By the way, humans sent a robot to another planet, and the robot sent us the sound of a dust devil. On. Another. Planet.

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I am very happy for these folks, who spent 20 or so years tweaking an insanely complex, completely free game, and are now selling a deluxe version that fans like me can’t wait to buy.

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Fall 2022 Grades: SUBMITTED

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Practicing with materials and geometry. The lamps and chair require hundreds of times as much geometry as the walls and furniture, which look great but are mostly flat planes. #blender3d #steampunk #design #aesthetics #blender3dart

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Prophet Motive (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 3, Episode 16) The Nagus’s eccentricities annoy, alarm Quark

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Tricking the eye to see 3D details in geometrically flat surfaces for my #steampunk #blender3d personal project. #aesthetics #design #blender3dart

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I am happy with how this turned out. My mother told me about this story when I was little, possibly because a priest mentioned it during a Christmas homily. I didn't read the story myself until I was an adult.

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The Gift of the Magi (by O. Henry; read by Dennis Jerz; We Are One Body Audio Theatre)

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It's a thing to do.

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Academic Writing Blues

Two days ago my problem was that I had nothing written and I had three days to produce a 2250-word document. Today my problem is that I have 3150 words written and I have one day to produce a 2250-word document. I liked the first problem better. Similar:Steampunk officer uniforms — test #Blender3D #Unity3Dhttps://youtu.be/SDh4TW8ujNg The…

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Elevator shaft on a #steampunk #blender3d cruiser, just because. #design #aesthetics #blender3dart

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Meet Our Advisor: Dennis Jerz

“Journalism is an imperfect human activity done by biased people who have bills to pay and passions that drive them,” said Dennis Jerz, Seton Hill associate professor and advisor of The Setonian. “If you believe that your organization is the only pure organization that exists you are approaching journalism from a perspective that I just…

Forward is the officers’ wardroom. To the right is an airlock. Left leads to the on-call officers’ bunkroom. Not happy with the misaligned texture on the chair back, but it’s fixable. #blender3d #steampunk #design #aesthetics #blender3dart

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Mariah Carey meets William Carlos Williams

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i trained an ai chatbot on my childhood journal entries – so that i could engage in real-time dialogue with my “inner child”

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