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Jordan Meiller
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Writer (https://certainofeventualfailure.com), musician (https://soundcloud.com/noplotr), photographer (the banner is one of mine), guy who yells about stuff online.
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I did not know OpenGuessr could put you on a boat.
A screenshot of OpenGuessr showing the camera on a boat, with choppy water around it and mountainous shoreline in the distance.
November 14, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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So I’ve seen some discussion of monotropism and felt like I vibed with ~60% of it, but I took the test and, well, I just don’t know how to weigh this, and my 164 RAADS-R score, against the autistic psychologist who specialized in treating people with autism who said I’m definitely not autistic.
Monotropism Score: 207 / 235 Your Average: 4.40 I'm Monotropic, Now What? This score suggests that you are more Monotropic than about 77% of autistic people and about 99% of allistic people based on data from the initial validation study. Score Total: 164 Language: 11 Social relatedness: 68 Sensory/motor: 50 Circumscribed interests: 35 Meaning of RAADS-R scores Score // Interpretation 25 // You are not autistic. 50 // Some autistic traits, but likely not autistic (yet some autistic people score as low as 44. 65 //The minimum score at which autism is considered. 90 // Stronger indications of autism, although non-autistics may score as high. 130 // The mean score of autistic people; strong evidence for autism. 160 // Very strong evidence for autism. 227 // The maximum score autistic people acquired in Ritvo's seminal paper on the RAADS-R.((The Ritvo Autism Asperger Diagnostic Scale-Revised (RAADS-R): A Scale to Assist the Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Adults: An International Validation Study (Ritvo et al., 2011)))
November 8, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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When I’m depressed everything gets three stars because I can’t tell if it’s me or the movie.
Caught Stealing (2025) — 3 stars Whisper of the Heart (1995) — 3 stars Fast Color (2018) — 3 stars Paranorman (2012) — 3 stars
November 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Wanted to try out the "neon" effect I discovered a bit ago, and made a few mistakes while I was implementing it. Fortunately, I also implementing a new drawing method that's at least 60 times faster than how I had been doing, so redos are way less tedious than they were before.
Blue sky, Green statue, Yellowish plinth, brown tree. These last three are completely filled in and spiky for reasons. The three foreground elements are now how they looked before, but the lines of the background are extra thick and spiky. Almost the same as the original (in the qt post) but the lines of the background have a sort of neon effect around them.
November 6, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Obviously not the most exciting color palette but I was just kind of skimming my photos for ones with several distinct elements and this was the first one I noticed. I could, of course, choose different colors rather than trying to match the photo.
The drawing from the first post except now it's a photo, though obviously that actually went the other way around.
November 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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So it turns out the actual problem is I broke ACSLogo. Apparently what I'm doing is just so far out of what it's meant for that it doesn't know how to display correctly and it can cause some wild artifacts. Good news is the export is correct. (Left is a screenshot, right is the exported image.)
What should be a stylized line drawing of a green stature on a stone plinth, blue sky behind it and a brown tree poking into frame from the side, except it looks *bad*. A stylized line drawing of a green stature on a stone plinth, blue sky behind it and a brown tree poking into frame from the side.
November 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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So do we think someone at work drew a swastika and then tried to hide it or is that just the worst 4 you’ve ever seen in your life.
Some wood with “1234” written on it in sharpie except the 4 looks suspiciously like a swastika.
October 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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They're making movies out of every internet meme they can get their hands on but I gotta say Chill Lo-Fi Hip-Hop Beats to Relax/Study To: The Movie is surprisingly good.
A young girl with shortish brown hair, wearing a t-shirt and black over-ear headphones, sits at a desk. She's writing in a notebook with an orange pen. The desk is lit by a desk lamp. The joke is that this is from Whisper of the Heart (1995) and was apparently the original artwork used by the chill lo-fi beats channel but was replaced with artwork inspired by this scene in order to avoid copyright infringement.
October 16, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Oh but that being said I took a walk and found this one tree that I couldn’t see any birds in but it sounded like there was a whole bird metropolis happening.
October 11, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Gonna start blurbing these in the replies ‘cause why not
On Your Mark (1995) — 3 stars Trance (2013) — 4 stars Tenet (2020) — 2 star Saturday Night (2024) — 3.5 stars
October 11, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Some blue-green scrambles but bound by the letters "SHIT" Some yellow-green scrambles but bound by the letters "SHIT!" Some yellow-green scrambles but bound by the letters "I DON'T WANNA DO THIS ANYMORE" Some green scrambles but bound by the letters "WHAT IF WE JUST DIDN'T"
October 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Some red scrambles but bound by the letters "AHHH" Some light blue scrambles but bound by the letters "AHHH" Some yellow-green scrambles but bound by the letters "AHHH" Some light-blue scrambles but bound by the letters "AHHH"
October 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Some blue scrambles but darker some blue scrambles but twice some red scrambles some green scrambles but bound by a circle
October 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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doodling my feelings
Some orange scrambles Some green scrambles Some blue scrambles Some light-green scrambles
October 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Don't mind me, just posting it again so I can finish the alt text
[alt text continued from previous post] The Godfather Part Frog Seven Frogs for Seven Brothers Frog-ubus in the City Frog-Drunk Love King Frog The Frog Bunch Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Frog Blade Frogger Frog and Juliet War of the Frogs Star Trek III: The Frog for Spock Harry Frogger + the Goblet of Frogs [An unrelated list of shows/movies from a game of 6 Degrees of Separation—we have fun here.] A Dry White Frog Harry Frogger + the Philosopher's Stone Frog-gotten Silver Children [cut off but presumable Of the Frog] The Frog [cut off, can't remember what it is] Lucky Number Frog The Wizard of Frogs Froggerball I Spit on Your Frog In the Frog of Madness
October 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Now seems like as good a time as any to share the frog wall.
