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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

Still from Weebles episode "Spaghetti Days" (2005). Zuzie Q. and Diddy are having a conversation offscreen, while Demby (blue hippo with no legs wearing red bib overalls) is choosing a meatball to use as a bowling ball. The EIA-608 (line 21) caption has a spelling error: "for Denby and for me"

Still from Weebles episode "The Wednesday Race" (2005). Zuzie Q. (yellow hen with no legs in teal crop top) on a yellow and green scooter and Noomie (orange cat with no legs wearing a light blue dress, purple bottom, and purple hair bow) are arguing in front of a yellow Town Center building over who's the fastest Weeble in all of Weebleville. The EIA-608 (line 21) caption has a spelling error: "Well, I don't care what you say, Noomy."

@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)?

#eBay #ToyCollecting #Weebles

Weebles Fire Station playset from late 1980s. Includes ride-on toy shaped like a fire engine that converts to a fire station, a subcompact fire engine with two bucket seats, three stackable blocks styled as buildings, and firefighter and fire chief figures.

@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/

#GoogleVision #ComputerVision #Weebles #AltText

The foreground shows three animated characters: a yellow chicken, a purple cow, and a blue hippo. They appear to be in a playful interaction, possibly a scene from a children's show. The background is a bright, sunny field with cartoonish trees and clouds, suggesting a whimsical, child-friendly setting. The overall aesthetic is vibrant and playful, designed to appeal to young children.

The characters seem cheerful and friendly; they are cartoon animals and don't have human-like emotions or characteristics. Their size suggests they are targeted toward a young audience. It's impossible to determine their age, race, or socio-economic status as they are not based on any particular human identity. The scene seems to be from an animated children's show and likely created using 3D animation software. The image doesn't provide information about the camera or creation time.

The purple cow's shirt has a small 'W' on it, a detail easily missed. The chicken seems to be holding or interacting with a red, round object. The style of animation is simplistic but effective at conveying a sense of fun and friendliness. The lack of sharp shadows and the bright, even lighting are characteristic of animation created for young viewers.

Alt text by They See Your Photos

Diddy Wishingwell (purple cow with yellow headfur wearing a yellow dress with blue floral print) and her husband Demby (blue hippo in red overalls with yellow buttons and orange front pocket) approach Zuzie Q. Woozie (yellow hen in a teal crop top), who is operating a bowling attraction. The background is green, purple, and orange trees in front of a yellow sky with white clouds.

Still from Weebles (2005) episode "Spaghetti Days"

Alt text by Damian Yerrick

Uggie Wobbleworks in the mechanic's bay of a Weebles Gas Station installing a plug-in hybrid conversion kit in Highway's car.

#Weebles #ToyPhotography

This is the first animated GIF I've made for Weebles Wiki. It's for the article about the "Jack & Jill's Wobbly Adventure" playset, and it shows what the crank on the well does to the red water-carrying creature.

https://antifandom.com/weebles/wiki/Jack_%26_Jill's_Wobbly_Adventure

#Weebles #GIF #toys #Playskool

It's a #badger @bagder badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger mush #mushroom ah #snake, ah it's a snake
It's a birthday birthday birthday birthday...

Happy 21 years to #weebles classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIyixC9NsLI

When come back, bring pie.

A roly-poly toy is hollow plastic with a weight in the bottom. This puts its center of mass below its widest part. Pushing the toy raises its center of mass (from white line to red line), and the toy wobbles as gravity keeps trying to pull it down.
#Weebles #WeeblesWednesday

A roly-poly toy in resting and tilted positions. Colored lines show the height of the center of mass, which is higher in the tilted toy.

#PixelArt gets physical. Eight #Weebles characters made with #FuseBeads:
Tooey, Tibby, Bumpus, Pendleton, Demby, Diddy, Zuzie Q., and Noomie

I learned the hard way that Walmart's Hello Hobby Melty Beads are thin and undersized, making them more fiddly to iron than #Perler brand.

