@inkican, JJ is a hack who has connections. I'm so happy to finally find others who see it, too! That said... I honestly enjoy Super 8. Still, I'll include it's flaws any time I'm tearing his work apart.
@astralcomputing I should revisit this one. I read "Mote..." at a young age and remember very little of that hefty tome. At the time, it was the longest book I'd read. But, the things I do recall remain some of my favorite ideas gleaned from sci-fi.
So nobody gets the t-shirts I wear in the small town where I live (okay, not completely true - they got my "Bigfoot claims he saw me once, but nobody believes him.") So I've decided to lean into it and get new t-shirts that nobody here understands. So far I'm going to order the following:
@stopthatgirl7 I've started Dune numerous times. I get further each time, but I'm still not very far along. I think there's a tone change between the opening of the book and the move to Arrakis. Paul's mother has just met with the "house mother" in my latest attempt. I'll get there. Eventually.
Idea for a #scifi novel, outsourcing it to whoever wants to write it because I'm incapable of doing so✨
🌍 Earth becomes unlivable due to climate change. Humans are forced to explore space and they have to move to [planet of your choice] and colonize it, fighting for survival.
Fast forward to some centuries later, a bunch of astronauts are sent back to Earth to see how well things are going down there.
They land and see that Earth is now gorgeous, full of animal and plant life, it's thriving.
What does our protagonist, a climate scientist, do after they realize that bringing humans back to the planet would destroy it again? 🪐
@daisy I'm a fan of such stories. WALL-E hits some of your ideas.
The Lost in Space reboot on Netflix is about humanity having to leave and resettle elsewhere... Not just one family (like the original TV show), but a fleet of colonists heading to a planet on which settlement has already begun.
Another take is a Godzilla animated series, also on Netflix. When humans return to Earth it's gorgeous, except Godzilla and other giant beasts are now the dominant life-forms.
However, none of these address your protagonist's dilemma. I would suspect a few unexpected changes to Earth, as in the Godzilla series, but not so extreme. Perhaps a touch of Planet of the Apes... Primates or some other species have developed societies of their own with our abandoned remnants in our absence. Maybe some humans survived being left behind and the scientist convinces them to resist and/or gain control of recolonization efforts, toward a healthier symbiosis with the planet. Hmmm... 😉👍
@daisy if you haven't yet, you might also find parts of David Brin's "uplift" books interesting.
I keep forgetting solar-punk exists, and now I'm curious about "flavors" it might contain... From the Na'vi "everything was fine, until you guys showed up" to the Waterworld "everything is horrible, but we can do better" variety. 👍
@daisy Avatar 2 was a great follow-up. I'm looking forward to future installments. And, I can't believe I didn't think of Nausicaa before! It's a personal favorite that I recommend often, after having read the comics in the '90s. The only "Island" that covers to mind is by Peter Benchley (Jaws). I'll look that one up. Thanks!
Mine has to be Dragon Quest: Rocket Slime, a DS spin off of the Dragon Quest series that sees you playing as a slime operating a tank and rescuing the people from your town. You run around the overworld, collecting items to use as ammunition and saving money to upgrade your tank. The art and music are just as great as you’d...
N64 "Beetle Adventure Racing" is crazy fun! Race against the clock to improve your time, race the computer, race another player, and best of all are the wild Arena battles - up to 4 players. This was always big fun at family gatherings.
Wii "Godzilla Unleashed" is my favorite solo game. I'd run the sound through my home theater and crank up all the lovely authentic Toho kaiju roars, screeches, howls, and destruction. Controls varied slightly by monster but always felt intuitive. Battling other beasts could get a little glitchy in tight quarters but knock a few buildings out of the way and all's well. Greatest cathartic stress reliever, ever!
@zkrisher
I'm really new to composing alt-texts. I've tried lengthy, detailed descriptions but found my hard work truncated on some sites. Editing the work down was quite frustrating.
I admit that I'm pleased to learn brevity is best. I hadn't considered "the flow" for screen-reader users.
Most of my images are for my bookshop and can include an amount of detail virtually impossible to describe in but the most generic terms.
I now list each book shown with a modicum of detail regarding condition and enough info so that a screen-reader user might be able to track down the editions shown.
Is there a resource, perhaps the Library of Congress, where detailed descriptions are available for those who want them?
I understand. All my images are my own. I may consider more frequently posting a single book at a time rather than sampler photos of multiple items.
Honestly, I've rather enjoyed trying to compose detailed descriptions for images, but it is extraordinarily time consuming, often doubling or tripling the time it takes for me to complete my daily round of social media updates.
If you wouldn't mind, I'd appreciate a bit of feedback on my alt-texts, thus far.
As fate would have it, while I went to fetch my link, and without searching, I stumbled upon https://social.alt-text.org/@en with nice advice, much of which I've already been slowly sussing out.
If books and other common media products, in their various editions, were described in a database somewhere, a list in alt-text could be referenced by anyone curious to know more. Example... Books by V. C. Andrews have been very popular in the past and are still sought by fans. The first paperback editions for many of those books have a die-cut hole in the cover, revealing an image on the page immediately behind the cover. However, later printings are not die-cut and the image page is removed... Yet, I've found both versions often have identical ISBN numbers. This is a very important detail for collectors and for descriptive text. Cataloging a database of media images is gonna be a tricky job, if anyone goes that route.
So I bought myself a Victorinox Tinker Deluxe SAK, after my friend told me he’s been using his SAK for the last 15 years. I’m into small tinkering work, urban partisan activity and like to be prepared....
@chaos_rat, I've had and used the same one daily for ±30 yrs. I bought a leather belt holder with it, which included a small sharpening rod. The plastic shell is broken in a few spots from occasional drops over the years. Also a shot is worn in it's shell from rubbing against the button fastener of the sheath for all those years. I lost the toothpick many years ago. I purchased a new one in 2020, but have yet to open it's packaging. I just have too much history with the old one. It's a good buy. You won't regret it!
Attached: 3 images Does anyone know what these bugs are? Should I be concerned that they're all over the wall next to the door of my bookshop? #entomology #entomologists #insects #bugstodon
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The director's vision has always been somewhat... bland.
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Must watch classic SciFi movies?
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Mine has to be Dragon Quest: Rocket Slime, a DS spin off of the Dragon Quest series that sees you playing as a slime operating a tank and rescuing the people from your town. You run around the overworld, collecting items to use as ammunition and saving money to upgrade your tank. The art and music are just as great as you’d...
Victorinox Tinker Deluxe (slrpnk.net)
So I bought myself a Victorinox Tinker Deluxe SAK, after my friend told me he’s been using his SAK for the last 15 years. I’m into small tinkering work, urban partisan activity and like to be prepared....
Does anyone know what kind of bugs these are? (mastodon.social)
Attached: 3 images Does anyone know what these bugs are? Should I be concerned that they're all over the wall next to the door of my bookshop? #entomology #entomologists #insects #bugstodon