@junklight@mastodon.art I want to imagine this wasn't a traffic incident but next-level cow-tipping.
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I made the webcomic Black Dram! When I'm not working on comics, I'm probably making pixelarty games.
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@eishiya@mastodon.art
@mastafran@mastodon.art To expand on that first part: I think a big part of it is that people don't learn to write letters any more, so their only model for online conversations are IRL conversations. It would be weird to launch into your whole thing into someone's ear IRL before being acknowledged, so they don't do it in text. They don't learn that there's a different etiquette for asynchronous communication, and don't spend enough time thinking about it to realise this on their own.
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@mastafran@mastodon.art
@mastafran@mastodon.art When it's not a scam, I think it's because they want attention/acknowledgement before putting the effort in. It used to be that until there was a completed greeting, one didn't get into the meat of the conversation, but now we're in an awkward transitional phase where people want to add some content beyond a greeting but still don't feel good going all in until there's been acknowledgement.
Ironically, I think AI might "help" finish that transition by devaluing writing (and reading).
Just noticed Krita fixed the bug where zoomLevel and setZoomLevel in scripting worked in different units \o/
(Naturally, this made my existing script misbehave and confused me until I realised why, but it was an easy fix, just needed to remove the workaround I had in there for this issue.)
Sat down to thumbnail comics yesterday. Ended up commenting on Krita bug reports.
Sat down to thumbnail comics today. Ended up writing a Krita bug report.
Hopefully soon I'll stop finding *new* bugs and can focus on doing my work (while working around the bugs).
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@aethernaut@mastodon.art
@aethernaut@mastodon.art This sounds like a great computer game.
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@eishiya@mastodon.art
@ArtBrew@mastodon.art Another factor: landowners are cheapskates. Some doors open to the left, some to the right, and it's quicker to install a lock "upside down" than to rotate the cam (which opens the latch/bolt) so it both matches the door orientation and has the teeth/pins above. Maybe in the past, locksmiths were paid enough to care about these details xP
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@eishiya@mastodon.art
@ArtBrew@mastodon.art AFAIK teeth/pins above keeps grime from accumulating in the mechanism because it falls out, but in practice it rarely makes a difference, especially with rentals where they end up getting swapped out anyway.
I don't know of any advantage to teeth/pins below other than perhaps consistency with lever locks (where keys are usually inserted teeth-below for reasons too long to fit in this post), which were also common in the UK and Europe for a long time.
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@ArtBrew@mastodon.art
@ArtBrew@mastodon.art That kind of variation has been around for about as long as locks. Symmetrical keys have also been a thing for decades, though not so much in residential door locks.
Different types of lock cylinder are usually mounted a certain way, I don't know why. I do think Euro profile cylinders are getting more common, and they're often mounted pins/teeth-down, and rentals like them because they're easier to rekey between tenants.
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@FinalGirl@blackqueer.life
@FinalGirl Please pardon my ignorance as I'm not a leg-shaver, why are leg razors special? Does it need to be sharper because the hair is bendier?
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@farah@beige.party
@farah How new are we talking? I recall seeing it 10+ years ago in a discussion lamenting the loss of competence porn as a TV/movie metagenre in favour of hapless protagonists and an overall growing distrust in scientists and scholars. From some of the other replies here, it seems like it's coming back as a thing in media, I'm glad :D
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@Nefex@ruhr.social
@Nefex@ruhr.social @jeypawlik@mastodon.art Ironically, I switched to drawing comics digitally because it was cheaper than buying the paper and ink I liked. (Not having to scan/photograph is a nice time-saver too.)
But cheaper materials are just fine too - they just mean you can't get certain looks as easily and might need to spend more time on things like line weight.
But I do feel like they're somewhat "exotic" now in that people don't really have blank paper lying around now that most school/work stuff is digital.
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@junklight@mastodon.art
@junklight Aye xP
Also, for the target audience, the original films may as well not exist. They're older than they are! They were for their parents, not for them. Something new feels like it was made for them specifically, even if it's nigh identical to the original.
Less cynically, a new film coming out means they get to experience it at about the same time, which gives it more cultural relevance than something they may have all seen but at different times in different contexts.
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@junklight@mastodon.art
@junklight Yeah, this sounds about right. If the original actors don't want anything to do with JKR/HP, then they're not going to participate in marketing/merching/etc. Remaking it with more amenable actors gives them a chance to do more merch, licencing deals, events, etc.
It's hardly ever about the merit of the film with this shit, the film is just a trailer for all the other crud (though there being a new film also means award eligibility, etc, which is additional marketing for the mech).
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@eishiya@mastodon.art
@Miredly And then of course when people in an area end up with cars because they have no other choice if they want to be able to get to work and the grocery store, that gets used as an excuse not to finish/expand/improve/keep the transit system =_=
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@Miredly@raru.re
@Miredly Yeah, I feel like even in places in the US that have something resembling public transit, the schedules and stations are often so sparse that they're not useful for most activities ;~;
I was once fortunate to live near a place in the US with trains every 15 minutes, but I still had to drive to get to the train station (and pay for parking) because the only public transit within walking distance of where I lived was a twice-a-day bus, the nearest station a 40-minute walk away.
