Fox News: “A foreigner flying an unlicensed aircraft was shot down over Oregon after penetrating US airspace without authorization and failing to respond to orders to land…”
“Jolly, old Saint Newell, lean your ear this way…”
The cops must be so upset by how he looks so much better them even on a bad day.
T’pyn
Duke Nukem makes sense. Half-Life does not. Half-Life stars a nerdy scientist who just wants to live, and the game is carried by its story.
Pong, reimagined as a boomer shooter!
Blessed be our beloved murder midget.
One of the first movies I bought with my own money. Loved it.
Unexpectedly poignant.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/54126025
“Go out in the snow, they said. It’ll be fun, they said.”
Northern Ireland: "Welcome to hell, lads!"
Top: Recreation of the original USS Discovery design from the Comicon reveal video.
Bottom: The USS Discovery as seen on TV™.
This is a response to Stamets explaining to me why the Discovery was given needle-nose warp nacelles.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39229294
Cozy scenes of a matsuri village [OC]
Hello!
When I was a child, I grew up playing older Japanese games like koi-koi, go, and later on in life once I grew older and more capable, riichi mahjong and shogi. I had an interesting childhood, being a tiny little white kid in rural Japan, not far from an air force base, back in the late eighties and early nineties. One year in my thirties, my wife picked me up a little sake shop made of lego, and I was stunned and awed.
An idea started to take shape, and to be quite frank, this is the fourth time I tried to execute on this idea. I first started attempting to shoot this series back in '21, and it was badly lit, and my flat's interior could be seen in the background of the shots. It didn't really capture a vibe that I was looking for, but it was a good proof of concept. It had hanafuda cards lining the streets and alleyways, a signature part of all the future versions to come.
What you see now here in this post is a culmination of ideas and a reflection over four years about what I had hoped to achieve with this project. There's people living their lives in this tiny little matsuri city, telling little stories as they go. It's a little dusty here and there, partially cause I don't have good ventilation, and also cause a city without a bit of grime has no good stories.
Of subtle little note here are plentiful small details: the alleyway behind the shaved ice stand has a riichi mahjong hand of thirteen orphans as fencework, with a few girls chatting on top of and next to it; a silver general and a gold general are checkmating the opposing king in an alleyway near a takoyaki shop, and there are kabufuda cards for 8-9-3, which sums to zero in a game called oicho-kabu, where the yakuza get their name from (even in this cozy fantasy village, there's still back-alley violence!). Shogi pieces lurk across the town, using it as their own battlefield, to which the residents are blissfully unaware of. The go stones have been played in a reasonably-strategic way, if there was a giant tree and a sushi cart and some people on the board, but hey, Jon Bois once depicted a gridiron football game with a Bojangles and some apartments on the field, so this too is allowed. All the sakura cards from the two hanafuda decks are all centered around the tree in the back. There are a whole lot of other details that might catch your eye too!
This couldn't have been executed so perfectly without a few of my trusted friends: Willow, on lighting and weather illumination; Marisa, on stage work, reconstruction, and clumsiness recovery; and Brenna with her excellent story-telling work--every time I'd pose a figure, she'd somehow make them even more expressive. The work of them together as a crew has pushed this project to heights I could have never thought were possible. It took three hours to build the set, another seven to shoot it over two days, and I did the editing not far away on the laptop I write this artists' guide with.
It is my sincerest hope to that this work makes you feel wistful, longing for a cozy fantasy that can't really exist. Even myself, when I look at my own work, I feel my heart get a little bit warmer at the bustling town I worked quite hard on. And thanks to you, for coming to see the heartfelt work of my crew and I!
--Tanis
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Written by Brannon Braga & Andre Bormanis, Directed by Jon Cassar.
"Night falls fast. Today is in the past."
Since being released back to her people by Captain Mercer, Teleya has built a strong hardliner movement among her people on Krill to oppose the reigning Supreme Chancellor, who supports the peaceful alliance with the Planetary Union against the Kaylon. Just as the peace treaty between Krill and the Union is signed, Teleya seizes power and holds the President of the Union, Captain Mercer, and several others hostage. While the Planetary Union mobilizes a fleet to liberate the captives, Mercer is taken to a secret location on Krill to see a very special little girl.
Originally released: 23 June 2022
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Written by Cherry Chevapravatdumrong, Directed by Jon Cassar.
"You're an interesting species."
Just as Lieutenant Talla returns to the Orville after some time off, an artificial signal is detected coming from a planet the Union already knows is a barren rock. When they arrive, the planet seems to be host to a well-developed civilization. Unable to reconcile this with every single scan taken of the planet prior, Captain Mercer takes a team to the surface only to find the sprawling cities replaced with dense forests. As they explore further they lose contact with the Orville and come across a 21st century Earth school filled with students. Things only get weirder from there.
Originally released: 16 June 2022
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Announcement: Next week it will actually be posted on Sunday! T_T
Going from too little to too much, and at the same time making another Cyberpunk.