Alistair Illustrates

A confused bitch that grew up on this hellsite. | Call me Alistair - He/him or they/them | PFP by Fyremoth

[alistairillustrates]

This is a homebrew race I made, with the help of some friends on Discord.

Feel free to use it.

Beheaded DND Homebrew

They say that once your skull has been cleaved, one's life has truly ended. You are testament to the inverse. You are a creature that lives

If you have any questions about it, please ask.

[theculturedmarxist]

>First, we’ve discovered that about a quarter of all the internet connection in or out of the house were ad related. In a few hours, that’s about 10,000 out of 40,000 processed.

>We also discovered that every link on Twitter was blocked. This was solved by whitelisting the https://t.co domain.

>Once out browsing the Web, everything is loading pretty much instantly. It turns out most of that Page Loading malarkey we’ve been accustomed to is related to sites running auctions to sell Ad space to show you before the page loads. All gone now.

>We then found that the Samsung TV (which I really like) is very fond of yapping all about itself to Samsung HQ. All stopped now. No sign of any breakages in its function, so I’m happy enough with that.

>The primary source of distress came from the habitual Lemmings player in the house, who found they could no longer watch ads to build up their in-app gold. A workaround is being considered for this.

>The next ambition is to advance the Ad blocking so that it seamlessly removed YouTube Ads. This is the subject of ongoing research, and tinkering continues. All in all, a very successful experiment.

>Certainly this exceeds my equivalent childhood project of disassembling and assembling our rotary dial telephone. A project whose only utility was finding out how to make the phone ring when nobody was calling.

>Update: All4 on the telly appears not to have any ads any more. Goodbye Arnold Clarke!

>Lemmings problem now solved.

>Can confirm, after small tests, that RTÉ Player ads are now gone and the player on the phone is now just delivering swift, ad free streams at first click.

>Some queries along the lines of “Are you not stealing the internet?” Firstly, this is my network, so I may set it up as I please (or, you know, my son can do it and I can give him a stupid thumbs up in response). But there is a wider question, based on the ads=internet model.

>I’m afraid I passed the You Wouldn’t Download A Car point back when I first installed ad-blocking plug-ins on a browser. But consider my chatty TV. Individual consumer choice is not the method of addressing pervasive commercial surveillance.

>Should I feel morally obliged not to mute the TV when the ads come on? No, this is a standing tension- a clash of interests. But I think my interest in my family not being under intrusive or covert surveillance at home is superior to the ad company’s wish to profile them.

>Aside: 24 hours of Pi Hole stats suggests that Samsung TVs are very chatty. 14,170 chats a day.

>YouTube blocking seems difficult, as the ads usually come from the same domain as the videos. Haven’t tried it, but all of the content can also be delivered from a no-cookies version of the YouTube domain, which doesn’t have the ads. I have asked my son to poke at that idea.

[monitor-offist-deactivated20250]

fastest reblog in the west

[dduane]

Yeppers. :)

[the-original-sineater]

reblogging for study later AND to spread the info.

[them-faetale]

Seriously, get and run PiHole if you can. It changes your internet experience so much for the better. I get shocked when I visit a website when I'm someone else's network, by just how many ads the internet is flooded with now. Take back control.

[zebyeen]

Btw I made this guide if you wanna set up pi-hole yourself but don't have the technical knowhow! :3

https://techtips.zeb.gay/p/setting-up-pi-hole/

[qqchurch]

[9375608084]

Hold on tight (to let go forever)

[namamumumu]

I tried my hand at the rune-gifting scene from @99corentine's Secret. The mimic veil'ed staff I created from whole cloth because I have no reference for it, but with Elden Ring I assume slapping a tree motif on something is a safe bet. I really wanted to give the Veiled Monarch garb another go and this is the result. Working out how to handle the veil layers was a fun challenge! Throwing in the line sketch as well.

[lgbtiba]

i dont "Practice" anything. i Rawdog it. And if im not good first try i GIVE UP.

[monsoon-of-art]

Tempted to draw smth extremely self indulgent and silly and "doesn't make much sense"

[monsoon-of-art]

ages ago i got an ask about what the families of the 1sts would look like, and my answer was "it doesnt really matter"

.............but then i kept thinking about it

so here's some designs i had

[ikimaru]

there's a tiny butterfly asleep on my screen

[lodium]

Warlocks' incompatibility

Thought about it after drawing him saying a cosmologic fact in the intimate situation.

