Lots of old timey artists "cheated" by using out of boundary light sources to light their scenes, this is not the "gotcha" you think it is.
Thank you!!! <3
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[ Half a dozen dark-clothed figures stand some distance away from us in the badly damaged, grandiose white and gold marble halls of a Baroque-era church; safety-orange-striped hazard tape marks hazardous areas, and most of the figures wear safety orange or white hard hats, surveying the damage in soft diffused sunlight. To the left, in the distance, Corinthian-style columns tilt at a worrying angle barely able to hold up a heavy-looking interior cupola richly decorated with gold leaf. Figures directly below in orange hard hats survey the damage to the pillars but they are partially obscured by exquisitely delicate-looking low fencing, which hazard tape is pulled across and in front of. In the distance in the center of the image, decorative niches that are twice as tall as the figures in the image are partially destroyed, revealing joists and supports, and whatever they housed has been removed, although a lone white marble cross remains perched delicately above them. A gigantic gold chandelier fitted with electric candles hangs above, having received little damage, though because it is unlit it's not apparently clear if it managed to remain functional. To the far right, a large square structural support with a small gold electric sconce seems undamaged, but a very large pile of rubble at it's foot suggests that the roof it supports may no longer be intact. The figure at the center, facing away from us, appears to be wearing a priest's cassock, helmet-less, his arms hanging limply at his sides as he gazes upon what is left of his church. ]
The average person has shaved one ant, but only because Dr. Ant-Shaver Willot has shaved 7 Billion ants and therefore he should be dismissed as a statistical outlier.
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[ A young person (roughly in their 20s or perhaps early 30s) in a black hoodie sweatshirt hunches over a deep-amber-colored wooden desktop, their neck craned and their glasses slipping down their nose as they attempt to assemble the plastic components of a do-it-yourself model kit, which we can see partially assembled in the foreground. An instruction book is laid out in front of them, with complicated diagrams and tiny eyestrain font. Beside it is a soft drink can on a coaster and the extruded plastic frame that the kit pieces shipped in. The kit appears to be some kind of Japanese-style robot with excitingly chunky limbs, but exact details are impossible to identify because the toy is sharply backlit by the midcentury-style adjustable desk lamp that illuminates the scene. Beside the person's hands which are flexed as they put the pieces together, a long-haired brown tabby cat is visible, it's attention focused on one of the small plastic parts,reaching a paw out to steal the transparent cap of a utility knife that is out of the cat's reach. The scene is softly lit and cozy with a certain mischievousness on the part of the cat. ]
Nope, I found it before AI had a good grasp on anatomy, like, back when it wasn't sure how trees worked and how many legs a dog had.
That fixed it! Thank you!!
So wild, absolutely beautiful.
Yeah, my co-mod is very particular about getting it done the right way. Can't really blame her, between reddit and other mod drama, it's been quite the whiplash of emotions. We're in a very vulnerable spot because people have come gunning for us before, "Well then I'll make my own subreddit with hookers and blow" type of deal. We've always had the numbers and excellent reputation to keep us from getting swallowed by the smaller fish that care less about academic stuff and just wanted to overtake us by just "getting popular" I guess and not being as carefully curated as we are. But we don't have numbers here, we don't have reputation here, to ensure that someone won't just jump on the idea and run with it.
No errors, just a spinny ring of death that lasts until the window is closed. I always choose English as the language.
I thought it was just a server issue until I began trying to make communities on smaller instances like this Blahaj server and I get the same problem. Tried disabling my VPN, still the spinny ring of death.
I'm kind of getting tired creating accounts on every Lemmy server just to keep running into the same damn problem.
As I understood it, they're not doing it the old fashioned way because they're trying to breed alpacas who are more resilient against climate change, and it's easier to send a jar of spunk than to send an entire male alpaca.