The AntiChamber

Welcome to the AntiChamber, my piece of the web where I post what I like and sometimes rant about stupid stuff in movies and games. Geek, gamer, lazy writer and an engineer (so I actually kinda know what I'm saying about technology)

[endermanalbino]

Saryn ☣☠️🌌

[mechagender]

yeah i guess you are my little sporechamp

[captainsblogsupplemental]

Most Random Star Trek Celebrity Cameos: Sarah Silverman

Add your favourite

[meme-space-nine]

He has like 30 seconds of screen time for no goddamn reason

OR

The literal KING OF JORDAN, who was an extra in VOY: Investigations purely because he was a fucking huge fan

And finally:

Iggy Pop, who went beyond cameo and into starring role in The Magnificent Ferengi without even being an actor

[foone]

My favorite “what?” cameo: Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac.

[qthewhatever]

Dr Mae Jemisen, irl astronaut!

[magpierhymes]

How has no one added Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine yet?

[kuwdora]

Gabrielle Union as N'Garen in Star Trek: Deep Space 9’s Sons and Daughters.

Jason Alexander as Kurros in Star Trek: Voyager’s Think Tank.

Daniel Dae Kim as Corporal D. Chang in Star Trek: Voyager’s Blink of an Eye (one of my favorite Voy episodes!)

Seth McFarlane as Ensign Rivers in Enterprise’s The Forgotten and Affliction.

Lori Petty as Noss in Star Trek Voyager’s Gravity (her scenes with Tim Russ were incredible.)

[talontwo]

Don't forget Stephen Hawking playing a hologram of himself, getting to tell a holographic Albert Einstein "Wrong again, Albert!"

[secondlina]

Crow Time - Statue 1

Please like, comment, follow!

It brings me joy! It validates my bird obsession!

[Holy crap there's a Part 2??]

[PART 3!!!!]

[Read Crow Time] [Patreon]

[talontwo]

Ross Scott from Accursed Farms (of Freeman's Mind fame) has a proposal

[talontwo]

Lord Vetinari glanced at a piece of paper. >'Did you really punch the president of the Assassins' Guild?' -'Yes, sir.' >'Why?' -'Didn't have a dagger, sir.'

[talontwo]

‘You’re wondering whether I really would cut your throat,’ panted Magrat. ‘I don’t know either. Think of the fun we could have together, finding out.’

[synthetic-ultramarine]

"The tale of the two friends who really wanted to hang out but were too busy" -the great classic tragedy by Aeschylus. The scene where one of them realizes they cant hang out on Wednesday because they have to go to a work thing on Wednesday will break your heart

[talontwo]

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[e-rose]

🖤🖤🖤

[sourcreammachine]

unironically this is what sheer absolute delight looks like

[talontwo]

Goths are fascinating. On goth festivals you get merch stores for BDSM-looking fashion, black leather clothing and tons of rivets right besides the fluffiest plushies you've ever seen. Mostly bats and black cats of course, but still...

[bramblepatch]

It's very funny to me that the stereotypical gelatinous cube is bright fucking green when the monster itself is almost perfectly transparent. Like its gimmick is that it's a monster that imitates an empty 10x10 hallway. How many people have fallen victim to gelatinous cubes because they "know" that the ooze is bright green and so don't bother to check the suspiciously clean corridor in front of them.

[thepioden]

The cube is green because oh my god do you know how hard it is to draw a perfectly transparent cube? Especially in isolation, like in the monster manual? Even if you put debris in, it reads as "floating skull ft. helium sword." Awful. Absolutely wretched.

[bramblepatch]

I'm picturing it appearing in in-universe bestiaries with a little caption like *specimen dyed for visibility.

Dungeon naturalists sneaking up on a cube with a bucket of green dye so they can see it well enough to study it.

[thepioden]

Classifying your Slimes and Oozes by Gram staining them

[reddpenn]

In the last campaign I ran, one of the NPCs raised gelatinous cubes as a hobby. She selectively bred them for color saturation, and her latest cube was a rare green color morph worthy of being entered into exotic pet shows. She named it Billy-Blob.