Tooey Winkington (green turtle) and Tibby Wobnobbin (lavender elephant) in fuse beads

Bumpus Wobbleworks (orange sheepdog) and Pendleton Wrongrighter (gray penguin) in fuse beads

Demby Wishingwell (blue hippo) and Diddy Wishingwell (purple cow) in fuse beads

Zuzie Q. Woozie (yellow hen) and Noomie Whirligiggles (orange cat) in fuse beads

A #Weeble is a 1-sided die (d1). Every time you roll it, it always comes up heads.
#Weebles #Dice #ShowerThoughts

A boy and his dog, in three generations of #Weebles toys
#WeeblesWednesday

Top row: Wiggles and Wally (1989). Bottom row: Buddy and Elliot (2023); Willie and Buster (2016).

#March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. Just ask Paw and Letty from #Weebles

Paw Whirligiggles (green lion) and Letty Whoops (white ewe) from Weebles

Over the past few days, I drew most of the characters from #Weebles (2005) as #PixelArt, 15 by 20 pixels each. Crop your besties and use them as a #CrossStitch or #Perler bead pattern.

61 designs for roly-poly toys from Weebles (2005). Orig. by Hasbro, pixel art by PinoBatch in February 2024

Bead art patterns for Tooey, turtle firefighter, and Tibby, elephant dancer

It's 2 February. #Weebleville doesn't have any groundhogs, or any hedgehogs for that matter. They have Trixie, a hog on a hog. 🐷🏍️

#GroundhogDay #HedgehogDay #HogDay #Weebles

Trixie Wobnobbin, a maroon pig on an orange motorcycle, from Weehicles set (2004)

@JenWojcik I had a house, I remember moving the horse-blob around, and those lame fences.
https://www.thisoldtoy.com/hasbro/hasbro-toy-pages/598-west.html

What I desperately wanted was the treehouse. I wasn't spooky until years later.
#weebles

THEY WOBBLE
THEY DON'T FALL DOWN
THEY'RE COMING FOR YOU

#weebles #horror #halloween

Weebles Haunted House
Where Weebles Wobble And Go Bump in the Night! Wonderful, scary fun!
<fold-out plastic house, boarded-up high window, "beware of ghost", 2 civilian weebles, vampire weeble & chest/coffin, glow-in-the-dark ghost weeble>

When describing the #ReleaseDate of a video game, movie, or other work, it's best to use calendar words, such as "second quarter" and "fourth quarter", instead of season words, such as "spring" and "fall".

One reason is for #internationalization (#i18n). Viewers in the #SouthernHemisphere (particularly Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and South America) experience seasons 6 months out of phase from the rest of the world.

The other is that even if new #Weebles toys are released in fall, they don't fall ⛄
https://www.playmonster.com/playmonster-and-hasbro-announce-expanded-global-partnership-on-playskool-and-relaunch-of-weebles/

Three Weebles toys. From left to right: Tooey Winkington (turtle firefighter) for 2004, generic egg-shaped character with coffee cup for 2010, Willie (boy leader of Wonder Club) for 2016, ? for 2023

@northumbriaIWW because they're like #Weebles - they #DontFallDown

he/him, autistic

I've been developing video games as a hobby since 1999 and professionally since 2015 as lead programmer at Retrotainment Games for 4 games and counting. I specialize in #NES and dabble in other 8- and 16-bit consoles. In addition to #homebrew games, I maintain ports of 240p Test Suite to NES, #GameBoy, and #GBA, the Action 53 menu software used by the #NESdev Compo, and #emulator test ROMs.

Personal games
Concentration Room, Thwaite, RHDE: Furniture Fight, Libbet and the Magic Floor
Professional games
Haunted: Halloween '85, Haunted: Halloween '86, Full Quiet, Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum

I prefer #FreeSoftware, having used #Ubuntu since 2008. I'd love to read thoughts on how proprietary software in #gamedev can become less of a necessary evil.

Expect puns and allusions to #Pinocchio and #Weebles.

Website: https://pineight.com
Source code: https://github.com/pinobatch
Other microblog: https://twitter.com/PinoBatch

#introduction

#Weebles

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