PSiReN-X · @PSiReN
27 followers · 2427 posts · Server syzito.xyz

@selzero

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🧙⚔️🤖🐺🤖⚔️🧙 | 🪐🦹🚀🐻🚀🦹🪐

vmst.io/@PSiReN/11059506514191

#windowsmediaplayer #ftw

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@chemoelectric
also Chemical Corps -- crossed retorts

#ftw

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Pat · @Pat
168 followers · 3985 posts · Server qoto.org

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Retro SciFi Film of the Week…

Mars Attacks (1998)

This one’s really weird. It makes fun of all those 1950s science fiction films, showing many of the common tropes and stock characters, but turning them into gags. There's a lot of graphic violence portrayed in a comedic style in this movie which was kind of a new phenomenon at the time it came out, at least for a major Hollywood scifi.

*****SPOILERS: The attached unauthorized trailer contains spoilers and graphic violence.*****

The gags in this film will make you laugh, but they’ll also erode your empathy and moral compass, so watch at your own risk.

accessible description:

Video opens with a new-age woman holding a crystal sitting on top of a car wearing new-age attire, and overlooking a huge crowd of people off in the distance who are gathered around a landing pad out in the middle of the desert. A sign says Welcome To Earth, there are a couple of news reporters giving on-the-spot news reports. The woman reporter is carrying a little chihuahua, a flying saucer comes down, it's landing gear extends and it sets down, then a big long ramp unrolls, there's a red carpet waiting for the aliens to come out, then cut to the president looking at his TV Set as an alien comes out of the spaceship, the alien talks in an alien language and a geeky guy translates it with some goofy machine, everybody smiles when the translation says “We Come in Peace”, then a hippie releases a dove and the dove flies overhead and the alien shoots down the dove with a laser, frying it to a crisp. Then the aliens start shooting all of the people and the soldiers who are in 1950s style jeeps and tanks. Quick cut to a guy in a Las Vegas casino who says “whoa”, one of the soldiers runs towards the alien carrying a gun and yelling, one of the reporters runs across and falls on the ground, crawls over to the other reporter, and they reach out to grab each other's hands, the camera shows the woman reaching and grabbing the guy's hand, then an alien fires a laser and cut back to the woman with the guy’s hand but the rest of the reporter is missing, it's just his hand cut off at the wrist. the woman drops the hand in shock then the little chihuahua quickly walks up and grabs the hand by a finger and drags it away, and only a skeleton of the reporter remains because he got shot by the alien. The aliens gather up some things and fly away and the new-age woman sits on top of her car in shock overlooking a scorched empty desert with no people left.

***** THIS VIDEO CLIP CONTAINS SPOILERS AND GRAPHIC VIOLENCE *****

#science #fiction #sciencefiction #1990s #hand #scifi #ftw #sfftw #film #movie #space #spaceship #ufo #uap #1950s #helicopters #military #hair #dog

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Pat · @Pat
168 followers · 3985 posts · Server qoto.org

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Retro SciFi Film of the Week…

Mars Attacks (1998)

This one’s really weird. It makes fun of all those 1950s science fiction films, showing many of the common tropes and stock characters, but turning them into gags. There's a lot of graphic violence portrayed in a comedic style in this movie which was kind of a new phenomenon at the time it came out, at least for a major Hollywood scifi.

The gags in this film will make you laugh, but they’ll also erode your empathy and moral compass, so watch at your own risk.

SPOILERS: The attached unauthorized trailer contains spoilers.

accessible description:

