Huh, here I was ready to create the voting post, only to find out it’s already been up for two days.
This is a pleasant surprise :)

So, I guess we can call a winner by now:

Congratulations to @Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world! You win and get to choose the next challenge.

And @Apytele@sh.itjust.works, thank you for all the hard work!

Sure! It’s this one:

https://x-plus.store/products/n150-netbook

Of course windows is going to be replaced the moment it arrives :)

A small 8 inch laptop that can fit in my everyday bag. It hasn’t arrived yet, so I’m not sure if it’ll be worth it.
It’s my usual birthday purchase impulse, the one time I allow myself to splurge for something for no other reason than “I want” :)

I hope to use it to wean myself off of phone apps and have something that is more under my control while I’m outside.

Prompt: Sci-fi horror movie scene, a wanderer wearing faded nomad clothing, looking up at a large pulsating sculpture made of red meat, the creature has one gigantic eye that placidly looks down at the wanderer, its flesh seems to grow throughout the city ruins covering everything, side view --ar 91:51 --sref 2640228480 --sv 4

I accidentally posted my image in the wrong spot :)

Feel free to block this community if you don’t want to see its contents.
You’ll save yourself (and others) a lot of annoyance.

If this is too difficult I will also be happy to do it for you :)

Oops, my mistake :)

That’s fine by me

So we only really have two entries for this week’s challenge. How do you want to do this?
Wait for a bit longer, just start the voting post anyway, or call a winner straight away?

Ohhhh, I didn’t know you were the target audience. Making something for you to hate is too high a bar for me :)
Then again, maybe I should just try something different:

Say hello to your new best friend! I’ll just be adding this whenever I’m asking you to nsfw an image next time :)

I know around Europe there are some travel operators that offer passenger berths on commercial shipping lines. Maybe there are also some trans-Atlantic options?
You probably get a small room, and it’s not luxurious. But compared to the literal hundreds tons of cargo on board your carbon footprint is probably minuscule.

You also get a unique experience about life on board, so that’s worth something as well :)
I had an acquaintance who travelled from Amsterdam to Helsinki this way. She was very positive about the experience.

Though you will have to arrange two separate trips which might be a bit more complicated. Cargo vessels don’t stay in port long enough for you to enjoy a full vacation.

I don’t have a favorite but Error Detection by Nemophila is an often played song in my list right now.

Instead of wondering if anyone would watch your series, maybe ask yourself first who you would want to watch. Making something with a huge general appeal is more difficult than focusing on a specific audience.
Once you’ve determined that audience, you can ask yourself what they would really like to see in your series.

In this case, is it a documentary series for people to get to know smaller towns along the Amtrak rails? Their peculiarities, local stories, etc?
Or is it more, like you mentioned elsewhere, for people who live in the area who would actually might be interested in visiting these towns themselves? To me that would already seem to make for two completely different kinds of series. Each with their own reach and potential audience.

For myself, I live on the wrong continent, so I doubt I would watch a show if it’s about travel tips. But I would love to watch something about the local culture and history of small train stop towns. As long as it is entertaining enough of course :)
You’ll have to work hard at marketing your material if you want to make money off it though, there’s so much content on offer already.

Let’s see how cute we can make this puppy:

Prompt: Absurd, a cute puppy with ridiculously enormous sparkly eyes, it’s head is disproportionately larger than it’s body, huge head, tiny body, cotton candy pink, photograph --ar 3:4

I guess that’s better? I mean I still hate it (and in line with the challenge), but at least it’s not as… orifice-y.

As a general rule for the future, let’s keep the body horror and other nightmare fuel images behind a nsfw tag ok? Consider it a creative constraint for this community :)

That’s fine, just change the image

Here are the final scores:

Congratulations to @merde@sh.itjust.works and the lovely couple :)
You know how it works, next challenge is yours.

I guess when it comes to visualizing things, the apple I’d see would be between a 1 and a 2.
But to me when I try to fully imagine an apple, I also imagine how I can feel the texture of its skin, the weight of it in my hand, the taste and sensation when taking a bite out of it, the smell of the juice, the stickiness of my fingers afterwards, etc.
Or is this also included in the scale? Because then I guess it’s a 1.

Aw… 🥺