Block #2 Pull #4
Sir Gay's Sandwiches
Sergei was excited when glamorous pop star Kala invited him to a rehearsal to photograph her backup dancers eating his sandwiches. Expecting pretty girls, he was caught off guard by a bevy of pretty boys. This wasn't what he had in mind, Jeff was way too friendly (Was it something he said?), and Kala was late, so he left the sandwiches and ran.
"He said his name was Sir Gay."
"Ser-gei, dummy! He's Russian."
"Dude, can't you read?"
"Oh, OK. The sandwiches are awesome."

New pulls:
5696 SY Jock Straps Genesis 2 Male(s)
1087 Colors for Summer Fun Hair
3206 Kala 8

Kept from last pull:
2937 i13 Sandwiches

Also Used:
Sparkle Shaders for Iray 
Club Kid and Textures
Walking Dangerously top
Indigites
Amazing Hats
DMs Fantasy Bath
Dress Shoes G2M
M601 for Genesis 2 Male(s)
Standing Conversation Poses 2 for Genesis 8 and 8.1

A speculative scenario...  What if Desilu Studios had been able to acquire the Gort costume and props (the bust with the lighting rig, the 8 foot tall fiberglass 'statue", etc.) for use in a Star Trek episode?  I tried building a corridor/tunnel arrangement like we we occasionally saw in the show, taking heavy inspiration from the hallways depicted in the first pilot.

rschulte said:

TheCastellan said:

Any good ships around?  With foundation missing, hard to find stuff.

 

I wanna find a mirada that is NOT the Reliant or Saratoga.

There are several versions of the Miranda, look under category: AU Alternate universe, PIC Picard universe, and SNW Strange New Worlds

https://www.deviantart.com/chrispy-shipyards/gallery/86969158/star-trek-ships-free-download

Great site!

Thanks! That really is a fantastic site. Lots of ships I haven't seen elsewhere.

TheCastellan said:

Any good ships around?  With foundation missing, hard to find stuff.

 

I wanna find a mirada that is NOT the Reliant or Saratoga.

There are several versions of the Miranda, look under category: AU Alternate universe, PIC Picard universe, and SNW Strange New Worlds

https://www.deviantart.com/chrispy-shipyards/gallery/86969158/star-trek-ships-free-download

Great site!

Elor said:

lou_harper said:

What offer? I don't see anything gift card.

This one I think: 'Buy any 2 or more of Today’s 'New Year' New Releases to get an extra 20% off* your cart'

Yes, usually there is a star (with tiny font) excluding gift cards, but not today.

AgitatedRiot said:

Gordig said:

Just watched the eight Hellraiser movie, 2005's Hellworld. It was the first in the series that was both a bad movie AND a bad Hellraiser. The premise revolves around an MMORPG that barely factors into the movie and was clearly conceived of by people who have absolutely no idea how games work. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how the other movies are), that seems to be the last of the Hellraiser franchise that we can watch without paying extra. 

Is that the one where they shot CDs out to slice and dice? I watched them so long ago.

That was actually only the third of them, starring Terry Farrell, better known as Jadzia Dax from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. 

McGyver said:

kyoto kid said:

...complaint:

Both frightened and riled at what I just heard this evening but sadly cannot relate the details here. 

So pretty much anything going on in the world at the moment?...  I'm not implying you are easily riled up or frightened, but that the world is a pretty scary place filled with scary angerifying stuff and rarely does one see headlines that say "BREAKING NEWS: EVERYTHING IS GREAT!" 
 

When you see a headline like that,things are even worse than you thought.

I feel that way all the time, sans the frightened part... some say I'm perpetually angry, but I say it's a carefully cultivated and focused technique of malcontention... like when two ninjas are fighting and one recognizes the other's fighting technique... "So you have chosen Jigoro's fifth form... Inconsolable Mantis... Master Jigoro did not prepare you well... Witness Tenth Level, second form Backpedaling Monkey!!"

