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Sooner or later you were going to have to pay the toll. The Boatman awaits.

@BillyM2k You'll never believe what was posted right above this. 🤣

@theajennda @AuthorLeishman It's literally the most torturous fitness device I've ever used. Satan himself was on the engineering team, for that thing, and it's no more than a fan blade. 🤣 It's not even powered, beyond the timer.

@RealBSP3 @AuthorLeishman But the ads made it look so cool! Although I believe it. 😆

I'm on a treadmill. No, not metaphorically, a real treadmill. 🙁

Genre ... One could call it fantasy, or alternate history. It's not really pinned down by either, as there are other facets. I'm using a narrative triangulation from three differing perspectives that never meet, and one isn't even in the same time. That's what it took to create an event and it's effects. There are three narratives, but it's not a trilogy. Nobody from any of them meet any of the others, and one is a fable I've twisted to produce an innocent and ignorant perspective, to help drive the points home. Each is self-contained, so it doesn't matter who reads what. Read them all, though, and the full theme will hit like a hammer.

@RealBSP3 Thanks for checking it out! I'm super late to the Substack game but it's sort of a blogging platform. Kind of fun to serialize a story there! What genre(s) are you writing? It probably makes perfect sense not to have a villain.

Still making a few last-minute tweaks to Episode Fifteen before it goes live tonight. Introducing your main villain is kind of a big deal. 😅 There's still time to catch up on the story before it launches! 🔗👇

@Mike_Sharpe_ 🤣

@RealBSP3 Its like just a drawing of me drinking a monster energy drink lol

Playing with my kid’s crayons. When I started art I thought you needed expensive tools. Really the only valuable resource you need is time

@wisdomXplorer Money can buy as much power as I want. I'll take the money.

If you had to choose only one, would you choose money or power? And why?

If there's one thing that will always make me watch, it's isekai. I love the concept, and I'll watch anything of the sort. I get a kick out of the anime, and I'll watch any of it, but not everyone realizes that Army of Darkness is the same thing. It's been done many times. I was about to film episode one of my own, just to get my hands in it, but injuries finally got to me. I've just found I can't be fixed. That being the case, screw it. I'm going to reclaim over 20 years of training in a new way, and film it anyway. Fun Details: $10,000 budget (my choice), so it's mainly a locked room mystery after a collision, but the opening does feature cool shots and fights, hinting at what may come next. So long as I can pull off that crazy stuff again, I'm good. I don't need much, but it's got to be compelling. As for the cliche entry, I chose a car accident. I've still got police, EMS, and an entire fire department waiting to be a part of it all, and a land owner who will let me dig out one of his ditches to make it realistic. It's ready to film, on that point. There's a wild, fully in-camera effect where I change one room into another as a moonbeam drags a window's shadow across the floor. I've tested it in miniature. I have what I need for full scale. I've got to be the main character, for this one, because of insurance issues, but most of the time my face won't be on camera, and when it is, it'll be quick pans when up close and longer holds from a distance at 24FPS. Nobody will be able to make me out. The idea is to replace me if it gets any traction, without anyone noticing. I don't want to do this more than once. The villain (not necessarily a plot point, but needed for combat in the intro), is someone I know who's willing to effectively sign his life away. 🤣 I can't just plug him in as the hero in the pilot, as I'm the one who can move properly, but he's picking up enough to be a foil, and he has the right look and build. Everything's in camera, from a "magically charging gun" scene with glowing rounds in the chamber, to the same effect on swords. A prop gun is almost ready to replicate my custom SAA revolver. Firing needs to happen, but that won't be on scene; it'll be on private land and cut in. I've got film of choreography, good shots of him, and a lens test filmed with blowing grass to check the color grade and costume materials. Minor modifications, and the gear is ready.

Do you like Isekai? I'm not an anime guy AT ALL, but here are some awesome films which channel the same feeling. Let me know if you know others along this line. Also, I don't know if time travel counts as "isekai" but I decided it does. Deal with it. 1/6

@SCShipyards Agreed. It's dumb. One time. Just one. That's all we need. Hell, if I had my way we'd all be using universal time. All we need is one number for the whole world. Everyone knows whether or not it's day or night. You can tell. There's light in the sky during the day.

