ElectroVagrant

ElectroVagrant, 7 hours ago

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

ElectroVagrant, 1 day ago (edited 23 hours ago)

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, 1 day ago

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

hmm, fluffy ferrets…

ElectroVagrant, 1 day ago

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, 1 day ago

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, 1 day ago

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, 1 day ago

Jungle is a plant metropolis

ElectroVagrant, 2 days ago

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, 1 day ago

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, 2 days ago

it’s 2% milk, 98% mystery fun

ElectroVagrant, 1 day ago

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!

ElectroVagrant, 2 days ago

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, 2 days ago

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, 2 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

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!