Gradually_Adjusting

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[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 1 points 46 minutes ago

May you ride eternal, shiny and chrome. I solved that shit by moving somewhere with trains, but you're on the money. My last car didn't even have power windows.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 1 points 50 minutes ago

That's crap. If you're gonna give my kid a proper customizable soundboard so they can get creative with how they fuck with me at least that's something. This is just lord of the flies conch shell shit

I miss when StumbleUpon was good. I tried to go back to their new whatever-thing, and it just sucked. The internet changed too profoundly for it to survive, and its latter day mutations have not improved its viability.

Newgrounds is still surprisingly fertile soil. It's a different crowd, but they're definitely doing weird new shit still

I left America and I sometimes struggle not to be self-loathing about it. I love a lot of American-made culture, but it pains me to see people who prefer the giant trucks, the myth of "rugged individualism", and the false machismo around guns, misogyny, and nationalistic tendencies.

I like a version of America that probably never actually existed beyond the imaginations of a minority of us. Those old world Enlightenment ideas melded with the optimism of the new are still attractive to me. I still can't listen to this sort of thing without getting a little swept up in it. I'll never make a proper cynic, I fear.

By all means like what you like, and it's nice if you like American stuff - but we have more to offer than just crutches for fragile egos, and it doesn't take a disillusioned seppo to see it for what it is.

I give to wiki, but recently convinced my wife we don't need Netflix. Feels great tbh

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 20 points 10 hours ago

Such people make life worth living

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I would love to have a soundboard that played sounds in calls. I'd answer the phone like Wolfman Jack all "caller, you're on the air! gorilla noise, honk"

At that point people will just start keeping debt ledgers with each other and carry on without me. Other currencies would pop up. I'd have to spend at volume in every direction just to keep the money from becoming irrelevant.

I really wanted to like it more because they made some really cool choices in the design of it. I can see why it didn't sell well, but it should have at least been more influential

The cartoons of the mid to late 2000s were pretty good though, it must be said

It's up to you whether your want to do the bare minimum. Look at Hieronymus though, he's got over 37 pieces of flair. And a massive codpiece.

 

You know how Nidhogg is just one thing, and it's super simple and slightly just...nothing, but you can spend ages with it and it's got an incredibly high skill ceiling, and there's no flaws at all and they've just sort of achieved everything they set out to do without making a big deal out of it? It's that kind of game.

Kill The Crows is such a pure, condensed game. So rare to find a gameplay loop so utterly on the mark. Every moment is a small crisis where you're either lost in a flow state, or you're dead - and then right back into the action a couple seconds later.

Can't believe how few people talk about this cult classic-in-waiting. It's really charming.

 

This week I'm doing three different individual pizzas every night for four nights. Because the world is burning, but my oven is pretty hot too.

The crumb. I never appreciated how important it is to buy the nice flour.

 

I’ve spent the last year every weekend creating a 2.5 hour block of tailored programming to recreate the experience of Saturday morning cartoons for my kid, with selections from ~60 of the best (and some bad) cartoons from the last several decades, animated music videos, unearthed funny old clips, and modern indie animations, often with seasonal themes.

My programming is (I think) objectively better than the Saturday morning block ever was, and it takes hours every week to gather clips, edit, and manage where we’re at with every show. I sometimes wish I could share it with a larger crowd. Do you know of a PeerTube instance that would be cool with hosting this kind of content? I've tried sharing this with friends and family via SyncThing, but they didn't like it and it was a pain to help them troubleshoot all the time. It would be nice to have a platform for this work, even though I know it's all mostly untenable from an IP standpoint.

 

Just outstanding stuff. I don't think I've ever seen a Mega Man boss fight quite this interesting in how it plays out. Seems like this game is going to have an incredibly high skill ceiling.

 

This is a playable race in a game I've been developing. I like the premise, but the overall impression feels lacking to me. Mythians come from elves in this story, which are more like cenobites than fairies (taking cues from Pratchett's Lords and Ladies but hyperbolically so, until you're more into Gwar territory). They've renounced horrific madness and cosmic power. It's got a lot going for it, but I'm not happy with how "simple" and just-so it all feels. Any help?

 

Crumb shot to follow in a couple hours

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world to c/sillydrawingrequests@sopuli.xyz
 

As title says. I want to really soak in that high-minded worldview today.

 

My algorithm in a nutshell. I might have delved too deeply.

 

Made this as a quick sketch for my kid, decided to do a quick touch-up in GIMP for printing it again later.

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