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Beware: Geeking in this area is on the increase.

[scifiseries]

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Shadowrun: Sprawl Sites Sourcebook Cover Art by Steve Venters

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Inferno by Julie Bell

[ibboard]

Erm… Miss? Miss? … I think your hair might be on fire!

(Tiger doesn't seem to care, though!)

[blumineck]

I have done some weird trickshots, and some difficult trickshots, but that last one is the most of both I’ve ever put together!

[existennialmemes]

I say "make bad art" a lot, but the truth is, no matter its technical quality, all art is good art.

The act of physically making art is not only good for your nervous system, but it's also like giving the entire zeitgeist a reassuring forehead kiss.

Make art. Good and bad are subjective. Don't worry about that. Just make it, I'm begging you.

[enki2]

[luckyladylily]

So the thing is boobs really do be jiggling. If having breasts has taught me anything it is that the ladies frolic. I don't even have that large of boobs but every time I go down some stairs all I can think about is that stupid quote about boobing breastily down the stairs or whatever it is because God Damn.

But anime and video game boob jiggling is like. The most uncanny valley shit I've ever seen nine times out of ten. You would think people this horny about tits would have actually looked at some but I guess not.

What we really need is some pervert to compile the ultimate visual guide to boob bouncing physics that's just like 500 hours of meticulously organized videos of breasts of different size and shape and under different fabrics bouncing around from a wide variety of physical movements so horny game devs can finally get it right and I don't have to be creeped out by women who appear to have surgically implanted softballs in their chest under skin made of rubber bands.

[ibboard]

The latest episode of BBC Tech Now (the replacement for BBC Click) has a short bit on actual academic research into boob physics! (For the purposes of better health, better fitting bras, and better sports performance)

It's at ~13:50

Tech Now - WWE: The Tech Behind the Show

Ammie Sekhon heads behind the scenes of WWE to see the tech that takes the show around the world. Shiona McCallum explores the latest sleep

[lem-0-21]

Warhammer attacks I've made recently :-)

My af: https://artfight.net/~Nekrolog

[hairymonkeyhands]

Do you think they still brew Guinness in 40k?

On terra, there's a sect of the mechanicus that guards a secret recipe. With heavy weapon Ogryn and titan rated weapons.

They brew a drink that supposedly only the high lords can access. But it is not the tradition.

There are secret bars, where the drink is served. Manufactorum supervisors, lowly conveyor belt workers, all are welcome.

It is rumoured that even the Astartes have sampled the most exotic beverage.

A pint of black, though in truth it is red.

[ibboard]

Of course the Space Marines are still drinking it (although not all chapters). They remember the Old Ways and still honour ancient knowledge.

The more surprising part is not that it is still brewed. It is that the Guinness family still have power amongst the Lords of Terra. This means that they got their 9000 year lease extended, so the brewery still remains in the same location as it is today, hidden and buried amongst much newer buildings!

[hajima-7]

as the snake sheds her skin 🐍🩸

c0mm i did of Dafni and Eirini, from M G Katsibouri's upcoming book!

[blumineck]

This tickled me!

More of my content

[magnetictapedatastorage]

from codex chaos 2nd edition. i love all the little tips and the encouragement to go absolutely wildcrazy

[ibboard]

I'm not saying that GenAI rots your brain, but…

…how else have we got to the point where that is a response?

The question is clear. It's polite. And yet this simple request gets a response of "Excuse me?" as if they were asked something rude or someone demanded an unreasonable amount of effort be put in. It's not even a hard concept. It's part of being in a community! And it helps everyone!

Say I like Warhammer 40K and want to see posts on it, but I think the Necrons faction are overrated. I can follow #Warhammer 40K and block #Necrons.

Or say I want to see Warhammer 40K art. But I only want to see official art, not fan art for some reason. Then I can block tags like #fanart, and as long as fan-artists tag their art with "fanart" then I won't see it (and it also benefits them because people who want to see fanart can find it more easily!)

GenAI is the same. I love seeing what fandom creators create. I want to see the beginners with more ideas than skill, and the ridiculous ideas of artists who have spent years going deep with their works. Fandoms can be amazing and creative places.

But what I don't need in my feed is superficial engagement with the fandom by repeatedly pressing "regenerate image" until some low-quality, derivative and often flawed image is spat out that they're happy to post to try to claim kudos while crowding out real artists.

[lierdumoa]

Every time an author reassures readers that the smut is skippable I sigh a disappointed sigh. This is not a reassurance. Why would anybody who likes smut want to read smut that was only included as an afterthought and has no impact on the narrative? Insulting. Just don't write it at all if you're not going to make it matter.

[lierdumoa]

#on the one hand I understand that some people don’t want to read smut

Like 85% of tumblr users hate and loathe embarrassment based comedy with every fiber of their beings, but never in my life have I ever seen an author reassure their audience that the embarrassing scenes are skippable.

Lots of people dislike tragedy but never in my life have I ever seen an author reassure the audience that the death and grieving scenes are skippable.

Stop trying to pass off self-censorship as “accommodation.” Stop trying to pass off pandering as “inclusivity.”

Your audience can smell your fear, and it smells rancid.

[gifs-of-puppets]

The Muppet Show (1976-1981)

[paksthestoic]

I love the “captain’s log” mechanism in Star Trek as a method for time skips and exposition.

I am, however, devastated that we never got an episode where any captain’s voiceover is strained and slow. very precise about the events they’re describing. While the screen itself is showing the most batshit insane events and making it clear that the captain is trying VERY HARD to keep everyone involved out of a court martial.

[mooned-knights]

is anyone else annoyed that "ai" encompasses both chatgpt and tools we train to do repetitive tedious work for us. and by the ripple effect of articles like "scientists develop ai to detect cancer early" that make people argue for the merit of chatgpt or become anti-medicine. and by the general state of the world and society

[ibboard]

It's one of those "technical, at some level they are correct, but…" kind of things.

The field of research that gave us machine vision and automated classification and autonomous robots and everything else *is* the Artificial Intelligence field.

BUT they used to talk about machine learning or deep neutral nets or whatever actual technique they used where they trained it with a load of data for a specific task. And now they just use a less meaningful phrase because it implies Artificial GENERAL Intelligence (AGI) and people are wowed by it rather than just going "so you showed a machine lots of examples and it can do one specific job really well and consistently?"