Arto Koistinen

"DS9 gets good when the Dominion War starts."

"You should just skip to season 4 in Voyager."

"Andor is the best Star Wars since forever."

You know what's common with all the above things?

Grimdark war stuff.

I'm really starting to get fed up with how everything that is *not* serious […]

It's ironic how the two ruling parties in the US are called Democratic and Republican and yet the country is neither.

#politics #uspol

Theme for #ThursdayFiveList today is #MoonMusic - not exactly a hard theme for a #metal listener 😅

Had to throw in some Ozzy too, of course.

Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LplPi2CxNHI

Defacing God - Black Moon
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=pkUsVEJwXn4 […]

The waiting meme with the text "Waiting for Godot"

Finnish "torille" meme with the text "Huckleberry Finn"

The clown makeup meme with the text "IT"

Leonardo DiCaprio laughing meme with the text "The Master and Margarita"

Distorted Spongebob meme with the text "One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest"

"Has always been" meme with the text "Brave New World"

The seagull scream meme with the text "Call of the wild"

The girl smirking while the house is burning meme with the text "Carrie"

"This is fine" meme with the text "Fahrenheit 451"

I did these "classic book covers for gen z" a couple of years back and I don't think I've shared them here.

See the thread for the rest.

#meme #humor #book #bookstodon #literature #kirjadon #kirjafedi

I kinda disagree with the common criticism that #Superman has too many characters and should have concentrated on the core cast more. I think it’s pretty ingenious how Gunn shows us what kind of Superman we’re dealing by how he interacts with very different people, and how they regard him.

#startrek Voyager: ”Tuvix”

What could have been a simple comedy romp with a somewhat overused premise, turned out to be quite an emotional heavy hitter. One of the best episodes thus far!

I've been watching #StarTrek: Voyager for the first time (I know) and just finished season 2 episode 15, "Threshold."

Umm. Uhh. Ok.

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Are the Americans OK?

@jonne tämä on ironista, koska kellään alle nelikymppisellä ei ole enää varaa useamman päivän Tuska-lippuihin

For the #ThursdayFiveList #UnderCover I decided to go all female #metal!

Dogma - Like a Prayer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7Qg_EU_ehI

LOVEBITES - Painkiller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN5mMEnCNuA

Burning Witches - Shot in the Dark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDd8ywUqQVE

Various […]

Game dev reminder: if you set your Steam game or demo as available for "Steam Deck" via Steam admin, it will *only* download on Steam Deck and be empty on Desktop Linux.

Don't tag your content depot for Steam Deck, unless it's a very specific optimization for it of some sort.

#GameDev

I'm running a romantic fantasy / court intrigue scenario this year in #Ropecon and would like to have a dance ball scene that plays out like a traditional #dnd style miniature combat, with the associated depth. So instead of killing your opponents, you'd gather secrets, influence connections […]

Missing Finnish translations by arzi42 · Pull Request #150 · jointhefediverse-net/jointhefediverse.net Added the Finnish translations for dark and light mode, Fediverse Explorations and Observatorio do Fediverso.

@stefan

If I did everything correctly (never done a pull request before 😅 ), you should see the PR here:

https://github.com/jointhefediverse-net/jointhefediverse.net/pull/150/commits

Pitäisi kääntää "Studies, research papers, and informal polls that explore the fediverse." suomeksi, mutta ainakin äkkiseltään sekä studies, että research papers kääntyvät vaan tutkimuksiksi. Onko kellään tietoa miten näitä on aiemmin käännetty?

@stefan

I’ll take a look at the Finnish translations tomorrow!

Is there any reason to pay 200€ more for #iPhone 16 as opposed to 16e? The specs seem almost identical.

I finally got around to watching Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and I'm pleasantly surprised! I liked Pike and the crew already in Discovery, but this series is even more like classic Trek than I dared hope! A #scifi series with mostly self-contained episodes in 2020s? Sold!

#StarTrek

Unpopular opinion: Andor is just edgy Rebels.

#StarWars

@LaraMint

Ei muuten osaa PS4:kään.

NES style screenshot of a Shadowgate style game

Testing a different art style for the #nesjam game after I learned to use gradients in #asesprite (a bit too much maybe 😅 )

#gamedev #gamejam #retrogame #nes #shadowgate

For today's #ThursdayFiveList we're going #HighCamp and there's no shortage of campy #metal songs!

Dragonforce - Doomsday Party
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3vd4t1atSM

TrollfesT - Dance like a Pink Flamingo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSM52OBPN7o

Ladybaby - Renge Chance […]

Funny how right the #Matrix was about turn of the millennium being the peak of human civilisation before it was destroyed by #AI.

#scifi

Image of a hallway in NES style

I'm starting to be quite happy with my #blender3d to #NES art pipeline after a couple of hours of tinkering. The image still needs some work, but overall it's pretty fast.

#gamedev #nesjam #pixelart

Inside my head, earlier today:
“Wheelbarrow. Mm, wheelbarrow. I like that word.
Wheelbarrow. I should write a story that has a wheelbarrow. Like a medieval gritty one.” (A strong feeling of a world ensues)

This happens to everyone, right? Right..?

#writing #amwriting #amwritingfantasy

@VPSuuronen

Seuraavaksi sit lyhytvideot ja Teams Dating.

I got fed up with the boring old fade to black battle transition in Spa of Destiny and decided to spend a couple of hours with #Unity shader graph to cook up something slighltly more interesting. Whadaya think?

#gamedev

Pixel art of a gate

Also saw the NES jam is coming up and got a sudden inspiration tp try something Shadowgate-y (still not sure what to do with the background, I've gone through like five iterations and nothing looks good 😅 )

#gamedev #pixelart

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Just noticed there's an upcoming #gamejam with main prize of $4,000 and three additional $2,000. I expect the competition to be pretty tough, but that's nothing to sniff at in case you have few weeks to spare!

https://itch.io/jam/tgcxcoreblazer

#gamedev