[talontwo]

[talontwo]

Found on the road =)

[ghibli-collector]

Hayao Miyazaki’s Happy New Year 2024 Year of the Dragon illustration

[ghibli-collector]

[ghibli-collector]

[tanuki-kimono]

Oh there are some I had never seen <3

[arctic-hands]

When I was a teenager and still on Neopets I was part of a pretty big Star Trek guild and eventually became part of its council, with the solemn duty of creating weekly polls. Well one day I created the poll "Which would win in a fight? Borg Cube or Death Star?". Naturally, since this was a Star Trek guild, the answer was overwhelmingly "Borg Cube", but someone did have the rationality to point out we were biased.

So I look up a pretty prominent Star Wars guild and message one of their council and ask them to poll the same question and get back to me in a week. They do, and naturally the fuckin geeks said "Death Star".

So then I look up a Stargate guild and messaged the lead council member, saying the same thing, and they get back to me almost immediately saying that the Death Star would immediately one-shot a Borg Cube but they would never be able to do it again to another Cube. And I took that wisdom back to my guild and we were mollified, and for one moment the Nerd World was peaceful.

[evilsoup]

[battlestarsgunstars]

Battlestar Galactica S1E01 - “33”. Destruction of the Olympic Carrier

[talontwo]

@traumschwinge Fresh trauma for Lee!

Also I cant help but think of Ahsoka where a similar strafe against her shuttle does absolutely NOTHING to the ship. What.

[someemochick]

[enriquemzn262]

I absolutely adore the ongoing history of the Douglas DC-3, a design born in the early 30’s as the DC-2 passenger plane

Which showed so much potential it was improved into the current DC-3 version just a few years later

Then the US Army Air Corps took notice of the plane, equally liked it, and turned it into quite the formidable military transport, eventually helping win WW2

But her military carrier didn’t end there, as the airframe proved rugged and reliable enough to be turned into a gunship barely 20 years after WW2

Meanwhile enjoying massive success in the post-war civilian market, with so many made they basically became a mainstay of airports all over the world, even somehow turning into a floatplane in the process.

But as the years went on, the type proved to be virtually irreplaceable, so rather than retiring it, many operators opted to upgrade it, ending with a full modernization effort that basically turned the plane into a turboprop

Which was also reflected in its earlier military form, now deadlier than ever

And while some failed yet interesting attempts where made along the way to give the plane other uses, like this long-range three-engine variant

The success of the original design has ensured we will keep seeing them in the skies above long after it turns 100 years, arguably the most remarkable aircraft design of the XX century.

[mamoru]

holy shit the new unity pricing plan

[mamoru]

if I understand correctly...

developers have to pay a fee per install

even if the game is pirated

even if they started development years ago

but does this mean one machine installing a thousand times costs money? does this mean currently released unity games have to pay as well? is there any clause for what happens if the installs are done as a malicious campaign, or does this just give unity a blank check to bankrupt any developer they want if they set up a rack of machines doing malicious uninstalls and installs?

[mamoru]

cult of the lamb announced they are deleting their game entirely on january 1st 2024 in response to the unity fees, and that if you want this game you should buy it now

[mamoru]

statements from innersloth (developers of among us) and aggro crab (developers of going under)

[definitely-not-iorveth]

IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT THE MONEY BTW

“There are some certifications you need for having such service in your game and releasing it on consoles and other platforms. You need an end-user license agreement (EULA), because you’ll be sending info from the player’s device to an external server. So, will indies be forced to add such DRMs on their games so they can track the installs? Again, Unity does not make it clear. Forcing DRM on games has a long (and bad) history in gaming. Many tools used for this are literally indistinguishable from malwares…There’s no benefit to the devs or the user here.”

“The Verge’s Ash Parrish was quick to point out that the multiple install charges could give right-wing reactionaries a new way to damage a game and/or studio: revenue bombing. If certain groups are angered by, say, a queer character in a game or a Black woman lead (both of which have whipped gamers into a frenzy before), then they could repeatedly install said game over and over again, racking up Unity’s Runtime Fee for the studio.”

Devs React To Unity's Newly Announced Fee For Game Installs: ‘Not To Be Trusted’ [UPDATE]

Popular game engine Unity’s new installation fee could cost developers big-time

[talontwo]

Things that happen when you make a former EA-executive your CEO, I guess.