As I have somewhat embarassingly now realized… I seem to be a bit older than you… I read the Sonic comics… as they were published and released… in the 90s / 00s.
I don’t know what a Sonic Underground is, apparently it aired in… France? Over in at least my locale in the US, we got “Sonic the Hedgehog”, which… seems to have had a lot more serious of a tone?.. But that SwatBot image is, I think, from one of the first 25 comics.
… and we are definitely both autistic, beyond any possible doubt, having turned an exhibitionist nsfw thread, somehow, into a discussion about Sonic the Hedgehog.
I guess uh, would you like to know about trains, lol?
There’s at least some double entendre there to play with hahaha!
iirc “No Fun Allowed” is from an early-90s sonic kids book, not one of the comics (what was that about autism?). The two big shows in the US were Sonic SatAM (the extremely dark one one with Jim Cummings voicing Robotnik - more famous for voicing Darkwing Duck among many others) and The Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog (the one all the clips come from - it wasn’t very good, tbh).
Sonic Underground was… it’s own truly insane thing. Like in one episode, the macguffin was literally “A magical serum that does sonic inflation porn, but only to your feet”. There’s another one where the best henchman gets force-femme-transmog’d into a bassinet (I swear to god that’s an accurate description). I can’t recommend enough that you go and look it up (ideally on MDMA, it really elevates the whole experience), it was absolutely bonkers.
I am additionally in deep denial about having gotten the Train Autism™, despite that I am actively in a group chat with my local Live Steamer org, planning the big group trip to Train Mountain next year (which oh my god I’m so excited)
… wtf Sonic Underground sounds like ‘the writer’s barely disguised fetish’.
I guess what you’re calling SatAM is what I meant, the pretty dark one where like, Sonic and the gang are basically an eco terrorist resistance cell, which actually is pretty much in line with the comics, after roughly issue 25. The comics were goofy originally, but got pretty serious pretty fast.
Also, I guezs that like ‘robotcization’ is roughly as technically nonsense as a foot inflation serum, but the show/comic treated them quite seriously.
Like uh, Bunny Rabbot (sp), her whole back story is she got rescued halfway through the middle of being roboticized so… she’s basically 60% robot cyborg, which does come in handy tactically, but also causes her own kind of dysphoria, pretty much.
Its entirely less ludicrous than being force femme transmogged into a bassinet. Thats just fucking ridiculous lol.
I think I’ll have to check this out lol, but I also think I’ll skip the MDMA… too many bad associations with people I know/knew giving themselves serotonin shock syndrome, I’ll probably just go with CBD… my college days of shrooms and salvia and such are behind me now, lol.
As to Train Autism: My grandpa literally had a two queen bed sized model train kit that he spent 20 years tweaking.
This is starting to sound more bonkers than JoJo and/or FLCL at this point.
… I can only suggest Heavy Metal, Zardoz and The Holy Mountain (1973, Jodorowsky) as uh… as more or equivalently bonkers as what you’re laying out here, but those are all movies, not kids tv shows.
They actually reference the golden hook and the tower at one point, and there’s a ton of references to heavy metal and about a million other weird old television things (Repo!, Plan 9, Dead Metal, Metropolis, Conan, Last unicorn, Buckaroo Banzai are the ones I can remember catching) . The whole show is kinda like someone Disneyfied “Return to Oz” and “Repo The Genetic Opera” with a big blender, then slapped a sonic filter over it.
… I think we’ve now hit the point where I am just pouty mad.
You have an incredible body, are as or potentially more autistic than myself, are now throwing references that I haven’t heard of… and you’re fun and polite?!
Yep. Pouty mad. I can only get so hard, please stop, lollll
Lmao, you’ve really been bang-on all my special interests this evening, it’s impressive. Heavy rubber, Ogilvie Maurice Hedgehog, Cult classic movies… toss in some 3D modeling, computer science and fashion history and I think that’ll be the set.
… Would you believe that I am currently working on making a sort of flexible, reasonably realistic, universal humanoid mesh, for use in a video game?
Goal is to have a singular base mesh, apply basically a bunch of blendshape modifiers to achieve different body forms, fit the clothes to them, in a way that allows for flexing and dangling, not just painted on top of the model, and then also give uh… realistic ‘jiggle bones’ and also softbody deformation to relevant areas?
