The initial image is a size comparison between the statue of liberty and a wind turbine. The wind turbine is over ninety feet (about 28 meters) taller.
A commenter pretended to misinterpret the image as one of a wind turbine attacking the statue of liberty. The next commenter answered with an image of Don Quixote, a literary character who once thought a windmill was a monster and announced his plans to fight it. They are joking that if a wind turbine attacked the statue of liberty, Don Quixote would be willing to fight the wind turbine.
Incidentally, that scene led to the English idiom “tilting at windmills,” meaning a person who has not only disproportionate reactions of anger, but disproportionate reactions of anger to nonexistent challenges.
So all those people who are fighting to preserve coal jobs and the fossil fuel economy are….
actually…
tilting at windmills.
I feel like this is one of the very few times where explaining the joke leads to another one that everyone can now understand and laugh at
anyone who says “the bible is clear” about an issue, is 100% of the time wrong. the bible wasnt clear once. the bible couldnt be clear about how to make a table if it came in an ikea box
Exodus 25:23-30
well ill be darned
the only thing the bible is clear on is how to make furniture but only because jesus was a carpenter
Controversial Truths About Ancient Egypt Masterpost
The pyramids were built by contemporary workers who received wages and were fed and taken care of during construction
The Dendera “lightbulb” is a representation of the creation myth and has nothing to do with electricity
We didn’t find “““copper wiring””” in the great pyramid either
Hatshepsut wasn’t transgender
The gods didn’t actually have animal heads
Hieroglyphs aren’t mysteriously magical; they’re just a language (seriously we have shopping lists and work rosters and even ancient erotica)
The ancient Egyptian ethnicity wasn’t homogeneous
Noses (and ears, and arms) broke off statues and reliefs for a variety of reasons, none of which are “there is a widespread archaeological conspiracy to hide the Egyptian ethnicity”
The carvings at Abydos aren’t modern machines but recarvings over old carvings. Sure they look like them but if you can read hieroglyphs and know that Ramesses II will even usurp the carvings of his own father just to be a little shit
‘No soot on the ceilings and walls of the Dendera temple!’ is actually because of extensive restoration works and not because Egyptians were in on shit like Baghdad “batteries”
While the Egyptians were fine-ass astronomers they didn’t align any of their enormous and/or important buildings to modern star constellations, because constellations look very different now than they did ~5000 years ago
The pyramid is the simplest, sturdiest shape with which to build and many different cultures discovered this in their own time. There were never any weird fish humans/aliens involved
The sphinx of Gizah is only an approximate 5000 years old; the 10,000 year/rain erosion nonsense is proven hokum
Speaking of that particular sphinx, the Napoleonic expedition is not responsible for its missing nose
Akhenaten was not a “heretic” by contemporary standards
Ramses II appropriated a lot of his predecessors’ buildings/reliefs and isn’t really deserving of the epithet “the Great”
The Battle of Kadesh ended in a stalemate (twice)
While they had feline deities throughout their history, Egyptians didn’t actually worship cats themselves. This was a later Greek/Ptolemaeic addition
It was not, in fact, practice to shave off eyebrows after cats died; Herodotus lied about that
Herodotus lied about a lot of things and many misconceptions about ancient Egypt can be traced back to his Greek ass
I can’t believe I forgot my favourite Hill to Die On
Seth was not the god of “evil”, and despite his chaos providing a foil to order, he wasn’t completely villified until very late in Egyptian history, when he became associated with despised foreign enemies
Hats off to the few of you who’re reblogging this with tags saying you’re going to check my claims later. You make me not entirely despair of this hellhole.
