Same, once I saw the shoes the picture corrected itself (and i can't force myself to not see them now) but up until then it was like that duck/rabbit photo except both were.... something else.
CodexArcanum
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I hadn't read there were so many angles on the word. I had heard it came from Joyce and never dug deeper. I'm surprised that you quoted a passage from Oxford but didn't check the OED. Joyce being Irish, the OED would better document the English he'd have been using. Merriam-Webster and derivatives are American English dictionaries.
Honestly, I'm just surprised physicists don't have a gif/jif thing going on with quork/quark pronunciation.
I'm definitely getting my blog going regularly again... next year...
My Lemmy is usually more like...
Dr. Cakehavin
I guess you are, in some sense, "running Doom" as well as that AI that was supposedly running it, in that you are imperfectly emulating the experience of having previously seen Doom played.
Also my brain's mod manager is total shit, long way to go catching up to DoomLauncher.
Great game, great ad too!
Ah man, what I wouldn't give for a Nightdive remaster of this one! (Implies porting to PC also, haha)
I wished they'd made a sequel too, but I feel like it'd be so easy to mess up. I just think there was so much cool stuff in this game that never got wider use, and I'd love to see it in other genres. A strategy game with madness and hallucinations? Awesome! An FPS telling a multi-generational story with period appropriate weapons and enemies? Amazing! (OK so Daikatana, but I did say it would be easy to mess up!)
Guianan uses the incredible power of matter replication and atomic assembly to make chocolate cakes and fake alcohol for people. The holodeck does the same, plus generates 3d holograms with perfectly realistic fidelity, so that people can play racquetball in a pretend arena, or have a pirate adventure. I don't think that "abusing the ship's resources for fun" is a big problem in that era.
Not sure why you got downvoted, this is an excellent point. I've been an atheist for decades now but I still love to read tarot and yijing for myself and others. They're excellent tools for self-study, brainstorming, and storytelling. I like how Jodorowsky puts it: that magic speaks with the voice of the subconscious. Manipulation of the symbolic language of dreams, as with tarot cards, can prompt the conscious mind into exploring new avenues of thought, making unexpected connections which can lead to insight.
It feels like magic in the same way (for the same reasons) that cold reading allows mentalist to trick people. In the same way that meditation and hypnosis are connected. These are tools that can be used to trick people, but you can also "trick" yourself in a controlled way to accomplish things you want.
Unrelated to the astrology discussion, I love episodes with subtle jokes like this one. That tiny smile for 2 panels. I wonder if the artist redraws each nearly identical panel in order to feel the same numbing repetition that Miles is meant to express?
I agree. It shows lack of faith in your work and your audience. It also takes away the audiences' sense of "getting it" when they look and notice, which makes your audience feel smart and in conversation with you.
Reminds me of those little panels beside paintings in a gallery that sometimes tell you way too much about what the artist was thinking. The work itself is supposed to be communicating, if you need supplemental material then you may have failed somewhat in the original work.