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Creative Projects / Re: Bay12 Photo Share! Let's share photos and cool things.
« on: March 29, 2016, 07:05:59 pm »
So essentially a mandozer. Hell, even if i were 3 meters tall, i wouldn't piss off our resident punch king. :v (even less so when i am merely 190cm and skinny enough that half my skeleton would be showing if i somehow lost my skin)

in other words this is my dominant arm held in a somewhat unusual manner

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Now it might not look so bad at first, but compare the thickness of the pen(cil) and you kind of get the idea. Also note, left arm is thinner due to a long period of inactivity. :v

also shown: literally the knightliest pencil sharpener ever

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Creative Projects / Re: Random Things you drew/shopped/made/etc.
« on: March 28, 2016, 06:47:52 pm »
Quote from: Dorsidwarf on March 28, 2016, 12:44:17 pm
On a different note, here's my WIP Black Knight

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Ooo, that's looking nice so far! Since it's shiny plate metal though, you can get away with much brighter highlights on it, not that depth is a concern right now. More shine for the shine gods just tends to make metal look nicer. :v

also i know i'm a bit late for this but

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

just imagine that the egg is in fancy easter wester colours

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you laugh today: 5221 laffs and counting
« on: March 27, 2016, 07:06:29 pm »
plpflfplfplfflpflpflpfflp

i don't know why but this amuses me to no end

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you mildly sad today thread: hot animals edition
« on: March 27, 2016, 05:57:18 pm »
Quote from: Grimlocke on March 26, 2016, 09:17:41 pm
Wouldn't worry too much about the language for games.

Me and my sister grew up on English commodore 64 games, had plenty of fun and I think we both learned the majority of our English from them (and later PC games).

A lot of these older games didn't even have a tutorial to begin with, and there's something to be said for letting them figure stuff out for themselves.

That said you will probably want to start with something lighter than Dwarf Fortress.
NONSENSE, if they start out with dorfing then no game will ever seem insurmountable again! But anyways, it's not so much that i'm worried about them figuring it out as it's me knowing that they prefer to have it served on a silver platter, and me not really caring to do so. Especially the younger kid prefers to ask other people to complete levels for him when it gets a bit challenging, which makes me think all like DUDE WHAT IS THE POINT OF THAT. It's not like games get EASIER after the first level, at least not well designed ones. Supposedly the older kid knows some English now though, which opens some doors, but again, they're not yet very capable gamers at all. That, and both their mom and grandma are waaaaaaaaaaaay concerned about them playing violent games (well, their mom seems to have eased up a little bit), so it'll probably be a while before i can tell them to go play XCOM 2 and/or reasonably play multiplayer with them in some other game without having to drag them along. :v

Not gonna lie though, it's actually kind of interesting to be able to watch them grow up from the sidelines (where i'm comfortably lacking the responsibilities of parenthood, and instead just have to be a cool cousin-uncle). I know it's the absolute most clichéd line of them all when it comes to children, but they really do grow up fast. :P

also dangit all the eating today has angered the evil fart genies in my butt

:C

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General Discussion / Re: [bunbunbun] UPRPR club hop and flop station (Happy thread)
« on: March 27, 2016, 01:47:50 pm »
pedagogue

Probably just as a temporary substitute/assistant worker in a kindergarten or something while i save up money though, i have absolutely no intentions of making that my path in life. :v

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General Discussion / Re: [bunbunbun] UPRPR club hop and flop station (Happy thread)
« on: March 27, 2016, 01:36:45 pm »
Quote from: Japa on March 27, 2016, 11:59:48 am
Enough with shitty wizards, I have found a masterpiece.
[shook stamp of approval]

i'm sorry you'll just have to imagine how it looks for now

Anyhoo, i have now eaten too much food, am constipated and utterly knackered, but i survived the EASTER LUNCHINGS. One thing i absolutely did not expect to hear is that i am apparently good with children. This is surprising to me because i don't like children. I suppose this means i could potentially get work as a pedagoguebro, but it's already hard enough for me to manage two relatively nice and bright kids. Hell, it's hard enough to handle a bunch of adults without eventually shutting down, how the hell should i be able to handle a horde of screaming children? Oh well, can't be too picky. :v

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you mildly sad today thread: hot animals edition
« on: March 26, 2016, 07:01:57 pm »
Quote from: Yoink on March 26, 2016, 02:12:10 am
Welcome to my life.
Been there for a while i'm afraid, can't say i enjoy it. :v

also dangit i have to be all social and host-like tomorrow because we're hosting the EASTER LUNCHINGSTM in our house

It's not that i dislike the guests (well, one of them has an annoying habit of reprimanding me for accidentally burping or farting audibly in my own house), i just prefer that the people count around me is at or below 6-8. But that's the least of my problems; what's more pressing is that i'll most likely be assigned to entertain the two kids that come with their parents. At least they've picked up a taste for gaming, but as it stands, 99% of the games i own are ineligible due to either parental demands (their mother AKA my cousin doesn't want them playing violent/war games, while their father... Tried to get them to play World of Tanks), a lack of skill/manual dexterity (... they're still children) or the fact that they don't understand English at all. Those three in unison cover A LOT of games. Of course, i can naively hope that the older brother is starting to learn English in school, since he's much better at explaining to his younger brother what the hell's going on.

