Well it does say 80s adventure movie in the prompt, so that sounds about right :)

Prompt: 80s adventure movie, A female explorer running towards the camera, with a frightened look on their face, a gigantic silver ball is rolling in the background, through a pinball environment, detailed face, low angle, dramatic lighting, shot on 35mm vistavision film --ar 91:51 --v 6.1

Sorry I’m late! I had work stuff

Here are the final scores!

Congrats @Itrytoblenderrender@lemmy.world, you win! Again! :)

I did a bit of extra reading and I made a mistake. The Utrecht library is 132 years old, but this building is exactly 100 years old.
I really need to read more thoroughly.

I really love Jack Vance’s world building. His Gaean Reach setting gives an endless variety of cultures, customs and beliefs. And the Dying Earth novels formed the basis for magic system of DnD.

But the real treasure is in how he can let these worlds come alive with his descriptions. Often he would spend a whole paragraph describing something that will never be part of the story but manages to perfectly set the tone of the local atmosphere.

I grew with these books (thanks to my dad’s impressive personal SF library) and they’ve always managed to spark my imagination like no other book.

Trollivier

@Trollivier@sh.itjust.works

That’s an interesting topic, because I had my idea from a dream I had last night. Not the most original image, but it was fun to try and reproduce something from a dream.

I recently travelled to Europe, and I’m a big tall guy and was really uncomfortable for 8 hours of travel. And last night, I dreamt that I was in a slightly futuristic plane, that was much wider than regular planes. It had 12 or 16 seats in width, with enough room to be comfortable. The top half of the plane was made of glass and we could see outside.

The plane could take off from an inclined platform, most like Princess Vespa’s ship in Spaceballs :)

Here’s what I was able to do. The only difference with my dream is there should be many more seats per row.

Prompt : The inside of a very wide airplane. It doesn’t look very futuristic, just slightly better than today’s planes. The top half of the plane is made of glass, and we can see the a clear sky through it. It’s very sunny inside. The floor is covered with blue carpet. The seats are individual, all aligned, about a dozen per row, and they are white and blue. The plane is full of travelers. People have screens they can use for leisure.

Itrytoblenderrender

@Itrytoblenderrender@lemmy.world

I prefer mass transit, but with style :-).

Made with comfyui. The workflow is embedded in this picture (Catbox)

Deceptichum

@Deceptichum@quokk.au

✧✨🌿Allo🌿✨✧

@allo@sh.itjust.works

Thelsim

@thelsim@sh.itjust.works

Prompt oil painting, sci-fi, A woman lounging in a golden barge, the barge is filled with velvet cushions, a robot pilots the barge, in a neo-classical architecture canal with crystal clear water, high detail, god rays, painted in a neo-romanticism style --ar 2:1 --dref https://s.mj.run/EINA45dcR5Y --v 6.1

merde alors

@merde@sh.itjust.works

JAW DROPPER

Maurice le tombeur did spare no expense for his golden shoes and shorts. He likes to make jaws drop on his daily commute to village bakery for his baguette. He also fills his pockets with golden glitter—Everytime he takes his wallet out, people think it’s magic✨

A small side note on that 30% ruling, it’s only for highly skilled workers, so there are some requirements to meet.
Also, you’d best not boast about it to your Dutch coworkers if you want to make friends over here :)

I did the thing yesterday. It wasn’t my intention, and it was kind of incidental , but I’m so glad I did it in the end.
I can definitely recommend, just do the thing, you’ll thank yourself later.

The Netherlands is generally quite friendly towards (English speaking) immigrants and expats. Almost everyone speaks English and no one really bats an eye at a non-Dutch resident in most of the major western cities (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, the Hague, etc.)
Housing is terrible though, prices are high and it’ll be hard to find something nice. One advantage for you (or any US resident), is that you’re exempt from the inburgering exam. Which means that you won’t have to learn the language and won’t be tested on your integration in Dutch society.

My partner is from abroad and they’ve experienced living here as quite pleasant. They weren’t exempt from the exam though (different non-EU nationality), which was a bit of a nuisance. But in general, reception was positive. They’ve been living here for over 16 years now.
But like most of Europe, we’ve got a far-right government right now, so there’s a lot of anti-immigration talk going round. Of course it’s only aimed at what they think are the “wrong” (Middle-Eastern and African) kind of people, so I doubt Americans would ever have to deal with it.

It was entirely in midjourney, I used the new external editor they’ve released last month.

I’m not a native English speaker, but I always thought an expression like “oh boy” was more self-reflective. Like you say it more to yourself than to whoever you’re talking to.
In which case, the other’s gender shouldn’t really matter?
In any case, I personally don’t feel insulted or misgendered if someone uses it in a conversation with me.

Prompt oil painting, sci-fi, A woman lounging in a golden barge, the barge is filled with velvet cushions, a robot pilots the barge, in a neo-classical architecture canal with crystal clear water, high detail, god rays, painted in a neo-romanticism style --ar 2:1 --dref https://s.mj.run/EINA45dcR5Y --v 6.1

Well, you could argue that this is more about making it as opulent as possible?
Anyway, it’s been a few weeks, I’m sure we’ll see some fresh ideas :)

That’s a great challenge!
Would you mind adding [Community Challenge 57] in front of your title though? It would make it in line with the other challenges and easier to spot.

Edit: Thanks!