Stuff and/or Things

Unsupervised deep-learning neural net They/them, 40+

[silverbridge-harbor]

A juvenile bug isn't called a larva until it reaches the surface. While it's still underground it's called a margma

[oldschoolfrp]

Legendary fantasy artist John Blanche has died. He is known mostly for his long association with Games Workshop, where he served as art director and created many of the iconic images that shaped the Warhammer and 40K worlds. He was capable of working in diverse styles, but much of his art and his own creative miniature conversions made his name synonymous with the "grimdark" aesthetic, mixing elements of moody gothic architecture and body horror with a limited color palette.

He also contributed to GW's UK edition of Dungeons & Dragons, Fighting Fantasy and Sorcery! books, and other books and album covers. Wombat Games recently published an authorised biography, Blanche: The Rise of Grimdark. A skirmish game, John Blanche's En Garde, is in development with a setting and visual style based on his art.

[augurm]

[occasionallysubtle]

bringin' back one of my fave series cuz fmab & cowboy bebop are takin longer than anticipated ~ snag these thru March 7th :)

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

If Dis is the deepest levels of hell then it only follows that in the Divine Comedy Australia, home of the Ute, is the highest levels of heaven.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

"Utopia" just means a place full of these things

[chekhovs-raygun]

"A real utopia could never be built!" yeah that's what a guy without enough utes would say.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#3pm on a friday when all the tradies who started work early are knocking off and the road is chockers with hiluxes call that a utopia

[argumate]

we used to have a utopia, then all the tradies started buying Ford Ranger Raptors 😩

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

:(

[acaciaeocene]

I work in a light industrial area, and it's amusing to compare the horrendously oversized 4WD trucks with the beaten-to-hell utes in the carpark, often sitting side by side. It's very clear which of them are for showing off versus which are for doing actual work.

The purpose of the stripped-down brown VW Beetle from some time in the 70s is unclear, but I appreciate seeing it around anyway.

[stealingpotatoes]

Me imagining Kanan and Toph meeting 🤣

i mean they have a lot to bond over!

(links // tip jar!)

[stealingpotatoes]

@happybabysloth yeah but like who's gonna know. who's gonna know he's wearing red. definitely not these guys, he's invited <3

[txttletale]

So to you whats the difference between realistic and grounded in terms of rpgs and fictional worlds? Ive only ever hesrd them used as synonyms

grounded: serious thought is given to how the evil wizard's army is managing the logistics of feeding a dragon, even if that doesn't come up directly on the page

realistic: dragons cant fly because of the square cube law

[tenleaguesbeneath]

If you aren't playing Wisher, Theurgist, Fatalist, then you have no legitimate need for the rules of Wisher, Theurgist, Fatalist (WTF 45)

But character generation is done before one begins play (WTF 62)

And the character generation procedures for an RPG are commonly understood as part of the game rules [citation needed]

These three premises add up to a contradiction, where the only two escapes are by asserting that WTF's character creation procedures are not, in fact, rules of WTF but instead something else, perhaps setting elements or norms of play culture, or by coming to the conclusion that it is not possible to legitimately create a WTF character.

[jennamoran]

a more pressing question is whether you were playing WTF when you wrote this post and if not what the heck you thought you were doing using its rules

[siliconcat]

FOXTRAPPER Pt. 1

Pt. 2 | Pt. 3 | Pt. 4

(links will be updated in the future)

[aviantastic]

Tree Swallows by Linda H. Dulak - Audubon Photography Awards

[fluentisonus]

barn swallows depicted in the “spring fresco”, akrotiri, thera, greece. c. 16th century BC

[cryptidofthecove]

[songthursh]

@stupidlynx 's and mine take on how this priceless dialog happened on the old cemetery of Ankh Morpork one glorious 25th of May

[deinonychian]

. ^ . \ / \ V \ \ F /-_. |/ \

the noble quetzalcoatlus

[punlich]

Reblog if you would date a robot. I'm not a robot I'm just asking for a friend. I have skin.

[kiloueka]

is it your own skin though? As in you grew it, on your own body, from birth?

[punlich]

This skin was grown yes. On a human body. That is mine. I’m not a robot

[kiloueka]

Ok ok I’ll believe you… If you first tell me what this says:

[punlich]

I don’t need to prove myself to you how dare you, I love breathing oxygen

[monstermonger]

Friend in an alleyway | my wife sent me this photo the other day and said "you HAVE to draw this." and I agreed completely <:

[monstermonger]

oops I was told you can only see the photo if you have a bsky account, so here's a screenshot of it!

[escuerzoresucitado]

[wardoffthenight]

Sven Sauer - Deviation

The installation consists of 1,200 glass shards, each of which is aligned by hand. The train is moved centimeter by centimeter and each new glass shard is turned into the correct position so that the beam of light is directed to the next glass shard. As soon as the train starts moving, this creates a chain reaction of light...

[acaciaeocene]

[ashenmind]

oh yeah, this? it’s the demon blade

it knows the position and momentum of every particle in the universe and therefore the future is laid out before it like a tapestry

it doesn’t share because it’s an asshole

[3liza]

a fun band name game would be pairing bands with their diametric opposition. so for example, the cherry poppin daddies : men i trust

[3liza]

really good

[nicolae-carpathia]

kid rock : the paper kites : scissor sisters