{"id":10095,"date":"2022-01-21T10:25:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T18:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=10095"},"modified":"2022-01-21T10:25:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T18:25:09","slug":"a-plethora-of-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=10095","title":{"rendered":"A Plethora of Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Yeah, I\u2019ve been delinquent for a while now.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s partly because things that pay generally get higher priority than things that don\u2019t. It\u2019s partly because writing my preferred sort of post (crunchy science or science-related politics) takes longer to research and write than the easier fiblets or tub-thumpery. It\u2019s partly because the story I most recently fibletted (\u201cDefective\u201d) has been kicking my ass for three months; I spent hours on it every day, including weekends and Christmas and New Year\u2019s, rewrote the damn thing from scratch three times, and it still<\/em> sucked. (Although apparently it doesn\u2019t suck any more, since it was ultimately accepted.) To a small extent it\u2019s even because my Bethesda VR releases seem to play well enough for a few hours and then stutter to a fucking crawl, freezing and frame-dropping every couple of minutes, and I can\u2019t figure out why<\/em>.<\/p>\n

For the past month or so, though, it\u2019s mainly because I went over a year without updating the gallery, and somewhere around a hundred-fifty pieces accumulated in the meantime. And curating, thumbnailing, coding, and annotating those contributions might not be the most mind-taxing job, but it\u2019s gotta be one of the more time-consuming ones.<\/p>\n

Anyway\u2014as you\u2019ve probably gathered\u2014it\u2019s finally done. And man, is there some cool stuff in there or what?<\/p>\n

As usual, contributions are spread across the Rifters<\/a>, Sunflowers<\/a>, and Blindopraxia<\/a> wings. As usual, the vast majority of it lands in Blindopraxia (119, compared to seven new Rifters pieces and only five in the Sunflowers wing). Contributions range from fan art to body art to animated gifs, and a bunch of Blindsight<\/em> Valentine\u2019s Day cards you may have already seen<\/a>. (<\/em>Not to mention one guy who builds Blindsight NFTs.)<\/p>\n

There was also some sonic stuff this time around, ranging from ambient to \u201cmath metal\u201d (although I don\u2019t know exactly what that is). Sadly you don\u2019t get to hear that just yet\u2014at least, not on this site\u2014because the gallery\u2019s basically a visual delivery platform; I could just line up a bunch of ugly hyperlinks but I\u2019d rather maintain a certain level of elegance, and this has already taken way too long. So the musical stuff is still in the wings. It\u2019ll show up eventually.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, the usual suspects have added new stuff, and a few new suspects have joined the club. I offer up a few highlights here to whet your appetite, but reams of new material wait in the galleries themselves. Indulge\u2014 and as always, click on any image you want to view in greater detail (not that I should have to spell that out by this point).<\/p>\n

And now, with this particular deck cleared, I shall try to post a bit more regularly in the future. Assuming I can get Dogmeat to stop jumping around between frames like a teleporting hellhound.<\/p>\n

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“Noviss42”<\/p><\/div>\n
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“Head cheese”, by Yura Miron. Click to animate.<\/p><\/div>\n

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“Lurfck”. No, I don’t know what it means either.<\/p><\/div>\n
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The Japanese edition of “Freeze-Frame Revolution”.<\/p><\/div>\n
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“Ectopic Dysplasia”, YamiEA<\/p><\/div>\n
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“SingingWhalebone”<\/p><\/div>\n
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“Anti-jager375”<\/p><\/div>\n
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“Mother”. SingingWhalebone<\/p><\/div>\n
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“Haunted”, by mysterious newcomer “Radio Breakdown”<\/p><\/div>\n
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Scramblers go to church. No, really. itsozaki.<\/p><\/div>\n
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One of a myriad interior illustrations from the MAG Blindopraxia duology, which I only just discovered even though those editions came out in 2015.<\/p><\/div>\n
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Siri in the funhouse. “deepspace_ksw”.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Perhaps the world’s first Blindsight NFT. By Oleg Soroko.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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