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  • honestly this is a part of why i basically stopped using lemmy a few months back

    (i think it's partly what put martineski off too, although i don't want to speak for him)

    not my own comments, but i noticed more and more comments being downvoted for daring to say something controversial. i remember back before we had to have the "this is not a disagree button" hover text on reddit, now we don't even have that

  • This week in KDE: a deluge of new features
  • we've got monitor edge barriers! the feature i missed most from windows is here i'm so pleased!

  • PSA to those who use sunshine with KDE
  • i doubt it, i don't see why an icon pack would have a systemd service. probably something to do with moonlight [nvidia]

    still, thank you for introducing me to a new* icon pack

  • Modern light themes (white on white) suck. What is your favourite Plasma Theme?
  • I have to say I like this one

    image

    Dolphin

    kde can still look like that too:

    kde oxygen theme, plasma 5.27

    i really hope oxygen does get ported to plasma 6, and not dropped like the air theme has been


    i must say though, as much as i prefer the look of light themes usually, i think dark themes are objectively[^1] better unless you're in bright sunlight: images and video aren't affected by themes, so dark themes put the focus on the media, whereas light themes can wash them out

    (current theme setup)

    [^1]: this is conjecture, i haven't done any studies

  • ArtStation RSS Feeds [have changed URL format] ~~broken~~
  • how disappointing

    i might send something to their support email address - it's unlikely to affect anything, but it's possible


    edit - response received 19-10-2023

    Hi Ɀeus, thank you for the heads up,

    We are aware of the issue and our tech team is investigating. We hope to have this fixed very soon.

    Sorry for the inconvenience. Please let me know if you have any other comments or questions and I'll be happy to help.

    Kind regards,

    Irene

    more hopeful than i was expecting, but still not that hopeful

  • "Steampunk Station Concept / Unreal Engine" by Leartes Studios
  • yeah you're right, but my point was specifically that on this piece it could just be a station building with decorative wheels

    that is a chunky boi though i love him. is it concept art for anything? it reminds of something for some reason

  • Trouble posting pictures
  • lemm.ee has temporarily disabled all image uploads actually, due to the csam spam (see the post on !meta@lemm.ee)

    /0 has recently released his ai anti-csam filter though, so hopefully they should be back soon

  • "Steampunk Station Concept / Unreal Engine" by Leartes Studios
  • i honestly don't know actually

    it calls itself a building, but it has wheels and steam escaping from where it would on a steam loco, but also the wheels are far too small to haul something of that size, the axles would snap

    so it could be either

  • "Steampunk Station Concept / Unreal Engine" by Leartes Studios
  • yeah, definitely

    i have before not posted until i found the actual artist, but 1) if it's published as the studio, that's a canonical credit, and 2) it might (as in this case) be the work of multiple people, and a studio is just shorthand for multiple artists

    also this is cool as hell

  • [Untitled] by Ralph McQuarrie
  • huh, i never knew star wars had those

  • "star city - restaurant" by JC Jongwon Park
  • i wonder if i could do that in wallpaper engine actually

    it might look a bit weird with the ships being static though

  • you killed him
  • : (

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    "Silas Killigan" by Michael Dashow
  • i don't know why he even has a wang tube to be honest

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    "The Waning Passage" by Philip Byers
  • ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ plenty of people like it.

    either browse Subscribed or be prepared to block communities. do you post this under every sports team lemmysphere you don't support or city you don't live in?

    i'm not doing it to "make Lemmy look more populated", i'm doing it because i liked them on reddit and want them here.

    also there're about to be quite a few more (not made by me), so prepare yourself and your block button

  • [Untitled] by Ralph McQuarrie

    i love everything ralph mcquarrie has done. for those who don't know, he did most of the star wars concept art, but he's also done his own pieces too. i have seen unreliable sources claim that this is an early bespin or coruscant concept, but take that with a pinch of salt

    higher quality image, but cropped (and with the signature removed):\ !

    main image source || hq image source || ralph mcquarrie on wikipedia

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    "Space Study 673" by John Berkey
  • i love the reflections! they're done really well with so few brushstrokes!

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    "Steamwatchers" by Guillem H. Pongiluppi
  • i know

    it's not that dieselpunkish, but the scale and composition were so cool i had to post it

  • "Steampunk computer" by ovdiem
  • i mean, i guess it is technically an art piece so it scrapes by. and also because there's currently no better lemmysphere for it and it's cool

    but i don't think it'd wash in, say, !imaginarywastelands

    As others have said, it’s up to you to decide.

    no-one has said that but you (unless you mean martineski; and i tend to do the opposite of anything he says)

  • "Steampunk computer" by ovdiem
  • i don't know, i was contemplating it

    but i did somewhat anticipate this just encompassing the content that would normally be posted to !steampunk@lemmy as that doesn't exist yet

    goddammit you're making me think again crul i hate thinking

  • "Ethan of Athos" by Peter Elson (1988)

    it's cool to see two ships meeting at an oblique angle! normally in space they just conveniently happen to align with each other

    used as an alternative cover of "Ethan of Athos" by Lois McMaster Bujold

    source

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    "A Deepness in the Sky" by Boris Vallejo (2000)

    used for the cover of vernor vinge's "A Deepness in the Sky"

    now to me this looks quite a bit older than 2000; but that's what isfdb says, and who am i to argue?

    image source

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    "Painting Spaceships" by Daniel McGarry

    such a nice shade of blue. i like ships that have a bit more of an interesting palette than silver or white (like the freighters in ftl)

    artstation site || artstation page || instagram source

    artist's artstation site || artstation page || artstation rss feed

    transcript

    a flat blue triangular ship with three rear booster engines hovers above a round hole in the earth surrounded by pumping stations. it is attached to a long gantry, across which walk two people

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    "廃墟街の教会" by もの久保 (MonoKubo)

    > 「神の在不在はさておき、これだけでも大したものですね」 > > 「俺の村では祈りの場そのものも信仰対象だった。神様の姿を知る人間は限られていたし、実際信仰に足る代物だった」 > > 「確かにあれは神の御業といった感じでしたね」 > > 「だからみんな死んだ」

    which, google translated, comes out as:

    church in ruins

    > “Aside from the existence or absence of God, this alone is a big deal.” > > "In my village, the place of prayer itself was an object of worship. There were only a limited number of people who knew the appearance of God, so it was actually something worthy of belief." > > “It certainly felt like the work of God.” > > "That's why everyone died."

    pixiv source || tumblr source (fallback link)

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    "Black Coach Carrige from Warhammer" by Milosz Wojtasik

    > Concept of Lord Drachenfells carrige from Warhammer Fantasy universe.

    (not that i know that much about warhammer fantasy. but more carriages should have this many skulls on them)

    artstation site || artstation page

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    "The Stars, Like Dust" by Paul Lehr

    another image that i'm not certain is a portal[^1] (it could just be a mirror or something), but it looks like a portal so i'm posting it

    cover art to asimov's "the stars, like dust", as well as paul anderson's "guardians of time"

    image source

    [^1]: i'm not very good at this, clearly - i'm just sharing art i think is cool

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    "Reich Busters: Projekt Vril - The Castle" by Guillem H. Pongiluppi

    part of his "reich busters" series on his artstation (eventually that whole series is going to end up posted here, i imagine)

    artstation site || artstation page

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    Zeus zeus ⁧ ⁧ ∽↯∼ @lemm.ee

    Il faut imaginer Camus hébété.

    [!website](https://zeusofthecrows.github.io/)

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