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for how small a minority the diplomats are in the skuk population the diplomats are really out there carrying the image of the entire empire on their perfectly flat matte-metallic backs, because i cant imagine how poorly it would go letting even the most official of skuks interface with anyone outside the empire if not armed with a rigorous cultural sensitivity course. you go to negotiate joint solar system ownership with a standard skuk and the first thing you see upon entering their building is a diaphonized human on full display and all the skuk has to say about it is "oops ^_^ its ethically sourced though i think. but its such a beaut right??"

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[clutches my head and screams, falls to my knees, hunches over, vomits a torrent of blood onto the freshly fallen snow] I can feal the love in the air tonight

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a skuk of nonspecified purpose based on this image, along with a more knowledgeable diplomat

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things for another, larger thing (rough)

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a skuk of nonspecified purpose based on this image, along with a more knowledgeable diplomat

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things for another, larger thing (rough)

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You’d best be leaving.

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Steve finds a pillager patrol robbing a farmer and his son. He warns them what will happen if they don’t leave.

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Hey man I was sent as a representative of the Signalis fandom, we think ur pretty cool.

hey thanks! i actually own signalis myself but ive never played it, though ive heard great things... lesbian things

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NGC 346 with 10 circled stars (Webb) by European Space Agency

This is a NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope image of NGC 346, a massive star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that is one of the Milky Way’s nearest neighbors. With its relative lack of elements heavier than helium and hydrogen, the NGC 346 cluster serves as a nearby proxy for studying stellar environments with similar conditions in the early, distant Universe. Ten, small, yellow circles overlaid on the image indicate the positions of the ten stars surveyed in this study.

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too fuckint fat

rfis will survive the winter. but not acrobatics

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can we have rfis content... can he do a flip.... :plead:

somebody come get their grandfather

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thank you, and sure!

its pretty much only greebling so it helps to hoard loads of pictures and jump off from there. the sides of the city are more tedious than they are creatively challenging because there are tons of photos and fan renders out there of the sides of an iterator that serve as great inspiration points, alongside other examples of general mechanical greebling, such as the millennium falcon, which are pretty easily found online

thinking of different building types was the most annoying part of this for me. a good amount of the buildings are inspired by places ive been or buildings i remember seeing in civ/resource management games. one of the buildings is just straight up ripped off of justin biebers house that looks like its from the sims. i ended up downloading a lot of photos of parks for layout ideas. also, something else that helped me was to draw a few streets before doing the buildings because it helped to mentally break the can into sections i felt were less intimidating

essentially its just drawing a bunch of teeny tiny rectangles-- sometimes other shapes, but very predominantly rectangles-- on a perspective grid over and over again and trying to make them different every time. its not so hard i promise, only time consuming and repetitive

iterator

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I just saw ur iterator + void worm post and HOLY SHIT. It looks as though an iterator is ascending, and it’s so damn powerful that it takes the form of a void worm.

Either way, your art is stupidly awesome, it’s so so good, your understanding of composition and brushwork is phenomenal, keep up the good work, my goodness

thank you, im very flattered to hear that!

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What if instead of 12sg being super tall you just made him like. really wide lmao

french fry

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painting 12 Solemn Guard's face on a black plank and whacking people wit it

he would not approve of this, but his advisors might, and i definitely do

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Orion Bullets; pillars of hot, glowing hydrogen gas ©

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C&A is a neobotanics and nooscionics lab. In other words, they grow and train sophont AIs, “seedlets,” and design software and hardware to interface organic minds with digital systems.

It’s a small enough company to draw little suspicion, but credible enough to be contracted big name operations (mainly military).

They accidentally trapped a person in a noospace, the “noosciocircus”, with Caine, a seedlet grown and owned by C&A. He’s a well meaning seedlet, tasked to keep the trapped person sane as C&A keeps their body alive as long as possible.

In an effort to recover the person from the inside, they sent in another only to trap them as well. Their cumulating mistake becomes harder to pull the plug on as it would kill both the trapped and Caine, an expensive investment who just also happens to be reporting immensely valuable nootic data from his ongoing simulation.

C&A continues to send agents to assist the trapped from within, each with relevant skills. They’re getting a bit desperate, since the pool of candidates is limited to those who work with C&A and would not draw too much attention if gone missing.

So, the noosciocircus becomes testing ground for lesser semiohazards.

Semiohazards are stimuli that trigger a destructive response in the brain of perceivers. Semiohazards can be encoded into any medium, but are generally easiest to encode into sights and air pressure sequences. The effect, “a mulekick,” can range in severity from temporary disabled breathing, to seizure, to brain death.

Extreme amputations (“truncations”) occur when a trapped agent ingests a semiohazard that permanently shuts off the brain’s recognition of some body part as its own. Sieving is a last resort to permanently mechanically support the life of the trapped. Thanks to modern advancements, this is cheap and sustainable. Those overexposed to the hazards become the abstracted and are considered lost.

Semiohazards being current hotspot of discovery and design means C&A is sending in semiotic specialists alongside programmers. Gangle in particular was sent in to provide the trapped with nootic endurance training, but she underestimated the condition of the trapped and her own dealt avatar when she arrived. She wasn’t too stable entering to begin with, but C&A’s options are limited.