Blue whale challenge.

I’ve gave birth to you. I’d put an end to you! - Elon, probably

Semper Fi, motherfucker ✊

That’s not safe. Just with Hollywood stars, CEOs think the main drag is the cast of characters, and the content of the original. And since they don’t play these games, they hardly get what makes people like them.

An anecdotal case: the Doom movie, a guilty pleasure of mine, where the only highlight is a scene of brutally shooting imps from the first person perspective for 2 minutes. In a 90 minutes movie, boggled down by pure boredom, somewhere in the end. That’s when many people woke up in the cinema and started to cheer, because it was more DooM than anything else in this movie.

For me, it’s not even a story (in Borderlands, lol), but catching the feeling people got from these games. In the first game, as per my OP, it was treasure hunting and greed in the middle of nowhere, accompanied by trash humor and stupid gore. Shooting shit from a wind generator while taking headshots with a non-credible sniper-scoped rocket revolver? Sign me in.

and ladders.

I’d like to see the story of supporting characters from the first game and DLCs as the first entry. There are a lot of bounty hunters coming here, trying their best at finding the Vault on the planet with competing corporate entities, aliens, local bandit clans. These NPCs can tell a lot of stories of those who didn’t make it in hilarious ways, or, on the other hand, did a thing we know only by little in-game clues. Something to vibe with a beggining of Zombieland movie, probably.

It delights me to lie to myself that they are nervous someone somewhere would pick a golden ticket with their AI application and they’d miss out. But more obvious explanation for big corpos is that they hide problematic data-mining, content appropriation, ad personalization and other stuff behind this curtain, maybe not for these crude tools alone, but to force a precedent into existence that they can do it whenever they like in the future. They make you give up your personal stonks for a shiny penny that is corporate LLM genies and they probably pay a lot to showcase their beauty at loss.

Are they going anywhere, tho? They start cheap and are very energy-efficient, so I think they’d stay. If there is a probability to face them IRL it won’t be bad to learn how to read them.

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Welcome to Jonestown

Bluetooth headphones when I want to use them:

Bluetooth headphones when there’s someone calling and I can’t answer because I can’t find them:

Current wars and WW2 would easily take the win there, but I’d like to introduce you to the March of the Dead) circa 1915.

EMPRESS can impress, as the infinite drama-engine.

I’m all jelly of his multi-layered shark teeth. What a way to save a lot of money and stress.

It seems we are left for dead game series ):

You mean this spasm pain in the foot? Damn, they are annoying!

And what to do with all unicorn blood that’s soon to spoil? Just gift it to them? I don’t think they’d feel it’s a nice gesture it is.

You say bedroom, home office and dining room. I say:

1. Play on a basic dreamcatcher theme, big long straight lines like a spiderweb crossing walls following the edges of your furniture or breaking them, and where lines connect into a junstion, paint a frame from them, like in a center of the web, and there put a drawing of thing you dream about, may it be from your past pr in your plans. Lines may be just a bit different from your wallpaper’s color so they aren’t too intimidating. Luminiscent paint works kinda great in the bedroom context, so you can paint some outlines with it.

2. Office space shouldn’t be too distracting, so maybe evenly spaced thin vertical panels may work. I don’t know what you are working on, but I suggest simple illustrations of this process, one picture at one panel, with a diagonal cut-offs on the top and on the bottom with them repeating on each side, like you are looking at a film.

3. Organic vegetational shapes, green-yellow-red color palette. I don’t know your tastes, but a powerful Broccoli Boi drawn like a Kool-Aid Man can be a center piece of such composition and a fun conversation piece when you’d invite someone to eat there.

The setting: Traditional fantasy world broken by the introduction of industrially applied magic and mass-produced AR-15 staffs with energy clips in just a decade. The crown of the dead and corrupt empire is fought over by a death cult and pushed off elites of the monarchist past.

The story: We follow a character who uncovers such technological wonders from the remains of the extinct race, only to help said elites in whose camp he happened to being born into, them then coming into power. Then, they showed themselves not better than the cult, causing MC to leave them and then use his exceeding knowledge to terror them into their own vision of being okay by nuclear bombing cities into oblivion from a bird-like plane, to correct their mistake and build the future they want to see.

The main story: The people who grew way before or in the time of such turmoil who just wanted to be and didn’t subcribe to being annihilated.

Samies from Russia.

This meme spoke to me from a slightly different angle, non-job related but more abot how we perceive our own bodies as a reliable tool. One thing is an understandable physical injury you can rationalize like you did A and got B, but when your body is slow to recover or show weird signals you don’t control or understand yourself, it causes more stress than having both legs in a cast. Some of my folks who caught bad covid were completely lost because they just didn’t get how this small shit rendered them nearly unable to breath. It’s probably corresponds to some gender studies but I do too feel double uncomfortable when something like that occurs.