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um uuuuh hello do u wanna know what i’ve been doin(nothing)? no? then i’ll just leave this sweater that took me 4 months to make here

modified guernsey genser by sandnes garn

it took me 4 months bc i first made it too small then unraveled the whole piece and redid it 😵‍💫 do swatches for your own good pls

it kinda matches my nails heh and this pic is super blurry

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there's nothing about DiMA in the fallout art book, but i'd bet good money his appearance, and the way the mechanical synths look, owes more than a little to the 1999 movie virus

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pokèmonize yourself!!!!

spin this wheel to see your pokemon type

spin this one to see how you'll look like

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The Lovers

Kaja Horvat, 2024

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Something to watch for, which I learned from stage magic but which is extremely relevant to detecting scams as well:

The magician or scammer will *tell you* how he is going to prove his honesty.

The magician rifles through the deck until you say "stop", then he says, "Are you sure? I'll keep going if you want." and asks "Now, you agree that you could have stopped anywhere you wanted, so there's absolutely no way I could know which card you got" and because it's a magic show and you aren't paying close attention you didn't notice he didn't deal a card from where you stopped, he dealt the bottom card of the deck.

The magician doesn't ask you, "What would it take for you to believe this" because you might say, "I'd need you to use a sealed deck" or "I'd have to personally shuffle the deck" or some other proof that would make the trick impossible.

Magicians say "You agree that if I did *this*, it would mean *that*, right?" and you say yes, and it feels like you are the one who got to verify things, but of course the magician is lying and the proof is nothing of the kind.

Scammers do the same thing. A really concrete example is phone scammers pretending to be working for the government will say, "Look, I see you're skeptical if I'm who I say I am, I'm going to hang up and call back, and you'll see on the caller ID it says, 'FBI' and that tells you that I'm really working for the government."

Now, caller ID can be spoofed pretty easily, so it doesn't prove anything at all.

But it *feels* to you like you demanded proof and the scammer was willing to give you the proof.

But you didn't tell the scammer what out would take to prove it to you, the scammer told you what the proof would be.

This is actually like a really basic thing to look for if you want to start decoding magic tricks and scams.

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nothing is certain about severance except mr milchick having that shit ON

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uhg god my old art was SO- *remembers there's no point in being dismissive of my old art bc i was still learning and it's not fair to disregard the efforts of a young artist, even if it's my own work* *through gritted teeth* foundational to the development of my current style and skill level

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helly r would make a beautiful lesbian

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i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.

there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.

anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.

A Better World - create an alternate history timeline

Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game

Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet

Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games

Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones

Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy

ZenGM - simulate sports

Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi

IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)

Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface

The Cafe & Diner - mystery game

The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game

Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions

Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game

Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game

Miniconomy - player driven economy game

Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes

BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators

Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil

Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.

if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.

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you've been put in A Situation. you have to deal with it and get out to the other side alive. luckily a portal opens and a Star Trek character emerges to help!

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MASS EFFECT 2: LEGENDARY EDITION | (103/?) ↳ For a doctor, you’re awful calm about taking out a group of mercs.

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This environment is incredibly hostile to a creature such as myself (there are fluorescent lights)

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"im tired of living through major historical events" is now "dear lord please let me witness a high profile political assassination in the next 1-2 years. amen"

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hi!!! do you have any general recommendations for where to go to find cool internet radio stations and the like? they sound cool!

if you're looking for a site to skim through for new stations, internet-radio is pretty handy these days, as is fmstream. for more specific stations, to drop a few at random,

Fantasy Radio - italodisco, generally speaking. trends older, as comes with the territory

ampedOut - industrial + noise + EBM + IBM

Radio Horyzont - chill and ambient mostly

Jungletrain - jungle + dnb

Different Drumz - double up on dnb

Numanme Radio - new wave and stuff that's close enough to where you won't get in much trouble for calling it new wave

Moon Mission - ken sekiguchi's techno/trance/electro/etc radio

DKFM - shoegaze of several varieties

funkot.net - are! you! reaaaaaady!

SomaFM - a bunch of variety stations in a trenchcoat pretending to be one station, there's something of interest to basically everyone here

VKNET Radio - normal radio, but the name should tip you off to the vibe here

asia DREAM radio - there's some good variety here, but if you're into japanese hip hop and jrock, it's a mandatory peep

Sanctuary Radio - dark electro and other mallgoth fun

GothVille Radio - like Sanctuary but much more broadly playing "stuff goths are into" in a way I tend to prefer

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Severance I/O Cut part 6

time for another normal day at work at the unethical corporate misery factory

Irving bby ;-;

RAISINS Shriveled

company store in a corporate setting is so fitting (reminds me of the Sierra Madre vending machines lol)

ok, Dylan is the other guy got it (it's hard to tell without subtitles)

the book! (my god does it look cheesy i'm so glad)

Sharks and the Jets meeting in the hallway (star-crossed lovers Burt and Irving)

Seth Middlecheck, Natalie, Harmony(?)

the Board is a double-edged sword I see

Dylan spouting heretical doctrine like it's historical fact- many such cases

Pip spotted!

not this old cult fuck reinventing the Four Humors for corporate propaganda

whoever designed and made the wax figures did a great job on them

oooh Petey's map! (they are rats in a maze) "We're here because we're not all there" lmao, coil... OF DOOM off the Perpetuity Wing, MDR, smiley face might be the vending machine?, Mind hole, stressed out little guy with arrow vision, and I LOVE the detail of the Lumon watermark

hell yeah Irv you go get that old man ass

work Mark has all the confidence and charisma of a catholic youth leader freshly volunteering for the position straight out of their first year of college because it was too scary out there and this is all they know

Felicia is the cool crotchety old lady (man I hope we get to see her on the outside)

ohhhhh shredding the map photo like he ripped up (will rip up?) the photo of his wife

Mark with the fuckin angel and devil on his shoulders re: Ricken's book

Christopher Walken's line delivery is so good

i'm surprised they don't have cameras in the bathrooms

the CANDLE

Mark how did you get that shit all in your cracked unmoisturized hands it's just Sculpey

run SquareHead run

Irv bby no not the crisis of faith

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Trying to explain Warframe to new people is impossible without sounding absolutely insane. It's like, if a game had an identity crisis...but in a good way. An identity buffet, if you will. There's so much in this game it's sensory overload.

You like space dogfights? Rogue-lites? Fishing, mining, player housing? How about Guitar Hero, space shanties, and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater? Let's not forget the dating sim. Oh yeah, you can add a birthing QTE rhythm minigame too, because why not. I'm waiting for the inevitable sex update, cause y'know, we've gotten this far without imploding, so it might as well happen. Like what the fuck even is this game anymore. Nobody knows! Not even the devs themselves. It's all held together by dreams, duct tape and vibes at this point, but somehow it works.

Hop on Warframe, we have:

Bionicle meets Neon Genesis Evangelion

12 yr olds turning the geneva conventions into a checklist

your trans robot mom who has DID

old man yaoi

a traumatized group of bisexuals fighting the Y2K bug

an autistic child and his fidget spinner solos god

a fish voiced by Astarion

workers' union committing terrorism against capitalists

incel who tries to destroy the sun because he fumbled a bad bitch (she took the kids)

a boyband that you have to slay for weapons

and an eldritch entity beyond human comprehension that can only be defeated by the power of love

And if you think all that sounds unhinged out of context, don't worry, It's just as unhinged with context.