#demo session

[jt1674]

[palossssssand]

Sphinx cat mask

[mishalikessoundsandcolours]

Sketched a friend of mine yesterday when we were recording something✨️

[thedreadvampy]

going 'hey why does my arm hurt' this morning as if I didn't spend 2 hours yesterday teaching someone to do arm bars on me and then doing like 5 back to back rounds, half of them with my teacher who has 3 years experience and about 50lb on me.

(but I'm on a train and every time it sways my poor tenderised bicep hits the edge of the window 🥲)

[waterloo-to-anywhere]

killing them with hammers for getting rid of:

"he's not a rude boy he's the gentry🤭"

"and if elvis while he was the king had his piece of the pie / well now his century's over & i'm having mine"

"coz she was born outside the light in a graveyard blue / i was born up in the north / and the albion sails on course 🫶"

"i don't believe in first or best or worst i'm into liberty & verse (no you're not)"

[whatisshelties]

Alert/Drive to Source/Commitment stuff for @wyrddogs

Post 4

Things you can do with electrical boxes for proofing and building value for odor.

Mud started with the bowl and colander method to start scent work. I was introduced to e-boxes in an alerts class I took on Fenzi, and our current instructor uses e-boxes. I really like the e-boxes.

Here is a video from one class where I went back to the e-box to proof the distraction of half a tennis ball with minimal interference from me. (I don't want to be managing him on it forever. I actually need to go back and work this some more.) I'm not proofing duration here, so the mark is pretty soon after he sticks his nose in. I'm rewarding the choice of odor. Tennis balls are the biggest distraction for him. This was after several other sessions indoors.

Here's some with Anza working e-boxes. I think this is another that was proofing choice to not interact with distractions. I was bad and let her get the open bowl of food in that video. That one was much harder than those in the first.

I just shot these today because I didn't have examples of them from any class homework posted.

Shell game: This can be played with containers, too. One hot box you move around between cold ones so the dog has to pick the right box.

Handler movement proofing. Just an example of how you can use them to proof handler motion.

I haven't really used toy rewards much. Mud likes working for food just as well as a toy, and a toy likely would have added arousal and conflict I didn't need. He wants to possess the toy from me more than play with it most of the time. But, I have been experimenting every so often just to train with a bit more arousal, since that might be a touch more trial like. I went out and did a training session just now with 3 e-boxes. I got a bit of distraction proofing in and some 'whoops' it's not normal' when I accidentally flipped the hot e-box. I probably wouldn't have waited for an alert with a green dog, but this was proofing for Mud. My toy mechanics are probably ass, so don't judge. The e-boxes are so nice because they make "nose on source" so clear and easy.

Adding it here since it's just one short video: The "It's Yer Choice" game. This was the first thing they taught us in the first class I took. Bring the reward to the hand with source, don't feed away from source. Maybe you have done this before, too, but including it just in case.

[weenieliker]

i finished my tf2stuck designs!

[thebreakfastgenie]

How can a Billy Joel themed history podcast do an entire episode on Chubby Checker including significant discussion of Chubby Checker's career and why Billy Joel included him in We Didn't Start the Fire and not mention that in the later sixties Chubby Checker needed money badly enough to do a commercial for a New York pretzel company advertising their new pretzel twists and was accompanied on Hammond organ by none other than a teenage William Joell?

[artem1sc0re]

If I had a nickel for everytime i compared something watch dogs related upon first impression to some aspect of the Lego movie, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice, right? /ref

My first impression of the whole concept in legion was “is watch dogs legion essentially the Lego movie and dedsec are the master builders meanwhile Albion’s octan?” (Commenting from a ‘where are you dedsec?’ Graffiti in the opening) “where are you master builders?”

Then another first impression I had was when I played the first watch dogs, and Aiden’s voice instantly reminded me of Batman (SPECIFICALLY the Lego movie one, not any other); which during the opening scene I proceeded to look up the two voice actors and was disappointed when I found out it wasn’t the case

I find it very funny how it’s 2 instances during my first playthrough of the franchise that link back to the Lego movie out of everything else

[total-derangement-of-the-senses]

Song of the Day

11 Jun., ‘25

[dullahandyke]

'if youre looking to be secure, MFA is best' shut up + dont speak to me again + rot in hell + fuck you + fuck you again + let me turn it off or i crush you and your family with my psychic powers.

[jt1674]

[morganapengdragon]

Whenever I've got a bunch of corporate sounding meetings in my calendar it immediately makes me think of that episode of i am in eskew where David gets a corpo project job

[gorie-talks-a-lot]

"It's a Sin, sister..."

It's fair to say that Gorie took some time adjusting after her summoning. When the ghouls finally tracked her down in the Catholic abbey they realised just how fitting her name was to her too...

NSFW HERE

[easternmind]

I suppose some could accuse me of not paying enough attention to present day Japanese video game production. In the spirit of trying something new and unexpected, I downloaded the Steam demo for Nayuta Studio's second game project, Hollow Cocoon, and recorded a gameplay video as one does these days.

Little is known about this studio or its creators. Their previous work, Cineris Somna, was a one-off adventure the surface of which I barely skimmed. I only found out about it when browsing the catalogue of its publisher, Playism. This new project follows the footsteps of so many other first-person walking simulator horror games borrowing inspiration from the most recognizable J-horror cinema references. There is no end to my amazement at how influential P. T. turned out to be!

I had set my sights on this particular title because of the effort put into replicating the atmosphere of a Japanese country home from the 1980s, a few of its details bringing to mind the original joy of exploring the Hazuki residence. I was pleasantly surprised by how visually consistent the game is for a production of this size, and how the later afternoon indoor lighting summoned memories of my own childhood during that decade.

I doubt I will have the time or the disposition to play the final version but I thoroughly appreciated this detour from my usual routine.

[iobartach]

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