Granted that kind of dialogue only happens in animes where someone's avenging their sensei who was killed by their former star pupil who was also their nephew, who was demoted because the person avenging their death was a better swordsman than them and they became consumed by petty jealousy and devoted their whole to destroying everyone who wronged them including the new star pupil who of all things was a lowly dumpling chef before he was taken in by the sensei... it's usually after the big reveal where their oni mask gets shattered and even though it was already missing half of it and you'd have to be pretty nearsighted not to recognize most of the face that was visible, the protagonist is like "Muchiro!... No!?... How could it be you!... How could you betray your clan and uncle!?... "... But like nobody else is surprised because he literally went though 70% of the story with half a mask and was still wearing a name tag saying "HELLO! My Name Is: Muchiro" from some villain meet and greet he attended in the second episode, which he forgot he was wearing.

I hate when that happens. My dad had 5 siblings, so there were lots and lots of nephews. Really kind of surprising that they all went into the same field and were all displaced star pupils. I guess it just runs in the family.

I know this isn't helpful for you aggravation or unease, but it distracted you long enough to not be reading something else more horrible, which I guarantee is probably lurking on the internet...

Or a newspaper (they still have some of those, right? I see them on newsstands at the pharmacy/megastore. But they might just be props or something), or on TV, or basically anything which might include information and/or disinformation about the real world (or whatever timeline it is we're in, cause it sure doesn't look real to me).

I hope you are feeling better by now... not from what I wrote, but maybe you came across a photo of a cute kitten being snuggled by a large dog and that made you feel better... I wouldn't ever presume that any of the previous nonsense would be calming... hell, I probably made it worse with the fire and crap exploding... you were probably like "Dude!... I was just pissed off and disturbed by something... what's with the apocalyptic visions bro?"

Yeah... that's probably something they teach you not to do in philosophy school... 

I doubt it. Unless they're Stoics. Otherwise, apocalypses are probably their bread and butter. Which they need, what with there not being any jobs for them. That's probably a good thing; otherwise they might become lawyers.

kyoto kid said:

...complaint:

Both frightened and riled at what I just heard this evening but sadly cannot relate the details here. 

So pretty much anything going on in the world at the moment?...  I'm not implying you are easily riled up or frightened, but that the world is a pretty scary place filled with scary angerifying stuff and rarely does one see headlines that say "BREAKING NEWS: EVERYTHING IS GREAT!" 
I feel that way all the time, sans the frightened part... some say I'm perpetually angry, but I say it's a carefully cultivated and focused technique of malcontention... like when two ninjas are fighting and one recognizes the other's fighting technique... "So you have chosen Jigoro's fifth form... Inconsolable Mantis... Master Jigoro did not prepare you well... Witness Tenth Level, second form Backpedaling Monkey!!"

Granted that kind of dialogue only happens in animes where someone's avenging their sensei who was killed by their former star pupil who was also their nephew, who was demoted because the person avenging their death was a better swordsman than them and they became consumed by petty jealousy and devoted their whole to destroying everyone who wronged them including the new star pupil who of all things was a lowly dumpling chef before he was taken in by the sensei... it's usually after the big reveal where their oni mask gets shattered and even though it was already missing half of it and you'd have to be pretty nearsighted not to recognize most of the face that was visible, the protagonist is like "Muchiro!... No!?... How could it be you!... How could you betray your clan and uncle!?... "... But like nobody else is surprised because he literally went though 70% of the story with half a mask and was still wearing a name tag saying "HELLO! My Name Is: Muchiro" from some villain meet and greet he attended in the second episode, which he forgot he was wearing.

My form of malcontention is Pissy Monkey Third form, Tenth level, Third floor, Blue aisle next to the elevator.

Its based on the carpark philosophy of malcontention where one has to leave their their expectations and personal desires somewhere within the metaphorical garage, and you can only move up if you remembered where you parked them without using the remote to trigger the alarm... 

Honestly, it's kind of stupid, but in combat when you tell your opponent this they are usually sufficiently confused by the concept so you can strike once or twice while they are baffled. 

I know this isn't helpful for you aggravation or unease, but it distracted you long enough to not be reading something else more horrible, which I guarantee is probably lurking on the internet... assuming it was something you read, saw or were told by a squirrel.

Squirrels exaggerate a lot.

