I think the biggest damage to the art community was the obsolescence of gallery sites (y!, deviantart, etc) and the rise of scroll-by social media, like twitter and even tumblr. Art is not ''content'', you shouldnt need to post art every day (or every month!) to be relevant. This mindset sucks.

When fiction presents a nuanced world and deals fairly and respectfully even with its antagonists; while the real world is teeming with comical cackling villains. What a world.

🤔 If it's not a close-up scene where individual drops matter, I think it'd make more sense to have larger quads representing clusters of drops all at once. Enough for differentiation between different areas (less rain under a tree) with an order of magnitude fewer particles to deal with.

[Corporation makes thing] Corporation: People want this! People: No we don't. [Artist makes thing] Artist: Nobody wants this. People: Yes we do!

To Slay the Great Regurgitator

This is why you do not allow Republicans to win elections. "But Democrats—" Opinion disregarded. Democrats don't do this. Republicans do. Get your priorities straight before you hurt more people than you already have.

Right. Want to prove your centrist bonafides? Hate the libs. Want to prove your leftist bonafides? Hate the libs. Want to prove your conservative bonafides? Hate the libs. There's no social media culture that thinks it's good to support mainstream Dem politics because no one thinks moms are cool

Dreams as lost media.

Also this year: Quake (30) And next year: Final Fantasy (40)

My favourite post-game credits sequence is Zelda: Link to the Past. It's super lovely to check in on all the weirdos you met along the way.

I know enough of the NES's inner workings that I can understand all the technical stuff here. In fact this might be a useful reference sheet for screen addresses (top/left labels) and sprite positions (bottom/right labels). Guessing the big + marks are references for TV overscan?

i just want to claim the dark, evil power planted inside of me by the villain and tame it for the sake of good, manifesting it as a new costume and set of abilities

Yep: AI-generated stuff is only as good as the prompt that produced it. I think this is why AI people jealously defend their Prompts as magical things: because anyone else with the same prompt could produce the same result: then what do we need you for?

In the 1980s, CGI was prestigious; with human actors imitating the look, and films like Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park taking care to use it well. Now it's the cheap option, treated as cheap, and CGI tries to avoid looking like CGI. AI is on the same path. The most expensive cheap option ever.

Reminder: under no circumstance should you give discord your ID. It is gonna -suck- trying to set up alternatives, and this whole fiasco is going to damage communities, but you CANNOT give them your info

This is saying that programming (by contrast to art) has no human value and is not a medium of expression. Deciding something is worth having a good program for is an act of expression. Making a program robust against lag/etc is the programmer's way to tell the user: I'm with you, hang in there.

Can I join? #gamedev

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust is full of amazing imagery.

"I want games that aren't artifically inflated for length, with designs that resonate and are built on solid foundations rather than just impressing investors, made by people who don't have to sacrifice quality or creativity for money/survival." lol who would want that amirite

The Cascadian team defeating one called the Patriots. An omen, but a good one. I like it. I think that's the… third? time a PNW team has won the championship in one of the big three sports. (Trailblazers in 1977, Seahawks 12 years ago, and tonight.) Not as many as I'd like, but getting better!

Randomly reminds me. In posing my sprites (which are 8-angle like this), I noticed the diagonal angles tend to look too similar to the side angles: so I started turning the diagonals closer to front/back to compensate. Guessing the optimum is 30° instead of 45°: sin(30°)=0.5, sin(45°)=0.707

And that is what grieves me the most.

All she wants is an outlet for her talents.

If I tell you — as directly and clearly as it is physically possible to — what the objectively correct answer is, and why it's correct, and you mark the other answer: can you honestly say the problem is I "should've been better at convincing" you? Would resorting to force improve the situation?

fight like it's yaoi night at the lesbian bar

ooop time to get my new favorite sign

It's been too long since I've shared one of my photos, so here's one from once when we went wonder-hunting this time of year. In the times we're living in, it's so important to me to remind you that the world is still bursting at the seams with beauty.

If having trouble with a body pose, try erasing out to the silhouette then redrawing the interior from the opposite viewpoint. Using AO-style shading upped my sprite drawing game considerably. Things cast shadows outward against nearby things. Smudge tool with bristle brush for things like hair.

When you actually understand Christianity. 💁🏻‍♀️

Discord finally implemented an '@time' command to post a timestamp that dynamically changes depending on the timezone of the reader, showing in your local time. I have been begging for this for *years*. This is such an invaluable tool for organizing events across timezones. Finally a W for Discord.

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

Nice set of Heretic-like textures, already 64×128 or 64×64. 💁🏻‍♀️ (Though I find they don't convert very well to the Heretic or Hexen palettes — but they're truecolor sources so one could adjust contrast/hue first if need be.)

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

I’ve known so many people who go through life like there’s one set of standards for everyone else, and another, much harsher set of standards for them and only them. Give yourself a break. Believe in yourself the way you would believe in a friend.

STOP ORDERING FANCY COFFEE DRINKS -If there is SLIGHTLY more milk it has a DIFFERENT NAME -Your STOMACH cannot see the SILLY MILK DRAWINGS -Want milk in your coffee? We had a tool for that: it was called POUR SOME IN They have played us for absolute fools

Once again im asking all of you who still use twitter: why? Why are you all still using that platform? I don't get it. There's nothing there that justifies being there with this bulletin.

rover from quake brutalist jam 3 i want to draw more but this style where i try to make the lines neat feels really slow

Meanwhile, both of these have been posted to the in-game mod browser in Heretic+Hexen, which was the last major goal of the project, and really the only reason I got H+H. (It only took this long because it took some doing.) This feeling of actually completing a project. I could get used to it.

Seeing a bunch of streamers report that their Twitch accounts were compromised and that their payout methods were changed. (That's despite having 2FA on.) Linking a bunch of posts in the replies, but keep an eye on this!

Bluesky/deckblue "be consistent about whether self-replies show up on your main timeline or not" challenge (difficult). 🥴

For that matter, what if Heretic was a girl? 💁🏻‍♀️ (Or left-handed?) Although separate from my female Hexen project, they're of course related and part of a single overarching mission encompassing both: and now both are complete! www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/...

Porn and erotica are important and societally valuable forms of speech, and the defense of them, in the face of state and church attempts at repression, is a necessary political act.

“I am an AI hater” amazingly written anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

not just in art, either, there are guys who would go around obsessively fixing every clogged pipe in a 10-mile radius if they had the free time and social infrastructure to do so