cause of death: trying to make the internal geography of Stark Tower make sense, something neither JW or the Russos attempted to do.
DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH EASIER THIS WOULD BE IF Y’ALL HAD JUST MADE UP A BUILDING FROM SCRATCH INSTEAD OF MAKING IT CANONICALLY THE METLIFE BUILDING WITH THE TOP WHACKED OFF
it’s fine! it’s fine! you could have at least filmed the lobby scene in the actual MetLife Building instead of in the Proscenium in Atlanta but it’s fine! I’ll make it work! I will ignore Endgame.
this is distracting me from the important task of having Loki fight the Destroyer
also Natasha rescuing Steve, I guess.
my attempts to make the tower in 2018 (Horizon) line up with both the tower in 2012 (Avengers) and alt!2012 (Endgame) as well as in 2015 (AoU) mean that I’m pretty sure this building is actively hostile to human life and the city of New York would cry tears of joy if someone accidentally knocked it down. The New York Department of City Planning, the MTA, ConEd, and the SI lawyers and architects have a support group.
normal fic writers: “he took the elevator from the lobby to the penthouse”
me:
There were ninety-eight elevators in Stark Tower, but only three of them went all the way from the ground floor up to the former Avengers levels of the tower, which took up the top thirty floors. A quirk of the architecture meant that the SI architects hadn’t been able to completely fix meant that forty-one of those elevators only went up to the highest remaining levels of the old MetLife Building, two of which were service elevators. Twenty-seven went from the ground floor to various tower floors below the Avengers levels, while twenty-two went from the lowest tower level to the floor immediately below the Avengers level. Another five only covered the thirty floors of the Avengers levels. The floor numbering began again on the tower levels, meaning that in 2013 someone had called it “the most confusing building in Manhattan.” An elevator enthusiasts’ magazine had made Stark Tower its cover story two months before the Ultron fiasco. Natasha hadn’t even known there were elevator enthusiasts.
“oh,” you say. “why did you say the floor numbering started over at the lowest tower level?”
Endgame. That’s why. that’s not the god damn fourteenth floor counting from the ground level.
also, comedy, and believe it or not this is actually useful to me for plot reasons, but also oh my god.
(”but it looks different in –” I looked at literally every depiction of Starkvengers Tower up to 2018 (MCU date); anything after that date doesn’t matter for my purposes. I have thought more about this fucking building than anyone at Marvel Studios ever did.)
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#Marvel #I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog
No need to explain more, brain problems is brain problems and sometimes you need a particular tool to get around them. It’s not your fault for needing the tool and that’s part of why I’m so angry that protecting your privacy falls so heavily on the users instead of the manufacturers (my beef with smart homes: let me show you it – smart home devices are incredible for lots of disability reasons but not a one of them is really secure, so if you require smart home devices to improve your quality of life or make you more independent you’re forced to allow these invasions to your privacy)
But what you’re describing is a legitimate problem with mapping software that has to check back in with cell service or internet service instead of using simple GPS – it’s something that has really irritated me about using google maps over the years: I should be able to load a map then turn off my cell service and have it run along on GPS only (see many trips I’ve taken that have cell service for 98% of the drive then I have to rely on guessing for the last 2% because the gps isn’t updating because I’m out of cell tower range).
I think your best bet if you keep using your phone is probably to do something like disable location on most of your apps and then only enable your mapping app when you’re using it (and make sure that ad locations is off and don’t use the highly specific locations). Strangle the permissions as much as you can.
HOWEVER this ask got me to do some research and it looks like OsmAnd might be a good solution – it has offline maps for drivers and for pedestrians and the description of it includes some of my favorite tech-related words: “robust open-source” – the maps are totally open source though the app is not so keep an eye on those permissions too but at the very least any info collected doesn’t go straight to google.
(navigating offline maps is good though, this is super good, I’m going to install and test this app because I WANT THIS.)
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#yes this #OSMAnd is so good #the interface is kind of a Lot sometimes but you can pretty much just ignore bits you don’t want to deal with #and I love having offline maps that *don’t fucking expire WTF Google* #and! if you run into a problem with the map data‚ you can just *go on OpenStreetMap and fix it* and it’ll be in the monthly map updates #I’ve also heard some praise for Organic Maps‚ though I haven’t tried it myself #I used MapFactor’s OSM-based version for a while and it was fine #so if you’re not particularly seeking open-source apps and don’t like the other two maybe try that #recs #Brin owns *two* 2010’s computers now #101 Uses for Infrastructureless Computers #maps
#my initial reaction to that last statement was doubt‚ but she is in fact right #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(the funniest part is actually the reveal that Whole Foods sponsored this list‚ IMO) #(though if they’d placed Kevin at the bottom for a punchline that could have worked) #food #otters #names #advertising #juxtaposition
people seem to disagree about the best way to include citations in books but I hope we can agree that the worst way to do it is to use endnotes that are mostly citations but contain 10% interesting and insightful asides hidden in there like fucking lootboxes, so you have to skim ahead in the endnotes to memorize which upcoming number is associated with a comment you actually want to stop and read
okay, skeletons have xylophones, demons have fiddles, ghosts have theremins and vampires have pipe organs. but what of the humble werewolf? what instrument does she get for her very own?
#no yes yes no yes yes yes no no yes yes no yes yes yes yes #language #comics #Dinosaur Comics #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what
Brinens and Things 