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  • Yes, it’s absolutely cutting edge CGI. Every one of those movies pushed CGI technology so much further.

    I had the pleasure of watching a talk by the CGI team at an animators convention when the second movie came out and it’s absolutely insane how much work goes into every tiny detail. The first thing they did for example, was to animate a water drop as physically correct as possible. And then they build up from there. They also filmed hours of reference material.

    Remember the scene in the second movie where they burn down the huts? They build one of those huts for real, live sized (remember the Navii are bigger than humans) and hand weaved. And then they burned it down. Just to see how fire interacts with that material.

    The Avatar movies are nothing special story wise, but from a CGI point of view, they have always been groundbreaking.




  • I’m a german football fan and I love the World Cup and the Euros. That being said, I would love it even more if the DFB actually pulled out of the World Cup. We have to stop hosting these events in fascist countries.

    BUT, if only the DFB would pull out it would certainly not be an earthquake. Big football nations not qualifying for the WC is certainly news, but it does happen and I’m certain the event would go on as usual, even without Germany. Now, every UEFA member pulling out, that would be an earthquake felt around the world. But I feel like we have better chances of the orange turd exploding spontaneously than that happening.


  • I really don’t know enough about this to be sure, but I would assume the US mainly imports goods that they cannot produce on their own, right? So a reduction in demand wouldn’t occur and it really doesn’t make a lot of sense in this scenario. But again, I’m not an expert. Would love to see a statistic how much of the goods being imported by the us could realistically be replaced by their own production.

    That being said, the orange turd continuously makes it seem like a 20% tariff on a country means that that country pays 20%, which is just false and dumb.