It’s often been remarked that video game characters who wield very large weapons - for example, Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy VII - must be wearing very heavy shoes in order to get away fighting as they do. Intuitively, this makes sense: if you try to swing around something that substantially outweighs you, you’ll just end up swinging yourself around instead. It doesn’t matter how strong you are if you don’t have the mass to balance it out!
What’s less intuitively obvious is that it’s not just a matter of mass: it’s also a matter of surface area. In order to push or strike a target, you need to generate enough friction with the ground to counteract the equal and opposite force that your target exerts upon you. If you don’t, you’ll simply be pushed away. While mass is a contributing factor here, an equally important one is contact area with the ground. Even a very heavy object can be displaced with relative ease if its ground contact is minimal.
In short, if you wish to avoid being sent skittering along the ground every time you hit something with your cartoonishly large sword, beyond a certain point it’s not sufficient to wear very heavy shoes: you must also have very large feet.
And that’s why Sora from Kingdom Hearts is the most realistic Final Fantasy protagonist.
BK: Noatak and Tarrlok at their different young ages. I was expecting the task of designing young Noatak at all of these ages to be a real challenge, but Il-Kwang and Jin-Sun hit the nail on the head from the get-go. I was so relieved that I happily approved the designs and moved on to the next task, never noticing until the animation came back that he had the exact same hairstyle as our hero, Korra! I decided it was a kind of interesting and unexpected connection between Korra and Noatak/Amon, showing that despite how different they are in the present, the come from very similar cultural backgrounds. Tarrlok apparently sprouted an additional ponytail every few years. Expressions by Ki-Hyun Ryu and Il-Kwang Kim. Designs by Il-Kwang Kim and Jin-Sun Kim. Color by Sylvia Filcak-Blackwolf.
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when someone beats you at a video game
i don’t like kids.
in general, i suppose. i’m not very fond of little kids. i don’t want them. they give me headaches and i cannot deal with their antics.
HOWEVER
you know what i do when kids talk to me? i smile. i answer them. i tell them their scribbles look really good. i open their juice boxes for them and ask to hear more about their power rangers.
because although i may not be fond of children, i was one. i remember being a kid and how much sour adults impacted my life even today. so when a child who is screaming and crying with a runny nose walks past me, i put on my smiling face and ask them what’s wrong instead of rolling my eyes.
because that’s what you do. you tolerate children even if you tend to dislike them. because kids are so impressionable and remember everything. i cannot bring myself to enjoy being around children. but that doesn’t mean i let them know.
fbi man watching me delete a post he thought was funny but i decided wasn’t worth posting:
Being a Harry Potter fan like:
Huge thanks to @thenib for having me make this comic! If Tumblr’s resizing makes parts illegible, you can also read the nicer original version over on The Nib’s website: “Fatness, Femininity, and the Media We Deserve”
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