RDETalus

Great. I don't know why there is halloween in taiwan, but there is. My 2year old son wanted to be a red mage so I made him a classic wizard hat, cloak, and wood staff.

Pretty much. Halo's driving narrative is the fall of mankind, "the end times," and the ultimate sacrifice you have to make that often amounts to nothing but sometimes buys everyone else just one more day. The heavy-handed christian religious themes and music all come together to create this whole beautiful, mournful apocalypse vibe. That's all gone in the new games. Feels more like Mass Effect or something, but way less interesting. No longer the Halo we knew.

Are we talking about this guy? I asked him what his deal was a few months ago. He told me he actually had no problem with the untouched natural world, like the beach or the forest or whatever. It was specifically rural/suburban areas, by definition, that gave him anxiety. For example, land given over to farm use or rows and rows of copy paste houses in flat fields of green. This leads me to believe that his anxiety is about how people use land, not actually nature itself. I can empathize with him on this, rural/suburban environments bother me too. They feel shittier than true urban or true nature to me. I want one or the other, not some indecisive unnatural thing in the middle. Small towns on the edge of the wilderness are okay though.

The big issue is that this is supposed to be a FLYING character. There is nothing about this character that suggests flying at all! Even the most uncreative among us would attach a pair of wings or a jetpack. Colors are pretty bland, but at least the characters can always be re-skinned.

The first thing my dad did when we got 56k dial up modem working on our first computer was go to a porn site and print out a shitty picture on the old dot matrix style printers. But after that it was mostly just browsing the AOL "walled garden" style internet for games

This seems like a situation where the art team and the game team were not in communication with each other. Like the leads told the art team to come up with 16 cool looking characters, and then told the game team to come up with 16 cool gameplay styles, and then they just don't talk to each other at all. At the end they just sort of match up the 16 characters with the 16 gameplay styles they've come up with. So the game team comes up a playstyle where you fly around and stuff, and the art team is like "OH SHIT, we never came up with a flying character, let's just use this generic sci-fi soldier thing lmao." I honestly can't see how any competent art team would intentionally design a flying-based character like the one below; I can only assume that the art team was designing in a some sort of vacuum with no knowledge of the actual gameplay going on.

Yeah Minecraft is popular and old enough to span a generational gap. It has a lot of millennial and gen Z players. I think the Jack Black choice reflects that older demographic somewhat.

I actually like Jack Black as Steve and I will be seeing the movie for that alone despite how fucking ass everything else looks

No, it's the opposite. This question is narrow because I don't actually want to argue with you guys about whether or not Elon is pro free speech, because I already agree with you: He isn't. I'm interested in the decision, not Elon specifically. I probably should have simply asked if YOU were in charge of Twitter, would you comply with the judge.

That’s insane, I saw that thing at the telescope store last week and I thought it was a joke. I have a 102mm cassegrain telescope that I’m just starting to learn to use, would I be able to capture similar photos with a camera kit?

This isn’t a class re-litigation, this is a novel situation in which an entire country’s worth of customers was decided to be put on the chopping block. Clearly abnormal given all the previous Twitter government compliances.

That's insane man. Gez simply doesn't give a shit; it's probably the truest answer for most people. Can't fault people for indifference. But using a simple heuristic to avoid evaluating the decision is uh, a way of thinking I strive to avoid.

I want entertain a hypothetical: In an alternate universe, Elon complies with the Brazilian judge. Do you believe you would be satisfied with that decision? Would alternate universe Murdoch or alternate universe Gez or anyone else here really think "Yeah, that was a good decision, Elon!" I doubt it. The headlines easily turn into "Elon is anti-free speech / pro-censorship / cozying up with autocrats etc..." So which decision was morally better or more right, regardless of Twitter's financial situation?

What's the light pollution on the Bortle scale for these photos?

Photo of balcony of an old house. Not a very remarkable photo, but it has something about it that seems very interesting to me. Probably the mix of pleasing colors, lack of clear subject matter, and tiling work reminds me of liminal spaces.