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Hippyadam

@hippyadam.bsky.social

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That dude from that place. Posts about Games, Movies and general Bullshit. Stray cat wrangler and bunker aficionado. Other places: Masto: @[email protected] XBL: hippyadam_uk PSN: hippyadam

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Hippyadam @hippyadam.bsky.social · Nov 8

I have accidentally been doing a stupid Friday thing on the bad place for a good number of years & today is probably gonna be my last one on there for obvious reasons.

Wasn't actually planning on restarting here but feels weird to just stop. So without further ado:

Heading into the weekend like

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Hippyadam @hippyadam.bsky.social · 23h

He'll shit himself if he goes to the Netherlands

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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 1d

This lone, absurdly low basketball hoop -- on a very sparsely populated street on Gary's outskirts -- makes me happy and sad at the same time #photography #nwindiana

Color, portrait-orientation photo of a basketball backboard and hoop attached to a wooden utility pole. The pole is in some scraggly green grass on the side of a narrow paved but unmarked road. We can see a single house 100 meters down on the right. The hoop is absurdly low (maybe 3 ft high). The backboard is plywood that is weather-worn.

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World Central Kitchen @wck.org · 1d

WCK is now serving more than 500,000 meals every day in Gaza. This is a major step in our goal of serving 1 million meals daily, and it's a direct result of months of hard work from our teams. (1/2)

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 1d

Just Jack Kirby in 1939, reminding us not to make deals with Nazis

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Liam Wong @liamwong.com · 1d

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Massiveface @massiveface.bsky.social · 1d

I enjoyed talking to myself in a Bob Ross voice while painting the clouds, I think he would approve.

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 1d

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 2d

Elon Musk is a white nationalist. Anyone who needs more data points to reach this conclusion is beyond help or persuasion.

If you buy, rent, service, or supercharge a Tesla you are supporting the most powerful white nationalist on earth. Period.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2d

Musk is funding the legal battle of UK Far Right activist Tommy Robinson - real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon - as he faces charges brought by counterterrorism police.

Tommy Robinson claims Elon Musk is funding his legal battle — The Times and The Sunday Times

Tommy Robinson has claimed Elon Musk was paying his legal costs as he went on trial for refusing to comply with a request made by counterterrorism police as he tried to leave Britain last year. Robins...

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 3d

GUESS WHO'S BACK

BACK AGAIN

DOC'S BACK

TELL A FRIEND

That's right. It's time for part 3 of the FPS series; this time, a lot of assorted thoughts on what makes for good enemy design. This one was fun as hell to write.

docseuss.medium.com/building-a-b...

building a better first person shooter part 3: enemy mine

So! First, we talked about a specific subgenre of first person shooter, loosely starting with Unreal and Half-Life and dying off around…

docseuss.medium.com

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Hippyadam @hippyadam.bsky.social · 1d

Ah what? That sucks as his work is ingrained in my childhood memory :/

Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 1d

RIP Drew Struzan
A master.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 1d

What’s that, you say?

You enjoy critically acclaimed gritty, authentic crime and legal thrillers?

You enjoy reading such thrillers on an electronic medium, such as e-book?

You enjoy ridonculous bargains?

#TheCutThroatTrial is a crazy £1.99 today.

Go nuts.

www.amazon.co.uk/Cut-Throat-T...

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Hippyadam @hippyadam.bsky.social · 1d

I fell asleep on the sofa again at 7am... Stupid fatigue is stupid

Hippyadam @hippyadam.bsky.social · 1d

I wish it was just that...

But that games a banger. Just started a new game plus with my now hard as nails lads from the first game.

Much less stressful now they've got plasma rifles 😆

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Hippyadam @hippyadam.bsky.social · 1d

Fatigue absolutely kicking my arse today

a cartoon of a cat with a sad look on its face

ALT: a cartoon of a cat with a sad look on its face

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John Freeman @johnfreeman.bsky.social · 1d

This week is a major milestone for British comics, as Judge Dredd Megazine celebrates 35 years since it debuted back in 1990.

https://downthetubes.net/happy-anniversary-punks-judge-dredd-megazine-hits-35/

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wendy copium @alicebennett.bsky.social · 2d

one thing LLMs have revealed is that the belief that there is a magical incantation that will give you what you want is not just confined to pick-up artists and freemen on the land

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 2d

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

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Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.

#academicsky"

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 2d

I shall never get to heaven.

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Robot Wig @robotwig.com · 2d

One year ago today I posted this Ash Vs Evil Dead photo I created using real figures, lighting and miniatures. I digitally blurred Ash's chainsaw for added effect...

#photography #evildead #movies

Ash uses his chainsaw to chop off Henrietta's demon head

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Hippyadam @hippyadam.bsky.social · 2d

Speaking of which, you finished that book yet? 😆

Hippyadam @hippyadam.bsky.social · 2d

Brutal. Good luck to you 💪🏼

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Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 4d

A visit to a garden centre closing down. A melancholic place; picked as barren as a whale carcass; flowers faded, with a photo of their spring pomp; trees waving their pale bare branches in the hope to please,

An empty polytunnel which was like being under ice, the autumn leaves skating overhead.

An empty, near derelict polytunnel, with a laminated sign on the outside promising:

All labelled &
priced plants
in this poly-tunnel
are for sale

A photo of the polytunnel roof. Plastic, mottled with dirt and dust, dull bright with milky sunshine. A single leaf, a rusty red, stamped on the outside of the plastic - looking like the fossilised footprint of a dinosaur.

The same, only now there’s a cluster of leaves, in the anti-matter emptiness of the dirty polytunnel plastic.

One leaf again, adrift in the soft dull white of the plastic roof. Its shape is only just defined, as if it’s a memory of an autumn leaf.

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Hippyadam @hippyadam.bsky.social · 4d

Rip you

a woman in a white tank top says " moment of silence " in front of a brick wall

ALT: a woman in a white tank top says " moment of silence " in front of a brick wall

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Paul Cornell @paulcornell.bsky.social · 4d

I've put a 1973 Countdown Annual up on ebay, starting at 99p! Doctor Who comic strip, UFO Interceptor cutaway. Do have a look! www.ebay.co.uk/itm/33622767...

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Fraser Campbell @fraserc69.bsky.social · 4d

I think it's been announced so I'm safe enough to say @lucysullivan.bsky.social & I have a strip in this, rescued from the wreckage of a certain anthology fiasco...

Lucy is one of my favourite creators and people and I bought every issue of A1 and Deadline ever printed, so this means a lot to me.

Dave Elliott @deevelliott.bsky.social · 4d

We have a DATE!

And the CLOCK is TICKING...

#A1deadline #Comics #Kickstarter

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Hippyadam @hippyadam.bsky.social · 4d

Fire team looks like a lot going on, I like this cos you can hit pause to do stuff and it's pretty fucking tense when you're low on ammo and miles from rescue...

Most be pretty close to the end as just unlocked the plasma rifle 🤘🏼