cold Steve Jobs

      That is a fact. As the universe expands, more of the cosmos retreat beyond the cosmic event horizon. This is a process that occurs over many years.

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