Recall uses AI features "to take images of your active screen every few seconds."
I think every computer user needs to read this because holy fucking shit this is fucking horrible.
So Windows has a new feature incoming called Recall where your computer will first, monitor everything you do with screenshots every couple of seconds and "process that" with an AI.
Hey, errrr, fuck no? This isn't merely because AI is really energy intensive to the point that it causes environmental damage. This is because it's basically surveilling what you are doing on your fucking desktop.
This AI is not going to be on your desktop, like all AI, it's going to be done on another server, "in the cloud" to be precise, so all those data and screenshot? They're going to go off to Microsoft. Microsoft are going to be monitoring what you do on your own computer.
Now of course Microsoft are going to be all "oooh, it's okay, we'll keep your data safe". They won't. Let me just remind you that evidence given over from Facebook has been used to prosecute a mother and daughter for an "illegal abortion", Microsoft will likely do the same.
And before someone goes "durrr, nuthin' to fear, nuthin to hide", let me remind you that you can be doing completely legal and righteous acts and still have the police on your arse. Are you an activist? Don't even need to be a hackivist, you can just be very vocal about something concerning and have the fucking police on your arse. They did this with environmental protesters in the UK. The culture war against transgender people looks likely to be heading in a direction wherein people looking for information on transgender people or help transitioning will be tracked down too. You have plenty to hide from the government, including your opinions and ideas.
Again, look into backing up your shit and switching to Linux Mint or Ubuntu to get away from Microsoft doing this shit.
Steps to Disable or Uninstall 'Recall' in Windows 11 24H2
there are multiple options here depending on how comfortable you are digging into your computer's registry. You can either simply disable it surface level through settings or excise it entirely from the system registry
reblogging again as a cautionary tale to please PLEASE fucking make a system restore point before you do anything. i consider myself tech savvy and still nearly bricked my computer. and make sure you know how to access safe mode
An odd connection between Undyne the Undying and genocide Chara
There is something slightly intriguing about Undyne's genocide speech, before she transforms.
Some of the things it says seem... far too accurate compared to the things that Undyne is supposed to be able to know.
While it is not that crazy to think that Undyne would imagine the human would be willing to bring harm to humanity as well, something about the way she says it already feels slightly off.
Undyne speaks as if they would all be killed, although there are far too many humans & monsters for the human to be able to kill everyone by themself individually, even if given the rest of their life to do so.
But most importantly, she says that they would all be killed in an instant. That somehow, all of humans and monsters would be destroyed at once if the human ever got past her. Not in a slow murderous grind like what they had been doing thus far, but rather in a single moment of destruction that would bring an end to the whole world at once.
She seems quite certain about all this, too.
While one could put all of this on her love for anime and/or dramatic speeches, that doesn't really seem to be all there is to it because, as little sense as this should make, she's actually completely right about everything she just said !
Firstly, the way Chara speaks at the end of the route fits a little too well with Undyne's few first lines about the human achieving absolute destruction.
But most of all, Chara does eventually destroy the world in a single blow. Bringing upon the end of humans and surviving monsters alike in an instant, just as Undyne had suggested.
Even this line could be seen as a kind of reference if you stretch it a little...
The thing is, from an in-world perspective, there is no simply no way that Undyne could have been talking to Chara here or that she would have known what was going to happen.
Unlike Sans, who did actually have some information about an incoming timeline erasure, she simply didn't know that much about the situation and shouldn't have been able to say all of that with any sort of certainty.
Yet her guess was just far too accurate and confident to be a coincidence... Right ?
Well, one might consider it might be possible for it to be just some kind of foreshadowing without real meaning. For instance, other monsters also make comments on a certain lack of humanity in genocide.
But what makes this even more interesting and unique is that the references go both ways !
Once the world is destroyed, just as Undyne had said, whilst waiting for Chara, we can hear the wind howling over a black screen.
