[-] FullOfBallooons@leminal.space 18 points 2 months ago

Dawn of War and its expansions are awesome, if you don't mind playing a game from two decades ago.

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Untitled by Robert Manns (1978) (64.media.tumblr.com)
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I loved those old AMV-style promo reels.

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Stressful day (by Robogrind) (64.media.tumblr.com)
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[-] FullOfBallooons@leminal.space 17 points 6 months ago

I remember hearing about this show ages ago on an episode of This American Life. Thanks for the heads up, this sounds like a good doc.

[-] FullOfBallooons@leminal.space 19 points 7 months ago

I-beam

If you don't watch the video: it's footage of an I-beam being created at a factory. As an adult, this is not scary. As a young child, this is terrifying. There is no narration, none of your Sesame Street friends are here with you. This is a large glowing letter I that the camera never breaks away from. It's mashed and chunks appear to break off of it. The music is a ominous sounding piano with occasional trumpet bursts and anvil clanks. At the very end the camera freezes on the I-beam and we get two final crashing piano and anvil notes. The whole thing lasts less than a minute, and then we're on to the next segment. There's no context for what you just saw, no lead-in, and no one makes mention of it after.

It scared the hell out of me. If I saw this early in the morning, I'd be in an anxious state for the rest of the day.

[-] FullOfBallooons@leminal.space 19 points 9 months ago

We'll take all kinds of dragons!

Small dragons, big dragons, even radioactive dragons.

[-] FullOfBallooons@leminal.space 17 points 10 months ago

Your pizza isn't Y2K compliant.

[-] FullOfBallooons@leminal.space 17 points 10 months ago

I can't say I've ever heard of Duolingo speedrunning, but I already love the concept.

[-] FullOfBallooons@leminal.space 16 points 10 months ago

Socks, especially warm ones.

[-] FullOfBallooons@leminal.space 16 points 11 months ago

Getting a pet. I moved out of my parents' place in 2009, but bringing home a cat a few months later felt like the first big adult decision I had made. I had pets before, but they were family pets so my siblings and parents all had a hand in taking care of them.

But the feeling of "this is a living thing and it's relying on me to keep it alive" was an entirely different thing.

[-] FullOfBallooons@leminal.space 16 points 1 year ago

I had a dream about hyenas.

I know that sounds pretty lame. I'm not really sure what caused it, I don't have furry-related dreams. Hell, my dreams are usually pretty boring. But this one was about hyenas for some reason. The next day I was idly doodling in a notebook instead of studying and I was thinking about the hyena dream and I drew this very rough drawing of a little hyena guy.

A few weeks later I was introduced to Second Life and I knew pretty quickly I didn't want my avatar to be a human (this is back when you could only start as a human, I think nowadays you can immediately start with a furry avatar) so I went to a store in game with a bunch of free furry avatars of different species. I saw there was a hyena one and picked that.

Fifteen years later, here we are and my main character is still a hyena.

[-] FullOfBallooons@leminal.space 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Gotta flay if you wanna play.

[-] FullOfBallooons@leminal.space 18 points 1 year ago

I would also add any sort of variation of "at this job, we're like a family!"

[-] FullOfBallooons@leminal.space 15 points 1 year ago

https://cari.institute/aesthetics

Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute, it's a neat website showing design trends in advertising, packaging, print, etc throughout the years.

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