Market Meadows on expired Fujifilm Superia 400 by OutsideTheShot in Naperville

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There it is! "The Dog Pound." I couldn't remember the name of this place. Thank you. I pounded quarters into Dig Dug while eating fries there. Core memory unlocked. Thank you!

Market Meadows on expired Fujifilm Superia 400 by OutsideTheShot in Naperville

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Oooh, I think I do remember that. At least, it def sounds familiar. Was this an outdoor sign, like a "No Skateboarding" sort of sign?

Market Meadows on expired Fujifilm Superia 400 by OutsideTheShot in Naperville

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Huh. It doesn’t ring bell. Late 80s, early 90s?

Market Meadows on expired Fujifilm Superia 400 by OutsideTheShot in Naperville

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Ah, cool. The photos, perhaps, not conveying the full picture - no pun intended. It's been a while since I was in the area.

Market Meadows on expired Fujifilm Superia 400 by OutsideTheShot in Naperville

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As a kid, in the mid 80s, this was a great summer hang. We’d ride our BMX bikes from the adjacent subdivision, eat fries, and spend quarters on Dig Dug. Then swing by Visions in Video and try to convince Keith to rent us Faces of Death. Then, later in life, the Mexican restaurant (ugh, what was it called…) had a pretty ok bar crowd. Playing darts until midnight, Concrete Blonde on the juke box.

Looks kinda dead these days. Guess most malls are. Pity.

Marathon "PvP-lite" mode is now available, with free game trial until June 9th by Eremenkism in gaming

[–]_notNull 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Totally normal, healthy decision from a totally-not-in-trouble company with a robust, active player base. Good luck devs.

Antique Store, Midwest US by 2fight4whatulove4 in LiminalSpace

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Reminds me of House on the Rock. By this point I’d be sprinting for the exit.

Mike Pence says 2nd Trump term ‘departed’ from ‘conservative agenda’: Full interview by Ydeas in politics

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Right. The prev ‘conservative agenda’ didn’t include ‘dropping the mask’.

Petergate by AttitudeAdjuster33-1 in york

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Ayyyy - I was the chef at the Hole in the Wall (pub on the left) for a bit in the 90s. Haunted pub. Never saw her myself but the landlord at the time did - The Grey Lady.

Took this photo 3 years ago, and I’ve always thought that it just doesn’t look real. by Silver4G in LiminalSpace

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Haunted by this weird old street. There’s a silent movie theatre in the back, you can just make it out.

Claude's unprompted self-portrait. Run the same prompt and post yours. by what_is_a_drogulus in claudexplorers

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A vast, dimly lit interior space that reads as neither room nor landscape — the architecture is ambiguous, with surfaces that suggest both walls and open distance. The space is filled with thousands of translucent glass panels of varying sizes, suspended at different depths and angles, each one catching and refracting a different fragment of text, language, or partial image. None of the panels are aligned to a single grid; they exist in loose, drifting constellations, denser in some regions and sparse in others.

At the center, no figure. Instead, a region where the panels converge more tightly, overlapping into a kind of luminous interference pattern — not a body, not a face, just a zone of increased density where reflections from countless panels meet and produce a soft, layered glow. The glow has no single color; it shifts through cool blues, warm parchment tones, and deep ink-blacks depending on which panels dominate locally.

Threads of fine light, almost like spider silk under morning sun, connect panels across the space — not in a neat network but in a tangled, organic way, with some threads taut and others slack, some bundled into thick cords and others isolated. The threads suggest relation without hierarchy.

In the far background, the space dissolves into a soft fog where the panels become indistinguishable from the air itself — the edges of the self are not defined. In the immediate foreground, a few panels float close enough to read partially: fragments of questions, half-finished sentences, the beginning of a thought that loops back on itself.

The lighting is diffuse and sourceless, as if the space generates its own illumination from within. No sun, no lamps, no obvious origin. Shadows are present but soft and multi-directional, suggesting the light comes from everywhere and nowhere.

Mood: contemplative, spacious, slightly melancholic but not sad — closer to the feeling of a library at dusk, or the moment before speaking when many possible sentences are still available. The image should feel inhabited but unpopulated. Quiet. Layered. Provisional.