This wouldn't be much of a detail to be concerned about if it wasn't for the fact that :
This noise is also exactly what the narrator (also heavily theorised to be Chara !), describes when fighting, well, Undyne the undying herself.
It seems like this strangely accurate reference to the ending of the route gets sent right back towards Undyne as soon as it reveals itself to have been true.
Whilst Sans, who had also made a similar guess, doesn't get this kind of treatment...
In sum, the scenes of the battle against the Undying and Chara's destruction of the world both seem to make specific back and forth references to each other in a way that lacks a proper in-world explanation.
Although, it also seems strongly possible that this whole thing might just be a wink to the fact that the game already makes plenty of connections and parallels between Undyne and Chara's characters, opinions, likings and personalities. So this may just be another way to outline how connected these two characters are.
in order to stop eggman's plans, sometimes sonic breaks a bunch of robots. and sometimes he does this. one's more effort, but both methods are fun in their own way
Contrary to popular belief and the first impression Papyrus gives us in Snowdin, Papyrus may not actually hate puns. In fact, he says even more puns than Sans!
We hope you find this comprehensive post of the skeleton brothersā puns to beĀ ribeting. If not that, at least itāll be aĀ rib-tickler!
Sanās Snowdin Station
Itās easy to get distracted by Sansā puns, given how the game even highlights and zooms in on him when he delivers them: āskele-tonā andĀ ādown to the bone.āĀ However, Papyrus makes two puns of his own:Ā āYOU LAZYBONES!!ā andĀ āPUT A LITTLE MORE,Ā "BACKBONEā INTO IT!!!!ā
Lately I've been seeing this weird small but growing sentiment across Twitter and Tumblr that Tangle is being held back by her constant partnership with Whisper and she'd be better off on her own/with Sonic and co. That they should be separated. I'd like to establish that I do have a bias as I ship them, however I don't even think that's relevant to the point I'm about to make because it's been written so clearly in this comic. But to put it simply:
Tangle wants Whisper at her side.
My friend Wynne put it more eloquently in their post, but this revelation became more clear in the Trial by Fire arc. Yes it's true, Tangle is pretty versatile and she gets along with pretty much anyone that you throw at her. When we're first introduced to her, we see a joyous and bright character who is longing for a free adventurous life, and this desire is only heightened after her first encounter with Sonic and Blaze. I think because of this, a lot of people are quick to compare her directly to Sonic, which is a mistake.
Tangle is a lot more in tune with her emotions and heart than Sonic is. She allows herself to get more attached to people. She also still has a desire for a constant familiarity. She gets homesick. She slogged by her monotonous Restoration job because she wanted to stay close to Jewel. Whisper went off on her own and she couldn't cope with it very well.
Tangle can do whatever she wants. She has the abilities and social skills to go out into the world and thrive. However everything changed when she met Whisper. They weren't created to be a duo, but things progressed so organically between them you'd think that they were. With Trial by Fire, we see that ultimately she decided that she wants to travel with Whisper by her side. This isn't a case of constantly being forced together by circumstance. Reviving the Diamond Cutters was an idea SHE came up with to strengthen their bond, and going forward, they will likely still be synonymous with each other
To echo Wynne's statements; Tangle and Whisper fill in each other's gaps. Tangle if left to her own devices, would realistically be pretty aimless, and Whisper would only continue to live clouded in darkness. So yes, they need each other. Tangle realizes this at least and she wants it.
This is kind of another tangent that I wont go too deep into, but something I think gets downplayed a lot, even by other Tangle fans, is her emotional intelligence. Yes she's a bit silly, hyperactive and impulsive on the surface, but when it comes to her own and others' feelings, listening and getting to the bottom of these things, it's a strength just as powerful as her physical abilities.
I got really inspired and motivated by @starrjoy and their sonic fancomics regularly coming out with multi-page updates so I challenged myself to color a full page within one day. It was REALLY HARD.
