It started with 55 default sub’s from Lemmy-federate bots
Huh!
So... how does that work, if I might ask?
You can start a community and somehow assign dozens of bots to it, instantly pumping up the numbers, so to speak...?
I've done a roundup from the 'Euro sense,' with ~five more scheduled to be added.
Sound good?
https://lemm.ee/post/56323176
Oh rabbits-- you know something-- I will always try to do my best, for BLAZE.
From my favorite comic strip of all time: (i.e., the legendary "Pogo") ❤️
"Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't no-how permanent."
Now let's see if they can do songs in Castellano / français, next...
Hi, Sergio. Suno.com doesn't seem to officially have goth yet, so I just took a guess and chose styles: "metal," "male voice with hoarseness," "minor chords" and still tried to force "goth."
See if this song-link works:
https://suno.com/song/401b9ad3-073d-442a-9b1c-c013b104ea89?sh=oANp8cwoCo0dQVIX
Oh, and I loved how they handled the tag "(unearthly shrieking)" LOL.
*phew* It's been a pretty overwhelming last month for me, what with vital paperwork I needed to fill out exactingly on a deadline in order to retain my Medicare, plus doctor followups, plus snap inspections upon my apartment, necessary to qualify for another rent-contract.
Just, lordy... as a middle-aged dude with ME, I must say it's been rather overwhelming at times.
Ah, but still-- things seem to be successfully winding down at this point, and I hope to get back to this sublemmy in more normal terms, what with my usual *Jenny-says-quack* gusto, sometime next week. Altho truth to be told, my hope is still that a mix of others will one day (hopefully sooner rather than later) be able to do the majority of posting here, thankfully & graciously taking over for this tired, irritable old man.
* "je ne sais quoi," haha
Along those lines then, big thanks to Nacky and "Wolfie" @wolfinthewoods@lemmy.ml for vitally pitching in recently with some fascinating topics and art. 💖
The honorary Vitalstatistix award is yours, mateys! ^^
speech, speech!
Right, in terms of sub-business, the last thing I have to say is that I apologise for sharing such a shoddy, half-finished post about the cool FreakAngels series, some days back.
I went back today and fleshed it out with helpful reviews and info, then added my notes. Please give it another look, kind readers? (it's a really fine series IMO, free to read)
FreakAngels:
https://lemm.ee/post/59557234
Aha, and as for the lead image, that's a bit of an inspiration. It begins with the fact that I used to have this game as a kid: D&D Computer Labyrinth game.
I'd say it was a pretty solid little game for the time, with nice atmosphere via the various 'authentic dungeon' sounds. Probably more aesthetically enjoyable than Dark Tower, if only because DT had some of the most plodding elements and annoying sounds ever (altho I still liked it). Meanwhile, other games like "Stop, Thief!" were just so simple, genius, and well-executed! (i.e., plainly superior electronic games of that class)
Hmm, why am I babbling about all that, though?
Oh, it's just that I ADORE the artist's work to death in the lead, multi-colored dragon image, above. Sadly, even on the typically know-it-all BGG page there's just nothing dang listed. Every once in a few years I try to put on my serious-hat so as to figure out the dang-ol-artist, yet still have never been able to!
Bah.. bah-ram-ewe.
Thanks for the extensive write-up and advice, mate!
Considering how well it (accidentally) went last time, I'm intrigued about trying a fast again. Still amazed about the burst of energy I got when my stomach finally healed.
Bookmarking this convo for later, and thanks again. :D
Ah no, I was just kind of amazed that such a device exists!
Oh, but when I looked it up, most models around here seem to go for US$200+, and IIRC there are only two non-prescrip models widely available in the States. Anyway, I'm a big fan of eating low-glycemic food, including limiting one's carbs.
That's really cool that you've found a way to help your friends like that. Over here, from what I've heard, it sounds like diabetes in SEA based on eating regular amounts of white rice is a real problem...
CGM (Continuous glucose monitor)
Wow, thank you!
Um, I could go on for days about this curséd disease, but may I ask you where your interest is coming from?
Who you are and all that, mate..?
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HOW can we coax search-engines in to being able to do the simple "lemmy" + "search word" thing..?
(upload.wikimedia.org)
NOTE: the late "Lemmy" is a beloved Brit* musician from an enjoyable rock band, perhaps with some Led Zep-type analogues? (sorry, I just didn't know him very well; kinda before my time)
Okay, what I'm trying to explain here is how we search for things and how we find them, particularly when we include the magical word: "Lemmy" in our searches.
For example-- I can just half-awake, lazily type something like "reddit" + search term, and BOOM! Robert's your avuncular figure.**
Now, by comparison, hopping on an instance, so far I've found that searches within the Lemmysphere are remarkably strong. (well, at least for lemm.ee; I love my instance)
Unfortunately, that's not how most people search and find us, which more typically involves Google, etc.