A wall covered in sticky notes, reading roughly from left to right, top to bottom: The Beauty and the Frog The 36th Frog of Shaolin Frogs of Fire [next to an illustration depicting the Gates of Moria] The Lord of the Frogs A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Frog Eat, Pray, Frog Three Weddings and a Frog Rollerfrog Down by Frog Frog of Innocence Speed Frogger Frogged Ain't No Sunshine When She's Frog Beau is a Frog Bonfire of the Frogs A Frog is Born Rana Rosso Frog Miserables Ghost Frog: The Way of the Samurai Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Frog Scent of a Frog THX-113Frog Get Frog The Good, the Bad, and the Froggy High School Musical: The Musical: The Series: The Frog Animal Frog The Imaginarium of Dr. Frognasus I Love You, Frog! Frog Green Tomatoes 101 Frogs The Frog Father Frogging Private Ryan It's a Frog, Frog, Frog, Frog, Frog, Frog World Frogging Miss Daisy Frog A Swiftly Tilting Frog Froggy Get Your Gun Mary Froggins Frog, Lola, Frog Long Day's Journey Into Frog Froggy Woman Frog Day Afternoon Annie Get Your Frog Easy Frogger Frog: Combat Evolved [the o in Frog is the Halo o] [At this point there's an illustration of a one-eyed guy wielding a pistol and saber making his way through a swamp, to which a caption has been added: "Where the HELL did I park my CAR??" It's unrelated to the whole frog thing, but funny.] Midnight Frog Forbidden Frog The Unbearable Lightness of Frog Kiss, Kiss, Frog, Frog Star Trek The Frog Picture Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Frogs A Room with a Frog Once Upon a Frog in Hollywood Attack of the 50-Frog Woman Slaughterhouse Frog The Suicide Frog Chitty Chitty Frog Frog There Will Be Frog Frog Frog Bang Bang No Frog For Old Men I'm Frogging as Fast as I Can Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Frogs Jurrasic [sic] Frog The Name of the Frog Kentucky-Fried Frog The Frog Remains the Same The Frog Movie The Frogs are Coming! The Frogs are Coming! A Series of Unfortunate Frogs Star Trek II: The Wrath of Frog [alt text continued in next post]
October 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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And lo, even as the darkness covered the land, the Once and Future King returned, as was foretold.
Box art for Soulcalibur III, the best fighting game, coming to PS4/5…soon? Not sure when.
October 8, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Experimenting with compositing so I can make the background a different color. Didn't turn out as well as I wanted but has potential. Not sure how to solve the frame problem but maybe it kinda works?
A stylized line drawing of a man sitting in the woods, drinking from a cup, his backpack under his arm. I mean you can't tell that that's what it is but that is what it is. Man is drawn in black, the backpack in light blue, the woods in orange.
October 3, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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I broke Slay the Spire by getting every relic. So much for an endless run.
October 2, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Personally I prefer the abstracts but this one gets the biggest reaction from people. Err, the first version of this one, I haven't shown anyone the "warhol" version yet.
A stylized line of a man with giant sunglasses a beard and a plaid shirt 4 stylized line drawings (red purple blue and green) of a man with giant sunglasses a beard and a plaid shirt
October 1, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Caesar from Fallout: New Vegas; the top of a dialogue box can be seen at the bottom of the screen, implying that he is speaking.
September 30, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Ok Bluesky compression is not friendly to these but I really like this one
Abstract black line drawing on a white background.
September 27, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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A square whose top half is mostly black, the bottom right section is mostly vertical lines with some diagonal, the bottom left section is all diagonal lines, many of which are close together so it creates a large band from the bottom left corner up and to the right. All on a white background.
September 27, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Dan Simmons wrote a Catholic space empire and gave them biblically accurate spaceships.
“THE ARCHANGEL-CLASS COURIER SHIP HAS NO name. De Soya had never considered torchships beautiful—gourd-shaped, the command and weapons mod dwarfed by the huge Hawking drive and in-system fusion-thrust sphere—but the archangel is actively ugly in comparison. The courier ship is a mass of asymmetrical spheres, dodecahedrons, lash-ons, structural cables, and Hawking-drive mounts, with the passenger cabin the merest of afterthoughts in the center of all that junk.” — Dan Simmons, ENDYMION
September 24, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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I mean jesus someone who's presumably been doing this job for years approved this monstrosity to be put on screen behind the HEADLINERS. You already had the ampersand, you had a graphics team, there's no way someone couldn't have done this in 30 minutes tops, surely it's just one effect repeated.
Penn & Teller on stage with a shitty AI background behind them featuring an "ampersand" with "light bulbs" screwed in it except they're unevenly spaced, one of them is missing, there are random bits of light glow that aren't actually attached to a bulb, and it's not even the Penn & Teller signature ampersand that is literally all over this show's graphics.
September 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM