acockworkorange

What it says on the tin.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/23409939

I just watched this movie. It’s so bad! Why? What am I missing?

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/moral-dilemmas

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22560897

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/18380473

October has long been associated with ghosts – from ancient Celtic festivals to ward off restless spirits after harvest time to the modern standby of using an old sheet to make a last-minute Halloween costume. In the middle of the 19th century, however, popular portrayals of ghosts became a year-round staple, in part because photographers discovered that they could depict them.

The first ghost photographs were accidents. Early cameras required 30 seconds or more to take a photo. If someone wandered briefly into the shot, the resulting picture would contain their ghostly trace superimposed over substantial furniture, buildings or people who had held still for the full exposure.

When shrewd photographers realized that the inconvenience of long exposure time could become an asset, detailed directions for creating these illusions proliferated. Photographers could cut ghost figures from transparent material and place them onto glass negatives or inside camera bodies. Or they could make real people half-transparent through tricks of double exposure.

Hi, I had trouble coming up with a title, sorry.

So I met 2 people in an RPG chatroom and we decided to start a game in the near future. We've moved to a separate chatroom to start preparing. This chatroom had been previously used by another player on a similar campaign, but was empty.

Soon after, another persons joins the chat. Reading the chat history, they appear to have been the GM for that previous campaign. I waved at their entry, making my presence known. This was their only text message:

Hi ​__. Good to see you back in the game. I'm interested in playing but I'll let you know straight off; I can only play on . Is that okay for your other players?

This isn't sitting right with me.

• No introduction.
• Talking about me like I'm not there.
• A certain attitude in setting terms to a game they're not organizing.
• The person they're talking to can't answer the question, and I wasn't addressed, so what now?

Am I reading too much into this? Is this just they trying to communicate efficiently plus a lack of social polish?

Anyway, I'd love some external perspective.

Edit: thanks everyone, I'm glad I took the time to gather your input. I wasn't sure I was reading the situation correctly and it looks like indeed I wasn't.

The standard iOS keyboard makes me typo too much, not to mention changing the words after I’ve typed them and moved on.

Can anyone recommend me an iOS keyboard that:

• has good swipe typing
• doesn’t connect to the internet
• doesn’t try to outsmart me
• has a decent dark mode / is themeable
• has multi language support

Thank you very much.

Does anyone know of a script I could run to import my Flickr data into, say, pixelfed or another federated service?

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/23758244

I was inspired by a post in !tenforward@lemmy.world so I mixed some lofi with jazzhop and a dash of classical on vinyl and made a playlist

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3RtFmMUo0wA1E6lMTwxdYp