Hence my question, laddies & lassies-- i.e. is there anything we can do to influence how this search-stuff works...?
* see, I always find a way to relate things back to Europe, haha
** like "there you go," ie. "Bob's your uncle," a classic Brit pub-phrase
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(image is credit to my co-mod's active series "Concept Art for James Cameron’s The Abyss, by Mœbius")
Okay, let's see if I can explain this another way:
To be clear-- any post with a lead image previously sourced to Imgur content seemed to change around half a year ago, no longer showing up as an expandable thumbnail as usual, but instead just showing a generic 'offsite' link icon, which needed to be clicked an extra time in order to see the actual content. Example:
...In which the popup image content still works in the body of the post, but not via the *lead* thumbnail, which... is fairly important for users browsing their streams, no?
Anyway, it just hit me that this issue now appears to be dealt with, at least on Lemm.ee! :D
CAVEAT 1: older, Imgur lead-sourced posts still appear to be broken in this way across the "LV," not unlike how image content was broken a ~year ago via the auto-added 'image proxy tags' by the Lemmy software. Point is-- it seems sublemmy-runners (community mods) will still need to fix such older posts by hand.
CAVEAT 2: having had some years of experience using Imgur as a pic-hosting service, I simply *cannot* recommend it if your intention is to create moderately long-lived posts. I could say more about why I'm completely baffled as to why some posts seem to last 10yrs+, while some are deleted within less than 6mos, despite featuring identical content, but what would be the point? (I would guess something along 'server-mgmt lines,' but who knows?)
CAVEAT 3: Image-hosting is obviously a whole big issue upon itself, and there are obviously MANY ways to do it, with perhaps the chief issue relating to image-permanence, so to speak. That said, if your instance is indeed Lemm.ee itself, you do have a nice, healthy 500k limit upon uploads here. And think about it-- if 'LE' or the LE's hosting site ever goes down one day, then isn't it the same, in the end?. I.e., there won't be one aspect of the site uselessly upholding the other, if that makes sense.
But I would think that's also a nice, motivating reason to get on board the train of supporting our specific instance. I mean, (as I understand it) our admin spends like US$200/mo supporting us via a colossal ~10 servers, and what do you know-- bad actors here forced him to semi-retire via too much relentlessly vile content.
I really feel like shit when I read about that stuff.
TBH, my personal lack of more useful action towards supporting our instance is rather embarrassing, frankly, and I hope to do better, but... ugh, I'm frankly pretty nervous these days, living on a rather fine economic line here, dealing with upcoming USA policy-making which could... incline me to... oof. Well, it won't be good. Anyway, thank you Sunauras, EllaS, et al for carrying on in so many ways. <3
NOTE: this is an ongoing work...
- FLEEN: a good, general index of quality webcomics from around the world
- Aethernaut: a long-running, nifty adventure set in a steampunk / post-Ren world (previous review)
- Alexander the Great, the Servant & the Water of Life: about the historical Macedonian leader
- BACK: A quirky, creative, hugely entertaining comic in which we follow the classic HERO'S JOURNEY as she takes on a series of local tyrants literally draining the planet of its life-essence. Despite the slapstick, absurdist style, I found it surprisingly apt.
- BFF: about a Parisian artist and the lives of his group of twenty-something friends
- Bouletcorp: long-running humorous life reflections of an 'average Joe' (FRENCH ONLY)
- Deathbulge: Hilariously weird, inspired Brit series about a small group of oddballs doing their thing
- FORMING: A rather rowdy, crude, yet brilliant mashup of Biblical and other mythologies. 381 crazy panels brings the story to life... and to an end.
- Griz Grobus: a post-apoc, off-world series of tales that (like LEO's work) explores the relationship between humans and the native fauna & ecosystems
- INK DOLLS: Four late-teen / 20-something cousins reunite at their abuela's house to share some light-hearted adventures. They also happen to explore their sexuality with the locals in a gentle-hearted, playful way, making this a surprisingly cute, unique, NSFW webcomic. (previous review)
- Jonny Crossbones: a long-running, Tintin-style, pirate-themed, treasure hunt adventure (previous review)
- Journey to Kaiserschmarrn, The: What if that dang ol' asteroid never hit the Earth, 65Myrs ago? Here's an excellent, homegrown, Czech, dino-themed comic set in the late middle ages...
- NIMONA: Here's an archived version of this excellent tale, which combines swords, sorcery, high technology, with killer plot and character development. (previous review)
- Poorly Drawn Dinosaurs (archive): an hilarious, Swedish, oddball look at frequently-aggravated, sentient dinosaurs (previous review)
- Steffen Wittig: Topical German cartoonist / humorist (LinkTree for alt sites)
- SUBNORMALITY: near-legendary, absurdly-oversized, existential-themed Canadian comic with some Euro vibes
- The Nietzsche Family Circus: A randomly-generated mashup of America's lame & tame "Family Circus" with the German philosopher's key thoughts and insights. Sometimes nonsensical, and sometimes hysterical, or even surprisingly-insightful.
