Man, I am a cinema buff and I just really don’t think I care if the smoke is there at all, much less just right. Obviously botched attempts at realism are another matter entirely but this just seems like an area ripe for creativity and artistic reinterpretation.

Point is, we cede ground to the theater of the mind all the time, I don’t know why realistic gunfire can’t be treated similarly, and I think the lack of verisimilitude itself could be approached many different ways and that’s even kind of exciting.

Give him his due, the man can sniff out a chump to be exploited.

The difference between ‘shalt’ and ‘shart’ may be as little as a few strokes of a sharpie…just saying.

Otter countries are famously permissive.

I believe I recall reading about one EV brand that was going to let customers ‘design their signature sound’ or something along those lines.

Will no one stand up to the business-killing menace that is Marques Brownlee?

Which is an actual demotivational poster caption.

Oh for sure this needs to be a Gizz album or a song at least

Which, honestly, sounds like the name of a prog metal album so he isn’t straying far

I sensed the joke from a few instances over.

Take it from me, no fun at all.

I think the straightforward-ness of it is what I like about it. I’m deriving satisfaction from - and appreciating - the restraint and media-literacy necessary to write a concise yet factual description of some, frankly, bonkers shit.

alt-text is the meta art form of Lemmy and posts like this are why.

"mainstream

You can only piss on our faces and tell us it is raining for so long.

I think the boats are the cookie in this painting.

I didn’t even need to know he is a bigot to know he sucks, because he has sucked for a long, long, looooooong time.

Yeah definitely not, it was a silly thought.

Are you building an Interocitor in there?

I see what you’re seeing but it doesn’t look to me like it’s actually supporting the weight, it looks like the weight is being supported more under the deck itself.