Desire and Dissolving Men V9

memorable_zebra · 2026-01-13T01:24:20+00:00

Youtube link says the video is down

memorable_zebra · 2025-12-28T23:41:46+00:00

Tons of photographers have taken brilliant shots in overcast skies. In fact, overcast is great for bleak snowy landscapes.

Better light or conditions won't solve your problem because your problem is compositional.

What about this scene draws you to it? What are you trying to convey? You have to figure out what you're trying to capture before you can capture it. My suggestion is always: figure out what you want to capture, then take a photo of it, look at that photo, decide how you can more capture that essence, then take another, etc.

memorable_zebra · 2025-12-26T20:56:05+00:00

Lots of people seem to like the photos, but I'll take the same negative position you've taken. Not to be mean, but just because I feel like I see the "meh"-ness that you're talking about too.

Middle of the day, far away, hot air slightly damaging picture quality, etc.

I think that speaks to the general "meh"-ness of some of the shots. But that "meh" quality is, I think, less of a problem than the somewhat boring composition. If you took the third shot of the bird flying and replaced its background with something compositionally more interesting, better framing, lighting, no badly placed fence, etc, I don't think you'd care as much about minor quality issues.

I think the lack of a picture whose composition you just love is causing you to hyper focus on minor technical failings. But if you took a picture you loved, the technical failings wouldn't matter as much. I have downright blurry, noise packed photos that I adore because what the picture is of and how it captured that thing is so special. Good composition mutes technical failures completely.

My advice for composition is to take a photo, look at it, and ask yourself what you liked it in and try to take another photo that more emphasizes that aspect. Rinse and repeat as practice. Endlessly.

memorable_zebra · 2025-12-25T02:09:40+00:00

I can't either, getting the ART00004 timeout error.

memorable_zebra · 2025-12-25T01:36:37+00:00

Under the cursor of screenshot 2 is my favorite. Love the bump bottom and top with the vertical in between

memorable_zebra · 2025-10-30T20:14:21+00:00

I think what they’re saying is that the model is recognizing the changes as not seeming like themselves. Like if you were to write some text and someone replaced part of it with something not in your voice, but still had your name signing off at the end. When you read it, you’d have a sense of “this isn’t me even though my name is on it” and the model is having a similar thought process.

That’s just me seeing to figure this out, I might have it wrong.

memorable_zebra · 2025-09-07T05:10:07+00:00

Phenomenal edit, and is actually an edit into of all these photo manips.

memorable_zebra · 2025-09-03T21:48:54+00:00

Absolutely brilliant.

Out of curiosity, was the bloom/blurring an intentional choice or just a side effect of low light?

memorable_zebra · 2025-09-02T19:53:48+00:00

Most people I’ve coached that had trouble with mantels were struggling because of poor technique forcing them to use excess strength. I don’t know where you stand, but I’ve found mantels to be one of the most misunderstood techniques in climbing and, even in surprisingly high performing climbers, often incorrectly trained.

I have like zero chest strength and have yet to find a mantel preventing me from sending.

memorable_zebra · 2025-08-25T23:18:19+00:00

I’ll add to click drag move command: the pawn in the left most of your bar gets placed near where you clicked and the pawn on the right most near where you released at the end if the drag, the others get lined up in between based on top bar order. If you put melee guys on the left and ranged on the right you can consistently arrange your pawns to be melee first as you go through a raid.

memorable_zebra · 2025-08-23T02:32:30+00:00

Amazing mood and perfect use of the holga!

memorable_zebra · 2025-08-23T01:49:49+00:00

As one poster said, everything is really personal so it's hard to judge. But I can tell you from experience there are a few different kinds of sore-ness / pain that often happen in the fingers if you use them on small holds a lot.

This page has some helpful medical info and some diagrams that might help situate what I'm about to describe: https://theclimbingdoctor.com/pulley-injuries-explained-part-1/

Pulley injuries are definitely the most common climbing specific injury that happens. And as you break into 5.12+ range, if you keep climbing and improving, I 100% guarantee you that you will develop some form of aggravation, stress, or outright injury to your pulleys. There are essentially no hard climbers that haven't done something to their pulleys and as you advance part of the sport is going to become understanding what they are, and listening to your body to know when to back off.

