thedirtyknapkin

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

i think i might very much struggle with granite or other hard things.

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

it's like a mid budget average production quality anime for a manga famed for its action sequences.

a bit like one punch man season 2. not necessarily bad, but certainly disappointing compared to the source.

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

it's still going, but the anime largely isn't living up to the manga and the hype has already mostly died.

it's not bad, i enjoy it. it's just not incredible either.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

there's always handheld gaming pcs being released and going nowhere. the current generation includes the rog Ally and the Lenovo legion.

if you don't follow this stuff religiously you've probably never heard of them, but they are out there. it's just that no one really buys them.

the steam deck is the first successful one, but companies have been trying to make something like this for years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

agreed, though i don't necessarily think animals has a large gender bias.

maybe fuzzy cute animals do, but just appreciated and liking animals and nature docs is pretty gender neutral in my experience.

though i haven't exactly looked up data on that...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

haha, that's why I've put almost 10 hours into it.

i suspect most mini games start to show their problems and biases when you spend 10 hours playing then lol. like, gwent was sick, but it really was just about stacking the most strong cards intoa single deck as you could.

caravan though... that was a great damn mini game. the interactive and believable element of needing to go around and collect old world playing cards to build out your deck did a lot to extend the game into the broader world. more than that though, it's a genuinely playable and relatively balanced game. i happened to have a lot of incomplete card decks lying around when i grew up. eventually i repurposed those into one big deck that would get split in half to play with people irl and a randomized deck. only fantasy card game I've ever been able to recreate and play at home without buying anything. and it even played pretty well.

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

yeah, Rockstar excels at this. red dead 2 had the best crowds and random encounters. it's got me excited for gta6

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

it's definitely balanced towards giving you better hands.

I've pulled like 8 royal flushes out of it with less than 10 hours spent playing poker in there. I've never even seen a royal flush in other contexts.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

the despicable thing they referenced was posting a video mocking their cries and terror as asmr you fuck.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

i mean this is all very dependent on time, place, and people. there are people that were fully nomadic at all times of human history. they certainly didn't stay in a town either. some people did travel, clearly. devout religious folk, merchants, well to do young men... there have always been exceptions, but on the whole as a norm, over 500 years ago most people didn't travel much. and more to my point, pilgrims traveling like that likely didn't have maps most of the time. they likely got directions to the next town by the people that lived there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

because it feels off balance.

the level of the horizon is a key part of composition. it effects comfort, balance, and groundedness. when the horizon is not level it will feel disorienting, dizzy, or chaotic. yes, you can break compositional rules for artistic effect, but you need to learn the rules and why they matter before you can do so effectively. the example you posted below doesn't really make your case. it's not that great of a photo, rotated or not. to intentionally rotate the horizon to give it an uncomfortable or disorienting feeling is fine if that's the goal hell, maybe it's more to feel otherworldly or any other number of things you can derive from it. the point is that you need a reason and intent behind the unlevel horizon. what feeling were you trying to invoke by not having the ground beneath the feet of the viewer?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

i never said they were as bad as America lol. why do you have to go so far out of your way to defend two of three largest and most antagonistic countries in the world. they all suck, splitting hairs about degrees of evil isn't worth the time.

don't be expansionist.

don't be imperialist.

don't hate people for how they were born.

don't antagonize ethnic minorities.

all three countries are failing at more than one of these right now. they all suck.

they really don't need the help either...

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

shot on Sony a7siii with an Olympus om 300mm f4.5 adapted.

I don't remember exactly where this was. somewhere in Colorado. not too far from Denver. Love this old manual focus 300mm though. it's one of my favorites whenever I think I can get away with it. it sits in my bag more than I'd like though. it's a hard focal length to justify when i have a 150-500 right there. most of the subjects I'd shoot with it would just be better captured at 500mm. wicked sharp with lovely bokeh and shockingly nice contrast and flair control for an older telephoto.

if you're cool with manual focus and looking for a very nice 300mm for cheap. this is a great get. i got mine for just over $100 from a local camera store. I'm sure it could be had for less.

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against the rain (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

shot on Sony a7siii with an Olympus zuiko 50mm 1.8 adapted.

the rain was really coming down, so part of the glowyness was from a wet front element.

this was with an older manual 50mm. it's honestly become my primary wedding video lens. it has just the right amount of glowy highlights to add a real dreamy feel to it while staying sharp and contrasty away from the edges of the highlights. perfect for the 4k 120p dance montage.

i wonder if I might have done better closing the aperture all the way down here. keep the details on the sign sharp. it would still have loads of subject isolation.

 

Sony a7siii with a tamron 150-500.

was out shooting some wildlife video and just needed to find a shot of this storm rolling in through the sunset. it's not the best framing, but sometimes it's really all about capturing the light. when shooting nature you do what you can from where you can. if i had tried to chase a better angle i would've missed it.

 
 

Luka likes to bury her face into my hand sometimes. it's the best.

this feels like a meme format, but I don't know what it would say.

 
 

her name is alluka and you can see the royal quality of her countenance at first gaze. be grateful to witness her.

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

stopped by my favorite birding spot after work and had these fellas fly in over my head. guest appearance by a great blue heron.

shot on sony a7siii with a tamron 150-500. all handheld and after the sun was behind the mountains, so you'll have to excuse some shakiness and focus issues.

music: creep - original song by Radiohead - performed by scott bradlee's post modern jukebox.

 
 

shot on a7siii with a nikon Ai-s 28mm f/2.0

 
 

I'm sick as hell right now and this pulled up right outside my front door last night. stepped out to take a picture because nothing felt real for a moment. then i started coughing and kind of regretted it. worth it?

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