Yeah its super easy now: did your result come from Google? Then AI had a digital hand in it.

I dunno, I think John K managed the worst of both worlds.

That’s why I put <BAD SERIES> on, then I’m never tempted to stop and watch.

It is a place where you drive, to your job

Why wait? Those horny, gym-rat twinks are out there waiting for you right now!

In Alejandro Jodorowsky’s concept for a Dune film from the early 1970s, each house has their costumes and architecture designed by a contemporary artist. Giger was the designer for the Harkonnen, and several of his ideas persisted beyond the failed film.

The Harkonnen Castle

A Harkonnen chair

I assumed Villeneuve was calling back to those designs.

Former president and current chair of the face-eating leopard party shocked at the amount of hungry cats patrolling around their mansion.

People in times of desperate oppression and violence rarely turn to the uncaring vastness of the chaotic universe for comfort.

Is it just me, or is it worrying how companies keep packing up and selling off the only parts of their businesses that actually, you know, make stuff, in favor of becoming full time bullshit peddlers?

I’ve been wanting to get a pipe Garfield tattoo since first seeing this. It changed me. Made me better.

KGLW’s current line-up

I agree. It shows lack of faith in your work and your audience. It also takes away the audiences’ sense of “getting it” when they look and notice, which makes your audience feel smart and in conversation with you.

Reminds me of those little panels beside paintings in a gallery that sometimes tell you way too much about what the artist was thinking. The work itself is supposed to be communicating, if you need supplemental material then you may have failed somewhat in the original work.

I’m definitely getting my blog going regularly again… next year…

My Lemmy is usually more like…

Dr. Cakehavin

What everyday in my house would be like

I guess you are, in some sense, “running Doom” as well as that AI that was supposedly running it, in that you are imperfectly emulating the experience of having previously seen Doom played.

Also my brain’s mod manager is total shit, long way to go catching up to DoomLauncher.

Guianan uses the incredible power of matter replication and atomic assembly to make chocolate cakes and fake alcohol for people. The holodeck does the same, plus generates 3d holograms with perfectly realistic fidelity, so that people can play racquetball in a pretend arena, or have a pirate adventure. I don’t think that “abusing the ship’s resources for fun” is a big problem in that era.

Not sure why you got downvoted, this is an excellent point. I’ve been an atheist for decades now but I still love to read tarot and yijing for myself and others. They’re excellent tools for self-study, brainstorming, and storytelling. I like how Jodorowsky puts it: that magic speaks with the voice of the subconscious. Manipulation of the symbolic language of dreams, as with tarot cards, can prompt the conscious mind into exploring new avenues of thought, making unexpected connections which can lead to insight.

It feels like magic in the same way (for the same reasons) that cold reading allows mentalist to trick people. In the same way that meditation and hypnosis are connected. These are tools that can be used to trick people, but you can also “trick” yourself in a controlled way to accomplish things you want.

Unrelated to the astrology discussion, I love episodes with subtle jokes like this one. That tiny smile for 2 panels. I wonder if the artist redraws each nearly identical panel in order to feel the same numbing repetition that Miles is meant to express?