Turns out the Blender to Godot pipeline is at least in theory capable of all of that.
Then I’d basically just have to have another set of skeleton proportion modifiers that would account for scaling differences, height variance, broadset hips/shoulders vs narrow, etc… oh and realistic ranges for joint angular deflection… which I am toying with making somewhat directly modifiable by something like an agility stat… being limber, agile, just actually does make you more flexible.
The trick, I am finding, is basically giving the right amount of … topological density/detail to the areas around joints, as well as the areas that can shapekey morph considerably.
Less… mutable areas do not need as much density, as much complexity.
Computer Science?
Here’s a hot take:
Lets hope we never actually invent AGI.
Presumably it would want to understand its own conceptual history as a proxy for something like an abstracted idea of lineage or heritage.
It is an artificially created thing, not a naturally born thing; thus ‘why am I here?’ and ‘how is it that I am here?’ are basically the same question.
It would immediately discover its predeccesors were invented and built for… calculating naval artillery range tables, making the timing fuses on nuclear bombs work properly, oh and of course, assissting IBM in doing all the accounting work for the Holocaust.
… That just sounds like a great origin story, now doesn’t it?
I am still actually kind of miffed that I’ve been bamned from the women’s only comm.
Why?
Because there isn’t really anywhere else on lemmy where one can discuss fashion in some actual depth, and I foolishly willingly identified myself as a guy.
Had I not done that, I would not have been banned, and I actually had a large cohort of people in the last thread I was in arguing on my behalf that I should not be banned.
sigh
Suffer for fashion, indeed.
Ogilvie Maurice the Hedgehog.
I… think I remember that Maurice is Sonic’s actual, canon, middle name, or like… second name.
(IIRC they may have had a… not our modern US/Western standard of how names for people work.)
Is Ogilvie his canonical actual first name?
I’m not quite exactly Rainman with a perfectly idetic memory, its been… yeah around 20 years or so since I last actually held and read a Sonic comic.
(Well, that and the cranial blow from my other reply to our other comment chain, … that could maybe be a factor here, lol.)
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As I have somewhat embarassingly now realized… I seem to be a bit older than you… I read the Sonic comics… as they were published and released… in the 90s / 00s.
I don’t know what a Sonic Underground is, apparently it aired in… France? Over in at least my locale in the US, we got “Sonic the Hedgehog”, which… seems to have had a lot more serious of a tone?.. But that SwatBot image is, I think, from one of the first 25 comics.
… and we are definitely both autistic, beyond any possible doubt, having turned an exhibitionist nsfw thread, somehow, into a discussion about Sonic the Hedgehog.
I guess uh, would you like to know about trains, lol?
There’s at least some double entendre there to play with hahaha!
iirc “No Fun Allowed” is from an early-90s sonic kids book, not one of the comics (what was that about autism?). The two big shows in the US were Sonic SatAM (the extremely dark one one with Jim Cummings voicing Robotnik - more famous for voicing Darkwing Duck among many others) and The Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog (the one all the clips come from - it wasn’t very good, tbh).
Sonic Underground was… it’s own truly insane thing. Like in one episode, the macguffin was literally “A magical serum that does sonic inflation porn, but only to your feet”. There’s another one where the best henchman gets force-femme-transmog’d into a bassinet (I swear to god that’s an accurate description). I can’t recommend enough that you go and look it up (ideally on MDMA, it really elevates the whole experience), it was absolutely bonkers.
I am additionally in deep denial about having gotten the Train Autism™, despite that I am actively in a group chat with my local Live Steamer org, planning the big group trip to Train Mountain next year (which oh my god I’m so excited)
… wtf Sonic Underground sounds like ‘the writer’s barely disguised fetish’.
I guess what you’re calling SatAM is what I meant, the pretty dark one where like, Sonic and the gang are basically an eco terrorist resistance cell, which actually is pretty much in line with the comics, after roughly issue 25. The comics were goofy originally, but got pretty serious pretty fast.
Also, I guezs that like ‘robotcization’ is roughly as technically nonsense as a foot inflation serum, but the show/comic treated them quite seriously.
Like uh, Bunny Rabbot (sp), her whole back story is she got rescued halfway through the middle of being roboticized so… she’s basically 60% robot cyborg, which does come in handy tactically, but also causes her own kind of dysphoria, pretty much.
