Electronics Technician, geek, happily married, and an aspiring author. Come check out my serial, “No Need For A Core?”
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Electronics Technician, geek, happily married, and an aspiring author. Come check out my serial, “No Need For A Core?”
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AI-generated child sexual abuse images could flood the internet. A watchdog is calling for action (apnews.com)
Revisiting YouTube's Anti-Ad blocker Message
The original post I made about this is here....
Traps We Lay for Ourselves
Inspiration strikes! Your muse has finally appeared and blessed you with a story, fully formed! It’s so vivid in your mind. It’s engaging, impactful, expressive, and beautiful. All you need to do now is put pen to paper and move it from nine o’clock to three o’clock....
how's your week going, Beehaw
things have been fairly quiet this week. not much to report.
A tip about paragraph breaks inside of character speech
So, the rule is that if you have a single character speaking across multiple paragraphs, you don’t use end quotes on those paragraphs. I get the intent of the rule, but I think it looks awful and is jarring....
Gene-edited spider silk 6x stronger than bulletproof Kevlar (interestingengineering.com)
Chinese Scientists have introduced an innovative, green alternative to nylon and Kevlar
Are there any home ice cream makers here?
As my daughter is lactose intolerant I started to make cashew based ice cream. Now, we only eat homemade and I think it tastes better than any store bought. I still try to improve, and was wondering if there are any homemade ice cream makers here?
How should this character die?
I’m planning a sci-fi and fantasy webseries. It probably won’t go anywhere, so don’t get too excited, but I need help with the plot of one episode....
Hi! Do any of you have any art of what your MC looks like? (lemm.ee)
Here’s mine. He’s a vigilante hacker in my future L.A. universe. I think this couldn’t describe how he looks in my head better. What does your character look like?
What do you do when trying to describe something very specific?
Many times when writing, I get a very specific image in my head of the way I want something to look, or the way I want something to move. Particularly with actions where objects are moving in a very specific way, I want to describe them accurately so that most readers would see the same thing that I’m seeing in my head. The...
The Last Of Us Part 2 and Horizon Forbidden West... (feddit.nl)
I was seriously considering getting a PS5 until I saw the costs of the games + hardware.
Is it me or are games really not fun anymore
The best part of video games back in the day was making memories with your friends, now it all feels like structured fun. “This is how you play the game and this is when you are supposed to have fun” Idk if that makes sense.
It’s bots all the way down at kindle unlimited (www.vice.com)
My title might be a bit hyperbolic, but stuff like this worries me. I love to read and I love reading on a kindle. This has been going on for a while, but it has now reached absurd levels.
What search engine do you use?
Data on search engine market share is available, but I wonder what that looks like for Lemmy users in particular, who I would assume lean more technical than the average user, so probably use DuckDuckGo and alternates more than Google....
GOOD games with female protagonists?
yes, i know, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice and horizon zero dawn exist, and id rather i dont know them, so what else you got?
What's the age cut off for socially acceptable gaming
So, hear me out....
#2 Weekly Bad Writing Prompts, Xx_The Worsening_xX
What's crackalacking! Yeah, I'm actually sticking to this, since it seems like a lot of people had a lot of fun with it last week, and I'm still having fun forcing my horrible ideas onto the unsuspecting populace of beehaw. And then you lot, entirely forgetting the point of all this take the bad ideas and actually make them...
Any Peter F. Hamilton fans around?
I'm a huge fan of Peter F. Hamilton myself (original username NorthernLightMountain after all) and figured there ought to be more of us around here!...