The onion isnt even in the vicinity of fucking around
I really wondered what parody like The Onion would do when Trump took over and reality went sideways, but I gotta say I am filled with respect for them, for they have shown themselves not only masters of their craft but they’re leaning heavy into the waves to do actual news. They’re not only finding ways to highlight the warps in front of us, they’re taking those warps apart.
I can’t wait to be like 85 and for The Onion to be a serious, hard hitting journalistic publication and I get to tell my grandkids it started out as an absurdist satirical comedy site but then real life gly so ridiculous that they just went “welp better do some journalism!”
guy in a zoom class with his camera on to reveal him sitting in front of a full streamer setup (green screen included) vs guy in class with his camera on drinking iced coffee in the middle of the goddamn woods: fight
how the FUCK did they make that penguin from wallace and gromit look so evil like it’s literally just a plasticine penguin but it somehow radiates Pure Malice look at it
truly character design at its finest
Part of the reason that Wallace and Gromit is so successful is that every single character is just so expressive. The people’s lips move like half a foot every frame. Gromit has basically only his eyebrows, and he has more personality than two average real people. The Moon Machine was up there with the rest of them, and it didn’t even have a face.
The penguin, on the other hand, never expressed anything at all. It’s designed almost explicitly with purpose of not expressing anything. It’s practically featureless, with only the bare minimum of detail necessary to tell you it’s a penguin.
It has a face, but it never uses it. It has no sclera, meaning it stares straight ahead at all times.
It actively repels most attempts to ascribe any emotion to it – at best, you can feel that it is coldly satisfied, perhaps detachedly frustrated. I’d say it’s like a robot wearing the skin of an animal, but that’s literally the villain of A Close Shave, and he was pretty expressive.
It’s like Aardman found a tiny crack in the likability curve, far away from the uncanny valley but a hell of a lot deeper, and decided to build a penguin there.
They were like ‘I will show you fear in a handful of penguin-shaped play dough’ and we all had to pay the price
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