Here are some vetted Egyptological books/sources (that are by and large appropriate for a lay-audience) you can find most, if not all of the above:
Lehner, M., The Complete Pyramids
Wilkinson, R. H., The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt
Hornung, E., The One and the Many: Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt
Dunand, F. & Zivie-Coche, C., Gods and Men in Egypt
Kemp, B., Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization
Bard, K., An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt
Stevenson Smith, W., The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt
Kitchen, K. A., The Life and Times of Ramesses II, King of Egypt
Sweeney, D., Sex and Gender (in Ancient Egypt)
McDowell, A. G., Village Life in Ancient Egypt:
Laundry Lists and Love Songs
Te Velde, H., Seth, God of Confusion
Guys do me a solid and reblog this version instead of continuously asking for sources on the other versions thanks
Egyptian pyramids are a development of stepped pyramids where they just filled them in. The stepped pyramid was a development of the mastaba which they were building for years.
To be fair to Herodotus, he was a tourist who couldn’t speak or read the language and was probably given tours by those who also couldn’t read. Also that probably says how reliable he can be.
Hieroglyphs were only the fancy way of writing ancient Egyptian, everyday quick writing was done in Hieratic then Demotic because it takes ages to draw out all those birds and eyes and stuff.
Now that i think about it, if avengers and the mcu took place in the 90s who would eddie murphy play? like there is no way he’d play a supporting character esp to a white guy in the 90s….hmmm he’d probably audition and try hard for t’challa, but they’d probably give him blue marvel…but that character didn’t exist in the 90s…and there is no way he’d play Hiemdall lmao.
I literally just passed this when I was on imgur
I’m dumbfounded by how on point this is?
This is so perfect I’m actually a little pissed off
why do anime girls from the 80s and 90s look so much better than anime girls today
Three factors: Color, personality, and realism.
First, color and shading.
vs.
The predominant style of the day in anime employs very crisp cell shading and eye-watering colors. Both female and male hair and eye coloration comes in any range of colors, from neon to pastel to white (although female characters most often display this). The typical color for skin in anime has gradually lightened to almost pure white over the years. Additionally, modern anime has a very specific, hard method of shading and highlighting that makes hair and skin look unnaturally shiny and often gross, lowering the realism value and throwing the texture of the skin into uncanny valley territory.
Secondly, anatomical proportions. Besides the shading, female character body and facial proportions have degraded so much that they are barely caricatures of human anatomy. Here are some examples of female anatomy in early anime:
and some in modern anime:
The biggest changes have been to the breast to waist proportion. For some reason, anime producers believe that an E-cup is the appropriate cup-size for an average 14 year old Japanese female. Bodies have also lost all of their depth (that come from an illusion of thickness necessary to two dimensional media) in favor of being skinny and flat (except for voluminous breasts, of course) and many normal, attractive parts of ladies (ribcages, stomach pooches, and natural folds) are simply smoothed over. Another noticeable change has been to the eyes and facial shape. Anime noses and mouths are apparently inversely proportional to eye shape, size, and distance apart. As the size of the eye increases, shape becomes more prominent, and distance towards the ears increases, the size of the nose, mouth, and chin decrease, contributing highly to the uncanny valley effect many modern any girls have.
Take these faces:
vs these
Thirdly, anime girls have lost much of their visible personality over the years due to moefication. This has happened to male characters also, although to a lesser extent. Anime girls are often not allowed to make cartoonish expressions (deemed unattractive) or generally change their expressions at all barring blush lines. In producers’ efforts to make the girls attractive to the audience in every frame, they sacrifice any personality that they might have. Anime girls look increasingly similar to one another, differentiated only by their hair style and eyes. Granted, there has always been a problem with female character same-face syndrome since the conception of anime (actually, in all drawn media) but as the number of female main characters in anime has grown, ironically, the problem has only increased.
Wow! Anime girls with the same hair color that you can actually tell apart!
And somehow, girls with all different colors that you can’t.
The screenshots in this post were taken from Urusei Yatsura, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, Ranma ½, Kimagure Orange Road, Ping Pong Club, One Piece, Angel Beats, Higurashi When They Cry, Sword Art Online, Shakugan No Shana, and Chobits. The examples above were not used to bash any anime, but merely to demonstrate the evolution of anime art tropes from the 1980s to now. The writing and plot of each anime were not taken into account at all.
