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  1. Always pleasantly surprised to see this place still kicking

    Monday, 24-Oct-22 01:08:08 UTC from web
  2. Working on a paid project over the next few weeks. I will post... MY contributions here when I'm allowed. I WILL NOT post the project itself or even give the name because Gherkin will nuke my account.

    Friday, 21-Oct-22 01:44:47 UTC from web
  3. your local console pleb bought yet another console. praise me http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/876261

    Sunday, 09-Oct-22 15:15:07 UTC from web
  4. >Ukranian ambassador to the USA tells Elon Musk to papaya off
    >Ol' Musky says he'll cease giving Ukraine access to Starlink for free as a result
    >He doesn't actually go through with it the next day
    I am very disappointed, I thought he had a better sense of humor

    Monday, 17-Oct-22 02:06:57 UTC from web
  5. going on two and a half months without seeing my stalker, just kinda waiting for her to show up

    Friday, 14-Oct-22 03:52:38 UTC from web
  6. me: I think kanye west is misunderstood, he's mentally ill and he needs some help, and he's right about some things sometimes.
    kanye literally the next day: i'm going to go joker mode on some Jews

    Tuesday, 11-Oct-22 02:02:44 UTC from web
  7. Theoretically the work rules and environment at highschools nowadays is downright nightmarish, but since in practice what you can and can't do comes down to how you frame it and how good you are at talking your way through the hierarchy, it's not stressful at all for me and so long as I get results the administration doesn't get in the way.
    I do often see other teachers that aren't good at the workplace politics losing hair and sleep over it though.

    Monday, 10-Oct-22 19:11:36 UTC from web
    • @nerthos Ha, "other teachers" / "the District" has been one of the biggest stumbling blocks in my deciding to actually goto school and get teacher-certified up, I do not politick worth a crap

      Monday, 10-Oct-22 19:51:35 UTC in context
    • @scribus For me "other teachers" hasn't been too big a hurdle, because even though some are antagonistic (particularly the ideologues) they also tend to be massive cowards, so my usual strategy of just talking with full honesty to whoever's in charge is not something they know how to deal with.
      The district and the ministry are another issue altogether, they seem to be on some sort of one-sided competition to prove the limits of insanity and incompetence when it comes to regulations and counterproductive ideas can yet be pushed further. The latest great ideas they had was a proposal to remove the attendance requirements so that students can't fail a class by not attending; and to demand tech schools be more lax with dress code (the dress code for tech school is just no hats, no piercings or jewelry in the workshop, pants without holes and knee-length blue or white overall/duster, all of which are basic safety requirements in a workshop)

      Monday, 10-Oct-22 21:03:43 UTC in context
  8. 11 years so far, who's still alive?

    Thursday, 06-Oct-22 18:34:15 UTC from web
  9. The legal-in-my-state substances I took hit me way harder than I thought they would last night. Maybe shouldn’t do that again.

    Monday, 26-Sep-22 14:15:59 UTC from web
  10. Sometimes I wonder if I am insane or the world is insane.

    Sunday, 25-Sep-22 19:55:12 UTC from web
  11. Ooof... Robert Zemeckis can't do it right somehow. The Live-action Pinocchio is borderline bad.

    Monday, 12-Sep-22 16:12:34 UTC from web
  12. I am going to find it easier and faster to export 360 individual PNG files than figuring out OpenToonz

    Tuesday, 30-Aug-22 04:54:56 UTC from web
  13. Just got off the phone with a very angry customer. I am at home. Beyond furious.

    Tuesday, 30-Aug-22 01:28:14 UTC from web
  14. Thought about starting a Sims channel but instead of doing what everyone else does just gradually going down a weird avant-garde surreal psychological horror route.

    Monday, 29-Aug-22 01:37:10 UTC from web
  15. What the hell this place still exists? Hi I'm a girl now and I'm in Seattle for a pony convention

    Saturday, 27-Aug-22 22:57:07 UTC from web
  16. I’m one of two white guys on the entire planet who wears Kangols and the other one is Eminem which probably doesn’t help my case much

    Saturday, 27-Aug-22 12:47:06 UTC from web
  17. Wow I got mail from VP Harris! Wonder which letter it's in response to (and how inflammatory I was)?

    Friday, 19-Aug-22 19:22:41 UTC from web
  18. Although tbf the whole reason I need the discount is because I’m teaching myself Storyboard Pro ($65 without the student discount; $7 with it) so I can go for a job opportunity in the United Kingdom, so, you know, this student discount might be what makes it harder to get the student discount.

    Saturday, 20-Aug-22 17:32:56 UTC from web
  19. Re-upped all of my animation programs with an old email account I had from community college that I never lost access to, therefore qualifying for the much cheaper student pricing. Don’t be a snitch, ‘kay?

