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This is UNCANNY.

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This genre of re-enactment of video game logic/bugs/behaviour will never cease to be immensely funny

Not to mention everyone who does it is so insanely talented at portraying not only the vibes, but being dead on with the motion. I mean the courier in this alone has amazing core strength and rag dolls the EXACT way that bodies do in game. It’s honestly incredible.

COMPUTER, ENHANCE

TINY ZORO!

So true

I love the coward trio

so… Mass Effect. good game huh

Prints of this, as well as a few other Mass Effect stained glass pieces, are now available! I'd love to see/hear about it if you order any, it would make my day <3

This one, Mordin, and Tali are the only ones currently finished, but I have plans to do a few other characters as well; you can check out the #mass effect stained glass tag on my blog to see the others, if they happen to exist when you come across this post.

…side note I’m aware the armor is not an exact match to femshep’s mass effect 1 armor but here’s the thing: I hate the boob plate and it is stupid. I reject reality and replace it with my own where shep gets normal armor <3

It’s not over yet! May 11/12 aurora watch continues

It was a good night for aurora watchers all over Europe on the evening of May 10th/11th, 2024. Here's a great brief timelapse video sequence from Berkshire in the UK (via @Rainmaker1973 over at the Bye Bye Birdie place).

This particular broad, pink "banner" structure was seen all over the UK and Ireland around midnight local time / 2300 UT. It persisted, twisting and morphing into a variety of new shapes, for something like half an hour. The night's display as a whole was definitely one for the record books.

The early projections at the NOAA site suggest that the power of the incoming geomagnetic storm will be significantly less on Sunday, May 12th. But the night of May 11th still holds possibilities, as for the time being the storm seems to be holding at the relatively high Kp 8 level (on a scale of 0-9).

Here are the early graphic projections for the zone of visibility on the evening of May 11 2024. Please note that (a) these are approximations and estimates, not hard and fast indicators of where the solar wind makes planetfall; and (b) as they did last night, they may well improve over the course of the day as newer and better data reaches the predicting devices and personnel.

The European animated projection comes via ITV (UK) weatherman Chris Page.

North American prediction images come via the Space Weather Prediction Center at the NOAA website. Right now (1 PM IDT / 1200 UT on May 11th) the NOAA's evening prediction animation for Europe and North America hasn't been generated yet. This still image shows where the auroral viewing zone stands right now; I'll replace it when the pertinent animation drops.

As a general note: the opinions being shared at the professional observational sites so far today (before 1300 IDT / 1200 UT) seem to indicate that tonight's display may well be significant enough, but nowhere near as outrageous as last night's. We'll see... as last night's displays outpaced everybody's expectations. I for one am quite willing to be surprised.

It's also worth noting here that as of earlier this morning, the Kp index illustrated at the Space Weather Prediction Center's experimental aurora dashboard page—an indicator of the current strength of the geomagnetic storm—hasn't dropped off very much from last night's highs. It'll be interesting to see how this behaves as the day goes on.

...Anyway, I'll be updating this post later if and when conditions change.

Other useful resources for those interested in space weather generally, and solar weather:

Metropolis

Art by Michael Kaluta

Creature party

same energy tbh.

weird animal flipbooks i made

@acoyote

astarion - i'm so smart they're never gonna find out i'm a vampire - ancunin

repost because. i had it flipped wrong last time ☠️