maybe, but I came from kbin. which I now consider dead and gone.

RIP

it’s a fun one at conventions, I always pack it and it ends up being worn almost every night. The drunker the night gets the more people love it. Even won a lip sync contest in it once. Still haven’t run into a copycat though. Which is a shame because two of us bickering at each other just sounds like fun. Had it for a decade and people still think you need eyetracking and fancy brain scanners.

Nah man, just do puppetry and practice. Not nearly as hard as dark souls.

ah, that makes far more sense.

I was half expecting a ton of upvotes and no comments.

… Is that an AI generated thing or an actual physical item?

I love the gag, but if someone actually made it I assume it has an actual use and the things that come to mind that would fit in that hole frighten me.

I mean, that was my first thought… but would there be a measurable difference?

I mean lets be clear, with a fan you’re adding like 8 mph to something going 299,792,458 meters per second. You won’t notice anything.

But like, vacuum vs glass vs glass moving half the speed of light, could be an interesting what if. Relativity is always where my mind glosses over in physics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9HpL1okm0g&ab_channel=Brad-DuctTape-Hale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CWqfv0mblk&ab_channel=Paladin356

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9V43iSXRQA&ab_channel=FoxDenMedia

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/05/21/this-final-fantasy-black-mage-cosplay-has-all-the-feels/

like I legit won best performance in Daishocon back in 2017. You would THINK “oh that’s totally when cosplayers and propmakers would see it and go nuts” but no. The tweet that went viral was just some rando (with a very racy/bdsm following as well if I remember right) who just did a drive by recording of me (without even asking). Didn’t even know the guys name.

I mean… easiest way to tackle this is to name the novel and let us judge.

In all seriousness though. Going viral has precious little to do with quality. It all boils down to luck. I do cosplay, I have a set of LED eyes that I have full control over, I can emote so well I put a vtuber to shame, and this is real life before your eyes. I’ll run around as the black mage from ff1

Took 5 years to go viral on Twitter and get an article written on adafruit. Go to any con and you’ll see comics and books trying to sell out of booths. Have you ever purchased one on a whim? Or do you just walk by?

I mean, yeah, but we aren’t doing much to prepare. With covid we had mask shortages, ventilator shortages, with a for profit Healthcare system the incentives to have more than you need are low. Even now a hurricane has given us an IV fluid shortage because it’s all built in one place.

I know we’re paying attention to emerging viruses but when it finally happens are we just gonna watch a train wreck in slow motion? You think this doge committee is going to maintain that?

How come nobody wanted to talk about that during the election? What did we learn from covid and how should we react next time?

I was literally just thinking that.

If we get ANOTHER pandemic after putting absolutely no effort in improving world healthcare… God that’d be so depressing.