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Did you know that Vin Diesel taught her to play D&D during the filming of that movie? I would give anything to know what character class she picked.

in their first appearance, the Borg steal a toilet

You have my attention. Mesmerizing design; nails the aesthetic of a specific era of gaming, among other things. Firelock 198x is a tabletop miniatures game of fantasy warfare in the nuclear age. firelock-team.itch.io/firelock-198...

Fun film fact. In Escape from New York (1981) they used reflective tape on a miniature model of the city & filmed it under black light to approximate 'cutting-edge' wireframe CG, which would have blown the budget at the time.

Today I learned that Moebius did illustrations for Maxwell House Coffee magazine ads. And they are amazing.

Ambient Shipping by Marc Da Costa uses loudspeakers, a synthesized voice, shipping records, and AIS data to speak the contents of cargo ships as they float by. marcdacosta.com/ambient-ship...

perhaps worth noting that this unit was running up until 2019 just fine, and it was only shut down because of cheap gas + no climate regs

Full cast:
Frodo - Kermit
Samwise - Scooter
Arwen - Miss Piggy
Gimli - Rolf
Legolas - Fozzie
Boromir - Link Hogthrob
Merry & Pippin - Dr Honeydew and Bunsen
Elrond - Rizzo
Gandalf - Sam the Eagle
Saruman - Gonzo
Orcs - The chickens
Eowyn - Camila the chicken
Galadriel - Janice
Gollum - Animal

Every character is played by a muppet except Viggo Mortensen, who plays it completely straight and does not acknowledge that he is in a muppet movie.

Alf (clothed) chows down

THESE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARE EATING OUR CATS

America will never look like the dystopias imagined in cyberpunk fiction because that media imagined American cities as being walkable.

My friend, a professional composer, has written an RPG and is creating a soundtrack for it. As far as I know, Gary Gygax wrote no music whatsoever, making D&D obviously inferior.

Episode 1: The Premiere | Industrial Light & Magic Meet the hosts from Industrial Light & Magic (ILM): Rob Bredow, Chief Creative Officer, and Todd Vaziri, Senior Compositor who talk about the creative process of filmmaking and the art of visual story...

the premiere episode of Lighter Darker: The ILM Podcast is now up!

www.ilm.com/lighterdarke...

With the influx of Brazilians, Bluesky has finally fulfilled its destiny and become the new Orkut

Now I need to go meta and become a robotics research researcher. If needed, rinse and repeat indefinitely

Sweet! Robots have come for my job (robotics research): arxiv.org/pdf/2408.06292

Oh lord tell me about it. I wish we had national service, but instead of the military everyone has to work in a public-facing retail job for a year.

That's a common myth. The original adage, from Marshall Field in 1905, as well as its variants has no hedging and makes no mention at all of taste: quoteinvestigator.com/2015/10/06/c...

Jesse Harlin’s Reel

It's #SelfPromotionSaturday! To celebrate, I wanted to share the soundtrack I've been writing for the Arrhenius #ttrpg. I'm half done, but I think it's coming along well.

You can check the soundtrack out here: play.reelcrafter.com/1_wEFl0hRvqm...

Trump, with a Fox News chyron saying "Trump: I'm doing a calm campaign"

Oh my god, it's a literal "please don't put in the newspaper that I got mad"

ThatTonyH posts a picture with the following caption: I know everyone thinks Hemingway has the the ultimate Six Word Story but may I present: (Photo of an orange road warning sign saying WARNING LOW FLYING OWLS immediately above a hand lettered sign LOST CHIHUAHUA with a 918 area code phone number)

Katamari Damacy (Original Soundtrack) -Katamari Fortissimo Damacy Album · Katamari Damacy Series SOUND TEAM · 2024 · 21 songs

PSA: Katamari Damacy, the greatest game soundtrack of all time, is now on Spotify
open.spotify.com/album/7KHPyc...

Rodney Brooks’ Three Laws of Robotics Famous Roboticist Rodney Brooks has Three Laws of Robotics from decades of experience in real world robot deployments.

IEEE Spectrum picked up on my blog post explaining my three laws of robotics and republished it. Thank you! And especially for the 12 year old photo of me -- actually I still feel decades younger than that! spectrum.ieee.org/rodney-brook...

It saves time if you need to simultaneously protest the policies of Israel, Isrbel, Isrcel, and Isrdel.

Black bear climbing a tree

Black bear in a tree

Black bear in a tree

Black bear climbing a tree

Timber and Thorn can climb beary high

The person in the driver's seat is the legal crumple zone.

Okay no big deal but I THINK I’M DONE WITH #ARRHENIUS.

Up next: an ISBN and barcode, then I’m all set to get it up for sale on DriveThruRPG and itch.

2024 is the #AgeOfArrhenius.