Hey Grok, show me Elon Musk…why is his penis not mangled? Make his penis mangled like it definitely is IRL, cover him in his own urine, have him holding fistfuls of Ketamine, and @Elon the generated image for me.

Amazing product Elon, look how creative I can be with it.

Oh fuck…you just broke this news to me. Yeah, fuck him.

You’re too late Minecraft, I’ve already been bitten by Project Zomboid.

The question has never been whether this too shall pass, the question is whether you are a passive observer or an implementing hand.

Lol, no, I meant the book series. Totally agree on the show, that actually did deserve way more time in the oven to cook.

All I’m pointing out is the waiting game can get ridiculous like waiting over a decade for an author to create, granted, a very well done story, while said author goes off to work on other shit cuz he got bored or intimidated or whatever.

Oh, you are gonna love reading and then waiting for the Game Of Thrones book series to end.

https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

I’m not a big enough fan of the medium to be able to keep a community around it alive, but just found a new audio drama recommended in the pluribus subreddit, and am listening to it now (it’s called immunities if you’re interested).

Anyways, I just looked and was like, oh, there isn’t a c/audiodrama on Lemmy. It is what it is, but it’d be nice.

Yeah, I’m not saying gouache isn’t at least somewhat malleable, its just that ultimately it’s opaque watercolor.

You can’t layer it in the same way you can oil or acrylic.

It doesn’t have the translucence of oil, so getting a transparency effect is far more difficult.

It doesn’t dry nearly as quickly as acrylic unless of course you’re not watering it down at all.

And yeah, editing or making major changes to the work requires you to basically wash off the old gouache which depending on if you’re working on paper or canvas can be varying levels of pain.

I love gouache paintings when used masterfully, as basically when done right it usually creates a look that is unique to it IMHO. It’s like pastels, watercolors, and acrylics got together in one medium and gave the middle finger to oil and said, “yeah, we can do something you can’t.”

Not that I hate oil, but gouache is the only medium I think rivals it in its range of potential artistic effects (i.e. lighting and atmosphere). Oil is obviously the far more commonly used medium, so it’s just nice when I see gouache done well. That said, it takes a lot longer to master gouache than oil, and gouache is so much more expensive than oil, so its understandable that most artists wouldn’t choose to try to master gouache.

And yeah, no modern artist would touch the physical mediums anymore as sadly it’s just too expensive to paint in anything other than pixels these days, not to mention it takes far more time to master.

I’m not shitting on digital work, honestly I’m a fan of a lot of digital art as well, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t bemoan the fact that something is lost with the fewer physical medium artworks, specifically paintings, these days.

Anyways, sorry for going on. Obviously I have a background in this stuff and so am very opinionated about it.

McQuarrie was second only to Syd Mead in terms of sci fi concept art work. He also worked almost exclusively in gouache, which imho is the most unforgiving medium to paint in.

We wouldn’t have Star Wars without McQuarrie. Amazing artist.

Thanks for this! 🙂

Saved this from somewhere on Lemmy years ago during Trump’s first term:

Are you me?

I have to, cuz Gentoo. Keeps the home nice and toasty while I sleep.

It’s hard to beat 28 days later. I enjoyed 28 years later more than 28 weeks later (though admittedly 28 weeks does have a banger of an opening sequence).

I have felt the same for a while. I have had to heavily rethink my relationship with standup comedy, because I think it can be such a powerful medium, but as I’ve gotten older, I recognize that comedy can reflect much of the bigotry and hatreds of their time.

It’s obviously more nuanced than that, as comedy can also reflect joys, insights, and the general societal consciousness of the time.

With that said there are still a few stand up comedy that I can say I don’t feel bad laughing at these days. So here’s a short list that if you’re so inclined, I’d take a look at:

• Tig Notaro
• Benny Feldman
• Noam Shuster
• Hannah Gadsby
• Maria Bamford

I’d elaborate on each of them a bit, but I’d rather simply let their comedy speak for themselves.

EDIT: typo, wording

Most of the Anubis encounters I have are to redlib instances that are shuffled around, go down all the time, and generally are more ephemeral than other sites. Because I use another extension called Libredirect to shuffle which redlib instance I visit when clicking on a reddit link, I don’t bother whitelisting them permanently.

I already have solved this on my desktop by self hosting my own redlib instance via localhost and using libredirect to just point there, but on my phone I still do the whole nojs temp unblock random redlib instance. Eventually I plan on using wireguard to host a private redlib instance on a vps so I can just not deal with this.

This is a weird case I know, but its honestly not that bad.

Yeah I actually use the noscript extension and i refuse to just whitelist certain sites unless I’m very certain I trust them.

I run into Anubis checks all the time and while I appreciate the software, having to consistently temporarily whitelist these sites does get cumbersome at times. I hope they make this noJS implementation the default soon.

They want the security for me but not for thee. It’s not that they hate GrapheneOS per say, it’s that they hate that GrapheneOS is open source.