fieldhockey44

joined 2 years ago
[–] fieldhockey44@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 years ago

Check out the book Redshirts by John Scalzi. It’s a meta-satire of Star Trek about what would happen if the redshirts started noticing that anyone who goes on a mission with the captain ends up dying. One of the funniest books I’ve read. As a bonus, the audiobook is narrated by Wil Wheaton.

Aww it’s like a bunny wallaby

[–] fieldhockey44@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What sort of description did you use to get this image? Was it just one prompt or a bunch of refining?

[–] fieldhockey44@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

That’s awesome. How much instruction do you have to give it to be close enough to what you remember?

They may not care so much about that since they don’t make any ad revenue from those subreddits

[–] fieldhockey44@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 years ago

It’s a frustrating growing pain but I’m glad he’s working on a fix now rather than waiting until the instance gets overwhelmed

[–] fieldhockey44@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I wonder if they’ll start with the founding of Baghdad proper in the 700s or if they’ll go all the way back to Mesopotamia and Babylon. The article says it focuses of mainly the Abbasid Caliphate in the ninth century but it would be a shame not to include at least something from the cradle of civilization.

[–] fieldhockey44@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What a fascinating project. I’m of two minds about using the storyboard sketch style for the reconstructed content.

On one hand, the footage is lost, and nothing anyone does will be original, so we shouldn’t try to disguise the truth and try to mimic the real footage with the reconstructed segments. Let the original pieces shine and be honest about what has been filled in.

On the other hand, this is something where the use of deepfake technology or incredibly high quality CGI and audio recreation could be a real benefit, so the audience could be immersed in the story without being distracted by the reconstructed content.

It goes both ways. Do you do your best to show the original content and fill in with just enough to keep the story together, or do you try to truly recreate the lost content even though it will never be exactly what they originally created? Do you supplement or replace?

 

I tried visiting r/pics to see the fallout of its new NSFW status and was blocked by this message.

 

I tried visiting r/pics (which was recently marked NSFW in a protest of malicious compliance) and was blocked by this message. Sorry if it’s already been posted- I can’t figure out search too well.

[–] fieldhockey44@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I tried creating an account on lemmy.world at first and could never get it to load correctly. Try joining another instance - lemmy.world is probably overloaded.

Edit: use lemmyverse.net to look through the available instances, their rules, and their uptime stats.

Looks like a pretty standard Friday night ticket for NY or Chicago

I find the Hot view algorithm kind of glitchy - it always seems to jump to 2-3 year old posts after the first few. I prefer the Top views from the past day or week and the New view. You should be able to set your default view in your settings.

And like salarua said, you can switch between your subscribed communities, local communities (everything on your home instance), and all communities across all instances.

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