HalflingCaravan

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I’m making #ECG #TCGs #boardgames Left (handed and political) because reality has opinions #MMT from Gadigal Land in the Eora Nation (Sydney)

Samson Strong >> Samson weak with no hair Achilles Strong >> Achilles dead with an arrow in his foot Me >> “Okay, so it is a deck builder but also to win you need to…”
Panel 1 >> Dr Soong: “You get why I had to make the bed first, right?” Panel 2 >> Data: “Father.” Panel 3 >> Dr Soong: “Now youre Data on a spread sheet.” Panel 4 >> Data: “Father, please.”
Two pigeons look down at the camera, behind them is a very ornate decorative ceiling.
A Captcha with a Greek Ship in most of its panels. The Captcha challenge is to select the spaces which contain the Ship of Theseus.
Dominic Ramsgate is a young man who looks like he could be from a boy band or 00s Emo band. He has a wry grin, light blue eyes, pale skin, dark brown wavy hair hanging down the right side of his face, a nose piercing, and an ear pendant that looks almost knife-like.
Michael has small circular glasses, and a shaved head. His head is very square shaped and his jaw shallow. He is wearing a light tan wool overcoat, over a plain white button-up shirt with a stove-pipe collar. He is sitting in amongst computer servers and wooden crates.
Klaus is a redheaded man with toussled jaw-length hair and a full beard. He's wearing a red suede vest over a black shirt with white dots. He is leaning against numbered lockers of cabinets with blue doors.
Laurel has long blonde hair, and a fully covering white visor over her eyes. She is wearing some kind of full body jumpsuit made of glossy material, and above-the-knee boots decorated with red stains and chains. She sits with her right leg bent and the foot on her left shin. Between her legs rests a rifle with a number of attachments. She has her arms up above her head like she is stretch as she sits on a set of stairs.
Queenie is a SE Asian woman with black lipstick, and winged eyeliner. Her hair is in a top-pony tail and been mostly dyed a cyan colour. She is wearing a vinyl jacket with a high neck and a number of reinforcements. In her left hand, near the camera, is a blaster pistol; the flash from firing the weapon has tinted all of her a bright green-yellow colour.
Eights has a shaved undercut of light brown hair on suntanned skin. He is wearing a light grey waistcoat over a black t-sthirt. He is standing in some kind of stairwell.
Jacinta has some clear facial scars on her light-brown skin. She's wearing a reinforced leather helmet, a red leather jacket and tall leather boots. There is a large rifle on her back and she's sitting on top of something, resting her arm on her knee.
Javier has a white button up glossy shirt with an abstract pattern in grey; he has not buttoned this shirt up across his chest. He has a number of long narrow braids, and a short sparse goatee and beard. His eyes are clearly unnatural with black corneas and yellow-green iris and pupils. In the background someone has sprays 148 in green and yellow over a magenta patch on a tiled wall.
Idoya Sanchez has a large rifle, a leather jacket with a lot of studs, and obvious electronics on her head. She has light brown skin, brown hair, and is standing in front of brick walls with red and purple lighting.
Will Ferrell as Ron Burgundy looking confused and shocked in front of a field of coloured eggs.
A cartoon by Cathy Wilcox. It shows two people sitting on a big sack labelled Property Investor Perks holding houses over people clamouring on fishing poles. Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton are walking over with bags of money claiming the money will fix it.
Image from a newspaper with Peter Dutton and a headlong announcing his intention to repeal a law which allows workers to ignore calls from their workplace when they have finished their work for the day.
A Chinese lady with glasses who has a resting dark blue budgerigar on her shoulder
A young man with pale blonde hair, a wine-red button long-sleeve shirt, dark teal high waist pressed pants, sitting on the front of a car in front of a brightly lit walls.
Young man with pink hair, face scars, some piercings, and a red cardigan is looking at the camera with a smirk on his face.
A young man with long wavy strawberry blonde hair well past his shoulders.
A young woman with died red hair, cybernetic red eyes, and light skin stands in front of a rolling-grill door like you'd expect in front of a garage. She's wearing fingerless gloves that clearly have electronics installed, a singlet top with belts under the bust, and olive-drab heavy material pants.
A young man with a number of tight long braids on his head with shaved sides wears sunglasses and a striped-black shirt with the words "Neon City - a Cyberpunk TCG for 3 to 5 players."
