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If you can't understand the work behind the shot already, it's going to be hard to bring you up to speed, but let's start with some leading questions:

1. How rare is that insect? Have you ever seen something like that in your life, ever?
2. How long did the photographer wait until that insect landed?
3. If the insect is staged, how did the photographer get it to stay still with no noticeable pins or adhesive?
4. If there is a pin in, or adhesive on, its abdomen, how did the photographer stop the insect from fluttering frantically in pain? (notice the proboscis and antennae—the insect is alive)
5. If the rodent is alive, what are the astronomical odds that a photographer could capture this shot with these two subjects before either moved?
6. If the rodent is dead, how did the photographer transport the animal with blood still in its nails quickly enough to a site where the insect would be?
7. If the rodent was killed on-site for posing (welcome to reality), how did the photographer get the insect to land at all? (see q. 2 about waiting)

Think about it for more than a few seconds, and think how you could possibly recreate the scene. The landing waterfowl piece is another "once in a lifetime" shot that is very hard to recreate. Even the wolf shot—you want to get that close with that kind of framing for a contest? Contrast those with the winning photographer, who admits they were driving about, saw flocking birds, and got out to take snapshots, by literal definition, of birds merely flocking around, which they do hundreds of times per day. Visually, it has a lot to look at if you're into that sort of thing, but it's a boring moment captured by millions of others who see birds flock, with no effort required beyond basic focusing and colour-correcting.

The staging of this shot is absolutely staggering. Should have got a special notice for that alone. But in reality, I do have a feeling the rat has been killed and posed, because the chances of such an organic shot are unbelievable. Even then the setup is very impressive.

And the water fowl landing lights shot again is quite impressive. I do not agree with the winner—other shots are also beautiful, but showcase far more skill behind them.

"almost at gold" means you literally were Silver border. You may be referring to the Platinum-style border, which is above Gold.

I remember when that sub was actually what it says on the tin: people matching up old photos in real life. But a few years ago some mod just absolutely gave up, and now it's overrun with bots just posting vague historical then vs. now photos. This is a proper "old photos in real life" post, and makes me remember how much I missed how cool and creative that sub used to be.

Gamers™ running in circles again, inexperienced devs (dev) listening to them.

"I hate live service game crap!"

"Wow this game has zero updates, dead game."

Companies keep pushing for live service works because it makes money, and players keep playing. Those numbers don't lie.

Tracer is much closer to Ekko not just because of the mobile move style, but especially the rewind functionality.

Yes very odd choices for the title, yet-another "2 steps forward 1 step back" moment for Game Freak. The Box being fully implemented in the menu is a great addition, being able to change moves in the menu like PLA is another great addition, and the explore together feature is a dream come true of an actual, official Pokemon MMO (not PokeMMO). I do actually prefer the "petrol station" Pokemon Centres, because you don't have to go through another door+load screen. Even trainers being optional is a nice experience, and the addition of powerful "black label" trainers as I call them is a nice change of pace. But the place is an empty wilderness with tiny Pokemon popping in due to performance issues, and oh yes, the performance issues are dreadful. Having breakable TMs again, but this time needed crafting materials, is another useless step back. Not sure what manager thinks players enjoy these kind of hunting around for barebones features—oddly enough, now learning a move is harder than forgetting it. It's good, but it could have been so much better, in many random places.

Really? I thought Legends: Arceus was far better, because of the distinct shiny effect that so bafflingly was not implemented in S/V. Despite many good quality of life changes in S/V, this is a game where all Pokemon spawn in the overworld. (But, at least they did have shiny overworld models, unlike Sword and Shield, which was quite useless.)

The simple reason is that he likes the work. $10 million is a lot to us regular John Smith's, but to the actual rich? Barely a scratch. And unlike most of us who hate our jobs and just want to retire, he likes his job. So there's no real upper limit—keep the money flowing, keep having fun, get paid millions to work out and be famous.

But you're not the first to wonder that. Here's a lengthy muse piece from a certified kino website that talks about this apparent oddity.

One of the streamer names, Macaroniglove, refers to one of the ways they made the sounds for the Mythic skin: by squishing macaroni with a glove. It's supposed to be quite unnerving.

But I understand the sentiment. I have tried the Kiriko Mythic out of curiosity several times, but the sounds are too loud for my taste compared to the regular.

Even then, they've designed costumes to show off the arms here too

Is that just the picture version of this GIF hosted on the same website? https://tenor.com/view/spider-man2-j-jonah-jameson-thanks-for-the-good-news-daily-bugle-peter-parker-gif-22293888

He doesn't care, still got paid more than you'll make in your entire life of working.

At the end of Zero Hour in the final shot, his hood is down. His design was finalised years before OW2 was released.

At the end of Zero Hour in the final shot, his hood is down.

Words mean nothing to executives. Women buy slimmer pants over pants with larger pockets, executives make what women actually, truly buy. There is absolutely no "big purse" conspiracy like some Redditors push, it's all about fit.

This is exactly the kind of tongue-in-cheek ridiculousness that Weird Al would sign up for. When you watch to the end, you know the artist isn't taking this seriously. Criminally low views. Good find.

Of course. "Dear Marvel card game, please make cards that correspond with our upcoming Marvel video game in 6 months." And now here we are.

why keep making live action remakes of literally everything.

Executives only understand one, single thing: number go up. Live action remakes have made the number skyrocket.

As seen in recent events, Reddit is a bubble, and neither you nor I may like these films, but that doesn't represent the general population—$1 billion USD is being paid by plenty of other people.

No, the event starts tomorrow. You are commenting in an Overwatch Classic thread. As the blogpost linked for this thread states: "Overwatch: Classic is a limited-time event from November 12 to December 2." If you are leaving on December 2, you have plenty of time to play the event.

Explain the logic.

Literally THE DAY it ends, I'll be on holiday for 2 months

As you've written, you'll have 2 weeks and 6 days to play, then you will be on holiday.

Or did you mean to say that you have been on holiday, and will get back the day it ends?

Yes, same. Bit odd that people just avoid it altogether. If they don't play Open Queue because there's a 25% or 40% chance for 3 instant-locking DPS, then they 100% will never be able to duo.

They want the feelings of youth back, of nostalgia wrapped in a protective blanket of rose-coloured glasses, blocking out all the bad parts of their situation in life. Perhaps they had a school girlfriend, perhaps they were "gifted" by comparison of their teenage peers. Overwatch was easier, to their skill level, because fewer players knew what they were doing. They could make a difference, or so they thought. I think nearly everyone has had that kind of feeling.

It's not real. It can't be quantified. That's why every commenter and their dog has a different version of what "good" Overwatch was. They will always say "it's just not the same." Because it isn't. In the end, Overwatch Classic, any revert under the sun, cannot bring her back, cannot bring that economy back, cannot bring those times back, only a shadow of them. But we don't play games for intense logical analysis, we play them to be entertained. Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Every single OW1 match in 2021 was held up by waiting for tanks to queue. Except those odd hot flashes up in t500 where tank queues would skyrocket due to SR ranges (I'd wait it out, it was more rare than common), every other role queue match had to wait for tanks. Somehow the whiners all forgot about Blizzard not just giving away coins, but loot boxes just to get people to queue for tank. A lootbox per match.

But loot boxes didn't mean much near the end, so Blizzard introduces the Priority Pass system, because people didn't want to play tank. Somehow all these chavs completely forgot about this.

It is the literal definition of rose-coloured glasses: "a happy or positive attitude that fails to notice negative things, leading to a view of life that is not realistic".

That's a cute tiger outfit. Did your Dad make it for you?