PennyRoyal

joined 10 months ago
[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

I’d love to see that exhibition in person, these are photos that clearly need to be seen as large prints

[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No no, Miata is always the answer. Clearly, Miata is in that case answering the question “how do I look like a bellend without spending too much money, and clearly communicate that while I understand mechanics, I probably shouldn’t”.

[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

Must ecstatic at the moment, it’s absolutely torrential here

[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 weeks ago

Inspired by a true story? WHAT DO YOU MEAN, INSPIRED BY A TRUE STORY?!

[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, I can see the whole “bed not being the safe retreat from the horrors of the waking world” thing being traumatic, I reckon I’d probably just burn the whole lot and start again

[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

No mention of the bastard Horse Fly that chewed me up while I was strimming yesterday. I reckon the only ones I like less than the Horse Fly are the flea and the tick, and the last only because they’re disease-ridden little nightmares. That said, I’ve never been bitten by a bedbug or stung by a scorpion, so they may well be bastards too

[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

Vaguely, I think a lot of my outlook on life came from reading Terry Pratchett and Ian M Banks amongst others

[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

Well colour me shocked

[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 weeks ago

Mint, thank you! It stops doing it for a while, then decided it needs to warn you every time god a while, and so on. It’ll be great not to have that!

[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 41 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

iPhones will do this even when you’re connected to an external device. Like I’m using you as a source, I want high signal-to-noise ratio, not constant nannying nonsense

[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah, extracting an estimated 64 Trillion(!!!) in wealth from the subcontinent probably had little effect, nothing to see here

[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The Gameboy camera incident is wonderful

 

Looking for a few workshop manuals, is there anywhere that generally has a good selection?

 

Hey all. I’ve been looking for a small, basic USB-C hub with pass through power. Like literally just 4 USB-C ports, a short cable and a USB-C power in. No extra nonsense, just a minimal way to connect an SSD, a monitor, and power to my deck, and charge a peripheral if necessary. It seems unreasonably hard to find! Any suggestions?

 

Hello peeps. Life’s thrown me some curve-balls recently, and I’d like a bit of an escape. Can anyone recommend a decent game in the vein of Skyrim, Fallout or Deus Ex/System Shock for the steam deck, that isn’t 25 or 30 quid please? Something on offer for less than a tenner would be ideal. I’m sure there are some great older RPGs out there that I’ve missed, the Deck is the first time I’ve got back into gaming for quite a few years, and while I’m sure I could quite happily just play Brotato for the next few years, I reckon there’s something a bit more immersive out there for me to find!

 

Hi all, I need a bit of help.

I’m looking to get further down the rabbit hole of interesting photographers, but I struggle to define what I’m after. My general misanthropy extends into photography, people are almost always the least interesting thing in the frame to me. Why would you waste film on faces, when you could be taking interesting images of some nice concrete or rusty iron?!

I love the work of Toshio Shibata, Bernd and Hilla Bescher, Bill Brandt, Danila Tkachenko, and GXAce on YouTube. The problem I have is that searching for “Urban” photographers brings up street stuff, “Architectural” ends up with folks who take pictures of whole buildings, “industrial” seems to lead to people who take photos for corporate websites, or urbexers (though some of those are verging on what I’m after). Constructed landscapes, textures, geometric shapes, and the juxtaposition of human artifice and nature, that’s my bag.

Is there a term or genre that would connect all this? Or am I just going to have to keep finding new artists one at a time?

Ta!

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