Oh yeah, so partway thru “Red Sea Sharks” while Tintin’s running around with his friends, there’s suddenly this costume party on a yacht in the middle of the ocean. When I first read this as a lil kid I thought this was the craziest thing in the world. (This was way before cruise lines were relatively common, or at least I’d never heard of them.) Anyway I didn’t really “get” the subtleties of the story but there was enough action and joking to make this an OK book.
I was suprised to see pixelfed have such high numbers,
there was a big growth spurt a while ago, organized on (I think?) tik tok. see the comments below for more info
WTF?!? Is that kid escaping from their drunk dad??
I’m guessin sometime after Jim Davis started using digital tools.
Yeah he’s on Fa$ebook.
Facial reconstruction of a 4,000-year-old Aryan man from Chelyabinsk
The Sintashta culture is a Middle Bronze Age archaeological culture associated with the spread of Proto-Indo-Iranian languages.
The physical anthropology of the Sintashta population is marked by pronounced heterogeneity, visible both between sites and within individual burial grounds. Even within a single kurgan, we see a mosaic of cranial types, including Steppe European and Uraloid variants, as well as those showing Southern European characteristics of the Middle Volga region (Balanovo culture) and Central Asia (Dzharkutan, Apalli tepe, Gonur) (Khokhlov, Kitov 2014: 140–141).
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1002658643813430/posts/2023134105099207/
That makes sense. I’d bought a cheaper Central American-manufactured cassette of Powerslave which didn’t have any gatefolds. (I’m pretty sure it was a licensed copy: it had copyright and manufacturing info and I bought it at a store in Central America, but dunno how thorough their licensing was back then.)
By coincidence over the weekend in a box of old stuff I found my cassette of Live After Death! It was the first Maiden album I bought as a kid. The US version, so it had the fold-out of concert pictures.
Piefed’s “Scheduled Posts” are now sorted by date! Piefed has this “scheduling” feature, right? Well previously there was a bit of an annoyance in that if you looked at the posts that you had scheduled for upcoming days/weeks, they weren’t sorted. But now they are! (at least on piefed.social). This’ll make things just a lil bit easier. I made a celebratory meme for !fedimemes@feddit.uk but they seem to be undergoing some kinda piefed vs lemmy meme war, so I’ll hold off posting it for a couple days.
Speaking of memes I spent the weekend trawling for memes on the corporate sites (ick) and got a bunch of older memes for !gothindustrial@lemmy.world and !vampires@lemmy.zip and maybe !witchymemes@lemmy.world. I like to make my own memes, but I also like looking up older stuff bc it’s good to think: this is worth reposting, i.e. it kinda makes me look at things a bit more critically.
Aw yeah, Seventh Son has a great cover too, it was posted here earlier. I don’t remember the gatefold scene, maybe the cassette version I had didn’t include it.
I’ve been re-reading Zola’s novel “The Downfall” on Gutenberg, about the Franco-Prussian War. It may seem a bit esoteric, but it’s an interesting description of what happens when a government prioritizes loyalty over competence, and then overextends on foreign policy.
If someone can manipulate a search engine to provide results different to what it would otherwise do, that’s a bug they will fix
But there are more people manipulating the results, than people fixing the bugs.
When I was a kid I had a poster of this on the wall across from my bed. It’s a great picture, tho the album isn’t as good as Number of the Beast or Piece of Mind.
Her outfit in this image really bothers me. She looks like an extra in a Miami Vice B-movie rip-off. I don’t think those ballet flats would stay on very long in a fight. Maybe her clothes are designed to cause 1D6 of cringe damage at the start of any combat phase.
And it’s kinda funny how MC’s “deck” looks like an IBM Model M keyboard . I wonder if it makes the classic clacking sound.
fwiw I have a cyberpunk-related dissertation laying around that I keep meaning to read, and somewhere towards the intro it says:
In Rewired: The Post-cyberpunk Anthology (2007), James Patrick Kelly and
John Kessel propose a new consideration of what they see as later evolutions of
cyberpunk works and categorise these texts as “post-cyberpunk”.…
Kelly and Kessel’s argument centres around the loss of cyberpunk’s ‘revolution’.
That once ‘popular culture hacked into it and turned cyberpunk to its own purposes’ 28 it
became ‘tamer’ and ‘fuzzier’ in definition. They see this progression as what allowed
cyberpunk to be contained into a single moment that has long passed, ‘consigned to the
dustbin of literary history.’ 29 Cyberpunk’s initial authors fought for it to be established as
a rebellion against other, as they might have seen them, stagnant or limited SciFi
genres. Yet once it moved away from this cult of personality, it seemed to lose its
power. Kelly and Kessel reinvigorate it through their conception of post-cyberpunk,
describing fresh stories ‘long after classic cyberpunk’ that foster its same ‘obsessions’.
Their work here is fuelled by a positive intent: to acknowledge that cyberpunk concerns
have been maintained in fiction through to the contemporary texts they have chosen for
their connection.
https://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/14422/ (pg 7,9)
edit: I mean this as a contribution to your statement “I’m not sure if there’s a work that ushered in this new genre”. Clearly Kelly and Kessel’s proposal isn’t the last word, and the dissertation writer himself has disagreements with it. However, Kelly and Kessel are/were major SF writers so I’m guessing they were an important part of the definition.
We need to encourage people into using “as well as” the global defaults.
agreed, we need “Monthly Try Something New Day”
The story of this artist and this artwork is fascinating:
Here’s a bunch more FYI
Most are currently active (except for the ones with a * which were less active last I checked) Sometimes politics, tech or memes sneak in but they’re not the focus.
GENERAL DISCUSSION / QUESTIONS
ART / PHOTOS
ANIMALS
COMICS / GRAPHIC NOVELS
ENTERTAINMENT
GENRES / STYLES
HISTORY
INFORMATION / KNOWLEDGE
OTHER
FEDIVERSE
FINDING NEW/GOOD COMMUNITIES ON LEMMY
MEMES, SOCIAL MEDIA REPOSTS, AND HUMOR
Most of these are currently active. (except for the ones with a * which were less active last I checked). Sometimes these include politics but that’s not the sole focus.
This oughta be a meme. Like: “When they finally make you sign up for the extended warranty.”
Depending on what you’re randomly talking about:
“Their land is ours, they just don’t know it yet.”
wau looks like a good one, gonna check it out next chance I get. these links look promising:
more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Come_in_Peace