Video opens with a new-age woman holding a crystal sitting on top of a car wearing new-age attire, and overlooking a huge crowd of people off in the distance who are gathered around a landing pad out in the middle of the desert. A sign says Welcome To Earth, there are a couple of news reporters giving on-the-spot news reports. The woman reporter is carrying a little chihuahua, a flying saucer comes down, it's landing gear extends and it sets down, then a big long ramp unrolls, there's a red carpet waiting for the aliens to come out, then cut to the president looking at his TV Set as an alien comes out of the spaceship, the alien talks in an alien language and a geeky guy translates it with some goofy machine, everybody smiles when the translation says “We Come in Peace”, then a hippie releases a dove and the dove flies overhead and the alien shoots down the dove with a laser, frying it to a crisp. Then the aliens start shooting all of the people and the soldiers who are in 1950s style jeeps and tanks. Quick cut to a guy in a Las Vegas casino who says “whoa”, one of the soldiers runs towards the alien carrying a gun and yelling, one of the reporters runs across and falls on the ground, crawls over to the other reporter, and they reach out to grab each other's hands, the camera shows the woman reaching and grabbing the guy's hand, then an alien fires a laser and cut back to the woman with the guy’s hand but the rest of the reporter is missing, it's just his hand cut off at the wrist. the woman drops the hand in shock then the little chihuahua quickly walks up and grabs the hand by a finger and drags it away, and only a skeleton of the reporter remains because he got shot by the alien. The aliens gather up some things and fly away and the new-age woman sits on top of her car in shock overlooking a scorched empty desert with no people left.

***** THIS VIDEO CLIP CONTAINS SPOILERS AND GRAPHIC VIOLENCE *****

#ftw #fiction #sfftw #movie #space #spaceship #ufo #uap #hand #scifi #1950s #helicopters #military #hair #1990s #dog #science #sciencefiction #film

Last updated 1 year ago

onion · @onion
58 followers · 542 posts · Server mastodon.tal.org

Always fun to poke around in undocumented interfaces, pretty straightforward this setup on port 9992.

#blackmagic #smartview #telnet #ftw #smartview4k

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wilbown · @wilbown
92 followers · 124 posts · Server fosstodon.org

for is turning into for :

Piles of sh*t piled on top of piles of sh*t 🤣

@ggerganov llama.cpp ggml

#python #ai #javascript #web #ftw

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Pat · @Pat
166 followers · 3973 posts · Server qoto.org

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Retro SciFi Film of the Week…

Dark Star (1974)

This started out as a college film, which was actually pretty good quality for a college film, but then some movie exec found out about it and got the rights to it and added a bunch of material to bring it up to a feature length film. Then a distributor got hold of it and put it in theaters. So, it was it was a nice college film but a really lousy commercial release.

Here are some sample clips from the film which illustrate the pacing problems that the film has. Apparently the college version was even slower paced than this theatrical release. It got released on VHS about a decade later and actually had quite a few sales/rentals and now people are calling it a cult classic.

It's funny to watch with a lot of geek humor, if you’ve got the time.

accessible description:

Open with a computer screen that says “To scout ship Dark Star, Galactic sector”; Cut to an image guy in a uniform who is shown on a black and white video screen talking to the camera, there are real-to-real computer storage units in the background; then cut to a space scene with the Dark Star ship slowly moving past the camera and then moving towards a planet; then cut to a guy laying on some patio furniture in a small room, he is wearing huge sunglasses as if he's getting a suntan and another guy comes into the room dragging a big heavy metal door which he places up against an opening; then cut to a guy standing in a dark room with some blurry special effects in the background and a giant beach ball drops from the ceiling down onto the floor and starts making some alien noises and the guy talks to the beach ball; then cut to the beach ball again and a guy hanging in an air duct of some sort then cut to a sign that says emergency airlock interior door; then cut to a sign that says caution laser, then the beach ball forces open a door where the laser is; then cut to some guys with long 1970s hair sitting around playing cards and talking about intelligent life; then cut to an image of a planet slowly getting larger and a ship is approaching the planet and a guy says “There she is.”

#science #fiction #sciencefiction #scifi #ftw #sfftw #independent #NoHelicopters #military #hair #1970s #film #movie #space #spaceship #collegefilm #beachball

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Big Poppa Ken · @bigpoppaken
41 followers · 490 posts · Server techhub.social

Hope Hook gets the FTW title back and retires it. We have too many titles to have an unofficial title. As much as I love the FTW title.

