Haha, the house still gets stuff for my stepdad. My parents got divorced and he moved out like 9 years ago and he's been dead 2 or 3? It's wild how the internet bots will just be set on Wall-E autopilot forever.

The hive mind may suggest the fields be watered with Brawndo long before all that

Reminds me of this eternal Ted Chiang banger-

I grew one from a pit for about 4 years. It got ≈3ish feet tall with multiple branches, huge leaves, inch-thick trunk with bark. Then it just didn't last in the house over winter a year ago. I guess this mid-Atlantic climate wasn't conducive.

The only inaccurate part of that dystopian Elysium prediction is that our new regime they would have the courtesy to acknowledge Spanish speakers with something other than Amerikan English instructions printed on the robot.

It's true, it can be a case of apples to oranges for sure, but I've also seen competent illustrators exist in both worlds, a lot of MTG artists also do comics covers. I'm not suggesting what you should do, just suggesting that you may have more purchasing power than you think!

most Marvel variant cover artists barely make that now from Marvel, and that's definitely a rate I've seen pros cop to for indie work. You might be able to get yourself some pretty nice illustrated covers from people in the comics world for what you are currently offering.

I will forever be a huge fan of Real Genius! Kiss Kiss Bang Bang was a good one too

For sure, gotta take them wins where you can get them! Aside from Lancaster city and a few small towns it's very rural here, and very conservative christian, so if this area can go blue it can happen anywhere.

Yeah, Lancaster City is district-13 and even with the city it's still red. Scott Martin is the republican state senator here.

Must have been E-town, school board out there is like a christian nationalist cult. There's been national mainstream news coverage about how extreme they are. Northern Lanco farmlands out in the boons are all red but not quite as bad as the PA-11 congressional district. Never gone dem in US history

I'm in the area and I'm surprised the dems won it at all. It's one of the most blood red areas in the county with most of school boards across those towns being 8 and 9 to 1 red. The Amish vote republican 100% and this area was a lot of Amish and none of Lancaster city.

But did you bring enough tchotchkes imbued with luck to curry the favor of the bingo gods of fortune?

Totally! I've scanned tons of different marble tiles to use as texture on low fill as a diffusion layer under my digital colors. They always hit that x-factor that's missing when the digital is too crisp.

I also know that saying it is way easier said than doing it! Definitely takes some time to make it happen.

For me backgrounds got exciting when I stopped thinking of them just as places the characters were, but as another performer that the characters were interacting with.

I always understood loss leading in the way Starbucks puts 4 stores within a quarter mile of a competitor to drive their ability to turn a profit down to zero, ultimately causing them to close. Then they jack the prices up to recoup their losses once competition is no longer an option.