And, just to apply some delicious extra salt, daylight savings activates tonight, so i'll have an hour of sleep shaved off of my already precariously balanced day/night rhythm. >:I

Post scriptum addendum: Apparently Rayman Legends has a danish translation. I must now recommend this game to their parents. :v

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: March 26, 2016, 08:36:56 am »
That sounds alarmingly depression-like. I hope it isn't. Too many people get afflicted by depression, including multiple friends/classmates, two childhood friends (who are siblings) with one of them trying and thankfully failing to kill himself (he's now in a psychiatric hospital), and waaaaaaaaaay too many good people on the internet. Good luck. :<

Quote from: Cinder on March 25, 2016, 09:22:52 pm
Hey, you two, I'm addressing you both since what I'm going to say would be pretty similar anyways, but you two are two of my idols. I guess I haven't said things much because I'm worried it'll be useless platitudes or whatever, and what I'm saying right now probably are platitudes, but it has to be said.

Vector, you're one of the most diligent, intelligent, and creative people I've known. I can't say that you're wrong to say that you're weak and useless, but I just have to point out that by that metric, so is everyone else in the world. And those metrics are just that, metrics. You can give yourself any unrealistic standard you want, just keep in mind that just by your courage to act despite your insecurity, and your self-criticism, you're already better than a lot of people. I'm not Tiruin, so I'm not going to say that there aren't any people who don't deserve to live, but you're not one of them.

Shook, I always want to say things about how your art inspire me, but I just personally feel faint praises are just as bad as silence. Literally everyone else already said your art is good, but just like Vector, you two are just beyond us when it comes to your standards, and that's not a bad thing. Famous artists are weird, creepy, crazy people with no shame, so don't worry about how others think of your art, because they're good and has so much potential. I'm kind of losing track of what I'm saying but basically you have both the talent and training to become a great artist. What you need now is courage. Which, in case I sound like I'm spouting platitudes again, I want to say I haven't succeeded in yet either. But the way is there and the way is clear.
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Thank you Cinder! I don't mind "useless" platitudes at all given how unstable my mood can be, but anyhoo, allow me to address a few things (disregarding the fact that i don't feel like i should be looked up to at all): I am, first of all, extremely grateful for all the support and kind words i've received, i'd probably have fizzled out long ago if not for that. Also, regarding standards, i guess there's some truth to that. It's not that i'm ashamed, i'm actually a fairly shameless guy (shame is just a tool employed by others to make you feel bad about yourself), but i am SCARED SHITLESS by the notion of being rejected and alienated for what i like. Considering everything, that's not an impossible event. I'm glad you think that i have the potential to be great; i'm not sure if i THINK so myself, but i sure HOPE so. There are SO MANY images in my minds eye that i want to draw (and in case you're wondering, yes, most of them are floating in a white void), but my confidence is generally too low to even try. Again, the Jonah complex strikes, so you're totally right in saying that i need courage. As with all other fears in my life, this one isn't going to just go away on its own. :I

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: March 25, 2016, 08:55:09 pm »
I have mixed enough feelings about last nights event that it warrants going in here. Basically, i was sleeping, but apparently not quite enough for sleep paralysis to set in. Then, i dreamt(?) that there was a dice bag on the wall in front of me, which seemed perfectly ordinary. Then, a BIG FUCKING SPIDER crawled out from underneath that bag (hint: i am afraid of spiders). I NOPE'd backwards so violently that i fell off the bed and on to the floor, with my duvet following closely, somehow miraculously missing the stool that's right next to my head when sleeping (acting as a small table).

