Zola Jesus - Vessel
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Here’s a fast-bodged-up reaction gif for all Isaac-traumatising occasions.
You might like to download The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth to find out what so horrified him in the first place. Actually, after a good 58 hours of getting small children killed by assorted abominations, I strongly recommend doing so.
We’ll never get to Banbury Cross at this rate
Besides, it’s supposed to be a COCK horse, not QWOP
From Dynamic Model of a Horse Gallop in 2D by Eddy Boxerman.
bemused-geek-nz answered your question: If you were building your own escape vessel, what…
Board via Moravec machine. Full-blast VR/VT system. Nanotech fabricators build exploration androids on the fly (or out of same).
How many of these techs exist? Maybe I need to start looking beyond the local big box stores and garage sales for Escape Vessel parts.
Most of this tech is still in the conceptual stage.
Hans Moravec, if I remember right, posited the notion of a machine that read the neural patterns in the human brain and uploaded them to a computer modelling system. Because of the destructive nature of the reading, it’s a one-way street.
Once ‘aboard’, all senses are tickled by a full-immersion VR system with variable timescale (the VT bit). Who needs relativistic speeds when you can simply slow yourself down to wait out the trip from, oh, Sol to Vega? (Or speed up to answer all that e-mail that’s built up.)
And of course Earth nanotechnology hasn’t moved past buzzwords and shoving loose atoms around with scanning tunnelling microscopy. But in this ideal, the ship can construct a version of my meatspace self that can explore any environment and/or carry out any repair work that’s required.
The vessel then, seen from outside, has but few open spaces, generally leaks like a sieve, and otherwise is all engine and computing capacity. The interior heaven of shagpile ceilings, plaid lightbulbs and stereophonic telephone (or whatever) is all a digital dream.
bemused-geek-nz answered your question: ?
Space doubters press my hot buttons.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JdWlSF195Y
Why does the sun shine?, by They Might Be Giants.
Geek, ✓
Bemused, well, after this song, one should no longer be puzzled as to why the sun shines...
The Exodus
I worked very hard for 10 years to build an audience here on Tumblr. It’s weird watching it crumble before my eyes. I’m not really sure how to process this. I no longer have the energy to build somewhere else. So I am kinda stuck on this sinking ship.
I understand why people are compelled to leave. But it is all still depressing.
I just wish Tumblr cared enough about its user base to come up with a different solution.
They basically said, “Be gone, pervs!” and that’s not cool.
Enjoying adult content does not necessarily make someone a pervert. It just makes someone a human being. There is art and beauty in so many of the things being flagged. And apparently dinosaurs and legs and dogs are being flagged too.
They told us they were only coming for our nipples.
They lied.
Perhaps Tumblr should change its motto.
Nipple Free™ since December 2018.
I do hope some of you will stick around with me. I still have things to share here. And I will continue to write essays and post way too many corgis over @sirfrogsworth
I’m sorry Tumblr no longer cares about you.
But… I do.
Thank you all for changing my life and giving me a purpose. You are the best.
…not just dead, but stinkin’ up the basement. PHEWW-WY!
Personally, I’m not sure who runs Tumblr anymore; is it Yahoo or Apple? And I’m not that thrilled about the loss of all the porn blogs. They’ll just become someone else’s problem.
Frankly I’m not that fussed; my tumblr isn’t NSFW, and if absreruns goes down I won’t be shedding tears. It was an impulse project that’s worn itself out, and there’s always subgenius.com for the Art Mines of alt.binaries.slack.
I have been considering restarting a personal website for a couple of months now, but never managed to figure it out. What theme? (Not exactly the design, I’m talking overall.) If I make it into just the official Cranky Rabbit website, then any other pursuits will get skewed into Shit Cranky Does. And that’s a website design that I consider important if I’m to get a music/production career off the ground.
At the moment I’m pondering what CMS to use in the back end, and whether or not to retire the old domain. I don’t really need it and it’s too callow. It might be better to let it lapse and get a new one. Something I can use as a generic top level domain; *.[something professional sounding].nz.
I have a Phaser install on my localhost, and a test game with a crude “Desperate Fun Productions” splash screen (it’s from “Lowlands” by the Tall Dwarfs.) My zines are mostly issued under the Desperate Fun Productions name. So at the moment desperatefun[productions].[co].nz is the front-runner. If I can think of something else a bit more optimistic and a bit more timeless that’d be good.
(Something that lends itself to an easier to draw logo would be nice too.)
There’s a moon in the sky. It’s called the moon, but that’s probably fake news. /s
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