I think you’re right. Updated, cheers.

It’s an NFT that may be a 3D render but may also be an AI generated image, or anything in between. Difficult to tell since the only versions available online are identical to this post (flat jpegs).

That’s the same image with the same jpeg artefacts, but with extra tracking algorithms, so thanks.

That explains why I couldn’t find a source image, thanks.

I feel sorry for whoever paid for this.

I see ‘its’ (no apostrophe), but not under/behind. That word seems to end in ‘f’ and has either an ‘s or a citation mark?

This is gonna bug me now.

Homo Automatum

United States of America, 1999

Humanoid creature made from metal. Its behind’s surface was extremely polished.

Scholars maintain it was fuelled by alcohol.

ID # 1999 2-

(Best I could do.)

(e: added a word; updated based on replies.)

It’s going to be really interesting when we discover actual aliens and Mormons be like

Excellent points.

You make a good point.

Is a community for each series excessively specific, though?

Some of them have very different fan bases (thinking TOS vs Voyager, or anything vs the obviously superior Enterprise.)

sigh 🙄

Picard, his abs wide.

Combine this with skants and you have one sexy, sexy crew.

Enterprise was basically softcore porn.

Oh they totally exist. There was a big kerfuffle on social media about it when Stormfront was introduced and a legion of fanboys started boycotting the show and sending hate mail because Homelander was outed as a Nazi (like it hadn’t been apparent already – they suddenly figured it out and thought the writers had done a 180 on his character). He was supposed to be the perfect American hero and the woke writers ruined him.

They were serious and angry about it. It was amusing to watch, really. They went on a cancel crusade over it.

That’s amazing. I’m glad some independent people are doing things like this. Kudos to your friend.

ALL YOUR GAMES ARE BELONG TO US

If you can do it on Linux, you can do it on Mac, right?

It’s a Unix system.

I totally agree. It’s not frivolous; it’s an important part of who we are now, and it’s a real shame we’re already losing it.

In case you’re interested, there’s a fantastic video by NeverKnowsBest on the entire history of video games that I watched yesterday and found fascinating. There’s lots of vintage footage and interviews that I’d never seen before. It’s six hours long and I watched it in one go, it was so interesting.

I hope there are enough independent people saving at least some of our gaming history, because it’s a shame to see it evaporate like this.

My App Store is a graveyard of games I deleted the moment they showed me an ad. I don’t care how good the game is, I’m not watching ads in order to play. I’ll happily pay a fixed price because developers and designers need to eat, but I play games to have fun, and constant ad interruptions are the opposite of fun.

Even worse, many games now want like $10 a week. Bitch, that’s more than I pay for Sibelius and the full Adobe suite.

Micro transactions, subscriptions, and ads absolutely ruin gaming. I’ll happily pay $10 for a decent game and $20 for a good one, but fuck off with the ads or ridiculous subscriptions. (I’m talking mobile. Like $60 for a console game, but you’d better not nickel and dime me after that.)

/rant