ThaOGDreamWeaver

Slightly off topic, but a couple from my tarot deck project...

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Leaf - Wonderwoman

Lynyrd Skynyrd x Dre & Dogg - The Next Episode

BTW: I'm not sure this is the right venue for this, but a message from one of their staffers: It's not a great time to be on the market in audio right now - especially after Ek redlined a whole swathe of people at Spotify late last year. But if you happen to need some talent, drop me a DM and I'll pass along the message. x

Kinda sad. They made good podcasts - worked with them a tiny bit, and Ship-It Show! deserves a future for definite. The Roost unit by itself is also profitable and should find a good home. As for the TV shows: well, they're vastly more expensive to make, but don't earn nearly as much per user, largely because they don't fit "live read" ads as well, and were therefore very dependent on subscriber and YouTube monetisation. I'm not sure AT&T or Time-Warner ever really had an idea how to make them profitable after they took over Fullscreen, and once WB/D got hold of 'em... well, just another costline. ...also, big fan of Bauza.

Final trailer is up, and it just wants to liiight... a little flame in your heaaaart... (with a very large flamethrower)

Puddles Pity Party - Brain Damage / Eclipse

Still gutted that Daft Punk won’t reunite. I mean, they could have handed on the helmets to new members for generations and no-one would have known. Y’know, the Dread Pirate Robots.

Odd question: anyone got a good formula description for someone holding a Reaper type scythe? For another hobby project I'm working on (building my own Tarot deck...)

Yet another Bard, albeit with very high scores in the Destruction motivation. Which would make me some kind of Death-Folk or Country/Punk crossover Bard, I suppose...

Thanks. Have caught bits of Slow Horses, kind of gave up on Americans halfway through, and Informant has now been added to queue. Not heard of the Ipcress File remake, will take a look. On the movie front, speaking of spy movies - and making Henry Cavill look weird... ...it's a Guy Ritchie war movie. Sort of. For those of you who aren't history nerds, the title is Churchill's nickname for WW2's Special Operations Executive. SOE's ops weren't quite as colourful as the poster and movie make out, because they'd have stood out like sore thumbs. But they did come from all walks of life, and were trained to blend in, while working as assassins, thieves, spies and military advisors/trainers to Resistance groups. And their story does need to be told. If you're interested in this kind of thing, you can get the SOE's collected Training Manual on Amazon - including self-defence techniques, how to fling an exploding rat, and a field guide to burglary "compiled with the help of professional and patriotic criminal sources."

Decided to hop out to a random movie on Sunday, and that turned out to be Argylle. I think it's worth a watch (possibly on streaming), though spoilery notes ahead... On that note, I'm in the mood for a good spy caper (especially with my "Jayne Blonde" AC/AA Dominator running around Paragon). Anything good I should add to queue?

Interesting choice, is all. He's quite a versatile actor - yes, in cape world, we know him for Quicksilver (and Ralph Boehner...) and he delivered a pantheon of charismatic creeps in AHS:Cult. Haven't seen Mare of Easttown but heard that was good, and Dahmer isn't up my alley - but again, heard good things about his acting. He's got no particular schtick or associations, so you're really not going to know who or what you're dealing with. Re your spoilerbox, my thoughts:

So this project is real, and there's a first image: Confirmed cast: Jared Leto😠, Greta Lee🙂, Evan Peters🤨, Hasan Minhaj😐, Jodie Turner-Smith🤩, Arturo Castro🤓, Cameron Monaghan🤯, with Gillian Anderson🥰. Confirmed director: Joachim Rønning, a Norwegian indie darling who - like the unfortunate Brit director from a pair of threads that have wisely been consigned to history - got sucked in by the promise of big budget big name movie making, only to find out their project was cursed (PotC: Dead Men Tell No Tales, though his second Mouse outing with Maleficient:Mistress Of Evil was pretty solid.) He replaces Aussie adman Garth Davis (Foe). Execs: the producers at least knows what he's about: Jeff Silver, who cut his teeth on The Wonder Years, and then built a very varied CV ranging from Training Day and Assault On Precinct 13, to Santa Clause and three Disney live-action remakes. Confirmed plotline: TRON: Ares follows a highly sophisticated Program, Ares, who is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, marking humankind’s first encounter with A.I. beings. Production notes: began filming (finally) in Vancouver in January under codename Velcro, after pandemic delays and then the strikes. Unconfirmed pointless speculation: something about ARES's right hand is screaming weapon. Not to mention the red colour scheme, the armoured-looking suit, and the odd looking warning-triangle data disc/ frisbee / next Apple jack I'll have to get a dongle for if they flip off the EU.

Disturbed - Land Of Confusion

Boy George, Ariana DeBose & Nile Rodgers - Electric Energy

Two Steps From Hell - Victory

Yes, this is pretty creepy on its own, but the noise that compressor makes...

Freyja - Seidlæti

Unfortunately I've got no idea - just lucked into that particular combo. Here's the prompt: I'll try and remember. Here's another take on the DW above, or as close as I can remember, using the Ominous Escape preset for Playground XL (because it's busy right now, and the Photorealistic ones take too much queue time for free users...) Here's the settings that were used: And now with the Masterpiece preset: Again, the thing these seem to annoy me with most are the eyes - any specific ideas for nudging the prompts not to screw those up? Tried adding blurred eyes, mismatched eyes, distorted eyes to the exclusions but doesn't seem very reliable.

If only work'd give me the budget...

Trying out PlaygroundAI's RealVis XL settings... DW, looking classy (though I can almost never get it to put the spiderweb design over the chest...) Ranger Emily, looking pensive (why do the eyes come out tinted?) ...and Captain Thunder - oddly, the hardest one to instruct on (not least "how do I remove the weird spoiler thing from the back?) But other than that... yep. We like.

Deadpool has always been a parody comic that still exists as part of the Marvel canon, sort-of. And if there's a genre that deserves to be parodied, it's cape movies. And their fandom. Where the two Deadpool movies fell down is that they have more-or-less recognisable plot arcs, with emotional beats that more or less make sense, in between all the fart gags. And Celine Dion. So they are perhaps better than their subject matter deserves.