I'm just saying... I'm not turning this into another story with anthropomorphic animals doing crazy things and saying crazy stuff, another big long story about squirrels or penguins or other crazy stuff.

You are most likely justified in your concern and consternation... I'm just trying to distract you, as I mentioned previously, so the stress doesn't get to you and affect your health.

What you need to know is that "Everything Will Be Okay"...

I don't completely believe that either, but it felt nice to write that... but sometimes that's okay to say... things are bad, but they'll get better, then awful again and then better... 

Its a philosophy where like when you find yourself moving forward through an uncomfortable situation and everything is on fire and crap is exploding left and right and you are wondering if that moist stuff dripping down your forehead is sweat or something more important, that you don't get too focused on the loud hot stuff, you focus on the doorway which hopefully isn't on fire too yet... if you let all the explodie things distract you, you'll probably trip over something hot and flaming and that'll make getting to the door harder... you gotta focus on the hope that once you can get to the door, there'll be far less hot and boomy things outside and maybe some bandaids if that's not sweat... you gotta keep moving forward until it's at least a little less bad and hopefully a safe place to rest... and hopefullier maybe, possibly a lot longer until you have to face that kind of situation again... hopefully.

That was a terrible analogy, but it does often feel like everything is on fire... and the only way sometimes to avoid the fire is to accept, "yeah, s**ts on fire, but it's not hopeless" and keep moving forward the best you can... as long as there isn't fire directly in front of you... then you really gotta maybe move around it, then keep going forward... unless forward is where the fire was and backwards was were the fire wasn't... you know what, I think you get the idea... this is really why I never became a philosopher... that and there aren't a lot of paid philosopher jobs or a philosopher's union... 

Well, I didn't turn this into another penguin conspiracy story or something about psyops hamsters... so there's that.

I hope you are feeling better by now... not from what I wrote, but maybe you came across a photo of a cute kitten being snuggled by a large dog and that made you feel better... I wouldn't ever presume that any of the previous nonsense would be calming... hell, I probably made it worse with the fire and crap exploding... you were probably like "Dude!... I was just pissed off and disturbed by something... what's with the apocalyptic visions bro?"

Yeah... that's probably something they teach you not to do in philosophy school... 

Well... I dunno...

Sorry...?

Feel better.

ed3D said:

~  all in all an interesting subject   ~

Interesting, yes.  A method for "better" videos?  I dunno ... still waiting for that "paradigm shift" video, or something like the CGI breakthroughs of the original "Star Wars", "Toy Story", etc.  Still, these 48 Hour AI teams took a good shot, hats off.

billyben_0077a25354 said:

RenderHub has a couple of new models by intenzo, ***** Star 1 & ***** Star 2.  I am pretty sure the first is Linda but not sure if the second is Tracy or Ginger (actresses last names intentionally left out of this post).  WARNING:  The promo images are NOT SAFE FOR WORK and I puropsely did NOT post the links because of this.

Star 1 has kanji tatoos on her back.  Googling shows a star named Riley with such a tatoo, but I don't think the face looks like her.  Googling also shows that #2 could potential-Lee be Tracy. 
I have no idea who #3 might be; I guess I don't watch enough.

This is cool! I just watched "Star Trek: Prodigy" and "Next Gen" on Netflix recently, and this is giving me vibes from both of them.

This is similar to the kind of skirt I was searching for. Yeah me. :-)

https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-mktg-star-dancer-outfit-for-genesis-9-81-and-8-female

McGyver said:

NylonGirl said:

Never mind how much time I spent trying to figure out what 41C meant, and if it was something specific to Australia.

It's probably a reference to 41°Celerysius which is about 300° Fahrenheit, the temperature at which Celery bursts in flames... it's a temperature scale widely used during the 1.5 World War, primarily for the safe shipment of highly explosive celery... while celery is extremely tasteless and low in calories, therefore making it the ideal food to punish one's self for having indulged in too much far tastier foods, few people know that celery is highly explosive once it reaches around 41.2° Celerysius...