- Twisted Speedo: a little Swedish masterpiece of cheerfully-nihilistic vertical thought pieces on what it's like to be sentient (previous review)
- VATTU: off-world, long-form work, set in a sort of middle-ages era, it reimagines what society, species, politics and even physical laws are like.
- Veritable Hokum: lovingly-designed history and science infographics, slightly tongue-in-cheek
- WORMY: A terrific, ridiculously ahead-of-its-time look at swords & sorcery RPG's, this time from a dragon's POV. Note: sources are a little patchy at the moment, but this will give you a good, quality first taste, one hopes.
Bit of a sticky wicket, trying to find good BD webcomics that happen to be in English. Any help is appreciated...
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Now, no doubt this is my own dumbarse fault, but I'm coming to find that relying on Imgur to preserve my pic-content across the mini-articles I write and share on the Lemmysphere is just... well, I mean it's just so utterly hit-or-miss that it's become completely unreliable, daggit.
For example, I happened to check on the Satania review I first posted ~10mos ago, and discovered that the Imgur page source had been deleted without notice, altho oddly, the lead full thumbnail / image still remains. Like, what...?!
Point is-- there seems to be utterly no rhyme nor reason for the image deletions, whether the content is uploaded via official acct or not, or is kid-safe vs NSFW stuff, or is new vs old stuff, or even via file-size issue (I think, not totally sure).
Anyway, yeah... it's clearly past time to get the hell out.
So what would you recommend, mateys, and how reliable do you think that host is? (I'm completely cool with paying a monthly fee via PayPal in order for our content to last)
Note: the lead pic is just an anti-Imgur thing I randomly discovered, lol.
FEATURES:
- The randomly-generated Tintin quiz! (you can play it over & over again)
- Quiz: "Who Are these Ten First Appearances?" (and here are the answers)
- It's free movie night! Here are eight great features & shorts!
- The stupendous, ever-growing FLOOR 796, featuring animated comics characters doing amusing things.
NOTES: 1) Many posts here used Imgur as a pic-hosting source at the time, which unfortunately proved unreliable over time. Reconstruction work ongoing when I have time. 2) Below is an older list that covers the first ~7-8 months of 'best of' content.
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Æthernaut, by Neil Skorpen
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Artist: Tatyana ZW Alanis
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Astérix tribute art, via Frazetta, Sienkiewicz.. and Bakshi
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Black Axe, from Mouse Guard, by David Petersen
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Belladonna, The Property, Paul has a Summer Job, Last Days of an Immortal, and Set to Sea
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Bigby (Barnabé) Bear, by Phillipe Coudray
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Carmen Cru, by Jean-Marc Lelong
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Crogan Adventures - Catfoot's Vengeance, by Chris Schweizer
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Artist: De Pins, Arthur
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Artist: Deix, Manfred
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Depths, The, from Dungeon: Monsters, by Trondheim, Sfar & Patrice Killoffer
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Creator: Domingo, José
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Esther Verkest, by Kim Duchateau
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Franka, by Henk Kuijpers
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Game Over, by Midam
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Gaston Lagaffe, by André Franquin
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Creator: Gibrat, Jean-Pierre-- an intro to his four-volume Jeanne & Cécile series.
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Grandville, Human, Back, Diabolical Summer, and Coldest City
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Green Manor, The Golden Compass, Centaurus, Hasib and the Queen of Serpents, and finally, Islandia
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Hannibal Meriadec and the Tears of Odin by Istin, Créty & Cordurié
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Hilda, by Luke Pearson
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It's Wednesday my dudes 🐸/ "Es ist Mittwoch meine Kerle," by "Small Lebowski"
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Jonny Crossbones, by Les McClaine
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Last of the Atlases, The Princess of Clèves, Atomic Empire, BTTM FDRS, Cradlegrave
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Legend of Kamui, The, by Sanpei Shirato
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Lucky Luke Switches his Ride, by "Mawil"
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Maggy Garrisson, by Lewis Trondheim
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Museum, with Basil Headstone, by Fernando de Felipe
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Nimona, by ND Stevenson
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Obscure Cities by Schuiten & Peeters
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Royal Game, The, by David Sala
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Sharks of Lagos, The, by Matthias Schultheiss
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Smurfs - Who is this Smurf?, by Tébo
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Artist: Swarte, Joost
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Tintin's crazy world of fake covers
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Twisted Speedo & Poorly Drawn Dinosaurs, by Henrik Tomenius
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Artist: Yoshida, Hiroshi
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Artist: Williams, Kit
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Oh wow, may I ask how that works, Blaze?
Since we don't have a functional posting bot to drip content these days, it would surely be nice if I could get content from adjacent platforms to auto-post on a regular basis to our community.