If you’re dumb enough to subscribe to HBO Max this weekend, then you’re a big enough schmuck to watch Gen:LOCK Season Two!
Bad scripts! Sex scenes that make no sense! BROODINESS!
If you think you’re going to find a decent plot in Season Two, you can kiss my ass!
It’s our belief that you’re such a stupid fanboy that you’ll eat this shit up!
GUARANTEED!!
If you find a better show, shove it up your ugly ass! You heard us right: SHOVE IT UP YOUR UGLY ASS!
Bring your samurai! Bring your rebound guy! Bring your bunny girl!
WE’LL FUCK HER!
That’s right, we’ll fuck your bunny girl! Because here at Gen:LOCK Season Two, you’re fucked six ways to Ascension!
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being anti ai is making me feel like in going insane. “you asked for thoughts about your characters backstory and i put it into chat gpt for ideas”. studies have proven its making people dumber. “i asked ai to generate this meal plan”. its causing water shortages where its data centers are built. “ill generate some pictures for the dnd campaign”. its spreading misinformation. “meta, generate an image of this guy doing something stupid”. its trained off stolen images, writing, video, audio. “i was talking with my snapchat ai-” theres no way to verify what its doing with the information it collects. “youtube is impletmenting ai based age verification”. my work has an entire graphics media department and has still put ai generated motivational posters up everywhere. ai playlists. ai facial verification. google ai microsoft ai meta ai snapchat ai. everyone treats it as a novelty. every treats it as a mandatory part of life. am i the only one who sees it? am i paranoid? am i going insane? jesus fucking christ. if i have to hear one more “well at least-” “but it does-” “but you can-” im about to lose it. i shouldnt have to jump through hoops to avoid the evil machine. have you no principles? no goddamn spine? am i the weird one here?
smoking that shit that makes you cry about the horrors of car-centric infrastructure
hey yeah i get it but youre harshing the vibe rn nobody wants to hear about the irreversible damage that cars have done to North America and the whole world by proxy
showing your girl pictures of nasty ugly parking garages at the function
i misspelled hindrance real bad, guys
this is not a joke or exaggeration but a cry for help btw I’ve been watching 3 hour youtube videos about concrete like I’m somebody’s autistic dad
pov i turn to you in between sets
yeah no sorry I can’t go out tonight I have to read the rest of the 2023 Ford corporate sustainability report no not for a class I’m just nosey
no babe I thought it was hot that you got into and won a debate with my dad about the viability of high speed rail in north america
listen I’m sorry that your dad went home, researched highspeed rail, and started the argument with you again when I wasn’t there umm no I’m not going to apologize no I actually umm yeah I’ve been brushing up on my talking points sorry but bob doesn’t stand a fucking chance he can meet me in the market place of ideas
being a self-taught artist with no formal training is having done art seriously since you were a young teenager
and only finding out that you’re supposed to do warm up sketches every time you’re about to work on serious art when you’re fuckin twenty-five
someone: oh yeah, do this exercise during your warm ups! it’ll help
me: my what
What’s up I have an actual college degree in art and I was never ONCE taught to do warm ups.
when i was in undergrad, it was kind of mentioned in and offhand way that we should do warmups, but we were never shown what that meant. And, y’know, we were young so it didn’t matter so much.
Being older now and having an art job it’s…kind of essential.
So: a quick primer for those of you who are like ‘ok but how do i actually go about doing this warmup thing.’
1) you may be tempted to do ‘a warmup drawing’ which is just a drawing that will take longer than it needed to and probably be frustrating and kind of bad because you didn’t warm up first. It’s tempting but always a trick your brain is playing on you! Do not trust!
2) warmups will vary based on what feels good to you/what task you’re about to do/what motor skills you want to practice. That being said, some good standbys:
a) circles. Just a whole page of circles on whatever drawing surface you’re going to be using, whether that’s your tablet or your sketchbook or a drawing pad on an easel. For these circles you should make sure that you’re drawing from your shoulder and not your wrist. In fact, you want to be drawing from your shoulder rather than your wrist most of the time! forever! your wrist is delicate please preserve it!
In order to ensure that you’re drawing from your shoulder, when you’re holding your pencil or whatever drawing tool you’re using, the only part of your hand that should be touching the drawing surface is part of the last two fingers–some people prefer the finger tips, but I tend to favor the first knuckles. Either way, the fingers should really be ghosting over the surface, providing guidance rather than support.
