Yellow and orange.

For years, this was my Internet white whale. I wrote about my search for this source here.

For years, mine was this gif I saw on UsVsTh3m in 2013. It had no context, and the only hint to its origin was the barely legible “29. 暑〜い!” overlay. I had a guess that this was from a Japanese TV talent show. I wanted to find the original video, but the trail went cold.

Years later, I don’t know how, I heard of a series of Japanese TV specials called Kesou Taishou, known overseas as Masquerade. UsVsTh3m got bought by the Mirror and their post was taken down, but I still had the gif. My Google Translate research skills had improved, so I looked up Masquerade on Japanese Wikipedia and searched all the episode guides for 暑〜い!, and in the shows from 2007, I found it! It was entry 29 in the 78th special, and it won third place there.

I try not to post things that don’t have a legal source, so I quietly updated my blog post and didn’t mention it anywhere else. Until…

Three months ago, my partner started getting YouTube recommendations for this show. I checked, and the show’s new official YouTube channel had just uploaded this performance a few days earlier. I made a better gif of it and posted it to !gifs@lemmy.world , and they liked it!

Somebody hire this animator! I couldn’t imagine how long it took to animate thousands of bullets and 3 1/2 people in 3D with that level of fluid motion.

I made a GIF of this scene.

Lemmy users when this makes the front page:

Lemmy users when this makes the front page:

Come to a good city that hasn’t fallen to the fascists. Here in Columbus, we’re fairly insulated from the psychopaths who don’t care who they hurt. That stuff doesn’t fly here. We actually have some compassion for our neighbors here.

Holy crap, that sucks! Why can’t those scrapers just scrape each other? I’m sorry, I didn’t want to pressure you to open up to that kind of abuse. I want to think of ways to help this situation, but you’re probably 10 steps ahead of me. Thank you for trying so hard.

5.71MB is plenty generous. I’d give up 5MB of that if we could have anonymous browsing again. I can’t recommend Mbin to people if they have to log in to see anything. Would converting all uploads to WebP lighten the load?

I’m on @jerry@infosec.exchange 's cursed Mbin instance, and I can upload GIFs as images. The upload filesize limit here is 6,000,000 bytes with the drawback that I can’t upload in better formats like MP4 or WebP.

@originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com Another case of a floating woman with only one shoe on. I don’t know why this happens so much. It’s about as common as witches losing their hats in flight.

Edit: Of course! Safebooru has tags for this. Good stuff there.

A tired Redditor discovered neutral buoyancy and wanted to show it off. The comments are wholesome, and others are sharing their memories of perfectly balancing their balloons. And that’s what we’re all about here.

Welcome, and thank you for posting! I had never heard of happy ghasts, so this sent me down a rabbit hole. Up to four players can ride one in flight? That shoots down my idea of ghasts being ghosts, or even lighter than air. The tame version comes dehydrated and shriveled up. Does that make it a sea creature? The most likely floating I can think of now is #airswimming , so I’m tagging it that.

August 18 is Helium Day, the anniversary of the Pierre Janssen’s discovery of the element of helium in 1868. If you’re going to use helium for balloons, you’d better get good use out of them, at least. But I’ll tell you, most #HeliumDay content out there isn’t about balloons. It’s weirder than this.

Have vision-impaired users of Lemmy settled on an app or a front-end to use? I’m an Mbin user, so I don’t get to mess with those apps very much.

Thank you; this is good feedback. Mbin pulled my alt text from my other recent post of this artwork, so it lost where I said this is Summer heat by Wenjun Lin. Sorry about that!

It took me a little bit to understand this surreal scene, and then to look up the two main characters’ names and where they’re from. In his descriptions, the artist was mostly concerned with telling us this is a crossover between his own characters and a Tencent mascot. I didn’t actually describe them very much, since the real draw here is the strange free-standing block of water with fish inside, and then Little Song swimming even though she isn’t visibly in the water herself. Maybe I should describe the situation first, and then the characters in it.

Yes, chocolate, for its caffeine content. The darker, the better.

At the moment, it’s Maya’s theme from Killer Instinct 2013. It’s an 8-minute long banger and I never get tired of it. But, my absolute favorite track changes every time I think about it.

Edit: Yup, I just remembered Nobuo Uematsu’s Final Destination theme and holy crap! Now that’s my absolute favorite.

Life Magazine photographer Philippe Halsman is famous for asking famous people to jump. When his photo of Salvador Dalí came out on August 9, 1948, they went above and beyond. Halsman’s assistants threw those cats at least 26 times, but the cats were apparently unharmed and dry. We can’t say the same for Halsman and his assistants.

Hey, you up there! That is not what I meant by “flying with an umbrella”. I’ve given you plenty of examples of doing it right…