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Steve Jackson Games:
"Here are the numbers: A product we might have manufactured in China for $3.00 last year could now cost $4.62 before we even ship it across the ocean. Add freight, warehousing, fulfillment, and distribution margins, and that once-$25 game quickly becomes a $40 product. That's not a luxury upcharge; it's survival math."
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“The sky was the color of television tuned to a dead channel”
80s meaning: grey
90s meaning: blue
Today: full of ads from the smart tv vendor
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@jwcph @pluralistic Speaking of paperclip maximisers, I've long suspected that Asimov's true target with his Three Rules of Robotics wasn't robots per se but private enterprise.
It'd be ... interesting ... to have an incorporation statute which ... incorporated those rules of behaviour.
@reidrac Yup ... done the same. I got tired of attacks from China so looked up IANA assigns and blocked them. Then IPFire came along and made it dirt simple with a location block addon. Want to block Belarus? Select the country's checkbox and hit save. Gotta love it! (specifically in response to blocking a /16)
@2lazycatz_miniatures pretty frikkin' awesome! Great paint job!!
Sigh. Backed another one. https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/2nd-dynasty/aesir-fleet-28mm-starships-for-your-3d-printer "Agog to be the 21st backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Aesir Fleet: 28mm Ships for your tabletop!"
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#television #ScienceFiction #scifi 32 years ago, in the U.S.A. “The Gathering” was broadcast, the TV movie pilot that introduced the saga of “Babylon 5” https://english.netmassimo.com/2013/02/22/20-years-of-babylon-5/
@MichaelWhelan I was using the term histogram to imply what they had done and not necessarily how they did it. I apologize for implying that some digital technique was used. As I'm sure you know, publishers had used analog techniques to achieve similar effects long before the digital art revolution changed everything. I've since found that information on HOW they achieved similar effects via analog techniques is VERY hard to find now. I sincerely hope these techniques aren't dying.
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*Who can't like posting antimastodon remarks here on Mastodon
@bruces Not in my seventies, yet (though it's a good, hard stones throw away), and have never written any sci-fi (that I'll admit to), but I'm down with every last juicy ounce of sentiment that you've expressed
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*I'm with your scoldy Mastodon program here, but I'm a 71-year-old cyberpunk
*I used to write sci-fi books with manual typewriters
*How much "dismantled future image" do you imagine I would somehow personally fret about
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🤔 Any love for the Commodore SX-64?
@EC64 Oh YES! I got a fully operational SX-64 from my sister-in-law a few years ago while she was cleaning her parent's house (used to be her uncle's in the 80's) with the original owners manual as well! One of my prized computing possessions (along with my original C-64 I got in 1984 as a graduation present before heading off to college)
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@Computer I am reporting myself to Internal Security, and volunteering for Reactor Shielding duty in hopes that my failures can still point the way to a better Complex for everyone.
@MichaelWhelan Are you sure that they did a specific touch up on the one character? Considering the overall darker tone of the entire picture, it looks more likely that the histogram of the entire picture was adjusted to get the effect they wanted. That would be the quick-n-lazy method of darkening that character's skin tone if the histogram curve was adjusted just right.
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Funko called, not the creator of itch, but *his mother,* about "accusatory statements".
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