I usually start with big circles and then go to smaller circles and lines of ellipses, and then try to fit circles and ellipses inside other shapes i’ve already drawn as a precision exercise, but i don’t do that unless i’m feeling loose
b) spirals! i don’t always do spirals, but if i’m stiff and the circles just aren’t cutting it, spirals are a good fall back. I start from the center and work outward, going both clockwise and counterclockwise until i feel comfortable with the whole range of motion. Some people really care about getting perfect spirals but for me it’s all about making sure i’m comfortable with how i’m moving so who really even cares about how the spirals look. Not me!
c) lines! straight lines! in parallel! i do a mix of vertical, horizontal, and diagonal. These are often more from the elbow than the shoulder, especially if I’m working on a smaller surface. For this exercise, I recommend holding the drawing tool perpendicular with the surface
d) connect the dots. This is a precision and accuracy exercise and takes two forms. The first is to draw two dots and then draw a straight line between them. The second is to draw three dots and draw the curve that connects them. This sounds a lot simpler than it is in practice. Take time to ghost over the line you plan to draw before actually committing to your line. (I don’t always remember where I picked up my warm up exercises, but I’m pretty sure I got this one from Scott Robertson. His how to draw and how to render books are very technical but also accessible and worth checking out)
e) cubes, spheres, cones, and cylinders. These help get your brain into a more volumetric space. I draw multiples of each, rotating the forms around, and I’ll often take the time to do some rough shading on at least a few of them
f) spidermans! This one is really good if you’re going to be storyboarding or working on dynamic poses. Just fill a page full of spidermans doing all sorts of acrobatics.
g) beans. I don’t do beans too much anymore, but I know a lot of people like it so I’m mentioning it here. Fill an area with different size bean shapes without lifting your pencil off the paper.
h) short medium and long line repetition. draw a short, medium, and long line on your page, and then draw directly on top of them 8 to 12 times, doing your best to exactly trace what you’ve already drawing. Repeat with a wavy line. I’m bad at this one, which means I probably need to do it more.
And there are lots more options too! Hit up youtube to see what other people recommend, put together your own go-to list, mix it up when you’re getting bored, etc.
This is a long list, I know, but I usually don’t take more than 10 to 15 minutes to warm up, and I can warm up one handed while I’m drinking coffee, so, multitasking hurrah.
Sometimes I’ll advance to a precision warmup and find that I haven’t loosened up enough yet; it’s totally ok to go back to an earlier exercise! Also, all of this has the added benefit of kind of ritualistically getting you into the drawing mode so even if I’m not feeling it before I start, by the time I’ve gotten to the end I’m usually Ready For Drawin’. Brain hacks.
so, yeah! that’s a lot of words, but! Warmups are important! Save your joints, take less advil, do better drawings!
How on earth are you supposed to draw from a sholder? might as well tell me to draw from the foot. It makes no sense
Visa and Mastercard may be getting a lot of calls about their adult content policies, but I just called in to PayPal and not only was there no wait, the customer service rep I got had never had one of these calls before (they were very nice about it.)
Don’t overlook the online processors - even more than Visa and Mastercard they are the ones pressuring online retailers. PayPal is the one that’s been pressuring Patreon over the last year or so.
I’ve had no luck reaching Stripe, all of the numbers people have dug up ring through as disconnected.
Let me know if anyone can find more up to date info for Stripe!
I called Stripe yesterday with this number:
(US) 877-887-7815
It goes direct to a voicemail box, and the message encourages you to reach out via email, but you’re able to leave a message and they may call you back, as that’s what happened to me.
They’re also getting a high call volume, so if your call doesn’t connect the first time, try again later.
People who love cold weather are fucking weird. You like to freeze? You like to shiver?? You like when you take a step outside and the air stings your skin???
I’ll say this:
You can layer up pretty much indefinitely to deal with the cold.
You can only layer down so much to deal with heat before you’re violating public indecency laws and/or flaying yourself.
This is a fan animation about Alastor made by me, it already have the permission from OR3O to use the song for it, hope you enjoy it! Thank you!
director & Animated by KUWACHA Composition & Music by OR3O
Vocals & sing by Caleb Hyles
gonna be a fucking loser here but WOW.
i won’t point out the obvious, we all know this is astonishing, but what wowed me the most is the absolute perfect characerisation that most interpreters tend to leave out/ignore.
the split scene where alastor walks past angel, the slight eye roll, his smile flickering, showing how unbothered he is by angel’s shenanigans, his true intentions having nothing to do with said resident.
another is when the overlords he’s overcome appear, we see bethesda von edlritch (the mother of charlie’s ex-bf, the wife of lucifer’s old close friend). idk but that was so cool i love when people know the little lore.
I wanted this but the original poster is transphobic
This is called the “analog loophole” and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop it. They can encrypt and copy-protect all they want, but eventually the file has to be sent to a speaker and/or screen, and it has to get there in a human-readable form because that’s the whole dang point
The simplest way to exploit the analog loophole is just pointing a camera at a screen or a microphone at a speaker, but direct recording is also always possible and always will be. Anything that can be displayed can be saved and displayed again
Back in the day, people also used to share software over the radio with this technology. Because computer programs and files are really just sets of binary code, and that code can be turned into audio tones.
The resulting audio file can be played over the radio (sounding a bit like the old dial up noise, as it’s just two quickly oscillating notes) and recorded to a cassette tape, which you can then give to your computer to “decode” back into 0’s and 1’s, which gives you the program file. You can then run it as if you’d installed it from a disk.
