Alex's not-so-secret World

Alex, 29 y.o., Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I'm a writer, designer of worlds and languages, Historian and unfortunately Human. This blog is about History, Architecture, Design, Art, Aesthetics, Fandoms, Ships, Titanic and Gay stuff.

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Jake Bass by Frank Marando

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Jake Bass (Adon Magazine) by Frank Marando

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British Museum’s Rubber Duck collection

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Pixel Art Tutorial

Note: This tutorial was created in 2007 for my personal website. Some small tweaks have been made since then, but nothing too significant. In this 10-step tutorial, I’ll teach you how to create a “sprite”, which is a stand-alone two-dimensional character or object. The term comes from video games, of course.

Creating pixel art is a skill I picked up because I needed graphics for my games. After a lot of practice, I became kinda handy with it, and started to see it more as actual art rather than just a tool. These days, pixel art is quite popular in game development and illustration.

This pixel tutorial was created many years ago to teach people the basic concepts behind pixel art, but I’ve streamlined it a lot since its first incarnation. There are other pixel tutorials around, but I find them to be overly-complicated and too wordy. Pixel art is not a science. You should never have to calculate a vector when doing pixel art.

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Pathocracy

Definition of Pathocracy

Definition: pathocracy (n). A system of government created by a small pathological minority that takes control over a society of normal people (from Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes, by Andrew Lobaczewski)

Pathocracy

from Greek pathos, “feeling, pain, suffering”; and kratos, “rule”

A totalitarian form of government in which absolute political power is held by a psychopathic elite, and their effect on the people is such that the entire society is ruled and motivated by purely pathological values.

A pathocracy can take many forms and can insinuate itself covertly into any seemingly just system or ideology. As such it can masquerade under the guise of a democracy or theocracy as well as more openly oppressive regimes.

Characteristics

1. suppression of individualism and creativity. 2. impoverishment of artistic values. 3. impoverishment of moral values; a social structure based on self-interest and one-upmanship, rather than altruism. 4. fanatical ideology; often a corrupted form of a valid viable ‘trojan’ ideology which is perverted into a pathological form, bearing little resemblance to the substance of the original. 5. intolerance and suspicion of anyone who is different, or who disagrees with the state. 6. centralized control. 7. widespread corruption. 8. secret activities within government, but surveillance of the general population. (In contrast, a healthy society would have transparent government processes, and respect for privacy of the individual citizen). 9. paranoid and reactionary government. 10. excessive, arbitrary, unfair and inflexible legislation; the power of decision making is reduced/removed from the citizens’ everyday lives. 11. an attitude of hypocrisy and contempt demonstrated by the actions of the ruling class, towards the ideals they claim to follow, and towards the citizens they claim to represent. 12. controlled media, dominated by propaganda. 13. extreme inequality between the richest and poorest. 14. endemic use of corrupted psychological reasoning such as paramoralisms, conversive thinking and doubletalk. 15. rule by force and/or fear of force. 16. people are considered as a ‘resource’ to be exploited (hence the term “human resources”), rather than as individuals with intrinsic human worth. 17. spiritual life is restricted to inflexible and indoctrinare schemes. Anyone attempting to go beyond these boundaries is considered a heretic or insane, and therefore dangerous. 18. arbitrary divisions in the population (class, ethnicity, creed) are inflamed into conflict with one another. 19. suppression of free speech – public debate, demonstration, protest. 20. violation of basic human rights, for example: restriction or denial of basic life necessities such as food, water, shelter; detainment without charge; torture and abuse; slave labour.

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Why invent a new name when there’s already a historical name for this so-called ‘pathocracy’? Ladies and gentlemen: I present you Fascism.

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Caesar’s Conquest of Gaul.

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