Damian YerrickWeebles wobble, but they don't fall down!
I wonder if this cute critter could have been an inspiration for the Bile Demon from Dungeon Keeper or the Oracle Envoy from Elden Ring.
Bumpus would never tolerate the kind of hate that the red cap has come to represent over the past decade.
#Weebles #Simpsons #RalphWiggum #Bumpus #MAGA #MAGAts #uspol
Tibby Wobnobbin, a character from the 2005 Weebles cartoon, first appeared in the Weebleville Town Center playset.
Notice how Tibby's fingers are square and stubby in the toy, more like a real elephant, and much slimmer in the cartoon. Imagine what it would have looked like if Tibby had held things with her trunk instead.
#Weebles #ToyAccuracy #animation #elephant #anthro #FurryConfusion #Weebleville
PoisonInThePen, a user of another SNS, posted a generative picture of toys on a table. I wondered what it'd look like without AI. So I got out my Weebles Storybook World toys (and a random plushie from another toy line) to find out!
Original: https://bsky.app/profile/poisoninthepen.bsky.social/post/3lv5lfool622g
Mr. Cow explains in 19 minutes why Comedy Central's Fairview (2022) sucked: surface-level takes on issues with episodes ending like a kids' show, cookie-cutter faces with undetailed hands, and loud-mouthed, grating voice acting. One thing he doesn't mention is that the script doesn't acknowledge the characters' lack of legs in the slightest.
Just rewatch Weebles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_Tx4-utjvU
'Fairview' Is One Of The Worst Things I've Ever Seen
I'm making a video codec that uses Color Cell Compression, the predecessor of S3TC. A clip can have 16 colors, and each 4x4-pixel block usea two of them. I aim to play FMV on Mega Drive and Game Boy Advance.
It codes 256x144 pixel 12 fps animation at 25 to 42 kB/s depending on motion. Live action is 62.5 kB/s. Fits Sega CD bitrate, not so much Genesis or GBA cartridge yet. I still see room for byte savings.
Curious? Get the source code https://github.com/pinobatch/color-cell-compression
#ScreenshotSaturday #VideoCompression #RetroDev #gbadev #gendev #mddev #fmv #Weebles #SonicCD
See these captions in Weebles: Welcome to Weebleville? They aren't the VOB subtitles on most DVDs. They're line 21 closed captions. You can see them through composite out on post-1993 TVs.
Most Blu-ray Disc players don't show them on HDMI. This is an accessibility failure on player makers' part.
Technology Connections released a 33-minute video titled "Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind" about BD players' inability to render EIA-608 captions while upscaling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSCOQ6vnLwU
#Weebles #accessibility #ClosedCaptions #subtitles #a11y #DVD #BluRay
@wyatt @jiub Most of my purchases on eBay are vintage preschool toys. Are those relatively safe from the problems you describe (Amazon fulfillment and LLM-written descriptions)?
@jennzycos Sometimes "the gibbering macaques" are in government, like in December 2019 when the US Federal Trade Commission asserted #COPPA and made YouTube yank cartoons' comment sections.
Now what's a good place to find other adult fans of a particular cartoon? There's one series that no one on the fediverse but myself seems to ever post about: #Weebles
They See Your Photos, a demo of the Google Vision API, looks like a promising tool to generate alt text. I tried it on a still from an episode of Weebles, an obscure CGI animated series from 2005. Compare their alt text to my own.
https://theyseeyourphotos.com/
