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[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are those basically fountain-pen-ink rapidographs? I don't follow drafting pens all that much. Looks like a nice set, regardless!

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Obviously not all of it, but I would just about bet that it's at least 75% of this thing will be set on Earth. This is almost always a logistic/budget compromise move when a franchise is normally high-fantasy and/or space-based.

Either that, or the filmmakers don't believe in the property, which is even worse. Despite Jo being a hack and an awful person, Harry Potter grabbed people's imagination because it was built around being low-fantasy with Harry serving as an audience insert. The Matrix inverted the trope, but narratively it worked on the same idea. He-Man, IIRC, has some winks and nods to Earth existing, but it's basically high-fantasy, where Eternia and its galaxy are the universe. OG Star Wars, among others, is the model for how you structure something similarly without bailing on your high-fantasy setting. You need you naive hero to refuse the guide's call to action until they have been taught lessons about the broader world, possibly by flambeing their aunt and uncle, but you can do it by starting in a corner of the setting that's more prosaic and "down to earth" without literally being Earth.

This one feels like they wanted Minecraft kitsch, callbacks to the Dolph Lundgren movie, lifting story beats from She-Ra, and limiting how much of the world they had to build/dress/animate, particularly sets and extras. All this for a second- or third-tier memberberries property. I could be wrong, but I think it's going to land with a thud.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 83 points 2 days ago (12 children)

Dr. Perky is Food Lion's own-brand Dr Pepper knockoff. Knock-off cereal and soda names are the best. Prongles were real, but apparently more of a gag product co-packed by a board game company.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

"Hotel," nothin'. That's clearly the Selina Meyer Presidential Library.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Pretty sure the one with the racing bumper is the real deal.

I'm inclined to agree on that one. No "AI sheen," no impossible parts, text that makes sense, the bumper matches the car behind the forklift.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I like the one with the long shocks monster truck style

Which is AI generated (from a Sora video) as well. There's also at least one photoshop and the lego one is just a close-up of a (very nice) lego model.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Also sounds like an org that wants its event, which depends on visas for its players to happen at all and on visas for its fans to be a commercial success, to get special treatment from the Orange Menace.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's basically hickory. Cuts nice, but hell on tools. This batch of lumber was supposed to be for a desk, my great move into proper (if simple) furniture. Instead, I killed a set of jointer blades trying to set it up, jacked up something when trying to set the new ones, and sold off most of the boards with the tools. I have since moved onto an insert-head jointer, but frankly my shop has been missing me lately.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

lemmy.world/lemmy.world/post/41759738

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Love this! Made me dig up mine to post as well.

 

Made this a few years ago myself. Mostly with my Shopsmith, since we were about to move and I’d sold most of the other tools. Floating tenon (DIY domino, basically) on the joint.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

In the article, the main "woke distractions" are celebrity gossip and reprinted AP articles. I know for MAGA, "woke" mostly just means things they don't like, but this is making that true to the point of self-parody. I suppose rain on a golfing day, the sound of fingernails on chalkboards, and hangovers will be "woke" soon enough.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Apart from all the deflection and Putin and Gilded-Age foreign policy policy theories, which may well be right, I think President Dingleberry also found out that Greenland is 1% larger by area than the Louisiana Purchase, which would make him the president that most embiggened America. How can you you deny MAGA if he literally made it greater (in size) than any president prior to him?

It's also possible he has only ever looked at a Mercator and thinks Greenland is literally the size of Africa or South America.

 
 
 
 

Fun to see/hear something from before the hobby blew up, but after Model M's were "retro."

 

Can't be a terrible person if you don't also make the playoff.

AAANNNDD… he got arrested. Holy poop.

 

I had spare PCBs left over from an earlier project. I got the Signature Plastics DSS Honeywell keycaps on sale from a vendor who was closing down. I made the plate design using online tools, then cut it and the bottom plate on my home laser. I designed the 3D-printed case to look like the original terminal keyboards that inspired the keycaps. I used black switches because a heavy linear feels right for something like this. Firmware is QMK/VIAL. More info here. There's much that could be better, but I'm pleased with how it came out.

 

Obviously an insanely imperfect analogy, but kind of fun to noodle on, after having the initial thought actually in the shower. At the simplest level, do you need to cram multiple epic adventure tales, liberally dosed with didactic religious content, into a single human brain? Meter and repetition and tropes become your best friend. Beyond that though, there are still ways that poetic techniques pack more meaning into fewer words than prose, which gets described as "poetic" when it effectively does the same things.

If you find the right turn of phrase, the combination of sound, connotation, and (hopefully) shared cultural touchstones (""Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra"?) means you can describe an entire scene effectively without the multiple paragraphs otherwise needed to set out every morpheme of intended communication. Now, as pages of writing become cheaper and more accessible, they also take over the use cases where efficiency of communication was imposed rather than sought, but the toolbox remains there for those who simply like the exercise, or where there is still value, such as in verbal communication tied to a musical arrangement that needs to wrap things up before the audience loses interest. Also like compression, there are libraries that need to be installed and processing overhead involved to decompress the meaning that has been encoded into fewer words than strictly necessary.

Limitations to the analogy I'm already thinking of: Subtext exists regardless of how wordy you are. It might be a false dichotomy to think you can separate poetry from music at all.

 
 

Keyboard from 2010 built by TG3 for a Siemens chemistry analyzer. I cleaned it up, added some weight to the bottom, and converted to USB. Cherry MX Black and PBT Dye-subbed DCS caps. Take a peek at what should be F9 and F10 (and are after conversion), as well as some of the keys above the numpad, which, tangentially, now has 5 keys that do absolutely nothing related to what's written on them.

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