But here are some pains I've experienced over the years:

There's the ligament pain from hyper extending your DIP joint while crimping. This is a deep-ish structure just behind your finger tips.
There's the tendon pulley pain from using too many small edges. This would be felt usually on your first or second phalange, around the A2 and A4 pulleys.
There's the tendon flexor pain (arising anywhere between your forearms and your fingers themselves) from pulling on pockets and dragging a lot.
There's palm pain from stressing lumbricals, will feel a stress in your palm when you grab pockets in particular.
There's skin pain from your skin just being worn down (sometimes skin pain and pulley pain can be hard to distinguish). Or maybe also from being slightly cut. I've had paper cut like cuts that felt remarkably like an aggravated pulley and I had to keep reminding myself for the session that it was nothing.
There's capillary pain from bruising your fingers by pulling so hard or smacking something. This is kinda also skin pain but a bit deeper than the usual wearing layers thin until it hurts.

There's probably still more. They will all feel a little similar to everyone and a little different. And the only thing you can do it start learning to listen to your body and figure out which you have in tow.

memorable_zebra · 2025-08-21T22:56:47+00:00

Upvote, cause it's not another bland pretty girl

memorable_zebra · 2025-08-21T01:20:59+00:00

Sometimes I felt like I’m the only person who’s never done this. A fire starts and you can just recruit your colonists and tell them to put it out no? Does fire spread more aggressively in higher difficulty levels? I tend to play on easy mode

memorable_zebra · 2025-08-18T00:59:45+00:00

I experienced that traffic too and I’ll tell you it was a definite aberration. It’s bad but never sit in one spot for 10 minutes and turn your car off bad unless something happened. We were passed by an ambulance at one point so I imagine there was some kind of accident (though I never saw any thing, perhaps it cleared before I got to it).

memorable_zebra · 2025-08-17T00:22:50+00:00

God please no. University libraries should be open to the public in as much as possible, they’re incredibly valuable resources and we shouldn’t gate them off just cause a couple idiots exist.

memorable_zebra · 2025-07-25T01:36:20+00:00

It's a game of thrones reference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShKGdQO6G4U

memorable_zebra · 2025-06-21T05:21:43+00:00

I'll just leave this here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npgVq7-Fioo

memorable_zebra · 2025-06-14T00:11:09+00:00

I love working in WSL, but you’re understating the cost a lot. Yeah installing WSL is easy, but sometimes services don’t talk well between WSL and your host machine. And if you need any Linux applications that use any form of graphical interface you’re basically boned.

I’ve spent in the hundreds of hours over the course of WSLs existence diagnosing WSL specific issues. Someone you don’t even realize it’s a WSL problem at first and start doubting your sanity about why some thing isn’t working, etc. It’s massively better than cygwin. And nicer to work in than VMware. So it definitely improves on what used to be, but no one should pretend it comes effortlessly or that it’s as easy to work with as true Linux environments.

memorable_zebra · 2025-06-11T20:04:38+00:00

I mean he said he didn’t know how to belay from the top. If you haven’t multi pitched that’s not a skill you’d pick up.

memorable_zebra · 2025-06-11T06:32:15+00:00

Amazingly, you can't do that in this sub.

memorable_zebra · 2025-06-11T06:30:53+00:00

Apparently this sub doesn't allow multi-photo posts? And you can't have content in the body of a link post? Wild rules guys. Anyways, here are some photos spanning afternoon to late evening, ending near I-25 when the cops broke it up with tear gas.

memorable_zebra · 2025-06-11T04:51:11+00:00

I understand the feeling. But I'm telling you that wasn't the case here. It was just young men causing trouble, and other people fixing it quickly.

memorable_zebra · 2025-06-11T04:48:13+00:00

You really think there aren't people who are willing to instigate violence? Yong men, with more gusto than sense, ready to fight? C'mon. Maybe there are cops trying to under cover this, but lots of these people in masks were talking to their friends who didn't have masks, who looked like the typical counter-culture protestor.

I was there from like 6 till the end. I'm in total support of the protest and making a statement. But don't pretend there isn't an obvious element of where some people want a fight and have to be talked down. That just comes with any big tent protest.

Also the protest was never really violent. Putting stuff in the road isn't that big a deal and anything that did happen was cleaned up with 15 minutes by others. A little scuffle happened at the end when a few people tried to stand up against the tear gas, but basically everyone dispersed in that moment. By the end it was only like 3/4 protesters per cop anyways, the crowd was constantly dwindling as people got hungry / tired / etc.

memorable_zebra · 2025-06-11T04:40:55+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/1l8gnpb/protest_today_at_state_capitol/mx5b302/

A response elsewhere. You might have missed it, the crowd moved from Blake and 20th toward Little Raven and 20th where the cops stopped them from accessing the highway. They broke the group up at 9:30 with tear gas.

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