sramder

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[–] sramder 21 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Hopefully a few thousand of them were the ones responsible for making the website dog shit 😅

[–] sramder 6 points 11 hours ago

Comeon 0.0001%! Let’s get those last 5 people who know what an extension is but were holding out for…???

Yeah… These articles are like reading the tally marks on a prison wall. Let it go.

[–] sramder 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

For sure. Especially if you’re ever planning to work at a smaller company, have any interest in showing off your own work, generally enjoy 3D… really it was a bit of a joke.

If I knew a bit more about blender specifically I would have said something like, “Good news! With the xyz fur shader even a crudely drawn grayscale map will blaj* the hell out of that shark.” ^*I also didn’t know Dutch? ;-)^

[–] sramder 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

making materials/textures sucks

Don’t. In a production pipeline, that’s someone else’s job ;-)

[–] sramder 9 points 1 week ago

I remember when he bulldoze a bunch of people‘s vehicles… and part of me was like “Cool, riding an ATV in Central Park for fun probably should result in your vehicle getting crushed…” and the little voice in the back of my head says this is a bit over the top, even for a publicity stunt. 

Need to listen to that little voice more often 😅

[–] sramder 2 points 1 week ago
[–] sramder 3 points 1 week ago

We’re calling it Proposition #66 😉

[–] sramder 2 points 1 week ago

Obviously you’ve never been… everything here causes cancer. We’re amending the law next year so we can just label everything that isn’t carcinogenic because it will substantially reduce the number of Prop 65 labels that end up in landfills ;-)

[–] sramder 1 points 1 week ago

Try picking your front door… could be very instructive ;-)

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[–] sramder 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah, it was definitely intended as ~~humor~~ an attempt at levity.

[–] sramder 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

Pagers, often used by civilians and healthcare workers for communication, are small, battery-powered wireless devices that receive text messages, audio, and visual signals.

Boy do I feel old now…

According to Walla, the operation "neutralised a significant part of Hezbollah's military command and control system."

This was the next sentence. My personal pity-party was subsequently cancelled.

A further linked article speculates that the pagers were rigged with explosives. As their main power source is an alkaline AAA battery. No crazy Mr. Robot hack, just regular depravity.

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Fine work… (self.nosafetysmokingfirst)
 

Fine work you’re doing here… really hope I can hand a lend someday.

 

Anyone notice siri no longer recognizes common foreign idoms anymore? Either in TTS or Ask Siri… The only concrete example I have is recognizing “Croque Monsieur” since my love for hot ham sandwiches has spanned the ages… but I feel like there’s something more nefarious at work here.

It feels like used to be able to ask for a info about random foreign words and it would at least trigger a web search for something phonetically similar, which would often get me the translation I was after. But lately* the TTS engine is militantly transforming everything into English. Obviously this is more subtle and open to other interpretations, but for example I just asked her what “hikikomori” were which got interpreted as “Hickam Morty,” with top hits for the show Rick and Morty.

 

Not sure if I just haven’t noticed the standard disclaimer before or if it’s a new “feature” 😬

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Rebel Moon is an Epic B-Movie (self.bmoviebonanza)
submitted 5 months ago by sramder to c/bmoviebonanza
 

Okay, it probably doesn’t really qualify because it’s; new, high-budget, directed by Zac Snyder, etc. But hear me out. This hot mess starts with space-nazis vs space-vikings, takes a turn through Star Wars, Oceans Eleven, space-Rome, and a few tropes that defy easy space-hyphenation.

To say the plot makes almost no sense would be generous. I’m loathed to spoil the greater arc here, but the plot does hinge on a village on the edge of space being forced to harvest grain in order to feed a passing army… there’s probably a Kurosawa reference here somewhere, but good movies just aren’t my jamb so I wouldn’t know ;-)

As I stare at the frozen credits at the end of part two and contemplate my life I have to note that there must actually have been footage cut from this movie (you’ll understand if you watch it) because they credit a Snake Wrangler!

So, if you have 4-5 hours of free time this weekend, a Netflix account you haven’t already cancelled, and are allergic to nice weather, I humbly submit, for your consideration: Rebel Moon parts I & II.

………. (All the periods I probably should have used)

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