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Happy #WebcomicDay ! My webcomic Crossed Wires has been on a bit of a break recently (I've been stupid busy), but it's still got over 400 pages of ultracool anti-corpo action! In the cyberpunk present, hacking isn't just a skill... it's a survival trait. crossedwires.irisjay.net

@trans_lykanthropie I think we were shown them at school, or they might have seen them on TV when I was at home sick and was watching the schools programs, either way I remember seeing a lot of them haha.

Started work on priming my 3D printed werewolf muzzle, to be ready for sanding, but the brushes I got to paint on the putty and acetone primer mix keep shedding bristles, lol.

Gonna order some new brushes and then continue

@trans_lykanthropie ohhhh I wasn't aware of that, but it does make sense with how graphic/horrifying some of them were!

@trans_lykanthropie everything just feels really bland nowadays; live action footage with some fancy graphics but nothing that really engages.

Also I do believe that a lot of titles/trailers/idents/adverts (at least here in the UK) were done by people who'd studied art and wanted to reference their favourite artists

Also on this point I fucking LOVE the title sequences for TV shows from the pre-digital age' so much passion going into a lot of them, like these titles for The South Bank Show: youtube.com/watch?v=cVfQB5HSfF

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PSA: Using "female" as a noun to refer to someone, as in "a female," "that female," or "those females," makes you sound like a Ferengi.

One of the big things I miss about TV from my childhood is now imaginative trailers, idents, and even commercials, were.

Now it all feels bland and cookie cutter, which isn't surpsiring given that there's a million channels and a finite number of viewers.

I noticed that a *lot* of the crawlers/bots we see on www.bbc.co.uk & www.bbc.com are spoofed e.g. a "Meta" crawler coming from 10s of different small ISPs across the world (the real one comes from a Meta ASN).
I deployed a change this morning which adds source ASN validation (alongside user-agent string analysis) to our "known crawlers/bots" classifier & well, the results speak for themselves. Attached graphs show RPS from "known crawlers/bots" to www.bbc.co.uk & www.bbc.com.
#WebDev #BBC #Bots

Clarification; when I say movie poster I meant VHS cover art, lol.

IMO cover art is part of the home movie experience.

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Was just reminded of how a lot of movie DVDs had cover art that was not the movie poster but something more "modern" and how those felt tacky even when they first start doing that, lol

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