#aewcollision #ftw

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Ged|Net · @Gednet
203 followers · 4279 posts · Server mstdn.social
chazbe79 🎮🕹️ · @chazbe79
10 followers · 81 posts · Server social.vivaldi.net

After multiple different failing miserably, (on my spare laptop @epp ) took 5 minutes with an cable 🤓👍 (stable) . My daily use laptop on did exactly the same 🤓👍

#distros #netrunneros23 #hdmi #debian #ftw #manjarolinux

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FerFer · @JennArndt
16 followers · 8 posts · Server thecanadian.social

Second round.
This time using locally distilled @CapitalKWpg Dill Pickle vodka. Also picked up some Peg City seasoning to try as a dipper.

🏈💙🧡

#spiceworldofcanada #bloodymarybombs #GoBlue #ftw #cfl

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FerFer · @JennArndt
11 followers · 3 posts · Server thecanadian.social

Woohoo!

#GoBlue #ftw

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BillSaysThis · @BillSaysThis
132 followers · 3410 posts · Server curmudgeon.cafe

@jimbob Slip-ons

#ftw

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Pat · @Pat
166 followers · 3964 posts · Server qoto.org

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Retro SciFi Film of the Week…

Forever Young (1992)

This is a romance drama / sci-fi written and produced by Jeffrey Abrams (JJ Abrams). It's basically a Rip Van Winkle story about a guy in 1939 who ends up volunteering for some advanced cryogenic experiment, gets frozen, and wakes up in 1992.

The story manages to avoid most of those hackneyed anachronistic encounters of a guy who's misplaced in time; it really sticks to the romance, emotions, and characters, and this guy's quest to find his old friends from 1939. The film has the feel of a Spielberg film, particularly ET, which was produced a decade earlier. It’s sentimental, almost sappy. It's commercial -- very much so -- and tries to appeal to multiple demographics. Jerrald Goldsmith, who scored Logan’s Run (which was last week’s Film of the Week), created the exceptional score for this movie, and overall it’s a well produced film. Some of the plot points seemed forced and unrealistic, placed in the story simply to create tension, not uncommon for a Hollywood film.

With Mel Gibson and Jamie Lee Curtis in the lead roles, the acting is world class, although neither of those actors completely disappear into their roles. Elijah Wood also has a major role and gives a great performance as the ten-year-old son of Curtis’ character. Isabel_Glasser plays Gibson’s character’s love interest, but oddly doesn’t get as much screen time as the other leads.

There's only one black character in the film (Joe Morton), a researcher who was portrayed as antagonistic and in this story was unable to figure out the design of the cryogenic apparatus that was created by a white character (George Wendt) fifty years earlier. This type of depiction of black characters was typical of films produced prior to the Rodney King beating and LA riots which broke out just as initial filming for this film was wrapping up. Other than that, I saw no other significant bias or racial stereotypes.

As far as technology, there wasn’t much, basically just the cryro-chamber, which had a steam-punk design that was out of place for the pre-war time period.

Overall the film is worth watching, just don’t expect much in terms of science fiction gadgetry, aliens, spaceships, etc.

accessible description:

movie poster with Mel Gibson’s face covering most of the poster and a small image of Gibson and Isabel Glasser embracing and kissing.

#sfftw #film #military #buford #warehouse #1990s #science #fiction #sciencefiction #scifi #ftw #movie #physics #b25 #helicopter

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el lobi · @lobi
92 followers · 661 posts · Server todon.nl
el lobi · @lobi
92 followers · 658 posts · Server todon.nl
wilbown · @wilbown
92 followers · 121 posts · Server fosstodon.org

See... People can and will run their own.
Open source and decentralized

synthedia.substack.com/p/roblo

#ai #ftw

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PCH🎙️ :wp_fedi: 🪬 · @phillycodehound
7561 followers · 5959 posts · Server masto.ai

@InternetEh I have to do that. Clean the tool box. It'll never happen tho. LOL

#adhd #ftw

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Andy Wootton · @woo
102 followers · 923 posts · Server fosstodon.org

@Duncan @robpike Counter evidence: I've been watching people making 'US folk instruments' like cigar-box guitars and dulcimers; basic, stripped-down music tech. Every one used a workshop-full of power tools. It seems cultural hypocrisy to me. Hand tools , ideally home-made.

#ftw

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coolbutuseless · @coolbutuseless
402 followers · 1103 posts · Server fosstodon.org

{remedy} AddIns -> AlignEqual()

#rstats #hottake #ftw

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