One of the most well know celery related disasters occurred on the 6th of December, 1917 when two ships collided in the harbor at Halifax, Nova Scotia... The SS Mount Blanc and the SS Explodie Boom Boom... The SS Mount Blanc was carrying 2,653 Tonnes (= to 2,653 Tons) of explosives (mostly picric acid) and the SS Explodie Boom Boom was carrying a single bunch of celery in its hold... The collision caused both ships to catch fire and despite being kept constantly moist, the fire eventually spread to the celery containment area.

The resulting explosion of the celery bunch released so much energy it vaporized the Mount Blanc and registered a 7.9 on the Godzilla scale, as far away as Gertrude Plumdinker's* home at 354 NW 9th Ave, Portland, Oregon (now the site of a very luxurious 1/2 star Hampton Inn & Suites hotel of some sort). A scientific evaluation of the explosion places it around 2.9 Kilotons of TNT (12 Terajoules) or approximately 1.2 Kaijujoules (.75 Gameratons), which remains as one of the most powerful non-nuclear or Giant Prehistoric Monster based explosion to date.

Granted, that also could have been a bra size or apartment number or some covert trigger word to activate a sleeper agent to assassinate that smarmy internet celebrity canine, Doug The Pug, self proclaimed "King of Pop Culture"... but I know for a fact that Wendy has pledged not to assassinate, or be responsible for assassinating anymore smug pugs... so it's probably not that... it's also possible it's "41° Celsius" but that's like 105° Fahrenheit, and since Australia is at the bottom of the world, and heat rises, that's unlikely... it's even possible she was typing fast and wrote "41C" instead of "Rabid wombats" because of the proximity of the keys... 

Truely we may never know because she's likely grown bored of my pondering of this subject and will refuse to tell us now.

A stance I firmly applaud because mysteries like this are the spice of life... Well, actually more like the Boba balls in the milk tea of life... they are an amusing novelty until you accidentally inhale one and start choking on it and the gorilla at the petting zoo you are visiting, climbs out of his enclosure and performs the Heimlich Maneuver on you in front of stunned onlookers who record it and make you and Gorbo viral internet sensations, leading to Gorbo being sued by the ghost of Henry Heimlich for unauthorized use of the trademarked term, instead of the untrademarked "Abdominal Thrusts" maneuver, luckily the judge throws it out because ghosts can't sue living people, but the damage is done and Gorbo loses his chauffeur's license and his girlfriend leaves him and he has to move in with his brother who runs a Foie gras cart in Central Park.

I guess... it's hard to say for sure when you've had as much coffee as I've had before and during writing this, but colors are so vivid...

Well, regardless that's my guess.

 

*Gertrude Plumdinker's was an early pioneer in Kaiju research in the Portland area who developed the first Godzillameter in 1910 after Portland was attacked and mildly inconvenienced by the legendary beaver kaiju "Tylee Eena" (the "Boss Beaver" in Chinook).
A copy of Plumdinker's original Godzillameter that gave early warning to the residents of Portland in 1987, possibly saving the lives of as many as tens of citizens (possibly even twelve), is on display at the aforementioned 1/2 star Hotel's internet/business lounge.

 

...hmm 354 NW 9th Ave, Portland, Oregon, that's just down he street a few blocks from me. Indeed, the Plumdinker home is long gone, replaced by the hotel mentioned above that takes up pretty much the entire block.  It does have a nice pub on one corner (unfortunately not named Plumdinker's which would be a catchy name, in commemoration of the neighbourhood's "legendary resident").   

Ah well, what can you expect for a city who's name was decided by a coin toss between the Boston born namesake of a cartoon reverend from the town of Springfield and some guy from Maine (for whom a local park was named). Of course in 1845 Portland was little more than a township with a few log cabins that was dwarfed by the teeming metropolis of Oregon City 12 miles to the south with its 300 or so residents.  Being at the end of the Oregon trail and along the Willamette river and the territorial capital, Oregon City at the time had a lot to gooing for it and thus envisioned becoming the state's "biggest city" and port..