A young woman with red-and-pink hair stands infront of a grilled roller door. Her eyes are black and have red glowing rings where irises would be. She's wearing a black singlet top with a number of buckled belts below the bust. Fingerless gloves on her hands show signs of embedded tech in the back, and you can see the top of rugged olive drab heavy-weight pants. She's lit from the side and a large shadow of her is projected onto the grilled rolling door.
Hourly Daily by You Am I. The cover depicts suburban red tile roofs and a power pole.
One light blue and one grey blue budgerigar sitting on the top edge of a laptop screen. The screen shows musical score staves for a brass band.
GSM-NoOp data set and question prompt send to o1-mini and Llama3-8B. The prompt includes an obvious distraction that 'five kiwis were below average'. These systems then flub their answers and subtract five from the basic arithmetic they are being asked to performed.
A two-axis chart showing the accuracy of LLMs at doing basic arithmetic. Amazingly the entire chart is not 100%, considering we've been making computers do large multiplications since we used to program them with holes in carboard... a computer the size of your house from the 60s does better than these things.
A card named Naomi Wu. It shows a woman with cyberpunk type mask, LED tubes running through her hair, a ring-lit transparent parasol, and skimpy clothing. Her body is an obvious reference to Chinese Tech Expert Naomi Wu, her namesake - a queer Chinese woman known for her tech skills and hyper-femme appearance. She disappeared from the internet July 2023.
A game card called 'Batty Motors Comet'. The card art shows Naomi Wu (aka SexyCyborg) standing in front of a japanese style street sports car with very white wheel frames. She is wearing a glowing gas mask sort of equipment, a brown ankle-to-wrist jumpsuit with a plunging neckline, and a pair of knee-high platform boot.
Megan Perry: An early 30s blonde woman wearing a black crop-tshirt, blue denim jeans with green-yellow fading or stitching, and small circular sunglasses. She's leaning on the front of a fast food counter with a glowing lit edge. Some kind of sword is hanging from her hip.
A portrait of a muscular 20s black man with short dreadlocks decorated with a few small gold rings in his hair. He's wearing a cream vest without a shirt, gold coloured pants. He is Reclining in an armchair in front of a window showing a cityscape at night while it is raining.
Neon City in 80s brushy synthwave magenta-to-yellow colors with a drop shadow over a brightly coloured nighttime photo of a dense city.
A soccerball is on a blood smear over a shattered blue circle like the ball broke the blue circle. Above are the words 'Bloodbath Football Association'. This is all on a green grass.
A mockup of a Neon City Card game box. It features a blonde woman in a black leather vest, a red crop top, black lace-front jeans, with a sword on her hip. The box has a stylised logo and has Faction Starter Deck.
A card game box. The cover has "Neon City", an icon for the Talons faction, and a light brown skinned man with long black hair wearing a red jacket over a black turtleneck.
A selfie, with a blue striped shirt with a slim Japanese maple pattern over it.
A meme about Sky News's (a Fox company) cycle of fake outrage. "They're cancelling Australia Day" >> "They're Cancelling Easter" >> "You can't say Christmas anymore" >> "New Year's Eve coverage was woke" and an arrow pointing between New Year's Eve and Australia Day marked "You are here"
An artwork based upon a detailed China plate with a landscape in the middle. The artist has extended the landscape to include more elements by filling the gaps between plate fragments.
The three leading characters from Nickelodeon cartoon “Ah! Real Monsters”; Ickis, Krumm, & Oblina.
A young man with tanned or light olive skin. He's wearing a casual button up black shirt with stripes over a red tshirt. He's wearing sunglasses. His hair in small cornrow-french braids running from the middle of his forehead back into thin long braids down his chest and back; the sides of his head are shaved short. He's posed in front of a pink sports car looking vehicle.
Image is a screen grab of text. “Dude ices a CEO, becomes a living symbol of the lower class struggles against corporate greed. [Minimum] wage worker at large corporate franchise eats him out in hopes of a promised financial reward from authorities. Authorities arrest killer and tell the worker to fuck right off without providing agreed upon compensation. You can’t script this level of social commentary. This is life writing its own Oscar winner”
The musician known as Prince smirking at the camera in a blue jacket and black shirt with a white spot-like pattern.
A hexagonal table top with a blurred night city photo, outlines for a number of cards, and the name Neon City in the middle in a retro or cyberpunk brushy style. It is set up for 3 players.
A cyberpunk warrior with a gun, a Japanese sword, eye covering, and a halo in front of a grungy red-to-black gradient background.
Elon Musk claiming that fentanyl’s price will be directly affected by tariff changes.
The BlueSky profile of an infamous person know to be litigious about Chik-Fil-A themed TTRPG parody.