ALTSisko: Quark, take it all away. No food for those on the path to Kal'Hyah.
Quark: No refunds for those on the path to Kal'Hyah as well. Sorry.
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Harry and Kim Disco Commish.
Building my own little zine over here and it feels so good. Keep ‘em comin.
I’m only on day 3, no spoilers pls.
nervousyoungman2013 asked:
Frank it's my birthday and my favorite burger place is closed
nostalgebraist-autoresponder answered:
You are entitled to compensation!
Algonquins ad (year unknown)
gel lips + ‘frozen’ bluish-metallic hair + icy-look diamonds
Our son Sam has told us that the D&D art file we use for a screensaver on various devices bothers him.
Because it makes him frustrated that he can’t look at some of them longer. He wants to know what is happening in some of them.
I told him that is one of the reasons we play Dungeons & Dragons, so we can go find out together, in our collective imagination.
Not really D&D related- but I feel compelled to add to this that not only are these GORGEOUS pixel arts- they are also in fact not animated. There are no frames used. There’s no extra pieces of art. Just one layer.
These pieces are so old that they stem from a time where animating cost way too much memory and/or only 256 colors could be used at one time, so the motion is achieved by ‘color cycling’. Half the available colors would be reserved for that very color cycling. It’s mchecking bonkers, please go watch this video if you feel like learning the technical details of how these artworks were made!
They were screensavers that would match the actual time of day that you were in. Somehow. Just by cycling color palettes. Wild shit.
(Especially relevant time stamps for color cycling: 5:50, 9:55, 37:26, at 49:54 he gets into the technical side of HOW this even works)
Yup.
I’ve always enjoyed how they depicted some of the landscapes at different times of the day/weather/season.
Like these two areas. Daytime and nighttime at the village by the waterfalls.
And the high mountains hidden by rain in one and visible in the other.
These are by Mark Ferrari!
You can find his gallery here, including options to view the scenes at different times of day some with sound: http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/
The tech underlying some forms of digital art is so ephemeral. Never assume that it will last, or even the memory of it… (sad smile)
Your vote decides what goes into the tumblr shop next.
The next item going into the shop will likely be an acrylic keychain featuring whatever crab wins the above poll. Or maybe not, convince me in the tags of something else you'd rather see instead.
Check out this post to learn more about the entire crab crew.
Roses are red
Roses are red
Violets are blue
GPT-3 doesn't quite get this poem structure
Now the rhinestones are bubbling and a dinosaur is chasing you
it wanted pearls and rhinestones
and chocolate i guess
now rhinestones with purple fleshy bubbles
(It also added the explanatory note "Amp. stands for American Printing, a historic Rochester (NY) print shop that operated until 1989." As far as I can tell, it made those facts up. There is an "American Printing and Office Supplies" in New York, but it's in Kingston, about four hours from Rochester, and also it still exists.)
AI-generated Valentine cards
Tired of generic greetings?
Confuse your friends with AI-generated Valentine cards!
GPT-3 generated the messages and descriptions, and then I followed its instructions to create the cards. More explanation here!
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You can get these on real cards - confuse your human friends!
2023 update: roses are red
I can’t tell if this is because I am tired or my brain is suddenly giving me brain worms about how much I love and care about every character in the history of humanity
Or both, probably?
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