Literally every “modern” example besides Keijo is at least a solid 5-10 years old, modern anime has issues but damn if this isn’t biased and cherry picked to hell
Because I’m a petty bitch and happened to find this again while looking for something else, lets actually do a counterpoint. To start off, let me say I don’t really know pre-2000s anime very well, I’m not out to say that anime now is better than in the 80s/90s because I don’t know enough to compare. In fact, I’m not going to talk about 80s/90s anime at all, as I’m only here to defend modern anime. It has been painted here with a much broader brush than I think is fair.
Let’s start with addressing the idea of sameface syndrome, something even OP acknowledged isn’t new. Do all modern anime have casts of female characters that have the same face just with different colors and hairstyles?
Because one of my big issues with OP’s examples was that they were all rather dated, lets date these. My Hero Academia (2016), Little Witch Academia (2017), Seven Deadly Sins (2014), Attack on Titan (2013). Some shows, like our two “Academias,” provide variety with cartoonishness, their non-realistic premise allowing them to be more loose with what “makes sense” or is “possible.” With SDS you might argue individual features are similar, but the body language and expressions communicate unique characters. (More on character expression in a moment.) And then even in more realistically styled shows like Attack on Titan, you can easily tell all these women apart because their features and expressions differ.
I’d also like to specifically talk about OP’s point of three redheads from 80s/90s anime having the same hair color but being clearly different characters. It’s not really that impresive that three women from different anime with wildly different art styles would be easy to tell apart. Anyway, here’s three women with the same hair color from the same anime (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, 2010) that you can easily tell apart.
(Honestly is there an 80s/90s anime with as many strong, fully realized, and varied female characters as FMA because I would love to see it)
OP also claims that female characters in “modern” anime do not have the same variety of expression as they once did, forced to only make expressions that make them cute and pretty, definitely nothing overtly cartoonish that might ruin that. Let’s look at a couple modern anime girls.
Samurai Champloo (2004), Gekkan Shoujou Nozaki-kun (2014), Welcome to the Ballroom (2017). Definitely, a variety of expressions, many of which aren’t especially pretty, because they exist for comedic effect. These are girls whose moods and personalities are shown in their expressions, as any character in a visual medium should.
And lets not forget;
just like literally all of Kill la Kill (2013).
Bonus: This is technically from the manga but the anime HAS started this season, so; Asirpa from Golden Kamuy because it would be wrong of me to talk about cute anime girls making insane cartoon expressions without her.
Lastly, I’d like to talk about the one thing I don’t necessarily disagree on, the trend towards girls more uniformly being drawn as young and petite but large breasted. I am the last person who’s going to argue that there aren’t prevalent anime styles that focus on sexualizing and objectifying young women and girls. So here’s a couple of designs that strike me as especially counter to that trend.
Kids on the Slope (2012), Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (2010), Gangsta. (2015, both of the last two)
Now, obviously I’m picking examples that fit my case just like OP did, but I’m not here trying to make ultimatums that one decade of anime is one thing. I’m not going to sit here and try to argue that shows like Higurashi and SAO aren’t bland waifu garbage because they absolutely are. However, I’m also not going to sit here and act like they invalidate all anime made after an arbitrary dateline.
I’m certain there was shit anime in the 80s and there’s shit anime now. It feels like more because there is quantifiably more anime being made now than there was back then, and you really can’t make broad sweeping statements about it as a genre because there are so many different shows out there. Even between 2006 (when Higurashi and Haruhi came out) and now, is vastly different. It doesn’t sit well with me for all “modern” anime to be dismissed on account of shows that I knew were poorly rendered when they came out 12 years ago, especially when I know there’s so much out there that is so much better.
For the road, please take this very good picture of Chain Sumeragi (Blood Blockade Battlefront, 2017)
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