After a brief bout of hyperventilating and recovering, it struck me that it was still pitch black in my room, and i couldn't see ANYTHING, so how could i have seen that spider? Shortly after, i also started wondering how exactly i was going to find my way back to bed, because, as mentioned, it was completely dark, i was disoriented, and both me and my duvet were on the floor. Thankfully, i could fumble my way to my phone and have it emit THE LIGHT OF CLARITY, which helped me affirm that A: there was no spider (or dice bag), and B: my duvet was surprisingly neatly spread on the floor. Many scary things have i dreamt, but this is the first time i've flat out launched myself off the side of the bed. :v

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you mildly sad today thread: hot animals edition
« on: March 25, 2016, 07:14:16 pm »
String beans? I guess they're okay, and they tend to squeak when chewed. :v

also apparently a large quatro quesos pizza is kind of hard on my bowels if the current discomfort is anything to go by

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: March 25, 2016, 12:18:49 pm »
hey

hey TBF

*brohug*

Shyness sucks, i know the feeling. :<

Quote from: karhell on March 25, 2016, 09:01:10 am
@Shook: Well as far as I understand things, art school is also invaluable to cartoonists, since you learn a whole bunch of other styles that can help you refine your own.
As for "The feeling of the fire on my dick caressing me in the midst of the trauma centre", take that as a challenge to expand your limits and draw something different.
It might not be a subject you particularly like, but who knows? You might gain some insight on how to draw better plate armour for your dinosaurs (or how to fire-proof it ;))

On a side note, I absolutely agree with you that insisting that art must be symbolic, and that "the slant on that tree there symbolises the grief that the artist felt at the loss of a friend" style declarations clearly indicate the cephalorectal condition of the speaker.
Art can be fun, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
Yeah, good points all round. I just kind of have a Jonah complex going on, which kind of gets in the way of a lot of things, and a shit-tier sense of self-worth that says that i'll probably never be good enough to get accepted into Fart SchoolTM. I still occasionally have dreams where i'm suddenly ultra fabulous at arting, so i think that i can safely say that it's a dream of mine, and i would absolutely love to be a magic-tier artist. Maybe that's what i should work towards after folk high school?

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: March 25, 2016, 08:40:02 am »
Quote from: TheBiggerFish on March 24, 2016, 09:56:21 pm
*applies bed to Shook*

I hate repetitive grind of homework too.

The point of doing it, though, is to drill the process in so far that you can do it from memory as opposed to needing any resources whatsoever.



As for not wanting people to tell you what to do...Tell yourself you're going to do studying, instead of thinking about it as 'someone gave me work'?  A bit of an off-the-wall-and-the-top-of-my-head suggestion, but it struck me as a potential solution.

Have you considered going into the arts?
I feel a lot better after sleeping, thanks. :v (even though i managed to launch myself off the side of the bed due to semi-dreaming about a huge spider on the wall right in front of me)

But the thing is, the more i repeat something, the less i want to do it again, even if it ends up becoming trivial. I've learned a lot, absolutely, but i just feel like the way we're supposed to learn in school is utterly soul crushing, and for that exact same reason, i think that having to grind in games is terrible design. Repeating a bunch of arbitrary tasks until it sticks will work eventually, sure, but it's also fantastically dull. They don't really do much in "here's a situation in which you might actually use this", instead preferring "ok just learn this because there's a slight chance that you might need it at some point in the future". The latter just seems meaningless to me, and i'm sure that every single one of you knows the feeling of having to do something that feels meaningless.

As for going into arts, i have absolutely considered that, but there are three main problems: 1) Studying art is also set up in a stressful school-like manner (i fear that it would take the joy out of drawing), 2) A degree in art is worth about as much as toilet paper in the current job market (like it or not, i will need a job), and 3) You have to be pretty damn good to begin with in order to get in. I'm not a symbolic artsy guy who draws "the feeling of wind on my soul caressing me in the dawn of the evening" stuff, fuck no. I draw goofy faces and dinosaurs in plate mail, not because it symbolizes how much i love to light my dick on fire, but because it's fun. In other words, i'm probably a budding cartoonist. Maybe there's a study for that? I hope so. :v

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: March 24, 2016, 09:17:40 pm »
guh why do i habitually stay up so late

Spoiler: rantble (click to show/hide)

Tiredness has a way of bringing forth all the negatives. >.>

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Creative Projects / Re: Random Things you drew/shopped/made/etc.
« on: March 24, 2016, 09:36:40 am »
BNT

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FANTASTIC. BEST VILLAIN. Also you should totally export to PNG, it has way fewer problems with colours. :v

Quote from: DoctorMcTaalik on March 23, 2016, 06:00:19 pm
I think the lake thing looks fine. The contours on the rightmost rock are a bit odd, but otherwise I really like the piece.
Hey thanks! I am not at all surprised that the rock(s) look odd, since i pretty much winged everything that isn't the worm itself (especially the terrain was just like "blurb blurb" *flail*). I'm more surprised that it doesn't look like utter shite. :v

also i decided to shine up Mawk

Spoiler: STRONG JAWLINE (click to show/hide)

many giggles were had

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Creative Projects / Re: Daily Draw
« on: March 23, 2016, 08:40:22 pm »
BROPAX I HAVE NOT SEEN DAILIES FROM YOU FOR A WHILE, you doing okay? My concerned citizen sense is tingling and i cannot ignore it. By the way, those latest ones are baller as fuck. B[

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