ThisIsNotHim

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Rubbery texture sounds like it could be solved by different cooking techniques. Small changes to how eggs are cooked can make a lot of different textures.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

The fire in general does. It looks great, but it's the one thing that immediately doesn't look real.

Assuming the non-realism of the fire isn't a stylistic choice, it's at least a defect shared with Hollywood VFX.

Regardless, this is fantastic work OP. Thanks for sharing with us!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Even in fairly sensible states and for egg freezing, they may want you to jump through hoops.

As part of the process my significant other apparently had to either tell them I didn't exist, or they'd want to talk to me for permission to freeze her eggs. Even if we were married, they're her eggs not mine. It's completely inappropriate to need to talk to me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Of what others have suggested and that I've read: the ones most similar to what you've finished are:

  • The First Law series by Joe Abercrombie
  • The Expanse series by James SA Corey
  • Hyperion (at least the first two books, w/ optional two more) by Dan Simmons

New recommendations:

  • Dhalgren by Samuel R Delany (content warning)
  • The Baroque Cycle series by Neal Stephenson (Snow Crash and the Diamond Age may both be better starting points for the author, but may fit your other criteria less)
  • The Book of the New Sun series by Gene Wolfe

Other works that stretch your genre boundary but may evoke the right emotion:

  • Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
  • If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
  • The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
  • Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
  • The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
  • Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
  • Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M Danforth
  • John Dies at the End by David Wong
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

It's not uncommon to mention the president who started an agency in little blurbs describing their history. Like with the Environmental Protection Agency & Nixon.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Even your first painting in the series was recognizably him. You're right about the expression, although I sure can't point to what tiny detail doesn't match.

Regardless, you've made great progress and I hope you keep sharing with us!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

There's still something to assembling it yourself. Viewed as an educational activity, it easily clears the bar for photo quality.

Yes you can get better photos by buying something else used, but that doesn't mean this doesn't have value.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Those actions may not require refreshing the entire display.

E-Ink is viewable in sunlight without a backlight. A huge chunk of power for regular displays is the backlight. Here you only need a backlight in darkness, and it can be quite low.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thibault? That's the first 2 syllable French name that comes to mind that I could see people mangling to Tubbo or Tugboat

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Switzerland is in Schengen, but didn't join until 2004.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Is that a Vermin Supreme reference?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Were you intending to link a song, or reply to someone besides OP?

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