John Boorman's Zardoz (1974) Speaking to the magazine Films and Filming in 1974, Sean Connery said that "Zardoz" was "one of the best ideas [he'd] come across for ages" and claimed to have been "gripped" by lack of "spaceships and rockets" in a sci-fi movie. Sean is team big-flying-stone-head☝️

Most autistic people think they’re “getting worse”. You’re not. You’re burning out - from masking, overthinking, and trying to earn safety in a system that withholds it. You can recover. But only by learning how to stop negotiating with a world that keeps asking for your disappearance.

AI-generated content is flooding the internet, and we're entering a new era of information overload. Watch our latest video to find out how AI slop affects the internet and why kurzgesagt videos will always remain human-made: https://kgs.link/AISlop

character sketches

made a guy for Draw Steel

Even a passing knowledge of Black history will make clear that not only was this level of destruction possible, it was inevitable. “Did you know they’d shut down US AID?” I mean these are the same people who closed all public schools in a county rather than desegregate. Yes. Yes I did.

Do you remember the Hatch Act? The 1939 federal law restricting political activities of federal employees to ensure nonpartisan administration of government programs and protect employees from political coercion? Because it sure looks like someone doesn't.

ok this breakdown of AI writing indicators is incredible. Huge shout-out to the Wikipedia community for this

It seems like the Draw Steel subreddit is mostly folks who are playing the game, or making characters with intent to play. So when someone shows up from Internet RPGland with "here's how to fix this glaring omission" you just see a bunch of people responding with "???*

beens!

🔥𝓓𝓻𝓪𝓰𝓸𝓷 𝓚𝓷𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽🔥 There is a keep, deep in the mountains, rumored to be protected by fierce warriors that wear dragon wings like armor. Some say they’re dragons in human form, but no one has ever gotten close enough to find out if the rumors hold true.

rank 3 nuclear cavalier

Disbanding ICE and prosecuting everyone who led and worked for it is, in fact, the moderate position.

Got another batch of sketch cards for you to preview ahead of my original art drop this weekend.

Ain't it the truth.

Old Mech Commission, The Matter at Hand.

The reason it's a *male* loneliness epidemic instead of a loneliness epidemic is because a lot of men insist on thinking of themselves as male first and human second and that's *never* going to make you a lot of friends and will absolutely open you to grifters selling magic MAN pills. 3/3

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things I would do if you're a nsfw/kink creative *now* because I've been eerily prescient about every single wave: a) get a personal site with your own domain you own. *now*. not a carrd or third party squarespace. not next week. *now*. get it online with ugly-ass html but get your links there.

My dms are open!

Like, it *is* technically homophobia, but it's more subtle. They don't have a problem with us existing or having the same rights, etc. But they can't accept, at a fundamental level, that their POV isn't the default. That there could be a world that doesn't need or consider them the protagonist.

imagine relying on AI to write your bio and then having the nerve to say you're witty and full of personality

@orbitaldropkick.bsky.social made some comments about Draw Steel, and I thought it would be interesting to hear his thoughts. We also talk about games not appologizing for their design, how testing makes games better, and how Draw Steel is not appealing game. 👀 Listen on GoblinPoints.com/2518

Me raging that even my gas station was charging $7 for a can of spam.

Really relishing the Frankenstein's monster situation that Elon Musk and the right have created with Grok

No seriously media outlets: Get gaming desks, your internet culture desks, & your extremism desks linked up YESTERDAY or you're going to find yourselves missing so much context it'll be fundamentally embarrassing. Already seen things from NYT, BBC, & AP all failing to elucidate CRUCIAL information.

Holy crap! There's an ACTUAL NUMBER for PayPal in this! PayPal is NOTORIOUS for never giving out numbers!!! This is pure gold!

dracula: so we meet again mister bond bond: have we met? sorry dracula: at susan’s party  bond: dracula: in malibu bond: oh right right the vampire guy dracula: ha ha yes the vampire guy

One for @hookland.bsky.social

The fact that @jdragsky.bsky.social brings up, specifically, the NON-expressionist elements of Apocalypse World got me thinking. Funny enough, I’d credit it as one of the games that opened up my own play in a similar direction.

"Manosphere"... you mean this thing?

Do it. Search your name. Take their money. It’s yours anyway.

“All these traumas are the reason why the Irish took almost 150 years before they could memorialise what they experienced in the 1840s. Those who inflict starvation are aware of this, they know that what they’re doing is actually dismantling a society.” please share & donate if you can

🧭 A sale is cast upon my stock art. 🗺️ 15%OFF on each item on Itch. Much more in the bundle. Because resting in August cost me highly. itch.io/s/159690/sep... #stockart #ttrpg #indierpg #bsnm

random #monster illustration I found kicking around

"Mold Sprites" 2022, 2023 2.5"x3.5" watercolor / multimedia prints available: tealnewcombart.etsy.com

New artwork for the exhibition standy. An OC wizard. 🪄

They don't feel shame, but they care deeply about status. Wanting to be liked--or at least envied--is their Achilles heel. We can use that against them:it's cheap, non-violent & effective. Social shunning of elites supporting Pinochet helped bring down the Chilean dictator: it can work here too.

Once, Sesame Street was a lifeline for indie animators. It offered money and incredible freedom to create. This built an indie animation boom that powered MTV, Nickelodeon and much more. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-golden...

I'm gonna read the whole thing, but this opening salvo is first rate

That crunchy roll not only has used subtitles made using gen ai lately but when they bought out funimation and then deleted people's copies of products while almost doubling the price Yall gonna learn today that bluesky is not a place you can come on if you've been a shitty company

20 yo Spellsword: so yeah even though it's ice-enchanted it can still infuse with the Stream of Zalaran for additional dark affinity 50 yo Warrior: you can't get a good axe that just does physical damage anymore. it's all elemental flavored shit. in my day a melee weapon would never scale with INT

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There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used. As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how Part 1: is your work in Libgen? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

The way it consolidates isn't through overwhelming force but through a steady dispiriting of those who would oppose it at the ballot box. Even highly unpopular weak regimes survive if they can manifest an aura of inevitability. This is our biggest battle and we have literally one chance to win it.

rent stabilization excludes buildings with fewer than six units for this precise reason so … try again ?

This is an incredible read. I'm married to an artist and still learned a lot from it.

Blades '68: The Operative, and the Swinger. If the mood of B68 has two poles, it is these.