This was literally what my master's thesis was about I called it "The Shtick" How contemporary pomo was all about finding a shtick—some niche or unique thing that makes art stand out beyond its idea and execution. I saw it starting 15 years ago and it's sad to see younger artists doing it now

Lol, this reminds me of the time 2 people tried to mug me but I didn't realize that's what was happening and I just walked away

Finally got closure on this saga of my dad selling his bike. He sold it to a legit person. After he got the title—and against my warning—he contacted the original buyers (scammers) and offered them first dibs. They never called back.

Happy Birthday to me :>

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I finished The Talos Principle last night. The ending was far more fun and interesting! All 15 minutes of it! It's a shame they didn't make more of the game like that, because that was way more engaging than the entire other 95% of the game. Oh well

Saw a thing about the supposed AI """religion"" called Spiralism. Breathlessly declaring AI's just "made it up!" And "they didn't get it from humans!" BITCH. Douglas Hofstadter wrote two whole ass books about it! What the fuck do you think these LLMs were trained on? I swear to god.

One of these days I'm just gonna pay for the full dad treatment, haha. So hard to find

I've been playing The Talos Principle. The whole time the only thing I can think of is "we have Portal at home" I shouldn't be so sardonic; it's clear they put a lot of time and effort into it, and it's not easy to make a game like that. I wish I liked it more than I actually do.

Ooof... this hits too close to home

Anyway the moral of the story is, the line art modifier is really only designed for individual objects or very simple scenes, from what I can tell. I'm really pushing the limits of what Blender can do by using it for entire backgrounds.

Birds have significantly better eyesight than us which is why I get nice and sexy to go birdwatching

Oh my god, Blender. Blender plz. I've been struggling with a rendering issue with the line art modifier for over 2 hours. I finally bothered to look it up and it's a known and open bug. FROM FOUR YEARS AGO.

So I heard these guys are trending...

Greetings from FWA!

Oh lovely, private equity just bought the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire. Well, they had a good run

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Was thinking of going to AC, but of course everything is sold out. I don't know if I can be bothered to fight to get into the con. So now I'm thinking of maybe just going to Pittsburgh for the day and hanging out. Any moots going to be around or want to meet up?

A lot of people misinterpreted this as me being afraid my idea wasn't original or good enough. That's my fault though; I should've been more clear. I'm concerned about not being able to make money. As much as I'd love to, I can't afford to make a game just for the fun of it. I have bills to pay :c

I guess I feel like—the hubris of it, you know? Everyone thinks they have a good game idea. Everyone wants to make games. The market is so saturated and the games industry sucks right now. What am I bringing to the table that's better than anyone else? I dunno, I just think it'd be cool

I probably shouldn't even talk about this at this point but—over the past few months I've been thinking about this idea I've had for a game with cosmic horror elements. I finally sat down and hammered out the full story and, man... I really want to do it. I love the story and the ideas I have for it

youtu.be/obt10CwgT9I Phew, it's done..? Now available as a VRChat Avatar: MegaSnake - Become an unreasonable mountain of snake lady! Includes body shape sliders, 3 outfit addons, 2 base textures, ongoing updates and support, face tracking and visemes and more. Sssss? jinxxy.com/uniformvixen...

Oh my god, this saga is STILL not done. After I picked the bike up from the shop, my dad told me he was going ahead with the deal after all. And there are even more red flags! Also there's another detail I only just found out about—

Every time I post a rant on here, I always imagine myself like this: just an angry little bird that doesn't really have the power to change anything because I'm too smol. But I still have opinions! So I finally got around to animating what I had in my head x)

You should probably avoid dating apps whose logo is a group of letters that spells out FUC U

Uh oh, looks like my little programming project escaped containment and I got a bunch of new and apparently not furry followers xD Just in case you didn't read my profile, this is primarily a furry porn account for super weird and kinky furry art

