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its terrible for any number of reasons, but i think if we invent immortality there should be an extreme sport called civilizational speedrunning where teams of 20 go into the wilderness somewhere and try and be the fastest build the first internal combustion engine. i bet you could get it down to like 3 years tops

biggestzam

The real trick is to eat seed heavy food before the speedrun starts so your first poops are halfway to agriculture already

kaiasky

i want you on my team holy shit

suigintou

cutely emits a single ping

virtualgirladvance

cpericardium

tsarina-anadyomene

reincarnation is hidden from us as an anti-griefing measure

jetix

Ghost Fungus (Omphalotus nidiformis), 2021

charaznablescanontoyota

words of wisdom from wikipedia this evening

ryannorth

much to consider

blazing-butterfly-inactive

I suppose most people are more familiar with pet dogs than with falconry and therefore calling a dehumanized mech pilot a "hound" is more immediately evocative than calling it a "hawk," but you gotta admit the vibe of the handler as falconer and the pilots as their birds of prey absolutely slaps. If anyone ever does something like mechsploitation but with scifi fighter jets instead of giant robots, pleeeease call the pilots hawks

themoosebaruniverse

If i may

themakeupbrush

Karan Johar at the 2026 Met Gala

sashayed

but ykw at least i'm not on mount everest. at least i'm not paying tens of thousands of dollars to slowly suffocate in a 300-person line at the gates of hell. never in my life will i have to be steered in a hypoxic stupor through the maze of poop and corpses atop mount everest. on this earth a lot of horrible things can happen to you without your permission but there are a few that you have to opt into. you can just say no thanks! and be guaranteed never to have to be on mount everest. much to be grateful for actually

sashayed

still not on mount everest this morning 😌 alhamdulillah

regexkind

am I....

...your wiremutual

...your clothmutual

...not your mutual

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hellbabyfromhell

I hate your fucking green hairrr they remind me of toxic slutch

i never posted this because i wanted to keep it forever but i think posting it is the best way. i say “toxic slutch” many times a week. thank you.

bogleech

a toxic slutch and its green hairrr

nociceptrix

Un fucking real. Big baby

centuriespast

2000-year-old green serpentine stone mask found at the base of the pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan, Mexico.

alexanderwales

When Black & White came out, they had creature models that changed based on whether it had muscle, was eating a lot, young or old, etc., blending the mesh or something to achieve the effect. Then in addition to that, they had the animations be partly procedural, so that they would mostly look correct even if the physical size of the creature was different.

I always thought that this was the future of videogames and animation, but we're only just barely getting to the point of animations that are driven by limb length and underlying physio anatomy. In theory, a character should walk different depending on their musculature, what kind of load they're carrying, whether they have an injury, etc., and this should all be dynamic.

But the modern AAA games have gone in the direction of blended mocap and a singular character rendered in very high fidelity that I guess wouldn't make sense to have dynamic appearance and animation for, and the indies tend to use whatever is available out of the box. Plus if you're going to allow characters to be different heights, weights, etc., you start growing concerned about whether there's some optimal thing to be, and certainly don't want players to optimize into picking the shortest dude they can so the hitbox is tiny.

So the technology and systems that seemed to hold a lot of promise 25 years ago have fallen into a sort of developmental no man's land.

drethelin

This but for the AI in black and white