Heaven or Hell! Let's Rock!

Hi, I'm Max! Bouncing around between lots of different intrests. Recovering Magic player, fighting game noob, Metroid fan, very casual history nerd.

[brutish-impulse]

The US government hired Stanley Kubrick to fake the moon landing... but then he actually sent his actors to the moon because he's such a perfectionist.

[bathroomcube]

[comixextra]

[roach-works]

it’s what they would have wanted

[iobotomypop]

happy moonwalk day

[sweaterkittensahoy]

Things Michael Collins absolutely would have done given the chance.

[coldgoldlazarus]

[alagaisia]

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

[alagaisia]

It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!

[alagaisia]

It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.

[watermelon-converse]

Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this

[emi--rose]

Hell yeah moon holiday

[hello-delicious-tea]

Ooh coming up we should celebrate

[ariaste]

PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)

[sarostheghostcat]

MOON DAY MOON DAY MOON DAY

[wafflebloggies]

moon day is 20th July!!!

[silly-jellyghoty]

Scheduling this a day earlier to remind you all and myself about the Moon Day tomorow!

[sashaforthewin]

Happy moon day to all who celebrate

[kitsuneofthemist]

This is your reminder to prep for Moon Day on July 20th.

[inkyrainstorms]

MOON DAY MONDAY THIS MONTH NOT A DRILL!!!!!

[whatbigotspost]

Happy Moon Daaaaay 2026!

[brutish-impulse]

[brutish-impulse]

Shading practice! Sometimes I look at the shadows on a real object and I'm like "I don't understand why they're shaped like that".

Not very happy with this. I completely botched the shape of the handle, for one thing.

[desmolbean404]

QUIZ TIME!! Take this quiz, then come back and answer the poll!

100 REAL or FAKE Pokemon

100 Different 'Pokemon' will be shown to you. Choose if you think they are FAKE or REAL. Goal is to get a high score so you can brag to ever

What Was Your Score?

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40%-50%

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80%-99%

100%! (You're one smart cookie!)

Remaining time: 3 days 11 hours

[garmbreak1]

Operation Paperclip was actually a pioneer in the space of restorative, non-carcareal justice

[brutish-impulse]

#I'm not saying I agree with this but I hope that hornet's nest admires how artfully the bat was swung

[stonedrunkwizard]

Hey, do you want to be in our club?

[brutish-impulse]

Ouranos, the sky - better known to us as Uranus, the sound of whose name has ever been the cause of great delight to children from nine to ninety.

[brutish-impulse]

Secretary bird! They evolved eyelashes to keep out the dust they kick up when they're stomping on snakes, and it makes them look like cartoon characters.

I really don't know how to indicate texture when shading. How do I make the feathery parts look feathery?

Based on a photo by Rudi Luyten (luitenrudi on Instagram)

[ghostpalmtechnique]

The most recent Ludology podcast is an interview with Jesper Myfors, the original art director of Magic: The Gathering, with some historical stuff some of you may be interested in. (Fair warning, he also has strong negative opinions about how Magic has changed, though the anger is not about the art direction.)

[brutish-impulse]

Very interesting!

I didn't have a problem with anything he said but I'm a Universes Beyond hater so...

He probably has some overly rose-colored glasses about the early days when it was all about the fans and not the money etc.

One thing he mentioned about the current art direction is that the artists are drawing "movie posters" that don't shrink down to card size very well. That's been one of my old man yells at cloud opinions about this game too.

[homunculus-argument]

A three-circle venn-diagram where the circles are "sex workers", "the furry community", and "people working in morgues". I don't know what the overlap parts are.

[flufflogic]

Fourth circle needed: IT workers

[homunculus-argument]

You say that with such confidence that I am compelled to trust your vision. Personally I have no idea where this is going.

[trytocallmecal]

i'd say the overlap between "sex workers" and "people who work in morgues" is probably "seeing naked strangers a lot"

[homunculus-argument]

"professional handling of bodies of strangers"?

[small-gods-curator]

Putting my neck out for you folks here

[sleepy-bebby]

If anyone wants to know what a leopard seal sounds like 🦷🩸

[bandydear]

Leopard Seals are what happens when god needs a lizard and all he has is a mammal

[gallusrostromegalus]

I'd recommend turning the sound on. The seal is not screaming. It's not very loud at all, actually, but the noise it's making is Much Worse.

[disorientation]

Having a "stupider people have done this" attitude about the things you want to do can open so many doors

[lumsel]

so it turns out that chemical runoff from ai datacenters is causing chromosomal defects in sheep populations, causing something like 95% of affected sheep to be born female

[lumsel]

that's right: ai is to blame for the ram shortage

[complex-analytic-dysfunction]

[changeling-automaton]

Unironically I think this meme is really good for explaining why maths formalisms and notation are so valuable, even when they seem cumbersome/convoluted. It's an incredibly precise way to describe the interaction of a lot of related-but-meaningfully-distinct concepts, and this is a great showcase of that, thank you Lynn Chordbug you're the best.

[queenlua]

In a class I taught at Berkeley, I did an experiment where I wrote a simple little program that would let people type either “f” or “d” and would predict which key they were going to push next. It’s actually very easy to write a program that will make the right prediction about 70% of the time. Most people don’t really know how to type randomly. They’ll have too many alternations and so on. There will be all sorts of patterns, so you just have to build some sort of probabilistic model. Even a very crude one will do well. I couldn’t even beat my own program, knowing exactly how it worked. I challenged people to try this and the program was getting between 70% and 80% prediction rates. Then, we found one student that the program predicted exactly 50% of the time. We asked him what his secret was and he responded that he “just used his free will.”

—from Scott Aaronson, via here

[flakmaniak]

Please tell me that student is a fighting game player...

[brazenautomaton]

"We asked him what his secret was and he said 'just pick a top tier, bro'"

[flakmaniak]

No, he said "just guess right"!

[brutish-impulse]

Nah, he fell for the 50/50 mixup exactly 50% of the time. If he really downloaded the opponent, it would be 0% correct.

[astoralexander]

I call this set… “Noir Princesses”.

PRINTS HERE… https://bit.ly/2NqqOX7