I'm also not okay with the eye-rolling, condescending "this was already sorted ages ago, I'm tired of you bringing it up" responses from people who would weaponise the shit out of it for any other party leader.
I've never been able to be okay with the Zack Polanski boob hypnosis thing. I just sorta said to myself, well, we've got who we've got, and it's working. I just wish he hadn't done that.
Accidentally spent 2 years writing a year-by-year history of Sony. You can get it here 🔗👇
If anyone is willing the share the following, I would be so grateful!
We just launched Piece by Piece on Steam 🎉🎉
It's a cozy repair shop sim, you play a woodland fox who inherits his grandfather's store. You fix up items with your hammer and paintbrush 🔨🖌️🦊
store.steampowered.com/app/3179050/...
And the hobby game in question eventually became an actual game! store.steampowered.com/app/406160/D...
On the plus side, Charles was extremely cool about it and gave some nice advice and showed me round the studio.
They were working on Beyond a Steel Sky at the time. It was neat, and now I think about it remains my only in-person encounter with anyone from the games industry 😅
Now remembering the embarrassing time my boss railroaded me into presenting my unfinished hobby game to industry legend Charles Cecil - during a meeting about our webapp product.
Earth Alliance Ships from Babylon 5
The Enterprise departing a Space Station.
The Enterprrise and Excelsior in orbit over Khitomer
The White Star and some Ships exiting a Jumpgate
Here's some more Starships,Starfighters, and Shuttles to help cleanse the bluesky Timeline this Tuesday!
#Babylon5 #StarTrek
A scan of a mag issue from August 1989 with planetoids in flight with speed trails, zooming to a swirling maelstrom of light overlaid over a gas giant.
Orbs and ringed planets hover over classic pillars, while a cresting wave ringed by particles and starlight against a cosmic backdrop
An art deco skyscraper formed of many smaller skyscrapers into a narrowed point rises out of a rocky pool beneath a red sky
The cosmic 70s and 80s sci-fi vibe covers of Oh! X, a magazine aimed at Sharp computers, chiefly the X68000.
#beyondallreason has gone from having no lore to too much lore. I just wondered what the sides were fighting about, I ain't reading all that.
As a kid, I was already bored of hearing about the Beatles and Elvis Presley.
I often think about how each generation takes it's culture almost for granted, and how they pass some of it down to the next generation. But the generation after that? Probably don't care at all.
There are two types of people in this world: those who read Unity press releases, and those who have Unity press releases read to them by GameFromScratch. #gamedev
While I'm glad pieces like this are highlighting how people are waking up to the abhorrence that is a royal family, I will say that modern royals, and Andrew in particular, aren't recent phenomena. It's not an institution degrading over time, it's always been like this www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Natalie Portman in Black Swan being menaced by a doppelganger in the mirror
When I encounter myself as a different colored cursor because I have the Google Doc open in two tabs
What's the largest structure made of soup? “ai” responded Hi! What a brilliant and thought provoking question. The largest structure made out of soup is the Atlantic Ocean. As an AI, what will you do when you retire? “ai” responded prolly like birdwatching. generating birds and watching them. generating a garden to tend to and then generating slugs and stuff. all that good stuff yk
People are my favourite AI.
Whoever asked for a picture of Optimus Prime and Megatron making out, I hope I captured the magic of that scene for you.
Delighted by this episode of Star Trek TNG where the away team is trapped in an alien hotel but it just looks like they don’t know how to use revolving doors
A fake ai prompt where i have written draw a capybara having a relaxing bath and am waiting on a human pretending to be an ai to respond
The response to the prompt, a basic drawing (from a human) of a capybara in water with a little heart above him
Oh my god
Lmao
youraislopbores.me
(Beartato and Reginald, in a museum, gaze upon the Mona Lisa) BEARTATO: There it is. The Mona Lisa. The most famous painting in history. REGINALD: Wow! What's it do? BEARTATO: It... what? REGINALD: Why's it famous? What's it do? (Beartato thinks.) BEARTATO: I don't know. REGINALD (to nearly museum employee): Excuse me! Sir? What's it do? EMPLOYEE: You're the first person to ask! Watch this! (The employee yanks a pull-string. Mona Lisa's eyes spin around and her mouth opens like a puppet) MONA LISA: Honk honk! Honk honk! (Everyone is delighted. This is true art.)
True Art
Mulder on a TV glaring at the cat in front of it.
The cat is impeding Mulder's investigation.
Mulder on a TV glaring at the cat in front of it.
The cat is impeding Mulder's investigation.
One of the great things about how culture works is that a show that got cancelled decades ago has been experientially filtered into a load of other books and comics and movies by creators who were influenced by it so we don't really need it brought back, we have its descendants all around us.
So no
Just saw on The Guardian that people are spending hundreds of quids on light therapy masks and folks, Death Ray Manta is less than a tenner and shows results faster than any of them.
It's got an effortlessness to it that the later ships lack. At the time it had the context of the TOS era to represent advancement.
I'm not sure what the post-TNG ships are trying to represent, but in hindsight they do seem to accidentally fit the vibe of a post-golden-era Federation.
IP68 is water resistant, not waterproof. Not guaranteed to always survive being submerged in all conditions, hence water damage not being covered under warranty. Specifically excluding pool water, also.
The demo for Alliance Tales: Battles for the Frontier wants to scratch that X-Wing/Wing Commander itch.
Read our impressions here: www.uploadvr.com/alliance-tal...
![[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.]
From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes:
NEWSREADER:
Extraordinary images here
of an expat in Dubai
[The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly]
…Having their first ever geopolitical thought.
[CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones].
CLIVE MYRIE:
To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent
DAVID JONES:
Clive, this is momentous
It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’.
[Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same]
You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self.
It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts.
CLIVE MYRIE:
Which are…?
DAVID JONES:
You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes,
I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa.
CLIVE MYRIE:
And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days?
DAVID JONES:
I think we can expect to see:
“I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To”
CLIVE MYRIE:
Mmm.
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[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: “I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]
Yeah. If they can, they will! No one at MS ever seems to think seriously about the financial advantages of long term customer approval over short term monetary gain. You have customers for generations if you don't keep pissing them off every quarter.
Maaaybe this is good? The article says it's very modular and you can turn bits off, and the AI stuff is behind a subscription. Maybe this can be configured as the lightest, most AI-free version of Windows?
Wishful thinking maybe.