Of course as history would have it (though maybe not in some parallel, perpendicular, or tangential universe) the once sleepy township of Portland, where coin tossing had become a popular pastime (eventually over the years gioving way other activiteis such as skateboarding, graffiti, and playing the bagpipes while riding unicycles and wearing Darth Vader masks), was destined to take over that role due to it's position at the confluence of both the Columbia and Willamette rivers (which allowed better access for large ships).  Meanwhile, Oregon City, which once aspired to greatness, faded in significance to become a suburb of its younger sister to the north.

Yep, way too much coffee today here as well,

NylonGirl said:

Never mind how much time I spent trying to figure out what 41C meant, and if it was something specific to Australia.

It's probably a reference to 41°Celerysius which is about 300° Fahrenheit, the temperature at which Celery bursts in flames... it's a temperature scale widely used during the 1.5 World War, primarily for the safe shipment of highly explosive celery... while celery is extremely tasteless and low in calories, therefore making it the ideal food to punish one's self for having indulged in too much far tastier foods, few people know that celery is highly explosive once it reaches around 41.2° Celerysius...

One of the most well know celery related disasters occurred on the 6th of December, 1917 when two ships collided in the harbor at Halifax, Nova Scotia... The SS Mount Blanc and the SS Explodie Boom Boom... The SS Mount Blanc was carrying 2,653 Tonnes (= to 2,653 Tons) of explosives (mostly picric acid) and the SS Explodie Boom Boom was carrying a single bunch of celery in its hold... The collision caused both ships to catch fire and despite being kept constantly moist, the fire eventually spread to the celery containment area.

The resulting explosion of the celery bunch released so much energy it vaporized the Mount Blanc and registered a 7.9 on the Godzilla scale, as far away as Gertrude Plumdinker's* home at 354 NW 9th Ave, Portland, Oregon (now the site of a very luxurious 1/2 star Hampton Inn & Suites hotel of some sort). A scientific evaluation of the explosion places it around 2.9 Kilotons of TNT (12 Terajoules) or approximately 1.2 Kaijujoules (.75 Gameratons), which remains as one of the most powerful non-nuclear or Giant Prehistoric Monster based explosion to date.

Granted, that also could have been a bra size or apartment number or some covert trigger word to activate a sleeper agent to assassinate that smarmy internet celebrity canine, Doug The Pug, self proclaimed "King of Pop Culture"... but I know for a fact that Wendy has pledged not to assassinate, or be responsible for assassinating anymore smug pugs... so it's probably not that... it's also possible it's "41° Celsius" but that's like 105° Fahrenheit, and since Australia is at the bottom of the world, and heat rises, that's unlikely... it's even possible she was typing fast and wrote "41C" instead of "Rabid wombats" because of the proximity of the keys... 

Truely we may never know because she's likely grown bored of my pondering of this subject and will refuse to tell us now.

A stance I firmly applaud because mysteries like this are the spice of life... Well, actually more like the Boba balls in the milk tea of life... they are an amusing novelty until you accidentally inhale one and start choking on it and the gorilla at the petting zoo you are visiting, climbs out of his enclosure and performs the Heimlich Maneuver on you in front of stunned onlookers who record it and make you and Gorbo viral internet sensations, leading to Gorbo being sued by the ghost of Henry Heimlich for unauthorized use of the trademarked term, instead of the untrademarked "Abdominal Thrusts" maneuver, luckily the judge throws it out because ghosts can't sue living people, but the damage is done and Gorbo loses his chauffeur's license and his girlfriend leaves him and he has to move in with his brother who runs a Foie gras cart in Central Park.

I guess... it's hard to say for sure when you've had as much coffee as I've had before and during writing this, but colors are so vivid...

Well, regardless that's my guess.

*Gertrude Plumdinker's was an early pioneer in Kaiju research in the Portland area who developed the first Godzillameter in 1910 after Portland was attacked and mildly inconvenienced by the legendary beaver kaiju "Tylee Eena" (the "Boss Beaver" in Chinook).
A copy of Plumdinker's original Godzillameter that gave early warning to the residents of Portland in 1987, possibly saving the lives of as many as tens of citizens (possibly even twelve), is on display at the aforementioned 1/2 star Hotel's internet/business lounge.

Horo : fantastic render, great terrain and material, awesome lighting.