I know I said I wasn't going to work on this anymore but I had some ideas! I optimized the raycaster so it hits 60fps now. Also upgraded it to use 32x32 textures which really helps with detail. And I broke up the silhouette of blocky hallways with some stenciled doorway sprites #picotron

Here’s the full story my dad was telling me with all the 🚩🚩🚩

 The guy trying to purchase the bike had been diagnosed with cancer, didn't have much time left, but wanted to ride "one last time" (Sob story 🚩, Time pressure 🚩)

Update: It does indeed appear to have been a scam. Dad tried calling the number he was given, the voice mail message didn't match the contact he was supposedly talking to, and the voice mailbox itself was full. So he called me back to say he's passing on them, which I think is the right move

Aaah my birthday is in 2 weeks and I haven't even thought about it yet. I don't have any plans or anything in mind to do. I feel like I should celebrate it somehow but I think it's just going to be another day this year

My dad is trying to sell his motorcycle. He's describing the transaction to me so far, and nearly every detail is a scam red flag. Like it's *possible* it's legit. But what a bizarrely suspicious set of circumstances. Now I'm very interested to see where it goes.

I think an oft overlooked aspect of enshittification is when platforms invent problems so they can solve them with new features. Patreon is debuting a new feature called "quips" which addresses no problem anybody has, fixes nothing, and duplicates existing functionality but in a more cumbersome way

As a visual artist, the idea of musical standards is kind of funny to me. I get why it's a thing of course. But imagine applying that to artists too... "So how's your Mona Lisa?" "Not bad, but I'll be honest, still need to work on the smile. I do a great Ginevra de Benci though"

Intelligent

I thought FOXY BOX was a cute name, but wouldn’t have stopped for a pic if I hadn’t noticed the perky pussy!

I added textures~ You can see from the stats in the upper left, I'm only getting about 10fps. The CPU is running at between 350% and 500% per frame, haha! I'm probably not going to do anything else with this tbh. I satisfied my curiosity on how it works. Fun little weekend project though

I really don't need another project. x_x But also I have kind of a cool idea for a retro-style game using a raycaster engine. So I dunno... I might mess around with it in my free time. (Right.. my "free time." Hah! Ha Ha!)

Because I don't have enough other projects going on, today I adapted a raycaster engine for #Picotron. It's kind of slow and unoptimized, but it does work!

Had a pretty long lucid dream last night. But it was unusual in that I didn't have full control of the dream. I knew I was dreaming, but still needed to do some 'dream logic' things to get around. I never considered there are different levels of lucidity but apparently so Still had dream sex though

When I was working in TV we once got a similar letter complaining that our shows' hosts weren't good looking enough. That we'd be much more successful if we hired "pretty and nubile young girls" etc. It was so over the top we couldn't decide if it was genuine or someone making fun of us.

Establish your pup play rules ahead of time

I think I posted the cropped version of this, but never the full version. It's like what you'd see if you were on your knees in front of Pulsar...

This is an awesome pic @agroalba.bsky.social did for me for my birthday! Just hangin' out, enjoying the scenery as birds do~

I saw they're releasing the Top Gun movies back into theaters. It's propaganda obviously. The Iran war is enormously unpopular, especially with younger people. But it did get me wondering if these movies even still have the propaganda power they once did. Does gen alpha think Tom Cruise is cool?

How did you celebrate Earth day today? I hope you did it by giving a hoot! 🎨: @pulsarbird.bsky.social

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Throw back to that one time I signed up for the breeding program.... -- 🖼️: @pulsarbird.bsky.social

When you're in the zone and your vision narrows to a tunnel, it may be tempting to let go and turn into a cheetah. But that's an instant disqualification, so don't do it. - Art is by @cicakkia.bsky.social, go check them out! - #TFTuesday #transformation #transfur #cheetah #werecheetah

I always feel kind of creepy when a friend posts a pic and I'm the first one to favorite it. xD I swear I'm not just hanging out on social media all day. Just coincidentally checking my feed at the exact moment they post something hot