Did you know that the phrase for remembering the alphabet for the star classes is "Oh, Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me". I wonder who did come up with this and how others reacted (don't think that I'm really smart, I just abruptly start to get distracted by random science things and start to want to share them not to look smart but for them to know and see how fascinating/interesting/funny it may be. Because it might be not the same as to share it between only yourself when imagining a conversation. I don't do this every time, it's just an example yes)

Should have finished other sketches with his Solarlocks hate or maybe it was clear from the older ones. Didn't want to draw human faces, so I put a helmet, and I like helmets. And for the connection with the colour I chose this Solarlock from another sketch bc of the flame on the helmet (and my Warlock looked touched by the words abt quasar, and in the tags I was joking about strange Warlock way of flirting). So it's a little ironical. I was thinking for too long what to choose as their dialog.

Forgot to say that I like the start of the new Destiny 2 menu music when it sounds cosmic-mystical-magical. But this music part is too short, I would want it fully to have this vibe, it's so close to the soul

I'm still getting a rest from Skyrim modding. Well, I still do the mod but slowly and there's a problem with pixelated brushes when drawing textures. And I don't understand how Skyrim's textures look good when they're 1k-2k resolution and I made the body texture at 3k where it is still pixelated with smaller brush strokes when I draw on the model, even when UV map looks near the size of the body parts as in the original game textures. I'm worried if this higher resolution will have a negative impact on the performance (maybe not that much but who knows how it's handled in the game). Strange thing that the UV map looks smooth and okay (but maybe it's bc of the addon that adds 4x antialiasing). I couldn't find anything except raising resolution of images for UV and texture. Textures on the head didn't look exactly detailed as brushes with which they were painted but for some reason it wasn't that noticeable and worrying for me before. I could try making only texture resolution 6k or which could be enough (if it won't break bc of the UV map being smaller) and then scale it down when it's finished. Idk if it would really work. And that means that I would need to remake his head texture with which I have a problem where I can't change it on the game's model (I actually could also try editing textures as png in CSP when the texture is fully drawn, so I understand which place is which)

I keep forgetting to put robot tag on some Exo posts, and then after redacting it feels like something breaks in their reach. Or they weren't good enough. But I like redacting option bc I might forget/mistake a lot of things

[moosemonstrous]

Join the 48-hour giveaway and stand for the freedom to buy games.

GOG is taking a stand against payment processors caving to fundamentalist religious groups and is offering a bunch of "banned" games for free. (via Ashley Lynch on bsky)

[dragon-in-spirit]

For anyone unfamiliar with GOG, they:

- have a program where they're working on preserving old games to ensure compatibility with modern systems

- sell games DRM-free

- encourage you to share the games' installation files with your friends, just like how you'd lend a friend the CD 20 years ago

- have many old games available which are otherwise difficult or impossible to legally buy

You can install games through their game manager/launcher, or you can download exe files to keep an offline installer on hand. Neither one has DRM in it

They also have a section of the site where users can request or upvote a request for a game they want GOG to sell, and a lot of the popular ones have been added to their store.

[roachmoth]

baby wants uppies! baby is also teething and full of tetrodotoxin :)

[monsoon-of-art]

Deploy the gloves

[monsoon-of-art]

"How…is he…faster than…the speed of light…!?"

I do love Megamix and Gigamix very very much, and this scene has been bouncing around in my head for a while. Injuries are a bit different when you're made of flesh and blood....

im sure he's fine

[inkbarista]

I officially have a VGen now! Thank you to @shinyzango for her kindness in giving me a code! I have normal commissions open but I also have $25 colored bust sketches temporarily open as well!

If you'd like to take a look at my commission services, click here!

If you'd like a bust colored sketch, click here!

[inkbarista]

I'm gonna send this around again because due to my landlords new app blocking online payments and them refusing to respond, I have to pay rent in full instead of a split payment since my partial payment app will not work by the time the office is open again. I need to try and gather up $550 by Monday, so I'm taking commissions!

I hate having to shill so much but I have two more weeks and then I'm free of this place. I just need to get there.

[inkbarista]

I have four days left until I move out of my current living space. I need to make at least $250 in order to cover my expenses like rent and such. I'm planning on opening back up my $25 colored sketch busts if folks are interested!

[inkbarista]

I got slammed with inspiration at 1am and made a new adoptable, this one based off the Fury of the Fallen charm!

This one will be $40 (just cuz it took me a lot longer than the others lol). If you're interested, please dm me!

[meltesh28]

animated a krusie moment... can't believe this is a real scene that happens

[alpha-beta-gamer]

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[freegameplanet]

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Gameplay Video: