@ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world

ElectroVagrant

@ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world

Another traveler of the wireways.

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ElectroVagrant,

Hah, yeah, I tried to mention a variety so people wouldn’t think any show was too old or too niche. I watch whatever manages to snag my interest in some way.

Some shows I check out simply from the sudden uptick in memes, which is how I found my way to Columbo.

ElectroVagrant,

“The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window” was a pretty good (non anime) series too. – It’s a kind of hilarious take on scary movies and the tropes within them.

I see they’re competing with some Japanese shows for long, descriptive titles! Jokes aside, this sounds up my alley!

ElectroVagrant,

Tales from the Crypt for spookies.

Mentioning this in contrast with funnies got me thinking…And hey, they did meet!

Elvira sitting beside the Cryptkeeper with her hand to her cheek, and his hand on her left hand on an armrest.

ElectroVagrant,

A little surprised this hasn’t been discussed more on here…Also this is particularly relevant, if true, given Altman stepping into overseeing safety:

Toner says that one reason the board stopped trusting Altman was his failure to tell the board that he owned the OpenAI Startup Fund; another was how he gave inaccurate info about the company’s safety processes “on multiple occasions.”

Emphasis mine.

ElectroVagrant,

Hmm, maybe instead then dye hair and wear a well-fitted wig to create the look… 🤔

Glancing at this, I was thinking it might be fun to have a well-made headband that blended with your hair and had nice soft cat/dog ears. Bonus for the tech-inclined would be some way to make’em move as well somehow.

ElectroVagrant,

Given the absence of specific communities (or active ones so far), if people would like they could start these conversations over in !general.

I recognize it’s not the same, particularly for getting to those deep dive points you mention with ATLA, but gotta start somewhere, right?

Also I can easily give this go-ahead being one of the mods there. Up to now I’ve hesitated popping into threads like this and pointing people there because I’m not a fan of consolidation, but it’s become apparent some simple meeting area may help to get more niche communities spun off and going.

ElectroVagrant,

You might give the programming.dev instance a try for the first couple subjects, as they have an open !programming community that may work for them.

ElectroVagrant,

Seeing as this thread is still active, instead of continuing to reply to people throughout, gonna go ahead and put this out here.

If you’re not finding an active community for something (safe for work, that is) or any community whatsoever for your interest, you’re welcome to post about the topics that interest you in !general till you find enough likeminded people to get a separate community going. This was always allowed tbh, but I’ve tried to make it more explicit and clear that it’s cool.

ElectroVagrant,

Brings to mind this NSFW ('cause light horror) short film “Circles”

ElectroVagrant, (edited )

Original article: reuters.com/…/biden-whats-happening-gaza-is-not-g…

It’s pretty clear to me Biden’s trying to thread the needle on this in a gruesome way. The argument seems to follow the form of: civilian deaths are collateral damage, this is unfortunate but this is war and they are not purposely being targeted and so this is not genocide.

However that almost willfully ignores the denial and blocking of aid to the same affected civilians, which is a deliberate action that despite the cover story being to prevent it reaching Hamas, falls entirely flat as regardless, it results in direct suffering and death of the civilians. I say almost because some small efforts have been made to push back against the denial of aid, but as is evident to anyone monitoring the situation, these efforts are all far too small to address the widespread suffering and death of the Gazan people.

This whole semantics game around genocide is simply disgusting. You know those in government know exactly what people mean when they’re calling it that, they want an end to the killing and an end to the deaths of civilians, whether from military strikes or denial of aid.

ElectroVagrant,

when you simply become the tail I think that makes you like a ferret, or other roaming furry cylinders

hmm, fluffy ferrets…

ElectroVagrant,

when you get cc’d on an email and wait till the right moment to send the CharCoal image you’ve had waiting for this moment

ElectroVagrant,

Once I thought and did the thing then realized the thought was the thing to do and then it kept going and going and…

ElectroVagrant,

You might try different media if you haven’t already, as in, instead of pencil/pen and paper, maybe colored pencils or markers. Maybe even try getting some black paper and trying to draw with white color pencils instead.

I’m sure you may have tried a variety of things over the years, so I’m just spitballing, but also if you’re trying to dive into the deep end with more complex drawings, you might revisit and really hone the fundamentals. Fundamentals being like getting clean lines by practicing drawing those over and over till you can get a nice, sharp line (which often isn’t a single pencil/brush stroke!).

Once you have those down you may move on to the simple shapes, squares, triangles, circles, and try to recognize how those are put together for more complex forms. It’s a tough skill to get down, without a doubt (I’m not some proficient artist personally), but it’s just that: a skill that takes not only practice but learning methodologies. One of the toughest parts with drawing is that there’s so many methods to go about it to figure out which helps you improve.

ElectroVagrant,

Jungle is a plant metropolis

ElectroVagrant,

oh, uh, for those unfamiliar: Shadowrun’s a tabletop RPG as well as a computer RPG with a cyberpunk setting but with fantasy creatures and magic mixed together

ElectroVagrant,

bummer, an ent using comms tech despite the classic trait of’em being against exploitative civilization didn’t click as much as I thought it might

more fun imagery for me! In my head it’s a clear visual of a cross between solar and cyberpunk. Then again, I don’t remember ents in Shadowrun, but people play the TTRPG a little fast and loose like D&D, so I stand by my OP thought

ElectroVagrant,

it’s 2% milk, 98% mystery fun

ElectroVagrant,

I agree on both points!

I like to try to add a little more levity around here, especially when it’s in the spirit of the original post!

Whatever happened to lemmy.film?

It had a few niche communities I would occasionally post to after the Reddit exodus but a couple months later I would post there and get no responses or votes. Going to lemmy.film now gives me an error message. Did they decide to shut it down or combine with another instance similar to FMHY? I am curious if they gave some kind...

ElectroVagrant,

I don’t know the specifics of what may have happened with Lemmy.film, so we’ll have to see if someone else may know.

As to what happens to posts to “their” communities, my rough understanding is that with the host server gone, federation either doesn’t occur or maybe attempts to reach the host but simply stops after some number of attempts. Upon failure I think it simply collects the posts on your home server/instance’s copy of the community.

Not sure what would happen if a new instance was spun up of Lemmy.film either from a backup or in general, but I’d imagine there’s some settings/adjustments that may be calibrated to prevent it getting a backlog of posts dumped on it causing it to get bogged down or crash.

As to questions specifically about the Lemmy software, you may try !lemmy_support or !lemmy, think either one would be okay for this.

ElectroVagrant,

At a glance this sounds even more intrusive than it’s been with Win10 (and maybe 11?), and sadly it’s no surprise as even without AI junk, I think the defaults with Win10 (and maybe 11) are to track your PC use to try to provide some “convenience” features, e.g. display of recently used programs/accessed files when you go to open a new desktop (Win key + Tab).

If they would be more transparent about this and indicate whether and how much of that info, “anonymized/depersonalized” or not, is being taken by them, I think people would still be understandably annoyed but more understanding; at least with an easy opt out or better still, the default being that you must opt in for any of it.

ElectroVagrant, (edited )

I am very good at being online so I am definitely not just getting around to mentioning that I cross-posted this to our peer community !casualconversation where some others have responded with some of the active communities they’ve found: lemmy.world/post/14734186

If you’ve any you’d like to add, comments are open here as well!

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