Tectonic volume 3 terrain, HDRI nebula, bright star (tut D.Brinnen rainbow mat into a bright star)

JasmineSkunk said:

What makes a "generaton" anyway? Music? Political era / Wars? 

All of the above, and more. Generations are a bit amorphous, but they're not entirely baseless. Boomers were born in the shadow of WWII, and created and consumed media that was generally very positive about the future; Gen Xers were born in the years surrounding and containing the Vietnam war, and their media tended to reflect a sense of purposelessness and resignation, and so on. There are broad social, cultural and political trends that characterize the overall generation, but obviously people are individuals.

The Strauss and Howe theory was that there's a "normal" progression of generations, and where in the cycle you are impacts how great upheavals like wars turn out.  The "normal" progression is Idealist - Cynic - Civic - Silent.  Taking WWII as an example of a good alignment, the leaders (e.g. FDR) were Idealists from the Missionary generation.  Idealists are good for inspiring.  The generals and strategists, however, were Cynics from the Lost generation.  Cynics are pragmatists.  The soldiers on the ground were Civics -- part of what makes them civic-minded is having faith in the leaders and strategists.  WWI was in the wrong alignment -- the soldiers on the ground were the cynics and their commanders were idealists.

Fixmypcmike said:

The divisions are kind of vague, depending on the source.  I personally consider myself Gen X (born 1961), but the Pew Research Center classifies Gen X as those born between 1965-1980, Millenials/Gen Y as 1981-1996, Gen Z as 1997-2012, Gen Alpha after that.  The original Generations book by Strauss and Howe came out in 1992 -- they referred to what's now called Gen X as 13ers.

They are kinda vague.. and not consistent between journalists and authors. I get why the "Boomers" were called that. they were the result of the baby boom that happened after the war. But every "generaton" after it seems to be a little fuzzy. What makes a "generaton" anyway? Music? Political era / Wars? 

Gordig said:

I was born in 1983, and I'm a millennial. The generations are more like 18 years than 15: Boomers were '46-'64, Gen X '65-'80, Millennials '81-'90. It's not an exact science, obviously.

Right.! So what's it supposed to mean? LOL What's the point? Is there one?

LOL! told ya it was an unimportant pondering! 

AgitatedRiot said:

Fixmypcmike said:

LeatherGryphon said:

Ah, Star Trek stuff:  I'm an old Trekkie.  Saw the original series when it was new, my first year in college.  Then loved the Next Generation, and most of the followup series.  But at one time I bought an original "Communicator Badge" from the STNG era(almost 40 years ago).  It even beeped when I tapped it.  Cool!  I still have it, and it's original presentation case*. Unfortunately, the battery died.  I've forced it apart and changed the battery, but the beeper diaphragm is rusty and has kicked the bucket too.  It now sounds like the 5 millisecond noise emited by a squirrel that is being stepped on by a rhinoceros, when heard from 50 feet away. (don't ask me why I said that).  But I still get mileage from it.  If someone notices it, they invariably want to hear it, but I just say "Sorry, it only beeps properly as a confirmation of an open channel, and I was left here in the past and there's no ships in this time period to reply to it."

* The Communicator Badge is part of my display of movie related items, that includes Severus Snape's wand, The One Ring, Merlin's Hourglass, a Time Turner, and a Sherlock Holmes magnifying glass.

I was 5 when I watched the original series.  When they switched it to a 10pm time slot 3rd season I got special dispensation to stay up to watch it.  Didn't like the TNG pilot -- didn't really start watching it until 3rd season.  I loved DS9 from the beginning; alas, I seem to be a rarity in preferring DS9 over the other sequels. 

Anything and everything Star Trek, I still got Star Trek Comics. I see everything put out to this date except one, and I refuse to watch it—that New Cartoon Star Trek: Lower Decks on Paramount. I did watch the crossover on Star Trek Strange New Worlds; I think it was with the Guardian of Time.

I don't watch any of the new Star Trek series, mostly because they require a subscription to something or other.  Amazon Prime is all I have time for anyway, and the only things I watch on that are Reacher and Leverage.