Galaxy Quest appreciation post~
<3
“Have any of you actually watched the show?”
Best movie ever, seriously
FO REALS.
Category: General
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who-are-you-comrade-questions:
That is where former U.S. Army officer turned anti poaching enforcer Kinessa Johnson steps in. Recently she joined the ranks of Veterans Empowered to Protect African Wildlife (“VETPAW”) as an anti-poaching advisor. Johnson and her fellow post-9/11 veterans train and support African anti-poaching rangers to prevent the extermination of keystone African wildlife, and the disastrous economic and environmental impact it would have.
Why couldn’t we have gotten a movie about her instead of American Sniper?
I would’ve been waaay more interested in her story than in American Sniper. I have zero desire to see the latter; I’da seen American VETPAW day one.
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who-are-you-comrade-questions:
That is where former U.S. Army officer turned anti poaching enforcer Kinessa Johnson steps in. Recently she joined the ranks of Veterans Empowered to Protect African Wildlife (“VETPAW”) as an anti-poaching advisor. Johnson and her fellow post-9/11 veterans train and support African anti-poaching rangers to prevent the extermination of keystone African wildlife, and the disastrous economic and environmental impact it would have.
Why couldn’t we have gotten a movie about her instead of American Sniper?
I would’ve been waaay more interested in her story than in American Sniper. I have zero desire to see the latter; I’da seen American VETPAW day one.
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I’ve run out of excuses.
I have to start mudding drywall again.
:’(
But…the chickens will be angry
I don’t know any chickens, but the goats were a trifle miffed that I didn’t spend the whole day finding choice greens and shoving them through the fence.
You should be careful about upsetting the goats…You may come home and find they’ve eaten your house…
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rest rest REST REST REST REST REST REST
WHY IS THERE A CRESCENDO UNDER A REST?!?
I LITERALLY CANNOT STOP LAUGHING AT THIS OH MY GOD
*rest intensifies*
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rest rest REST REST REST REST REST REST
WHY IS THERE A CRESCENDO UNDER A REST?!?
I LITERALLY CANNOT STOP LAUGHING AT THIS OH MY GOD
*rest intensifies*
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Tesseract is delighted that someone has finally recognized her rightful role as a fashion leader! All these long and weary years she has been living with people who think Pants With A Loop You Can Hang Fencing Pliers On are a good clothing decision. None of them know the proper way to model a delightful Vintage Mid-Eighties Nautical-Themed Beach Towel.
Her first act after she is finally appointed as a member of the Fashion Police is going to be to make all Pockets With Snaps Or Zippers That Exclude Nosy Goats From The Delicious And Fragile Contents Of Said Pockets illegal.
(With bonus my very fashionable pyjama pants.)
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Tesseract is delighted that someone has finally recognized her rightful role as a fashion leader! All these long and weary years she has been living with people who think Pants With A Loop You Can Hang Fencing Pliers On are a good clothing decision. None of them know the proper way to model a delightful Vintage Mid-Eighties Nautical-Themed Beach Towel.
Her first act after she is finally appointed as a member of the Fashion Police is going to be to make all Pockets With Snaps Or Zippers That Exclude Nosy Goats From The Delicious And Fragile Contents Of Said Pockets illegal.
(With bonus my very fashionable pyjama pants.)
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I’ve run out of excuses.
I have to start mudding drywall again.
:’(
But…the chickens will be angry
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Is there a spectrum of some sort for faceblindness? It seems like I catch mild spells of it which have become more prominent as I get older.
Yes, there is.
Anyone interested in to what degree they are faceblind can take an online study! This won’t help identify if you have spells of faceblindness, but it’s definitely on a spectrum.
The average score is 80%; the average score for faceblind people is 51%.
i got 44%
lol
i have so much trouble recognizing people. half of the time when people say hi to me i honestly don’t know who they are.
I got 74% but I would’ve gotten higher… that last test was some serious bullshit
if you get too many right it just becomes a blur of red and green pixels which are pretty much completely indistinguishable, there are no identifiable traits of the faces, maybe if you, like, memorized the exact edge of the face – but no, they change that too… at the end there’s pretty much NO level of detail and if you get a few right in a row it’s pretty much guesswork
sometimes psych tests involve a certain level of bs… at that point i just kinda gave up and was like lol ‘1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1’
i got 79%, and at the end i could still distinguish a bit of detail in the faces
80% is the average, so i dont think youre supposed to be able to be able to make out much of the last ones normally. theyre probably there to see who’s better than average at it
Fun little test, got 60% right. Is it an accurate test or a just-for-fun thing?
I got “Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access /psychologyexperiments/experiments/facememorytest/index.php
on this server.”The question is whether that means your score is 0%… (kidding)
Anyway I’ve no idea why you can’t access it, sorry. Anyone know?
Welp, 49%.
On the pixellation part, the thing is, your visual cortex has regions that are optimized to just do faces, and in fact it seems we compress faced down according to major features. According to the theory, this is why caricature works. In caricature, the artist is turning up exactly those aspects of a face that trigger our facial recognition faculties, which means that in caricature, you see a “more like the real person” version of the image.
At least in a sense “more like the real person.” It is a distillation of that person’s features, an optimization.
So by pixellating they are testing those regions of the brain. Can you recognize according to gross structure?
I cannot.
Interesting, thanks for explaining! And yeah I couldn’t, but I kinda assumed that would be really hard for anyone tbh? I do know I’m bad with faces though. I’ve had instances of old acquaintances walking up to me and asking how life has been, we have a whole catching up conversation in which I just wing it, and afterwards having to ask someone else who the heck that was. xD
I heard about this test a while ago – after reading about Oliver Sacks, who apart from writing fascinating books has really severe face blindness (he doesn’t recognise his own face) – and it explained so much. I finally understood why I can walk straight past friends I’ve known for years – or not be able to find them when they’re right near me. Why I look at virtually everyone and go ‘Err, do I know you’. Why I can’t recall people’s faces in my mind at all. Why hearing people’s voices is way more useful for me putting a name to them than seeing their face (although I kinda screwed my hearing in my teens (loud, loud music) and then more when I DJ’d at Uni – which doesn’t help with that side of things.
I score right on the line for potential diagnosis, but it was one of those ‘oh this is a thing, and I probably have it’ moments. Which was kinda cool and kinda frustrating.
In contrast, one of my friends got 90something%…
