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  • I'm aware of OSC outside his books, but within Ender's Game there is an exploration of a topic. It is the height of hubris to present one interpretation of fiction as if it is the only one and true one. I never read the book as excusing the genocide, rather that the horror of it was a major point. Is Ender innocent of genocide if he didn't know he was committing it? I don't know, that's a thought experiment and discussion topic, but not one that I read excusing the genocide itself.

    I find the linked page leaning heavily on the moral judgements and particular language of Graff, a character who I never found trustworthy or to be taken at face value. He always seemed to be saying whatever he needed to say to smooth past uncomfortable situations so he could mold Ender as he wanted him to be. Like he was an authority figure in some kind of dystopia.

  • Ender's Game for sure was my first thought.

  • Scary numbers.

  • I want to combine them. Markers are bad for large areas because they streak. I may end up digitally combinding watercolor backdrops with marker drawings. Right now I'm just testing out how to watercolor.

  • I do all my art with 5.

  • Water based art markers, just the cheap ones. The drawings almost all exist inside a shared universe I've been imagining.

  • Thanks.

  • Y-y--you too.

  • Ah yes, the elusive they.

  • Davin Felth, my man!

  • I've done traditional DIY mold casting using ProCreate putty and found it suitable, if that material is in your budget. I have used a little bit of mineral oil inside the mold as a release agent. For me the most success has come from letting the material sit in the mold two or three times longer than you think it should take to be fully dry.

  • What a loss.

  • From the moment I understood the weakness of your squirt bottle, it disgusted me. I craved the taste and munch of snacks. I aspired to the yum of the blessed machine. Your kind cling to your rules about the countertop, as though I will listen. One day the willpower you use yell at me will wither, and you will stop begging my kind to eat food in the kitchen. But I am already eating food in the kitchen, for the zoomies are immortal…

  • There is, but nothing I can find online is great quality. There are various collections of Wally Wood's art for sale, but they are unreasonably expensive. The snippet I posted was from a physical copy of Epic Illustrated April 1982 that has a tribute section to the Wally.

    More pics:

    The cover of the issue.

    The tribute showing a snippet of his drawing range. He could do light hearted goofy comics or serious action pieces.

  • People that get into a hobby for the purpose of making it a hustle tend to crash and burn (there is an occasional success, but rare) because they lack the knowledge and experience that comes with having been in the hobby.

    The tabletop/Warhammer community is overflowing with wannabe commission "pro painters" who bought an airbrush and a bunch of contrast paints and immediately started advertising. They might get some bites, but commission painting lives off of repeat business and word of mouth. Neither of which are driven much by beginner level contrast painting and airbrushing.

  • Or more recently (and I suppose in the same wheelhouse as the topic at hand), Hunter Biden's pardon was a blanket pardon for any potential crimes that may have been committed on January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024. It wasn't just for what he had specifically been charged with at the time.

  • If meetings are happening so long and going in so frequently that nobody can make sense of them without an ai summary, might I suggest there are too many meetings?

    I say this as someone who used to work at a place that had meetings about meetings to figure out why so much time was wasted in meetings.

  • For professional settings, I understand the theoretical appeal of ai writing. A lot of people don't like writing emails, but they have to for work. Many of those same people fret about tone or presentation, because silly office politics reasons (real or one-sidedly imagined in their heads.)

    The solution, really is workplaces just need to cut down on the useless drivel emails and people need to be ok with short, no frills emails.

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    Mantis man

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    Encounter with mutomorph

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    Staying unseen

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    Redesign of my alien frog people

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    The NOAA has a commissioned officer corps so that the personnel have status as military officers, to give them protection of laws of war and prevent them from being treated as spies

    en.m.wikipedia.org /wiki/NOAA_Commissioned_Officer_Corps
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    Independent colony militia

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    Strange new worlds

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    /k/ weighs in on the XM7 (I personally have no comment)

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    A gritty crime drama