It's still hilarious to us that humies diddle with their clocks twice an orbit as if it does anything other than increase strokes & heart attacks, traffic accidents, workplace injuries, and depressive symptoms. We don't really care what time you choose, just stop being dumb.

@CoreyLewis86 I'd buy one, if I could find one in immaculate condition. Then again, it would probably be $50,000 here.

Nissan to America: You will never get this! /Borat

@TechOperator I just heard a great exhaust about half an hour ago. I didn't see the car, but I know it was a Borla cat back. I heard it start, idle, and pull out of the lot, but I was busy with stuff and on the phone.

I have summoned the horde of Luddites and their fume-powered noise machines.

Somehow, whoever Trident is managed to design the best phone and tablet cases. The silicone goes on first, and then hard plastic snaps over it and holds it all tight. You can beat the devil out of those things, but they're not the thinnest. If they make one for your model, consider it, if proper durability is a concern. The problem is, they don't make them for everything. I've no idea who they are, or if they're just some white label brand, but they've been out there a while, and everyone else is building things backwards. They're the only ones doing it this way. So unless this stuff is sold all over another nation under many names, they've got their own factory line.

Woot! My new phone arrived. What case should I get? (⁠@⁠_⁠@⁠)

@Mike_Sharpe_ I like what you did. 🔥 Find a cave to draw it in, and in thousands of years, people will say it had religious significance. 🤣 Imagine, all those years ago ... "Dude. Check out this bull. It's the best." "No way, man, mines better!" "Think so? New cave, new rules, pal."

@RealBSP3 I’m not much better lol

I love that film. It was absolutely brilliant, as a concept, and it's what Shakespeare would have done, today. Modernizing the setting but using the original dialog gave a visual anchor to words that transcend centuries. He wasn't writing snooty stuff. We've just come to believe that. He was a writer for everyone, and his plays are awesome. They're plays, though. They were never intended to be read as a novel; nor were they intended to be boring to watch. The man was an entertainer.

@RealBSP3 @frontierism One of the things about the 1996 Romeo & Juliet was that the director specifically modernized the setting but not the play's dialogue for the movie. They just adapted the film to make the original dialogue work & expected the audience to figure it out.

Mostly indigenous actors from the Yucatán Peninsula were cast for Apocalypto, and the entire movie is spoken in Yucatec Maya. Mel Gibson said: "I think hearing a different language allows the audience to completely suspend their own reality and get drawn into the world of the film.”

@TruckerDanUSA I'm not qualified to drive that thing. 🤣

I’ve been saving this one. Beautiful 1977 Ford F250 or F350. 12 valve Cummins. It has some cool features! Last post tonight, see y’all in the morning for go-go juice!

@theajennda @AuthorLeishman That's mine. I've got a Bowflex Max Trainer. I'm tough as nails, I've been in the worst environments you can imagine, I'm incredibly strong ... That thing is brutal. 🤣 If you want a gadget to humble you, buy one of those.

@AuthorLeishman The treadmill to oblivion?

@JUN_JUN_3DCAD Whatever it is, it's what fun with cars is all about. 🔥 That's what I like to see. Modification didn't start with the obvious, and it was never about the obvious. It's about creativity and sometimes performance.

What’s up, everyone in America 🇺🇸 First, I’m announcing this car concept! The plan is to transform a HiAce Wagon RZH101G into the look of a Crown UZH131! Check out the current state and the target design 👍👍 It turned out pretty Crown-like, right? 🤣 #CustomeBuild

@brewski77 I'm going to look them up. On the right import from the precisely right era ...

@RealBSP3 Hey if you like em then I love em for you !!

Someone actually Bought these Rims and Tires and had them Mounted on a Mach E today !! Thoughts ? 😬

@wisdomXplorer There will be no peace, then. 🤣

Sometimes peace requires you to be quiet even when you are right. Agree?