    Saturday, 20-Aug-22 06:10:41 UTC from web
    • @zeldatra My old school and university were very quick disabling my accounts. I had a month to backup everything. In that time I could snatch the last time a student discount on the Amazon Prime membership. For all the other stuff (except for cinema) the student discounts were for products that are too expensive to begin with, even with a meager discount of 5% to 10% like laptops. The only discount that I abused was getting Windows licenses for 10€ over the MSDN program my university was part of. I got licenses for the family and a hand full for me.

      Saturday, 20-Aug-22 09:19:29 UTC in context
    • @adiwan my state’s community college system oversees all forms of adult education so once you’re enrolled you’re never “unenrolled” in the sense that you’ll always be a student because they offer courses that don’t contribute to a degree, and you need the student email to enroll for it, therefore, for as long as I live in this state, I am a student and don’t have to pay $70 a month for ToonBoom

      Saturday, 20-Aug-22 17:30:10 UTC in context
  20. Next clone was struck by lightning almost immediately upon arriving home. Didn’t die, but they definitely have some kind of hidden “unlucky” flag or something that’s causing this.

    Friday, 19-Aug-22 13:14:59 UTC from web
    • @zeldatra I made a spellcaster Zelda Hylia for laughs (and because I'd been obsessing with HW:AOC again) and she evidently really likes the clone spell. Now there's an Iliana and a Ciera and like 2 or 3 others walking around town, with wildly different behaviors. I first found out when I thought I had caught the princess skinny-dipping in the hot tub and saw that she had changed her name :p

      Friday, 19-Aug-22 19:48:23 UTC in context
    • @scribus there are three different clones of my main sim wandering around town right now (not counting the dead one, RIP Francis) because it’s a shockingly common work goal at the top level of the scientist career and I am slightly concerned that the neighborhood will be overrun as caring for all of them is a chore and I’ve basically been moving them into the family bin one by one and marking them as “unplayed” so that their AI will try and ingratiate them into the neighborhood storytelling feature.

      Friday, 19-Aug-22 20:34:52 UTC in context
  21. Today in The Sims 4: Cloned myself. Twice. First clone was evil (ie a bit of a prick) so I abandoned him on the street. Second clone was a perfect copy, but he died in a freak accident literal hours after being created. I think I shouldn’t clone myself anymore.

    Thursday, 18-Aug-22 07:42:53 UTC from web
  22. oh please oh please oh please don’t let this jury summons be the Chris Chan trial

    Tuesday, 16-Aug-22 00:32:54 UTC from web
  23. this is taking a very long time

    Sunday, 14-Aug-22 04:30:41 UTC from web
  24. I am so Potato Knishesing glad Trump supporters are so goddamn dumb. Guy attacks an FBI field office in Ohio, and his grand master plan to get through the bullet proof glass is to use… a nail gun. I mean hey, it says “bullet proof”, not “nail proof”.

    Friday, 12-Aug-22 15:42:46 UTC from web
  25. I am a very punctual moderator

    Friday, 12-Aug-22 08:51:38 UTC from web
  26. The best play is to have neither a real nor a fake girlfriend. More money for comics and action figures!

    Thursday, 11-Aug-22 19:02:10 UTC from web
  27. I download things multiple times by accident because I forget I had it in the Downloads folder or I had a copy in the more appropriate folder, which I also forget I had.

    Wednesday, 10-Aug-22 08:56:28 UTC from web
  28. Federal officials are reporting that over 300 pirated copies of the Disney-Pixar film Cars 2 were found on President Trump’s personal computer. The password was “EricDonIvanka123”.

    Tuesday, 09-Aug-22 18:25:12 UTC from web
  29. Nixon’s had worse days, I’m sure.

    Tuesday, 09-Aug-22 13:08:19 UTC from web
  30. All those MTV cartoons in the late 90s/early 2000s had the right idea, animating with thick outlines is way easier than thin ones. Daria should be the gold standard.

    Wednesday, 03-Aug-22 15:19:39 UTC from web
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    • @scribus I’m sure it’s eyeroll-inducing when I talk about how I think The Simpsons looked better before the switch to HD but this is basically exactly why. The new studio is better about it than Film Roman was but the crispness of the art drew a lot of attention to the crudeness of the character designs and made the whole product look a lot worse. The brighter colors are headache inducing. The improved readability of small movements means characters aren’t moving much at all. And now that things are going into 4K that’s all probably gonna get a lot worse. There are gonna be a thousand individually animated objects in a single frame just to prove it can be done. It’s gonna be visual overstimulation like you wouldn’t believe.

      Thursday, 04-Aug-22 06:24:06 UTC in context
    • @zeldatra Overstimulation... That's what I sometimes feel watching anime. Some try to fill a frame with so much detail and end up distracting at best and unreadable at worst.

      Thursday, 04-Aug-22 13:33:37 UTC in context
    • @adiwan Kind of how I felt with Bless the Harts. It's like amateur movies, where they used cheap cameras and full-focus lenses, and everything is clear but nothing clearly stands out. Sort of a soap opera effect.

      Thursday, 04-Aug-22 18:48:31 UTC in context