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#16
General / Re: Things that went over your head...
28 February, 2024, 02:04:57 AM
Quote from: rogue69 on 27 February, 2024, 11:25:42 PMI was just reading the other day that Ukko was a Indo-European God of the Sky, Thunder, Lightning & Harvest in the same vain as Thor in Norse Mythology
Ukko is also held as the most significant god of Finnish mythology & is Finnish for 'male grandparent', 'grandfather'& 'old man"

Not quite the Ukko we all know and love

In Finland there is a town called Raahe. Raahe has a museum. In the museum is what is thought to be the world's oldest surviving diving suit, (18th century). The diving suit is known as "Wanha Herra" or "The Old Gentleman", is made of leather and has feet resembling traditional Finnish footwear.

This is what the suit looks like...



...which may seem somewhat familiar...



#17
Prog / Re: Prog 2369 - Turning the World Upside Down
25 February, 2024, 07:07:19 PM
Quote from: Rogue Trooper on 25 February, 2024, 06:24:41 PM
Quote from: Le Fink on 25 February, 2024, 08:23:01 AMI think the main motivation for these particular panels (broken leg, noosed naked woman, face punches) is more homage to Hammer/giallo films myself, rather than storytelling, or getting in the victim's head. They're all from the perspective of the aggressor, or a voyeur, rather than the victim and are intended to be fetishtic.

Ah, we're just reading it differently. Fair enough.

I'm not getting the fetishistic thing myself, but I suppose it could be argued that both ways of reading it are equally valid, given that the entire story is about the intersection/parallels of real and fictional horror.
#18
Off Topic / Re: “Truth? You can't handle the truth!”
18 February, 2024, 09:09:02 PM
Don't ask me, I was about to comment the very same.

Actually, I was just going to post the word "How?", but it amounts to pretty much the same thing.
#20
Off Topic / Re: RIPs
16 February, 2024, 06:59:50 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo [R] on 16 February, 2024, 05:15:46 PMAlexei Navalny - effectively murdered by the Russian State / Putin.

Not even a surprise. I was expecting him to have "fallen out of a window" eventually.
#21
Film & TV / Re: Rogue Trooper News…!
15 February, 2024, 02:59:37 PM
My first name's already the name of the Souther H.Q. (if you completely misspell and mispronounce it in a horrendous fashion).
#22
Off Topic / Re: “Truth? You can't handle the truth!”
14 February, 2024, 11:31:37 PM
Good lord... It would seem my digital telly gets more attuned to detecting holographic technology utilising alien lizard-folk and/or A.I. generated imagery when it's really windy and the outside aerial is wobbling about.
#23
Creative Common / Re: Does my (a.i.)art look big in This?
14 February, 2024, 07:49:09 PM
I'm not saying aphantasia isn't a drawback for visual artists, ('cos it stands to reason it would be), but there's a surprising amount of really quite accomplished artists with the condition, including the bloke who designed Disney's Little Mermaid and Beast from Beauty and The Beast.

Inversely, there's a lot of folk with a very vivid mind's eye who can't draw for toffee, (or any other confectionery of their choice), in the same way that you can't just stick most folk down in front of a landscape with a bunch of paints and expect them to produce a masterpiece.
#24
Off Topic / Re: The Implications Of AI Art.
14 February, 2024, 07:32:58 PM
#25
General / Re: Let's gossip about Nobody
04 February, 2024, 07:46:32 PM
Because Kenneth Niemand said he wasn't.
#26
General / Re: Let's gossip about Nobody
03 February, 2024, 08:08:45 PM
Oh.
#27
General / Re: Let's gossip about Nobody
03 February, 2024, 05:41:42 PM
I'm more interested in the why than the who(m).
#28
Announcements / Re: Mystery Prog & Megazine Pack
28 January, 2024, 11:51:20 AM
Maybe they're hand-picked in the way that strawberries and brambles are, to make sure they're not all squelchy or crawling with maggots.
#29
Music / Re: Band about 2000ad
27 January, 2024, 02:23:07 PM
There's also this...


...and this...

#30
Prog / Re: Prog 2366 - End of the Road
27 January, 2024, 01:31:41 PM
^ Yep. Pretty much that. ^