Rekkin On The Internet

THIS IS WHAT SAM ALTMAN WANTS TO TAKE FROM YOU

A screenshot of Star Trek: Enterprise, showing Vulcan science lady T'Pol in the background and a heavily blurred Travis Mayweather, ship's navigator, in front of her and only about 3/4 in frame. A perpetually sidelined character, he appears nowhere else in this episode despite being one of the main crewmembers on the ship's bridge and therefore part of the regular command staff.

I always point to the episode where this is his only appearance.

This random user generally agrees. While I get what they were going for, it felt like just about the least interesting way for the story to end.

Why do I care about characters who provably "aren't real?" Because I'm engaging with fiction, that's the point!

Damage mitigation via gear setups and knowing when you can spend a turn healing is usually such a big part of any turn-based RPG, and I just don't know if getting rid of that for "you either take no damage or die in 2 hits from every enemy" was more interesting.

Headline writers must be stopped. Abolish SEO, bring back formatting restrictions, *something* - this headline is anti-information, it has no meaning. My head hurts.

I don't know what game this is, but importing the Space Marine 2 character models into it was genius.

Wow Signal

Peace Walker getting a PC release so others an experience it is great and all, but I care about more important things.

Like the ability to mod Japan-only product placement back into the game. We will remove these borders, like The Boss originally wanted.

I've been getting dozens of these, and honestly the worst thing about it is that I've quickly become so distrustful of anyone who says they liked my work.

I have yet to see any evidence that there is a market for AI-generated books outside of people being tricked into thinking they are not AI-generated books. AKA, it is a project of scamming and deceiving people, and really should be treated as fraud

I think all the time about how every tech company desperately tried to get us on board with crypto/NFTs in 2022, including all those Super Bowl ads. They wasted a bunch of energy, spewed a bunch of emissions, got vulnerable people hooked on pyramid schemes, and then just pretended it didn't happen?

Also see Dan O’Bannon’s sketch of The Facehugger from Alien

why do they call it "going to medical school" and not "getting a meducation"

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

LINK, HE COME TO TOWN

Forgot that I never posted this pixel Freya I made back when wplace was the hot new topic. A recreation of the one official render she got, but otherwise done entirely by hand.

#FreyaCrescent #FF9 #FFIX #FreyaVotedBestRat

generative AI has become widely available in the summer of 2022 and entered mainstream in 2023

people are working themselves up in a frenzy, convinced they're utterly helpless without software younger than still-fresh canned tuna. we have been making art for at least 50,000 years, get a grip

you're not wrong but also, consider:

In the not-too-distant future, RiffTrax is making four new episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000! Support us on Kickstarter: rifftraxmakesmst3k.com #RiffTraxMakesMST3K @mst3kofficial.bsky.social

YouTube video by Technology Connections You are being misled about renewable energy technology.

Let's do this.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...

Redesigns of Bob, Enzo, Dot, Mouse, Megabyte, Hexadecimal, and a couple binomes from the cartoon Reboot

I drew some of the little people who live inside my computer
#Reboot

Quality performance art. Easy to parse, thematically relevant, kinda gross. Love it.

Sixteen years ago, the Supreme Court decided that corporations are people under the First Amendment.

Today, sold-out politicians block progress on all fronts to appease their corporate donors.

Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

Anyone else here on #booksky or #writesky or whatever the tag is find themselves constantly getting what are clearly AI-generated scam emails, but without the scam? Like they're absolutely trying to get something from me but don't include a phishing link or a shady paypal account.

What's the goal?

YouTube video by Rekkin Was Halo 3 the Worst it Could Have Been?

From hell's heart I stab at th(r)ee, with my last breath I curse th(r)ee.

Finishing up the #Halo trilogy retrospective with a game some have described as "creatively bankrupt" and "a death of ambition," something that truly feels like it doesn't want to be here.

youtu.be/ZLyoN3SvfY0