Bantrim Smoot @gilfer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The tightest constraints demand the highest quality of engineering. As processing power and memory increase, you have far more headroom for inefficient and sloppy code. 040
Bantrim Smoot @gilfer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Jesus Christ this is the dumbest fucking timeline in the entire multiverse. 000
Bantrim Smoot @gilfer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Premature block. I’d like to see where this is going. 000
Bantrim Smoot @gilfer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Surprised he didn’t go for “extreme intelligence” so he could really flatter the guy by saying it’s “XI, just like you.” 000
Bantrim Smoot @gilfer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The first two are wonderful back-to-back. But third one, though, I needed to pause for a while. I revisited the film recently and I still really like it. Garland did an amazing job with such a difficult source. 000
Bantrim Smoot @gilfer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I haven’t read any of He Who Fights With Monsters, but general opinion seems to be that Carl books get better and better, while HWFWM are diminishing returns after the second book. 010
Bantrim Smoot @gilfer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I read the first one and was hooked. Have now slammed through the following seven in rapid succession. It’s super light and fun, and then he catches you off guard by pulling out some really clever tricks in the larger world building arc and also delivers some surprisingly heartfelt moments. 110
Bantrim Smoot @gilfer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026At the other end of the sci-fantasy spectrum entirely, have you read any of the Dungeon Crawler Carl books? 110
Bantrim Smoot @gilfer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I think I was trying to shotgun it as a kind of revision in preparation for the fourth book, and it’s not really a series you can rush though. A bit of room to breathe between each one and just sit in the wilderness of it all is necessary. 210
Bantrim Smoot @gilfer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Same here. I made the mistake of re-reading the first three before reading Absolution, and stalled out before the finished the third book. 100
Bantrim Smoot @gilfer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026“If you think of it almost like a deconstructed graphic novel, in a photo-realistic mode, that’s closest to the effect,” VanderMeer suggested of the full-color work. “It builds, has rising tension, and the images, many created for the book, are absolutely sick. 110
Bantrim Smoot @gilfer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026@ickbat.bsky.social holy shit, dude! Check this out. www.avclub.com/jeff-vanderm...avclub.comJeff VanderMeer will venture back into Area X with new Southern Reach bookJeff VanderMeer will venture back into Area X with new Southern Reach book 120
Bantrim Smoot @gilfer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I reckon there’s at least passable odds that his next move re the Kennedy Centre is to change his name via deed poll to JFK. 100
Bantrim Smoot @gilfer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026“Penis” and “discharge” should never appear in the same sentence. 010
Bantrim Smoot @gilfer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Especially given their use of the phrase “Male service member” 051
Bantrim Smoot @gilfer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026You’d have to be nuts to spend that much on bananas. And, coincidentally, vice-versa. 3180
Bantrim Smoot @gilfer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026static.klipy.comJ.K. Simmons - Not Quite My Tempo (Whiplash)ALT: J.K. Simmons - Not Quite My Tempo (Whiplash) 110
Bantrim Smoot @gilfer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026@ickbat.bsky.social for obvious reasons, I thought of you immediately www.strikegently.co/collections/...strikegently.coStrike Gently - Box Cat Pin1.25" widthHard enamel finishDeluxe clasp backingShipped with love from our warehouse in LA. 111
Bantrim Smoot @gilfer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026No, that is the usual method but the article states that in this case a surgical procedure to indefinitely implant a tube through his stomach has been approved. It’s beyond barbaric. 1111
Bantrim Smoot @gilfer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Yeah, this article very eloquently captures how I feel at the present point in time and why I’m seriously considering abandoning a 25 year career as a web developer. 040
Bantrim Smoot @gilfer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026The Cure Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Paul Dempsey Midnight Oil The Eels 000
Bantrim Smoot @gilfer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Or, alternately, absent father forced to choose between work and long lost son. 000
Bantrim Smoot @gilfer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Battle Systems stuff has great table presence. I’ve got Core Space: First Born and it looks equally great. Especially after I finally bit the bullet and got some rudimentary skills to paint up the minis. 110
Bantrim Smoot @gilfer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026And? A motorbike can also go faster than Usain Bolt. 000
Bantrim Smoot @gilfer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026In present times, we’re *all* on the edge of a dead horse canyon. 010