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@pheonix@hachyderm.io
@pheonix Something else I hadn't considered that helps explain why these apps get made, perhaps even initially in good faith, is that many mobile users are reluctant to use web browsers. Their app store is the first place they look, rather than a web search engine. A publisher that doesn't want to miss those readers will therefore want to show up in the app store.
And then the "benefits" of a more publisher-controlled experience would make them want to direct their web users to the app too.
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@pheonix@hachyderm.io
@pheonix Re: the obsession with publisher-specific apps: apps can grab way more data than web browsers will let publishers have, and because it's a lot harder to get around adverts and paywalls in an app.
It also creates a soft lock-in of sorts, someone who's installed a news app will probably use that instead of going to other publishers, and they're less likely to forget about this specific publisher.
Higher retention and higher CTR due to less blocking are appealing to suits xP
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@VictimOfSimony@infosec.exchange
@VictimOfSimony A lot of the most problematic weight isn't graphics, it's scripts and data being shunted between you, the website you want to read, and a load of 3rd parties.
Websites already *do* usually use vectors and CSS for most things where those are practical. Those elements are a tiny portion of the weight compared to scripts (and their dynamic data movement) and photographic images/video.
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@Ypsilenna@sunny.garden
@Ypsilenna@sunny.garden Why would this be an alternative version and not just the canon D:
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@Ypsilenna@sunny.garden
@Ypsilenna@sunny.garden That sounds miserable. Are there not preferences for the notifications you get?
(Though if over half the notifications were adverts, which I doubt they'd let you opt out of, I doubt opting out of the other crud would really help.)
And yeah, dumping and running is assholish, and probably won't help you enjoy the site more.
Tapas was never great, but I have heard (some years ago) that it was at least less miserable than Line Webtoons. Don't even want to imagine what the latter's like.
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@Ypsilenna@sunny.garden
@Ypsilenna@sunny.garden Holy fuck. This makes me glad I never bothered with Tapas, I don't think I'd have been able to cope.
Edit: Nearly 100 adverts, and 76 apparently non-adverts that aren't useful? What even are those notifications then? New pages on comics you follow, or something else?
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@eishiya@mastodon.art
@Krita This is all on 6.0.0-beta1, Windows 10.
I've got more whinging I could do, but I figure this isn't the appropriate venue xP
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@eishiya@mastodon.art
@Krita I can't figure out how to use text style presets 🙃 Clicking a preset doesn't change the current text, and doesn't affect any newly created texts, so I have no idea what I'm meant to do. I can't find a way to edit the preset either. I've only really used brush presets so far though, could be missing the obvious.
After adding a tag to my preset and filtering by that tag, it shows up as... whatever this is. An empty entry with with an empty tooltip? Shows up correctly under "All" though.
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@Krita@mastodon.art
@Krita I finally had a chance to play with it and it's much improved and my funky dlig-abusing fonts work \o/, but I ran into a lot of annoyances with the Text Properties panel. For example:
- Do I really have to type out the entire font name every time I want to change the font?
- Scrolling through risks changing properties because values change if you hover over them while scrolling, without requiring focus...
Also, bug: when changing the text align, the selection isn't updated.
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@brittcoxon@mastodon.art
@brittcoxon@mastodon.art I got my directions wrong and voted for clockwise/right-handed when I meant anticlockwise, whoops.
I can also write with my left hand, and that is also anticlockwise.
I don't start at the top, but around 10 o'clock right-handed going down and 2 o'clock left-handed going up.
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@poisonous@mastodon.art
@poisonous@mastodon.art I can't open the images in the link so I don't have the full context, but how does one steal a prompt in the first place? My impression was that prompts were jealously guarded secrets. Are they sharing prompts like they share the output? If so, to what end if not to help others learn?
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@sfml@fosstodon.org
@sfml@fosstodon.org Oh, the particles are fine! Especially since they're instances of a small number of emitters, which reduces the CPU load of calculating their motion.
It's animated *tiles* that are a problem, if I animate too many tiles in the map. My tilemaps are also vertex arrays, but I guess all those texture coordinate changes get heavy if I'm modifying four or six vertices per tile per frame, for dozens or even hundreds of tiles at once. I update animations on vertex arrays I don't draw, too.
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@sfml@fosstodon.org
@sfml@fosstodon.org Thanks!
The performance is spotty when I use too many animated tiles, but I'm pretty sure that's just because I'm not using vertex arrays correctly and not because of any problem in SFML :'D
@sfml@fosstodon.org Just the obligatory pixel art game with falling leaf particles.
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@bimshwel@mastodon.art
@bimshwel@mastodon.art I wouldn't worry about that. Different clients display and crop the image in different ways, so not everyone even sees a "hide" button, or even the entire text. It's never going to look perfect to everyone in the thumbnail, you have to assume that if any part of it catches someone's eye, they'll click to view the full version.
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@JoTheBuzzyard@mastodon.art
@JoTheBuzzyard@mastodon.art Most games don't bother with keeping handedness consistent if it's not a game mechanic. Usually, the main reason games do have separate sprites for all directions is to accommodate (important) asymmetric character designs.
Something else I've seen is (flipped) 8-directional movement but only (flipped) 4-directional (diagonal-only) attacks, since when the character isn't moving, it may not be noticeable if their facing direction doesn't quite match their sprite.