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Re-route power to the shields, emit a tachyon pulse through the deflector, and post all the nonsense you want. Within reason of course.
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Looking for the right Star Trek typeface/font for your meme? (Thank you @kellyaster for putting this together!)
Bojack Horseman S4E4 "Commence Fracking"
You mean we've seen these memes before? How many times?
I'm proud of this community
What time loops? How can you tell how many times it's happened?
What time loops? How can you tell how many times it's happened?
Tangentially related: while making this, I got to mess with a filter setting called "phase shift"
You should also try to reverse the polarity, that‘s a good trick.
I am reminded of all the times they are using the viewscreen to look at something the sensors can't identify but isn't exactly invisible so all they see out the "window" is some space fog and have always wondered: do they not have, like, actual cameras? A ship using its shields to make it look like a cloud of radiation on sensors should still be visible to the naked eye, right?
Very cool! I'd love to get good at gimp, solely for memes. It's a bit overwhelming.
I wish I had any good advice other than just "do it". Next time you need to make a meme, open GIMP first, and each time you get stuck trying to do something that you cannot figure out among the million submenus available, search online for how it is done. Most of the time, someone else has already posted on StackOverflow or something asking how to do that very same thing. Eventually, you will rely on outside help less and less.
EDIT: Just looking up "make meme with gimp" seems to come up with some good basic tutorials. The one thing that I do not agree with is their methods for adding an outline to text. I like to use the Drop Shadow filter to do so. Select your text layer > click Filters (in the menu bar at the top of the window) > Light and Shadow > Drop Shadow. In the dialog window that appears, set the following values:
001.00101.000Depending on the font size of your text, play around with the blur radius and grow radius until it looks good to you.
I started going down the Gimp rabbit hole after they released 3.0 a few weeks ago. I attempted it years ago (before there was a one-window mode) and never stuck with it long enough. I'm getting adept slowly
I should write a script to count Blazin' Bev vs Time Loop; I think Loop won by sheer volume.
How might one even do that? It's not like the post title, comments, etc. reliably indicate the subject of the post.
shrug
I haven't really thought about it. I might resort to scanning the comments and doing a Bayesian score. Comments tend to use key words from the meme.
It's not for science; it doesn't have to be particularly accurate.
Also, mutherfuchers should annotate images with textual descriptions for fukcing accessability reasons, but they don't. That's something the Mastodon community does better the lemmy community does.
In large part bc Lemmy does not actually show the alternative text under virtually any conditions (except the source view). Maybe some apps do?
Caveat: PieFed now shows these by default, for posts (not comments).
It's a vicious/virtuous cycle where people want something, but Rust is a super difficult language to work with, so it's unlikely to happen except on a timeframe of a significant fraction of a decade.
Caveat 2: PieFed is written instead in Python, and we get brand new features practically weekly, e.g. lately polls and post flairs (neither of which federate out to Lemmy though, since as you guessed already, Lemmy lacks them).
Oh, I missed the visor up at the top. That entirely ruins the joke I was going to make about its absence... So anyway, here's a bunch for no reason I suppose:-).
