[-] oddspinnaker@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Sidney Sime (who signed his works S.H. Sime) was an English artist, and this was an illustration for "Poltarnees, Beholder of Ocean" in Lord Dunsany's A Dreamer's Tales, published in 1910.

A Dreamer's Tales is the fourth book by Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula K. Le Guin, and others.

Sidney Sime’s artwork is amazing, thanks for sharing!

[-] oddspinnaker@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Not only that, but the insistence on seeing everything as zero-sum is fucking ridiculous.

“Well we didn’t even take down a massive corporation with an install base of hundreds of millions!! Hmph. Why even bother ☹️”

How old are these people? Are they for real? Lol

[-] oddspinnaker@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Oh damn cry-bully is so good

[-] oddspinnaker@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Contact is such a good movie! I watched it when I was a kid too and I watched it more than once.

[-] oddspinnaker@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

I just want to say, I don’t think you’re the village idiot. The fediverse is honestly pretty confusing right now and I would have expected what you used to work too.

This list is so comprehensive, I’ve been looking at it for quite a while and found lots of communities I hadn’t seen before. Thanks for posting it!

[-] oddspinnaker@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Ha, I did the exact same until your comment.

“What’s the big deal, it seems like a good use of space…”

[-] oddspinnaker@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Damn, this is next-level cool.

I love how the keyboard fits into the cutouts.

I feel like I don’t usually like imaginary tech for whatever reason, but something about this one blows my mind.

[-] oddspinnaker@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Sometimes it seems like DMs think tabletop roleplaying is a competition with the players.

Like, this sounds really frustrating and boring, wouldn’t most people hate it?

[-] oddspinnaker@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

I’m not an expert with it but the basics of Traveller/Cepheus seemed pretty straightforward. Roll six-sided dice and add the appropriate modifiers.

[-] oddspinnaker@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Haha! I read it as twenty-firth

[-] oddspinnaker@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

100% one of the coolest ideas for a movie I remember seeing as a kid. I never really liked watching the majority of the movie, even on repeat watchings as a teen.

Reshooting 40% of the movie makes sense, but the concept of this movie was frequently in my imagination as a kid. A+ initial concept

[-] oddspinnaker@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Plus, the TV used to display the photo may also be helping it look better since old TVs had thin black lines alternating between the display lines (scan lines).

This has the effect of smoothing out a lot of the more jarring edges of pixelation in old video games, for example.

view more: ‹ prev next ›

oddspinnaker

joined 1 year ago