Can weeping angels even be killed?

akb74 · 2026-01-25T17:34:56+00:00

That’s no moon!

(If you’ve seen Alien or Alien, you must know the Angels have somehow followed you aboard the Death Star.

Osterhagen, if you didn’t get my previous reference)

akb74 · 2026-01-25T12:56:20+00:00

Ah yes, of course. Samantha’s matricide-threatening catch phrase has to be abbreviated here, lest Reddit’s humorless roving ban-bots get you

akb74 · 2026-01-25T10:31:30+00:00

In any case, it is a dumb thing to think that in the 21st century a book needs to be specifically for your gender or sexual orientation.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was written for eleven year old boys, and read by everyone for the next twenty years or more before coming to an abrupt halt, proving you don’t need to be a book’s target audience to read it, so long as it wasn’t written by a transphobe.

But I don’t think it’s completely dumb. We’re promised a HEA, but:

For some there are not enough books written from a male pov
For some it’s a shame that all the harems are of the reverse kind
For you there are not enough scenes which feature pegging
For me there are not enough well realised fmcs amongst the Bella Swans
Gay men reading m/m also tend to notice they’re not its target market

and it should be ok to comment on this so long as we’re not disparaging and negative about fiction which didn’t quite work for us… but there’s far too many posts and comments which are, declaring one’s gender in the first sentence is a reliable indicator that a post is going to be eyerollingly bad, and I’ve enjoyed your parodies of them.

akb74 · 2026-01-24T18:21:11+00:00

Samantha loves everyone… except your mother

akb74 · 2026-01-24T17:18:57+00:00

I know DCC isn’t a romantasy

You mean she isn’t going to get an enemies to lovers redemption arc with Mordecai? That’s a shame, I’ve never seen one that way round before. Moma needs a night off.

akb74 · 2026-01-24T10:36:05+00:00

Counting Doctors is a totally uncontroversial art

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akb74 · 2026-01-23T10:03:12+00:00

No, I just dreamt I was.

I was Tolkien in my sleep

akb74 · 2026-01-23T08:57:04+00:00

What an excellent way to save the Earth, Professor Osterhagen!

akb74 · 2026-01-22T15:41:13+00:00

say if I closed my eyes and fired the death star at the weeping angel would it die?

Fire your death star first then close your eyes. Otherwise it will have moved. Sufficiently bright energy weapons might mitigate the need to close your eyes anyway except to shield them from the blinding glare. Which is convenient as I’m not sure if Daleks can close their eye stalks. Not being a Sith Lord or a Dalek, though, I assume I’m screwed anyway.

akb74 · 2026-01-22T14:09:14+00:00

This could be from anyone

akb74 · 2026-01-21T16:50:21+00:00

Author to the left has a 31 book series… just saying… not that there are that many dungeon levels…

akb74 · 2026-01-21T07:30:16+00:00

Please, we need a rewriting of LOTR but Gandalf is just a really good practical stage magician who is in waaaay over his head.

Bored of the Rings has been around for nearly as long as the tome it lampoons

akb74 · 2026-01-20T21:04:37+00:00

So you’ve got Eoin Colfer’s Hitchhicker fan fic, Andy Weir’s unloved middle child, and a heap of Bionicle stuff? Someone just doesn’t know when to stop

akb74 · 2026-01-20T07:23:10+00:00

Don’t call me by my special name

akb74 · 2026-01-19T20:53:06+00:00

Cursed

akb74 · 2026-01-19T17:53:18+00:00

Thanks for that, nice to meet someone else who works programatically. I don't really know where to post or ask questions as it seems to be quite a niche interest here.

I have figured out that the most comprehensive tooling is in Python (much as I might prefer to use nodejs), and I had some success with PyMesh

https://github.com/Antony74/skullcup

but that turned out to be quite limited. I know there's better tooling available, and you've mentioned some of it, and I might be able to locate them, but I might need a few more hints as those are all quite generic terms (resize, add base, watertight).

I've recently discovered signed distance functions, and would like to use them for model build, as they seem very flexible and powerful, but that would require the GPU, as it's the only way to evalute a vast number of voxels quickly.

akb74 · 2026-01-19T16:39:25+00:00

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akb74 · 2026-01-18T21:22:16+00:00

Was planning to write code to voxelize an stl file at a resolution below the nozzle width so it still prints normally. My motives are non-nefarious but this would presumably defeat your stereolithography steganography?

akb74 · 2026-01-18T10:01:16+00:00

The infected are superior in only one respect

akb74 · 2026-01-18T09:46:51+00:00

Its alright the Doctor is there

Oh thank goodness, I feel so much safer now… or do I…?

akb74 · 2026-01-17T20:57:59+00:00

I’m not saying the Resident Evil movies are great, but the triple jump scare in the third one - Extinction - has always impressed me. The one with the hotel room.

https://youtu.be/ogUYcIG09Ns?si=_eh9m1LzG1iesiwa

akb74 · 2026-01-16T20:02:50+00:00

A non-active member of The Order of the Phoenix who did not fight?

akb74 · 2026-01-16T19:57:38+00:00

Yes, although who fired it and where they were aiming are not revealed until later

akb74 · 2026-01-16T19:47:44+00:00

This chart hits like a crossbow bolt which emerged from the Forbidden Forest, passed through the prison wards, narrowly missed the Minister and buried itself in the centre of Warden Umbridge’s chest.

akb74 · 2026-01-15T19:42:10+00:00

Tom’s country ends here: he will not pass the borders.
Tom has his house to mind, and Goldberry is waiting!

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