#SaveStargate Indeed! ❤️

turns out i'm top 3.0% of vtuber twitter on the twitter atlas, trapped in here with @xboxer214, @0_Wonder_Whyy & @AngryCops 👀 where do you land? atlas.tiago.zip/@BroGabrielT…

Jour 5/Day 5 🇺🇸 The Alien Dialects: The Goa'uld language was actually created by linguists hired by the studio to be consistent across seasons. While many fans learned to speak basic phrases, the actors often had to have "cheat sheets" taped behind the Stargate or on their costumes to remember the complex phonetic pronunciations during long takes! 🇫🇷 Les dialectes extraterrestres : La langue des Goa'uld a été créée par des linguistes engagés par le studio pour rester cohérente au fil des saisons. Bien que de nombreux fans aient appris à parler des phrases de base, les acteurs devaient souvent avoir des "antisèches" scotchées derrière la Porte des Étoiles ou sur leurs costumes pour se souvenir des prononciations phonétiques complexes durant les longues prises ! #savestargate #SaveStargate @AmazonMGMStudio

A good day to remember the profound care Disney poured into Atlantis. Let's talk about The Creation of Atlantean. 🌊 To build the world, Disney hired Mark Okrand, the linguist who also created the famous Klingon and Vulcan for the Star Trek series. Okrand created a fully functional, learnable language. He designed it under the narrative premise that Atlantean was a "root dialect" or a "Tower of Babel" language, the ultimate mother tongue from which all human languages evolved. To achieve this ancient, foundational sound, Okrand primarily utilized Proto-Indo-European roots. The actual visual characters (the glyphs) were created by comic book artist Mike Mignola, the creator of Hellboy. Mignola designed the unique script shown on the chart. In the lore of the film, the language is written in a system called 'boustrophedon', meaning it is read from left to right on the first line, right to left on the second line, and continues alternating back and forth, mimicking the movement of an ox plowing a field.

Can I get a WAGH!?! and an amen. Warhammer meme

On the day John Ratzenberger walked into an audition room in 1982, he had a plane to catch. He had been living in London for nearly a decade — acting, writing, performing improv comedy across Europe with a two-man theatre group that had played to standing-room-only audiences for 634 consecutive shows. He had appeared in small roles in some of the biggest films of the era: *Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back*, *Superman*, *Gandhi*, *A Bridge Too Far* He was a working actor, but nobody's idea of a household name. That day, he was in Los Angeles on a writing assignment, and his ticket back to London was already booked. He had one audition before he left. A new sitcom about a bar in Boston. Both Ratzenberger and another actor, George Wendt, were reading for the same role — a minor patron named George who had a single line: "Beer!" It was barely a part at all. But Ratzenberger wanted the work, so he went in, and the moment director Jimmy Burrows told him he was there to audition, not have a conversation, he felt the energy in the room go cold. By his own account, all the blood rushed out of his body. He delivered a forgettable read. The casting director thanked him on the way out — the polite, final kind of thank you that everyone in show business learns to recognize. He was almost through the door when something stopped him. Not calculation. Not strategy. Just the instinct of a man who had spent a decade doing improv and knew that the moment before you leave a room is sometimes the best moment you'll ever have. He turned around. "Do you have a bar know-it-all?" The producers didn't know what he was talking about. So he told them. Every bar in New England, he explained, has one — some guy who acts like he has the knowledge of all mankind stored between his ears and is not even slightly shy about sharing it. He had grown up around exactly this type: a man named Sarge at his father's regular bar, who could answer any question with absolute confidence whether he actually knew the answer or not. The room would ask Sarge the length of a whale's intestine and Sarge would shoot back: "Baleen or blue?" And somehow, everyone deferred to him anyway. Ratzenberger launched into an improvisation right there — the Boston accent, the lean against an imaginary bar, the slightly too-long explanations of facts nobody had asked for. The producers watched. Then they laughed. Then they asked him to do more. George Wendt got the role of the bar regular, renamed Norm Peterson. And the producers, convinced by five minutes of improv from a man on his way out the door, wrote an entirely new character into the show. His name was Clifford Clavin. United States Postal Service. Cheers debuted on NBC on September 30, 1982, to nearly catastrophic ratings — finishing 77th out of 100 shows that week. The network came close to canceling it in the first season. But the show found its audience, and then it found a much bigger one, and then it became one of the most beloved television series ever made. It ran for 11 seasons. Ratzenberger appeared in 273 of 275 episodes. Cliff became the man at the end of the bar with the white socks and the questionable facts and the magnificent certainty — the guy everyone tolerated and secretly enjoyed, the kind of person every room has and everyone pretends to find annoying and would immediately miss if he disappeared. Ratzenberger was nominated for Emmy Awards in 1985 and 1986. By the time the show ended in 1993, Cliff Clavin was embedded in American culture as one of the great comic characters in the history of the medium. Cheers! 🍻

its sad that all of the fallen people that were hardcore Gears of War fans won’t get to experience Gears of War E-Day. R.I.P. Gears, your cog tags and memories will forever be cherished ⚙️

In Dec. One of my longest & best friends passed away. Lived 5 mins away from each other most of our lives in NY. Both moved to Florida & lived 5 minutes away from each other there too. Knew each other for 25 years but gears (1) made us best friends. Left this after he was buried

THE BLEEDING TREE The Wise Men brought Jesus Frankincense, the most holy incense of the Temple. But how is it made? You cannot pick it like fruit. You must take a sharp knife and deeply wound the bark of the Boswellia tree. The tree then "bleeds" a golden resin to heal its wounds. That resin is the Frankincense. By His wounds we are healed.

An 18-line Latin prayer proclaiming Christ as the Son of God, invoking Saint Titus, containing the words of Saint Paul, and carried by a man well over a hundred years before the first Bible ever existed, is the most Catholic thing you'll see today.

An 8 YO gets it, but over 4 Billion adults don't 🤦, it is that simple.

That is one of the weakest arguments in moral theology, and it betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of what the New Testament is actually doing. Islam has detailed juridical rulings on sexual release. The Talmud legislates the sleeping position of a man. Ancient legal codes, across cultures, operate by the same logic, they anticipate every human impulse and regulate it from the outside. They Enumerate sin, build the fence and close the gap. Jesus did something structurally different. The New Covenant does not govern by enumeration. It governs by transformation. Jeremiah prophesied it when it was said that God would write His law on their hearts, not stone. Ezekiel added the mechanism; “a new spirit within you”. What Christ inaugurates is not a longer legal code but a moral formation so thorough that the regenerate conscience simply knows what dishonors God, without needing a specific verse to cite chapter and verse on. This is why Jesus did not mention abortion. He also did not mention trafficking children for organs. The silence is not implicit permission, but it is the assumption that a heart genuinely remade by the Spirit of God would not require those things spelled out. And the deeper irony the argument can never survive is that the same Jesus who “never mentioned abortion” entered the world as a fetus. He was knit in a womb. He was recognized as Lord by a child still inside Elizabeth’s womb. The incarnation is not a silence on unborn life but you can say it is the loudest possible statement on it. The argument from silence only works if you think Christianity is a legal code with exploitable gaps. But fortunately it is not. It is a life, given to produce lives that know, without being told, what life is worth.

What's the best BATMAN intro movie? BATMAN 89 BATMAN BEGINS BATMAN v SUPERMAN THE BATMAN