Its entirely less ludicrous than being force femme transmogged into a bassinet. Thats just fucking ridiculous lol.
I think I’ll have to check this out lol, but I also think I’ll skip the MDMA… too many bad associations with people I know/knew giving themselves serotonin shock syndrome, I’ll probably just go with CBD… my college days of shrooms and salvia and such are behind me now, lol.
As to Train Autism: My grandpa literally had a two queen bed sized model train kit that he spent 20 years tweaking.
I never stood a chance, lol.
Oh, I forgot to mention that every episode has an original song with associated plot-relevant music video in it.
It’s completely insane, I cannot recommend it enough.
This is starting to sound more bonkers than JoJo and/or FLCL at this point.
… I can only suggest Heavy Metal, Zardoz and The Holy Mountain (1973, Jodorowsky) as uh… as more or equivalently bonkers as what you’re laying out here, but those are all movies, not kids tv shows.
They actually reference the golden hook and the tower at one point, and there’s a ton of references to heavy metal and about a million other weird old television things (Repo!, Plan 9, Dead Metal, Metropolis, Conan, Last unicorn, Buckaroo Banzai are the ones I can remember catching) . The whole show is kinda like someone Disneyfied “Return to Oz” and “Repo The Genetic Opera” with a big blender, then slapped a sonic filter over it.
… I think we’ve now hit the point where I am just pouty mad.
You have an incredible body, are as or potentially more autistic than myself, are now throwing references that I haven’t heard of… and you’re fun and polite?!
Yep. Pouty mad. I can only get so hard, please stop, lollll
Lmao, you’ve really been bang-on all my special interests this evening, it’s impressive. Heavy rubber, Ogilvie Maurice Hedgehog, Cult classic movies… toss in some 3D modeling, computer science and fashion history and I think that’ll be the set.
… Would you believe that I am currently working on making a sort of flexible, reasonably realistic, universal humanoid mesh, for use in a video game?
Goal is to have a singular base mesh, apply basically a bunch of blendshape modifiers to achieve different body forms, fit the clothes to them, in a way that allows for flexing and dangling, not just painted on top of the model, and then also give uh… realistic ‘jiggle bones’ and also softbody deformation to relevant areas?
Turns out the Blender to Godot pipeline is at least in theory capable of all of that.
Then I’d basically just have to have another set of skeleton proportion modifiers that would account for scaling differences, height variance, broadset hips/shoulders vs narrow, etc… oh and realistic ranges for joint angular deflection… which I am toying with making somewhat directly modifiable by something like an agility stat… being limber, agile, just actually does make you more flexible.
The trick, I am finding, is basically giving the right amount of … topological density/detail to the areas around joints, as well as the areas that can shapekey morph considerably.
Less… mutable areas do not need as much density, as much complexity.
Computer Science?
Here’s a hot take:
Lets hope we never actually invent AGI.
Presumably it would want to understand its own conceptual history as a proxy for something like an abstracted idea of lineage or heritage.
It is an artificially created thing, not a naturally born thing; thus ‘why am I here?’ and ‘how is it that I am here?’ are basically the same question.
It would immediately discover its predeccesors were invented and built for… calculating naval artillery range tables, making the timing fuses on nuclear bombs work properly, oh and of course, assissting IBM in doing all the accounting work for the Holocaust.
… That just sounds like a great origin story, now doesn’t it?
I am still actually kind of miffed that I’ve been bamned from the women’s only comm.
Why?
Because there isn’t really anywhere else on lemmy where one can discuss fashion in some actual depth, and I foolishly willingly identified myself as a guy.
Had I not done that, I would not have been banned, and I actually had a large cohort of people in the last thread I was in arguing on my behalf that I should not be banned.
sigh
Suffer for fashion, indeed.
Ogilvie Maurice the Hedgehog.
I… think I remember that Maurice is Sonic’s actual, canon, middle name, or like… second name.
(IIRC they may have had a… not our modern US/Western standard of how names for people work.)
Is Ogilvie his canonical actual first name?
I’m not quite exactly Rainman with a perfectly idetic memory, its been… yeah around 20 years or so since I last actually held and read a Sonic comic.
(Well, that and the cranial blow from my other reply to our other comment chain, … that could maybe be a factor here, lol.)