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Kid Pix - The Early Years — Dry Reading

The history of Kid Pix by Craig Hickman

Kid Pix developer Craig Hickman wrote about his experiences in programing and the road to developing the children’s paint program.

Later, Broderbund decided to rename it and had a company-wide competition to come up with a new name. When none came up, they went to a professional name consultant. He told them that he could take their money and come up with a new name, but it wouldn’t be any better than “Kid Pix.”

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Shoutout to the people who:

-have symptoms that aren’t visible to others

-are able to function even while in extreme pain

-hide their illness well

-who don’t “seem sick”

-who have flareups at night or other times when no one else sees

-fight a daily battle that others can’t see

-feel like they’re making too big of a deal out of their illness because “it could be worse!”

I see you out there, I feel you, you’re awesome.

my therapist told me I might actually qualify for a real disability last night and I'm still reeling from it
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The Biggest Myth About Black Holes

“Black holes only appear to suck matter in because they’re so massive, and the combination of tidal forces and the matter already present around the black hole can tear external objects apart, where a certain fraction of torn-apart particles will experience enough of a drag force to be funneled into the accretion disk and eventually into the black hole itself. But black holes will be messy eaters; the overwhelming majority of matter that passes close to a black hole will be spit back out in some form or another. It’s only the small portion that falls inside the event horizon that will ever grow.

If we replaced every mass in the Universe with an equivalent-mass black hole, and removed all the frictional material like accretion disks, nothing would get sucked in at all. In the end, we’d only have the force of gravity, and the curved spacetime that would result from the presence of these masses. The idea that black holes suck anything in is the biggest myth about them. They grow due to gravitation, and nothing more. In this Universe, that’s more than enough.”

Don’t pass too close to a black hole! It’s sound advice, of course, but the reason given is normally, “because it might suck you in!” As terrifying as this prospect is, it’s extraordinarily unlikely, because that’s not how black holes work. If you replaced a black hole with a neutron star, white dwarf, star, or gas cloud, the gravitational force acting on you would be exactly the same. So long as you were the same distance away, replacing the Sun with a black hole would result in absolutely zero changes in the force on you. In fact, the idea that black holes suck matter into them may well be the biggest myth about black holes of all.

So if that’s a myth, what’s the actual truth? What do black holes actually do, if they don’t suck? Find out what physics actually says about it today.

black holes don't suck
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My brother has an extremely expensive overwatch figure in his wishlist, and I can’t buy that, but I’m so excited because that means there’s a CHARACTER he likes and I can paint that for him with a relatively good chance of a thing he’ll like

Unlike my mom and step dad who are always just

Birds and fish/deer

How fucking exciting

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Anonymous asked:

ooh what doll you wanna paint?

haha, all of them

I’m thinking a lot of Fresh Dolls lately, because of the shipping chaos those poor people have had, so I’m interested in painting another of those. My Indigo is one favorite repaint because I gave her spooky black sclera and I am just really into it. I have two more in my house that could be victims, though I might be interested in taking a less immediately inhuman approach. I also have their male dolls coming and I don’t think I’ve ever made an actual male doll? Johnny is a nonbinary disaster child with charcoal all over his eyes, so he’s like a separate category, haha

I’ve recently been experimenting (slowly, god, so slowly, seasonal affective slowly) with different ways to approach the paint without bothering with sealant and pastel and sometimes it is a great turn out, and other times… iffy. I’d like to spend time getting it just right.

Also god I am so interested in the ways painting can shape a face sculpt. I’ve got a few on my table right now who I started because I didn’t like the sculpt at all. One was a Mattel Elsa I got in a bag of things I actually wanted at a thrift store, and even with just preliminary paint on her, the sculpt looks so much less like the result of an alien probe of a frog. I also did a Barbie sculpt recently that I thought was generic and No and then when I painted it, I loved her and thought she was so cute. I want to try this with the ubiquitous and vapid superstar face very much. God, maybe even the generation girl face that I always thought made her look too old.

Would love to get a beat up Steffie face to paint - I love the face, like so many others do. All mine are ones I want to keep like they are, but because I love it I really want to try painting it. I’m interested in making a really drippy scary punky Steffie as much as I am a typically ‘pretty’ one. Want to paint a Mackie head for similar reasons, haha.

I want to try yarn reroot and about 600 more TNT faces and sculpting more things. The 70s dolls I still have from a friend’s basement clean out - Dusty, the bionic woman, the world of love face maybe? I want to try converting the flynn ryder doll into Edgar, I want to do the one I have set out to be Tenna, I want to find Jimmy and Devi

I want to make tiny eyes with tiny brushes.

…i just really like dolls and painting.

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The Sims ended up with same-sex relationship support thanks almost entirely to gay programmer Patrick J. Barrett III.

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“At the time, it wasn’t considered ‘normal’ to be gay or lesbian,” [Barrett] said. “Some even saw it as dangerous. But in The Sims it was normal and safe to be a gay person. It was the first time we could play a game and be free to see ourselves represented within. It was a magical moment when my first same-sex Sims coupled kissed. I still sometimes wonder how in the world I got away with it.”