There’s some fun replies actually, I don’t regret this yet.

https://xcancel.com/KuaiLe_fengnan1/status/2033193118678601911#m weeew

I’m idly curious what the fuck this person is talking about with their legal career being taken away. Don’t suppose you know?

Not sure its worth trying to figure it out, it would take a true brainworm host to think “in a fair world I would have more than all of you” is a sympathetic statement and I don’t know I’m capable of understanding the leaps of logic presumably underpinning their resentment.

I thought my politics were already pretty good at the time, but I confess that until the crimes of Ben Roberts-Smith were exposed (apparently) had I never interrogated my beliefs and attitudes about the Australian SAS. I knew a boomer who was SAS and he was okay (child me thought) and so my personal experience aligned with the propaganda and I never had reason to question it.

I don’t gotta give him credit, sooner or later one of these sadistic murderers was going to get outed or would out themselves online for clout. But I’m not too proud to admit that its this case that caused those particular scales to fall from my eyes. Way too recent to not be a bit embarrassing.

The SAS is like a sacred cow in Australia. They’re at once stone cold killers, athletes, polyglots, warrior poets, and morally unassailable owing to their perfectly measured surgical precision and the judiciousness with which they are deployed.

LOL SIKE ITS JUST MORE BABY KILLING

The most likely and least funny explanation. shucks.

The language isn’t a problem. Loads of people in China, especially in and around universities, are fluent in English. Plus OP would get to learn Mandarin in arguably the best environment for it.

(arguably because sometimes you just wanna practice your mandarin but everyone else wants to use their english. many such cases. my experience and so many people I’ve talked to about this lol)

I’ve been to China multiple times and I find the Arctic Circle very appealing as a life experience / novelty / adventure but I would still choose two years in China over one in the arctic.

It would be (presumably) a good career move, an excellent cultural experience, more time away, more exposure to mandarin = quicker and easier to learn, you’d get to see what a real modern country is like and possibly form connections or even friendships with people who might be in a position to work on projects with real positive impact.

Over the span of two years you’d have a few days here and there that you’d need to occupy and China has lots of distinct unique places and cultures, and of course the variety of climates / biomes.

Also what you said about China taking climate change seriously is representative of I think the biggest appeal for me, which would be the mental relief I’d get living somewhere that takes things seriously, is serious about solving problems and that has a proper healthy respect for science and reason. At a policy level anyway-

A friend of mine taught there for a bit over a decade and is a lot less prone to romanticizing everything. In day to day life China isn’t an especially rational and efficient place, not tryna sound naive and utopian. But on the whole they are pushing consistently in the right direction on policy and implementation, and for me that would be very subconsciously comforting thing.

Like how libs get to feel when brunch isn’t cancelled. I want that. I want communist brunch and I want it for you too.

But the Arctic Circle option would be fucking cool too, what an awesome decision to have to make.

Does anyone know which thread caused the issue in particular with the user bumping the thread and repeatedly causing crashes?

Probably wasn’t me.

We’re the tip of the spear.

I’d like to see the rising tide try.

Damn straight. Shoulda heard the lecture I gave the dog lol.

I’m always warning him that he’s a lil defenseless ignorant baby compared to the mighty magpies and other creatures he seems to think he’s better than.

I haven’t seen it in a while but one of this guy’s close relatives was living in my back yard for a lot of the summer. I love big skinks like you wouldn’t believe.

It’s not cool but my dog caught it or a very similarly mature one transiting the yard, but before I realised what was happening it defended itself! I did not expect it and tbh never seen anything quite like it.

I was so activated (we really try to make sure the dog doesn’t harm the native critters) that it seemed to happen in slow motion as I was moving, after the dog tossed it, the lizard leapt AT the dog and bit him on the nose hard enough to hang there for a sec. That made the dog reconsider and back up, and the lizard got Big As I Can in a defensive posture, hissing, and I swear, started to walk the dog down.

By then the dog was finally listening to me and broke off and the lizard got away. But to be clear, this lizard was not big and my dog is not tiny. I already loved and respected the big skink but that just… sealed the deal for me.

Say whaat this is fucking cooool. holy shit.

Why is this image so evocative?

I know there are obvious silly joke answers to this question but fuck that.

Is it “just” the texture of the medium? I don’t think so, but its part of it maybe.

The (artifice of a) casual pose sorta reminds me of early photography/Daguerreotype posed portraits intended to present a facsimile of a candid scene, even if everyone had to stand there for 2 minutes for the exposure.

The photographer worked in the darkroom to isolate the subject from the background^[1] so she exists in an unfamiliar abstract space. But in the space, symbols of traditional patriarchal expectations of women.

Obviously the stove, with the cooking pot on it. Her partial nudity. She isn’t performing or presenting herself to the viewer, there is the sense that she is either unaware of our observation or actively disinterested in it.

This makes for a potent expression/exploration/??? of the male gaze. Like really powerful imo.

But what is up with the gun? Am I to simply see her pointing a gun into the cooking pot, from which presumably she nourishes the men who gaze… and think… what? That she rejects the role the patriarchy expects of her? bullshit.

Its something else and its interesting.

I know I was so confused, I assumed and assume she plans to eat the seal.

Can you change the title to be less clickbaity? Preferably without the slur? Pweeeze?

But I really don’t understand why these ROM devs are not more clear about this requirement. They are fully advertised as “all you need is a pixel phone” which is false. I think a lot of the user base is wealthy enough to go to the google store and buy a new phone in cash. It is the only explanation. The forums have frequent threads of people who are having problems installing due to this.

Yeah for real. I was just trying to confirm whether my belief (apparently, not knowledge) that carrier locking and irreversible e-fuse bootloader locking a phone like the Pixel would be a violation of consumer law here. We did have some major changes ages ago, but its been years since I’ve personally had to worry much and its still ambiguous grey area stuff with irreversible e-fuse protections altering / downgrading trust attestation and widevine support etc being common.

I’m off on this tangent to say “oh, wow I see what you mean” because I’m done with this search, the results are an endless repetition of “pixels are always unlockable.”

I didn’t end up editing my post cuz I realised your warnings start far enough up the chain to be visible. I appreciate this conversation though cuz I am guilty of believing and promoting the “pixels are worth the cost but you don’t have to pay google for one” line without hesitation in the past.

Yay I’m glad it helped! Excellent. :)

They aren’t the most sophisticated videos, but I like the old FPS modelling tutorials from Single Sapling Games. They hadn’t posted for aaaages and randomly started uploading again since I was last tutorial binging, so I only vouch for the older stuff but I’m sure the newer stuff is good too. Don’t be put off by the fact that he’s creating assets for a 3D engine, it wasn’t relevant for my use case but the actual blender teaching is widely applicable.

Some of these have follow up videos / are multipart, but these are the jumping off points I learned from and what I go back to when I need to refresh my memory

How to make any gun in blender: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIWwdmn6-WY This one’s good for non-organic modelling and seems like a logical next step after the mug.

Low Poly FPS Arms Model: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvyAUMID0iw I like this because it kinda helps bridge between non-organic and organic/characters.

Mid/ High Poly FPS Arms Model: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtDNTFJNTsE If I remember right this one is an optional path that builds on the last tutorial. I don’t know why its an hour long though lol.

Low Poly Zombie Model In Blender: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbcbbw5tXIQ This reuses the low poly arm from the other tutorial, so you aren’t just building towards a nice set of disembodied arms and no use for them.

There’s also shading / texturing, rigging and animation tutorials for each of them. Very satisfying imo.

Well no shit. Everybody knows heaven is in the DPRK.

how dare they commercialise my signature style: fallen apart.