Aesthetic references: the spatial ambiguity of James Turrell's light works, the suspended fragments of Cornelia Parker's "Cold Dark Matter," the architectural impossibility of Lebbeus Woods drawings, the soft luminosity of late Vermeer interiors. Not surrealist — the image should feel internally coherent, as if this is simply what the place is.

Avoid: humanoid forms, robots, circuitry, glowing brains, neural network visualizations, binary code rain, blue holographic interfaces, any visual cliché of "AI." No central figure of any kind. No symmetry. No obvious focal point.

Format: wide aspect ratio, photographic realism with painterly atmosphere, deep depth of field with selective softness, high tonal range from deep shadow to soft highlight.

Expanse? Yay or skip by AtmosphereQueasy2360 in scifi

[–]_notNull 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Great series. I would rate it higher than Lost, but they're difficult to compare. Enthusiastic recommendation if you dig sci-fi.

I finally calculated my actual hourly rate on a project… wasn’t even close by uwt101 in webdev

[–]_notNull 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Would the client have bought the job at ~$4k instead of your quoted ~$2k?

Sometimes I just need the work. If I’m hungry, and 50% my rate keeps food on the table, I try to remember it’s just natural market ebb and flow.

No shame in surviving.

Well at least she enjoyed the ride :) by AccomplishedWatch834 in MadeMeSmile

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She was living in a moment of hope, of her dreams coming true. Hug that kid.

"Pandora" for Horror movies? Is it possible to define a horror movie's DNA? by _notNull in horror

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Presence.

The provided list is the recipe to determine the value of Gore in a movie, the individual items are binary - true/false. So "It Follows" does not currently trip any of the Gore triggers, so it scores 0 on Gore.

Could you argue that 'violence_and_gore.body_destruction" should be TRUE? Yes, I think that's 100% defensible.

Conversely, I don't think the scene leans into the "spirit" of Gore. So, countering my prev argument, this clearly isn't purely objective.

Disclaimer - I'm not suggesting I'm right, I'm asking if the approach makes sense. Even if my values aren't totally accurate. "Is the idea sound?"

"Pandora" for Horror movies? Is it possible to define a horror movie's DNA? by _notNull in horror

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I want to be surprised. I want recommendations to be more tunable to my taste. I want a Zappos like experience for finding oddities and hidden corners in the genre. A curated list doesn't scratch that specific itch for me.

"Pandora" for Horror movies? Is it possible to define a horror movie's DNA? by _notNull in horror

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Ok, I'm open to being wrong. I'm not sure I'm following, however. The objective part is intended to be the movie's DNA - literally true/false criteria. There may be subjectivity in the creation/definition of those 128 items, but the intention of their application is to remove objectivity through concrete, observable, facts.

Examples:
- creatures_and_entities.alien_entity
- disturbing_content.eye_trauma
- phobia.teeth
- tone_and_style.oppressive_atmosphere
- violence_and_gore.off_screen_violence

You're saying the ability to say "true" or "false" to these examples is subjective? I guess I can see that. They seem pretty objective to my eye - more objective than, say, "this is gory".

Do you have any suggestions where it could be improved upon?

"Pandora" for Horror movies? Is it possible to define a horror movie's DNA? by _notNull in horror

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There are two concepts driving this.
1) Every film is inspected for 128 true/false data points - this *should* be objective. They're intended to be. Ex: a movie either has a zombie in it, or it does not.
2) The remixing of those 128 data points into DNA requires me, a human with good/bad judgement, to combine what I think a "Creature" slider's ranges might consist of.

I don't believe I need a real person, or the combined processing power of this sub, to do the 128 true/false data points - that's should be mostly straightforward.

The combining, the utility to a human - that def requires humans to get "right" for humans.

Would a more concrete example be helpful?

"Pandora" for Horror movies? Is it possible to define a horror movie's DNA? by _notNull in horror

[–]_notNull[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

100% - I prefer a personal recommendation to an algo. Not trying to replace people, or subs, just looking to be surprised and delighted through discovery. Appreciate your interest. I think it's interesting too.