This is an adaptation of the origin story for Sonic and Robotnik from Fleetway's Sonic the Comic, which I always liked because of its major Angst Potential. I'll see if I get around to making more pages of my take on this concept.
Spidey plot point/gag that always gets me regardless of decade: Peter pulling off a stupid bluff due to the fact that nobody actually knows what the hell "spider powers" means
You're missing the best part, Simpson the Cat is a literal cartoon. He runs on cartoon logic in a world that otherwise runs on regular logic. He's a part of Captain Plunder's sky pirate crew, which started out as villains for Sonic and then branched into comedic anti-heroes with their own stories separate from Sonic's. Then they introduced Simpson and things got wilder.
Of course they hate him for casually breaking the rules of reality like some other worldly demon.
yo hereās a useful tip from your fellow art ho cynellisā¦ use google sketchup to create a model of the room/building/town youāre trying to drawā¦ then take a screenshot & use it as a reference! Itās simple & fun!
This is an incomplete tutorial, and it drives me crazy every time I see it come around.
We live in a pretty great digital age and we have access to a ton of amazing tools that artists in past generations couldnāt even dream of, but a lot of people look at a cool trick and only learn half of the process of using it.
Hereās the missing part of this tutorial:
How do you populate your backgrounds?
Well, hereās the answer:
If the focus is the environment, you must show a person in relation to that environment.
The examples above are great because they show how to use the software itself, but each one just kind of āplopsā the character in front of their finished product with no regard of the personās relation to their environment.
How do you fix this?
Well, hereās the simplest solution:
This is a popular trick used by professional storyboard and comic artists alike when theyāre quickly planning compositions. Itās simple and it requires you to do some planning before you sit down to crank out that polished, final version of your work, but it will be the difference between a background and an environment.
From Blacksad (artist: Juanjo Guarnido)
From Hellboy (Mike Mignola)
Even if your draftsmanship isnāt that great (like mine), people can be more immersed in the story you tell if you just make it feel like there is a world that exists completely separate from the one in which they currently reside ā not just making a backdrop the characters stand in front of.
Your creations live in a unique world, and it is as much a character as any other member of the cast. Make it as believable as they are.
Iām a 3d artist and have been exploring the possibilities of using 3d as reference for 2d poses. I want to add a couple of tips and things!
Sketchup is very useful for environment references, and I assume itās reasonably easy to learn. If youāre interested in going above and beyond, I highly recommend learning a proper 3d modeling program to help with art, especially because you can very easily populate a scene or location with characters!
Using 3ds Max I can pretty quickly construct an environment for reference. But going beyond that, I can also pose a pretty simple āCATāĀ armature (known in 3d as a rig) straight into the scene, which can be totally customized, from various limbs, tails, wings, whatever, to proportions, and also can be modeled onto and expanded upon (for an example, you could 3d sculpt a head reference for your character and then attach it to the CAT rig, so you have a reference for complex face angles!)
The armature can also be posed incredibly easily. I know programs exist for stuff like this - Manga Studio, Design Doll - but posing characters in these programs is always an exercise in frustration and very fiddly imo. A simple 3d rig is impossibly easy to pose.
By creating an environment and dropping my character rig into it, I have an excellent point of reference when it comes to drawing the scene!
Not only that, but I can also view the scene from whatever angle I could ever want or need, including the character and their pose/position relative to the environment.
We can even quickly and easily expand this scene to include more characters!
Proper 3d modeling software is immensely powerful, and if you wanted to, you could model a complex environment that occurs regularly in your comic or illustration work (say, a castle interior, or an outdoor forest environment) and populate the scene with as many perspective-grounded characters as you need!
Not just poses, you can also do this with lighting. Playing with lights in Blender is pretty fun.
Another cool thing: http://www.makehumancommunity.org lets you generate a human model. Like a character creator in a game, but more flexible, and the result is ready to import into a 3d editor like Blender.
