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Wondering around the Clarion now, see you around #NFC2026 :) Got stickers and character cards to give!!!

Tea time 🍵🫖🦊🍃

The Steam Spring Sale is here! 🌷 From now until March 26th, celebrate the turn of the seasons with thousands of discounts on games of all kinds. store.steampowered.com

SteamOS 3.8.0 Preview was just released and includes “initial support for the upcoming Steam Machine hardware”

📢Attention South Australians! Have you got a question about tomorrow's state election? Make sure you ask the people running it - @SAElectoralCom (not us), and don't forget to vote. ECSA website - ecsa.sa.gov.au

Valve releases SteamOS 3.8 preview with Steam Machine support and wider handheld compatibility videocardz.com/newz/valve-rel…

@Ruby_Rose_21202 @DoctorDeadDoc @LiindyVR Gotta keep the servers running, they gotta be paid some how...

@DoctorDeadDoc @LiindyVR Knowing vrchat they're going to make it vrc+ exclusive so they can make more money

The vrchat beta "looks" radial menu doubles as a menu you can use to add your favorite personal avatars and quickly swap avatars without needing to open the big menu. don't even need to add the new accessories to use it. honestly kinda nice to have

@ScyllaWolfron Hmmmm, fair ^^ Stay safe! Have fun too!!! Hoping to make it to a SEA con next year, likely gonna be iWAG.

@ILM126 I wish, but Jeddah

Heading to Bangkok to attend #thaitails, first Asian con! (With a layover in the Middle East so wish me luck) 📸 @tullembrat

@CSI_Starbase Thanks Zack! Will be keen to watch it when it's out (likely in my Saturday).

Tomorrow's Friday... If you need a way to disconnect from the world events for about 91 minutes I gotchu. And yes thats 11 minutes longer than last time I mentioned it.

If you can watch it in IMAX, please do. If you can't, please still watch it in regular cinema if you can. Otherwise, please watch it when it arrives in Popcorn Palace. It's worth it. I've been waiting for 5 years for this movie, I can't wait to watch it next week!

You're watching a $248 million film and not a single green or blue screen was used. The alien is a handmade puppet. The cockpit physically rotates to simulate gravity. I looked at the production tech behind this 95% score, and the engineering is wild. Phil Lord and Chris Miller, directing their first live-action movie in 12 years, built the entire Hail Mary spacecraft as a real set at Shepperton Studios in England. Not a miniature. Not a digital model. A full-size ship interior you can walk through. Production designer Charlie Wood studied the International Space Station, Russia's Mir station, and the Boeing 747 cockpit to get the look right. He deliberately made the panels mismatched, because real spacecraft are assembled from parts made by different companies. Nothing matches perfectly. That's what makes it feel real. The cockpit is only about 8 feet wide. It sits on a mechanical platform that can tilt, spin, and shake, so when the ship changes direction or enters different gravity conditions, the whole set moves. Chairs end up on walls. Ladders flip direction. Gosling was suspended inside a spinning ring so he could float and move through the ship for real, reacting to actual hardware around him. No guessing where a wall might be added later. Then there's Rocky. He's the alien co-lead, and he's not CGI. Neal Scanlan, the creature designer who built the Porgs for Star Wars, spent a full year on this character. Over 300 designs before they landed on the final look. Rocky is a thin, hollow shell, 3D-printed from a digital sculpture, then hand-painted in see-through layers so light passes through him like skin. His arms pop off and swap out depending on the scene: one set has a closed fist for walking, another has tiny motorized fingers strong enough to pick up objects. Five puppeteers (nicknamed the "Rockyteers") operated him in every scene. James Ortiz, an award-winning puppet designer from New York theater, voiced Rocky and controlled him on set. When Scanlan met him, he told Ortiz, "You're Frank Oz, and I'm making Yoda for you." Every reaction Gosling gives to the alien is to something physically in front of him. Greig Fraser, who won the Oscar for shooting Dune, filmed the space scenes in the larger IMAX format (that taller image you see in IMAX theaters) and the Earth flashbacks in regular widescreen. Then the team did something unusual: they took the digital footage and printed it onto real film strips, twice, using two different types of film stock. Then they scanned those strips back into digital. It sounds redundant, but it adds a texture and warmth that you can only get from physical film. Fraser used the same technique on Dune and The Batman. Drew Goddard spent six years writing this screenplay. His last adaptation of Andy Weir's novel, The Martian, earned him an Oscar nomination. He described the challenge this way: a screenplay gets about 5% of a novel's word count. The lead is alone for most of the runtime. When he finally gets a co-star, that co-star doesn't speak English, communicates through sounds closer to whale song, and has no face. Goddard called it a screenwriter's nightmare, then said that difficulty was the whole point. He and the directors fought studio pushback to keep Weir's original ending intact. 95% from 212 critics. 98% from over 2,500 audience ratings. And the lead isn't a superhero, a cop, or a soldier. He's just an ordinary middle school science teacher.

Reminded myself recently I can’t fit through standard doorframes in suit help

new firefox logo just dropped

The blue dragon debut!!!🐉🐉🐲💙💙 📸 - @Raltrax_fur / @KypariNoodl 🧵 - @GinwineGin

NFC 2026 was a blast! I’m done editing my handful of photo shoots, here’s @svenrsk. 🧡

Poss?

hot take: this is the end of the apocalypse. forcing the world to ration oil will dramatically reduce global warming and force a transition to nuclear and solar